Through loud and clear, if it hasnt already, the extent of the January 6th Riot On Capitol Hill and the former president s role in all of it. An Impeachment Trial Set to start in just three days time, but Donald Trumps lawyer says that he has found the real villains in all of this. The democrats. Theres an awful lot of tape of cities burning and courthouses being attacked and federal agents being assaulted by rioters in the street cheered on by democrats throughout the country, and many of them in washington using, really, the most inflammatory rhetoric its possible to use. When you have the president of the United States give a speech and he says you should peacefully make your thinking known to the people in congress, hes All Of A Sudden a villain. So, while the previous president s preparing to defend the indefensible, the current one is trying to solve the crisis that he left behind. From new efforts to get more vaccines to all americans to the push for covid relief, President Bide
i had a little bit with him tonight. you guys are playing it too safe. and this is a balancing test. okay, there are going to be cases, but the vaccine, the rate of vaccine, who we ve gotten vaccinated already, the fact that there is an increase in masks, messaging has been working with trump out of the way, not all surges are the same. and you have to balance that against the depression to the economy, the depression to our way of life of just straight up depression, and you re playing it too safe. how better safe than sorry. i don t believe in this playing it too safe. i agree with you. but i m saying here s the argument you could make. oh, got it. is you re playing it too safe. give me a vaccine passport. i want to be able to go and businesses say the vaccinated only. so don and chris get vaccinated and now we can go to dinner. how about what the president said, give me a patriot passport, give me a better countryman passport, an american passport that says we sh
office. and in the midst of all of this, president biden will meet with stacey abrams, the woman widely credited helping flip the state of georgia and hand democrats control of the house. it comes at a critical time for voting rights in the peach state. sweeping new voting restrictions could be voted on as soon as monday. more on all of that coming up but first i want to bring in my colleague kelly o donnell at the white house and blayne alexander in atlanta. kelly, this trip has taken a whole different meeting since the shooting. what is the focus going to be? there are definitely dimensions to this day. it s the first time the president and vice president are traveling together. given the tragedy that unfolded in atlanta and wider reaction, especially in the u.s. asian american community, the white house decided to add a component to speak to those issues and the president and vice president will have a private leader with the leaders of the asian community and be makin
looking at everything to make sure we discover and determine what the motive of our homicides were. again, it s just very important to let you know that we are not done. in most cases of homicides we don t have a quick apprehension, there s usually a lengthy investigation especially when it involves multiple vehiclictims, we are working diligently to ascertain all the facts so we can have a successful prosecution, and that s what is most important now. i was hoping we would be able to release the names of the victims, but we are not able to do that at this time, and the reason is we need to make sure that we have a true verification of their identities and that we make the proper next of kin notification. again, i thought we were going to be able to do that, and out of respect of the lives of the families, we want to make sure that we do that privately before we release the names of our victim publicly. again, you know, we can have a couple questions, again, it s very importa
motive. we have received a number of calls about is this a hate crime. we are still early in this investigation. we cannot make that determination at this moment. the georgia shootings do follow a wave of unprovoked attacks across the country of people of asian descent. president biden has just been briefed. vice president kamala harris also addressing the terrible shootings. we don t know, we are not yet clear about the motives. i want to say to our asian communities we stand with you and understand how this has frightened and shocked all people. and the shootings condemned. i want to mention what happened just a few hours ago in atlanta in which several women were killed, including, we believe, four women of asian descent. we are horrified. counterterrorism agents were sent to atlanta out of new york city out of an abundance of caution. i am joined with correspondents who have been working on the case. blaine, first to you, what is the latest? we have a lot of