White house is underscoring this troubling statistic. 2. 5 million women have been driven from the workforce since the pandemic hit. On the medical side of this whole thing we now have news on Johnson Johnsons oneshot vaccine. Its moving closer to authorization for Emergency Use so that is a step in the right direction. Also that i had Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene once again defending her controversial rhetoric one day after her colleagues voted to remove her from her committee assignments. Going forward ive been freed. I do. I feel freed because you know whats happening on these committees . You see, we have a basically a tragically controlled government right now, the democrat. How does her party move forward now that trump is out of office . Her response. It doesnt. And i want to tell you, republican voters, support him still. The party is his. It doesnt belong to anybody else. Lets start there with our cnn Congressional Correspondent jessica dean who had quite an
Balance between focusing on this problem and making absolutely sure that we dont disparage all of our military service. Were out of time. Shawn, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Well see you soon. Thanks, don. Thanks for watching, everyone. Our coverage continues. Good evening. Less than a week away from the president at the scene of his alleged crime of his democracy, members of his party are deciding right now who they are and where their loyalties actually lie. Theyre at it right now. The meeting, which has reportedly been tumultuous, is still under way. House republicans choosing whether they stand with the former president in the extremist Freshman Congresswoman he calls a rising star or with the staunchly Conservative Party leader and daughter of a former Vice President who voted to impeach him. The fact that this is happening just hours after leaders of that party paid tribute to one of the victims of the crime, Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick. Really throws the moral s
History to be afforded this honor. He was of course one of five people who died after the violent attack that looted and desecrated our Capitol Building on january 6th. Were also one week out from the former president s second Impeachment Trial, this time on the charge of inciting that insurrection at the capitol. We now know how house Impeachment Managers plan to make the case to convict the former president and what his own attorneys plan to offer as a defense. This morning those House Managers filed a sweeping, 80page pretrial brief that lays out in rather stark terms the events leading up to that riot that day, noting quote, trumps singular responsibility for that tragedy. After losing the 2020 election, President Trump refused to accept the will of the american people. He spent months asserting without evidence that he won in a landslide and that the election was stolen. President trump announced a save america rally on january 6th, promised it would be wild. Summoned a mob to was
Minority leader and a man who says nothing casually, has weighed in on qanon supporter Marjorie Taylor greene. What he said could matter a lot. Well tell you in just a few moments. First, we begin tomorrow morning just in time for Groundhog Day house Impeachment Managers will file papers laying out their case in the second trial of the 45th president of the United States. And in keeping with the spirit of the day, there is a lot what hes accused of as well as how hes conducting his defense that will bring a sense of deja vu. Especially when it comes to how much of the wrong doing played out in plain view. Sources familiar with the matter say the Impeachment Team tends to say the former president s incitement was intentional, something we heard over and over again. Make no mistake, this election was stolen from you, from me, and from the country. Its going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud. This was not a close election. You know, i say sometimes
It is absolutely stunning. We just got thumped. I mean, i know that everybody got a lot of snow and this was a big storm, but i feel like somebody played a joke on me. Yeah. This is an insane amount of snow. I will pack some of it into cooler and send it to you. Rachel, you had Jim Rutenberg on talking about that New York Times article which is just amazing, and by the way, must be said, beautifully written. I think it may be the best written yeah. Of the trump investigative pieces. Andrew weissmann is going to join us on the same subject to pick up where you left off which to me is are there new crimes in this reporting that were looking at . Yeah. The times uses the very gentle word, extralegal. Does that mean illegal . Andrew weissmann is going to take us through it and tell us what he sees in that reporting. Excellent. Its really well timed. Tomorrow were going to see the response from the president s defense team, such as it is, to the Impeachment Charges and the Impeachment Charg