janet yellen and republican senator pat toomey in moments. and scene of the crime. former president donald trump set to go on trial this week, one month after the capitol insurrection fueled by his big lie. but can candidates convince more than one republican of the former president's guilt this time around. senate senator bernie sanders is here. data showing people of color being left behind getting shots in arms. what can we do to make sure all americans are protected? i'll get their take ahead. i'll get congresswoman ayanna pressley's take next. i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is wondering if we'll ever see any accountability. it's been a month since the insurrection on capitol hill, and in two days the former president will be in a hearing for the second time, their heads filled with the big lie, whipped into a friend she just minutes before by the president himself. for the current president, mr. biden, the trial must seem like the worst zombie movie he's ever seen, slowing his agenda in one of the most critical points since the pandemic. the current death toll in the united states is more than 460,000 with millions suffering economic devastation. president biden is urgently pushing a covid relief package of close to $2 tril i don't know, including $1400 checks for struggling out of work americans, many with hungry families. the president said on friday, quote, the republicans just aren't willing to go as farr as i think we have to go. this as a new report on job recovery has stalled. it's not just those on the other side of the aisle from biden, however, who says there is some risk about the size of his rescue plan and it's just too big. secretary janet yellen, congratulations and thanks for joining us. president biden and democrats are pushing forward with this $1.9 trillion relief package, but as you know, one of your predecessors from the clinton and obama administration, larry summers, suggested it's too big. it would flood the economy with too much money and could lead to a rise in inflation. quote, whereby the obama stimulation was about half as large as the output shortfall, the proposed biden stimulus is three times as large as the projected shortfall. why is summers wrong? why are you confident this won't cause a rise in in inflation. >> first, jake, thank you for having me. it's a pleasure to be here. i think the risks here, as treasury secretary, i have to worry about all the risks to the economy, and the most important risk is that we leave workers and communities scarred by the pandemic and the economic toll that it's taken, that we don't do enough to address the pandemic and the public health issues, that we don't get our kids back to school. we have 10 million americans who are unemployed and another 4 million who have dropped out of the labor force, particularly women who have child care responsibilities. we need to reopen our schools, make sure that children aren't falling behind, provide help. we already have way too many small businesses that are closing. we need to provide help to get them to the other side, and we've already seen 1.3 million state and local government workers, first responders, policemen, firemen who have lost their jobs, and we need to get them back on the payroll. and people are on the verge of losing the roofs over their heads. the package provides rental assistance. we have 24 million adults and 12 million children that are going hungry every day, and we need to provide them with food. we have people suffering, particularly low wage workers and minorities, and through absolutely no fault of their own, we have to get them to the other side and make sure this doesn't take a permanent toll on their lives. so we need a package that's big enough to address this full range of needs. and i believe that the american rescue plan is up to the job. my predecessor has indicated there is a chance that this will cause inflation to rise, and that's also a risk that we have to consider. i've spent many years studying inflation and worrying about inflation, and i can tell you, we have the tools to deal with that risk if it materializes. but we face a huge economic challenge here and tremendous suffering in the country. we've got to address that. that's the biggest risk. >> as you noted, the unemployment rate is falling, and that does not take into account the millions of americans who have left the labor force completely during the pandemic. i think 400,000 or so in the latest jobs report just gave up looking. after the great recession, it took almost seven years to get employment numbers back to where they were. how long do you think it will take now to fully recover all the jobs we lost during this pandemic, including all the people who are jobless and have given up? >> well, you know, the congressional budget office issued an analysis recently, and it showed that if we don't provide additional support, the unemployment rate is going to stay elevated for years to come. it would take till 2025 in order to get the unemployment rate down to 4% again. we would have a long, slow recovery like we had after the financial crisis. but this package is going to really speed recovery, and analysis by moody's and economists at the brookings institution show very clearly that we will get people back to work much sooner with this package, and that's really critically important. there's absolutely no reason why we should suffer through a long, slow recovery. >> do you have a timeline, though, for full reemployment? >> well, i would expect that if this package is passed, that we would get back to full employment next year. >> one of the main discussions right now in the legislation is about who should receive the direct payments from the stimulus package. almost every senator agreed with the resolution that passed on thursday to say that upper income taxpayers should not get direct payments. they did not define what constitutes an upper income taxpayer, which is maybe why it was so easy for them to pass it. what do you think the cutoff should be? 50,000, 75,000? where do you come down? >> well, president biden is certainly willing to work with members of congress to define what's fair, and he wouldn't want to see a household making over $300,000 receive these payments. but if you think about an elementary schoolteacher or policeman making $60,000 a year and faced with children who are out of school and people who may have had to withdraw from the labor force in order to take care of them and many extra burdens, he thinks, and i certainly agree, that it's appropriate for people there to get support. so the exact details of how it should be targeted are to be determined, but struggling middle class families need help, too. >> so you definitely think higher than 50,000 per individual, but you're not necessarily willing to commit to 75,000, is what i'm hearing. >> yeah. you know, i think the details can be worked out and the president is certainly willing to work with congress to find a good structure for these payments. >> so the "washington post" editorial board is still pushing for a bipartisan deal. they wrote just yesterday, quote, biden should exhaust the possibilities for compromise on covid relief. but president biden has also signaled he's ready to move forward without republicans. are you, is the administration willing to pass this relief package with zero republican votes in the senate, zero republican votes in the house? >> president biden is strongly committed to working with all members of congress in order to try to craft a package that addresses the needs of the american people, and as you know, he's met with republicans who are interested in working with him to craft a proposal. the details of the package certainly can be negotiated over to try to craft something that's broadly acceptable. but we need a big package, and we need to get this done quickly. and those are things that the president is really committed to, so he wants to make sure that all the needs of the american people are addressed. it's important to do -- to extend unemployment insurance, it's important to have enough money to distribute the vaccine, but there are many more needs out there, and he wants a package that addresses rental assistance so people have roofs over their head, food, that they have enough to eat, and the full range of problems facing americans. >> you met with regulators from the securities and exchange commission and the federal reserve on thursday about gamestop and other stocks after day traders drove the prices to soar and then crash. your department says that the market, quote, core infrastructure was resilient, unquote. does that mean you think new regulations are not necessary? >> well, the first thing is that we really need to understand exactly what happened, and the securities and exchange commission is working hard to assemble a report that gives us the facts, and when we have them, we can look at whether or not there were issues that need to be addressed through new policy or regulations. we need to make sure the markets function efficiently, that investors are protected, and also that they understand the risks that they face when they engage in trading. and all of that will be reviewed. >> let me ask you, because you made more than $7 million in recent years giving speeches to wall street banks, corporations, industry groups, including citadel, a hedge fund that recently bailed out a gamestop short seller. you must know that a lot of people who pay these high sums of money for speakers from experts such as you, not only are hoping to get a good speech but are hoping to get friendly treatment down the line. >> i have an ethics agreement that i signed that carefully considered whether or not there could be conflicts of interest, and i will religiously adhere to that agreement, and at every step along the way, i've consulted with ethics lawyers at the treasury department and will certainly abide by my ethics obligations. >> you're the first woman to ever be confirmed as treasury secretary in the history of the united states. kind of astounding, frankly, after a very, very long line of 77 men who preceded you. take a listen to something you said back in 1998 when you were the chair of the council of economic advisers for then-president bill clinton. >> the bad news, though, is that there remains a significant differential between women's and men's pay. on average, women now earn about 75% of what men earn. >> more than 20 years later, women earned just 81% of what men earn. it's progress but not particularly enough. where do you want that number to be when your term as treasury secretary is done? >> well, i would like there to be equal pay for equal work, and i would like to see the barriers that remain that impede the progress of women in the labor force addressed. once upon a time, labor force participation of women in the united states exceeded that of most european countries. the opposite is true now of europe and other developed countries, and big differences are the availability of child care and paid family and medical leave, and these are things i think we need to work on in order to make it easier for women to work and to combine work with family life. >> all right, treasury secretary janet yellen, thanks so much. congratulations again on your trailblazing appointment. we appreciate your being here today. >> thanks so much for having me. republican senator pat toomey of pennsylvania says secretary yellen is wrong with her demand for the whole covid relief plan, $1.9 trillion. we'll ask senator toomey how he plans to vote as president trump goes on trial in just two days. stay with us. dana-farber cancer institute discovered the pd-l1 pathway. pd-l1. they changed how the world fights cancer. blocking the pd-l1 protein, lets the immune system attack, attack, attack cancer. pd-l1 transformed, revolutionized, immunotherapy. pd-l1 saved my life. saved my life. saved my life. what we do here at dana-faber, changes lives everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. ah, a package! you know what this human ordered? 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i would love to tell you about all the great savings you can get for bundling your renter's and car insurance with progressive. -oh, i was just -- -oh, tammy. i found your retainer in the dryer. welcome back to "state of the union." i'm jake tapper. president biden says he's ready to go big on covid relief, even if that means no republican support in congress. he argues he's not willing to get bogged down in a lengthy negotiation when americans are hurting me. joining me is senator pat toomey from the great commonwealth of pennsylvania. >> i have a lot of respect for secretary yellen. she's very, very capable, talented person, but she is not the i understand dent leader of the federal reserve. she is now the treasury secretary, and as such, her job is to be the biggest cheerleader for whatever economic policy president biden wants. the problem with this is, jake, 42 days ago we passed the fifth huge bill, another trillion dollars, bringing the total to over $4 trillion. much of that money, a huge amount of that money, is not even out the door yet. much of it was way too broad and not sufficiently targeted as it was. all of these bills were passed with big bipartisan votes. the biggest of them, the c.a.r.e.s. act from march, over $2 trillion. not a single no vote in the entire senate. so here we are. the economy has come roaring back, the unemployment rate is less than half of what it was, disposable income is at record high, savings rates are at record highs, and where we have problems is very concentrated, jake. it's not an economy in collapse the way it was in march. today we have serious problems for workers in the restaurant, the hospitality, the travel and entertainment sectors. that's really a handful of places, and if those folks have fallen through the cracks of the trillions of dollars we've already spent that's been meant to help them, then let's have a conversation about how to help those folks, but nobody is making that case. what you hear is these broad generalities about people are suffering, so let's spend another $2 trillion. it's not the right solution. larry summer is a liberal democratic, a keynesian in favor of big government spending, and he's said this is way too much. so there's a lot of reasons. we could go through it line by line. so much money has already been allocated for these things. >> let me ask you. you say how the economy has improved, and the economy has improved, but the u.s. is still down 10 million jobs since the pandemic began a year ago, jobs growth is crawling. only 49,000 jobs added in january. it's really bad with 400,000 americans taking themselves out of even looking for jobs. 24 million americans don't have enough to eat. the cbo says it will take until 2024 to fully recover without sizeable relief. how do you explain your opposition given those facts about millions of struggling americans? >> so all of those things -- i mean, we've allocated money for these purposes, and by the way, cbo is projecting we'll have almost 5% growth next year if we don't do an additional bill. we have tens of billions of dollars that hasn't made it out the door yet because the ink is hardly dry on the last bill. what this is is it's clear, in addition to the very hard left executive orders, it's clear, unfortunately, from my point of view, that while president biden has given some great speeches about unity, he's governing from the hard left. this is a list of liberal democrat wish lists for massive spending and don't let a crisis go to waste. people remember that we did have an economic crisis, so try to load up as much spending as possible irrespective of the need. by the way, how do you know that? ten republican senators marched down to the white house and offered to do another bill. i don't agree with them, but they put over $600 billion on the table that they're willing to vote for and probably willing to negotiate for more. that's enough to pass it in the senate, and still the democrats are saying, nope, it's our way or the highway, and they have passed legislation that will allow them to do a multi-trillion-dollar bill with partisan votes. it's really unfortunate. >> just for the record, you oppose that $600 billion bill from the ten senators? >> absolutely. i opposed it, but my point is, if you're president biden and you're serious about having a bipartisan working together with people on the other side, bringing people together in unity, he has the opportunity to do it. i don't support that because i think it's completely inappropriate, but there are more than ten republican senators that disagree with me and would do this, but yet they appear to be intent on ignoring republicans. >> so president biden, as you know, has signaled that he is moving forward on his plan with or without republican support. this is what he had to say. >> right. >> i would like to be doing it with the support of republicans, but if i have to choose between getting help right now to americans who are hurting so badly and getting bogged down in a lengthy negotiation or compromising on a bill that's up to the crisis, that's an easy choice. >> that sentiment actually sounds a little bit like what you said when you wanted to pass a bill that you supported with only 51 votes after republicans won in 2016. take a listen. >> i am hoping that our democratic colleagues will work with us so that we can begin to make the constructive changes that we need, but if not, i think we should use all tools available to get this job done. >> so how is what he's doing any different from what you said? >> because i was talking about tax reform in the context of all but three democrat senators sending us a letter basically refusing to participate in the tax reform that we wanted to do. president biden doesn't face that at all. we've done five bills with republican support. overwhelming, almost unanimous republican support, and president biden has at least ten republican senators, which is all he needs to do yet another bipartisan bill, and he's refusing. so these are very dissimilar, jake. i think it's also worth looking at some of the particulars. the president has insisted it's got to have $350 billion for state and local governments. as i think you know, in 2020, state and local governments set an all-time record for revenues collected. they beat the previous record which was 2019, and that does not include the $500 billion that we sent them over the course of last year. now on top of that, we're supposed to send yet another $350 billion? then there are the unemployment benefits. president biden is insisting that we increase unemployment benefits where more than half of people unemployed will make more than half of what they make not working. >> that's according to a university of chicago study from last year. >> correct. >> let me ask you because there are other topics. just days after the capitol riot, you came on the show. you said president trump committed impeachable offenses, you told me there should be accountability for president trump. are you going to vote to hold him accountable? >> i stand by everything i've said, jake. i still think the best outcome would have been for the president to resign. obviously he chose not to do that. now starting tuesday, i'm going to be a juror, and my job is going to be to objectively evaluate the very specific article of impeachment that is going to be presented to us, has been presented to us, and that's what i'm going to do. i'm going to listen to the arguments on both sides and make the decision that i think is right. >> you're one of only five republican senators who didn't vote to dismiss the trial outright as unconstitutional. do you think there is any chance at all that 67 senators will vote to convict president trump in his impeachment trial, or is this over before it even begins? >> i think it's very unlikely. you did have 45 republican senators vote to suggest that they didn't think it was appropriate to conduct a trial, so you can infer how likely it is that those folks will vote to convict. i disagreed with their assessment. i think it is constitutional. i think it's clearly constitutional to conduct a senate trial with respect to an impeachment. in this case the impeachment occurred prior to the president leaving office. my job will be to listen to both sides of this, evaluate the arguments and make a decision. >> as you know, sir, there is a struggle in the republican party. it's especially pronounced in the house between the wing that represents conservative people of principle such as yourself or liz cheney, and then the wing that represents lies and conspiracy theories. only 11 republicans in the house voted to strip congresswoman marjorie taylor greene of her committee assignments due to her violent, inflammatory, bigoted and, frankly, insane comments she's made in recent years. are you glad she's off those committees, that democrats voted that way? is there a place for the marjorie taylor greenes of the world in the future of the republican party? >> there should be no place in the republican party for people who believe in insane conspiracy theories like qanon. that is madness. that has nothing to do with conservatism, has nothing to do with the republican party. i think the really encouraging thing from last week was the fact that liz cheney, a terrific, capable leader who voted based on her conscience, she was -- she held onto her leadership post by a margin of more than 2-1 among republican house members casting secret ballots. they could have voted any way they felt right, and they maintained her role in the leadership place. that's how you begin to keep this party united and together and think about how we move on in the post-trump era. i was really encouraged to see that vote in the house. >> that's a very glass-half-full way of looking at it. 61 republicans voted to punish liz cheney, but only 11 republicans voted to punish margaret taylor greene, but i appreciate your sunny disposition. >> you don't get into this line of work if you're not an optimist, jake, but i do think we'll be able to pull the party together. the madness of the qanons of this world, that's not going to be part of our party, and we're going to be a big, strong, diverse party. i'm very optimistic. >> i hope you're right, sir. good to see you. thanks so much for joining us today. appreciate it, as always. >> thanks for having me. president biden says a key piece of the covid relief plan probably will not make it into the bill. it's something high on bernie sanders' wish list. he's the new budget committee chairman. he'll react next. stay with us. fights pain in two ways. advil targets pain at the source... ...while acetaminophen blocks pain signals. the future of pain relief is here. new advil dual action. nicorette knows, quitting smoking is hard. you get advice like: try hypnosis... or... quit cold turkey. kidding me?! instead, start small. with nicorette. which can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette good morning! the four way is a destination place. right here, between these walls, is a lot of history. i am black. beautiful. i must be respected. black lawyers, doctors, educators, martin luther king, b.b. king, queen of soul aretha franklin. you're sitting in the place where giants ate. the four way, as a restaurant, meant so much to this neighborhood and we wanted to continue that. to have a place where you have dignity and belong, that's the legacy of the four way. ♪ welcome back to "state of the union." i'm jake tapper. while president biden has the attention of the senate house and majorities, he is ready to push through a $1.9 trillion bill. he admits he probably will not get everything that's on it, including a $15 minimum wage. joining us is the new chairman of the budget committee, senator bernie sanders, independent from vermont. mr. chairman, first of all, congratulations on the new appointment. let's get down to work. speaker nancy pelosi said she expects the house will send the covid package to the senate within the next two weeks. from there the ball will be in your court. do you think you'll be able to get this bill passed before unemployment benefits expire in mid march? >> we have to do that. jake, 2020 was probably the worst year in the modern history of this country. we have millions of people who lost their jobs, people are worried about being evicted, children in this country are going hungry. people in the midst of the pandemic have no health care. we've got to get the vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible, we've got to reopen our schools. we have enormous crises and we have got to pass that legislation as soon as we possibly can. >> so one of the big sticking points right now in the package is the provision raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. not to get too much into the weeds about senate language but the reconciliation process you're using to avoid needing 60 votes in the senate is requiring that the measure be strictly about budgetary matters. and even president biden is not sure this would pass the muster. take a listen. >> apparently that's not going to occur because of the rules of the united states senate. >> so you're saying this will not be in it. >> i put it in, but i don't think it's going to survive. >> to be clear, he's in support of raising the minimum wage, he just doesn't think it will make it into the senate bill. is president biden wrong? >> i hope he is, jake. the president supports a $15 an hour minimum wage. i do. the last poll i saw has 62% of the american people supporting it. because at the end of the day, we are in the midst of massive income and wealth inequality. people on top are doing phenomenally well, and yet we have literally tens of millions of americans working for starvation wages. you cannot make it in any state in this country on $9 or $10 an hour. we have to raise that minimum wage to $15 an hour. i can tell you as chairman of the budget committee, we have a room full of lawyers working as hard as we can to make the case to the parliamentarian that, in fact, raising the minimum wage will have significant budget implications and, in fact, should be consistent with reconciliation rules. >> during the campaign, you were running for president, and you said whoever you picked as vp would overrule the parliamentarian in order to pass legislation such as medicare for all with just 51 votes. should vice president harris do that, overrule the parliamentarian, to keep the minimum wage increase in this bill? >> before we get to what the vice president is going to do, i have to get through the parliamentarian, and then i have to get 50 votes in support of raising that minimum wage to $15 an hour. i am working as hard as i can to make that happen. in america, people should not be working 40 or 50 hours a week and living in poverty. we've got to raise that minimum wage which, jake, has not been raised, unbelievably, since 2007. >> even if it makes it into the bill, you're going to need every democrat on board, and west virginia senator joe manchin says he did not support increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. he has suggested he could get behind a lower amount, such as $11 an hour, which i think is what the rate is in west virginia. would you be willing to compromise in order to get manchin's vote? >> a $15 an hour minimum wage is not a radical idea. making $600 a week in the united states of america, barely, given the high costs of rent and other living expenses people have to pay, that's not a lot of money. so these are debates we'll have in the democratic caucus, but i hope and believe at the end of the day the members of the democratic caucus understand we do need to pass a $15 an hour minimum wage. >> when it comes to the covid relief checks, president biden said on friday he's open to lowering the threshold of who qualifies for the checks. one idea being floated is to phase out checks for individuals making more than $50,000 a year. you called that proposal unbelievable and said, quote, in other words, working class people who got checks from trump would not get them from biden. brilliant. obviously you're being sarcastic there. it's clear you dorchlt don't support it. you heard janet yellen earlier in the show. she said she thinks somebody who makes $60,000 a year should be getting these relief checks, but she wasn't willing to commit to 75,000. where do you think the cutoff should be? >> well, i think what we have done in the past, and what we have promised the american people, we've said two things in the last month. we said we're going to get you $2,000, which is $600 plus $1,4000, and every person, an individual, $75,000 or lower and a couple $150,000 or lower will be eligible for that full $2,000. $600 plus $1,400. we said we don't want rich people to get that benefit and i agree. what we need to do is have a strong cliff so it doesn't kind of spill over to people making $300,000. and that's what i support and that's what i think most people understand. but to say to a worker in vermont or california or anyplace else that if you're making $52,000 a year, you are too rich to get this help, the full benefit, i think that that's absurd, and it's also, from a political point of view, a little bit of absurd that you would have, under trump, these folks getting the benefit, but under biden, who is fighting hard for the working class of this country, they would not get that full benefit. so i think from a policy point of view, we've got to do the right thing, and at 75,000 and 150,000 for a couple, from a political point of view, it is absurd to be telling working class people somebody has a decent union job, they're making $50,000, $60,000, you're not eligible, it doesn't make sense to me or for the american people. >> senator sanders, always good to have you on. i hope in this new era you come on the show a lot and talk to these issues that matter so much to you and so much to millions of americans. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you very much. speaker pelosi said that the enemy is within the house of representatives. will one member of the so-called squad who survived the maga riot who is now co-workers with marjorie taylor greene feel safe going to work? 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>> well, that's the problem. the reason why it took a violent insurrection, a white supremist mob seizing the capitol, waving the confederate flag, erecting a noose on the west lawn of the capitol, injury and loss of life. for many to appreciate the threat that white supremacy is to every american and to our democracy, the reason it took that incident, that harrowing, traumatic -- those events on january 6 is because as a country, we have been turning the page. if we really believe that this is a moment of reckoning in every way, then we must act accordingly. and that means that donald j. trump must be held accountable because he is culpable for having incited this insurrection by perpetuating this big lie. this house has twice done its job. he will forever be the twice-impeached president by the democratic majority, and now the senate must hold donald trump accountable but also to bar him from running for public office ever again. and we know that he had accomplices who told on themselves in broad daylight. they aided and abetted this insurrection by perpetuating this big lie and they must be expelled. then we must continue investigating, jake, so that any individuals or agencies that enable this insurrection are taken into account. let me say this. for those who continue to feign great surprise about what happened on january 6, as a black woman, to be barricaded in my office using office furniture and water bottles, on the ground, in the dark, that terror, those moments of terror is familiar in a deep and ancestral way for me. and i want us to do everything to ensure that a breach like this never occurs at the capitol, but i want us to address the evil and scourge of white supremacy in this nation. this is not only about securing the capitol to ensure that members and our staffs and custodial staff and food service workers are safe in the capitol, it is that we're safe in america. and one of the images i'm haunted by is the black custodial staff cleaning up the mess left by that violent white supremacist mob. that is a metaphor for america. we have been cleaning up after violent white supremacist mops for generations, and it must end. >> some house democrats say they're afraid for their safety after the capitol attack. i note we're not even sharing your location this morning because you yourself have significant security concerns. many of your colleagues blame the rhetoric coming from some house republicans, in particular, georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene who has been in the news recently for her bigoted and insane conspiracy theories. simply put, do you feel safe going to work? >> look, i feel safe. you know, living with threats and living with bigots who are as vile in their rhetoric as they are in the policies they seek and enact and the harm they seek to cause the most marginalized communities, blacks in particular, is not new in an ancestral sort of way. it's not going to keep me from doing my job on behalf of the american people, which is why i can make sure we have a response that leaves no one behind. this pandemic has not discriminated, so the relief must be robust and leave nobody behind. it's also why i'm fighting to have a collection of demographic racial data in terms of vaccine recipients. >> i want to ask about that, i want to ask about the racial disparities we're seeing in the coronavirus fight. polls show vaccine hesitancy among minority communities remains high. white americans are getting vaccinated at i much higher rate than black americans and latino americans even though the virus hits black and latino communities higher. you criticized the pace of vaccine distribution among minority communities. you call it vaccine redlining. do you think the biden administration is doing enough to address this problem? if not, what more should they be doing specifically? >> first let me say i'm encouraged we have a national strategy. under the previous administration we did not have a national strategy to slow the spread of this virus, and we did not have a national vaccine strategy. now we have both of those things. but what i am looking for and calling on the administration to do and is why senator warren, markey and myself sent a letter the department of health and human services is for us to collect in time demographic anonymized data of vaccine recipients. we knew anecdotally, jake, early on what communities would be hardest hit because of unequal access to health care and the comorbidities of structural racism. because of that, we were able to see just how dire the inequities were. that informed how resources were mar marshalled. so i'm encouraged by what the administration is doing. but congress must act and we must embed in our response that data and this administration must collect this data so we can save lives. >> congresswoman, thank you for being with us toe day. we appreciate it. coming up, how the maga mob is making the case for impeachment managers before the trial even commences. that's next. muscle pain. give up, the couch is calling. i say, it's me, the couch, i'm calling. pain says you can't. advil says you can. i made a business out of my passion. i mean, who doesn't love obsessing over network security? all our techs are pros. they know exactly which parking lots have the strongest signal. i just don't have the bandwidth for more business. seriously, i don't have the bandwidth. glitchy video calls with regional offices? yeah, that's my thing. with at&t business, you do the things you love. our people and network will help do the things you don't. let's take care of business. at&t. it was one month ago this weekend that a terrorist maga mob, fed lies for months about the election, stormed the capitol, an ininsurrection that cost five lives, including officer brian sicknick. there have within as of wednesday, 181 people charged related to the riot, justice shows. zachary allen allegedly shown here trying to break through the doors to the speaker's lobby. kevin see freed with the confederate flag. rachel powell shown here with the bullhorn allegedly giving instructions. none of them are wearing masks correctly is not only a testament to the fact that they also ignored health guide lines during the pandemic, but they did not think they would be held accountable for their actions. >> we're going to walk down to the capitol. you'll never take back our country with weakness. >> and indeed a number of these insurrectionists are now saying they did what they did because they thought the then president donald trump wanted them to do. as one defense put it in a legal filing, the nature and circumstances of this offense must be viewed through an event inspired by the president of the united states. according to "the new york times," 40% of the phones tracked near the rally stage on the national mall during the speeches were also found in and around the capitol during the siege, quote, a clear link between those who had listened to the president and his allies and then marched on the building. but it was not only trump whose impeachment trial starts tuesday. what about accountability for the others who helped spread the big election lie that incited the crowd? >> it has a feeling of a coverup in certain places. you know, putting the servers in foreign countries, private companies. we don't have transparency with those servers. this is an election nightmare as well as a battle for the white house. >> that lunacy of course is not true from lou dobbs. friday night dobbs lost his show after one of the electronic voting companies that was lied about filed a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against fox, some of its hosts and two trump allies. some companies and donors have paused political contributions to the campaigns of the almost 150 house and senate republicans who voted to undermine the election one month ago today. we shall see how long these things last. these things tend to have a short shelf life. there has been, frankly, no real accountability, none, for house republican leader kevin mccarthy and house republican whip steve scalise who spread the lie and voted to undo the election. or for ted cruz or josh hawley in the senate and there is already frankly right now a concentrated effort by the same maga smear machine to whitewash it all. this week congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez went on instagram live and spoke about her experience during the insurrection. like many members of congress and staffers and journalists and others on the hill that day, she sought refuge in her office. hers is in the cannon house office building, briefly evacuated that day because of a bomb nearby. >> i start heading back to my office, and, you know, the walk back is a considerable walk. i head back to my office. we get back in. >> she relayed her personal story of someone banging on her door, scaring her. >> i close the door. and i just keep hearing bang, bang, bang. >> then she explained it turned out that that person banging was a capitol police officer. >> and i come out, and this man is a capitol police officer. >> so there is a lot more to her story, but the point i want to make is that the very same bad actors in the gop on social media, fox and elsewhere, those same people took her story and twisted it. they falsely suggested that she had hid the fact that she was in her office building, not in the capitol dome itself, even though she had made that clear in the story. or that the person pounding on the door was a cop, not a rioter, even though all that information came from her in that instagram live. now, they seem to be doing this in the name of smearing her and diminishing the ugliness of the attack. and, frankly, to distract from the blood on their hands. one month to the day before the attack, we here at "state of the union" were warning about what we were afraid might happen.

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