To all of you watching around the world. Im kim brunhuber, this is cnn newsroom. In just three days as president , Joe Joe Biden has signed more than two dozen executive orders, many reversing Donald Trumps policies. The senate agreed to delay the second impeachment trial. House democrats will deliver the articles of impeachment to the senate on monday. The trial arguments will start two weeks later. The delay gives democrats time confirm joe bidens cabinets and trying to drum up support for the proposed covid relief bill. Meanwhile President Biden isnt wasting anytime. With the stroke of a pen, he is looking to bring relief to americans hardest hit by the economic fallout of the pandemic. Phil mattingly has more from the white house. We need more action and we need to move fast. Reporter President Biden in his second full day in office zeroing in on the second major crisis facing his administration. A teetering economy. Now is a moment not to undershoot or to wait and see, now is a mo
This pandemic. On top of that this morning, the cdc is reviewing do you that that suggests the uk covid variant which is shown to spread more quickly may also be more deadly. So weve got a lot to get to that is developing this morning. Lets gen on capitol hill with our colleague lauren fox. Good morning to you. What can we expect today as house impeachment managers get set to deliver officially the articles of impeachment to the senate. Reporter thats right. Really a ceremonial step up here this evening on capitol hill as the house impeachment managers will walk over that one article of impeachment and present it to the u. S. Senate. Expect that tomorrows senators will be sworn in as jurors as a part of the Senate Impeachment trial. But then we expect a twoweek break. As you noted, this is really a critical period of time for both the former president Donald Trumps defense team as well as bidens legislative agenda up here on xichlt expect the democrats will continue that push to get mo
Obviously i think. Lets pause on that last statement. Although Pat Cipollone is being careful about executive privilege, there really is no ambiguity about what he said. Almost everybody wanted President Trump to instruct the mob to disperse President Trump refused. To understand how in adequate the president s tweets were. Lets examine is to 38 tweet in more detail for context. Here is what was happening at that time. Last. For sarah, kate, theres people flooded the whole without the way out. Just hold that. There has been tear gassed. And to each of us get a we went from a peaceful protest and this is a very dangerous situation right now. That there are. Im being told these protesters on the inside. Around both chambers and theres now tear gas inside the capitol rotunda. In fact, members locked in the house are being instructed to put on masks. Ms matthews after President Trumps tweet about Vice President pence. You told us he spoke to a immediately spoke to kaley mcenany. What did y
Good evening and thank you for joining us. Our live coverage of tonights prime time hearing from the january 6th committee, nearly a year long investigation. But tonights hearing will focus on something very specific. Were told the committee will laser in on what former President Trump did not do as rioters were attacking the capitol. Those inside the white house describing the former white house watching it all on tv and, they say, failing to act. Members of the committee calling it a dereliction of duty. Theyll focus on the 187 minutes from the time the president finished speaking on the ellipse about 1 10 p. M. Eastern, where he urged supporters to go to the capitol. Of course testimony already the president knew some of those supporters were armed. And then the hours that went by until the former president posted that video at about 4 17 p. M. Telling those at the capitol to go home. We love you. Youre very special. Tonight we will hear indepth where the president was at the white
Lived it. I could hear the din of the rioters in the building. The noise from the rioters became audible, at which point we recognized maybe they had gotten into the building. Now, the january 6th Committee Makes its Closing Argument to the American People. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. It was one of the most difficult days in american history. For more than a year the january 6th committee e s been investigating why and how a mob of thousands stormed the Capitol Building. They tried to make the case it was former President Trump who was directly responsible for the assault. Tonight will be the last in this series of hearings. Their Closing Argument for this phase as they Just Announced more hearings in the fall. For most of the previous hearings, the focus has been on what mr. Trump did. Tonight the focus will be on what he did not do during the 187 minutes after he spoke to the crowd on january 6th. Until the president finally tweeted out a video telling his supporter