as soon as we possibly can. >> announcer: this is "new day" with alliisyn camerota and john berman. we want to welcome your viewers in the united states and all around the world, this is "new day." it is tuesday, 6:00 a.m. here in new york, february 9th. it's a historic morning in america, another impeachment trial of former president donald trump. his unprecedented second trial. security is tight at the u.s. capitol this morning, of course. trying to prevent a repeat of the deadly insurrection we saw on january 6th. democrats will use donald trump's own words against him. trump told his supporters to march to the capitol and, quote, fight, not once, not twice. he said it 16 times. >> figt fight, fight, fighting. >> we fight. fight like hell. fight like hell. >> if you count fighting, it was 20 times. former aides tell cnn that mr. trump enjoyed this spectacle, created by the riots and was, quote, loving watching the capitol mob. end quote. mr. trump repeatedly ignored desperate requests to tell his supporters to stand down. even as lawmakers trapped inside the capitol begged him for help. >> the former president is on trial, but so too in a manner of speaking is the republican party itself. and that is according to a member of the republican party. congressman adam kinzinger, one of the ten republican house members who voted for impeachment is imploring republican senators this morning, this isn't a waste of time, he writes. it's a matter of accountability. if the gop doesn't take a stand the chaos of the past few months and the past four years could quickly return. the future of our party and our country depends on confronting what happened. today the senate will hear arguments about the former president's widely discredited claim that he can't be tried at all. the meat of the case begins tomorrow. each side will have 16 hours over two days, meaning the proceedings could be over in a week. president biden is deliberately trying to show focus elsewhere, specifically his pandemic relief package. we have two details emerging this morning about that. we start, though, with the impeachment trial. lauren fox live on capitol hill where it begins today. lauren? >> reporter: it's another historic day on capitol hill with donald trump not just the first president to be impeached twice in u.s. history, but now the first president to be impeached in a trial once he had already left office. and remember those senate jurors will be taking their seats today in the chamber, they were also witnesses to that deadly insurrection that happened now more than a month ago on capitol hill. in just hours, former president donald trump's second impeachment trial will begin on capitol hill. >> come on. >> reporter: inside the same building stormed by a violent mob just over a month ago. >> this is an extraordinary situation in that you actually have a trial that's being held at the crime scene with jurors that were victims of the crime being prosecuted by victims of the crime. there's really no precedent for this. >> reporter: now the senate will decide if trump is guilty of insiting that insurrection, but they will first have to vote if the trial is constitutional this afternoon. majority leader chuck schumer and minority leader mitch mcconnell reaching an agreement on the rules. starting wednesday, house managers and trump's lawyers will have up to 16 hours each to present their cases. followed by four hours for senators to ask questions to both teams. >> the structure we have agreed to is imminently fair. it will allow for the trial to achieve its purpose, truth and accountability. >> reporter: trump's legal team previewing their defense. filing a 78-page brief accusing house democrats of engaging in political theater and calling the trial unconstitutional because he's no longer president. >> i think it's beyond the senate's constitutional authority to have an impeachment proceeding the point of which is to convict and remove from office a man who left office three weeks ago. >> reporter: trump's lawyers also saying he did not direct anyone to commit lawless actions. and arguing these words on the day of the insurrection were meant in a figurative sense and protected by the first amendment. >> we fight like hell. and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. >> reporter: in total, trump used fight for its variants 20 times at that rally. the house managers submitting a response in their own brief, writing -- the house did not impeach president trump because he expressed an unpopular political opinion, it impeached him because he willfully incited an insurrection against the government. >> this wasn't about his first amendment right. he's more than exercised that over the years. this was about him literally inciting a riot. >> reporter: trump refusing to testify, house managers will use videos from the insurrection, showing rioter's actions, planning to outline how many appeared to be following the then president's commands. >> there's a lot we have not yet seen yet. video evidence and other evidence. we'll have a thorough review. i think that's important for history that we hold officials accountable, especially for something as grievous and as dangerous as inciting a mob to attack the capitol. >> reporter: trump has become fixated on those ten house republicans who voted to impeach him with one adviser telling cnn that he wants accountability. we are also learning this morning that trump is very, very sure that he will be acquitted as part of this impeachment trial given the fact he does not see 17 republican senators willing to convict him. alisyn? >> lauren, thank you very much for setting all that up. joining us now is anna palmer, the founder of bunch bowl news and laura coates, a former federal prosecutor. anna, tell what you say do we expect today? starts at 1:00 p.m. what do we know about what we'll see, who we'll hear from, et cetera? >> yeah. this is just really the set-up of the trial. right now there's going to be an agreement that there's going to vote on to basically move the trial originally trump's lawyer who an observant jew said can we not have this trial on a saturday. we're going to hold off. he rescinded that. this is basically just the table setting for the opening arguments which are going to start tomorrow. >> and the defense is making the case, laura, base on what they are framing as two constitutional questions. i find it interesting that they're framing it such as because i think the preponderance of scholarship there aren't these constitutional questions. the congressional research service says preponderance scholarship is a former official can be tried and. >> and have been. >> and has been, exactly. and the other argument they're making is that the president's first former president's first amendment rights protect his speech. of course, this is an impeachment trial where free speech isn't guaranteed the way it is elsewhere. what do you expect the main things to be, laura? >> this is going to be the arguments today about the procedural off ramp of saying, hey, this is not constitutional because he ran out the clock. that shouldn't hold a lot of water, should it, john and alisyn. the idea you can simply do what you like at the very end and knowing that the timeline might run out, you are free of a carte blanche do what you like. also there is precedent as you suggested about removing or actually impeaching and convicting a former officer. remember, they would have perhaps a stronger leg to stand on had they waited for the entire thing, the impeachment itself and the trial after he left office. but they impeached him while he was a sitting president and they were aware of while he was actually in office. this is analogous to a criminal trial in many respects as long as you have indicted somebody prior to the limitations you're free to prosecute that person. there's that argument. on the second area here, of course, free speech. free speech even in a courtroom is constrained by whether you have incited violence, whether you have defamed somebody, whether you have engaged in hate speech, whether you have done other things including threats. so we have a body of law already that says you can't say what you want consequence free and you're seeing that play out right now. >> laura, i have another question for you about evidence. one of the things that trump's defense team is trying to say he was just speaking figuratively when he said fight 20 times. he also, by the way, at one point simulated it. he simulated as he said fight punching the air and punching people, okay? so that's pretty literal. but it wasn't just president trump who said fight. his posse around him, some of whom even went further. just to remind people of the evidence that will be heard at the trial, here are the rudy giulianis, don jr.s, et cetera. >> and we fight, we fight like hell. and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. >> let's have trial by combat. >> if you're going to be the zero and not the hero, we're coming for you. have some backbone. show some fight. learn from donald trump. we need to march on the capitol today. >> today is the day american patriots start taking down names and kicking ass. >> trial by combat, kicking ass, you know, those are fighting words. >> bad rhyming by donald trump jr. should be impeachable itself. >> really should be. yet my favorite line from the trump defense's brief was the only reference to force was taking pride in his administration's creation of the space force. that's an actual line in their brief. it defies logic in every respect to say they don't actually think this. so they're going to have to show also the context here because everything he says before the insurrection at the rally, during the actually insurrection and what he said afterwards including patriots, he loves them. he essentially signed off on their behavior through his behavior and his statements and his conduct. so, you're going to see the evidence building not only about what he said at that rally but what he did afterwards or more importantly perhaps what he failed to do knowing that he was in a unique position to be able to quell the unrest or to send in re-enforcement and if senator ben sasse is right, he was delighted, that's a very difficult thing to defend against. >> it may have been a mistake for the former president's lawyers to include that. by raising that at all, they walked into a meat grinder there they should have avoided completely. >> yep. >> anna, i'm struck by the adam kinzinger letter reframes i think what's happening today. yes, the former president is on trial. kinzinger, one of ten republicans voted for impeachment is really making the case that the republican party is on trial today. that these republican senators will determine the course of that party going forward and you're going to see it repeatedly over the next few days. today is the first day when they're talking about whether or not in their minds they can have this trial. 45 of them earlier on the rand paul vote said no. i think it will be interesting if the 45 number sticks or if more senators today vote that this trial should proceed. i think maybe there will be more that say it should proceed this time. >> it's unclear where they're going to end up. i don't think ultimately there's 17 republicans unless there is a really dramatic testimony or something we don't know right now which doesn't appear to be the case. but i do think, to your point, adam kinzinger is hitting the nail on the head for the republican party where he sees it, that this is an existential crisis about the future of the party and what they stand for. that argument hasn't held a lot of merit with a lot of republicans. we're going to see probably a very similar vote today. i'll read you is it unconstitutional or not. i think there hasn't been a growing number of republicans further day from january 6th in the senate, hey, i'm going to take a second look. a lot of people believe their minds are made up, they don't expect to have a big shift. we're talking about a handful of republican senators who could potentially vote to impeach a president. of course, that could be historic. >> mcconnell, mcconnell, though, before voted with rand paul. and today, i mean, i don't know which way he's going to vote. but today is a day when we'll really find out what mitch mcconnell wants to see going forward, yes? >> yeah. i think mitch mcconnell's vote will be instructive. i do think he's under a tremendous amount of pressure in terms of looking at his conference, where they are. i think he would have a lot of trouble on his hands if he ultimately ends up voting to impeach this president. >> anna, laura, stand by. we have many more questions for you. remember former president trump's phone call with georgia secretary of state pressuring him to, quote, find votes to overturn the election? that call is now under investigation by the state. so what impact does that have on the impeachment trial? and why now are they investigating it? all that is next. ♪ ♪ (quiet piano music) ♪ ♪ comfort in the extreme. the lincoln family of luxury suvs. 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. ♪ my plaque psoriasis... ...the itching ...the burning. the stinging. my skin was no longer mine. my psoriatic arthritis, made my joints stiff, swollen... painful. emerge tremfyant™ with tremfya®, adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... ...can uncover clearer skin and improve symptoms at 16 weeks. tremfya® is also approved for adults with active psoriatic arthritis. serious allergic reactions may occur. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. tremfya®. emerge tremfyant™ janssen can help you explore cost support options. trelegy for copd. ♪ birds flyin' high you know how i feel ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel ♪ [man: coughing] ♪ it's a new dawn, it's a new day... ♪ no matter how you got copd it's time to make a stand. ♪ ...and i'm feelin' good ♪ start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy helps people breathe easier and improves lung function. it also helps prevent future flare-ups. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. do not take trelegy more than prescribed. trelegy may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. call your doctor if worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling, problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain occur. it's time to start a new day. ask your doctor about once-daily trelegy. and save at trelegy.com. ♪ developing overnight the office of georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger started an investigation into the former president's attempts to overturn georgia's election results, including this phone call the former president made to the secretary. listen. >> so, look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. because we won the state. >> it's just so vivid. back with anna palmer and laura coats. laura, first of all, how much legal jeopardy do you think the former president is in the state of georgia? this is a real investigation. it put it into the impeachment trial because it is rather significant in terms of establishing a pattern for that as well. >> it does. it gives a factual predicate that he was using the big lie, the theories of the big lie, to rev up people to believe that they should meet him on the ellipse and then eventually march towards the capitol and do what they did. you have this basis of calling the arc of evidence in the context yule clues about what he intended and why he was spiking about these issues. it will likely be used to give greater context but he is also in jeopardy here, remember, when he was a sitting president, even at the time people thought, look, a state prosecution, even he could not get himself out of. now he's no longer a president and no longer has the luxury of being able to give those things out let alone possibly to himself. so now you have a state prosecution where the evidence is actually on tape. prosecutors look for the smoking guns all the time and here you actually have it from the proverbial horse's mouth saying what he was trying to do. the greater scheme of things, trying to overturn an election, which as we know, he only wanted as with respect to the highest office on the ballot. he did not think about it for the lower offices that were down the ballot, only as it related to him as well. this will be further foder to make the case that he was promoting the big lie and he was going to capitalize on it perhaps through his supporters even on the capitol. >> anna, i just want to remind all of our viewers what brad raffensperger, the secretary of state in georgia had felt after that phone call. he had wanted to put it in the rear-view mirror. on january 4th, he wasn't going to investigate president trump. here is what he said then. this is his rational. i don't think that would be appropriate, and not needed at this time. after we complete wednesday, january 6th, emotions will then be able to get back to normal levels. i think that will be the best for all of us and the best thing for america. if only he were right. if only on january 6th the temperature had come down. since then there was a deadly insurrection and five americans were killed. and so, now, there's this university -- george washington university law professor who has sent a complaint saying that this has to be investigated and the secretary of state is going to obliged and go on this fact-finding mission. and the attorney general in the state has to figure out if there will be charges. that's where we are. >> yeah. it's interesting because raffensperger basically on the 4th sounds like a lot of republicans who still just want to turn the page and almost pretend like january 6th didn't happen. you know, kind of mimicking those same words of it's time for the country to move forward, time to come together. but clearly january 6th changed everything. there's just no two bones about it, you know. there's kind of pre-january 6th and post-january 6th. this is a mob coming to the capitol just blocks from my house there's fences up and national guards men and we don't know when they're going to go away. i think that is something that a reality of a lot of republicans want to brush under the carpet so to speak so they cannot have to deal with donald trump and his impact on their party. >> i think you perfectly encapsulated, anna, why today is such a big deal. i'm glad you just did. because you know, a month ago the u.s. capitol was invaded and overrun by a group of insurrectionists. and now we have something we've never seen before, which is a former president of the united states on trial for a second time and look, anna, you covered the capitol for a long time. just reflect on this moment on what it means you think for the country this morning. >> i do. i think it is really one of those moments that is so pivotal to high we move forward as a country. there is so much distrust between republicans and democrats, between members of congress and the police force. nobody knows what exactly happened still. i think everybody knows what donald trump's role was, though. that he was at the speech before it happened. that he did not even though his vice president, even though -- but for what we know now a few cops and really critical decisions that were made, things could have been so much worse. and i think that that is something that all of these members and these senators are going to have to think about. where are we going to go forward as a country. and, yes, free speech is important, but this clearly turned into something that was going to be one of the darkest days of our history. >> laura, it's just incredible when you think about how republicans don't want the accountability. where is the accountability for what happened? why are they willing to move on as anna says sweep everything under the rug? we heard it with our own ears, president trump wanted to disrupt the electoral count. he wanted mike pence to turn it around. he said it all. and guess what, everybody who went to the capitol heard him. they parroted it, even before the siege on the capitol, they said we're here for donald trump. he told us to march to the capitol. we're going to make this right and go try to hang mike pence. they were very clear about their instructions. >> they talked about -- he told us to come. he told us to be here. then he told us to go home. they were following almost to a t the instructions that they heard from the president of the united states. and the article of impeachment itself really is haunting that he is singularly responsible to imperil a coequal branch of government? it looked as though -- my children asked me is this real when we were watching it. it looked like they were zombies crawling up and scaling the walls of the capitol. they thought it was a movie perhaps. i had to tell them it was real. but also real is the inability of certain politicians to actually call balls and strikes because of political expedience or political preference or trying to hold on to an office. and what is really the most unfortunate aspect of this is that this started because somebody was trying to retain power. and now in absence of accountability is coming from those who would also like to retain power as opposed to lead. i hope they'll have open minds about this very issue. i hope that they will hear the evidence. i hope that nobody has their minds made up already and that they're receptive to the evidence that will be presented, their jurors, their victims, their eyewitnesses but more importantly they are also leaders in this country who have an obligation to be able to act as an oversight, a check and a balance on another coequal branch of government. if their darrell elect in their duty, they will not only lose the moral high ground, actually lose the coequal branchs of government system that we actually hold dear. >> look, the future of the p party, the future of the country, they are determining to a certain respect where we go from here. laura, anna, thank you both very much for being with us. so, president joe biden, we have new reporting on how he is reacting to this and what he believes he will do over the next few days as this takes place. plus, new reporting on the pandemic relief package, the $1.9 trillion worth that president biden wants to get to the american people in the next few weeks. stay with us. 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>> thank you very much, jeremy. we're hours away from the impeachment trial of the former president. you'll hear a lot of claims today, but know this when it comes to some arguments the constitution doesn't say what they claim it says. john avlon with the reality check. >> reporter: today, for only the 4th time in american history a president will face an impeachment trial in the senate. now, donald trump accounts for half the presidential impeachments in american history, but this time he's facing a charge of inciting an insurrection. that's the kind of high crimes the founders contemplated when they put impeachment in the constitution. if you listen to some self tiled conservatives the senate trial is over before it's begun. >> 45 republicans have said it's not even alegitimate proceeding. it's over before it starts. >> here is why he's wrong. the vote rand paul is to debate whether it was constitutional to itch peach the next president, not whether to go forward. listen to senator rob portman. >> it was not about dismissing the trial, it was not discussing the constitutionality. i'm a juror. >> more importantly this question has been addressed because way back in 1876 a corrupt secretary of war named william bellnap impeached after he resigned charged with prostituting his high office to his lust for private gain. in addition, president john quincy adams someone well aware of the founder's intent, he considered himself accountable to impeachment for as long as he lived. that's backed by 170 constitutional lawyers. and conservative lawyer chuck cooper wrote, given the constitution permits the senate to impose the penalty of permanent disqualification only on former office holders defies lodger to suggest the senate is prohibited from trying and convicting former office holders and all that is in addition to the fact that trump was impeached before he left office. which also should ease concerns about any slippery slope. yes, not only can donald trump be impeached, he already has been. now it's up to the senators to be impartial jurors. appropriately high two thirds bar for conviction never been cleared in the case of a president is no reason to disregard the proceedings because of all the impeachments in the american history to date, this one is closest to the founder's worst fears. this isn't about disagreements about reconstruction policies or lieg under oath about an affair or compel a foreign power to investigation a bonus investigation into a domestic rival. impeachment is for related to abuse or violation of some public trust. professor jeffrey engel wrote, impeachable were those perpetuated with sinister intent to harm the republic for personal gain. is there a better description what donald trump did to our country lying and attempt to overturn election to hold on to power? shall any man be above justice? the answer is no. and that's your reality check. >> the republican party needs to meet george mason. john avlon thank you very much for that. so, new details about how pyongyang is actively developing its nuclear and missile program next. developing overnight cnn has obtained a new u.n. report about north korea which concludes that pyongyang is actively developing its nuclear and ballistic missile program while continuing to evade international sanctions. cnn's will ripley is live in hong kong for us with more. what have you learned, will? >> reporter: alisyn, the bottom line here is that the north korea that president biden is inheriting is far more dangerous, far more heavily armed than it was when president trump took office. despite three face-to-face meetings with kim jong-un and president trump, pyongyang according to this new u.n. report has been upgrading its ballistic missile infrastructure, producing more material to make nuclear bombs and unveiling and parading new weapons, short range, medium range and long range missiles even missiles launched from submarines. the u.n. says it is likely north korea has the capability to put miniature rised warheads on these missiles. ka they launch one into space and have it survive in tact upon re-entry. they would need to conduct more tests in order to determine if they can do that. many analysts believe more tests could be coming given the north koreans consider the biden administration more predictable, much like the obama administration, strategic patience policy during which kim jong-un launched scores of missiles and conducted nuclear tests at accelerated pace. north korea is getting money for this by conducting cyber crimes. $316 million stolen the u.n. alleges from financial institutions, stealing things like bitcoin that virtual currency that's untraceable. north korea finding creative ways to get around 15 years of u.n. sanctions in place since 2006. even as much of that country's population suffers with its economy really in the tank given that its borders have been closed during the covid-19 pandemic. alisyn. >> will, thank you very much for that report. we'll stay on it. we do have breaking news. mary wilson the co-founder of the legendary motown group the supremes has died. wilson's publicist says she passed away suddenly at her home in las vegas. she was 76. ♪ stop in the name of love before you break my heart ♪ ♪ think it over ♪ ♪ baby, baby, think it over ♪ >> amazing to listen to. obviously the songs of the supremes defined a generation. they made music history i make the case they're important to american history overall. the trio had a dozen number one songs in 1960s. ♪ baby love, my baby love, missing you, miss kissing you ♪ ♪ instead of breaking up, let's do some kissing and making up ♪ >> so motown founder says wilson was a trail blazer, a diva and will be deeply missed. and that comment is loaded i think for lovers of music history and the history of that trio calling mary wilson a diva, i think is to place her at the same level as diana ross to make the case all three of the originals were so crucial in their sound and their development whether or not they were singing lead or the incredible backup. >> i could listen to this all morning long if we have time. cancel the rest of our segments and listen to this because they did this magical music combo they perfected which was setting really sad lyrics to very up beat, poppy tunes. and so then what happens is you end up all day long singing the sad lyrics but in this upbeat way. i have always loved that. yeah. okay. let's listen. ♪ but if you feel like i feel please let me know that it's real ♪ ♪ you're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off of you ♪ season, after season. ace your immune support, with centrum. ♪ wayne's world, wayne's world, party time, excellent. ♪ hey everyone, welcome to wayne's world. party on, wayne. party on, garth. as a local access show, we want everyone to support local restaurants. but, we'd never manipulate you like the way all these other commercials do. sh-yeah, that's really sad. we'd never shamelessly rely on a celebrity cameo. right cardi b? 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you think the numbers are about to start going straight up again and when do you think that's going to happen? >> yeah, alisyn, it all has to do with the spike protein target mutants. these new variants coming out of the uk and also south africa and possibly brazil. the uk ones seem to be the ones first that are popping up. we have almost 200 cases each in california and florida. and remember, we're undercounting because we're not doing a lot in the way of active surveillance for these spike protein mutants from the uk and south africa, so there's probably a lot more there. and we know there are far more transmissible and higher mortality that's why i used the metaphor eye of the hurricane. everything is going in the right direction. the numbers are doing down. we're starting to rev up in terms of vaccinations. everything is looking really promising. unfortunately we have these spike variants that seem to be mounting and that really worries me. >> what if we were to see the spike, when would we see it? >> hard to say. you know, there's not a lot of precedent to go on. we know for instance in the uk and southeastern england it went from being a rare variant in september and by november it accounted for half of the variants. so the centers for disease control is saying now with the uk variant that it's doubling roughly every ten days. so, that means the numbers are going to go way up. again, without having that active surveillance program in place, we don't know what the beginning part is. these variants may already be starting to be widespread in the country. so i think we're looking at potentially a very difficult april and may, maybe as soon as march. and that's going to be the tough time because the vaccines are not going to be here in large kwanties comieing so this will the toughest part of the epidemic for the american people and for the biden administration is how we navigate this very difficult period as the spike variants start rising in march, april and may. and this is going to be a tough time. but, you know, we'll get through it. but exactly what it's going to look like at the other end still -- there's still a lot of uncertainty about that. >> with we're just about out of time but what's your target? i remember dr. fauci early in the summer when things started dropping again, he said they're not dropping enough. the case load is still high when you're talking about where it is right now, it's still very high. what number do you think we have to get below to feel more safe? >> you know, there's no one magical number. look, here is what we want to do, john. we want to interrupt transmission of this virus through vaccination. and we potentially can do that by this summer. so that's -- that has to be the goal. we need to get back to significant level of normalcy in the united states. and that's only going to happen when we really bring down transmission to containment level defined through various ways as one new case per million residents per day, one new case per 100,000 residents per day. you pick the target. but far below what we're at now. and i do think we can get there. i have a lot of optimism. but it's going to mean m vaccinating the american people rapidly as possible and doubling the current vaccination numbers 1.5 million immunizations per day. we should be at around 3 to 4 million to really halt this virus. and i know the biden administration is doing everything it can to get there. but there's a lot of technical hurdles still to overcome and we're also learning and i'm really sorry to say this that operation warp speed all we heard about with manufacturing at risk and the vaccines will be here as soon as we know. the vaccines are working. turns out not to be the case. there's still significant lag and that's a huge disappointment as well. >> dr. peter hoe tez, thank you for the straight scoop. great to talk to you. >> thank you. coming up, we have a one on one interview with rob gronkowski or as i like to call him gronk. he says -- >> just you. it's your pet name. no one else calls him gronk. >> if you want to use it, feel free. he says winning this super bowl with tom brady is one of the greatest sports stories ever. you know what, gronk. we'll be the judge of that. >> it's true. >> okay? 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