Im not a prosecutor. And i do know that the standard for a conviction in a criminal prosecution is quite high so im not sure whether that could be met. I dont know whether hes met a standard that could actually be prosecuted and gain a conviction. But the behavior was outrageous. And there should be accountability. President trumps incitement of the insurrection at the u. S. Capitol last week left five people dead including Capitol Police officer brian sicknick. This afternoon officer sicknick was honored by fellow officers through a procession through downtown d. C. Streets. Also today flags at the white house were finally lowered to half staff. W we have since learned the white house did that in honor of sicknick. Lets turn our attention to capitol hill. Do we have a timeline of this process . That is exactly what house leaders are trying to figure out at this moment and theyll continue deliberating over the next day or so. But certainly there is a lot of complexity around this moment given this extraordinary timing given what they are going to try to do this week. What we know is the House Rules Committee at some point in the beginning of the week will sit down and try to work through the parameters of the debate of an impeachment proceeding over in the house. And then the full house can move to a vote on impeachment on wednesday. From there that is when it is up to speaker of the house nancy pelosi when and likely when they pass this through whether they send it directly to the senate or do they hold and delay . And there is a feeling among Democratic Caucus right now, concern that if they send it over to the senate that the senate going toward an impeachment trial in the first days of the Biden Administration would not be a good thing. It would delay his nominations. It would delay his legislative priorities. Most importantly covid stimulus relief. And that would not be a good thing to have the first few days of the Biden Administration essentially encapsulated by this moment up here on capitol hill, this moment of impeachment. So there is an effort to potentially consider delaying sending over the articles of impeachment to the senate and from then they would have potentially the Biden Administration go forth for the next few months without addressing impeachment over in the senate. All of this over the timing of impeachment up here on capitol hill. There also is a very real discussion going on about what role, what responsibility do individual members have for the incitement of the violence this week up here on capitol hill, those that stood up and objected to the electoral votes from being counted. Here is the senator joe manchin of West Virginia earlier today. Whether they should resign or not i dont know how they can live with themselves knowing that people have died because of their words and actions. They were saying im operating within the confines of what my duties are as a senator. I dont the people i have the most admiration for were those senators that said im going to object and they signed and put their name to it. And senator manchin there talking about senators cruz and hawley among others that stood up and objected to the counting of the votes. But that sentiment also shared by some republicans, senator pat toomey this morning said he believes these individual republican senators, that they will pay a price for this, fred. He said they all have some soul searching to do. All right. Thanks so much. With me now, former senator doug jones of alabama. Senator, good to see you. What do you think about the house introducing this article of impeachment tomorrow and acting fast on impeaching the president for inciting mob violence . Well, thanks for having me, fred. I think the house needs to move in the way they feel most appropriate. What we saw last week was horrific. It was egregious. And, clearly, amounts to an abuse of power. The question i think is going to remain, when would they send that over. When would a senate trial begin . Those are a lot different issues than just introducing this. If republicans want the president to leave office, theyve got a mechanism i think that they could do it. That is that a group of senators and congressmen, a lot of them, can go to President Trump just like they did to president nixon and say you are about to get impeached for the second time. This time bipartisan. It is time for the country to move on. Time for you to move on. That would be the best thing. Theyre not doing that. For senator mcconnell, he could bring back the senate earlier. They are expected to be back january 19th but he has the power if he wanted an expedited process, a response, some culpability for the president , to bring them back early as well. Reporter he could. Quite frankly, i would be surprised if there was an impeachment vote, Speaker Pelosi would send the articles of impeachment over while Mitch Mcconnell is still the leader of the senate. We saw what happened the last time. I think there would be some delay and there would need to be delay should these articles be voted on in the house. There needs to be some delay. There needs to be an opportunity for the Biden Administration to come in and get their cabinet appointees confirmed, get people in there, get their agenda moving forward. You can still do a lot of things once the senate gets these if they come. And im not convinced they will come. But if they do a lot of things the senate could do to delay a trial on the merits and do some work and let the people understand fully what happened and not rush this through a process that would only give some credence to the victimization of donald trump. Which i think would be unconscionable. Is there more at stake as well if congress were to delay, were to do nothing . I mean, we know the house of representatives will likely do something but if the senate were to do nothing, is there damage, too . Fred, there is a hell of a lot at stake right now for this country and for our future. For the next administration and the one after that in this congress and the one after that and the one after that. There is an awful lot at stake. We cannot let this pass. Weve got to make sure the folks are held accountable. That is not just the people that were coming in and shouting and destroying the Capitol Building but the people that incited this, the people doing this, i think there has to be some accountability. This needs to be a deliberate process. They dont need to rush this because then people will go to their partisan corners and that is the last thing we need right now. Today republican senator pat toomey suggested President Trump could face criminal liability after he leaves office for his role in the riot and on top of that weve since learned the president made other calls to georgias election investigator in early december urging him to find fraud in the election. We all heard the recording from last week where trump put pressure on the georgia secretary of state to overturn the election, to find more than 11,000 votes. As a former u. S. Attorney do you think the Georgia Attorney general will pursue charges against the president once he leaves office . I dont know if he will pursue charges. That is a big difference than could face charges. I think people need to look at the whole picture and carefully examine what happened over the last couple months, what happened last week. I think that the Justice Department is going to take a look at this. It is not just the folks that are storming the capitol. All those who spoke at the rally the other day that seemed to incite this, they have to be a little bit concerned right now. Youre talking about the rally where there was guiliani and the president . Absolutely. I think that every one of those speakers, they need to look carefully at what was said and what they were inciting at that point and whether they Face Criminal Charges i dont have an opinion on right now but i think everything is on the table to look at. That is the most important thing. I think the people of america deserve to know exactly what happened. That those that voiolated the lw should face some kind of consequences. And my guess worst Case Scenario is if none of that were to happen then a strong message is being sent that the president is above the law. I wonder if we can talk in general now about this change that is taking place whether it be on capitol hill or just across the country state to state. The south certainly is changing by way of elected office. You exemplified the change when you won your seat in 2017 as a democrat in alabama. Black women voters largely credited for helping you to win your seat in a very red place. Now in georgia a black man, a jewish man in both Democratic Senators warnock and jossoff. How do you see what warnock characterized to me when i spoke with him last that this is the new south . I think the term new south is a little over used to be honest. We heard that with new governors back in the 70s and it hasnt happened. I think we have a changing demographic and a changing south. What people on the bottom line are looking for is they want someone to represent them. I think what happened in georgia was a referendum on issues and values and what it means for those Kitchen Table issues we ran on in 2017. And i think people as we become a more diverse country, the south is becoming more diverse. That opens up possibilities for real dialogue and real change. I want the Democratic Party in alabama and across the south to be viable. I dont necessarily care about flipping one state red to blue, blue to red, whatever. We need to all be kind of purple states to where our Public Officials and candidates are competing for our votes on ideas and progress and coming together and healing this country. Not dividing it. Thats what weve seen far too much of. Especially in the south. Im hoping that the south with the election that we saw, the candidates we had great candidates running. Well have more coming up. I think we can be that place of healing. I really do. I think thats where you will see things headed in the future. How do you see yourself serving in the Biden Administration if youre interested in that or perhaps you can shed some light on what other political aspirations you might have if not with the administration . No. I think its a little too early to talk about any of that right now. I think this Congress Needs to get in and start doing their work. I think president biden, Vice President harris need to get in and they need to start doing exactly what they campaigned on. That is healing this country. Not only emotionally but also physically. Getting this pandemic under control. Making sure everybody has a vaccine and we can have some sense of normalcy. But by doing that we have a normalcy that brings people together and it brings the inequalities weve seen to a halt. That we bring people economically, physically, you name it. We need to bring people together and get rid of the disparities in our country. We have that opportunity and i think joe biden has the perfect opportunity to do just that. All right. Senator doug jones, good to see you. Thank you so much. Be safe. Thank you. Still ahead, lawmakers hiding in a safe room during the terror attack on the u. S. Capitol building may have been exposed to coronavirus. 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James, a Family Medicine physician and cofounder of the institute for antiracism in medicine. Doctor, good to see you. Happy to be here. This is a very real concern. I think it really crossed a lot of peoples minds when we saw the images of people being put into safe spaces in close quarters. How concerned are you now about the consequence of this . Oh, im very concerned. I mean, this is a situation that is a complete set up for infection. At the same time coming out of the holidays. Coming out of a period with a lot of interaction between people and so my fears certainly include this event but are much wider as well. You know, reportedly there were some members of congress who refused to put on the masks that were being happened bed out knowing that people were going to be in close confines. That seems to up the ante on possible exposure and limiting, confining the spaces this he were in. So, overall now, the u. S. Recorded a Record Number of coronavirus deaths on thursday. This against the backdrop of a nationwide vaccination effort that is woefully behind schedule. What concerns do you have now about this slow roll out or plans to vaccinate more people departing from i guess more structured roll out plans . You know, on one hand i think its great to see kind of lets pivot and adjust to the situation on the ground. We werent getting as many people vaccinated as hoped and it is great to see the Biden Administration come in with a different plan. However, my worry is that, you know, sort of the way things are going with the disorder and chaos we really see a situation in which the people who are really the most vulnerable can be really left out of the effort. The simple fact is the people who are making the decisions about how the vaccines are distributed, reflect the power structures of medicine. That means theyre disproportionately male, white, and the perspective of the most Vulnerable People who are disproportionately black and brown and poor are really not represented at the negotiating table. So moving ahead, that is a concern. What would be your suggestion to the Incoming Administration to how to better distribute . What is missing in the current Distribution Plan that is not getting to the most vulnerable and particularly the positions you just mentioned, brown and black communities. People that are unable to gain access to this supply . I think the important thing to think about is where do people of color get care. They are disproportionately connected to Community Health clinics, and i think it is important to really uplift the communities and the programs already in those spaces so that means making sure there are efforts on the ground, partnering with local institutions that maybe do pop up shops and those sorts of locations and not just the academic medical centers. You know, our bigger top down institutions but really to start on the ground and make the partnerships, make sure the vaccine gets to them. Dr. James, good to see you. Thank you so much. Be safe and well. Take care. All right. Next, the threat of violent extremism fueled by misinformation on the internet now social Media Companies are cracking down on racist content and suspending the president of the United States for instigating it. Should these companies go . Walk it off look one more mile look reply all look own your look. With fewer lines. Theres only one botox® cosmetic. Its the only one. Fda approved. 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The event had been touted repeatedly online as an occupation of capitol hill by the far right to help overturn the u. S. Election. Social Media Companies are becoming more wary of the idea theyre being used as instruments to, perhaps, circulate fake news, dangerous posts. Well, that is why many took the unprecedented step of suspending President Trump permanently from facebook and from twitter. Is this just the beginning . The documentary the social dilemma on netflix is revealing some of the ways that companies are actually putting people in a bubble and keeping people there. What i want people to know is that everything theyre doing online is being watched, is being tracked, is being measured. Every single action you take is carefully monitored and recorded exactly what image you stop and look at. For how long you look at it. Oh, yes. Seriously for how long you look at it. They know when people are lonely. They know when people are depressed. They know when people are looking at photos of your exromantic partners. They know what youre doing late at night. They know the entire thing. Whether youre an introvert or extrovert or what kind of newer oweses you have, what your personality type is like. They have more information about us than has ever been imagined in human history. It is unprecedented. Okay. Along with the music that is definitely escalating the creepy factor there. Joining me right now the director of the documentary the social dilemma on netflix. Good to see you, jeff. Thank you so much. All right. Congratulations on the project. This is eye opening. Yes. So talk to us about, you know, another way of some people looking at this is big brother watching though it is not government. Were talking about independent companies that are watching your habits, analyzing you, tracking you down. Yeah, these entire systems, i mean, so much of the internet is designed around giving you what you want. They track all of this data. Were carrying these sensors in our pockets and they are using it to reverse engineer who we are and what makes us tick. We look at last weeks events, these tragic events. We see them as this unique moment in time but the people we spoke to in building this technology, the people who worked at the companies, this seemed very expected from them. We know these platforms have been pushing radicalization, like built into the way the algorithms and systems are designed. So is it odd, peculiar to you now that companies would now say, okay. Were going to pull the lever on some people and their dialogue when all along they have been watching it sounds like youre saying, they know exactly what people have been saying whether its incendiary or not. But now, you know, this week, particularly for the president , he is cut off. Right. I think these platforms have been trying to deny their responsibility and culpability for a long time. This weeks events and the fact that they are taking action is just indicating this they do know and recognize they play a role here. Were talking about our information ecosystem. How do people get information . What do they see . What do they trust . These systems to give people what they want and it reinforces a world view that in many cases we know has become more and more radicalized. We know from insider leaked research that happened at facebook that people who ended up getting radicalized on the platform, 64 of those were radicalized because of the Group Recommendation suggestions facebooks algorithms were pushing out. The fundamental tools are pushing people toward radical thoughts. So what changed . Because so many of these companies, when challenged with this very idea of policing, Pay Attention, penalizing people for their behavior and what they were saying for a very long time said no. Were not in the business of editing, making judgments about what people are saying. We want this to be a free space where people can say whatever is on their mind. Now there is this realization perhaps theyre seeing, is it a liability, a certain responsibility that has come with the profiting that comes from this business . What has changed . I think as many critics have been saying for a long time, when you run a Machine Learning algorithm on society, thats how the platforms are built. They learn from what they collect and they keep feeding back the systems. The critics have been warning that things were going to get worse and worse. I think what were seeing now is that were hitting this tipping point. We are hitting the curve in the exponential chart where things are escalating so much faster than they have a decade ago. Were living in this inertia. Its not like there is a singular post that turns somebodys mindset. This is a decade of this slow drip, these whispers in the back of your mind that every scroll, every time you scroll, every little article that you see, is constantly reinforcing whatever it is that is going to resonate with you. That happens to each and every one of us regardless of your political ideology. Were all living in our own little truman show version of reality where these platforms arent actually connecting us to the world. Theyre actually separating us from reality. So now during wednesdays riot a lot of people who showed up said they learned about the gathering, the intent, via these social sites. Right. And so do these sites, because you say they are watching, they Pay Attention to the behavior, whats being spoken, do they bear some culpability by not saying something sooner about what they learned about the gathering when there was very graphic language that was posted about targeting someone, going out to kill somebody, and doing so by meeting at capitol hill . And storming the building . I think what youre getting to, the question comes down to one of the fundamental challenges in how the social media platforms are designed. Theyre designed in a way where anybody can post anything and then the content moderators try to catch the bad things. Like fundamentally that entire system doesnt do well at scale. You can never catch all of the bad things. You can never catch enough of the bad things. Even when this particular movement was starting to surface on social media and even when facebook was able to jump in and stop particular groups around stop the steal it had already reached hundreds of thousands of people. When you have a system where anything goes and they just try to catch the really bad things theyre always in a constant losing battle. Some research we know, lies spread six times faster on twitter than the truth. Wow. This is research out of mit. If you look at the system as a whole, look at what social media is doing, if lies are going to operate six times faster than the truth the truth will never keep up and it cannot keep up in a system that profits off of misinformation. That is really sad. A sad way to end this one. But im glad to see you, jeff, and learn from what youve discovered. Thank you so much. Congrats on being the director of the social dilemma on netflix. All right. Some have called wednesdays capitol hill attack a failed coup attempt. Next, why cnns Nick Payton Walsh says this would have played out much differently if not in america. Hell join me live. Crafting lasting fragrances begins in nature. Air wick scented oils are infused with natural essential oils for fragrance day after day,up to 60 days air wick scented oils. Connect to nature. Yeah . Whos peter . Well sweetie, hes your greatgreat grandfather. Here, does he look like me . Yeah. Your familys story is waiting to be shared. At ancestry. 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Congress finished its business of certifying joe biden as the president elect and democracy continued. As a seasoned correspondent cnns International Security editor Nick Payton Walsh has seen his share of insurrections and coup attempts abroad. He says in a new oped for cnn that america was lucky to be saved by its democracy. He joins me now from london. Good to see you, nick. Help people understand that, you know, you make the point that rioters simply had no idea how lucky they are to enjoy their privileges of the wealth and freedom of the United States. I mean, normally what weve seen around the world as foreign correspondents, attempted, failed coups, unrest. Because often of a genuinely fraudulent election, where there has been blatant vote rigging by an autocrat and people rising up in anger against that. What i think Many Americans have to understand here is how people have actually suffered from tyrannies like that. The scenes were remarkable to behold. You had a very free and fair election, one of the fairest in history, yet there was still enough freedom of speech for people to indulge themselves on social media with conspiracy theories that the whole thing had been a steal and yet still exercise their freedom of protest to turn into that violent riot we saw that took a number of lives. Still, after those shocking scenes, which most of the time the rest of the parts of the world frankly you would sadly fill an abyss the next day, the president in hiding or celebrating his ugly victory depending on what had happened. Instead the next morning you woke up, rolling news coverage, congress had done its job. The police were in place. Things were kind of sliding back to normal despite the shock. You had a system of law and order and democracy that prevailed. These guys simply didnt get anywhere if they even knew what they wanted to do when they got there and i think it is an extraordinary privilege americans have that many people watching around the world would have felt a degree of jealousy about. Take a look with me at this video from our colleague and his crew and what they experienced when they were trying to report from inside the siege right on the fringes of the capitol, they were outside, and i do want to caution our viewers that there was a lot of explicit language. There are profanities in this clip. So if you have children in the room, might usher them out right now but we do want to show you what really was experienced by our crew. You lets go. Lets go. Get out. Got to go. Go. Get outta here. Dont you talk to me. U. S. A. u. S. A. [ chanting ] lets go. Lets go. Lets go. Get outta here get outta here get the outa here go. Go. You dont like it . You. You. Who are you with . There are more of us than you. There are more of us than you. I mean, this is really frightening to watch ts frightening when it happens. You know, i have experienced what it was like at the inauguration of trump when my producer and i and crew were right there in the shadow of the capitol on the mall and we were jeered by Trump Supporters not of that caliber. I know youve experienced, too, abroad when people recognize that youre with an american network. Talk to me about what happens when that happens. How you process safety versus getting the story and at the same time not wanting to become the story. There is nothing you can really do there to be honest. Alex showed you he has been around the world, around the block a number of times. You really have to try and calmly walk away because people arent going to that situation shouting abuse like that because theyve had a reason to think that this is the best thing to do. So no logical response you give to them will calm them down. What is extraordinary though is scenes like that of things that i have mostly experienced in countries where there is great anger toward america. That people feel you are somehow associated with the u. S. Government and therefore voicing their anger toward you is a way of expressing that broader fury. What is shocking to see there is these are americans turning on americans. Theyre turning on an essential part of what keeps their lights on. What keeps their economy the biggest in the world at this point. That the democracy that so many are envious of. The First Amendment rights theyre enjoying are embodied in the people theyre yelling at. So it is an exceptionally sad thing to see and one, the kind of anger there you saw reminds me i think a lot of the time of crowds we saw during the beginnings of ukraines civil war fueled by russian propaganda, showing anger toward anybody who they thought were against their particular motivation there and it is deeply distressing to see that outside of capitol hill against colleagues like that. But, frankly, the inevitable consequence of having a president who has called the press the enemy of the people for a protracted time, startling words to hear even now. It is. We appreciate your perspective. Thank you so much. Join Cnns Wolf Blitzer for the trump insurrection 24 hours that shook america. The cnn special report airs tonight at 10 00. These are real people, not actors, whove got their eczema under control. With less eczema, you can show more skin. So roll up those sleeves. And help heal your skin from within with dupixent. 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They didnt just break down the doors of the building that housed the american democracy. They trampled the very principles on which our country was founded. Now, i grew up in the ruins of a country that suffered the loss of its democracy. I was born in 1947 two years after the second world war. Growing up, i was surrounded by broken men drinking away their guilt over their participation in the most evil regime in history. Not all of them were antisemites and nazis. Many just went along step by step down the road. They were the people next door. Now, ive never shared this so publicly because it is a painful memory. But my father would come home drunk once or twice a week and he would scream and hit us and scare my mother. I didnt hold him responsible because our neighbor was doing the same thing to his family and so was the next neighbor over there. I heard it with my own ears and saw it with my own eyes. They were in physical pain from the shrapnel in their bodies and emotional pain from what they saw or did. It all started with lies and lies and lies. And intolerance. So being from europe, ive seen first hand how things can spin out of control. I know there is a fear in this country and all over the world that Something Like this could happen right here. I do not believe it is but i do believe that we must be aware of the dire consequences of selfishness and cynicism. President trump sought to overturn the results of an election and a fair election. He saw the coup by misleading people with lies. My father and neighbors were misled also with lies and i know where such lies lead. President trump is a failed leader. He will go down in history as the worst president ever. The good thing is he soon will be as irrelevant as an old tweet. But what are we to make of those elected officials who have enabled his lies and his treachery . I would remind them of what Teddy Roosevelt said, patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. John f. Kennedy wrote a book called profiles in courage. A number of members of my own party, because of their own spinelessness, would never be in such a book i guarantee you. They are complicit with those who carried the flag of selfrighteous insurrection into the capitol. But it did not work. Our democracy held firm. The house of representatives and the senate were doing the peoples business in certifying the election of president elect biden. What a great display of democracy. Now, i grew up catholic. I went to church. Catholic school. I learned the bible in my catechism and all of this. And from those days i remember a phrase that is relevant today. A servants heart. It means serving something larger than yourself. You see, what we need right now from our elected representatives is a Public Servants heart. We need Public Servants to serve something larger than their own power or their own party. We need Public Servants who will serve higher ideals, their ideals in which this country was founded, the ideals that other countries look up to. Over the past few days friends from all over the world have been calling and calling and calling me. Calling me distraught and worried about us as a nation. One woman was in tears about america. Wonderful tears of idealism of what america should be. Those tears should remind us of what america means to the world. Now ive told everyone who has called, that as heart breaking as all this is, america will come back from these dark days and shine our lights once again. Now, you see this sword . This is the conans sword. Here is the thing about swords. The more you temper a sword the stronger it becomes. The more you pound it with a hammer and heat it with the fire and thrust it into the cold water and then pound it again and plant it into the fire and the water, the more often you do that, the stronger it becomes. Im not telling you all this because i want to become an expert sword maker but our democracy is like this steel of this sword. The more it is tempered, the stronger it becomes. Our democracy has been tempered by wars, injustices, and insurrections. I believe as shaken as we are by the events of recent days we will come out stronger because we now understand what can be lost. We need reforms of course so that this never happens again. We need to hold accountable the people that brought us to this unforgiveable point and we need to look past ourselves, our partisan disagreements and put our democracy first. We need to heal together from the trauma of what has just happened. We need to heal not as republicans or democrats but as americans. To begin this process, no matter what your political affiliation is, i ask you to join me in saying to president elect biden, president elect biden, we wish you Great Success as our president. If you succeed, our nation succeeds. We support you with all of our hearts as you seek to bring us together. To those who think they can overturn the United States constitution, know this. You will never win. President elect biden, we stand with you today, tomorrow, and forever in defense of our democracy from those who would threaten it. May god bless all of you and may god bless america. Perhaps now one of his most powerful films. Arnold schwarzenegger. Thanks so much for joining me today. Im fredricka whitfield. The cnn newsroom continues with ana cabrera right after this. Now, theres skyrizi. 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