Removed from his role in afghanistan. The State Department his views do not reflect those of the department, which embraces diversity and inclusion. Brianna . Appreciate that report. Thank you. It is the top of the hour. I am Brianna Keilar and right now the senate is taking up president bidens 1. 9 trillion pandemic relief bill. It appears that all 50 democrats are onboard, while republicans know that, it wont stop them from dragging the whole process out. We are talking hours here no. Were talking days. Cnn political director David Chalian is with us now. This is a stunt by republicans. It will certainly get attention. Reporter yeah. What you see here, brianna, republicans trying to prolong the process that this debate over this bill is on the floor before it can actually move to a final vote. So as you said, Senate Democrats are moving ahead on to this bill to begin the process of debating this bill. Ron johnson of wisconsin, a republican senator, has said when the traditional ask that the reading of the bill be dispensed with comes, hes actually going to demand the reading of the billow occur. Youll see senate take about ten hours to read the lengthy bill. What attempt to elongate the process here. Of course, each side gets there are 20 hours of debate total divided evenly between republicans and democrats for this bill. So that will take place. Tonight, brianna, youre going to see something we refer to as voterama. Youre going to see a series of amendments come up. One after the other, where senators are voting on very few of these amendments, have a chance to actually alter the bill, brianna. Instead largely political statements that each side uses to put their political opponents across the aisle in a tough position that they then can create political ads about down the road, but that process takes time as well. So all of that together is a lengthy time that the bill is out there for scrutiny, which is what the republicans are looking to accomplish. All the reasons that people love washington so much for tell us the changes that the senate has made to the house version. Reporter well, there are some changes, as you know. Weve talked about the 15 minimum wage is no longer part of this bill. Right . The Senate Parliamentarian said you cant put the minimum wage increase according to these budget rules that are being used to pass the bill into this bill. No funding for the bridge in Upstate New York to canada. No fund are for extension of the Railway System out in california. Those were two priorities projects and Californiaing Lambasting Democrats for putting in pet projects into the bill. Theyve been stripped from this version of the bill in the senate. That may ease passage here without that. Also you have the caps in income for the stimulus checks. Theyve come down. So theyre more targeted. Now anybody earning single filers earning more than 80,000 wont get any of that 1,400 check, couples filing that earn 160,000 or more will not be eligible for any of that direct relief money. More money for rural hospitals and broadband and theres a revised formula for state and local funding, and it boosts funding for smaller population states. This is one area in the senate bill that is altered that seems to be aimed a the remaining in conversation with republican Lisa Murkowski of alaska. Now, again, i dont think the Biden Administration is counting on republican votes here, but i think they are trying to see if there are ways that they can keep somebody like Lisa Murkowski possibly in conversation with them, because they would love end of the day to even have one republican vote. Yeah. Very interesting. David, thank you so much for sharing that with us. We appreciate it. Cnn is learning that Capitol Police requested a twomonth extension of National Guard troops and thats being reviewed now by the pentagon. Comes as security is already beefed up at the nations capitol today. Federal officials warned domestic extremists may launch another attack, and that is because march 4th is the day that qanon Conspiracy Theorists absurdly believe that former President Trump will somehow retake the presidency. Cnn Shimon Prokupecz is onscene for us. Reporter brianna, security here at the Capitol On High alert. The Capitol Police here along with the National Guard, as you can see, over this way. There are several National Guard troops. More than a dozen, and through the day theyve been streaming back and forth and then you have this Military Vehicle here at this checkpoint. This is one of the areas where trucks come through. People wanting to go inside the capitol, having to go through some of the screening here. They have to pass through these gates to get inside. Capitol police have a bombsniffing dog that theyre using, obviously because of this threat against the capitol. Members here also not reporting to work. Some of them told to stay home today. Brianna . Shimon, thank you. Joining us now to talk about the threats against the nations Capitol Is Democratic congressman ted lieu of california, served as Impeachment Manager in the last trial. Congressman, thank you for being with us. Sources tell us that Lieutenant General Russell Honore, retired, completed his capitol hill review recommending addition of 1,000 more officers to protect the capitol and lawmakers in their home districts and states. Is that enough to prevent another attack . Thank you, brianna, for your question. I previously served in active duty in the United States military because i believe america is an exceptional country and never thought id see the day to deploy military troops to protect our nations capitols against ourselves. And Republican Leaders can reduce the risk of further Political Violence by simply saying one simple truthful sentence, the election was not stolen. Their refusal to do that is why we need more Capitol Police officers and as Russell Honore recommended and why National Guard troops still patrol our capitol today. Is this enough . This recommendation by honore, 1,000 additional officers, to protect the capitol, but also to protect lawmakers like yourself in your home districts, your home states . Is that enough to prevent another attack . That would depend on, again, what Republican Leaders do. If they continue to perpetuate the big lie, and enflame White Supremacy groups and other groups, that somehow this election was stolen, then were always going to be at risk of attacks on our nations capitol. If they, however, tell the American People the truth, tell their base that joe biden won fair and square, then i dont think were going to need all of these troops or, in fact, all of these police officers. When it comes to the delayed response of getting help to congress on the day of the insurrection, theres been a lot of blame going around. About this massive delay. You know that this has been part of the case. Having been a House Manager in the Impeachment Trial. Do you have any evidence that the Trump Administration delayed a response, because of the protesters politics . Because of their political leanings . Based on recent testimony we do know that the request for National Guard troops went out very quickly. And then there was a delay at the pentagon. I think we need to hear from Pentagon Officials why that request was not approved. At the same time the former president was watching on tv the same thing all of us were watching. The moment he realized there was an attack on the capitol all he had to do was make a phone call and National Guard troops would have been there. Instead he sent another tweet attacking then Vice President mike pence. Thats what trump was doing. The House Speaker pardon me the House Speaker nancy pelosi denied that threats about today, this is part of the qanon Conspiracy Theory that today would be the day that trump would ascend to the presidency. Shes denied that that was the sole reason for canceling what was to be the house in session today. Certainly it was part of it, though. No denying that. How is that not Conspiracy Theorists dictating the schedule of the house of representatives . So there were at least two reasons for their schedule change. One is because of the increased risk for the Political Violence today. Second is the republicans are doing their retreat. So they now dont have to vote today. They can go to their retreat. At the same time what we did is sped up the schedule. So, in fact, we actually did those yesterday that we were going to do today. So congressman, i get that. I guess my point is, its pretty extraordinary that this is the situation that congress, the house of representatives, at least, is scheduling around Conspiracy Theorists . Oh, yes. Absolutely. It is absolutely ridiculous that the United States of america, we have people who continue to believe these crazy conspiracy theories, like i drink the blood of little babies, or somehow a satan worshipper and working with a deep cabal of people in the federal government. Unfortunately, people do believe that and in the wactke of janua 6th, the insurrection incited by the president we now have to take these threats of attacks seriously. So, yes, you see this alteration of the schedule, and we can fix this 23 Republican Leaders would simply tell their base the truth. That joe biden won fair and square. Congressman lieu, thank you for being with us. Thank you. The white house is firing back at comments from the Trump Administrations former coronavirus testing czar. Admiral brett gerard tweeted, i am so tired of the continuing lies that the president inherited a covid19 vaccine mess. When in fact 99 of current Vaccine Manufacturing and distribution is exactly as planned and explicitly described by Trump Administrations operation warp speed. How the White House Press secretary responded to that moments ago. I dont think anyone deserves credit when half a Million People in the country have died of this pandemic. So what our focus is on and when the president , his focus coming into office just over a month ago ensuring we had enough vaccines. We are going to have them now. We had enough vaccinators and enough Vaccine Locations to get this pandemic under control. Theres no question and all data points to the fact that there were not enough of any of those things when he took office. 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My point is this the Biden Administration has been releasing immigrants in south texas that have been exposing texans to covid. Some of those people put on buses taken that covid to other states in the United States. The Biden Administration must stop importing covid by, into our country. Governor abbott did not provide evidence for that claim and cnn has learned hes actually stalling the Biden Administrations efforts to test migrants. Cnn politics reporter Priscilla Alvarez is following this for us. Whats happening behind the scenes here . Reporter a dhs official tells me department of Homeland Security offered federal funds to help cities and counties test migrants released from custody. The state needs to approve that before the funds can be distributed to localities and thus far theyve not received a response from texas. Though the governor is blaming migrants released from custody for Spreading Covid. We should remind viewers the Biden Administration is still turning away the vast majority of migrants encountered a the u. S. mexico border that some are being released into the United States. Thank you for that. Appreciate it. The now been almost an entire year since this pandemic began. The strain has taken its toll on everyone. Physically, emotionally and for so many financially. Frontline Health Care Workers the ones seeing this firsthand some of the devastation. One arizona physician is talking about fighting with ins Insurance Companies to fight for patients the medical care they need. Dr. Andrew carroll tweeted in part, i think im finally broken. The doctor joins me now. You describe in that tweet how you were brought to tears, and i dont think anyone can blame you here. What took you to that point. You know, i dont usually cry with Insurance Companies. I cry with my patients when they come in and theyre new widows or widowers but absolute frustration with a system horribly antiquated based on old medicine. Were in a new reality now and trying to get the patients the care they need. A young woman in her 20s. After three months having had covid and postcovid symptoms cannot go up a pair of steps without bean winded. Doesnt understand why she cant stop coughing. I wanted answers but her Insurance Company is making me jump through extra hoops just to get there. Its just not right. What were you trying to get for her . A cat scan. I want add cat scan of her lungs to image it. One, we know covid appearance. Its on the chest xray. No point to that. We know that. Im looking for, in her lungs. Pulmonary pulmonary, valley fever . I need an answer. She wants an answer and two threes later the Insurance Companys not letting me get an answer for her. Why are they saying that they wont do this or they cant do it yet . Whats the reasoning here . So these companies that are set up to do prior authorization process one of the big ones called interqual. They set guidelines, rules to reduce spending on health care. Rules say do x before do y to get the answer at zs in her case, a chest xray before getting a cat scan. Seemed pointless. Extra amount of money to spend. More radiation, i have to expose her to before i actually will be able to get the test she really needs, the cat scan. In addition to other things im doing to help hook her up. Sounds incredibly Truss Traittrait i frustrating and spending more money, as you point out. Something else were seeing across the country now. States fully reopening like texas and mississippi, but rescinding their Mask Mandates as they do it. Your thoughts watching this . It really is frustrating. Ive done 24 third shifts. Normally a clinic doc and been doing and helping out at the hospital. Overnight shifts, really hard work. Been at the bedside. Turned off the machines on people with family there. And it keeps going. We still have folks in the hospital. Were still seeing in state of arizona over 1,000 patients diagnosed with covered id daily yet were opening back up . Are you kidding me . This is just going to make things worse. Now that were 13, 14 months into this really hard battle, to see everyone around us acting normally or trying to get back to normal, were trying to get them there with vaccines. Its just way too soon. Let us get there with the vaccines, let us just keep fighting this fight. Well be there eventually, but to do this now . Its ten steps back from two steps forward. Yeah. Were getting there. Right . Its ahead of us. We can see it. Look, doctor, i know you said that might have grbroken you bu it got attention. Thanks for coming on. Thank you. Next, former transportation secretary elaine chao accused of using her office for personal gain. 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Whats that thing we learned in kindergarten . No takebacks . We are learning about new details about a request for a criminal probe into then transportation secretary elaine chao in late 20 th20asking for investigation concerns chao may have misused her office for personal benefit. Using agency staff for personal tanks like editing her fathers wikipedia page, sends christmas ornaments to family and alleges in one instance chao directed her staff to reach out to the department of Homeland Security to help get a work Application Program for a student who was a recipient of her familys if a plan philanthropy. Reminder, of course, chaos husband is Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell in late 2020 the most powerful man in the senate. Joining me, harry litman a Legal Affairs columnist for the l. A. Times and host as well of the talking feds podcast. Justice Department Said ethingiccal or administrative issues to address but not predication to open a criminal investigation. Do you agree with that . We dont know. We dont know what the investigation showed. Its a 44page i. G. Report. Shes clearly used her office for private gain. It was wrong. You can fit it into a criminal violation. No doubt about it. But you can do that to many cases, and the overall violations were pretty small. Its not unreasonable, if you would predict knowing nothing else, you would say, maybe this would be a fair declination. Its a judgment call. The problem, of course, is what you underscored. Its when Mitch Mcconnell is presiding over the Impeachment Trial and in a normal, healthy, functioning Department Of Justice playing by the rules that fact wouldnt influence things, because the white house wouldnt be making the calls. After four years in which those norms and rules were completely trammelled, you cannot have the same degree of confidence, and that sort of shows the whole fallout from the politicalization of the department that the Trump White House perpetrated over its whole time in office. And chao declined to respond to questions as part of the investigation, but the transportation departments General Counsel provided a memo, and this was in september and reads in part, anyone familiar with Asian Culture knows it is a poor value in asian communities to express honor and fillio respect towards one parents and ingrained value of love and respect always takes pressceden over selfpromotion and zfl aggrandizement. Occasions honor her father and late mother. That may be true, harry. I dont you have on here as a cultural expert. Right, but in terms of a legal excuse, what do you make of it . Yeah. Im not her lawyer, but what a terrible defense. Basically plays an Asian Culture card, to explain why she did it, but it doesnt make it any less the use of her Public Office for private gain. Shes just saying, you just dont understand our culture. She doesnt bring those cultural norms when she swears an oath to the constitution, and to faithfully serve the public. So its really not just irrelevant but kind of a offensive excuse, i would say. The whole thing does stink. Does it stink to criminal levels . Normally you would give the Justice Department the benefit of the doubt, because you know how it works. Apart from a few grumbles. This is this is exactly what the problem is with the trump politicization of the department over several years. You cant know what really happened. Did somebody from the white house call up and say, are you crazy . Were not going to do an investigation of elaine chao during an Impeachment Trial. We do not know. Yeah. 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He knows where all the financial bodies are buried. There wasnt a deal that went through the Trump Organization that Allen Weisselberg didnt sign off on. In that regard he was much more crucial to the president s thinking than any of his children were, and really almost any other adviser in the organization. And he set up a lot of the llcs that the Trump Organization used to make payments. One of those was, involved payments to stormy daniels. That got trump in hot water, but they have hundreds of these Shell Companies theyve used to orchestrate deals, to hold debt. Et cetera, et cetera. And he knows where the money is, and in the midst of a financial fraud investigation, that means hes as about, as existential a thread to the president as he could be. Youve compared him to al capones accountant, just to be clear. We should also be clear about this. Weisselberg has not been accused of wrongdoing, but if there was manipulation and he was privy or participated in that, which you certainly sounds like would expect he would have, how likely would it be for him to cooperate with the investigation, and how significant would that be . Well that question, thats the, you know, billion dollar question, brianna, is, will he cooperate . It is a classic prosecutorial tactic to begin squeezing people at the bottom of the ladder in order to get to the top, and if you get to Allen Weisselberg and he flips then you get to donald trump. I would suspect that theres more than just an interest in speaking to Allen Weisselberg here. Hes a cog in a machine. The reason of comparison to al capone is relevant is prosecutors spent years trying to get al capone and murder and couldnt. Tried to get him for a number of other crimes and couldnt. Ended up getting him for accounting fraud, and that was essentially what opened up the fissure and dike that led to capones imprisonment. The Trump Organization is the no a super sophisticated organization. I went there once working on my book at the time. At the time telling me trumps assets were worth 6 million. My sources tell me worth wet less than 1 billion. I sat in a room with a legal pad tallying up trumps assets to get to 6 billion. He finished added up to 5 billion. Theres 1 billion missing. All right. Back to my office and find that other billion and he never came back. They are street smart. They have historically been loyal to one another but are not sophisticated. If Allen Weisselbergs loyalty to donald trump evaporates, then youre going to see a series of other people possibly start to cooperate and that could get, put a lot of pressure on trump and his children. Very interesting. This is just the beginning here. Tim obrien, thank you so much. Thank you. 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She says he put his hands on her face and asked if he could kiss her. The newspaper also reported that ruck says she was later told by a friend cuomo had kissed her cheek as she pulled away. According to the times her account is backed up by a friend through Text Messages and photos. Cnn has not verified rucks allegations against new yorks governor and ruck did not respond to cnns request for comment. Heres how the governor explained that photo. It is my usual and customary way of greeting. I did not intend it. I didnt mean it that way, but if thats how they felt, thats all that matters and i apologize. This is a dramatic turn of events involving a governor who staked much of his political career on being a proponent of womens rights. Andrew cuomo waded into the issue over the years including when other highprofile men faced allegations of various sexual wrongdoing. Early as 2013 call fored for th passage of the womens equality act stopping harassment in all workplaces. Maybe its a mans world, but its not a manu mans world in york. Not anymore. Pass the quips equality life and change the life for my daughters and your daughters and your sisters and your nieces and your wife and your significant other, and every person in this room. Now, later that year when Anthony Weiner tried to mount a Comeback Campaign for mayor after he was caught sending sexually explicit photos by media, Governor Cuomo said shame on us if we elect him again. He called for expulsions of two State Assemblymen accused of misconduct with staff. And the last straw saying pattern of behavior, repugnant by every standard, addressed the issue again the following month, there has also been a long and troubling pattern of incidents of Sexual Harassment, particularly in the new york state assembly. It goes back a long time. And it seems like it just doesnt stop. What makes it worse is there have been complaints that people didnt know where to go, and they didnt know how to make their voice heard. And there have been complaints that people felt that not only were they being victimized but there was no recourse. That has to stop, and it has to stop once and for all. Two years later in 2016 is when Governor Cuomo the accuser Lindsey Boylan says her boss told her that the governor had a crush on her. Boylan says he regularly made inappropriate comments to her including on a plane trip home from an event in 2017 when strip poker. Four staffers in the Governors Office and Governor Cuomo all denied this ever happened. That same year cuomo had this exchange with a reporter about what he could do to strengthen Sexual Harassment policies in State Government. What could you do differently to, you know, kind of pick up on that . What are you going to do differently . But the questions about State Government. I could tell you later in great detail. No, its about you and journalism. And its about you and journalism. And its about State Government. And its about carpentry. Is your administration going to do anything differently to maybe be a little bit more we put policies in State Government, obviously that affects State Government. But i think you miss the point. When you say its State Government, you do a disservice to women, with all due respect, even though youre a woman. Its not government. Its society. In 2017, cuomo was one of many politicians who agreed to return Campaign Donations from movie mogul Harvey Weinstein to other womens groups. Weinstein is serving a 23year Prison Sentence for committing a Criminal Sexual Act and rape. And cuomo joined calls for schneiderman to resign. Said that he engaged in roleplaying and consensual sexual activity. Governor cuomo called for his resignation. Women have been degraded for a long time. Theyve been victims of Sexual Harassment. And it hasnt been taken seriously. And its been swept under the carpet. And you know what . Im with the women. I believe that. I believe Sexual Harassment has gone on for decades. And i believe society has been slow in their response. And i believe powerful people have gotten away with Sexual Harassment for a long, long time. Schneiderman did resign. And after a criminal investigation, he was not charged. That same year boylan says cuomo gave her an unwanted kiss on the lips. Cuomo responded to the allegations that she initially posted to twitter when he was asked about them in a News Conference in december. On the tweets i totally respect a womans right, fought for a womans right to express any concern and issue that she has in the workplace. I support that. But the tweets were simply not true. And, again, yesterday, he repeated his denial that he sf never touched anyone inappropriately. I now understand that i acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable. It was unintentional. And i truly and deeply apologize for it. I never touched anyone inappropriately. I never knew at the time that i was making anyone feel uncomfortable. In response, boylan tweeted, how can new yorkers trust you to lead our state if you dont know when youve been inappropriate with your own staff . In 2018 the same year that boylan alleges cuomo kissed her, the governor signed legislation requiring all State Government employees to undergo Sexual Harassment training. And in 2019 cuomo appeared with the leaders of the times upmovement to promote legislation that would make it easier to prosecute Sexual Harassment and abuse. Current law says Sexual Harassment has to be severe or pervasive. Severe or pervasive. Look at those words. Oh, so i can sporadically sexually harass someone as long as i dont go so far as it becomes pervasive. No. It is a terrible legal standard. And it has to be changed, and it has to be changed now. Cuomos former aid Charlotte Bennett says he sexually harassed her as recently as last summer. Thats when she claims that he asked her about her sex life and says he was open to relationships with women in their 20s. She told the times that she interpreted the exchange as, quote, clear overtures to a sexual relationship. Bennetts attorney called the Press Conference yesterday full of falsehoods. In a statement she said her client, quote, reported his sexually harassing behavior immediately to his Chief Of Staff and chief counsel. We are confident that they made him aware of her complaint, and we fully expect that the attorney generals investigation will demonstrate that Cuomo Administration officials failed to act on ms. Bennetts serious allegations or to ensure that corrective measures were taken in violation of their legal requirements, end quote. The new York Attorney general says the findings of her investigation will be disclosed in a public report. 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