dangers the men and women in the capitol faced that day. the perils that our nation faced as a whole and the former the president s justification for what happened. i went to washington because they were angry with an election that they think was rigged. a very small portion went down to the capitol. a very small portion of them went in. but they were angry from the standpoint of what happened in the election because they are smart and they see and saw what happened. among the crowd that day, far right extremists like the proud boys and oath keepsers welcome the focus of tomorrow s hearing along with trump s role encouraging them to march on the capitol. the president tweets on the wee hours of december 19th to be there and be wild. it was a siren call to these folks. and we ll talk in detail about what that caused them to do, how that caused them to organize as well as who else was amplifying that message. the committee member who will lead tomorrow s hearing says th
we have resources available as much as we can and reduce demonstrations as safely and quickly as possible. this is a list of the freedom convoy commands you can see, they want to terminate vaccine passports and contact tracing programs, terminate vaccine mandates altogether stop divisive rhetoric. you can hear the parties here and you can see two different atmospheres, heavy crowds out here. cities in the u.s. and canada are monitoring the border crossings to see how this plays out because depending on what happens here and at the bridge everywhere across the area. jon: keep an eye on it for us, thanks, alexis. more than $300 million worth of
vaccinated. 90% of canadians are vaccinated. take a look behind me. you can see the heavy presence. the government relied on them to work throughout the pandemic and said they re heros that kept the supply chain moving. now they say the government has moved the goal posts. this is exactly what the truckers are saying that they want. they want the contact tracing programs, vaccine mandates and divisive rhetoric. the group is saying canadian rule is providing truckers to be fully vaccinated. a live look back out here. you can pick up one more quiet out here and then people start reffing their engines and blaring their horns. they want everybody to know they re here. people across the country know they are. many are watching to see what will happen in the united states where people are fed up with restrictions. sandra? sandra: a lot of action all around you there. as i told you, i was looking at the weather, it s about to drop
ontario but you wouldn t think they are because people are out here like it s a tailgate party coming in from all over the place to try to talk about changing things here in canada. officials died protesters hefty fines and jail time. city leaders say local police do not have enough resources to stop the protest from growing. i do know we do not have the resources what we ve been asked for at this time. personally i know the prime minister is under a great deal of pressure right now but i thought his comments were unfair. here on your screen, this is what the protesters are asking for. freedom convoy demands or terminate vaccine passports and contact tracing programs. terminate vaccine mandates and stop the divisive rhetoric.
you on the canadian side. what s your sense of where this is going? if you look at the demands of the convoy, they remain clear as they were on day one. here, before i have you answer, here are the demands of the convoy, terminate vaccine passports and other contact tracing programs. eliminate the vaccine mandates and stop the divisive rhetoric we of course still see from justin trudeau. you see the demands and situation. where does this go, harold? it doesn t go anywhere until those demands are met. we have been clear right from the start, you are correct and we know that that s what s been harming our society for a lot of for almost two years now. and we need it to go. we need to be able to discuss with doctors, with lawyers, what s been all going on. and he is ignoring us. he has been calling us racist. bigots and other fancy word that