would think understanding the last one would be a priority especially to the senator she was replying to republican ron johnson. he was interested enough in what might happen tomorrow to make the first question when it comes to what already has happened, not so much but seems in continuing to down play it and deflect responsibility for it. now, we should say right here that some of his republican colleagues truly are taking a serious interest, especially in why with the capitol under siege. it took more than three hours for the d.c. national guard to respond and the new order is putting obstacles in the path. the commanding general of the d.c. national guard major general walker talked about that today. >> the secretary of the army's january 4th letter to me with held that to employ a quick reaction for us. additionally, the secretary of the army's memorandum to me required a concept of operation be submitted to him before the e employment of a quick reaction force. i found that requirement to be unusual, as was the requirement to seek approval to move guardsmen supporting the metropolitan police department to move from one traffic control point to another. >> a higher republican rob portman, a ranking member today says he wants to hear more on this from the former army secretary. another ranking member, missouri republican roy blunt voted much of his questioning to the subject and senator ted cruz eliciting new information whether those guidelines hobbled the guard's response. >> senator cruz, i would have had that authority prior to january 6th to employ direct a quick reaction for us. the secretary of defense, his letter authorizes me to use the quick reaction force and it says only as a last resort. where the secretary of the army, his direction to me withholds the authority to use the quick reaction force and he will only authorize that and only after he has a concept of operations sent to him, a conop sent to him. that was unusual to me. i never seen that before. >> senator josh hawley called attention to what the general said but he quickly directed his questioning toward the notion these new orders were an over reaction to criticism of the guard's role in the mayhem last summer. he then segwayed into questions he asked the fbi director yesterday about collecting meta data on the 6th but the prize for deflection goes as we said to senator johnson whose made a career now out of requwriting wt we know about the insurrection and down playing the horror we all saw. >> how many firearms were confiscated in the capitol or on capitol grounds that day? >> to my knowledge, we have not recovered any on that day from any other arrests on the scene at this point. >> nobody has been charged with an actual fire arm weapon on the capitol or capitol grounds? >> correct. >> how many shots were fired that we know of? >> i believe the only shots that were fired resulted in the death of the one lady. >> now, this must have been a theme for the senator somehow an insurrection involving makeshift arms wasn't the real thing like a flag pole to beat an officer nearly to death. is this a weapon? the officer taking the blows would probably say it was or bear spay used on the police, an irritant that might have contributed to officer brian sicknick being killed. would that be a weapon? senator johnson has been playing rhetorical games and deflecting. he read this revisionest account into the congressional record last week. >> a very few didn't share the jovial great majority, some obviously didn't fit in and he describes four different types of people. plain clothes militants, agents provo provocateurs, fake trump protesters and disciplined uniform column of attackers. i think these are the people that are probably planning this. >> so it seems like it's kind of a game to him. five people died directly because of the insurrection. amy klobuchar responded directly the insurrectionists were there for a peaceful, fun visit. >> these people that were asuperin assaulting the capitol with military gear and were pinning an officer between a door and were using bear spray on officers in the capitol, would you title them provocateurs? >> ma'am, it would depend on the evidence behind the case, right? so as we're going through and figuring out what actually we know about each individual, it would depend on the facts and what we know wholistically about that to put a label on it. >> do you think there were serious violent people involved in this insurrection? >> 100%. a lot of officers was injured and a lot of damage was done. >> would you describe the incident as festive? >> absolutely not. >> the absurdity didn't end there. we got an op ed from the man that was nearly sacrificed on the alter of that lie. mike pence opposing voter rights legislation i'm quoting after an election marked by voting irregularities and officials setting aside election law, i share the concerns about the integrity of the 2020 election. people who believe that wanted to hang mike pence. and that's where we are tonight. with the capitol under threat eight weeks after the insurrection bracing for the possibility of another because of the big lie that won't die. more now on the new threat reportings and the chain of command mystery surrounding the d.c. guard's orders during insurrection. joining us is former assistant homeland security secretary and cnn military analyst and retired army lieutenant. this possible plot to breach the capitol grave enough the house is likely cha ly cancelling then tomorrow. the qanon march 4th, the date of the real presidential inauguration when grant was inaugurated and that somehow donald trump will return to glory on the 4th and become the 19th president of the united states. >> the rest urection. there is intelligence to suggest a second attack that is because of the lie, essentially at this stage, the direct outcome of the lie. the lie leads to the violence. you can't deny it anymore. that closes down, potentially closes down all of the third branch of government or third branch of government tomorrow. this is where we are and guess what? we will be here for awhile because the lie doesn't go away. the gop is invested in the lie because it's tied to, as you just noted, it's tied to the voting restrictions they are trying to put in place throughout the country. they need to convince people that the lie is true, that the votes were illegitimate and particular african american and hispanic votes. this lie is not going away and what they are trying to do is say the lie is about policy changes, about voting rights, but the lie is also leading to the violence. and they can't have it both ways, and so any -- a republican now who does not reject the lie out right is now responsible for the violence that we're going to see -- that we might see not tomorrow but because there is going to be a new date and a new date and a new date and that's the inheritance of what trump leaves behind for the biden administration's intelligence teams. >> yeah, general hurtly, that's the thing about this group qanon belief is they come up with a date and then the date passes and nothing happens that they said would happen and they come up with a reason why that occurred, oh, that was a cy op and like the people used to predict the end of the world and change the date all the time. from a security stand pound, given deficiencies on january 6th, what should be in motion now to -- i mean, are troops ever going to leave d.c.? >> that's a great question, anderson. you're exactly right. we have seen this kind of thing in combat before where there is anticipation that the enemy is going so you get revved up and get people up in guard and have them ready to shoot and the enemy doesn't attack and then you get another date and they don't attack again. so suddenly you start feeling lax and you're not as energized and suddenly they get away with it. in this whole thing, in this event on the 6th of january, what i saw today and it has to do with what julia was talking about, that was just -- i anticipated an ugly hearing. it was that and so much more because what was discussed during the hearing today is everything we shouldn't do as military forces, as intelligence forces. we have to fight for intelligence, not wait for someone to give information. we have to plan and collaborate for people we anticipate fighting with, the d.c. police and capitol police. we have to have trust in the chain of command. that was gone with the last guy's administration. finally, what i'd like to say and this is the thing that troubled me the most. when i first saw general walker's rules of engagement, the letter that we received from the secretary of defense and the secretary of army, i was flunked. that is something you'd never see. you trust a two -star general t commit his reserve. that the why we gets promoted to those levels of authority. that wasn't happening. i got to tell you aggeneral walr used the term unusual several times in his testimony. that translates into this is a bunch of b.s. and i got to tell you, it was horrible across the board. >> the qrf, the quick reaction force is what you're retferring to. william walker raised these questions about the instructions he had gotten from the acting defense secretary and the secretary of the army. what was so unusual about that? the idea that walker wasn't given the ability to just move a quick reaction force to deploy them or even redeploy guardsmen who were already stationed in one place to another? >> you can go down the entire list of the things he was asked to do to include what kind of uniforms were his soldiers going to wear? kind of things could they not take with them like vest and helmets. moving people as he testified between one traffic control point to another. that's just silliness. i mean, a sergeant squad leader makes those decisions, not a two-star general. to go back to the secretaries to get confirmation of those orders to me as a guy who has been in combat under rules of engagement are restrictive, there is usually a reason but in this case it just seemed to him during his activity, by the way, anderson, an extremely small force. that's troubling, too. because when he was talking about committing the quick reaction force, 150 people, 140 people, whatever he said he had, that would have been nothing in terms of countering the kind of activities that were going on and again, i go back to my first issue you plan and collaborate with other organizations before you get into an anticipation fight. everybody saw this coming. i'm surprised at the actions of having a lack of forces to support this individual as well as some of the state capitols that didn't have national guard. >> julia, obviously, when those restrictions that the walker was talking about were not in place by the way during the black lives matter protests during the summer. we saw a much more ready and sort of muscular response, you know, of troops. you worked in homeland security. why was walker handcuffed? >> so it's important to note that those restrictions were not put in after lafayette park? people like the senator arguing this was an over reaction to lafayette -- no, this was put in january 5th. something is going on here which is not explained in any testimony. by december, any person with a twitter account, let alone just listening knows that donald trump is talking about the state. he's using the language of fight. it is so disconcerting members of congress don't show up that day and some show up armed. they are nervous. so that intelligence is out there. he'll need to wait for the fbi to tell you. the military is then told do less than a normal situation. you would preposition. during the elections, the national guard was prepositioned and during this, not because you want to stop first amendment rights but because there is a legitimate concern about violence. the fact they weren't out there on the 5th and morning of the 6th, the crowd, the mob looks up the hill and says it's totally, you know, let's just go out there, right and attack because it's not being fortified. those five days we have no explanation about both what mark said, the general said about the rules of engagement and why did the pentagon take so long and so the only person i care about hearing from is the former acting secretary chris miller who was brought in the at the last minute by trump very late in the administration and has some explaining to do. >> yeah. julia, mark, appreciate it. thank you. next, in light of the breaking news a closer look at the conspiracy theories driving the concern about tomorrow and later, texan beto o'rourke on his governor's decision to go against the experts and throw his statewide open to covid. drm throughout their lives. at newday usa, we have va refinance loans to do just that. from refinancing to lower your monthly mortgage payments to refinancing and getting cash for your family. whatever you need, we're here. did you know that every single flush flings odors onto your soft surfaces? 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"new york times" technology columnist kevin rosom asand nia bloom. so kevin, is there any way to predict what does or does not happen tomorrow? if history is any guide, there have been dates set before and promises made and none of it has come to past and they evolve into new theories and say well intentional? >> qanon operates as a doomsday call. they are constantly making predictions when things will come to pass, when this storm will arrive and the pedophiles will be rounded up and arrested and it never happens clearly and after it doesn't happen, they push the date back and try again so this is happened a lot and it's happened most notably on inauguration day when they believe that the inauguration would be interrupted by trump announcing martial law and taking a second term in office, and they did actually suffer some set backs after that. some people part of the group became disillusioned but people hanging on changed their prediction to march 4th, to tomorrow as the date when they can't trump will return as the president. >> some of these people were saying that executions will take place on the 5th, of people that have been rounded up and will be and they showed pictures of the press risers put up for the inauguration and washington has been taken over by the military and is now a prison for the people who are going to be rounded up. there is also, nia, this thing a lot of them believe president biden isn't really president biden at all, it's a body double. it's just nuts. >> there are a few things they believe. so the first thing was that it's not really biden and like the movie "face-off" it really president trump. the reason biden is wearing a mask is not because of covid-19 but they haven't synced up the mouth between the fash cial masf biden and how trump is imitating biden. also, biden signed 17 executive order the, 17 beiing q's 17th letter of the alphabet. >> it's so interesting. i don't know if it's that interesting, frankly, the longer it goes on theless interesting it becomes. after awhile, the person won't leave the party and keeps talking. you know, there were 17 flags when president trump, i think, said, you know, farewell to frank sinatra or the village people playing, surprisingly enough and boarded the plane and there was people reading into that. is it, nia, from what you've seen, are people -- is there still money being made? are they still selling products? is there still the backing of this there was before because we've talked and kevin, as well, about people leaving in the wake of none of their promises coming true. is there any way to know how many people are still out there that believe this? >> after the january 20th inauguration and the storm didn't happen, on telegram there was a great deal of weeping and teeth smashing but the fact remains the people who were diehards will double and triple down. what's interesting about tomorrow is that a number of these qanon influencers who are the ones making the money are now saying wait a second, wait a second, march 4th is a false flag operation that antifa created to make us look bad so you have now this different vain of argument within qanon that some people are saying yes, of course, it's march 4th and that's why the trump hotel quadrupled the room prices but then others are saying no, it's antifa and a false flag. they're trying to make us look stupid. >> did the trump hotel quadruple room prices for loonies to come? >> if there is money to be made, trump will do it. >> in terms of an actual threat, a threat of force, i mean, if the biggest threat of force we have seen from them, i guess, would be the capitol insurrection. obviously, the guy showed up at the pizza parlor and incident at the hoover dam. there are other incidents, somebody doing a mob hit, blaming qanon ties. the idea that the house is likely not going to be in session tomorrow because of this possible threat, does that surprise you? >> i think it's not surprising that there are threats and it's not surprising that law enforcement is preparing for the worst-case scenario. i do think there are some important differences between what we see in advance of tomorrow and what we saw in advance of january 6th, the capitol riot. before the capitol riot for weeks there were groups that were preparing to storm the capitol, talking about their plans openly, you know, trading airbnb listings and talking about carpooling to washington d.c. making it very clear that they were intending to show up in vast numbers and we haven't seen the same kind of energy around the events that some law enforcement agencies expected to happen tomorrow. it doesn't seem to be capturing the same offline energy but i think it's always good to be prepared. it doesn't take thousands and thousands of qanon believers in one place to cause trouble and even violence. >> yeah, kevin, nia, appreciate it. thank you. >> just ahead president biden's blunt words for the governors of two states ending the mask mandate and my conversation with former congressman beto oh require k when this means for the future of his state, texas. , abreva can get you back to being you in just 2 and a half days. be kinder to yourself and tougher on your cold sores. i signed up because i was curious. i learned about my grandfather's life on ancestry and it was a remarkable twentieth-century transformation. he did a lot of living before i knew him. bring your family history to life like never before. get started for free at ancestry.com ♪ i've always been running. to meetings. errands. now i'm running for me. i've always dreamed of seeing the world. but i'm not chasing my dream anymore. i made a financial plan to live it every day. ♪ there was a dream ♪ ♪ and one day i could see it ♪ at northwestern mutual, our version of financial planning helps you live your dreams today. find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com a short time ago dr. fauci added his objection to texas and miss miissippi mask mandates calling it risky. earlier today, president biden called it blunt. >> i think it's a big mig station. look, i hope everybody realized by now these masks make a difference. we're on the cusp of being able to fund mentally change the nature of this disease because of the way we're able to get vaccines in people's arms. we've been able to move that up to the end of may to have enough for every american, to get every adult american to get a shot and the last thing, the last thing we need is kthinking everything is fine, take off your mask. forget it. it still matters. >> both governors responded. here is mississippi's tate reeves. >> given how long ago mr. biden was elected to the u.s. congress, he certainly should know how knee ander thols think. >> those states are ending mandates after coming down off record highs but also as new cases in both staids begun climbing again in the past few weeks. mississippi's mandate ended today, texas next week. once that happens, at least 15 states, the ones in red will have no mask mandate. two other states in yellow require masks sometimes. earlier i spoke to former texas congressman beto o'rourke who acknowledged a potential run against governor abbott about what this means for texas and the nation at large. >> congressman o'rourke, you tweeted this decision by abbott was a death warrant for texans. why do you think he would do this? >> i don't know why he would do this. i know that in doing so, many more of our fellow texans are going to die beyond the 44,000 who have already succumb to covid. the ill prepared way that he met the pandemic and in the botched rollout of the vaccines, and it's disproportionately hit the communities that are already struggling, the lowest income, communities of color and those on the front lines including health care workers will bear the brunt. one of the things people should understand, houston, texas, largest, one of the largest in america is the first city to have every single variant of the coronavirus in one place. that's just beginning to take off. we have no idea what the spread of these new very ariants are g to do but keeping a mask on, keeping six-foot distance and having some public health protocols will save lives while we race towards the finish of having every single adult in america vaccinated by the end of may. why he would give up now close to the end, i don't know. >> the governor came under heavy criticism during the handling of the snowstorm and power outages. we talked during that time. the mayor of austin said last night it's a possibility of the governor's move to lift the mask mandate could be removed from that criticism. do you think that's possibly part of the problem? >> he's approaching the classic definition of a failed state, literally cannot guarantee electricity, running water, heat when temperatures are dropping into the single digits. we know an 11-year-old boy froze do death in his trailer. an 84-year-old grandmother froze in her home. we know perhaps more than 100 of our fellow texans died of hypothermia or carbon monoxide, inhalation trying to stay warm in their cars. this is a really politically convenient bombshell to drop when every one of us wants to see the accountability and the answers for what happened to our fellow texans in the midst of the storm. >> the cdc said governor abbott's decision is immature and pandemic control measures must continue. i mean, what happens if the numbers go up then does he dig his heels or does he then go back and say okay, well let's restart some mandates? >> what he said is that if hospitalizations reach a certain level within a given county, that county judge will be empowered to take the necessary measures. that's really trying to close the barn door after everyone and all the virus has gotten out and affected the people whose care he's entrusted with. here is what we're doing. a number of us are going door to door on a voluntary basis to the poorest zip codes in texas finding those eligible to be vaccinated and ensuring that they get registered and signed up. we're going to neighborhoods that don't have internet access, talking to folks who may not own cell phones who may not become mun ka -- communicating in the english language to get them vaccinated and help them out otherwise they are literally the first in line communicating in the english language to get them vaccinated and help them out otherwise they are literally the first in line. >> the mayor of austin said he'd try to get in government buildings in municipal buildings in austin that a mask mandate but is there much else that local officials or businesses can do? i know some businesses said they will require their customers to wear a mask. >> anderson, imagine you're making the minimum wage in texas, which is $7.25 and you're likely working not one but two, maybe three jobs at a convenience store and a customer walks in without wearing a mask. you remind them. that customer is very likely to say i'm not listening to you behind the counter, i'm listening to the governor and the governor told me this is okay, and that's not hypothetical. we are getting that kind of feedback already in realtime in the 24 hours since the governor has announced this. he's putting the most vulnerable, those $7.25 hour workers, the health care workers, nurses, doctors and administrative and support staff, he's putting them in harm's way right now by doing this. yes, businesses can and should require masks. people can and should wear them when they go out, but what the governor has done is essentially given the green light to anybody who does not want to wear a mask and to flout the best public health guidance that's out there. so this one is on us. he's basically told texas you are on your own. he and the rest of our state government have given up. we're left to our own devices. >> congressman o'rourke, appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you so much. just ahead, our gary tuchman investigates how the johnson & johnson vaccine is being received and whether there is a bias against this life saving drug. you clean dishes as you cook, to save time and stay ahead of the mess but scrubbing still takes time. now there's dawn powerwash dish spray. the faster, easier way to clean as you go. it cleans grease five times faster on easy messes, just spray, wipe, and rinse. on tough messes, the spray-activated suds cut through grease on contact, without water. just wipe, and rinse. get dishes done faster dawn powerwash dish spray. spray. wipe. rinse. the challenge of the johnson & johnson vaccine. all agree all three of the drugs prevent people from getting seriously ill and whichever vaccine you should get you should take. gary tuchman is looking how this is being received and visits the suburban area with predominantly black rest residents thought to get a vaccine. >> reporter: it's a block owned business in the small city of st. louis. >> i waited a long time for this. >> reporter: the pharmacist, the owner of the business. >> congratulations, you're all set. >> reporter: just got her first supply of covid vaccine for her community but she didn't get just one kind of vaccine, she got two. moderna and the newly approved johnson & johnson. >> it's been great. it's a blessing to be in this position. >> reporter: particularly because rebecca knows there is a hesitancy among minority groups to get the covid vaccine. >> i was hesitant about getting it. >> really? >> reporter: because she has two kinds of vaccine, she has the unique opportunity of giving her customers a choice. >> i have the moderna and johnson & johnson, which one do you want? >> this is one, the shot, the johnson & johnson. you want to get that? >> is it just one shot? >> just one shot and then you're done. >> okay, i'll take that one. >> yes, that's the best option. >> okay. >> and it's equally effective. so we do have a johnson & johnson and moderna. johnson & johnson, one shot you're done. moderna, two shots. which one are we going with today? >> johnson & johnson. >> johnson & johnson. why is that? >> one shot and i'm done. >> reporter: this is one pharmacy in america, but the trend here is very clear, the one dose johnson & johnson vaccine is popular. treyna clark chose johnson & johnson. >> i cried. i was so happy. here in north county, we weren't getting vaccines. they were making us drive 60 and 80 miles to get it. >> reporter: reggie jones is the mayor. >> you're all set, sir. >> reporter: he was one of the smaller number of people here who chose moderna. outside the pharmacy in nearby neighborhoods, it is not difficult to find people who aren't planning to get any covid vaccine. >> i believe they would bless the lesser drugs in our communities to test us to see if they work -- >> reporter: you're referring to the johnson & johnson one dose? >> yes. >> reporter: the pharmacist notes about the past but tells customers that now is a much different time. >> done, sir. >> reporter: timothy williams believes that with all his heart. tell me how getting this vaccine will change your life? >> it will change my life. i get to get out the house. i got grandkids. haven't seen my grandkids in a year. my youngest grand kid is turning 1 on the 2 1st. last time i saw him was march 20th last year. i'm going to hug them and squeeze them. >> reporter: the pharmacy is still open, anderson. it's a late night but as of now, 67% of the people who have come in for vaccines, two-thirds have asked for the one dose johnson & johnson vaccine. >> gary tuchman. appreciate it. thank you. perspective from infectious disease dr. gander, we saw gary's piece. are you surprised how many people chose to get the johnson & johnson vaccine? >> i was surprised because there is so much in the media about the effect icacy of johnson andn joh joh son. this is not an inferior vaccine and if anything, we have in a sense more data on the johnson & johnson vaccine because it was tested in south africa in latin america where the variants had emerged later in the pandemic and we know that the vaccine remains effective in those settings. >> i do think that's one of the interesting things that's often overlooked about the johnson & johnson vaccine because the efficacy when it came to, it is, correct me, maybe i won't even say it. tell me what the efficacy is compared to the others on mild cases, but what is often overlooked at the fact this has been tested against the south african vvariant, the brazil variant and deemedf effective against hospitalization and death, which is significant. >> that's significant. we haven't seen that same level of data, frankly, with the pfizer and moderna vaccines because they were tested in clinical trials much earlier on and not in the presence of those variants. again, all of these vaccines prevent hospitalization and death. we don't vaccinate for the common cold, the sniffles and so really, that's the wrong measure to be looking at here. and when you think about it, this is one and done. yes, you know, a vaccine does not take effect right away. it takes a little time for the immune system to see it and mount a response but it means you can get back to your life, back to life, back to your family that much more quickly afterwards. >> how quickly after somebody has been vaccinated, whether it's with johnson & johnson or moderna or pfizer can they have some level of protection? >> so, you get your full protection with johnson & johnson four weeks after the first dose. with pfizer, you get one dose, then you get another dose three weeks later and then it takes another two weeks so you add that up, that's five and similarly, with moderna, you're looking at six weeks. so you really do shave off a week or two and only need one shot with the johnson & johnson. >> as we reported, obviously,s governors in texas and mississippi will lift mask mandates and allow businesses to operate at full capacity. the governor said it time to open texas 100%. how -- what do you think of those decisions? >> i think it's really concerning because this is not the time. we're almost there. we are at the almost at the end, the finish line of this marathon and this is also when we are seeing this variant, which is more infectious and transmissible and causes fmore disease and the cd predicts this will be the dominant strain by the end of march. we've seen cases plateau and really holding our breath, hoping but predicting that we're going to see an increase in cases again here in the next couple weeks. so this is really not the time. we are almost there. i would plead with people to give it another month or two and let us get as many people vaccinated and control this new variant before we start to relax on mask wearing and other measures. >> dr. gander, appreciate your time. new york governor andrew cuomo holding his first press briefing to talk about the allegations of actual harassment he's facing. what he said and what he's not going to do when we continue. a does it worry me? 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