Covid is surging today among the unvaccinated. This pandemic is spiraling out of control yet again. And it s spiraling out of control because we don t have enough people vaccinated. There is real harm to you. Because guess what, more mitigation is coming, whether it s masking or closures or kids having to return to virtual learning. That is coming. The u. S. Daily case count has more than doubled to 50,000. And people who need hospital care, a sign that they re in a bad covid situation, has surged 58% over the last two weeks alone. These are numbers you need to know. The hardesthit places are often areas with misinformation problems and low vaccination. Florida, alabama, hurting. About 1 out of 3 people are vaccinated in alabama, and the number of people going to the hospital has more than tripled this month. And there s a story of two pandemics in america during this period of an available vaccine. We have the places with higher vaccine rates that are doing better. And they re quicker
[noise] chill bro. [noise] this is our house. [noise] the justice department also released new footage from inside the capitol. The rioters can be seen trying to force their way into the senate chamber, and taunting those officers who were trying to keep them out. More than 500 riders have been arrested in connection with what was essentially a failed attempt to keep president biden from taking office. Late today, the winner of november s election issued a statement it read in part quote, this was not descend. This was this order. It posed an existential crisis and a test of whether our democracy could survive. A sad reminder that there is nothing guaranteed about our democracy. This past weekend, the men who lost november s election continue to push the very lies that fueled the january 6th insurrection. We won so much and then we had a rigged election. Democrats used covid to cheat, they illegally change the rules of the key states and mailed out millions, and millions of absentee ba
Choice. But i think that donald is probably promising him that he will be saved. Something he is loyally, blindly, blindly loyal to. Today, the former president again insisted the investigation was a partisan witch witch hunt. So his messaging remains to. Same lawyers for his company denied any wrongdoing. Meanwhile, we are getting extraordinary new details about the abrupt break between donald trump and his former attorney general bill barr. It is revelations come from jonathan carl of abc news is standing by to join us in a moment. In a series of interviews for his upcoming book which he details for the atlantic john carl spoke with barr about trump s insistence that the doj investigates socalled voter fraud. Barr also announced his own inquiries and said he s skeptical about trump s claims. S claims that is very different from barr s remarks to cnn during this september of 2020 interview when he defended trump s falsehood about a potentially tainted election after several states exp
Seated a suspicion of government that is even more widespread today. Remember, a few years later kim watergate a scandal that forced the president to resign and raised even more distrust in government. And now along with republican assault on voting rights we re learning more about efforts to dig up dirt on congressional democrats and others at donald trump s department of justice. The current chief doj s inspector general is now in the ordeal. But today this breaking news in the new york times revealing that in february 2018 trump s doj subpoenaed apple for information about an account that belong to former white house counsel don mcgahn. According to two of the new york times sources apple was barred from telling mcgahn about. It the doj declined to comment. The senate majority leader wants answers. What has happened here are fingerprints of a dictatorship, not as democracy. No one likes the idea that if the president s mad, he can just go forth with setting personal phone that are o
of power that experts say is worse than watergate. the doj has been caught surveiling certainly people, club a minor, which the former president s top aides where are eager to defend. even attorney general barr is denying any involvement or knowledge, rather than spinning a defense. ditto for trump s first attorney general justice. both just claimed they didn t knows about the putinesque plots. now, that is the context for the further fallout and news that i can get into with our experts and with you tonight. we have doj moves that have become kind of like a legal orphan, because barr and sessions and all the people in charge for trump, so proud of all the trumpy things they did, they don t want anything to do with this. no one wants to claim these things. now there are reports that the surveillance also crept inside the trump white house itself, including surveying white house kuhn don mcgahn, the doj hitting up apple to get his record and then an unusual gag order. two sour