That day to plead not guilty to a whole bunch of federal crimes. Good evening, seven men who were once the most powerful of president nixon s it ministration and reelection campaign were arraigned in federal court in washington today. Each of them pleaded not guilty as a result of that watergate coverup in the breakin at daniel ellsberg psychiatry. Robert arriving in the darkness of the underground garage. Some people gathered and came to watch and others to demonstrate. Campaign lawyer, now defendant arrived. Then, former attorney general john mitchell. There were cheers for charles carlson and there were top aide. John earlington, all those hidden from view. And former alderman gordon strong and his lawyer arriving almost unrecognized. And one by one, sandwiched among their ten lawyers defendants responded to the charges which showed first loudly and not guilty all counts, not guilty. Carlson, not guilty. Ehrlich min, not guilty. Holden meant, not guilty. Parkinson and strong on, not
Structure bill for a month now after they reached an agreement on what they called the basic framework of that legislation. One month ago, in a meeting with president biden at the white house. There they are after that meeting up there in the white house driveway and now it s not unusual at all for it to take at least a month or more to figure out the details of such legislation after you ve established a general shape of it and then get all of that into precise legislative language. And after a weekend of work, it seems like today it might actually be the day that the bipartisan group could bring their bill to the senate floor through majority leader chuck schumer and begin debate. Here is what the lead republican negotiator rob portman said yesterday. We re about 90% of the way there, with a legislative language and staff and i feel good about getting that on this week. We have one issue outstanding and we re not getting much response from the democrats and it s about mass transit. O
Seven men who once had been the most powerful in president nixon s reelection campaign were in federal court today. Each of them pleadet not guilty. The first defendant arriving in the darkness of the underground garage. Out front, several hundred persons had gathered. Some came to watch and others to demonstrate. Campaign lawyer, now defendant, kenneth parkinson arrived. Then former attorney general john mitchell. Put the traitors in jail! reporter: there were jeers for charles colson and strawn and his lawyer aliving almost unrecognized, and one by one, sandwiched among their ten lawyers, the defendants responded to the charges, mitchell first loudly, not guilty to all counts. Martian, not guilty, colson, not guilty ehrlichman, not guilty, halderman, not guilty and parkinson and strong, not guilty. They were taunted with cheers of law and order. Law and order was one of nixon s slogan and now they were using it to taunt his attorney general as he arrived to face his own criminal char
As his state is looking more and more like the new epicenter. Every single county in florida is now an area of high transmission according to the cdc. Hospitalizations there trending up. We re going to talk to a florida doctor facing this surge, but first, let s get to cnn s reporter with more on the move by the new york mayor. Reporter: the mayor said they ve tried to do everything they can to get people vaccinated in this city where currently 71% of adults have that first vaccination shot. They ve tried to give up basketball tickets, eincentives of money. They need to get more people vaccinated. That s where this move is coming from. This applies to all city workers. It comes a week after the mayor mandated those working in the health care system. The city s hospitals get vaccinated fully or have a covid test weekly. And so now this is also the employees. 340,000 employees roughly. This is going to include fdny, nypd. Only 43% of the force is vaccinated currently. This is the departm
And tonight, the v. A. Now the first federal agency to require its health care workers to be vaccinated in the next eight weeks. And what we learned tonight about breakthrough cases among the vaccinated. Overseas tonight, france now requiring vaccination passports for restaurants, bars, theaters. The president there saying to those who refuse to be vaccinated, it s time you stay at home, not us. Protesters clashing with police, with that country facing a new wave. Back here at home, 85 fires burning in 13 states tonight, and the air quality alerts from the west all the way to the east coast. One just issued ins be on the. We re on the front lines tonight. The high stakes january 6th committee to hold its first hearing tomorrow on what led to the attack on the capitol. House speaker nancy pelosi now with two republicans on the panel. Minority leader kevin mccarthy calling them pelosi republicans. And what we ve learned about what the american people will hear tomorrow morning. Rachel sc