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bound, lieutenant colonel ami mcgrath, thank you so much for spending some time with us. the beat are ari melber starts now. 4:00, 5:00 and 9:00, i am there. i am ari melber. today the eyes of the nation were on the white house where a president s lawful extension was briefly challenged by a violent insurrection. he went about a somber task. awarding a high honor to police officers who battled terrorists at the capitol. biden/harris spoke at the rose garden with officers in attendants. the president spoke of bravery and truth in defense of democracy. our democracy did survive. truths defeated lies. we did overcome. that s because the women and men of the u.s. capitol police. these officers are heroes. these officers are patriots. patriots and truths. as maga leaders initially thrown off battle over the defensible set of actions found themselves following trump in defending or minimizing the terror on air and online. the traditional branch is dealing with thes ....
welcome to cnn s special coverage of the tragedy in miami. i m pamela brown in washington. i m wolf blitzer here in surfside, florida. we re watching all the late-breaking developments. in 30 minutes we re about to get an update from the authorities, officials here in surfside. we re going to bring it to you live, that news conference. we re now more than 88 hours from the catastrophic events that brought down the champlain tower south. the death toll has risen to nine. but still more than 150 people are unaccounted for. meanwhile, the history of this building behind me grows even more troubling. e-mails have come to light showing the structural engineering firm that inspected the building back in 2018 suggested repairs that could have cost more than $9 million. so why weren t those repairs addressed immediately? we have a team of cnn producers, camera people, reporters on the ground here in surfside to bring you the late-breaking developments, including cnn s randi k ....
d.c. recording a record number of cases. across the country, crushing lines for tests. it will be weeks before 500 million additional tests promised by president biden will be available. if you go to the pharmacy, we hear it over and over again, empty shelves, no test kits. is that a failure? no, i don t think it is a failure. we re nearly two years into the pandemic, you re a year into the presidency, empty shelves, no test kits in some places three days before christmas when it is so important, is that good enough? no. nothing has been good enough. but look where we are. we re in a situation now where we have 200 million people fully vaccinated. and some very good news. a new pill getting approval today, a day after the fda green lit pfizer s pill. new data from the uk bolster hope that omicron is milder, less deadly than delta. public health experts are also clear vaccines reduce spread, protect against severe illness, and a major battle is rampant, misinfo ....
on trial this week, the american justice system. several key cases showing bias in and out of the courtroom. in georgia, a defense attorney asking to ban black pastors from praying with the arbury attorneys. we don t want any other black pastors, jesse jackson or whoever it was, sitting in here with the family. and then a judge making a joke about asian judge. and then saying they couldn t use the worth victims but could use rioters, looters or arsonists. all of this as the gop with such rhetoric its members are receiving unrest. and paul gosar showing a video appearing to kill alexandria ocasio cortez. there has been deafening silence from the gop. that s because president trump is setting the precedent listen to this recording. but the law is coming for trump and his associates showing how the justice sis system is meant to work. steve bannon is to turn himself in monday. if convicted, he could be jailed. mark meadows could be next as he failed to testify be ....
again, that wasn t the perceived goal here. that was the perception among his supporters that think it s gone too far. let s get more from griff jenkins. that s right, neil. fox news confirmed that former president trump is indeed in the courtroom right now. he entered at about 3:52 p.m. so just under ten minutes ago. he s wearing a blue suit, a red to you. flanked by his two attorneys. fox has confirmed that we expect him to plead not guilty to the four felony charges he s facing in this indictment. three are conspiracy charges, one is obstruction. before he entered that courtroom, a little less than an hour ago, his motorcade entered the garage here at the federal courthouse. he was processed and fingerprinted. there s no mug shot taken because the court says there s plenty of pictures of him to provide. he s not arrested. but he is obviously being processed. now we wait for this court proceeding to get underway at the time of our note from our producer, jay gibson ....