that's why for the first time in history, i'm going to be elevating the presidential science adviser to a cabinet rank, because we think it's that important. as deputy director of the office of science and technology policy and science and society, i appoint dr. nelson. she's a professor at the institute of advanced studies at princeton university, president of social science research council, and one of america's leading scholars and award winning author and researcher, exploring the connections between science and our society. the daughter of a military family, her dad served in the united states navy and her mom was an army crip yptographer. when i wrote that down i thought to myself, how many kids -- anyway. that passion, it was a passion, forged a lifelong curiosity about the inequities and the power dynamics that sit beneath the foundations of scientific research. dr. nelson has focused on that like few before in american history, breaking new ground in our understanding of the role science plays in american life and opening the door to a future which science better serves all people. as co-chair of the president's council on advisers on science and technology, i appoint francis arnold, director of the bioengineering center at cal tech. one of the world's leading experts on protein engineering. a lifelong champion of renewable energy solutions, who has been inducted into the national inventors' hall of fame. that ain't a bad place to be. not only is she the first woman to be elected to all three national academies of science and engineering, she's also the first american woman to win a nobel prize in chemistry. a very slow starter. a daughter of pittsburgh. she worked as a cabdriver, a jazz club server, before making her way to princeton, berkeley, and a career on the leading edge of human discovery. i want to make that point again. if any of your children are watching, let them know. you can do anything. this country can do anything. anything at all. and so she survived breast cancer, overcame tragic losses in her family while rise to go the rising to the top of her field still overwhelmingly dominated by men. she is an inspiring figure to scientists across the field and across nations. i want to thank dr. arnold for agreeing to co-chair the first all-woman team to lead the president's council of advisers on science and technology. as co-chair, i appoint dr. maria zubar, a trailblazing geophysicist and planetary scientist, a former chair of the national science board, the first woman to lead the science department at mit and the first woman to lead nasa's robotic planetary mission. growing up in coal country, not far from heaven, scranton, pennsylvania, about 50 miles south of where i was as a kid, she dreamed of exploring outer space. i could have told her she could just go to green ridge in scranton and we would find where it was. i shouldn't be so flippant. i'm so excited about these folks. reading every book she could find and listening to her mom's stories about watching the earliest rocket launch on television. she became the first person in her family to go to college and never let go of her dream. today, she oversees the lincoln laboratory at mit and leads the institution's climate action plan. she's played a leadership role in ten nasa missions. her groundbreaking work on planetary mapping has generated some of the most accurate topographical maps humanity has ever produced of the moon and of mars. not only is she an explorer of outer space, she's one of the most accomplished explorers in generations. and i'm truly honored that she's agreed to answer this call to service to help us chart new courses of discovery. and finally, i'm pleased to announce i've had a long conversation with dr. collins, francis collins. he could not be here today. i've asked him to stay on as director of institute of health at this critical moment. i've known dr. collins for many years, i worked with him closely. he's a brilliant pioneer, a true leader, and above all, a model of public servant. i'm honored to be working with him again. i want to thank him again for being willing to stay on. i know that wasn't his original plan. we worked an awful lot on the moonshot and dealing with cancer. i just want to thank him again. to each of you and your families, and i say "your families," thank you for the willingness to serve. not that you haven't been serving already, but to serve in the administration. and the american people, to all the american people, this is a team that's going to help restore your faith in america's place in the frontier of science and discovery and hope. i'm now going to turn this over, starting with dr. lander, to hear from each of our nominees. and then we'll hear from the vice president. but again, i just can't thank you all enough, i really mean it. thank you, thank you, thank you for being willing to do this. doc, it's all yours. i better put my mask on or i'll get in trouble. >> all right. you're listening to president-elect joe biden there, saying that with this new science team, people that he's putting in place, he says he believes that they can make more progress in ten years than has been made in 50 years. and among those he says he is elevating the science adviser to a cabinet position, and montgomery scientists that he has named, he's got a nobel peace prize winner and an outer space explorer hailing from mit. we'll keep close tabs on the announcements there. in just four days, president-elect biden will take the oath of office in washington, d.c. right now we're seeing unprecedented security following last week's riot at the capitol. across the country, the pictures are very similar in other capitols where security is being stepped up amid new threats of violent protests in the days leading up to and possibly on inauguration day. we have reporters across the country covering the preparations ahead of those potential new threats. let's go first now to the nation's capitol where the pentagon has authorized the mobilization of an additional 5,000 national guard troops to secure joe biden's inauguration. and that means 25,000 troops will be on hand for the ceremony. cnn's shimon prokupecz is tracking the security measures. shimon, why the decision to bring in more troops, and what now is also being learned about people who are suspected of this insur insurrection? >> reporter: the threat continues to evolve. i wouldn't say it necessarily grows, but certainly officials from the fbi to the secret service are very concerned, and we've been hearing about this for days, about the chatter over social media and other places about people wanting to come here and disrupt the inauguration, the peaceful transfer of power. so the military and law enforcement are not taking any chances, increasing security. we're now talking about bridges, roads with access into d.c. being shut down. they need extra military and extra law enforcement to do that. i want to show you what's going on around here. we're a black or so from the capitol. there is actually more fencing going up. we've been seeing so much fencing around washington, d.c., almost at every site, every high profile site, from the monuments to government buildings. this type of fencing going up everywhere. this morning and this afternoon half a continued doing this. on the other side here, i want to show you, there are military vehicles just over my left shoulder here. jerry over here is going to show you. there are military vehicles. these are the national guard buses that are passing through here now. almost daily, we have seen more and more national guard troops arriving. so these military vehicles are set up at many of the checkpoints, many of the roads here in downtown d.c. and the national guard troops are all over d.c., blocking a lot of the roads. and one of the concerns that i've been told is over vehicles, and perhaps someone trying to either store ieds or bombs inside vehicles. we've seen that, where police arrested an individual on january 6 with those 11 molotov cocktails that were stored in a pickup truck. that is something that has law enforcement very concerned. that's why we see so many roads being blocked so early here in washington, d.c. really, as you said, it's unprec unprecedented. never in this nation's history have we seen security like this in one place. it's swarming with military and law enforcement. >> shimon, it is unprecedented, but already this effort is netting at least one suspect, right, one arrest of an individual who had some fake credentials, who was stopped at a d.c. checkpoint and who was armed. tell us more. >> reporter: yeah, so this information was stopped by the police at a checkpoint at the capitol, on the north side of the capitol, at a checkpoint. he stopped, police, it was a pickup truck, law enforcement there asked him some questions. he showed them what they say are fake credentials for the inauguration credentials. his name is wesley allen bealer. he's from virginia. police say they also found a begun, a .9 millimeter glock inside his pickup truck and 500 rounds of ammunition. we don't even what he was up to, we don't know why he had this weapon or all this ammunition. there's nothing to indicate obviously that he was coming here to do any harm. but given all the security measures, and given everything that's been going on, obviously law enforcement on high alert, so they stopped this individual, they questioned him. they found he has been arrested and he's facing charges for the weapon and ammunition. we don we don't know exactly why he was in this area, there's nothing to indicate he was any kind of threat or coming to do any harm. but he has been arrested and police did find this weapon and ammunition. >> but open minous at best, the information is that he had a fake inaugural credential, plus the kind of weaponry that you just spelled out. i mean, it's pretty stunning. >> reporter: yeah, it is stunning, and it certainly is concerning. that's why i think we need to learn more. i'm sure authorities are trying to learn more. as i said, one of the things authorities are very concerned about are vehicles and what possibly someone could store inside a vehicle. and so of course someone driving through a checkpoint in a pickup truck, something official are concerned about, they saw something suspicious, and they asked him questions, he did admit to possessing this weapon. they then searched and did find this ammunition. so we need to learn more, exactly what he was doing here, why someone would think they could get through a checkpoint with police and this amount of military surrounding the secure zone now, really is mind-boggling. to think that he could possibly get through it. obviously this is why we have these checkpoints, why the police and the military have set up all these checkpoints all across d.c. this is not just the capitol, obviously in the blocks around the white house. but at key intersections to get into any part of this area is blocked off with military vehicles. >> and the same kind of information, some of it that you probably have, that this pickup truck with this individual, wesley allen bealer, that checkpoint was at north capitol and e street northeast, which is right next to the train station. thank you so much, shimon, we'll check back with you there on capitol hill. with me now to talk further about this arrest and other concerns surrounding the inaugural activities, garrett graff, cnn contributor. also with me, jonathan weckrow, former secret service agent, good to see both of you. this is alarming, a virginia man stopped at this d.c. checkpoint, that the individual would be asked if he had any weaponry and that according to this reporting, the person said, yes, i do, and in fact right in the glove compartment having a glock and 500 rounds of ammunition. but really what's so unsettling here on top of all that is that there were fake inaugural credentials. what do you make of what the possible intent would have been for this individual? >> listen, first of all, this is evidence that law enforcement is facing a persistent threat by those seeking to cause harm. and they're going to be continuously challenged by lone actors. what the intent was by this individual still remains unknown. but what we do know is someone tried to utilize those fake credentials. was this someone trying to test the defenses to see if they could get in and then put these rounds and this weapon someplace for future use? we really just don't know right now. but it talks about, really, the volatility of this moment, where law enforcement must be hypervigilant to threats that could present themselves at any moment. this was a checkpoint, sort of an administrative role right now, where people are searching these vehicles. but a threat can present itself at any moment. they're dynamic, they're unpredictable, and the severity is always unknown. so law enforcement has a challenge right now. we know that there are groups out there who are actively engaging in domestic terror acts and at any moment, you know, we could have an issue. so the deployment of 25,000 national guard troops and the mobilization of law enforcement not just from the secret service and federal entities but local and state partners is absolutely necessary to secure this inauguration and the transfer of power into the biden administration. >> and so jonathan, you used the word "volatility" there, and i wonder, garrett, can we zero in on that? while we have an impressive amount of national guard, 25,000 troops there descending upon the nation's capital, you've got heightened enforcement from park police to, you know, capitol police, to metropolitan police, but then when you also have the departure of, say, dhs secretary chad wolf, that is expected to happen because of the changing of the guard, so to speak, but there are other national security posts that are filled by interim people. how, you know, volatile, you know, is law enforcement right now, particularly at this time as it pertains to national security? >> as jonathan mentioned, we're headed into a presidential transition, which is normally a very fraught and tense and security-conscious moment. and yet thanks to donald trump's years of underinvestment and mismanagement of the nation's security agencies, they are wrestling with and struggling is vacancies unlike anything that we've ever seen in american history. every presidential transition since 9/11, we have had a confirmed attorney general, a confirmed homeland security secretary and a confirmed defense secretary headed into the presidential transition. now coming into this week, we have none of those. all of them are acting positions. >> jonathan, how unsettling is that to you? >> well, listen, it's unsettling, but we've also had acting positions within dhs for a long time. really at this point in time, the career government officials, the nonpolitical appointed folks such as the director of the secret service, will actually carry the mantle and coordinate the immediate response to any type of incident. and what i do think is really important to note is that the incident we're just talking about, around the checkpoint, it actually goes to, you know, prove, and this should serve as a reassurance, that the model that's set up under the national special security event, is working. we do have a security structure that is in place that actually is working. it is hypervigilant. they are trying to ensure that we are having a safe and secure structure. so what we saw on january 6 was a lack of command and control, a lack of communication, and really a bifurcated responded to a crisis incident. what we have moving forward under this nsse structure is a fundamental process that has very coordinated communication around intelligence and operations. and that will guarantee the success of this event moving forward. >> and garrett, last word, obviously this is an unprecedented type of inauguration that's about to get under way, but obviously, you know, prevention has already just occurred as a result of the kind of reinforcements that have descended upon the nation's capital. >> yeah, and jonathan's right, one of the things that's challenging about this environment, you have a very decentralized threat. you're not necessarily looking for an organized terror group or an organized criminal group. there will be a lot of lone actors trying to pull off their own shenanigans and possible assaults and possible attacks over the next week across the country. and that's going to be a really, really big challenge for law enforcement, not just in washington, but remember, across all of the state capitols this weekend and over the course of this forthcoming weekend. >> from coast to coast. thanks so much, appreciate it. coming up, nearly 100 people have been arrested in connection with the insir 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january 6, a lot of the groups involved in them may not want to come out in as big numbers. so it's a moving target for officials here. they're not really sure what to expect. they have everything from federal resources, state resources, county and city. the national guard. 450 national guard members of the pennsylvania national guard have been called up for across the commonwealth, not just here at the capitol building. so they will see. one of the biggest concerns they have is that they'll have protesters, knows for the president, some of them armed. they've dealt with many, many protesters here over the last year. it is an open carry state. many of them often carry arms. but they're concerned there may be a counterprotest and there may be some friction between those two groups. and that's one thing they're watching very carefully, fredericka. >> wow, tensions very high. thanks so much, miguel. natasha chen, now to atlanta, what are they bracing for? >> reporter: yeah, fred, you know, the governor's office just responded to an email clarifying with me that there are no scheduled closures to the capitol this week. what we do have here is just some low barriers on this side. but there's a lot of visual presence of armored vehicles and law enforcement. that said, on the other sides of the capitol, on two other sides, actually, the sidewalks are closed, so it's not really possible for people to get too close to the building. the governor has said the threat level is relatively low here but he's not taking any chances. the fact that there has to be heightened security right here in atlanta, in georgia, is m mind-b mind-boggling, especially to republican leaders who are cognizant of the fact that they're trying to ward off threats potentially from people in their own party. here is republican lieutenant governor jeff duncan, acknowledging that president trump's words have made georgia less safe. >> actions have consequences. and when you're willing to lie to 350 million people, then, you know, you're going to see consequences. and unfortunately we're watching those consequences play out. it's troubling. but look, we're in the midst of picking up the pieces in georgia and trying to move on. >> reporter: the georgia building authority is the one to be giving out permits for protests. they tell us they have not given out any permits at this time. but then again, the stop the steal protesters here in november didn't have a permit to come at that time. so people here are still prepared for crowds to gather, fred. >> all right, natasha chen, miguel marquez, thank you both, appreciate it. the terrifying scope of the u.s. capitol attack is becoming even more clear as federal authorities piece together a chilling picture of the january 6 insurrection that left five people dead including a capitol police officer. officials say they have opened some 275 investigations and have taken nearly 100 people into custody. joining me right now to discuss is a former federal prosecutor. she's also the author of "hunting the unabomber: the fbi, ted kazinski." good to see you. you say it's crazy that we don't have a federal domestic antiterrorism law. it does sound crazy. why don't we have that, after all this nation has been through? >> absolutely crazy. there has been some division about whether or not we should have an antiterrorism statute. by the way, governor cuomo in new york in 2019 did propose one for new yorkers. it's never passed. but it is there. and the reason is there's been some debate about whether or not this would capture first amendment folks, people that are just saying things but not actually doing things. i think that's really the reason that there hasn't been a statute passed thus far. but i think one could be crafted so that it captures the actions of people, people that are taking material steps in support of terrorism domestically. and we have to realize that international terrorism right now is really not what the fbi and the cia are focusing on as the ultimate terror threats. it's domestic. we saw it with ted kazinski, back then he should have been charged with domestic terrorism, he was not. it goes back to timothy mcveigh. >> there seem to be so many instances in which it would provoke something like that. and like you said, the biggest threat to america right now is domestic terrorism, not necessarily foreign terrorism. so let's talk about the terrorism that just took place on capitol hill. the charges ranging from trespassing to threatening a witness, disorderly conduct. i mean, nearly 100 charges, federal officials say more charges are coming. these seem like minor charges when you look at the mayhem and look at the video. do you see attempting to overthrow u.s. government, domestic terrorism, like we just mentioned, among the charges to come? >> look, of course domestic terrorism should have been the first charge. >> so what are they waiting for? >> here one of the reasons why, okay? if you charge someone with a heavy thing like that, domestic terrorism [ inaudible ], then you've got something hanging over their head. you're looking at 20 years to life, bub. you're going to maybe want to turn on some of your co-conspirators, you'll want to name the guy over there, maybe even testify against president trump. you've got a heavy charge against you, unlike something, a misdemeanor, that will only carry one or two years. as to why some of the charges might be coming, come on, they're waiting for a pardon. and the pardon is only going to come in a couple of days. now, of course, a pardon could say for any crime you committed. so it could be a blanket pardon, and they may be waiting for that. >> so you see it as very intentional, to delay those kind of charges right now. >> sure. >> all right. and then what about what now may be a growing scope for the district attorney in manhattan to look into the trump organization? i mean, we already know this has kind of been hanging over the head of trump, what happens once he leaves office. do you see that that effort is intensifying? >> absolutely. we're seeing it with the westchester compound where they just issued subpoenas which trump sued to squash those subpoenas -- quash those subpoenas, excuse me -- so those are going on forward. and the reason they've been delaying all of that happening, "they" being the manhattan d.a. and the new york attorney general, there are two investigations going on attempt, is you can't indict a sitting president. so there was really no rush, if you will, the last four years. but now all bets are off. and these are criminal charges that even if president trump tries to pardon himself, which is a whole other discussion we could talk about, even if he were able to do that, it wouldn't cover any state charges. >> his pardon for himself would only apply to federal charges. >> correct. >> but like you said, not the states had f s state. fair game, so to speak. good to see you, thank 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>> there's been a major crackdown, on twitter alone last week they removed 70,000 qanon accounts. likewise on facebook they have banned the stop the steal, the conspiracy movement alleging election fraud. a lot of people are asking why did it take until now, why did it take until there was an insurrection here in washington? sheryl sandberg, chief operating officer of facebook, spoke this week and tried to distance her country from the insurrection. have a listen. >> i think these events were largely organized on platforms that don't have our abilities to stop hate and don't have our standards and don't have our transparency. >> so there sandberg is trying to downplay facebook's culpability in all this. i saw this week on facebook's platform a video getting 5 million views that had the false conspiracy theory that it was antifa, that it was left-wing activists that were responsible for the violence here in washington last week. so, you know, if you're running a platform where a lie like this, in the days after an insurrection, can go viral, you have a major problem still. >> right. i mean, there are still gaping holes at the very least. brian, let's talk about another family enterprise and entity, james murdoch is the youngest son of billionaire media mogul rupert murdoch and apparently he is criticizing what he's calling media properties owners, he's talking about his dad, as outlets for promoting conspiracy theories over the election. what is to come of this and what's this all about? >> yeah, he is speaking directly to his father rupert and his brother lachlan who run fox news. james says, those outlets have unleashed insidious and uncontrollable forces that will be with us for years. i hope those people who didn't think it was that dangerous now understand that it is. and i hope that they stop. those are strong words directed right at fox news. now, james is the more liberal son, he's distanced himself from the family company, but he's not absolved from past sins at fox. he is pointing out these lies on tv and on the internet have real life consequences. new polling finds only one in five republicans in this country believe the results of the election. only one in five trust the result of the election. they still don't believe the data is accurate. that is going to be a festering problem even after trump flies to martin lut-a-lago. and the fact that trump still won't face reality and admit he lost, that's part of the problem but it's bigger than trump. as donie said, these lies on facebook, if this trutherism continues on television, it's going to be a festering problem in this country for a long time to come. >> a matter of months, donie, or years. how in the world will there be a correction when there are so many people, you know, who have been hypnotized, not being able to discern the difference between truth and lies? >> yeah, and i mean these platforms, as you can see, are still nowhere near able to get ahead of this problem. and, you know, it's a bad day for facebook when a murdoch is seemingly more tethered in reality than sheryl sandberg and willing to face up to the problem and say there's culpability there. >> we'll leave it there for now, gentlemen, thank you so much, donie o'sullivan, brian stelter. we'll be right back. ♪ “i want to break free”♪ (vo) ready to break free? it's time to get away to a place where we can finally be free. ♪“i've got to break free”♪ plan your future getaway with norwegian. sail safe. feel free. t-mobile is upgrading its network at a record pace. we were the first to bring 5g nationwide. and now that sprint is a part of t-mobile we're turning up the speed. upgrading over a thousand towers a month with ultra capacity 5g. to bring speeds as fast as wifi to cities and towns across america. and we're adding more every week. coverage and speed. who says you can't have it all? 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the attorney general? she said yeah, but i think you would be great. >> he texted me that same night. you were at a lakers game. >> i was. >> but i said, go kobe, or something. and then, yeah, you called me the next morning. >> i violated every rule of dating, i believe. >> we ended up talking for, like, 45 minutes to an hour and just laughing the whole time. >> it felt like i had known for forever. we figured out she was going to be in l.a. a couple days later. i said, great, we'll go out to dinner. and i didn't want it to end. and so the next morning i pulled a move of emailing her with my availability for the next four months. including long weekends. and i said something like, i'm too old to hide the ball. you're great. i want to see if we can make this work. here's when i'm available next. and i guess it worked because we saw each other a week or so later. >> that's the part of the story i think a lot of people will either identify with or be terrified by. how did you feel about that? >> i was terrified. >> so when it came -- >> they're so cute. abby phillip with us now. i mean, it's just so lovely to see them. it's almost like they're still on that first date, you know. they're just really kind of giddy about all the possibilities in their relationship. so it didn't look like you had to twist their arm on that either. they were willing to go there. >> in a lot of ways, kamala harris and doug emhoff really haven't been married all that long, and so much of their relationship has played out in such a public way from her senate campaign to her presidential run. and now she's about to become the vice president of the united states and there's a little bit of kind of, you know, in the two of them a surprise they're on this journey together. but, you know, one of the interesting things that you'll see in the documentary is just her talking about her upbringing as a child of divorce, getting to this point where she was willing to fall in love or able to fall in love a little bit later in life. and then blending their two families both a biracial family, multiethnic and racial, different religions even. and that kind of reflecting this sort of modern family that i think a lot of americans will also identify with. but yeah, no question about it. they're in for a really different future come next wednesday, and already their lives have changed so much. >> oh, big time. i love that they're really willing to divulge that. what were you able to get her to express as it praertained to en her 2020 presidential aspirations to this opportunity to become vice president. >> this was a moment for her to reflect a little bit about that race because one of the things about kamala harris, she's been such a sort of glass ceiling breaker in so many different roles. but when it came to the presidency, she fell short, left the race before votes were even cast, and so many people around her wondering what does that say about the united states of america that a black woman couldn't make it that far. she and the people closest to her, they actually took a completely different view of this. looking at it, actually, as more of a stepping-stone, a story that ended where it is now where she's about to be the vice president of the united states. and so i think that there's a sense that this is not over for her by any stretch of the imagination. those who know her have seen her as a rising star and believe that's the case as well. >> it's all so exciting. i remember her rollout when she said she was running for president. it was during our show. that too was really exciting and there were smiles everywhere, including from her. so abby phillip, we look forward to this. this is so exciting. a reminder that cnn -- congratulations too. cnn special report "kamala harris making history" airs tomorrow night. i'm fredricka whitfield. 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