following the attack on the capitol. in the 80-page brief submitted, which misspells the name of the country, it says the trial is unconstitutional and argue trump s speech on january 6th was not an act encouraging movement to over throw the misspelled united states government and trump did not direct anyone to commit lawless actions and blame a small group of criminals that come to the capitol armed and ready for a fight and call the trial political theater. the nine house impeachment managers came back today with a five-page memo of their own writing trump s incitement of insurrection against the united states government which disrupted the peaceful transfer of power is the most grievance constitutional crime ever committed by a president. they further write the house will establish that trial that president trump merits conviction and disqualifications to hold and enjoy any office. tomorrow, both sides will begin with the debate over the constitutional issues followed by a
challenge. can president biden get the country on the same page about the pandemic? he s there now. this will be his first official trip as president four weeks in. he s taking the pitch for his $1.9 trillion relief plan on the road. wisconsin battle ground state helped secure biden s victory. also, hard hit by the weather, hard hit by the economy, hard hit by the pandemic. now, this is all a leadup to the house vote that is expected on the package next week. the biden presidency will be defined in large part by his job on the pandemic, but also, whether he can help us move past the pain of division. his predecessor s ghost is still haunting us post impeachment. trump s silence was strategic. the trial is over. so is the silence. he is now in war mode on his own party targeting senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. here is what he said in part, i m not going to show you his entire thing. if you want to find it, find it yourself. he s an unpolitical hack and will never do wh
president s state of mind as insurrectionists invaded the capitol. a white house official saying he was loving watching the capitol mob. think about that. this former senior official says the president of the united states was watching on television as the seat of our democracy was being over run in an assault that would leave five people dead and dozens of police officers badly injured and he was loving it. that said, it s not all we re learning tonight. sources telling jim acosta, the former president is taking his acquittal for granted and is fix sate fixated on punishment. he sees the republican party as his own personal play thing. late today chuck schumer laid out rules. the same for the former president s side, after that te vote on the article of impeachment followed by another if needed unbarring the former president from holding future office. if house managers want to call witnesses, a vote will be held on it. the structure we have agreed to is imminently fair
trying to push down the memory hole. evidence in proceedings against a man named michael foye a marine from michigan. it shows a man attacking a police officer and dragging him away to be beaten. foye is seen on the tape with a hockey stick. he s one of 21 military veterans arrested. we ll have more on the story and that aspect later on the program and dig deeper into the troubling fact so many service members took part in the insurrection. we start with covid, consisting of measures of hope and a lot of measures of dread. the hope, new data showing a third vaccine, this one from johnson & johnson is also very effective. according to the numbers from a global phase three study, the single shot vaccine was 66% effective in preventing moderate and severe disease and was 85% effective at preventing hospitalization and death. now, it s effectiveness against moderate and severe disease varied from 57% in south africa where that new strain is and 72% in the united states. it s lo
johnson & johnson is also very effective. according to the numbers from a global phase three study, the single shot vaccine was 66% effective in preventing moderate and severe disease and was 85% effective at preventing hospitalization and death. now its efficacy against moderate and severe disease varied from 57% in south africa where that new strain is and 72% in the united states. it s lower, you might realize, the figure for two doses of the moderna and pfizer vaccine, something dr. anthony fauci today said was less of a real world concern than you might imagine. now, the important issue because the first thing people do is compare a 72% efficacy with the previously reported in other trials of 94% to 95%. that is true, but when one looks at the potential impact on a very important aspect of what we look at carefully is namely severe disease that overall in the united states in south africa and in brazil, the overall efficacy for severe disease was 85%. in the study incl