Home has been here in the big apple, but have our fellow new yorkers been paying attention? jesse, suited up, and hit the streets to find out. Let his/her name? courtney. Lindsay. Brandy. It is dana. That is dana perino? es. She works for george bush. Can t remember. Dana. I m going to say that is robert downey junior. That s geraldo rivera. He is a host. Geraldo, are you surprised that you re here? no. This guy has a latenight show. He has an exclamation point after his name to get a don t think i ve ever seen that gentleman before. He is not a gentleman. He looks like a show for a. Could you keep your eyes on the road, please? good thinking. Greg got felled. That s you. Very good. How do you feel about me? i really like this tshirt. That is how i save the world. You have to buy my book. Her name is katie. I feel like i ve see her and her on cnn. That s fake news. Cnn and the others are fake news. Britney spears? free britney. Ever seen the show? the five. The five. Is that a new show
On january 6th, qanon came out of the shadows. What had started as an online conspiracy theory had quickly become a kind of cult. And for some qanon followers, this was the day they d been waiting for. I m here because q sent me. They made their presence known in the crowd of trump supporters in washington that day when a mob stormed the capitol, many qanon supporters were on the front lines. Freedom! at least one supporter died that day. This woman, ashley babbitt, tried to break through a door inside the capitol. She was shot to death by a capitol police officer. She was a 14year veteran of the air force and the air national guard. This is her in a qanon shirt at a trump rally in september. How does a veteran fall into a deranged conspiracy cult? to understand what qanon is, you have to go down a rabbit hole where suspicion and fantasy mix with ageold antisemitic conspiracy theorys and resentments. We will not cow down to evil. Some q believers liken it to a scene in the matrix where
welcome to the cnn special report, the cult of qanon. i m anderson cooper. that s because qanon is based on this idea that donald trump andujar vest their blood in order to extract, ingest a chemical called adrenochrome. i know it sounds crazy but there are hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions who believe this. some say they ve lost faith and no longer believe in q. others come up with other explanations for trump s loss and what he says is his return to power. we talk to a man who says a great storm is coming. his name is brian okstat. he said he pieces together clues on a massive good versus evil. he sent me a message. you re done, he wrote. you re on the list. execution. bang. you re dead. you sick evil [ bleep ]. i didn t know who brian was when he told me i was going to be executed. turns out his instagram is filled with postings about the satanic kabal he believes him part of. something big s about to go down. i really believe it. god has given me a lot of
country. so there were things back then, as you go back and think about what you might have done, the kind of desperate responses of different states rather than having a unified approach, it was just bad, it is bad now. harris: dr. fauci is pushing for a national plan but critics are questioning whether they can trust him. let s watch. there is no need to change anything you re doing on a day by day basis. it came clear that we were in real trouble. that was probably towards the middle to end of january. people should not be walking around with masks. putting a mask on yourself, if everybody does that, we re each protecting each other. do you think americans will still be wearing masks, for example, in 2022? you know, i think it is possible that that s the case. harris: you re watching outnumbered. here today my co-host, emily compagno, ceo of situation room, joanna masko. joining us on the virtual seat until we re all together again civil rights attorney and fox