just a handful of weeks we have proved we can slow this pan pandemic. our death toll is half a million and counting. the work far from over. the biden white house knows it as it sets off on one of its most important weeks since inauguration. here is the schedule. tomorrow, a vote in the house budget committee on whether to advance the administration s rescue package. also tomorrow, confirmation hearings begin for the president s nominee for attorney general merrick garland. we ll hear testimony regarding the january 6th attack on the capitol and by week s end we would key a vote on the president s covid relief bill reach the house floor. there s a lot going on. time is of the essence and assistance runs out for off, ne nationalndent. we reached the milestone, half a million deaths from covid really underlining the urgency on biden s covid relief bill. there s sense it could pass through the house but then what happens in the senate? well, that s the number one question th
listen here. don t have very much hope. you don t have hope? why not? trying to. but the same thing keeps happening. there s just no justice. if i m being honest, i feel nervous because something in me tells me he s going to go away free or with a lesser sentence. that s why we re having these protests. while maybe the process works for me, someone who looks like me, it doesn t work for everybody. is that a concern for you as we start this trial? absolutely, absolutely. yes, i have concerns that he s going to be acquitted, like many other officers have been. reporter: now, alex, what do we expect to see tomorrow? we expect court to come into session at 8:00 a.m. the judge will hear at least an hour of motions. then at 9:00 a.m. that is when jury selection is slated to begin. that process is going to be pretty slow. you re going to have eight potential jurors questioned over the course of about three weeks. they re going four in the morning, four in the afterno
she had been having an affair with her boss. the prosecutor says, after he shot his wife, he washed his hands and washed his forearms. they called us back at noon and started the trial. i thought he made one of the worst mistakes i d ever heard of. it was obvious there was something that just wasn t right. the only thing i ve ever wanted was for everyone to hear the truth. i told him that i would fight with everything i had in me. that s the promise i made to him. hello, and welcome to dateline. for many, the holiday season is a special time. but for the jennings family, one christmas eve turned into a waking nightmare. there was an argument, followed by a gunshot, then a frantic call to police. lisa jennings was dead. the question for detectives was, did she take her own life or was this murder? here s keith morrison with a crack in everything. reporter: it was his secret that started it. a secret gift. it was christmas eve in the year 2006, a little farm
play a little golf in florida. and i said mr. president, this maga movement needs to continue. we need to unite the party. trump plus is the way back this 2022. that brings us to the question of what a united republican party really looks like. what happens to the party that for decades has prided itself and defined itself as the care takers of traditional conservative values and champions of order, honor, patriotism. can the gop still use that brand in the wake of the deadly insurrection carried out by the pro trump mob? will voters keep electing republicans who use strong words fail to take strong action like senate minority leader mitch mcconnell who said this after voting to acquit donald trump. there is no question, none that president trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. no question about it. the people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president. in a statement,
already saying they will vote to acquit. so house impeachment managers face an uphill battle to win the necessary two-thirds majority to convict. trump s defense is set to argue the whole trial is unconstitutional. they call it politically motivated and as well as infringement on the former president s free speech rights. all of this taking place under what is extraordinary security at the u.s. capitol. physical reminder that federal officials still believe the threat is very real. let s begin on capitol hill. lauren fox is there. lauren, so walk us through the first day of the trial. well, this question of whether or not it is even constitutional to be holding an impeachment trial of a former president, that is going to be the agenda today. four hours of debate followed by a vote this evening on that question of constitutionality. now this is going to look very similar to what we saw a couple of weeks ago when rand paul forced senators to answer this question in a vote. ba