Access to it. Similarly, going on in florida right now, an effort to go ahead and get additional troops throughout the state, 250 have been called by Florida Governor ron desantis and in kentucky the capitol is closed through sunday, that under an executive order by governor andy desheer and on and on we go and the word about something they want to make sure theyre extra ready for that. Welcome everybody, im neil cavuto, happy saturday to you and we think it will still be happy, obviously, inauguration week. They want to make sure that everyone is protected and everyone is safe. Chasing down all sorts of chatter that seems to hint up something that maybe could get in the way of that. Lets get the latest from steve herrigan with what theyre doing to make sure that doesnt happen. Hey, steve. Reporter neil, theyre doing a lot and its a very visible presence too. Were at the edge of whats known as the green zone in washington d. C. A secure area really downtown part of the city that is pretty much sealed off by members of the National Guard you have to have a government vehicle or be a resident basically to get in and as you mentioned the numbers keep going up National Guard armed from 21,000 to 25,000 all 50 states and number of agents are involved secret service taking the lead, the tsa, customs, border protection, fema all playing a role and there are fences and barricades of every shape and size all around d. C. , big fences, small fences, razor wire, concrete blocks and so much of the city is really closed off as well. Theyve shutdown four major bridges between virginia and d. C. , 13 metro stations are closed, bus stations are closed, the mayor is basically telling people, stay away from the city this week. This is an overwhelming show of force to try and prevent trouble in the days ahead. Neil back to you. Neil all right, steve, thank you for that update, in our nations capitol where theyre bat oning down the hatches just to make sure it is safe for all, in the meantime i want to go to the former secret service agent, who was in this role of just heading up security and making sure everything would go smooth ly in 1997 for those inaugurations, for bill clinton. He joins us right now, dan, thank you for taking the time. Sure thing, neil. Neil now, you didnt have to shutdown the capitol, everyone was invited, and these events are open party to all of the american people, whether you voted for the guys sworn in or not very different circumstances changed by events the week before last, i get that what do you make of everything and every precaution and the 25,000plus troops, all of that . You know, neil back in those days, it was really the good old days, where everybody sort of got along and everything was just sort of went along in a traditional manner. This particular inauguration is going to be one like no other, number one the fact that theres not really going to be anybody there, which that makes it easy to control, because if there are no people, then, you know, your threat level is greatly diminished. You add to that the overwhelming show of force, which an overwhelming show of force in many cases will actually deter the violence that might come along, so, i anticipate that were going to have a pretty peaceful inauguration and nothing along the lines of last wednesday. Neil you know, obviously, even before last wednesday, if you think about it then because of the virus, it was going to be, i would the say low key but a lower key affair and now we got word and i talked to a number of congressmen and women this past week and they have free tickets to go and they dont want to go. Not all of them, certainly but a good man it so im just wondering, i understand the immediate area around the capitol is closed off, roads and bridges that go into and out of the district will be shutdown , if theyre not already some might say this is overkill. Do you think its overkill . No, i dont. Not this time due to coronavirus , due to what happened last wednesday. Quite frankly last wednesday, the Capitol Police got caught flatfooted in spite of an abundance of intelligence telling them that something was going to happen. I can assure you that director jim murray of the secret service is not going to get caught flat footed on Inauguration Day so no i dont think its over kill and i dont think theres any such thing as overkill in a situation like this because it cant be allowed to happen again. Neil you know, dan, the added threat is not so much the capitol right now, but this weekend given the fact that a number of trumpfriendly protests were supposed to take place this weekend, are scheduled to go, and a number of governors that take an effort to make sure they dont get out of hand. What are your thoughts on that, because even in florida, they brought in troops and a number of other states they brought in troops, virginia. Im just wondering what you make of that and just getting through the weekend . I think the governors are making a very wise decision by deploying the guard they have remaining. I know a lot of them, almost all of them have committed forces to the washington d. C. Area, so the ones that they have held back in reserve certainly should be used to protect their own capitols. Look, you have to learn from history, neil, and the history is that if you underestimate your adversary, that bad things are going to happen, so, any governor that gets overwhelmed by rioters and so on just hasnt been paying attention. Neil you know, dan, just personal insight seeing you have quite a bit of experience and the baton pass from one president to the other, usually we physically see that and those watching on tv we wont see it this goaround President Trump will be leaving early Inauguration Day morning heading off to florida, so that symbolic passing of the baton isnt going to happen. We saw that of course in the first inauguration that you handled going from george bush s r to bill clinton and i guess from a security standpoint that might be a Welcome Development but your thoughts on that . Well, the simpler the better normally, every four years the secret service dusts off the play book from the last inauguration, makes a few adjustments and its business as usual. Thats just not the case here. I think that one of the biggest things, neil, is that the forces involve whether its the 25,000 guards soldiers or whether its Law Enforcement, they have to have a very clear rules of engagement set forth. It doesnt do any good to have thousands of security people if they dont know what theyre supposed to do when confronted with any given situation, so i think that in this case, theyre all going to be well versed in what they can do, what they cant do, everything from non lethal force all the way up to lethal force. Hopefully, the guardsmen, who were all carrying m4 weapons hopefully theyll actually have ammunition neil you know, they havent been able to connect with last wednesdays uprising whatever you want to call it, dan, whether it was aggressively pre planned or whether there was more of a method to it. They havent determined that yet , still the Capitol Police lieutenant was relieved of his duties for wearing a maga hat. There are others that are apparently part of a widening probe, sweep of more than 300 individuals at last count. What do you think of just those developments and the shear number of people who are being investigated now . Well, Law Enforcement officers, people in the military , they all are allowed to have their own political beliefs, but they have to leave those political beliefs at the door, when they put their uniform on, when they put the badge on and when they go to work and they also have to keep in mind that they are a reflection of their department or their agency, so regardless of their political beliefs, political views, each one has the obligation to behave when a certain parameter of deportment and not bring disgrace, if you will, or embarrassment on their department. Neil all right, we should clarify this , lieutenant who was relieved of his duties been wearing that maga hat on duty that day and thats what brought up the concern. Dan thank you very very much for bringing your perspective, former secret verse agent assigned to handle both clinton ages, 1993 and 1997 and to Lucas Tomlinson in washington on the other development that impeachment of the present president of the United States. It hasnt been kicked to the senate yet, where of course thats where their trial would begin, and i guess theres a detail to that right . Nancy pelosi has to formally hand it over to the senate, right . Lucas, she hasnt done that yet . Reporter thats right, neil the senate will be coming back before Inauguration Day but thats for confirmation hearings and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says any potential impeachment hearing will have to wait until after biden is sworn in. House speaker, as you mentioned, neil wanted things to move much more quickly. Wednesdaytowednesday, that president was impeached in a bipartisan way by the house of representatives. So urgent was the matter, theyre now working on taking this to trial, and one day, youll be the first to know. Reporter this as some republicans argue impeachment is not settling political scores but a new abc Washington Post poll finds a majority of americans want to see the president disqualified from ever Holding Office again. 56 of those surveyed want the president tossed out before wednesday. Political selected nine democrat s by maryland congressman served as impeachment managers and its unclear how long a trial may take and how long such a controversial case could impact democratic priorities in a Biden Administrations first 100 days. Their agenda for four years has been to make donald trump a villain and now that hes leaving the White House Well see what they will really be up to and its bills like hr1 and massive spending bills. Reporter Top Democrats say they support bidens 1. 9 trillion stimulus package, but they also remain focused on other priorit ies including creating a national same day voter registration, statehood for washington d. C. And the tax increases on wealthy americans. The Senate Conviction for President Trump is unlikely however, democrats need at least 17 republican senators to cross the aisle and join them. Neil im just curious, you know the apparatus involved here in washington but is it possible the senate never takes it up, it may be given the new adam schiff and its perogatives and its goals and the fact that donald trump would then be a former president that they just drop it that is a possibility, neil in fact theres some democrats that want to move forward with the biden agenda and the only way to do that is have the senate focused on that. Bills wont get passed if the senate is focused on impeachment and thats the big argument in washington, neil. Neil got it thank you, my friend very much on a saturday no less the guy works every day, but then again hes young, right he can do that. Lucas tomlinson, already we have a lot more coming up you heard about twitter going after the president silencing him, and then they say this is much bigger than donald trump. Then a u. S. Senator says oh, really . Really . After this. 1 in 2 kids is under hydrated. If your child doesnt seem themself at times, they may not be hydrated enough. Plantpowered creative roots gives kids the hydration they need, with the fruit flavors they love. And one gram of sugar. Find creative roots in the kids juice while. The first amendment, if this doesnt send a chill up the spines of our left wing friends who want to just defend the first amendment, then it ought to. Neil all right, the mississippi senator is concerned be careful what you wish for here, because the same groups are praising some of these hightech social media firms like twitter and the hopes of others, all but shutting down donald trump, and in fact thats essentially what theyve done. The same could happen to them, and in fact that was, you know, a point of view echoed by no less than pat dorsey, the head of twitter in self that this is bigger than donald trump and josh blockman joins us a constitutional lawyer and josh, what do you make of that that we have opened up a can of worms here by targeting the social media company, anything donald trump was saying, anything is semitism pythiased or supporters are saying, then be careful, because the same could happen to someone else. I think its a huge deal from the president of the United States. In the past, twitter has put these little flags on trumps tweets saying they were inaccurate but now President Trump has no way to actually reach the free world and many other World Leaders are far more oppressive in iran and saudi arabia and china, and still have their twitter accounts active, but in the United States the president has no way of communicating on social media. Neil all right, i was mentioning jack dorsey it, i think that i was thinking about an old contributor, but let me ask you a little bit about the position hes in right now, and twitter, more to the point, is in because a lot of criticism has come that they were having all this violent talk before and now shutting it down, that there has got to be ramifications for that. Right, so i think you have to look at this in two ways. One, can the government require the sort of Tech Companies to keep count alive, thats the first angle and the second is what happens if these Tech Companies that are perhaps leading to violence which is i think what triggered it. Dorsey concluded that trumps tweet led to the violence at the capitol and twitter might have been afraid, perhaps recently, that twitter could be held accountable for hosting this sort of speech, so its a doubleedged sword, if you require these companies to keep count alive, then you perhaps have to immunize them from the risk of that post, people want to takeaway their immunity they are more likely to delete accounts they find that are risky so its twofacetted. Neil you know, a lot of people think theres an agenda too go after conservative thoughts, sometimes i think that we over analyze these thing, josh, a lot are afraid of getting sued and the better part is remove this kind of talk than getting suit but leaving that aside, its easy for me to see examples of where conservative points of view were shutdown, whether or not theyre violent, versus or little of that, on the other side of the ledger. What do you make of that . Yeah, i think theres certainly a double standard. A lot of these companies have this sort of pressure mobs that people lobby them and tell the businesses to advertise on twitter and at a certain point these companies recognize that theres a bigger risk to leaving conservative speech than liberal speech so theres definitely a double standard here. I just dont know if government can stick with the double standard perhaps making things worse. Neil you know, do you think part of this though, is part of some of these social media companies, we want to have favor with democrats who now have the run of the table in washington to control the white house, the senate, the house, and, you know, you dont want to do anything to tick them off, and not that this will ease the talk of breaking some of these guys up because they got too big for their britches, but this might have been a motivation. What do you think . Oh, yeah i think the world is turning. I expected them to shutdown trumps twitter on january 20, they did it about 10 days earlier with the recent events in d. C. Recognize that these companies, these big Tech Companies are regulated by the democrats now and are going to move their agenda to be more favorable to what that legislation would look like. Neil josh, where did the president go to get the word out . Its one thing as president you can put out a video and then the world can see it, but how do you cut through a social media world thats prevented you from getting through . You know, trumps tweets always made me insane whenever they popup on my phone, oh, my god he tweeted but at least i knew what he was thinking and what was on his mind and he was fairly clear and he told people what he was thinking. Now we have no idea what hes thinking and thats actually perhaps more problematic and when you shut people down on twitter, whether trump or someone else they go quiet and backchannel and we dont know what theyre thinking and that might be more dangerous. Who knows maybe at some point he can apply to reactivate his account, and he cant use parler that was shutdown as well so really trump has no way and i think he tried using other social media accounts, every single twitter account was shutdown he tried to use so hes truly not been able to access social media since january 10 or so. Neil real quickly, do you think joe biden will be using social media much, twitter, any of that as much . Oh, very likely perhaps with moderated tweets by a committee of 100 people. I dont think off the cuff stuff that trump did. Neil okay, youre probably right about that, josh blackman, constitutional lawyer, thank you very very much. All right as you know, were only days away from the inauguration of a new operation, we thought this be a good time to assess the economic of the market record of the outgoing president. Its his last weekend at the white house. One thing he can look back on with some degree of pride is the incredible bull market that still thrives as hes on his way out, after this. Want to brain better . Unlike ordinary memory supplements neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. Memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. Try our new gummies for 30 days and see the difference. Neil all right youre looking live at the white house. This is the last weekend donald j. Trump will be in the white house and of course he leads inauguration morning wednesday morning heading off to florida, but we thought this be a Good Opportunity to step back and talk about the record he has left, certainl