I visited over the 100 countries ive gone to in third tin horn dictatorships. It just cannot be sustained. It has to be immediately, immediately investigated in depth and people have to be held accountable. And la reporter and lastly, do you think you need to change any of the planning for your inauguration as a result of this . A totally different entity is in charge of the inauguration that was in charge of the security of the capitol, the secret service. I have complete confidence in the secret service, i have confidence in their ability to make sure the inauguration goes off and goes off safely and goes off without a hitch. So i have confidence in what is in the planning thats been underway before this and continues with the secret service as the leading agency. Reporter thank you. Thank you. Reporter president elect biden, Vice President elect harris, good to see you both. I want to pick up on something you said about President Trump actively and encouraging the insurrection at the at that particular time to at the capitol. Given the perceived threat he poses, my question is should President Trump, in your estimation, remain in office . I didnt think look, ive been saying for now well over a year, hes not fit to serve. Hes not fit to serve. Hes one of the most incompetent president s in the history of the United States of america. And so the idea that i think he shouldnt be out of Office Yesterday is not the issue. The question is, what happens with 14 days left to go or 13 days left to go . And i think that what 81 Million People stood up and said, its time for him to go, and the United States senate voted 936 to confirm that we should be sworn in. We were duly elected. I think its important we get on with the business getting him out of office. The quickest way that will happen is us being sworn in on the 20th. What action happens before or after that is a judgment for the congress to make, but thats what i am looking forward to, him leaving office. I was told on the way over here that he indicated he wasnt going to show up at the inauguration. One of the few things he and i have ever agreed on. Its a good thing, him not showing up. Reporter earlier you said you hoped that he would show up only in the sense that it was valuable to send a signal to the world about the transfer of power. Youve clearly changed your perspective on that. Because he has clearly demonstrated he exceeded even my worst notions about him. Hes been an embarrassment to the country, embarrassed under the circumstances us around the world, not worthy to hold that office. If we were six months out, we should be moving everything to get him out of office, impeaching him again, trying to invoke the 25th amendment, whatever it took to get him out of office. But i am focused now on us taking control as president and Vice President on the 20th and to get our agenda moving as quickly as we can. Thank you. Reporter another question about Holding Public officials to account, and this is about an issue thats no longer a headline but is no less significant and serious, and its about the more than 600 children who were orphaned under the Trump Administration as a result of the family separation policy along the border. During the campaign you said that practice was criminal. Will you commit to making sure Trump Administration officials responsible for that policy will be held to account . Ill commit that our Justice Department and our investigative arms will make judgments about who is responsible, how theyre responsible and whether or not the conduct is criminal across the board, but as i said yesterday, i am not going to tell the Justice Department who they should prosecute and who they should not. Thats a judgment that will be made by the attorney general of the United States of america, not influenced by me. But there will be a thorough, thorough investigation of who is responsible and whether or not the responsibility is criminal, and if that is concluded, the attorney general will make that decision. I am not the one to tell him who he should indict, if he should indict. Reporter and the covid plan in detail. Youve talked about infrastructure, youve talked about introducing an immigration bill. After january 20th, democrats will control the house and the senate. What do you do first . Three different issues there in that same question. One, the commitments i made of what i would introduce, not necessarily we would move to, but introduce in the United StatesCongress First i will do. I will introduce an immigration bill immediately and have the appropriate committees to begin movement. I will, in fact, countermand executive orders that the president has, in fact, initiated that are contrary to what i think are either his authority, and even if its authority, contrast to the United States on an environmental range and a whole bunch of other things. And thirdly, i will immediately remove, though, the most urgent need of asking the congress to give me the financial wherewithall to deal with the virus, to deal with the virus, to be able to move so that we have operation warp speed really working. Warp speed got the vaccine to places that were delivered but did not get them from those vials into peoples arms. So it is a gigantic, logistical concern of how we do that. Im committed to get 100 million shots in peoples arms in the first 100 days. Im committed to insisting that in all federal jurisdictions, anyplace i have control as president , everyone will be mandated to wear a mask in interstate transportation as well as federal facilities. And, thirdly, im committed to moving as rapidly as possible to get the vaccine to teachers and the material to children that can provide for the safe opening of our schools at the end of that 100 days. They are the most urgent things we have to do now. Now, immediately upon getting into office. There are multiple things, as you know, because you are a senior veteran of how this works, and committees will be Holding Meetings on a whole range of issues from my positions on infrastructure, what we should be doing to generate a Green Economy and so on. But in terms of the immediate need to get done, not just introduced, but to get done, voted on and get the money and resources to do it, it turns out that the most urgent need is dealing with virus, number one, and Economic Relief to americans who, through no fault of their own, are really getting battered. Thank you. Reporter thank you, mr. President elect and madam Vice President elect. I want to follow up with what you just said about the inauguration and that its a good thing that the president is not coming, but what about the Vice President , mike pence . Hes welcome. I think its important that as much as we can stick to what have been historical precedence of how and the circumstances of when an administration changes should be maintained. If the vi the Vice President welcome to come, would be happy to have him come and move forward in the transition. Reporter have you spoken to him at all . No, i havent. Reporter you have called for unity and healing in this country, but after the event of wednesday, does that make your job easier or harder . I think it makes my job easier, quite frankly. Ive had a number of ive had a number of republicans who are former colleagues call me. They are as embarrassed and mortified by the president s conduct as the democrats are. I said in the beginning and i have not changed my view, my overarching objective is to unify this country. We must unify the country. And i think that youve heard me say this before, and i apologize for repeating myself, but understandably the questions are repetitive and good. Im not being critical of the question. And that is that there is two ways people are inspired, by inspirational leaders and by terrible leaders. By terrible leaders. What this president has done is ripped the bandaid all the way off to let the country know who he is and what hes about and how thoroughly unfit for office he is. And you see already a number of republicans. I was so proud, i know were on opposite sides, ill get criticized from some of the people in my party for saying this, but ive worked very hard with and against the soontobe former majority leader mitch mcconnell. I thought what he said on the floor of the United States senate was, in fact, the right thing to do. He stood up. Hes ashamed. I spoke with a guy i have enormous respect for, enormous respect for, and i ran against him, mitt romney. I spoke to mitt this morning again. This is a man of enormous integrity, enormous integrity, who lives his faith. There are so many more, but theres others who should be ashamed of themselves, but they make up a minority of the Republican Party. This isnt about republican democrat anymore, this is about people who understand what this country is about and the things we have to agree on and move together on. I just think that if you look at it, speaking to some of my republican colleagues, and ive spoken to a number of them over the last month since ive been since weve been elected through recently as the day in which this godawful debacle was taking place up on the hill. And i think they understand that theyre going to have to we need a Republican Party. We need an opposition thats principled and strong. And i think youre going to see them go through this idea of what constitutes the Republican Party. And to hear some of my colleagues, republican colleagues, talk about how shameful it is of the way ted cruz and others are dealing with this, how theyre responsible as well for what happened reporter do you think some of them should resign . Should senator cruz or senator hawley resign . I think they should just be flat beaten the next time they run. I think the American Public has a real good, clear look at who they are. Theyre part of the big lie, the big lie. I was being reminded by a friend of mine maybe you were with me, i cant recall when we were told that the globe is in the great lie. You keep repeating a lie, rea lie. When dresden was bombed, there were 250 people that were killed, or was it 2,500 people were killed. And gobel said, no, 250,000 were killed and our papers printed that. Our papers printed it. Its the big lie. Its one thing for one man, one woman to repeat the lie over and over and over again. By the way, trump said that before he ran. If you say it enough, im going to convince you. Ill say it enough. The press is bad, the press is bad, the press is bad. If hes the only one saying it, thats one thing. But the acolytes who follow him, like cruz and others, they are as responsible as he is. So its not about whether or not they get impeached, its about whether or not they continue to hold power because of the disgust the American People have for their actions. There are decent people out there who actually believe these lies, because theyve heard it again and again. I was with a friend of mine who is a medical doctor telling me that his neighbor said to him he lives in another state. His neighbor is a good person and said, but you know, doc, there is a lot of which i canneca chicanery that went on in this election. I just know it is, they say it is, they say it is. You say it and say it and say it to the degree it is corrosive is with a number of people who say it. So its interesting to me, and i was pleased to hear some of the more prominent republicans say to me that the ted cruzes of the world are as responsible in terms of people believing the lies as not as responsible, but similarly responsible like trump. But they didnt say go to the capitol, ill be with you, thats a different story. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all very, very much. I appreciate it. Thank you. All right, lets take it from here. Im Brooke Baldwin. Youre watching cnn. Youve been listening to president elect joe biden forceful, strong on the violence, the mob, the domestic terrorism we saw this week descending upon the u. S. Capitol and also on the current sitting president , President Trump. Ive got Gloria Borger and dana bash. Ladies, as we walk through all of what we just heard, a couple news nuggets and i want to get to the inauguration and what he said. He was asked point blank, do you support impeachment . Weve been hearing that the democrats will be introducing these articles as early as monday. He is essentially saying its up to congress, right . It seems to me hes not going to lead the charge but hes also not going to get in speaker pelosis way. Secondly, he said there should be a fullblown investigation into the u. S. Capitol police, into Law Enforcement and the failures on so many levels. But, dana, let me begin with you on this third news nugget where we learned today that President Trump would not be attending President Bidens inauguration on january 20th. He said, that is one of the few things we agree on. Biden is clearly thrilled donald trump is not coming. He said donald trump exceeded this is a quote exceeded my worst notions about him. What did you think of that . Very strong. Especially given, as gloria knows better than anybody, how much of an institutionalist joe biden is. For him to go that far, particularly since he told our colleague jake, i believe it was, not that long ago that he hoped joe biden that donald trump would come to his inauguration. And that changed because of the quote that you just read, because he said hes not worthy because of his actions over the last, you know, couple of weeks, but particularly over the last 48 hours or so. Remarkable. But the kind of traditionalist came out when talking about mike pence, saying he would be honored for mike pence to be there, and its clear that he believes that is the sort of symbolic show, that there is still an american style peaceful transition with mike pence attending his inauguration. Gloria, what did you think . I think joe biden made it very clear hes going to go his way and the congress will go its way. As dana says, hes not going to get in their way, but he sort of slipped at one point and said, you know, if this were six months out, i would do everything to thats not a quote here to get rid of the guy, right . It seems to me thats what hes saying, but with less than two weeks left, hes going to kinded of focus on what hes got to do on day one. So i think hes going to have a really interesting talk with nancy pelosi, and i dont think hes going to stand in anyones way, but he doesnt want it to get in the way of his call for National Unity, which is something he still wants to do, and in an odd way, the reason hes changed his mind about having trump there at the inauguration is that i think its reasonable for him to make the case of National Unity without trump making a scene somehow in the stance behind him. I think the question is what will trump be doing on Inauguration Day . Will he be playing golf at maralago . We dont have any idea, but at this point biden is so dis gu disgusted, and you could hear it in his voice, he is so disgusted with him that he just wants to get it past him. Can i say one thing, brooke, on the impeachment . Gloria is right, we were texting while we were listening to him because he was very much in the i need to punt mode and not say how i feel and say this is up to congress. But when he was further questioned, he said, well, if we were six months out that was definitely a tell of how he probably really feels. It is exhibit a and sort of the ultimate of the highwire act that joe biden is going to be on for the next four years. This is a really stark example, but what i mean by that is the fact that right now you have democrats who are chomping at the bit saying to nancy pelosi, we have to impeach this guy, we have to get republicans on record. By the way, pelosi is saying, according to sources im talking to her members, and that is a political reality inside the Democratic Caucus right now. The political reality that joe biden is facing is an inauguration in 12 days and a promise to call for unity. Thats not going to change. There will be a lot of examples. This, of course, is an example on steroids. High wire act, indeed. Well have discussions later about the Republican Party and how it seems to be ripping at the seams and how he was saying the josh hawleys and ted cruzes of the world will hit power on high. Thank you both for being on as we cap the week. Thank you, brooke. We have much more breaking news ahead, including President Trump telling aildes that he ha zero intention of resigning. Plus a Western State legislator who filmed himself storming the capitol this week, and the man who put his feet up on Nancy Pelosis desk, they are now facing charges for their roles in that riot. Also breaking right now, the u. S. 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Heres the breaking news now. Cnn has obtained the latest version of the articles of impeachment that will be formally introduced to house judiciary democrats on monday. This is provided by a democratic source and it includes one article which is incitement of insurrection. Lets start there with our senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju. Manu, tell me more about the article and how lawmakers plan to go about this. Reporter assuming the house does go to impeach, and thats the direction this is headed right now, this could move pretty quickly. We could expect a vote in the full house potentially in the middle of next week, if not the early part of next week. This measure to impeach the president includes one count, that is incitement of an insurrection. That is according to the draft language that is now being circulated as having been drafted by several Judiciary Committee democrats, david cipollone, ted liu and david s rask raskin. It makes clear that President Trump in their view has acted erratically in selfgovernance and we would like removal of law and impeachment of the president of the United States. That last line is important, because were looking at the timing of all this, skpand the president is done with his term january 20th. Were looking for a possible impeachment next week, so in order to remove a president from office, you need twothirds of the senate, 67 members, need to vote actually remove the president from office. Republicans currently control the senate up until january 20th when the majority flips to democratic control, and right now there is no indication that mitch mcconnell, the Senate Majority leader at the moment, actually wants to have a senate trial before President Trump leaves office. That means there could be a trial after donald trump leaves office. Im told that in a meeting with House Democrats this is something they trust. Having a trial with the new Senate Majority, concerned about those pitfalls they could face, but those are things theyre still trying to sort through, and a critical moment this afternoon will be when nancy pelosi speaks with joe biden, and we just heard joe biden did not embrace the idea of Going Forward with impeachment, saying its up to the congress to decide, so well see what those two decide when they talk, but at the moment, brooke,s momentous moment by House Democrats. It sounds like hes not getting in the way of nancy pelosi, but hes not championing the idea, either. Thank you, manu, for the latest there. Three white house advisers tell cnn that donald trump has zero intention of resigning. Kaitlan is at the white house. Kaitlan, despite these calls for resignation, youre hearing donald trump plans to stay put for the next 12 days. Does he acknowledge his role in this at all . Reporter no. I dont think the president s view of what transpired this week has changed. He taped that video last night, were calling take nonconcession concession speech, of course, and were told that was a direct result of pressure from senior staff who said, if you do not come out more forcefully and denounce what happened at the capitol, you are seriously at risk of being removed from office. You heard him say that. That doesnt mean his opinion of things have changed as he described being happy watching the chaos unfold, but i do believe the people around him are watching that the possibility of him being impeached for the second time is growing, and it seems more real by the moment. It does seem more significant and more possible rather than the 25th amendment being invoked. Were told the president hasnt discussed that with any cabinet members, as much as nancy pelosi has talked about that and threatened impeachment if they dont go forward with that, but it doesnt seem plausible. 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Cnns Jessica Snyder is with me, and jessica, i know investigators say theyre looking for everyone that could be involved, but now they say they dont expect charges for a lot of the people who may have incited the crowd . Explain. Reporter thats right, they say they do not expect to charge any of the speakers at that rally, however, that rally includes Rudy Giuliani and some are blaming him for inciting the crowd. So far prosecutors have filed charges on 15 people, there will be more, and theyre revealing details. Notoriously they have arrested and charged richard barnett. He was the one photographed with his feet up on Nancy Pelosis desk. He bragged to a local tv station in arkansas that he stole an envelope from her desk. He is now under arrest, taken into custody in little rock, arkansas and he is facing federal charges. Thats in addition to Darrell Garrett he stormed the capitol and is facing federal charges. Then theyre releasing more details, brooke, about how this riot could have been much worse. They arrested a man whose truck was found near the capitol and inside they told us they had previously found 11 molotov cocktails that were ready to go. Now they found gasoline and materials for homemade napalm used to make bombs. We were expecting people to be charged in federal court and were seeing people in the lower d. C. Courts as well, brooke. If you deny covid and you dont wear masks, you mob, raid and incite violence on the capitol, youre going to get your picture taken and theyre going to come and find you. Jessica snyder, thank you very much. With me now, Elliott Williams and counterterrorism official phillip mudd. Gentlemen, great to have you on. Elliot, just flat out, could the president of the United States actually face any charges here . He could. At a minimum you could have an investigation of the president for what would be inciting a riot. Literally there is a federal riot act, for lack of a better term that lays out when you have a group of individuals engaging in acts of violence. The problem is just going to be tricky to convict him of it. Like i said, you could investigate him for it, but youre going to have to prove the specific acts of violence were at the behest of the person who urged them. Now, the president can certainly have the defense that, well, i was urging people to protest as is their right under the 1st amendment, but those guys who were engaged in violence, that wasnt me. Its going to be harder to prove, but you could certainly charge it and you could certainly investigate it. Phil, all these people, as i mention the, not Wearing Masks so theyre easily caught on video. Theyre being identified. The one guy is bragging back home on his local news about how he stole whatever from nancy pelosi. Not exactly a brilliant move but great for Law Enforcement. Theyre now going home in various corners of the country. Theyre trying to hide some of them, scrubbing their social media. How does Law Enforcement track them all down . There is a lot of work going into this. Look at whats available to Law Enforcement now. Its not only what they put up on social media and whether you can recover that later, you can, its obviously whats on the video feeds going around the congress. Just on the day of the riot, there are fbi officials who went into that building, i presume for evidence collection not only photographing the damage but making sure they recovered the video from that facility. Then the great revolution in the past few years, how many people took cell phone video, whether they were in the vicinity or not . There will be a ton of video evidence, even 50 people sound like a few. One quick moment what the president elect said, biden. We just heard him on cnn a few minutes ago. I was really surprised about what he said about the inauguration and encouraging donald trump the president not to attend for one simple reason. You realize the president has said that he wants to support a smooth transition. He has not said that he accepts the legitimacy of the election. I think that distinction is significant. If the president were to go to the inauguration, it makes it much harder for him to say, i do not accept biden as the legitimate president of the United States. I think its a mistake for president elect biden not to encourage the president to attend. I hear you, i appreciate you saying that. Thats why we keep referring to that video from yesterday, the nonconcession concession, and biden saying hes thrilled hes not coming, and thats one they can agree upon, because the president elect said this is a total embarrassment. Phil, all these folks being prosecuted, these rioters, how could they be charged and how much jail time are we talking . To repeat the protest chant, lock them up, lock them all up, and they could potentially face a lot of charges. Now, look, there is no federal domestic terrorism statute that would allow for enhancements simply for the fact that there was terrorism, but theres all kinds of charges that these folks could be charged with. Seditious conspiracy, damaging federal property, threatening federal officers, obstructing a proceeding of congress, all kinds of things. Now, the far more important point, though, even more than the public knows, they could be tried in the district of columbia. Many of them will be tried back in their home. The district in arkansas, they will probably allow him to be tried in arkansas. If youre a prosecutor, you want the most friendly jury possible, and the jury pool you want are people that live in a place, dont want to see a conviction. I think theyre playing with fire by letting their guys go back home and get arrested there and be tried in,frankly, more friendly districts. But its potentially years of jail time because a lot of these offenses could be stacked on top of each other. Remember, there are acts of violence inside the capitol building, and anyone who is present there can be charged and tried with some of the violent offenses and damaging property that other people engaged in. Its called accomplice liability. These sort of thuggish a come c together and they could still be charged with it. Phil, last question to you is just inauguration. 12 days away, held out in the elements. How do we know that biden and harris will be safe . I think there is a coupuoupl things. Obviously you would expect to see a security presence that is unprecedented, but the obvious question from a couple days ago, why didnt capitol authorities see what was happening on social media and react more aggressively . 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Weve got some more breaking news out of washington now as calls are mounting for the president of the United States to resign from his role in inciting the deadly surge on capitol hill earlier this week. Michael rotak served under president bush. Thank you for joining me. Thank you for having me. What is the danger of President Trump remaining in office for 12 more days . We dont know what hes going to do with the residual amount of power that he has, and we also dont know what he wont do that should be done, if hes not focusing on the coronavirus or the computer hacking from russia that weakened a lot of enterprises. We need a president at the top of his game every minute, and right now we have a president that checked out, basically. When you look at these images of these people, the rioters, with auschwitz sweatshirts and nooses and confederate flags flying alongside trump flags, they were inside our capitol. How do you wrap your mind around that, number one, and number two, how does the United States send the message i cant believe im even having to ask it this way, but White Supremacists are not welcome here. I have to say this is one of the most shocking images i saw this past wednesday ive ever seen in my life, and that includes september 11 when i was on duty at the department of justice. Weve had experiences with White Supremacists before, like in oklahoma city. That resulted in a lot of deaths of people, including children. I think there has to be a Firm Statement from leadership that this isnt tolerable, and Law Enforcement has to really make domestic terrorism as much of a priority as global jihadism is. One thing im confident of is the incoming president , President Biden understands this, and i know merrick garland, and i know he understands it because he was involved in the prosecution of timothy mcvey. So if we can hang in there for another dozen days, i feel were going to turn a corner. I know you and so many of our National Security officials know how to focus on battling the jihadis, right, but were talking about caravans of these people in our own country. As far as politics goes, mr. Secretary, were starting to see more republicans come forward and condemn President Trump. But still he has his strong supporters. The Republican Party is pretty much ripping apart at the seams. What damage does this split create long term in the Republican Party . Let me say first of all, my main concern is really the United States of america. Political parties are one thing, but thats not where i find myself feeling loyalty. I find myself feeling loyalty to the u. S. And the constitution. And preserving that and preserving our Constitutional Values is my main concern. I think republicans will have to make a judgment whether they want to restore the party as a party that has kind of conservative views on a whole range of issues and believes in american values, or whether they want to turn in the direction weve seen in other parts of the world where you basically have an authoritarian or extremist parties that operate the fringes but can never actually command majority public support. I bring it up just listening to the president elect a moment ago talking about the Republican Party, because obviously the president played a huge role in all of this but so did a number of republicans there on capitol hill, the josh hawleys and the ted cruzes of the world that are in on the big lie and its how this party moves forward is disavows members of their own party. Thank you for coming on. Take care. Thank you. The Republican Party is a mess, virtually in tatters, the president delusional about the administration. Could be removed from power before his term ends. Still, the realities of this have not stopped. The president and others spewing false claims about who tried to stop this deadly riot. The fact check on all of this, daniel . Run through it for me. Reporter brooke, there is a boatload of Bad Information going around and some of it, as usual, is coming from the president himself. Some of the Public Officials including congressman mel brooks, congress mel g congressman gosar said it was left wing antifa. They cited it in the New York Times with evidence. I dont know if the post is true, but the Washington Post has reported that some of the people that breached the capitol were not Trump Supporters, they were masquerading as Trump Supporters, and in fact, were members of the violent terrorist group antifa. Guess what, that article in the Washington Times turned out to be so totally false, they deleted it. The idea that this was some sort of antifa production is just bonkers, brooke. They say they have no evidence of antifa. Many identified themselves on camera as Trump Supporters after a protrump rally which trump himself had told people to come to d. C. To attend during which he purposely told people to go march on the capitol. And then as all this was happening, trump posted a video telling rioters that they were very special and he loved them, so antifa . Come on. Number two, brooke, listen to what trump said in his twitter video yesterday. I immediately deployed the National Guard to dispel the intruders. That is not true. We dont have an accounting of exactly what happened, well know with time, but we know from the New York Times and others that trump was actually reluctant. The pentagon does not even mention trump. It says the action needed to be done by request from the president. They did not even mention trump as well. They said miller had spoken with Vice President pence, not trump. Number three, there are ludicrous claims going around the conservative leaning social media at parler, where trump criticized the media saying it was not even trump, it was a computergenerated replacement. What do you say to that . Trump posted this video from his own twitter account. Some have just simply gone off the deep end. Most of the bad info is coming from the trump side, but theres also coming off the antitrump side. There is a video of trump watching the rioting and cheering it on. Sorry, saying that video was taken at the white house and showed the rioting being watched by the president and cheered by the president. In fact, the video in question was taken at the ellipse, which is a park, not at the white house and it was before the violence at the capitol. In fact, before the president even spoke at that supporters rally, it does not show him cheering the violence. There is no defending trumps conduct on that day but his critics need to be accurate as well. Number five, whenever a dramatic incident happens, you get people saying it wasnt real. There are millions of views on such a claim about a video showing the mob approaching a Capitol Hill Police officer in the video who keeps retreating in alarm up the staircase as he awaits backup. That report is nonsense. The video was taken from a house reporter, igor bobic. There was nothing at all authentic about that clip. In summary, brooke, lies and disinformation caused this whole ka lamb calamity and the disinf and lies are not making it go away. Thank you for reminding us of how a big chunk of this country is thinking and believing, and calling it out is wrong. Daniel dale, thank you. Thank you. For the first time ever, the u. S. Reported more than 4,000 deaths in a single day yesterday and now the White House Task says its possible there may be a fastspreading u. S. Variant of covid. Erica hill is a cnn National Correspondent and shes with me now. Erica, what is this variant here . Brooke, what were learning is, the White House Task force puts out these reports to the state. They said there may may with a u. S. Variant, may have its own version of the virus thats spreading that is more transmissible that could be related to the spread, but its important to point out there is no hard evidence of a u. S. Variant that is fueling a more aggressive spread, thats fueling these numbers were seeing. We even heard that the fall and winter surge is twice what we saw in the spring and summer. Where is it coming from . Experts have been warning for months, brooke, what would happen if more people traveled, if people didnt wear masks. Were coming through this and a much more Aggressive Movement is needing to control the more aggressive spread, and that means masks and social distancing. It is certainly something being discussed a lot these days, brooke. Listening to the president elect there talking about benchmarks he has once he takes office january 20th in terms of vaccinations, in terms of mask wearing. Heres hoping that there will be a change for the better. Lives need to be saved. Erica hill, thank you so, so much for the update on the variant here in the u. S. Thank you for being with me. Im Brooke Baldwin here in new york. Lets go to washington now. The lead with jake tapper starts right now. This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead with jake tapper. They received a draft of the impeachment on President Trump that the democrats plan to introduce on monday. The draft article, incidents of insurrection, which ended in death and destruction. A violent terrorist attack by his supporters on the u. S. Capitol resulting in five dead, including a u. S. Capitol police officer. Minutes ago, president elect biden said he isoced