The race against new variants as the president takes steps the reunite families separated by the Trump Administration. Why a congressman said i. C. E. Went Rogue Deporting One of his con sit wents. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Tonight congress has taken a big step Forward Holding accountable those responsible for the january 6 attack on the capitol. Speaker out house nancy pelosi announced her intent to set up an official investigation into the events of that day. Writing in a letter to democratic caucus, quote, it is clear that we need to establish a 9 11type commission to examine and report upon the facts, causes the security relating to the Terrorist Mob Attack on january 6. Today the senate received the first legal filings for the firstever second impeachment of a president of the United States. The house Impeachment Managers released this 80page trial memo outlining the case against the former president. Theyre clear many what he did and des
Democrats are moving fast towards impeaching the president again. Here is what assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark said earlier this morning. We will move forward with impeachment to do just that. When is that . Well, that would be as early as mid next week. So far at least one republican as well, nebraska governor ben sasse has suggested he could also be on board. I will definitely consider whatever articles they might move. The fallout is also building within administration as well. More members from across the trump administration, they are resigning along with cabinet members who likely find it hard to avoid the growing crescendo to invoke the 25th and remove the president , adding to this brutal week in american history. This pandemic is now in its most deadly stretch ever. The numbers of cases of deaths were seeing are terrifying. On thursday alone, 268,000 new cases, more than 4,100 people have died. There were more than 1. 6 million new cases and more than 19,200 people who
Tell us about that. An actual sign of bipartis bipartisanship for the two Fallen Police officers that really shook the capitol. Just moments from now, the house will have a moment of silence for the two Police Officers, including one who was killed in the result of what happened after wednesdays deadly riot, another one who died over the weekend as officers brian sicknick, was the one who sustained injuries from wednesdays riot. And an officer was pronounced dead from over the weekend. So a sign of bipartisanship here. Expect members from both sides to be on the floor recognizing these two fallen officers, wolf, as they prepare for these big momentous debate in the day ahead. Do we have a sense, manu, of how many House Republicans, do you think, might actually break with the president tomorrow and join the democrats in voting in favor of impeachment . It remains to be seen, wolf. There is expectation that it could be ten, it could be more than ten, potentially up to 20, and one reason
Be back here with everyone because we have a busy news saturday. I dont know if you had plans, but if you did, you better spend a few minutes with us to get the latest. And for the latest we have Mark Meredith tracking it all. Good morning, the president relies on the twitter account to dictate policy, fire people and say whats on his mind. Theyve suspended his account. When you go on to twitter and try to find his handle, account suspended. His photo is gone, past messages no longer visible and until yesterday he had some 80 million plus followers. Twitter releasing a statement friday night writing after close review of tweets from the president , the account and context around them and specifically how theyre received and interpreted on and off twitter weve permanently suspended the account due to further incitement of violence. And theyve not only blocked the president and his followers, and twitter spokesperson says those accounts are not going to be banned, but there will be limit
Breaking news. New data out this morning. The hospitalization rate has continued to tick down. Theres a real discernible difference and downward trend in hospitalizations. Thats good news. But professor Michael Osterholm and others are looking at the new variants were seeing around the world and in some cases in the United States, and they are concerned we could see a new surge, a new wave from these new variants. How real should that fear be this morning . Well, you always have to maintain that as a possibility, john. Im not exactly sure that thats going to happen. We do have variants in this country right now. The uk variant is in several states. It has not become dominant. It might. Thats the reason why you have to watch it carefully as we go from january into february. And really take a good look. But as dr. Osterholm said and its a real possibility that with the variants here we may have strains that transmit more efficiently. The best thing you can do about that is to uniformly a