Sprem Supreme Court to overturn the election that trump lost. Meanwhile, President Biden will be in his first full week in office as the United States passes the grim milestone of 25 million covid cases. I believe President Biden has made it very clear. The plane is in a nosedive and we have to pull it up. Youre not going to do it overnight, but were going to pull it up. We have to pull it up. Failure is not an option here. Reporter so what is the to succeed . Well have that in a moment, but the latest bombshell showing just how far President Trump was willing to go to overturn his president ial loss. He threatened to fhis adviser i they didnt overturn the vote. Shimon prokupecz is here. Just what did he want to do . Reporter what the wall street journal is reporting, in the final few weeks of his term as president , he tried to get a lawsuit with the Supreme Court, in essence, try to overturn the election. William barr, the acting attorney general, and jeff rosen who became the attorney general, and jeffrey wall all refused to do that. They refused to take the case to the Supreme Court, arguing they had no legal standing. There was nothing for them to argue. Also the wall street journal notes that even the president s own lawyers, the white House Counsel team, also didnt agree with this move by the president. But, again, fred, of course this all highlights how the former president attempted to use the Justice Department for his political gain. And then, shimon, there is more momentum in this investigation of the former president and the length he was willing to go to undermine this free and fair election. What did the Senate Majority leader schumer say . Reporter right. In light of the reports first reported by the New York Times of the former president trying to fire the acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen, and then this news from the wall street journal. Senator schumer there, the democratic leader, is calling for the department of justice Inspector General to launch an investigation. Heres what the democratic leader said. What happened was just despicable. For the president to try to get an attorney general who will just totally lie about the results of the election. So i have asked for the Inspector General to investigate what happened, and then we will follow up on that. The Inspector General, i believe, he hasnt communicated to us, but i have good reason to believe he will go forward. Reporter of course, fred, as all this comes to light, what more is there that we dont know about that went on at the department of justice . That is a big question. And the other thing, of course, that a lot of people are talking about is whether or not these efforts by the former president now somehow become part of the impeachment trial. All right. We shall see. Thank you so much, shimon prokupecz. Appreciate that. The u. S. Senate is set to hold their impeachment trial for the former president february 9th, and tomorrow the house will walk over the article of impeachment to the senate, charging donald trump with incitement of insurrection for his role in that capitol riot. And this will be the first time a former president will face an impeachment trial after leaving office. And today one gop senator made the case that the trial is constitutional. The preponderance of the legal opinion is that an impeachment trial after someone has left office is constitutional. I believe thats the case. Ill, of course, hear what the lawyers have to say for each side, but i think its pretty clear that the effort is constitutional. Lets bring in joe johns now on capitol hill. Joe, any indication that republican senators support this effort to convict the former president in this upcoming trial . Reporter fred, everything ive heard and seen suggest probably not, but there is still a lot of time for some soul searching. This is really just the tip of the iceberg, whats going to happen tomorrow when those nine impeachment managers walk over from the house of representatives to the United States senate to deliver and present that one article of impeachment. Its only four pages long, short and sweet. It does charge the president with incitement of insurrection and also points to the provision in the 14th amendment of the United States constitution which disqualifies anyone who has engaged in an incitement or rebellion against the United States from Holding Office under the federal government. And that is what democrats say is the point. Thats why they say theyre going through this in the midst of the biden first 100 days, his covid plan, his nominees and all the things he has to deal with. They say they need accountability on this issue, and they need to disqualify donald trump from running for future office. But that is going to require 17 republicans to vote in favor of the removal of the president. Not clear at all that theyre going to move to convict, at least at this stage. A lot of talk this morning on the sunday morning shows. Heres a sampling of the pros and cons. Listen. We got to do everything. You dont have the time to sit around weeks on impeachment and not get vaccines into the arms of people. You dont have time to worry about vaccines and not deal with the fact the children in america are going hungry. We have to break through this old approach that the senate takes years and years to do anything. We have a crisis right now of the we can chew bubble gum and walk at the same time. The American People are hurting and they want us to act. First of all, i think the trial is stupid. I think its counter prproducti. We already have a flaming fire in this country, and its like taking gasoline and pouring it on the fire. Heres the schedule as we have it. That article goes on exhibit tomorrow at the United States senate. After that a summons will be issued to the president the very next day, and the president s response is due in a week, on february 2nd, along with the house managers pretrial brief. One week later the trial begins. Back to you. Okay, joe, and you said with a conviction we need 17 republican senators, that along with all democrats, a twothirds majority in order to convict the president. Thank you so much, joe johns. Now to the pandemic and yet another horrific milestone. The u. S. Exceeded 25 million cases today. This as the Biden Administration is getting ready to hold a call with a Bipartisan Group of senators on its 1. 9 trillion covid relief bill. Arlette saenz is at the white house for us. Arlette, this call about to happen in about an hour or so. What is the white house hoping to accomplish at this meeting . Reporter well, fred, this call is essentially the latest push from the biden. Hes trying to get bipartisan signon into that 1. 9 trillion covid relief package. Brian dietz, who is the director of the National Economic council, will be holding this phone call or zoom call, potentially, with a group of about 16 senators. It includes republicans and democrats, republicans like senator susan collins, Lisa Murkowski and mitt romney, and then on the democratic side, you have independent senator angus king as well as senator joe manchin participating. This comes as there has been some republican skepticism out there over passing another covid relief package so soon after they passed that 900 billion package at the end of last year. But the president has made clear he wants to be sure there is bipartisan support for the bill he is passing. That is his preference, and that is what white house officials are trying to work through through calls like this and others that are happening behind the scenes. But in addition to this covid relief package up on capitol hill, the Biden Administration is also tackling the vaccination process. And one thing that white house Officials Say will be different under this administration is more participation and involvement from the federal government. And take a listen to bidens nominee for hhs secretary, javier bacerra, who spoke to our dana bash yesterday. Reporter when will anyone who wants a vaccine abe able to get one . That one were coordinating with the states because its not the federal government putting vaccines in the arm. Were trying to provide it, were providing the resources and the help to make it happen. Reporter and bacerra would not offer a timeline of when the majority of vaccines would be available to americans. Dana bash pressing him multiple times on that issue, but thats the big question, people are wondering when theyll be able to get this vaccine for now. The Biden Administration is not giving that kind of timeline. They say they want 100 million shots in the first 100 days, but there are still elements of this plan that are coming together, and what the Biden Administration has tried to caution is some patience, as theyre saying it will take time to implement their policies. Fred . Arlette saenz at the white house, thank you so much for that. More on the pandemic coming up, including shocking comments from dr. Deborah birx, who says someone fed President Trump unofficial coronavirus data. The evidence she discovered while working at the white house. Plus a wild scene caught on camera. Why did a Police Officer drive straight into a crowd . Find out what happened before that incident. Then later, a rock and roll legend trying to heal the nation. Want to sell the best burger in every zip code . Add an employee. Or ten. Then easily and automatically pay your team and file payroll taxes. That means. World domination or just the west side. Run payroll in less than five minutes with intuit quickbooks. Investigators in tacoma, washington are trying to determine why a Police Officer drove his car through a crowd of people last night. The Police Department said officers were trying to clear the crowd from a downtown street when the incident happened. I do want to warn you that the video is very disturbing. Oh, my god oh, my god. Oh oh, my god. Oh, my god cnns Camilla Burnell is in tacoma. Where does this investigation stand right now . Reporter hey, fred, that video first is just heartstopping. What we know is this is now an independent investigation that the county is going to do. There is a special team of people that will be focused on all of this. And i do want to explain exactly what happened. It was about 6 20 p. M. Last night at this intersection here behind me, and you can see it on the social media videos. Cars were racing, they were doing donuts here at the intersection behind me. You can still see those skid marks where i am right now. And so officers were called to this area, and thats when, according to police, that patrol car was surrounded by people, police saying they started hitting the vehicle and that that officer feared for his life. He tried to back up, but that did not work, so instead he accelerated, moving forward, and thats when you can see in that video, thats when its dial to watch because you see that vehicle essentially bouncing over something, and then you see the back tires of the patrol car running over at least one person. There were witnesses here who watched and saw exactly what happened. Theyre concerned. And i do want you to listen to how theyre describing it. It was literally so crazy. Like, he had tire marks all over his body, belly out. His shoes were off. Honestly, it was like something out of a movie. Theyre going to the cop cars, yelling at them. Reporter the interim police chief, mike achey, did put out a statement saying hes concerned that the officers were using another deadly force incident, and hes looking for cooperation from the investigation, and thats the investigation the county will be in charge of. The local newspaper reporting that that officer has been put on leave. But the community here has a lot of questions that need to be answered. Theyre planning a protest, and of course, they want to know exactly why that officer ran over at least one person. Fred . Then, camilacamila, we heard young man describe the injuries of at least one person, but what did happen . Were people sent to the hospital, more than one . Its hard to envision that and think that people just walked away. Reporter its so hard to envision that. What police are saying is that that officer drove out of the intersection and called for medical help right away. But a lot of those witnesses did say it took some time to get help. We know that that person was taken to the hospital, but we dont know specifically in what condition that person is at the moment. The interim police chief describing it as a deadly force use of force, and so were waiting to hear exactly how that person is doing, and if theres anyone else that was injured. Very disturbing to watch, indeed. Camila bernal, thank you so much in tacoma, washington. 29 cases is counting as the United States hits a new case record. The cases are spreading across this country, but is it more deadly . Now, during the everyday smiles event new patients get a full exam set of xrays with no obligation. No insurance . No worries, its free. Plus, now all patients can get 20 off their treatment plan. Find every reason to smile. Every day at aspen dental. Call 1800aspendental or book today at aspendental. Com welcome back. The United States has now reported more than 25 million cases since the start of the pand pandemic. Presid the president is asking for vaccination cooperation. Coors field in denver, colorado now hosts a mass vaccination event. Evan perez is with us. Evan, what more are you learning . Reporter 900 more died in new york city, bringing that total to just over 44,000. Its a very scary number and one that shows just how ongoing this pandemic is. In a statement the governor said it shows that new yorkers need to keep the pressure on trying to keep this pandemic from spreading. If you look at the map where the cases are, you see the hardest hit areas still remain in the city and counties just outside the city where theyve been hit with this pandemic. That number not only keeps new yorkers fighting and keeping numbers in check, it also propels that vaccine program. This is why im outside the field where the mets play. The city says they can become a vaccine hub when they have enough vaccine to put out. Theyre looking for more supplies so they can start putting those vaccines in arms as quickly as possible and win that race against the death toll, fred. And paul in los angeles, pretty horrifying stories coming out of california on so many fronts. Long lines to get vaccinated, few openings for the shots are s difficult, and the number of deaths are skyrocketing. 269 deaths and now that pushes the total number of deaths in the county over 15,000, but this is whats unfathomable. Onethird of those deaths, 5,000, have been since december 30th. All of this is putting pressure on hospitals and funeral homes. In boyle heights, a very, very hard hit neighborhood, its been around for nine years. Theyre adding employees, theyve gone to a 24hour answering service. Theyre having viewings outside for one of the owners. This is a daily dose of stress. Its been really hard turning people away, especially when theyre upset and you have to tell them that, you know, i can put you on a wait list and, you know, well get to you when your number comes up, which is i dont think thats unheard of in our industry. Ive been doing it 25 years, and ive never had this happen. Reporter so to try to reduce the death toll, theyre putting shots in arms in places such as the forum. Theyre hoping to vaccinate as many as 2500 people a day. But one county official saying at this rate, theyll still be administering shots into 2022. Things just going so slowly with the vaccine rollout in southern california. Wow, that is extraordinary images. It really is something. Paul mccameron, evan mcmorrissantoro, thank you so much. At the Medical College of baylor medicine, doctor, just looking, one, at the long line of cars for vavaccination, and then to see the volume of people get a shot into the arm that you have to have a wait list at a mortuary. The Biden Administration is promising things will get better. How hopeful are you that it will . Im quite hopeful that things will get better, fred. Honestly, i feel like right now the only way we can go is up from here. I do commend President Biden for trying to really take the reins and take control of this pandemic, but hes putting a lot of pieces into places that i think weve been missing for the last year that i think will really help combat this pandemic. Hes trying to create a federal response to the pandemic, which is what weve been missing for the last year. Already the health and Human Services secretary choice for biden has said, you know, this is not america at its best, but remain hopeful, particularly within the first 100 days, 100 million shots in the arms. We have now crossed 25 million total cases in the u. S. A new model from the university of washington is projecting that 565,000 americans will have died of coronavirus by may 1st. What do you think . How do you digest that number . When we have 4,000 people dying per day, its easy to see where they got that Staggering Number from. My hope, though, is that we continue to increase the rate of vaccinations as we have been over the last couple of weeks and that we hopefully will start to see more people Wearing Masks and comply with the mask mandates that have been put into place. Well all have mask mandates in several facilities, and i suspect there will be more mask mandates come down from there, and hopefully we can keep that number from being staggeringly high, over 600,000. And were hearing that the variant first identified in the u. K. Could be more deadly after all. Listen to what dr. Anthony fauci had to say about that. The most recent data is in accord with what the brits are saying. We want to look at the data ourselves, but we have every reason to believe them. Theyre a very competent group. We need to assume now that what has been circulating dominantly in the u. K. Does have a certain degree of increase in what we call virulence, mainly the power of the virus to cause more damage, including death. I know scientists, everyone is learning new stuff all the time about the coronavirus. Its been that way in the world in the past year. But now it doesnt appear it will be deadlier and it will probably respond well to the current vaccine out there, its just that its more transmissible. Now were hearing it could do more damage. What do we do with that information . I still think there is more data that we need to look at. The thing about britain is theyve been very much on top of genetic sequencing of these variants. They are top ten in the world in terms of countries that have actually done genetic sequencing of covid compared to the United States, which were number 43 on that list. If theyre looking at thousands and thousands of cases and comparing that death rate to the death rate of the prior coronavirus variant, as dr. Fauci said, we have no reason not to believe what theyre saying. The thing is, fred, right now were in a race against time. Because as this virus continues to transmit from person to person, there is more risk that it will continue to mutate and other variants, other strains can continue to pop up. We need to get control of this pandemic and we need to get people vaccinated so we can achieve herd immunity to help combat whatever new variants may potentially be coming in the future. Even with those grim realities that youre un underscoring, you still remain hopeful that at least this nation, and perhaps even globally, we all collectively can get a handle of this . I know that we can get a handle of this, fred. I do think that, you know, we mishandled things in the beginning and that was the kiss of death that essentially sealed our fate. We had the luxury of time on our side. From the time that coronavirus initially appeared in december, we didnt have our first case in the United States until midjanuary. We had time to get ready. We had time to shut our borders. We had time to ramp up testing and ppe, but we didnt do those things, and thats why the United States is number one on the list in terms of global cases. Number one on the list in terms of global deaths. You look at places like china where the virus first started, they have had under 100,000 cases. Their neighboring countries, singapore, taiwan, low case numbers. Australia has essentially a almost eradicated coronavirus. It is possible. Dr. Richina bicette, thank you. Were hearing what former President Trump pressured the doj to try to overturn his loss. Get started for free at ancestry. Com these days you need more than an education. So thats what we give you. Introducing Career Services for life. Learn more at phoenix. Edu wet dishes . Residue . Spots . Its not your dishwashers fault. 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We were all curious when william barr, the attorney general, resigned middecember and said in his obsequious Resignation Letter that the charges of fraud would be examined by the department of justice. We didnt know if the people who were replacing him at the top would or would not do that. Well, this reporting appears that trump tried to roll over them, but they held steady. I think this is part of his state of mind. Its going to show the senate during a trial that he was hellbent, but he failed. He failed in this instance and he failed like he did in georgia in the effort to bend georgia officials to his will also. Those are state of mind. And then this weekend, more reporting on how a Justice Department lawyer conspired with the president to try to explain the acting attorney general and tried to overturn the events in georgia. Th thats the secretary of state of georgia. These could be impeachable on their own, but the articles of impeachment thats going to be marched to the senate tomorrow is about inciting insurrection. Do you see how tany of these elements will embolden that article . We still dont know the rules for the trial in the senate. They havent been announced yetyet. They havent even gotten the articles over. That will happen on monday, i believe. That will lay out what will and will not go into the trial. But its the kind of information, again, where trump is showing his disposition. And the fact that he would collude with a middlelevel department of justice returning, and thats who mr. Clark was and is, is really stunning, that they would try to roll over the acting attorney general who was in the department of justice. It didnt work again, but it shows that trump is willing to go to any lengths. It demonstrates the abuse of power, right, and even if youre incitie ie ing insurrection, th too, is an abuse of power. There is a unique power play here. Members of congress are also ones who are trying to hold him accountable. Listen to miriam dean. I was there when they said, sit down, prepare to kneel or lie on the floor, take out your gas masks, now put your gas masks on. I was there as the pounding of the doors began and the piercing of the doors on the floor of the house took place. This was a terrifying moment. So to be both victim and juror, that makes this, too, very unique. It does, indeed. The managers have firsthand. We dont know how much of the senate was actually near the chamber when they started attacking the chamber. I think they got the senate out faster than the house members, but they certainly have seen a lot of footage on it since, fred, so they know exactly what went on. Theyre unique in the trial. One of the things in the trial that troubles me is some of the insurrectionists, if you will, those who encouraged trumps big lie are sitting on that jury. I dont think theyre going to want to dispose of trump because theyre part and party of what hes about. More still has to be revealed about who some of those people are. There are allegations of at least a couple names we know of, but there might be more. John dean, good to see you. Thanks so much. Excellent. Thanks, fred. Decades after his music became a call for change in america, rock legend john fogerty has a new story to tell. Out on the street with a neck and a knee people heard cries of i cant breathe why people say theres been no crime here today weeping in the Promised Land boy, does it make you think. From the pandemic to the black lives matter movement, a new song for the moment. Singer song writer dan fogerty joining me next. You do not want to miss it. For every trip youve been dreaming of, expedia has millions of flexible booking options. Because the best trip is wherever we go together. Want to sell the best burger in every zip code . 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[ bells tolling ] why have we been poisoned with lies weeping in the Promised Land satans dark angels are falling from the sky weeping in the promised l land really nice and soothing, right . These days the rock and roll hall of famer plays many of his classic songs with his children as well. John fogerty joining me right now. There he is. Hey, how are you doing . How are you feeling today . That backdrop is glorious. Hi, fred. Doing fine, how are you . Im doing great. I cant wait to talk to you about this and where it came from. I mean, i love your music and i love the video youve attached to it and how it opens up with the National Cathedral and the chimes. Thats close to my heart in washington, d. C. Then you sweep across the country, the visual in the video so powerful, the words are piercing. So was there a moment or a site that i a sight that inspired you to write this song . I would say all of the events of last summer, certainly the murder of george floyd and how everybody took to the streets immediately. That was certainly the inspiration for that portion of the song, but the song also deals with the pandemic and especially our first responders, particularly the nurses. And thats touching. You show video, and your words correspond, with the hands on the glass, you know, the exaspiration of first responders. I want people to hear a little more at the top of your song, youre summing up a really hard year with a leader that acts kinglike. Do i interpret that correctly . Yeah, yeah, go ahead. All right, you go ahead. You make mention of the pharaoh, so im just seeing the parallels of the kinglike nature, and youre talking about the former president without using his name. So were hearing it there a bit, and in your song, so that people can understand, you say weeping in the Promised Land, a forktongued pharaoh, behold comes to speak, weeping in the Promised Land, wisping and spewing the song he speaks. How do you want people to picture these words and imagery . This is certainly one of the hardest songs for me to ever get completed. It really made me fight for it. All of us songwriters do try to say what were saying in the best way possible, and for me this one was very elusive for a long time. But i would go out every morning i seemed to want to be out in nature to try and understand the words i was trying to say. I think the hard part was dealing in biblical terms here. I wrote the title down many years ago in my songwriting book, but and i had even written a couple, lets say, prior versions of songs that were not nearly like this song. And they were always unsatisfactory. So this past summer, the title really seemed to be describing what was going on, and there was a moment i realized if i accepted the mission, it was going to be really difficult. And it was. You just try to use your words in the most economical way and the simplest way, and yet the most powerful and direct way. Our former president did act pretty much like a pharaoh at times, and obviously he seemed to be very interested in holding onto power. And so thats an element in the song, of course. Powerful and direct you are, but then, you know, the gospel that you hear in there really evokes a feeling of hopefulness. What are you hoping the mission of this song will be, how it might be utilized . I think the first important thing you notice, ive written some other controversial protest songs like fortunate son, and in that one im really yelling and screaming at the powers that be. This was many years ago during the vietnam era and the draft and those sort of things, all of which i was a part of. Anyway, now, in this time, this song is very much about trying to lower the temperature, i think, to get people to heal, to get us all to talk to each other and reflect on, you know, were all americans. I really want that to come through. I think if we calm down and listen to each other, well we have a lot better chance of hearing and deciding what it is we have in common and the way the country should go for the best of all of us. Its very hopeful, and thank you for that and congratulations. Talk to me, too, about how your jam sessions and people, you know, covet your jam sessions that you have, whether its from, you know, someone with zz t topp and beyond. You are having jam sessions with your kids. Lets have a listen and tell me what its like. Really, last summer, i think when the lockdown first started, my wife suggested that i sing one of my songs, have you ever seen the rain . I didnt quite get it. She did and i didnt. Theres probably 40 or 50 versions of that song on the internet. But i went ahead and did it because shes usually right. This is my beautiful wife julie. And it seemed to resonate. So her next suggestion was, well, why dont you do one of your songs with the kids . And that really seemed to strike a chord with people. So all throughout the summer, really, usually on friday, we started posting a version of mostly one of my songs but sometimes other peoples songs, too, with the family band. And it was so much fun, it is so much fun, and weve kind of discovered an act we had, you know, a musical act that was sitting right under our noses and we didnt realize it. We had so much fun doing it. So, you know, we may be taking this show on the road. That would be so much fun. That is fun. Its fun to see, because i know a lot of artists really miss not being able to get on the road, you probably among them. Now, you know, youve got the satisfaction of having your band right there in your backyard with your family members. Thats pretty awesome. Exactly right, and whenever we want to make music, its there, ready to go. Were happy that you are making the music. John fogerty, thank you so much. A great pleasure to talk to you and listen to your great talent. Thank you, fred. Thank you. And we leave you with more of weeping in the Promised Land. We were back in a moment
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