scot-free is actually spelled with one two but two ts on that card. that one piece of evidence, an insight into the man's state of mind that he can get away with anything because of his skin color. his lawyer saying this to cnn. this was a guy simply following the advice and the commentary of the president of the united states. so tonight the acting chief of the capitol police proposing security fencing erected around the capitol in the wake of the deadly insurrection stay up permanently. also police say a man arrested near the capitol was armed with a gun and 20 rounds of ammunition and a list of lawmakers' names. the house speaker, nancy pelosi, responding to concerns about security by members of congress, saying the enemy is within the house of representatives. with all this, president biden pushing for bipartisan support to pass his massive nearly $2 trillion covid relief plan. let's get right to it. cnn's white house correspondent is john harwood, and our senior political analyst is john avlon. how will we distinguish? i guess i'll have to say last names. good evening to both of you. mr. harwood, president biden trying to restore access to health care, pushing hard behind the scenes to get a covid relief package through on the heels of dismal economic news. where do negotiations stand tonight? >> well, they've got a ways to go. there's a lot of details that are going to get changed, and it's unclear what the composition of the final coalition behind the legislation will be. but one thing that both the biden white house, democrats in congress, their outside allies are increasingly confident of is that they're going to get a very large bill, if not precisely joe biden's $1.9 trillion, something close to that. and that potentially has a huge impact on the country and on the biden presidency. it will speed the end of the pandemic with the funds for the vaccines and testing and all the steps needed to try to get the pandemic under control. it will sustain people who are hurting, who are jobless, through the next few months while we get to the end. and it will lift the overall economy. economists tell me, don, that passing of this bill or something close to this bill will take the 4% growth we expect for this year and turn it into 6% growth, that it will restore the u.s. economy to full employment by the end of 2022 instead of 2023. that is a tremendous upside for joe biden and for democrats as they look ahead to 2022 midterm elections in which their majorities are going to be threatened. >> so mr. avlon, you next. republicans are giving key committee assignments to conspiracy theorists like marjorie taylor greene, who spouts racist and xenophobic lies. that's quite the contrast. >> it's as stark as it gets and it says too much about the state of our politics today. marjorie taylor greene getting a seat on the education committee when she's, you know, enflamed conspiracy theories about school shootings. the question is what's too much? and the actions of the republican leadership is to say, well, you know, we really need to cool down internal dissent, treating liz cheney and adam kinzinger and someone equally divisive and anti-reason as marjorie taylor greene. that's the problem. you got to deal with the problem in the party, and they seem totally unwilling to and still afraid of donald trump from lame duck status at mar-a-lago. >> john harwood, countless republicans have remained silent about greene's dangerous lies. is it time to admit the party is more in line with marjorie taylor greene than mitt romney or rob portman or, as you just mentioned, adam kinzinger? >> well, the republican party right now is not an optimistic party. it's not a hopeful party. it's not a party with plans to build for the future. it's a very dark party. it's consumed by negative emotion, anger, bitterness, fear. the voting base of the party are people who feel like the changes in the culture and the economy are passing them by. they're angry about it. they want to lash out. that produces a lot of conspiratorial paranoia. that's what marjorie taylor greene and people like her in the party represent. that is not what people like rob portman and mitt romney represent. and if you're going to succeed in this republican party, you have got to galvanize very dark emotions. they don't have much of a positive program. they have a grievance agenda. and if you don't share that agenda, you're not going to go very far in this current republican party. >> you're right, especially when if comes to things like health care. for decades have tried to just kill it but then no plan. john avlon, the house minority leader, kevin mccarthy, traveling to florida today to meet with trump. he's looking for trump's help in 2022, but why didn't the gop learn their lesson with the georgia runoffs? i mean trump is only out for himself. >> it's stockholm syndrome. look, donald trump was disastrous for the republican party by any rational measure. they lost the senate. they lost the presidency. they lost the house. they lost seats overall. their base is shrinking. trump is the only president to be impeached twice for inciting insurrection, and they're still lining up to kiss the ring. it speaks to the danger of polarization. the party is so off center, they're afraid they can't win elections unless they play to the crazy. that's a real problem not just for republicans but for our democracy. that's what we need to deal with, you know. frankly, more republicans should grow a spine and recognize that the people who called out inciting an insurrection should be the leaders of the party. no one thought donald trump could overturn the bush -- the policies of the bush presidencies, but he did. so actually take a risk and do the right thing. you might just find it's the smart thing politically as john mccain used to say. >> gentlemen, thank you so much. i'll see you soon. >> all right. take care, man. joining me now, leon panetta, the former defendant secretary and former cia director. thank you, secretary. i appreciate your time and of course your expertise in advance. there is this january 6th insurrection. the homeland security bulletin says that extremists are emboldened and now the capitol police, they want permanent fencing around the capitol. are you worried about more attacks? >> i don't think there's any questions that on january 6th, we crossed a line with those who attacked the capitol and killed and destroyed property and brought our democracy to a halt. and i think that that event could very well empower additional terrorism in the future. >> yeah. let's talk about some of the folks who were arrested. one of them u.s. capitol police arrested was a west virginia man armed with a handgun and ammo. he had stop the steal paperwork. he had a list of lawmakers. do lawmakers have real reason to worry? >> absolutely. you know, my youngest son is in congress. he took my place in the district here on central california that i used to represent, and i worry about him because i think every member has to be concerned when there are extremists walking around with lists of names of members of congress that they're targeting. they do need security, and i'm glad that the capitol looks luke it's doing a better job of trying to provide better security than they did on january 6th. >> well, let's talk more about that because obviously speaker pelosi is concerned. she said today that the enemy is within. she says that she's referring to members of congress who want to bring guns on the floor or who have threatened violence against other members. what does it say about where this country is right now, worried about threats inside the walls of the congress from their fellow congress people? >> you know, i think the american people have to be worried about just how fragile our democracy is. you know, i think all of us love our country, but we all recognize that in order for our democracy to survive, we're going to have to respect one another and listen to one another and try to stop this anger and this polarization that is breaking us apart. and if we don't break this mode that we're in right now, that's not only making our government dysfunctional, it's tearing away at our democracy, i think that -- i think if we don't action to deal with this, all of us, that our democracy may not survive what we're seeing today. >> you know, speaking of that, because this is -- i'm not sure what kind of territory. people say this is uncharted territory or whatever, but my colleague shim sciutto, he's covered international terrorism for 20 years and says that the parallels to the domestic terror threat are frightening. and he points to -- and i quote here -- radicalization online, demonization of the enemy to justify violence, draw to a cause greater than themselves, devotion to a cultish leader. that said, are we doing enough to combat this threat? >> well, i worry about that because as cia director, obviously i had to deal with foreign terrorism in the shape of bin laden and al qaeda, who had attacked our country. and the fact is that terrorism has some similar characteristics. usually a leader of some kind who wants to take advantage of grievances. it's usually built on a lie of some sort, and the kind of lie we saw on january 6th was that somehow the election had been stolen. and people are encouraged to commit terror, to attack the very symbols of our power. and so there are some similar characteristics here between foreign and domestic terrorism, and it means that we have to take both of these threats very seriously. >> i want to quote from the center for strategic and international studies, a report that they have. the right wing terrorist attacks caused 335 deaths in the country. lift-wing attacks caused 22 deaths. their analysis ends in may of 2020, and we have obviously seen more violence since then. there is no question that the real threat is -- where this real threat is coming from. all you have to do is look at the numbers and the facts. >> no, there is no question that we are facing a very serious threat within our country just as 9/11 was a wake-up call to deal with foreign terrorism. january 6th is very much a wake-up call that we have to confront domestic terrorism. it is serious. it's on the rise. we saw what happened on january 6th. we see what these extremists are saying and doing online, and it means that we cannot underestimate the threat that we're confronting. we've got to be ready for it. we not only have to prepare for the expected, we have to prepare for the unexpected as well. >> secretary panetta, always a pleasure. thank you so much. >> good to talk to you. the gop itching to kick liz cheney to the curb. kevin mccarthy is going to mar-a-lago to kiss the ring. is that what the republican party really wants to be? 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>> i mean, i think the answer is that they are scared of donald trump, and they're scared of his voters. but they should get past that because they are putting themselves in a rock and a hard place. this impeachment vote is their off-ramp. this is their best chance to put a stake through donald trump's political future. if they don't take it, donald trump is going to control this party for the next ten years, and it's going to become the party of marjorie taylor greene and people like liz cheney, you just look at somebody like rob portman or pat toomey, people who are retiring because they don't think there's a place for them in this party anymore. that's not just dangerous for the republican party, it's an existential threat to the country to have one of the two major political parties controlled by people who are out there spreading conspiracy theories. and i'm not talking about marjorie taylor greene there. i'm talking about kevin mccarthy and matt gaetz and so many others in congress who voted to object to a free and fair election, who told voters that it was stolen from them, who followed donald trump, and it led to a violent attack on the capitol. so republicans -- mitch mcconnell should be whipping his senate caucus and telling them, this is our chance. it it is our chance to be done with donald trump and put him in the rearview. but i am worried. i am worried that is not the direction they're going to go. >> you know, sarah, you've been on the show before to talk about your focus groups of republican voters. what are you hearing from gop voters now? is this what they want? >> you know, it's interesting. i actually did just do a group of 2016 trump voters, but who rated him as doing a very bad job the whole time but ultimately did vote for him again in 2020. and they were split. now, this was shortly after the attack on the capitol, but about half of them did think that he should be impeached. i think the problem is that, you know, the further we get from the actual attack on the capitol, the more watered down voters can get. it's lost its sense of urgency. i mean we just had earlier this week a vote on whether or not it's constitutional to actually impeach him. and only five republicans in the senate voted that it was. so i'm just concerned that even though three weeks ago people like kevin mccarthy, people like mitch mcconnell, they were really distancing themselves from donald trump, but as time has gone on, they just get more and more afraid of these voters and they start moving back towards trump. >> sarah, you say that for the republican party to fix its problem, that it has to admit the problem. well, republican senator john barrasso told cnn he is confident trump will not be convicted in the upcoming impeachment trial. he said there's not enough republican votes for even a censure. so what happens to the party, you know, if they are -- this party is stuck in denial. i mean what do they do? >> they are stuck in denial. i mean my biggest hope is actually that the business community continues to put pressure on these republicans and that mitch mcconnell decides they actually do need to do something about this. i wish i was more optimistic. the fact is, the reality right now is that liz cheney, they're trying to censure her, and they're giving marjorie taylor greene the media -- that's the reality of where the party is today, and the whole country should be concerned about that. >> yeah. it's just people who are operating from the worst parts of their personality and human behavior, and it's like, we can get away with it. let's all just do it. it's really bizarre. sarah, always appreciate having you on. thanks so much. president biden facing a tough decision during his first days in office. keep pushing ahead with a huge relief package many lawmakers are against or stick with his message of unity? rapid tone repair 20 percent pure vitamin c. a serum so powerful dark spots don't stand a chance. see what i mean? 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>> we got a lot to do, and the first thing i got to do is get this covid package passes. >> do you think getting covid relief passed will require you to break it up into chunks? >> no one requires me to do anything. >> joining me now, senior political analyst david gergen. biden wants a bipartisan bill, but he has signaled a couple of times that he's not going to just give in to republican demands, break up the bill, or wait forever for the gop to buy in. what do you think of his strategy so far? >> well, first of all, don, i think he's gotten off to a very good start. the tone he set in the inauguration, the competency that you've seen all the way along, especially in public events, the quality of the team he's assembled around him and now the seriousness in the sense that they really are on top of it. one day they do the environment, the next day they can do something else. all of us that gives us a sense that they're stable, they're normal people, and competence really matters. so having set that table, don, i think he does have probably will be faced with a hard choice. he first ought, in the next days, start calling the leadership of the congress to the white house to begin talking about the next two or three months ahead, what they're going to try to accomplish overall, and then promise them that he will get together at least once every 30 days. he has the capacity to build really good working relationships. he knows how to do that, and it plays to his strength. and then show the country he's trying hard to negotiate with the republicans. and if they block him, if there's a reasonable case that they're obstructing, he can take that to the country and say, look, i tried really hard. i gave it everything i had. these guys don't want to play ball, and it's too important to the country to get something passed. i'm going to go and do it on my own through reconciliation. we've got people who are dying. we're nearly over 500,000 people, 500,000 deaths. we've got this new variant strain coming at us from south africa. we have huge problems. he's got to get some action. that's the way he can gain leverage against the republicans. >> i wonder if the republicans -- i mean if they -- i don't know. they just want to seem like obstructionists, which is what they seem like right now because -- >> well, they are -- >> go on. >> as long as they're beholden to donald trump -- you know, and you've got guys like mccarthy going down to mar-a-lago on bended knee, you know, to kiss part of his anatomy, you know, it's going to work with his base. and i understand they ran into a lot of flak from people back home after the january 6 episode, and there was a lot of pressure on him. but the think the republicans are showing colors that have very, very threatening to them as a party. you've had other guests on saying the same thing today. >> let's talk more about that. the reason i said that if they wanted to look like or just be the party of obstructionists, because the gop is imploding. does all the turmoil on that side of the aisle make it easier for biden to go and use re reconc reconciliation? does it strengthen democrats' hands? >> it strengthens democrats' hands if they're perceived as obstructionists. if they allow the republicans to control the megaphone, control the bully pulpit, they won't look anywhere near as strong. he has to use the powers of the white house to combat trump, and i think he can do that. i think he's well prepared to do that. >> what's interesting is if he does this stuff and it works, he starts to get the virus under control, he starts to get more people on health care and he's trying to open up again now with obamacare. if he starts to get the economy back in order and things start to work and yet you have the republicans saying, no, no, no, no, he's not doing this, none of that will matter on the republican side. >> that's golden for biden and his forces. if that were the scenario that unfolds -- and i think there's a possibility of that happening -- biden would go into the 2022 elections in a very strong position and would hold the house and the senate and be ready then for the next, you know, 2024. politically that works well for him, but he's got to show, don, that he may look soft on the outside, but he's tough inside. >> yeah. >> that he's not going to be intimidated, that he is going to insist on doing the right thing. i think he has that in him. we're so lucky in some ways in a country. bismarck once said about the united states, you know, god loves fools, drunkards, and the united states of america. and once again we have a person there at the forefront trying to save democracy. it is -- by the way, democracy is still under serious threat. leon pa netnetta was talking ab that earlier with you, and i agree. the threat has not gone away. if we don't do this right, if everything falls apart in the next four years, this could be our last real chance to keep a vibrant, leading democracy. >> david, thank you for that. and as the old folks say, god takes care of fools and babies. we're still a young country. thank you for that. more than 160 people charged over the capitol insurrection, and the threats still loom over d.c. as we learn about a man arrested with a gun and 20 rounds of ammunition near the col building. up in your septic tank. but monthly usage of rid-x is scientifically proven to break down waste. maintain your septic tank with rid-x. i got this mountain bike for only $11. dealdash.com, the fair and honest bidding site. we sold an ipad worth $505 for less than $24. a stand mixer for less than $20. a 4k television for under $2. a macbook pro for under $16. as well as a playstation 4 for under $16. and brand new cars for less than $900. dealdash.com offers hundreds of auctions every day. all auctions start at $0 and everything must go. and don't forget, we offer a full 90 day money back guarantee on your first bid pack purchase. i won these bluetooth headphones for $20. i got these three suitcases for less than $40. and shipping is always free. go to dealdash.com today and see how much you can save. there are auctions going on right now, so what are you waiting for? 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>> well, he seems like an interesting case. frankly, i think there are probably a lot of dennis westovers wandering around the world right now. he showed up with a list of lawmakers, but also his will and his birth certificate and when stopped, was yelling about wanting to access the capitol. clearly this was a person who was in some ways troubled but probably activate the by the kind of rhetoric that is still circulating around the stop the steal movement. >> on wednesday, prosecutors indicted three alleged rioters who say prosecutors are connected to the oath keepers. the indictment shows planning before january 6th. one the indicted, thomas caldwell says this, and i quote, let's keep our friends from north carolina are taking commercial buses up early on the morning on the 6th and back same night. person three will have the goodies in case things go bad and we need to get heavy. there was a shocking level of preparation here. what more can you tell us? >> well, don, this is in a fascinating piece of indictment because it shows just how far back into december and even november some of these people -- in this case caldwell, control, and watkins, were thinking about what they were going to do in d.c. and talking about the need potentially to kill to defend what they saw as their obligations. there were buses coming from north carolina. they were coming from places like ohio and virginia, and they seemed to be staging outside of d.c. with weapons if necessary. very troubling. of course later we know that they actually entered the capitol and were seen inside. >> how different are the people allegedly associated with groups like the oathkeepers from some of the other less organized participants in the capitol attack, john? >> that's a great question. i mean i think, you know, you have a large group of people, and we're just scratching the surface of some of the strangeness that was there. but it seems pretty clear that we're learning and the prosecutors are learning that there are some people who came there with very specific plans and time and time again, whether it was the proud boys or the oathkeepers, they were literally at the front of the crowds tussling with police, breaking in windows, pushing through doors, making their way towards lawmakers. >> a lot of people have been arrested. so far, no lawmakers who stoked the anger of these rioters have been eheld accountable, and you say the people who brought their rhetoric are still activated. if the republican leaders don't correct the record, will they remain a threat? >> well, you know, i think this is a really interesting and really difficult time for our country. i think that these people, these westovers are going to keep showing up at places like the capitol but also in many cases state capitols, which are a lot closer. it's going to pose a threat to lawmakers and, by implication, a threat to our democracy. i think that many politicians are perhaps embarrassed, perhaps worried about the rhetoric they were deploying before the inauguration. i think, though, that they're going to have to really be serious about walking back from it. otherwise, we're going to keep seeing cases like what happened yesterday. and in fact today as well at the capitol, where a man tried to push his way through police and engage in a physical altercation with them. >> john, thank you so much. i appreciate it. the insurrection at the capitol put white supremacy and america on disgraceful display, and what we all saw will be burned into the memories of millions of americans, especially people of color. experience you can see, n yon smell, and feel. it's air care, redefined. air wick essential mist. connect to nature. when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get 2 months free. so a month ago, white supremacists, people carrying american flags, invaded the seat of our democracy and tried to overturn our election. my next guest has some ideas about how to fight this. i want to bring in charles blow, the op-ed columnist for "the new york times." he's the author of the new book "the devil you know: a black power manifesto." charles, good to see you. we're going to talk about all that, but i have to talk current news with you as well. good evening by the way. when you look at the insurrection at the capitol, white supremacist symbols, nooses e rrected outside the capitol, what role did excite supremacy play in the big lie and what happened that day? >> i think white supremacy is woven throughout that episode and is in fact connected to the way white supremacy always behaves when it feels threatened. how is that different from the nooses that were e recolblthed outside of courthouses all across the south when they would let mobs go into official buildings, drag out black people accused of things, and lynch them? how is that not a parallel? white supremacy always behaves violently. it always responds violently when it feels threatened. donald trump was a white nationalist president. he was the embodiment of white supremacy, and he was thr threatened. he told his supporters that he was being unfairly removed from office, and that threat to their power, symbolized by him, activated them. >> mm-hmm. we've been talking about -- you know, you talked about nooses and like these confederate symbols and so on. people are looking at our history and how we celebrate it. this week in san francisco, the unified school district voted to rename various schools named after public figures. is there a difference between naming buildings after these presidents and having confederate generals as namesakes of buildings and bases? >> i think -- i have a real problem -- i'm kind af an absolutist around the idea of owning slaves. i do not buy into the concept that it was part of the mores of the time. i always tell the people who tell me that, that those people who were slaves were just as human as i am today. stop looking at it through the white gaze and look at it through the black one. those people were enslaved by other human beings. they had no freedoms of their own. those people who enslaved them knew where they came from. many of them went to the slave markets, which reeked, reeked of human excrement. the ships that came in, you could smell them before they arrived. the people came of those hulls very often unable to either lie down or sit up depending on the ship. their food was thrown down to them. they were treated like animals, and they engaged in that market. they made a market for an appetite to feed -- a market to be fed. i am sorry if i do not commiserate with people who owned slaves and i do not excuse it as being an artifact of the time. >> let's talk about your new book. your new book is called "the devil you know: a black power manifesto." in it, you said, the proposition is simple. as many black descendants of the great migration has possible should return to the south from which their ancestors fled. talk to me more about -- i find this as a fascinating idea. talk to me more about that idea, charles. >> well, it's very simple. at the end of the civil war, three southern states were majority black -- mississippi, louisiana, and south carolina. another three were within four percentage points of being majority black. if people had not migrated -- and i indepunderstand how they but if they had not migrated, you still had the voting rights act. black people would control up to 14 senate seats. they would control more electoral college votes than new york and california combined. if they voted over that same period the way they vote now, you would not have a republican president in the last 15 years. that would mean the entire supreme court would look different than it does today. that would mean that if hillary clinton had lost every single midwestern state in 2006, she still would have won the presidency. >> 2016. >> black people had the access to that power, and it scared the white supremacists in the south to death, and they did everything to strip them of it. >> mm-hmm. >> terror, intimidation, and then rewriting of southern constitutions to, as they say in their minutes, which i have read, to write white supremacy into the dna of those states. that victory cannot be allowed to stand. >> considering with what just happened with the election for president and for senators, is georgia already representative of what you're saying in your book. >> i call it a proof in concept, and would have had no idea it was going to happen when i moved here or when i started writing the book. you know you start years before you actually publish, so you have no idea what's going to be happening at the time you publish. but it is absolutely proof in concept. there are two things that happened that changed georgia. one was undeniably amazing organizing by a whole bunch of groups including the amazing stacey abrams. the other, however, was the result of the reverse migration. the black population of georgia doubled from 1990 to 2020. black people -- the last time georgia went democratic, it was 1992. black people were only 25% of the population in 2002 -- 1992. now they're 33% of the population of georgia, and they became for the very first time the majority of the population -- of the coalition that elected a senator and not just one, but two. >> well, charles, i can't wait to read the book. 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