american democracy while finding that china decided against meddling in the u.s. election last year. let s go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto who s been watching all of this so closely. how extensive, first of all, was russia s election interference? reporter: i spoke this evening to a former senior u.s. intelligence official who was involved in the 2016 assessment. he said to me that russia is nothing if not consistent here. when you look at this assessment, the headline figures in this assess, it is almost verbatim from what we reported on 2016. we assess that the russian president vladimir putin ordered this, directed this, much as the intelligence community assessed in 2016. let s then go onto what russia did to interfere. it says they conducted influence operations aimed at denigrating president biden s candidacy. reminds you of what they did in 2016 in terms of denigrating hillary clinton. but also denigrating the democratic party, supporting
mouth about meghan markle and prince harry. his thoughts are almost too bizarre to believe, but we begin the reidout tonight with the question you ve been asking that i m sure you ve been asking for an entire year now, when will we return to normal life? we have the first sign that some aspects of the pre-pandemic lives are on the horizon with the cdc giving the green light for fully vaccinated people to gather with other fully vaccinated people without wearing masks or social distancing. getting to see our loved ones again to share a meal indoors with grandparents, parents and friends is the best thing we ve heard in a very long time. we re also seeing grim numbers that have haunted us all year with newly reported coronavirus and hospitalizations on the decline. the reason for this progress boils down to science in the form of three vaccines. the problem is there s a segment of the u.s. population that insists on rejecting science while clamoring that their so-called perso
And just one followup for you, secretary mccarthy. The fencing, you said at least 30 days or no more than 30 days . At a minimum. Yes. We will work that in coordination with the city as well as the Capitol Hill Police. Thank you. Yes. Mark. Two questions for the secretary. One, i tried to follow along. Could you repeat the specifics about the fence . Will it completely surround the u. S. Capitol complex, the fencing. Yes. Could you go through the specifics one more time . Yes, constitution to independence, first, then the road in front by the pond, all the way around. How high will it be . Seven foot. Nonscaleable. Compare to what you see at the white house. This is what was available. We worked through this solution midstream yesterday. We were on the phones to get as quickly as possible a capability in place to extend the perimeter of the National Capitol complex, we could get as Many Metropolitan Police officers out into the streets so in the event that if this was to recur again or
Of the United States is in increasing legal jeopardy at this hour. Federal prosecutors say they are looking at President Trumps role in inciting the insurrection that the entire world witnessed live in our nations capitol yesterday. Calls growing from both parties to invoke the 25th amendment to immediately remove trump from office. If Vice President mike pence and trumps cabinet do not go ahead and do that we are now learning Speaker Nancy Pelosi is considering a lightning quick impeachment process that could be done in a couple of days. All of this because of what transpired thanks to trump yesterday. The u. S. Capitol breached, a mob marching on the capitol. Congress stopping counting the Electoral College vote. Offices ransacked. Four lives lost. With words and deeds many of them we have all seen. Ones like this one from the president of the United States. This was just before they started marching. Here is what he told them. We are going to walk down to the capitol and we are go t
Representatives. It was an attack of wanton violence, an attack on democracy in fact. We are closer to the inevitable outcome, however, that President Trump is going to be out of office. Some republicans in congress and rioters tried to keep that from happening. The final vote count to assure joe bidens election win has not happened. Look at the bottom of your screen. 244157. There has to be 270 im sorry, 157. There has to be a 270 in front of joe bidens name. It is eventually going to get to 306. It is my suspicion that will happen within the next hour or so. So if you are watching this now, refill your coffee and stay with us because this is the night you are going to want to remember. Last night was a night to remember, too. Two democrats won the two runoffs in georgia. So the senate will now be 50 50 which is interesting and positive for joe biden and democrats, but what happened today was negative for everything. The world, for america, for democracy, for donald trump, for the yah