Decision is up to the u. S. Congress. Lets go to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Jim, as impeachment is clearly gaining momentum once again, the white house is in crisis mode, and just released a new statement. Update our viewers. Reporter thats right, wolf, the white house just released a statement in the last couple of hours on these pending impeachment proceedings which see them to be moving very rapidly. We can show you that statement and put it up on screen. It says, a politically motivated impeachment of a president with only 12 days remaining in his term will only serve to further divide our great country. Obviously House Democrats dont feel that way, they say its absolutely necessary after what happened two days ago. But aides to the president tell me there is no way that donald trump will resign from the presidency despite this latest threat of a second impeachment before he leaves office. As one trump adviser told me, there is zero chance he will step down because, quote, he doesnt think he did anything wrong. Two days after he incited a bloody siege at the u. S. Capitol, donald trump is facing the headspinning prospect of becoming the first u. S. President to be impeached twice. His commitment to an orderly transition may be too little, too late. My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly, and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation. Reporter House Speaker nancy pelosi and her fellow democrats are now marching towards impeachment proceedings against the president , all the while making sure mr. Trump doesnt do anything drastic. Pelosi said she spoke to general mark milley to make sure the president doesnt launch a nuclear strike. Were not just doing this for the next 12 or 13 days. Were doing this for generations to come. And if we are not willing to state that the acts by the president of the United States to incite domestic terrorism and insurrection is an impeachable offense, then nothing is an impeachable offense. Reporter if the house impeaches the president , some Senate Republicans who didnt vote to convict the last time around said they have had a change of heart. I will definitely consider whatever articles they might move because as i told you, i believe the president has disregarded his oath of office. Reporter white house advisers say there is zero chance the president will resign, one source telling cnn, quote, he doesnt think he did anything wrong. But even former white house officials said mr. Trump should consider stepping down. They allowed this myth, this lie to take a life of its own that the election might be overturned. When the moment called for leadership, he did not do the right thing and lives were lost because of it. Reporter some of the president s top enablers are also facing calls to resign, like republican senator ted cruz who now says, now we must stand side by side as americans and continue to defend our constitution and the rule of law. Thats after he was amping up georgia, likening them to revolutionary soldiers. You are patriots just like the patriots gathered at bunker hill, just like the patriots gathered at valley forge reporter other trump loyalists are feeling the wrath of the trump base. After senator Lindsey Graham told President Trump to give up his election fight. It is over. Reporter Trump Supporters were screaming traitor as he walked through the airport. Traitor traitor Lindsey Graham, you are a traitor to the country you know it was rigged its going to be like this forever, the rest of your Life Reporter mr. Trump signaled he wont congratulate president elect joe biden on his inauguration day, tweeting he wont be going, giving the capitol a break from having the instigator on chief on hand for the transfer of power. If you dont fight like hell, youre not going to have a country anymore. Reporter our sources tell us the president and first lady are expected to leave for mr. Trumps maralago resort on january 19, one day before the inauguration. Obviously with the president and the way things are going these days, those plans could change. To this date the president still has not taken any responsibility for what happened a couple of days ago. He has not offered any apologies for what happened on january 6. Wolf, lets go back to this video that was captured at Reagan National airport earlier today, senator Lindsey Graham, one of the president s longtime loyalists, once a critic of the president , then became a loyalist, arriving at the airport earlier this afternoon. He was met by an angry mob of Trump Supporters screaming traitor at him. Weve seen this kind of hostility, typically at trump rallies, and not directed as republican allies of the president. Its a reminder, if you turn against this president , the base will turn on you, wolf. They certainly will, thanks very much, jim acosta reporting. Lets dig deeper into the new impeachment effort on capitol hill. The draft article by cnn. Our senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju is on the scene for us as he always is. Manu, walk us through how this is likely to play out. Reporter already the draft is being circulated and is expected to be introduced on monday. Increaitement of insurrection i what the democrats are moving towards. The president would be the first president in history who would be impeached twice. A final decision has not been made on whether to move ahead but nancy pelosi, the House Speaker, is taking all steps to move in that direction. Moments ago she instructed her House Rules Committee to set the scene for a floor debate that could occur next week. Ultimately, the question is where would it go from there. Its expected to get the support from the majority of the house, enough to get it approved. But it would need twothirds support of the senate in an impeachment trial in order for the president to be convicted. There are questions about whether democrats will press ahead in the new Biden Administration to they could have a trial after donald trump leaves office, and essentially prevent him from ever running for office again. Those discussions are happening because there are concerns that it could put biden in a bit of an awkward spot as hes trying to move forward with his agenda and the democrats are trying to go after the former president , donald trump. Biden himself would not say if he supports the idea of moving ahead with an impeachment trial at the moment but there are signs republicans are breaking ranks. One republican, Lisa Murkowski, became the first Senate Republican to call on donald trump to resign. She said, i want him to resign, i want him out, he has caused enough damage. She went on to say, he doesnt want to stay there, he only wants to stay there for the title, he only wants to stay there for his ego, he needs to get out. Very strong words from a sitting republican senator, the first to do so so far. Some others are open to voting to remove him from office. Well see if it gets to that point. At the moment, wolf, nancy pelosi wants donald trump to resign. If he doesnt, expect an Impeachment Vote in the house presumably by the middle of next week. Manu, you also have new details about what the president was actually doing as that mob was storming the capitol. You were right in the middle of it, thank god youre okay. Reporter it was a Remarkable Development here that donald trump was actually trying to continue to fight the Electoral College certification even after the mob came on capitol hill, threatened so many people, cost lives, this deadly clash. The president was not consumed with that. He was consumed with trying to get more republicans to object, to further states that were awarded to joe biden, to delay the proceedings even further, even though there was no chance congress would overturn the will of the voters. The president mistakenly placed a phone call to mike lee, the utah republican senator on that afternoon on wednesday, thinking that he actually had called tommy tuberville, who is the new freshman senator from alabama. What the president wanted was to urge tuberville to object to more states, to drag out the proceedings further. Later in the night, at 7 00 p. M. , rudy giuliani, the president s lawyer, called mike lee, again, mistakenly, thinking he was calling tommy tuberville, and left a message on mike lees voicemail, thinking he was leaving a message for tuberville, saying tuberville should continue to object to allow the process to continue to play out. That was at 7 00 p. M. , roughly, eastern time, hours after the mob had come and stormed capitol hill, after all the chaos and destruction in the capitol, that was still the focus of the president and his legal team at that moment. Tuberville himself was one of seven republicans who voted to throw out the pennsylvania electoral votes and one of six to vote to throw out the arizona electoral votes. So sick indeed, especially after those dangerous riots developed on capitol hill. Manu, stand by, i have some more questions for you, but right now i want to cover whats going on with the president elect of the United States, joe biden going even further in his condemnation of the current president while trying to sidestep that issue of impeachment. Our Political CorrespondentArlette Saenz is covering the Biden Transition Team in delaware. Biden says he wants to focus on the work ahead. Tell us whats going on. 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 should have been out of Office Yesterday is not an issue. Reporter president elect joe biden, blunt in his critique of President Trump. But refraining from calling for his impeachment in his waning days in office. So i think its important we get on with the business of getting him out of office. The quickest way that that will happen is us being sworn in on the 20th. Reporter the president elect says hell leave it to lawmakers to decide on next steps, while directing his attention to the challenges ahead. At that point it will be just a little over a week before the president leaves office. Do you believe this is a good idea . Im focused on the virus, the vaccine, and economic growth. What the congress decides to do is for them to decide. Reporter biden said his outlook would be different, if more time remained in the Trump Presidency. He exceeded even my worst notions. Hes been an embarrassment to the country, embarrassed us around the world. Not worthy. 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, and trying to invoke the 25th amendment, whatever it took. Reporter but the president elect does want immediate action in investigating the Security Breach at the capitol, after rioters launched an insurrection incited by President Trump. The damage done to our reputation around the world by a president of the United States encouraging a mob, a mob. This reminded me more of states ive visited, of the hundred countries ive gone to, in tin horn dictatorships. Reporter biden said senators like ted cruz and josh hawley, who led the charge to challenge the Electoral College results, shared in the blame. I think they should be flat beat 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. Reporter but he doled out praise for the large group of republicans who stood up to the lastminute attempts to overturn the election. Ive worked very hard with and against the former, soon to be 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 the 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. Reporter after the tumultuous events of the week, biden welcoming the president s decision not to attend the inauguration. One of the few things he and i have ever agreed on. Its a good thing, him not showing up. Reporter now, even as President Trump plans to sit out the inauguration, president elect biden said he would welcome Vice President mike pence to attend the inauguration. He has said he has not yet spoken with pence since all of this has gone down. Then on the transition side, the Transition Team says they still want to see more cooperation between the outgoing and Incoming Administration and that they are hoping that some of those outgoing officials will soon meet with their counterparts with that transfer of power set to take place in 12 days, wolf. 12 days indeed. I want to bring in our special correspondent jamie gangel and senior political commentator axelrod. Is this how history is going to remember President Trump . I think so, wolf. And i think you were right to say let that sink in, because its never happened before in the long history of this republican, when a sitting president of the United States encouraged an insurrection against the government of the United States. And theres no doubt that thats what he did. You know, the president is doing cleanup now. And we saw his Statement Last night which had all the sincerity of a hostage video. But in it, he tried to back off the fact that he was the one who incited the crowd. He invited them to washington and he sent them down pennsylvania avenue. And that is how he will be remembered. He is going to be remembered not there are many other things that happened during these four years that were tumultuous and unprecedented and disturbing. But the last chapter of this trump story is the one i think that will brand him forever in the minds of the American People and in history. Jamie, the white house just released that statement saying that impeachment would, in the white houses words, only serve to further divide the country and that this is a time for unity and healing. Its a pretty ridiculous statement, given the way the president has governed, the things hes said not just recently but for four years. Right. Wolf, theres one person who is responsible for this division and that is donald trump. And i have to say, he has to be very worried about the Republican Party right now. There are a growing number of republicans who are saying they want him out, resign, remove. And we are hearing from more republicans now, my sources say that they are considering supporting impeachment. I spoke to two lawmakers on capitol hill, republicans who are former allies of President Trump, and they said they would consider impeachment even though there are just 12 days. They said to me, theres no reason for long hearings. We experienced what happened on there, we know what happened, and we can make a decision depending on what those articles say, wolf. If the president doesnt want to be impeached by the house of representatives for a second time, he can simply resign and there wont be an impeachment effort under way. Correct. Arlette, democrats want to hold the president accountable but dont want to make things more difficult for the incoming president. Is it possible for them to accomplish both . Wolf, thats the tricky question in all of this, whether the decision to move forward with impeachment would have any type of long tellrm ramificatio on president bidens hope to achieve his agenda and promote unity. During the Campaign Biden talked about how he wanted to lean on bipartisanship. You heard him talk today about how the covid relief package will have a high price tag. The question is if these movements towards impeachment continue, whether any republicans may reconsider or tie up things that the president elect would want to work on going forward. And the enormous challenge that hes faced with right now is uniting the country. He has billed himself as someone uniquely positioned to do that. And after the events of this past week, he believes that part of that will be easier for him to achieve. But it is an outstanding question whether these democratic attempts to pursue impeachment, whether that will affect any of the president elects agenda or perhaps maybe if the circumstances around thient and ultimately they wont hold him n it comes to impeachment. Everybody stand by, theres more breaking news were following. 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These were insurrectionists who were armed, who came in with a plan, who were assisted in that plan. And, you know, told to do that in order to overturn the election by donald trump. So i think it is absolutely necessary that we, for the security and safety of this country, do everything we can to remove this president and if that means we have to impeach them, then i believe we should do that. Senator, Lisa Murkowski of alaska just became the first republican senator to call for President Trump but to immediately resign. How much support do you think you have from republicans in the house and senate, for that matter, for President Trumps impeachment and removal from office . Well, i think Everyone Wants him to go immediately. And of course that doesnt mean we wont hold him accountable for everything that he has done. But we cannot afford to have donald trump stay in office with access to control over the Nuclear Codes and all of our intelligence agencies and our law enforcement. That is dangerous. So i do believe that more and more republicans are going to join the call, because you cannot look at what happened, at the videos of donald trump over the last month since the election, actually two months since the election, you know, continuing to insist that this was a fraudulent election, that he was not turning over implying that he was not going to leave office, now talking about pardoning himself. But continuing, even with his speech yesterday, continuing to say that, you know, this was just the beginning of the journey of the great patriots. Hes talking about insurrectionists who came to the capitol fired up, guns into the house chamber, desecrated the Senate Chamber and knew exactly where they were going. That is deeply, deeply troubling. The white house is pushing back against the impeachment effort, arguing in a statement that a politically motivated impeachment against the president , with 12 days, 12 days remaining in his term, will only serve to further divide our great country. Thats the quote. Whats your response to that . Well, first of all, it isnt politically motivated, its about the safety and security of our country. When the president , the sitting president , is attempting a coup, essentially, attempting and inciting these insurrectionists, and continuing to do so, by the way. Thats number one. Number two, if donald trump is so concerned about unity, there were many things he could have done along the way. So, you know, i heard somebody say he gave that speech like a hostage that had been taken that was being made at gunpoint to say those things. We all know they arent true, from the fact that he called out the national guard. He didnt call out the national guard. He did everything he could to prevent us from having the security. And i believe, and even the french intelligence and nato intelligence is saying that the white house either explicitly or implicitly controlled much of what happened yesterday, or to be more accurate, what did not happen, in securing the United States capitol. And i know you were right in the middle of all of this, thank god youre okay, i know you were scared, understandably so. Congresswoman, good luck, thanks for joining us, were happy youre okay. Thank you so much, wolf. This is cnn breaking news. Weve got some more breaking news coming into the situation room right now. I want to go back to chief White House Correspondent jim acosta, jim, whats going on . Reporter if you can see this on screen right now, the president s twitter account has been suspended. All you can see if you go to realdonaldtrump at the moment, it says account suspended, everything has been wiped off his social media platform. Twitter has just released a statement in the last several minutes, i can read this to you, it says, after close review of recent tweets from the donald trump account and the context around them, we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence. That is from the Twitter Safety Department at the twitter social media platform. Wolf, this is obviously an extraordinary development, because as you know, one of the defining aspects of the Trump Presidency has been his use of his twitter account. He has fired people by twitter. He has announced policy changes by twitter. He has announced pardons by twitter. And he has incited violence on twitter, as we know. We saw this leading up to the events on january 26. And twitter is saying because of the president s potential to further incite violence, they are shutting down his account. Obviously twitter has come under a great deal of scrutiny. A lot of pressure from social media Safety Advocates in recent weeks, saying that the social media platform hasnt gone far enough in recent days. We saw they took down some of the president s tweets. And prior to that they have been labeling the president s tweets in the runup to january 6, pointing out, when he would say false things about the Election Results and so on. But this is a dramatic development, wolf, no question about it, suspending permanently the social media platform says, the president s twitter account. One has to wonder, wolf, what will this do to the president s state of mind. We know hes been unstable. Were hearing from our sources hes lost it and so on in recent days. What does this do to the president now that he no longer has access to this twitter account which he talks about all the time as a way of going around the media and so on . He doesnt have that anymore, at least not for the time being. And it makes you wonder, covering this president , knowing how unstable things have been in recent days, whether or not this pushes the president further to the edge as impeachment is being contemplated, the 25th amendment is being contemplated, and so on. He cant vent on twitter. One of the things weve noticed over the weekends covering this president , he wont be, you know, doing the work of the American People, hell be tweeting his grievances and so on. He cant do that, it seems, this weekend, during a critical time, the end days of his presidency, wolf. I just want on my phone to his twitter account, and i saw, the only thing you see over there, it says he was following 51 individuals, but he had 88. 7 million followers, 88. 7 million followers, account suspended. Twitter suspends accounts that violate the twitter rules. Hes always boasting how many millions of people get his information on social media. Facebook suspected him, instagram suspended him. Now twitter has suspended him. This is going to cause him deep, deep not only frustration but anger. And i assume hes going to try to retaliate. Reporter i assume hell try to retaliate. We are expecting this evening some kind of video message from the president. Now, we also have to wonder whether that video message is something that twitter did not want to put up on the platform. Perhaps thats not the case. Well have to wait and see what that video message is. These recent video messages that the president has put out there, after january 6, hes tweeted them out. He cant do that this evening. And so presumably if the white house wants to get that video message out to the American People this evening, one that were expecting this evening, theyre going to have to do it the Old Fashioned way, theyll have to email it to the white house press, their least favorite people in the world, in order for us to get it out to the rest of the world. The president has been knee capped by twitter. He can no longer use this account to do all of the various and sundry things that he does on a regular basis. He is, for all intents and purposes, banned at the moment from this very powerful social media platform, wolf. And banned from sending out anything to his 88 million followers. Brian stelter, our chief media correspondent, is with us as well. Brian, give us a little perspective on what is going on right now. 12 days to go in the presidency and twitter permanently suspends him. This is a moment in Silicon Valley history, as well as a moment in political history. And this has significance all around the world, wolf. So many World Leaders use twitter to communicate. But this is an historic moment where twitter has stepped in and said no, that world leader, the United States president , is too dangerous to use our platform. It is an astonishing thing that Technology Companies like twitter and facebook feel they have to protect the public from the american president , they have to take away his keys because they dont trust him to get behind the wheel. It does speak to the power of Technology Companies. And i think many Trump Supporters will hear about this and say this just proves that trump is being censored, hes being punished, hes being hurt by Silicon Valley. But censorship is not the right word here, this is not about the First Amendment. The First Amendment is about your relationship with the government, no tot to a private technology company. These social Media Companies have been under pressure from many people including their own employees to take action. Now hes banned. Hes banned not just from twitter and his 88 million followers but earlier zuckerberg banned him from facebook and instagram as well. Those are the three biggest social Media Operations that the president had, hundreds of millions of individuals potentially were getting his information here in the u. S. And around the world. Yes. Facebook basically suspended him indefinitely, but at least two weeks, that means through inauguration day. On facebook he has a chance to come back someday in the future. On twitter this is apparently a permanent move by twitter. So february, march, whatever, theres no appeal, theres no coming back to twitter. Not just twitter, but weve seen youtube, weve seen twitch, weve even seen websites that specialize in shopping, shopify also took action against the president s campaign. This is a youtube is another one. The list goes on and on. You know, we have seen this remarkable action by Technology Companies, because they fear what trump will do with his platforms. As you know, brian, a lot of people think these platforms should have been done this a long time ago, given what the president was out there promoting. What do you think . Thats right. Look, think about six months. The president was on twitter during the unrest across the country. He said, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. And that was the kind of post, so incendiary, that many people said then his account should be suspended. The reality has been twitter and facebook have been very afraid to cross this president , they have been afraid to take action against his account when in any other situation, he would have been banned years ago. They wanted to avoid this moment, this collision with the american president. There are regulatory concerns, there are concerns that trumps fans will leave these platforms. The president will go off to far right websites that promise they wont block him. Hell communicate on those instead, but to a much, much smaller audience, wolf. Its an amazing situation when you think big picture about whats going on. This is the president of the United States in his final 12 days in office and all of a sudden, Twitter Suspends him personally, account suspended. Preet bharara is our legal analyst. What do you think about this from a legal perspective . Something that should be clear to everyone about twitter and it gets confused a lot, and a lot of folks who are put under sanction by social media platforms make an allegation that theyre being censored or that its a violation of their First Amendment rights. It is not. Twitter is a private company. It has terms and conditions of use and if you violate those terms and conditions, you can be suspended temporarily or permanently. Donald trump, being the commander in chief, has probably gotten away with more violations of twitter than anyone else in the country and only now is twitter taking it seriously when it comes to the president of the United States. So he has no cause of action, he has no claim. To some extent its probably helpful to him. Taking him off twitter precludes the ability of him to make incriminating statements about things that have been litigated in court. I imagine that if theres impeachment proceedings, that one of the things thats going to be raised is what was in Donald Trumps mind with respect to the insurrection of this past week. And some of that evidence comes from his tweets. Very quickly, preet, hes going to be a private citizen in 12 days, maybe even earlier if he were to resign or be removed according to the 25th amendment to the constitution, preet, but once hes a private citizen, can he file lawsuits, can he complain, does he have any legal case at all to get back on . I dont believe so. He can be a plaintiff even as the president. What cannot happen while hes the president is under doj guidelines, he cant be charged with a crime. But other legal proceedings, hes free to make and bring and he has done so on behalf of his campaign, as we know, dozens of times around the country. He can try to bring an action. But i think theres a clear case based on the internal regulations and terms and conditions of twitter, which theyre allowed to enforce pretty much as they see fit. I dont think he has any claim or cause of action whatsoever. We just got a statement from joe manchin, senator from west virginia, a democrat, thanking twitter for taking this action. We must come together as a country to heal and find a common path forward. Let me go back to jim acosta, our chief White House Correspondent. Any reaction at all from the white house, jim, that were getting to this really dramatic move . The president of the United States suspended from tweeting. Reporter not yet, wolf. But i suspect that the reaction will be fierce, because this is a president who has been complaining about what he deems to be social media discrimination for some time. But lets keep in mind, this is a private company, its a publicly traded company but it is a company that has a platform that hes been using to spread lies and fear and hatred over the last four years. Hes tweeted everything from calling the press the enemy of the people to firefauci about dr. Fauci during this coronavirus pandemic. Hes used this twitter account to great harm. But wolf, you dont have a First Amendment right to shout fire in a crowded theater. And that is essentially what the president has been doing over these last four years. And its what hes been doing leading up to the events on january 6, the attempted violent coup that we saw on january 6. The president of the United States was inciting people not just at that rally on the mall on january 6. He was doing it on social media. And so, you know, this is a social media platform, a very powerful company, as Brian Stelter was just talking about, taking stock of the situation and saying, you know, listen, we cant do this forever. One of the things thats been discussed, wolf, leading up to the november 3 election, is whether the president could be banned on social media platforms had he won reelection. But now that hes a loser, hes leaving office soon, he goes back to being a private citizen. As weve seen time and again on social media platforms, private citizens can get banned from these platforms left and right if theyre not complying with the rules of those social media platforms. And donald trump is somebody who has time and again not just broken the rules of social media but just sort of broken the rules of decent society, spreading hate and fear and lies and so on. I think a lot of people will be applauding this tonight on both sides of the political spectrum. Its interesting, Brian Stelter, the president suspended permanently from twitter and twitter saying they do so because, they cited, the risk of further incitement of violence. Brian, further incitement of violence by the president of the United States. How often does twitter suspend permanently individuals . Because a lot of individuals out there on the far right, lets say, maybe on the far left as well, are permanently inciting violence. This does happen from time to time. Largely with people that our viewers have never heard of. Random, usually fringe accounts that do get suspended temporarily and you get a few warnings, you hit a few strikes, then you might get permanently banned. But never has a world leader been deplat formed li plaplatfo. Third world countries, dicta dictatorships. We got more detail from twitter, it says twitter took into account statements he made offplatform, meaning they were judging not just his tweets but statements he made at the rally on wednesday. Often what is planned in a semi private space is buried on the open web. Twitter is sending a message to other Technology Companies saying, we all, all of these companies, that have platforms on the internet, have to step up their performance and judge content more seriously. By the way, earlier today, apple said that it may take action against parl lchlparler, the n Media Network for far right Trump Supporters. Apple is threatening to remove parler from its app store because of content moderation concerns. All of this probably should have happened sooner. These Technology Companies are trying to show some responsibility in the very last days of the trump administration. It really is incredible. And preet, you tweet, i tweet, brian tweets, almost everybody i know tweets nowadays. Give us your perspective on how you anticipate, the president has always been bragging about his 88 million followers on twitter and how important it is to get his message he hates what he calls the mainstream news media, he calls us the enemy of the American People, he says he has his own opportunities to convey his messages, he always cites twitter. Now thats gone away. Give us your perspective. Look, ive interviewed a number of people over the last three years on my pad caodcast. I often ask a simple question about social media, to what extent is twitter responsible for the rise and for the election of donald trump. And many of them, who are pretty smart folks, say without twitter he may not have been elected. So people who are talking about this being an astounding setback for the president , who may choose to run again, by the way, he becomes a private citizen but there are some indications he seeks to become the leader of the country again, and without the powerful twitter account that hes accumulated over time, i think its a big deal. You can ask the question, if the president says it, but its not on twitter, its like a tree falling in the woods, if theres no one there, does it make a sound. And he has amplified what is already a powerful platform, meaning the presidency, i think in a way that has never been done before. And to take that away from him, one might argue, to some degree renders him kind of mute. So its a big deal. Very quickly, before i let you go, preet, he still is the president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, thats what we always call the president of the United States, for another 12 days, presumably he stays in office for another 12 days. What do you think he could potentially do in retaliation during these 12 days . Executive orders, whatever he wants to do as far as punishing twitter and facebook, instagram, some of these other platforms that have suspended him . He talks incessantly about repealing section 230. He failed in doing that. He failed in doing that. And by the way, i think he has no power to do anything, in part because theres not a lot he can do, because of the tools at his disposal. And second, i think there is a feeling among people around him, whether its the Justice Department or the defense department, you name it, the federal trade commission, that he doesnt govern anyway, but his influence is so limited based on the events of this week that i think even if he were to try to take some drastic and inappropriate action against twitter or some other social media company, that those orders, i expect, if they are unlawful, would be declined, would be defied. So, you know, hes got a few days left. He doesnt have a lot of cards in his deck. He doesnt have a lot of people who are prepared to do things given the state of the country that were in and given his status as soon to be exleader of the country. Were going to continue to monitor, this is a huge breaking news story, a major development. The president of the United States, let me repeat, the president of the United States has now permanently been suspended from twitter. He has no longer an opportunity to directly speak to 88 million of his followers on twitter. Well have much more right after this. These days you need more than an education. So thats what we give you. Introducing Career Services for life. Learn more at phoenix. Edu its time you make the rules. So join the 2 Million People who have switched to xfinity mobile. You can choose from the latest phones or bring your own device and choose the amount of data thats right for you to save even more. And youll get nationwide 5g at no extra cost. All on the most reliable network. So choose a data option thats right for you. Get nationwide 5g included and save up to 300 a year on the network rated 1 in customer satisfaction. Its your wireless. Your rules. Only with xfinity mobile. On top of the other breaking news we are getting chilling new information right now about the investigation into the deadly act of domestic terror up on capitol hill. Our crime and justice correspondent is joining us right now. One person has now been charged, was said to have had a truck filled with home made bombs. What are you learning . Reporter pretty frightening details weve learned from the fbi, the department of justice today. In a press call they said they found 11 molotov cocktails in a truck just in close to the capitol here. They say that they encountered an individual, his name is leroy kaufman, from alabama. When they searched his truck they found these 11 molotov cocktails and described it as having liquid inside of it that is sort of like napalm. Obviously very concerning for authorities. We dont exactly know what or what he was planning if anything at all but certainly very frightening. They also found a couple guns on him. They found some weapons inside the truck. So he is in custody. We also learned details about the other people that they have arrested. They are looking for many still but some of the people theyve arrested including an individual by the name of richard barnett, of course, has become widely known because of the photo of his boots, his feet on the desk of nancy pelosi. The fbi announcing they arrested him today in arkansas. They are looking for many, many more, wolf. They say they have a 24 7 operation going. Three command centers, hundreds of prosecutors, fbi agents, analysts working the investigation and they say they are just Getting Started and theyre going to continue to arrest people who were inside the capitol and the investigation is going to continue, wolf. What are you learning about the federal Murder Investigation into the Capitol Police officers death . Reporter certainly very concerning for authorities. He died after something that happened inside the capitol. The fbi and the department of justice are potentially investigating this as a felony murder case. We still have a lot to learn. Certainly an autopsy to determine how exactly he died. They say theyre going to continue that investigation and if it warrants further charges theyre going to bring them, wolf. The latest up on capitol hill. Thanks very much. There is other breaking news were following as well. More than 368,000 american lives now lost in the coronavirus pandemic and the country has just topped 21. 8 million confirmed cases following the single deadliest day yet in this crisis. Cnns nick watt is in los angeles with the latest. Nick, there is deep concern now, what, about a possible u. S. Variant of the virus . Reporter wolf, there is no actual evidence that this variant exists but the White House Coronavirus task force just looked at this steep surge in the fall and winter and thought, well, maybe this is a u. S. Variant. Meanwhile, broad agreement that weve got to do better on vaccines. But how . Good afternoon. Reporter team biden tells cnn they have a radical plan. Release nearly every vaccine dose on hand. Stop holding back for second doses. We would certainly pick up the speed of our vaccination. We need some assurances that those second doses are going to be there. Reporter pfizer and moderna wont say if theyre able to manufacture those second doses in time. The second dose is absolutely critical. That one dose of moderna and one dose of pfizer has not been proven to be efficacious to the degree that we want. Reporter the latest numbers reported just over 22 million doses distributed. Fewer than 7 million actually in arms. Calls for easing the rules on who gets it when. If we cant vaccinate the people who are most in danger well lose lives we did not need to lose. Reporter new yorks governor just expanded the pool of people who can get a shot and now includes First Responders and over 75s. That is by far the Largest Group and those are people who desperately need it. Reporter just look at new yorks new case count line. Exploding way higher than spring. The nypd commissioner just tested positive. Across america 4,085 people reported dead yesterday. The most covid deaths in a day ever. And here in los angeles . We had 259 deaths. Thats one more than all the homicides in 2019 in l. A. City combined. In a single day equal to a year of homicides. Reporter arizona has now overtaken california, leads the nation in new cases. Per capita. But, still no statewide mask mandate to control the virus. Crumb of comfort . The pfizer biotech vaccine does appear to work against the more contagious coronavirus strain first identified in the uk. Now spreading across the u. S. Wolf, more horrible news out of california, los angeles just set another record for most deaths in a day beating yesterday and county hospitals here are preparing to ration care. Socalled triage officers will decide who gets treatment and who doesnt. Wolf . Nick, thank you very much. There is more breaking news were following tonight. A source tells cnn that Vice President pence has spoken by phone with the family of the Capitol Police officer who died from injuries he sustained in the riot by Trump Supporters, that the president himself encouraged another source tells cnn that u. S. Attorneys are now planning to open a federal Murder Investigation into the death of the Police Officer. Brian sicknick. Cnns brian todd is joining us right now. Brian, officer sicknick is only the fourth Capitol Police officer to be killed in the line of duty since the force was actually founded two centuries ago. Reporter thats right, wolf. Tonight the exact circumstances of officer sit nicks death are unclear but as the investigations ramp up officer sicknick is remembered as a hero who was working his dream job until the very end. With flags lowered to half staff the Capitol Hill Community is reeling over the death of a respected Police Officer, 42yearold Brian Sicknick. With their sorrow some including members of congress are also expressing anger. My heart goes out to officer sicknicks family. There are a lot of people who have officer sicknicks blood on their hands. The way that they went out or the way that he died was unnecessary. Reporter Capitol Hill Police say officer sicknick was injured on wednesday while, quote, physically engaging with protesters that he then returned to his Division Office and collapsed. He died late thursday. The youngest of three sons, born and raised in south river, new jersey, Brian Sicknick is called a hero by his family tonight. In a statement sent to cnn the family is saying he wanted to be a Police Officer his entire life. As a means to that end, they say, he joined the new Jersey Air National guard. That branch says sicknick joined in 1997, was deployed to saudi arabia, and kyrgyzstan, and served in a Security Force squadron the air guards military police. Sicknick was honorably discharged from the new Jersey Air National guard in 2003 and joined the Capitol Hill Police in 2008. Capitol Hill Police Say sicknick most recently served in the forces First Responders unit. One former capitol hill officer said the job is dangerous even under normal circumstances. Every day is a your life is in danger. There is no promise youll come home the next day or the same day that you go out. Every officer that swears in takes the job very seriously to protect congress. Reporter officer sicknick and his colleagues though by most accounts overwhelmed by the rioters are drawing praise from members of congress who they fought to protect. Many of our Capitol Police just acted so bravely and so, with such concern for the staff, for the members, for the capitol, for the capitol of the United States. Many of them. And they deserve our gratitude. We were all very fortunate that the Capitol Hill Police that were there were thinking as quickly as they had. If they had automatic weapons, they could have killed hundreds of members of congress. Reporter tonight one of the men who helped prevent that horror is remembered by his family for his empathy, his commitment to rescuing dogs, and his love of the new Jersey Devils hockey team. Brian sicknick had no children but lived with his girlfriend of 11 years. In a statement to cnn Brian Sicknicks family has asked the public and media not to make his passing a, quote, political issue but his death will be the subject of a federal Murder Investigation with the u. S. Attorneys office, the Capitol Hill Police, and the d. C. Metropolitan Police Taking part. Wolf . I know those Capitol Police. I covered capitol hill for a long time. Our hearts go out to his friends and his family. Brian sicknick, may he rest in peace and may his memory be a blessing. To our viewers, thanks very much for watching. Ill be back once again tomorrow, saturday, 5 00 p. M. Eastern for a special edition of the situation room. Also, this is important, sunday night please join me for a cnn special report. The trump insurrection 24 hours that shook america. Thats at 10 00 eastern sunday night only here on cnn. Thanks for watching. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. The white house is in crisis mode. The twitter has responded president Donald Trumps account permanently silencing him as democrats plan to introduce their first article of impeachment on monday. Plus the man who broke into House SpeakerNancy Pelosis office is in custody tonight as we learn another rioter packed his truck with molotov cocktails, a hand gun, and an assault rifle. New reporting tonight on the president pressuring a republican senator into stalling joe bidens victory as rioters were terrorizing the u. S