Really did the impossible by developing safe and effective coronavirus vaccines as quickly as they did. But then the government blew it. The government did not come up with any sort of National Plan at all to get the vaccines these scientists had made actually distributed at scale and administered to people with any sort of efficiency. And so even though those vaccines were developed and approved and produced with such alacrity all that got us is the situation were in tonight where millions of doses of the vaccine are sitting in freezers where every single passing day another 200,000 plus americans get infected. Just today state governments all over the country are reeling once again after Trump Health Secretary alex azar told states they were going to get a whole bunch of vaccine doses next week that they arent actually going to get. This is at least the second time the Trump Administration has told the states there were doses shipping out to them, doses that didnt actually exist. Which is just frying these already fragile cobbled together systems in all the states as the states have had to try to figure out Vaccine Distribution programs on their own with no National Plan to help them do it. So were going to have much more on that tonight. And more importantly were going to have the First National interview with a man who soon to be President Joe Biden just named as the person who will be tasked with fixing this mess and setting up a National Vaccination plan for the first time. Under President Biden dr. David kessler will be overseeing a whole new multibillion dollar effort that among other things will put the National Guard and fema in the field at new mass vaccination sites in every state in the country. The proverbial cavalry is coming. On vaccines dr. David kessler will be leading it. He is our guest here tonight in just a moment. In washington tonight as we prepare for the bidenharris inauguration on wednesday the secret service is now in charge of security preparations. They have now literally announced that theyre forming a green zone in washington to include a huge area of downtown d. C. Around the capitol. Yes, a green zone like the one weve all reported from in baghdad during the iraq war. Within the green zone there will be a restricted red zone where nobodys allowed to be. The National Mall will be closed. More than a dozen metro stations, which is the d. C. Subway system more than a dozen metro stations will be closed. Trains will be stopped. Private Bus Companies that run bus routes are stopping bus routes into d. C. Airbnb and last minute Hotel Booking sites are not only not taking new bookings for people traveling into d. C. Anymore, they are canceling bookings that already exist. There was due to be a rehearsal for the bidenharris inauguration this weekend. That will now be postponed for security reasons. Theyll try to do it next week. But each passing day now brings more arrests of the radicalized Trump Supporters who violently attacked the capitol to try to stop the counting of the vote and the election. And each new public indictment reveals new lurid descriptions of what these people did and what they intended to do. One man charged tonight a 43yearold man from rochester, new york, told people that had they got their hands on nancy pelosi inside the capitol they would have killed her. And also Vice President mike pence, he told people had they been able to find him inside the capitol complex, they would have killed him, too. There has been back and forth sort of unbecoming of the Justice Department today about what it means that federal prosecutors in texas and arizona told judges and individual defendants cases that the aim of these attackers was to physically restrain and potentially assassinate lawmakers inside the chamber. The new yorker today reports that members of the mob that attacked the capitol were armed with guns and tasers and baseball bats and at least one person carried a noose with them into the capitol which puts a fine point on so much of the crowd was yelling hang mike pence. Cnn was interviewing one of the d. C. Police officers who was driving down the Capitol Steps and was beaten and tased by the trump mob. I was just, you know, trying to fight as best i could. I remember guys were stripping me of my gear. These were rioters pulling my badge off my chest. They ripped my radio off of off my vest. Started pulling like ammunition magazines from their holder on my belt. And then some guy started getting hold of my gun, and they were screaming out, you know, kill him with his own gun. At that point, you know, it was just like selfpreservation, how do i survive this situation. And i thought about using deadly force. I thought about shooting people. And then i just came to the conclusion that, you know, if i was to do that, i might get a few but im not going to take everybody and theyll probably take my gun away from me. And that would definitely give them the justification that they were looking for to kill me if they already didnt have made that up in their minds. So the other option i thought of was try to appeal to somebodys humanity. And i i just remember yelling out that i have kids, and it seemed to work. Some people in the crowd started to encircle me and try to offer me some level of protection. And they gave that provided me with like enough time or other officers specifically my partner jimmy albright, enough time to get to me and get me the hell out of there and back to the west front of the capitol. A lot of people have asked me, you know, my thoughts on the individuals in the crowd that you know, that helped me or tried to offer some assistance. And i think kind of the conclusion ive come to is, like, thank you, but [ bleep ] you for being there. Thats officer Michael Fanone of the d. C. Metropolitan police. He doesnt describe it there in that interview, but he was repeatedly shot with a stun gun, with a taser by the attackers. The Washington Post reporting late last night that officer suffered a mild heart attack when he was tased, also that he drifted in and out of consciousness while he was being beaten. Ahead of the inauguration on wednesday the Justice Department today released a bulletin saying commercial airlines have tracked an increase in passengers checking in guns on their way to airports in the washington area. D. C. , of course, itself has strict gun laws. But Reagan National and Dulles Airport are both in virginia where of course the gun laws are super lax, and the airlines say lots of people are checking guns into their flights in those airports. This is probably the time to note weve heard nothing from the fbi or the Justice Department about any apprehension of whoever it was who placed the operational not fake pipe bombs outside the headquarters of both the republican and democratic parties near the capitol on the day of the attack at the capitol. Whoever did that, whoever placed those pipe bombs is apparently still at large despite a huge effort by the fbi to find that person and a big reward posted for information leading to that persons arrest and capture. National guard units are being warned that improvised explosive devices, that bombs may be used in an attack around the inauguration. Today were also hearing from the Justice Department and from open source reporting in the ap and the new yorker and elsewhere about military style tactics and coordination among the trump mob of attackers including this tidy cordon of single file men in full military gear marching single file through the crowd in a disciplined way. See how theyre each holding onto the collar of the shoulder of the man in front of them. Thats what ap describes as ranger file formation. The a. P. Says, quote, as president trumps supporters amassed outside the capitol last week and sang the National Anthem a line of men in body armor trudged purposely in the single file line, each man holding the jacket collar of the man ahead. That formation known as ranger file is Standard Operating Procedure for a combat team thats stacking up to breach a building. Its instantly recognizable to any u. S. Soldier or marine who served in iraq or afghanistan. It was a chilling sign that many of the vanguard of the mob that stormed the seat of american democracy either had military training or were trained by those who did. And if those kinds of u. S. Military tactics were brought to bear against congress in the Capitol Attack this past week, its imaginable that even organized force like that, you know, would be deterred by the more than 21,000 armed National Guards men and women who will stationed in d. C. In advance of the inauguration to protect it. But they cant be everywhere. And this weekend the expectation is that the armed trump mobs are not necessarily due to turn up in d. C. This weekend. Theyre due this weekend to turn up at state capitols around the country over this weekend and into monday. And, you know, if theyre intent on waging militarystyle, potentially military trained armed terrorist assaults on multiple state capitols, well all the troops in d. C. Arent going to make a difference to that. Thats part of what is so unsettling about tonight heading into this weekend, right . Knowing what we have come to learn about the attack on congress, the attack on the capitol by the president s armed supporters. Weve now got this huge fortification of d. C. , but theres this worry still what might happen in d. C. On top of all that and more immediately the warnings of whats planned well outside of d. C. By armed protrump mobs at state capitols or anywhere else may might want to show force or continue advancing their Violent Campaign against the democracy. And then theres insider question, the question of whether members of congress have been complicit. Did members of Congress Help protrump rioters basically case the joint by bringing them into the capitol the day before the attack to show them around or the inside space . That under investigation by the Capitol Police. Did members of congress betray the location of people who would have been targets of the mob . In other words, did they help . House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today announcing that that prospect that some republican members of congress may have essentially helped in the insurrection attempt, that is under investigation. She said any members found to be complicit in the tack should expect to face not only potential expulsion from congress but also criminal prosecution. If, in fact, it is found that members of congress were accomplices to this insurrection, if they aided and abetted the crime, there may have to be actions taken beyond the congress in terms of prosecution for that. Nancy pelosi addressing the fact that that is now under investigation by the u. S. Capitol police and reportedly by the general accounting office, the gao thats also been asked to look into what happened specifically including the question of whether or not any members of congress or Congressional Staffers may have effectively aided and abetted in the attack on the Capitol Building and on the congress. One of the first members of congress to raise this prospect was the fire brand new secondterm new york congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez. Theres a secure extraction point and a secure room that you may have heard a lot of people, you know, members give interviews from. They say im in a secure location, im in a secure location. Republican members of congress didnt wear masks. They refused to wear masks in that inclosed secure location, and now we are on, you know, just in the last 24, 48 hours our third member of democratic member of congress who just tested positive for covid because they were sheltering in that place. I, myself, did not even feel safe going to the that extraction point because there were qanon and white supremacist sympathizers and frankly white supremacist members of congress in that extraction point who i know and who i have felt would disclose my location and allow me to who would create opportunities to allow me to be hurt, kidnapped, et cetera. And so i didnt even feel safe around other members of congress. As for myself i had a pretty traumatizing event happen to me, and i do not know if i can even disclose the full details of that event due to security concerns. But i can tell you that i had a very Close Encounter where i thought i was going to die. And you have all of those thoughts where, you know, at the end of your life and all of these thoughts come rushing to you. And thats what happened to a lot of us on wednesday. And i thought i did not think i did not know if i was going to make it to the end of that day alive. And not just in a general sense but also in a very, very specific sense. Wednesday was an extremely traumatizing event, and it is not an exaggeration to say that many, many members of the house were nearly assassinated. Its not an exaggeration to say that at all. We were very lucky that things happened within certain minutes that allowed members to escape the house floor unharmed. Congresswoman ocasiocortez made those statements on tuesday. And because the conservative media is obsessed with absolutely everything she says and does and thinks, they have since attacked her for those comments saying, oh, nothing that serious happened at all. Shes just making it up. Today the Washington Post is reporting that just as the congresswoman says it was actually a matter of seconds between the mob and their targets inside the capitol who they explicitly said they wanted to kill. The post reporting that Vice President mike pence was rushed into a hideaway outside the Senate Chamber less than a 100 feet from where a huge protrump mob chased a Capitol Police officer. This is part of the crowd demanding where are they counting the votes, and hang mike pence. From the post, quote, rioters loudly denouncing the Vice President as a traitor about one minute after pence was hustled out a group of a group of the rioters, excuse me, charged up the stairs to a second floor landing. Pence and his family had just ducked into a Hideaway Office less than a 100 feet away from that landing. If the trump mob had arrived seconds earlier, the attackers would have been in eyesight of the Vice President as he was rushed into that Hideaway Office. Congresswoman ocasiocortez was right about the dire and very near threat to members of congress who were inside that day. And it turns out to the Vice President as well. And now, of course, theres the threat of this weekend and the week ahead. Joining nous is congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez of new york. I really appreciate you being here. I know you have lots of options and i appreciate you coming here to talk about this. Of course. Thanks for having me. So you and your colleagues have been through an ordeal. You made those public remarks on tuesday about how specifically scary and dangerous was the situation that you were in. And you said at the time that for security reasons you didnt feel like you could say more about the direct threat you experienced that caused you to go through all those things people worry about when they worry their life is in danger. Can you tell us more about that event or tell you why you cant because youve been advised about your own security here . Yeah, i think one of the reasons we hesitate to share more details is because, frankly, the security lapses that exist and that existed that day. And, you know, we hesitate to reveal locations and what actually happened in order to not reveal other lapses and vulnerabilities potentially. But i think one of the things that was so scary that day not just for myself but for many other members and i think even for people at home watching on television was these acts of great heroism, you know, even within Capitol Police and within Congressional Staff, et cetera, that were juxtaposed with acts of great betrayal by people in those same ranks. And whats so scary in a situation like that is that you dont know even if a person is in uniform whether they are there to hurt or to help. And, you know, it goes without saying that this is what a lot of communities have experienced. But to be in that is extremely scary. And just as you pointed out where it seems as though and it seems as though some of the arrests have either been military, exmilitary or trained by military, Police Officers, two Police Officers have been two virginia Police Officers have been arrested and charged. That is extremely unsettling when you have that kind of breach of trust. And it can be very scary especially when youre in the actual midst of an emergency situation. Lets talk about that in terms of members of congress and Congressional Staff as well. You saying that you didnt feel safe going to that extraction point because you believe knowing them that there were members of congress you didnt trust not to betray your location an