For an Historic Second impeachment trial for inciting last weeks deadly insurrection. Well have a full report on that. Also, there are now more than 23 million recorded covid infections and soon 387,000 deaths here in the United States. The u. S. Has added 100,000 new cases today. Over 1800 people have lost their lives so far. President elect will lay out plans tonight to vaccinate americans and rescue the economy. 965,000 americans filed for first time under employment claims last week. Rising by 181,000 from the week before. We have a great group of reporters and analysts on hand to help us dig into all of this. We do want to begin with nbc news correspondent Allison Barber on capitol hill, and nbc correspondent Kelly Odonnell across from the white house. Allison, lets talk about you. All eyes are on the inauguration right now. Theres always tight security around these events. Thats not a surprise. But based on where you are standing, tell us about what you are seeing surrounding thi
Meanwhile, twitters ceo defending his companys decision to banned President Trump and said it could set a dangerous precedent. Snap chat the latest to block the president claiming its in the interest of public safety. So is big tech keeping the public safe or violenting First Amendment rights coast to coast . Dan springer reports on the hearing today. Mike emanuel on the president s final days. In a moment, robert ray will join me on impeachment. Hello, dan. Hey, bill. This hearing lasted 30 minutes. Now we wait for the ruling. Basically the judge has to decide whether or not to issue a temporary restraining order that would force amazon to put parler back on its servers. Amazon took parler down a few days ago after the riot at the capitol last week. In court, documents said the company had been giving parler warnings for months that it was allowing content on the platform that promoted violence, rape, murder and torture and that in violation of their contract. In todays hearing, amazo
National security, democracy and the u. S. Constitution. Were standing by for remarks by the House Speaker, nancy pelosi. Were also getting new information about whats ahead as the president faces trial in the u. S. Senate and as the nation is on high alert right now for the possibility of new attacks leading up to president elect joe bidens inauguration one week from today. Lets go to Phil Mattingly up on capitol hill, monitoring these truly historic be developments. Set the seen for us. Tell us what were about to see. Reporter think of it this way. One week ago at this very moment Capitol Police were still under siege, trying to push a mob outside of the United States senate, the United States house. Today the u. S. House, seven days later, has impeached President Trump for inciting an insurrection. Ten republicans joining 222 democrats, leading to that impeachment. An Historic Second impeachment. The first time thats ever occurred in the countrys history for a president and what tha
Welcome to weekends with alex. We have more breaking news on the insurrection as well as this its from the new yorker magazine. I want to take you right to the video and the chilling sights and sounds of those rioters in their own words. Take a listen, everyone. [ yelling ] go, go, go watch out. Go [ bleep ] [ bleep ] police [ yelling ] [ metal clanking ] [ bleep ] [ yelling ] go, go whose house whose house [ bleep ] being controlled. [ indiscernible ] let the people in. [ beeping ] we love you guys. Take it easy. [ yelling ] [ chanting treason ] [ chanting defend your constitution, defend your liberty ] [ banging ] chanting 1776] guess what, america showed up [ indiscernible yelling ] where the [ bleep ] are they . Its a pr war. You have to understand were better than that. Information operation. Theres got to be something in here that we can use against the scumbags. Hey, yo, yeah [ bleep ] where are they . While were here, we might as well set up a government. Hey, lets take a seat,
And one he may have very well made worse by refusing to it may illustrately expos him to conviction in the senate and criminal charges. This was last night with my colleague. What was shocking, as you mentioned, visitors arent allowed in the capitol complex. Since march, since the start of covid thats been shut down. All tours are shut down. The only reason you have a visitor is on official visit, so to see these groups around the capitol complex was really striking. My chief of staff called the sergeantatarms to say what is going on, and he reiterated the only way they could have gotten sweet the complex with a member or that members it was. We now know the violent groups had inside knowledge of the capitol grounds. The plot thickens. Theres also new reporting today on what the attack was not. It was not an intelligence failure. Law enforcement knew exactly what was planned and where. The top intelligence official inside the new York City Police Department Says so, and says his Depart