the first insurrections taken up against the u.s. government. washington gets back on his horse and rides into town to put down a bunch of them got pardons, if i m not mistaken, for their role as a sort of, you know, we need to heal the nation kind of decision. but it s a decision after the normal processes. but on the processes, danya, i think there s an interesting dynamic where the committees clearly frustrated. [laughs] they clearly think doj is not doing enough. here is laureate today on morning joe on msnbc, giving her comments and thoughts. take a listen. i sure as hell hope that merrick garland has an open criminal investigation into donald trump. what we have laid out their yeah. no one needs to wait for some formality from our committee to have that motion. danya, clearly merrick garland is, in his own way,
to any other witness would work, and whether it s written testimony, or it s recorded testimony, that s up to the committee. and mister pence and his attorneys. but certainly danya, when you say written testimony, can you walk us through how that is? how is that different from the depositions we re used to seeing at the hearings? sure, it s just a another form, it s a provision of a written question, written questions and written answers. i believe former president trump did that in connection with some of the mueller proceedings. it is done less typically than a recorded and or oral deposition. and it is just something to be negotiated between the car-t s. so we haven t seen many of them, or at least we re not aware of any of them. but it may be that for, you know, that it s more palatable
cbs danya bacchus is in los angeles with more on that. danya, good evening. reporter: good evening, jericka. icu admissions and deaths are not increasing at the same pace as new infections, but health officials here say they don t want to wait until hospitals are overwhelmed to try to slow the spread of omicron. crowds in los angeles are showing few signs of covid precautions as a rise in cases fueled by the most contagious subvariant could soon trigger the return of indoor mask mandates. nationwide, ba.5 is responsible for more than half of all new cases. cbs news medical contributor dr. david agus says a prior infection may not stop the strain. you can get reinfected now. reporter: do you think americans are still taking this virus seriously? americans have moved on from covid-19. the problem is covid-19 hasn t moved on from america. reporter: nearly 60% of the population is living in a high
intruder attacked her while she was alone at work. at the time, police found the injuries consistent with jane s story. in fact, dave inflicted those injuries, then ordered chain to lie and blame a nonexistent intruder. a pattern of covering up dave s abuse, abuse which by the summer of 2009 was getting worse. from june it was escalating. but the chain continue to take it. until that particular august 9th when something changed. that night, according to benny for the first time, they ve threatened michael s life. she really believe that he was gonna kill? michael yes. jane had taken michael to the beach that day said danya. they were late getting home. dave was upset. he started screaming yelling. no one respects me. don t get any attention, nobody cares about me. james put michael the bed,
somewhere. he knew what the document said. yeah, the lawyer saying, 1776 returns is not a plan to attack the and capitol is not even mention the capitol ear. first two occupying congressional occupying buildings, as this is the or start a new department. the winter palace, again, that parallel struck me when i was watching it happen. because, again, three years later, quite famously, the new soviet government would stage this as a big spectacle. but the storming of the winter palace, danya, it was the ultimate historical example of a relatively small group of people, essentially using a concerted mob attack to topple a government, through force, focused on one building. it s very revealing to me that that is the touchstone here. yeah. that is the element for seditious conspiracy. it s an agreement amongst people it could be a small group of people and there could be some in the know, less in the know, as is the case here, allegedly. and they agreed to gather to use force to i