Stimulus checks to americans financially devastated by the covid pandemic. Also breaking news tonight, the New York Times reporting that the previous president plotted with a Justice Department lawyer to oust the former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen in an attempt to advance trumps false claims that he won the election. And the senate announcing the start of arguments in Donald Trumps impeachment trial will begin on february 9th. The house will deliver the single article of impeachment to the senate on monday evening. And Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer saying the twoweek delay gives senators time to confirm President Bidens cabinet. Lots to discuss. Cnn White House Correspondent john harwood is here, if i can get my mouth to work. Senior legal analyst laura coates and political commentator amanda carpenter. Good evening. Im sure you all have been there before. What am i saying . Good to have all of you. John, i want to start with you because i want to start with this break
Incident obviously on the capitol, his name is preston fairland. He once actually led Michelle Obamas security detail. A secret Service Agent as you said once led Michelle Obamas security detail. She even mentions him in her memoir becoming. She talks hubt him briefly in the book. She also attended a Memorial Service for their father who was a Police Officer and died in a motorcycle accident. Now as for Scott Fairland whos charged with his participation in the capitol insurrection, whats really interesting, pam, one of the charges hes facing is an assault on an Police Officer. Hes captured on video that the fbi now has and they say on that video you see him pushing and shoving and hitting a Police Officer. He is the brother of this secret Service Agent, preston fairland iii. A lawyer who represents Scott Fairland says that the brother knew nothing about this, didnt even know that he was coming here. So theyre saying that the brother had nothing to do with this obviously. But certainly
This pandemic. On top of that this morning, the cdc is reviewing do you that that suggests the uk covid variant which is shown to spread more quickly may also be more deadly. So weve got a lot to get to that is developing this morning. Lets gen on capitol hill with our colleague lauren fox. Good morning to you. What can we expect today as house impeachment managers get set to deliver officially the articles of impeachment to the senate. Reporter thats right. Really a ceremonial step up here this evening on capitol hill as the house impeachment managers will walk over that one article of impeachment and present it to the u. S. Senate. Expect that tomorrows senators will be sworn in as jurors as a part of the Senate Impeachment trial. But then we expect a twoweek break. As you noted, this is really a critical period of time for both the former president Donald Trumps defense team as well as bidens legislative agenda up here on xichlt expect the democrats will continue that push to get mo
Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin this hour with the stage set for the second impeachment trial of donald j. Trump. Tomorrow House Democrats will ceremoniously walk over the article of impeachment to the u. S. Senate, and the trial is set to start the week of february 8th. This as we learn a new stunning report about trumps desperate efforts to invalidate president joe bidens election victory. The wall street journal reporting today that trump pressured the u. S. Justice department to file a case with the u. S. Supreme court to overturn the election that he lost. Meanwhile, President Biden will begin his first full week in Office Facing unprecedented challenges as the u. S. Surpasses the grim milestone of 25 million covid cases. I believe President Biden has made it very clear the plane is in a nosedive and we have to pull it up. And youre not going to do that overnight, but were going to pull it up. We have to pull it up. Failure