you both very much. it's a little in the weeds but a little isn't. i think the biggest thing to think about here there's a duty of this senate to pick up what the house puts down unless pelosi doesn't hand it over. and you would be hanging out to dry those republicans across the line, and basically be sending a disincentive program through the house ranks you may wind up being alone on this. but it's an interesting debate and you guys have made it more understandable. thank you. time for the big show. "cnn tonight" with d. lemon. >> where do we go from here? just call me d. shaman. >> heal me brother. >> i was putting on my jacket to come up and i heard the guys talking about he did it throw the president under the bus. my client did this because

it's -- >> it's bad for trump. >> and he's going to say pardon in three, two, boom, and he said it. >> it's bad for trump. what this guy is right about the lawyer is that while his client may be unique in terms of physical presentation, he is not unique in terms of motivation. >> and he was invited in, okay, all the people who were storming, all the madness if you see the surroundings and you put the whole thing in full context, he didn't think he should be there? come on, man. >> oh, no, he's got trouble. but i'm talking about the mind-set. the more people who keep saying that -- first, it's an article of convenience. i don't want to go to jail. i'm going to blame it on the president. but the more and more people who do that assuming you have a trial about this president's role in an insurrection, that is bad evidence coming his way, what we call bad facts. >> they call him q shaman for a

reason because it's qanon. >> he calls himself that. i don't know who they is. >> there's a reason he's not wearing a shirt and he wants everything to be seen all the tattoos or whatever, so i'd encourage people to go and do their research on what all of that reportedly means, what he was wearing. and then you'll get a whole idea not just someone who's going there peacefully saying ohm. >> the guy is a complete provocateur no question about it and he was walking around with a big spear. again, i don't think the guy has much chance escaping culpability. there's absolutely no color of authority that allowed them into the building. he may have thought there was. i think it's very telling of what is to come in this country. >> can you imagine if the president pardons him that's going to be a whole other thing. i hesitate to even put that out there. you know what i know and believe this is all about.

i truly believe that 100% that's what this was about. >> i do, but i will tell you this. there are a lot of people who voted for trump who don't agree with you. >> that's fine. they are allowed to their own opinion. it doesn't mean they're right, but they're allowed to their opinion, and i believe what i said last night. >> absolutely you do. but they look at that mob and they say that's not me. >> those people voted the way you voted for who you voted for. i'm just saying. >> but just because you vote for the same people that you mean the same things. >> it puts you in the same group. you vote for people who has common interests. people who vote like you has a common interest like you. you don't vote for the most liberal person in the world because you're a conservative. you vote for someone who shares your common interests. that's how voting works. >> right. but it doesn't mean that you believe -- but it doesn't mean

that a voter believes that their vote means what you think it means. >> well, but it also means that you share something with that person. and you must own up to it. and we have to stop saying -- giving people an out for people who represent the worst behaviors. stop trying to make an excuse for people who voted for someone who has nose beliefs. you may think you don't believe that, but in a way what you're doing, you're complicit with it because you're voting for the same type of person. and not only that my message was also to the lawmakers -- mostly for the lawmakers who are making an excuse for the people who were there. and still on the day that there was violence, probably the worst violence that we have seen at the capitol, they're still voting with those folks. that is where -- that is the craziness. >> i am with you because i'll tell you what -- and again i'm not making excuses for anybody. i'm covering these prosecutions for a reason.

if i thought they were wrongful i wouldn't say that or i wouldn't cover them. i'm saying maybe mr. whatever he calls himself and a lot of others did believe that they had a righteous cause. but the lawmakers to the one know there's no righteousness to the cause. they are sophisticated enough and given enough information by their staff and their surroundings to know there is nothing to the allegation that this election was colored by fraud. and they know it. and they did it anyway and that makes it worse. >> so you're making my point because it's not political. they know better. >> the lawmakers, absolutely. >> they know there's something deeper and they're trading off of that. >> the lawmakers absolutely. all the voters, not necessarily. >> but that's what it is. listen, you can be a very smart person and delude yourself. i've got to run. and i'll say the thing most

people hated the most last night. they said don didn't say he loves, chris, so i love you, brother. so i've got to go. >> i don't know i believe it anymore. i love you and i'll see you soon. >> give you a smacker. anyway, you've got to watch this because it's something you have not seen, someone who was inside. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. we have the breaking news and this is what it is. one of the officers who fought for his life against rioters at the capitol speaking out tonight. and his story is one that you have got to hear. listen up, okay? we're going to play some of it for you. d.c. metro police officer michael -- has been an officer for almost two decades. he said he'd rather be shot than pulled into a crowd where he had no control. but that nightmare is exactly what happened to him last week in the capitol, at the capitol building.

so here's the video. you see him right here in the crowd trying to defend the doorway to the west entrance of the capitol as a crowd surges around him. later the officer was pushed out into the sea of people outside. okay, look it's highlighted on your screen right now. you can see that they are beating him. he was tasered several times in the back of the neck, stunned, injured and on the ground surrounded by rioters. here's what happened next. >> i was just, you know, trying to fight as best i could. i remember like guys were stripping me of my gear. these are rioters pulling my badge off my chest. they ripped my radio off my vest, started pulling like ammunition magazines from their holder on my belt. and then some guy started getting ahold of my gun, and

they were screaming out, you know, kill him with his own gun. at that point, you know, it was just like self-preservation, how do i survive this situation. and i thought about, you know, using deadly force. i thought about shooting people. and then i just came to the conclusion that, you know, if i was to do that i might get a few but i'm not going to take everybody, and they'll probably take my gun away from me. and that would definitely give them the justification they were looking for to kill me if they didn't already made that up in their minds. so the other option i thought of was try to appeal to someone's humanity, and i just remember yelling out that i have kids. and it seemed to work. some people in the crowd started to encircle me and try to offer me some level of protection.

and they -- that provided me with enough time or other officers specifically my partner jimmy albright enough time to get to me and get me the hell out of there and back to the west front of the capitol. a lot of people have asked me, you know, my thoughts on the individuals in the crowd that helped me or tried to offer some assistance. and i think kind of the conclusion i've come to is like, you know, thank you but [ bleep ] you for being there. >> that's exactly -- full transparency i spoke with him on i think it was sunday night for i think two hours. and he is a good man. he is a good man, a decent human being and just a regular guy, someone who was carrying out his oath as a police officer among

people who say blue lives matter and that happened to officer mike fanone. that anger shared by officers around this country furious that pro-trump rioters breached the grou grounds of the capitol even as we're learning among the capitol in that mob and the people being arrested and charged there was some law enforcement, first responders and military in that ground. again, the crowd that you're in. didn't your mom always say birds of a feather? careful who you associate with. officer fanone is still suffering the effects of a mild heart attack, which we're going to have much more of the story in just a moment. but his quick thinking, his decision not to shoot to kill, it actually saved lives. the lives of those trump

supporting rioters and his own life. and the danger is not over yet. washington is in virtual lockdown tonight. 21,000 national guard troops from across this country expected in the capitol for the inauguration. warnings that anyone trying to enter the perimeter will be subject to use of force and arrest. the fbi director christopher wray speaking publicly for the first time since the insurrection at the capitol saying the bureau has identified over 200 suspects, arrested more than 100. but he goes onto warn the danger is real. >> we are seeing an extensive amount of concerning online chatter -- i guess the best way i would describe it -- about a number of events surrounding the inauguration. and together with our partners we evaluate those threats and what kind of resources to deploy against them.

right now we're tracking calls for potential armed protests. >> think about it. this is the crowd, our capitol. it's like a warl zone, right? because of trump supporters who may try to spark more violence. think about that. don't try to twist it in your brain to try to make excuses for it because it's not right. it's reality. white supremacists and domestic terrorists mixing with trump supporters, and/or stirred up to insurrection by a president who refuses to admit that he lost the election. it is a toxic brew that's brought us where we are tonight. and who is this president listening to right now? who is he listening to? a senior trump advisor is

confirming the president has been talking with steve bannon about trump's bogus conspiracy theories about the election that he lost. steve bannon. steve bannon was prmtdly banned from twitter. sound familiar? you know why? for saying christopher wray and dr. anthony fauci should both be beheaded and their heads put on spikes outside the white house. that's who the president is reportedly listening to. this is how the toxic words of the far right and donald trump got us to the point that we are right now. stop making excuses for it. stop saying it's left versus right and -- it's racist. it's crazy. from the racist birther lie that former president barack obama was not born in this country to both sides in charlottesville, to dancing around the question

of whether he disavowed the former leader of the kkk. it is not a dog whistle, people. not a dog whistle to white supremacists. it's a bull horn. >> and if he wasn't born in this country, which is a real possibility -- i'm saying it's a real possibility. then he has pulled one of the great cons in the history of politics. you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. you had people in that group -- excuse me, excuse me. i saw the same pictures as you did. just so you understand i don't know anything about david duke. i don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. >> and if he had no background and no experience and he didn't know what he was doing, and if he was conning people into voting for him when he had no real ideological beliefs, that's

a real problem. people should look into that. i'm talking about him because that's not qualified, scammed a lot of people, conned. he wasn't born in this country. i don't know -- it's always like placed in the form of a question. i don't know, maybe it is. maybe. racist. and now tonight a large part of this country has been convinced by the lies of a desperate president and his far-right allies. they acted on the 6th of this month. and there are fears they will act again. and i just want you to look at these pictures. two men, two different flags. two men who showed up in the service of this president's

lies. one desecrating the nation's capitol carrying a confederate battle flag. one desecrating the american flag itself, using it to beat a police officer. wouldn't you rather someone kneel? seems more respectful to me. federal prosecutors charging peter francis saying he is the man seen in that video beating a police officer with an american flag. roughly 30 minutes later according to the time stamp on the videos prosecutors say he tells a telegraph this. >> everybody in there is a disgrace. that entire building is filled with treasonous traitors. >> yes, sir. >> death is the only remedy for what's in that building. >> you heard it.

i don't even have to repeat it. you heard it. stop making excuses for it. right in front of your face, you see with your eyes it is what it is. it's exactly what you see. not everybody -- it doesn't represent me. it's america. and there's kevin, the man with the confederate flag. authorities arrested him and his son hunter saying that they were leaders of the break-in the capitol. hunter seaford punching out a glass in a window after an unknown individual asked him to help because he was wearing gloves. so just, everyone, think about everything we just saw here. we saw a hero officer. we saw an embattled fbi chief. we saw a racist, lying

president. rioters with the american flag and a confederate flag, the national guard everywhere, all over the place. how did we get to this point in this country? think about everything i just showed you. how did we get to this country? are we deluding ourselves to believe things that we don't want to own up to, that we don't want to be there, that we don't want to have a conversation about, that we ignore, that we deny? that we frame in terms of politics or something else because it's just too painful to realize that maybe i've been wrong, maybe i didn't see this, maybe i've been blinded, maybe i've been on the wrong side.

maybe the compromise comes from me. you want people to listen to you when you won. now you want people to listen to you when you lost. where's the compromise? what a picture of america tonight. in five more days we will be inaugurating a new president, but we will still be living in this america. our crime and justice correspondent is mr. shimon croak pez, and he's here with more on our breaking news tonight. the officer -- officers who were under siege from the mob speaking out tonight for the first time, shimon. those officers were incredibly

outnumbered. what did officer fanone say about that? >> and don, how brave, right? how brave of these officers to go in there the way they did knowing they were going to be outnumbered. and when you listen to these stories it is such bravery, and it is so good they're finally speaking out. you know, the one officer when you spent some time with talking to describing how they were outnumbered, how he was laying around and they were ripping things off him, stealing his equipment and just basically hoping he could survive, describing all of that. >> shimon, before you go to -- i don't know if this is where you're going, but he said at some point he realized he had his gun on him and that would be the worst thing to lose his gun and he put both hands over it. which i thought he's exactly right. >> and the fear of shooting people because as you said it could create, wreak more havoc and also the concern they needed justification to shoot these people. just the entire story is incredible. take a listen some about more of

what he said. >> we encountered some pretty significant resistance. i mean, we were getting chemical irritants sprayed. you know, they had pipes and, you know, different metal objects, batons, some of which i think they'd taken from law enforcement personnel. they were striking us with those. and then it was just like the sheer number of rioters, the force that was coming from that side it was difficult to offer any resistance when you're only about 30 guys going up against 15,000. >> and shimon, we're also hearing from another mpd officer daniel hodges. we saw the terrible video of him being crushed by rioters in a door. what else did he say? >> everybody has seen that video. and you can see he was crushed. you can see the rioters around

him, one trying to pull his gas mask off his face. he also describes being surrounded and outnumbered there. >> the guy ripping my mask off, he was able to rip away my baton and beat me with it. he was practically foaming at the mouth. so just these people were true believers in the worst way. just the absolute zealotry of these people, how they 100% believed what they were doing was right and that they were the patriots and that no one would get in their way. >> and it's just the sound of these officers talking about how determined so many of the attackers, this mob was to get inside capitol hill and ultimately probably to get to some of the lawmakers, don. >> shimon, and just want to play some more from officer hodges and we'll discuss. here it is. >> they were waving a thin blue

flag and telling us we're not your enemies while they were attacking us and, you know, kill one of us. so it was -- i -- it's hard to say exactly what's going through their minds because it doesn't make sense to me. some of them felt like we would be fast friends because so many of them had been vocal or at least virtually signaling their support for the police over the past year. they say things like, you know, we've been supporting you through all this black lives matter stuff, you should have your back. and they felt like entitled. they felt like they would just walk up there and tell us that they're here to take back congress and we would agree with them, and we'd walk hand in hand and take over the nation. but obviously that was not the case and it will never be the case. >> shimon, we thank these officers for their bravery and what they were up against. they were outnumbered, and yet they fought. and it could have been, you know, a real massacre, shimon.

>> it could have. and i think it's important and i'm happy to see that the d.c. police, the metropolitan, the district of columbia police speaking out. because so many people who are inside that building are crediting them with saving lives. so many of the law enforcement officials we talked to. remember they came in as the reinforcement. the capitol police were outnumber asked the first people they called was the mpd, and they came in. and what they did is gave time for the capitol police, for the fbi, for the atf to get amicide that building and perhaps save lives of lawmakers. remember they needed time to get the leaders of this country out of harms way, and it is the mpd that allowed that. the prosecutor, the man michael sherman who's leading this investigation, he said we would be shocked by some of the video we will eventually see. hopefully that will come out, the hand to hand combat these mpd officers were face wging wi

these attackers, these vile, vicious attackers who are trying to get around every officer, they wanted nothing stopping them. and it was ultimately the mpd who came in there, allowed them to slow down and get a lot of the lawmakers out of harms way, don. >> shimon prokupecz, thank you very much. if you have time because the video is all over, go and listen to some of the raw unedited stuff. you'll hear black officers being called the n-word, being told there's no racism in america, that it happened under the former president or the democrats did it or it's not going to get me to like you -- just craziness. and then think about this. one officer had a mild heart attack, an officer died, another one committed suicide and officers that are injured. you have all those officers fighting to protect the very people who were inside of that

building, and hours later on a lie, on an election lie that it was fraud. and then hours later some of those very people went back into that building and voted to overturn the election. disgusting, disgraceful, un-american. this is not about censorship, about all the things that are happening. this is consequences for despicable, deplorable behavior. shame on you. desperate president consumed by the unraveling of his presidency refusing to do the job that he lied and lied to keep. that as the president-elect says there's no time to waste, lays out his plans for when he takes office in just five days. >> the crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight, and

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so here's the breaking news tonight. president trump shutting down any suggestion he might resign before the end of his term next wednesday. sources say trump's consumed with the unraveling of his presidency and explodes at any comparisons, excuse me, to richard nixon.

going onto say that so far as to ban the mention of nixon's name, right? and incredibly telling people around him that he couldn't count on mike pence. mike pence, his loyal vice president, to pardon him the way gerald ford pardoned nixon. lots to discuss now. cnn's chief political analyst gloria borger is here, and our white house correspondent kaitlin collins is here. soon to be chief, am i correct? >> not until wednesday. >> oh, you will be inaugurated on wednesday. i will be watching the ceremony, the celebration. okay, good to see both of you. and kaitlin, congratulations. so let's start with you soon to be chief white house correspondent. you're learning the president is consumed with thun raveling of his presidency and exploding with any comparison to nixon. tell me about that. >> yeah, the president doesn't want anybody to bring up richard

nixon or any kind of situation like that. he says he's not going to be resigning. there was a casual conversation about it this week as they've been talking about of course how quickly things have been unraveling at the white house. but we're told by sources that the president completely shut that done immediately. he told people do not bring up richard nixon. in the past he has exploded when people have brought richard nixon up before. and he even remarked, you know, he would not get the same treatment nixon got from gerald ford meaning he could not count on the vice president mike pence to pardon him in that way if he did resign. of course that's unlikely. it is remarkable this last full week of donald trump's time in office is going completely opposite of what people expected it to be. they thought it would kind of be this last farewell tour of his accomplishments while in office, and instead they're dealing with legal warnings the president is facing for the role he played in the siege of capitol hill last week. of course they've got that upcoming senate trial. and we're told the president is

pretty much entirely focused on what's going to happen once he does leave office, what are there going to be the business repercussions he's facing when he's leaving the white house next wednesday. >> what has ever been predictable about donald trump? everyone should know better. i remember nixon. i don't know if you're old enough to remember that. but i remember nix when he left the white house on a helicopter and he waved good-bye and they shipped him off. why do you think bringing up nixon gets under trump's skin because he looks even worse in comparison. >> well, because donald trump probably back when he was a democrat considered richard nixon a criminal and saw that he resigned in disgrace and understood what happened, that members of the senate went to richard nixon and said you've got to leave because otherwise you're going to be thrown out of office. and he doesn't want to resign

himself, as we all understand, and he doesn't want to be compared with anyone who has any kind of disgrace attached to his name. because in his own mind -- and we know this -- he believes, of course, or at least that's what he's telling his supporters that he won this election and that there's no reason for him to be leaving the oval office. so you kind of have to think of it that way. the mike pence thing is a little harder to explain, don. >> yeah, and we're going to have much more to talk about, gloria. i want you to stay and kaitlyn, thank you very am much. i'll see you soon. be safe. gloria is going to stick with us. joe biden calling the vaccine rollout so far a dismal failure. that's next.

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. so president-elect joe biden preparing to take office next wednesday. one of his first priorities battling the raging covid-19 crisis. so tonight he is proposing a nearly $2 trillion plan to pay for a massive nationwide vaccination program and to give direct economic relief to millions of americans struggling under the pandemic and saying now is the time for americans to unify. >> and unity is not some pie in the sky dream. it's a practical step to getting the things we have to get done as a country, get done together. as i said in the past in december the bipartisan covid-19 relief package was a very important first step. i'm grateful for the democrats of public and independent members of congress who came

together to get it done. but i said at the time, it's just a down payment. we need more action, more bipartisanship. and we need to move quickly. >> wow. gloria is back with me. wow, when did we hear unity, bipartisanship, thank you both sides? >> it's been a while. >> it's really amazing the president-elect staying out of the impeachment question altogether and laying out his plan for covid and the economy. what did you think of his speech, gloria? >> well, one part of it was sort of like an economic state of the union where he told you everything he wanted to do for the economy including a $15 minimum wage and dealing with poverty in america and helping people at the lower end of the scale not just people at the upper end of the scale. and the other part of it was kind of a preducore about what's

going on in america. and he said at the beginning of his speech and i thought it was quite striking that we have had a loss of our way of life. and he said the real pain is overwhelming, the real economy, the real economy for middle class americans, not the wealthy. because he made the point that the wealthy have done quite well during this year of covid. and then he went out there and said i'm going to move heaven and earth to get people vaccinated. and he said that the rollout of vaccines has been a dismal failure. and i've got to be thinking that -- that they are going to move heaven and earth to get vaccines into peoples' arms. >> gloria, thank you for sticking around and talking about this part. i really appreciate it. >> sure. >> it's good to see you. have a great evening. >> good to see you, don. >> thank you. the fbi is warning more threats are coming to d.c., and my next guest says the president

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multiple threats around inauguration day. there's a huge presence of national guard troops in washington, and all 50 state capitols are on alert. the scale of these threats unprecedented. how do we keep the inauguration and the rest of the country safe? >> well, clearly there's a significant challenge here. i don't want to pretend that for our security, our intelligence and our government teams that this is going to be an easy task. i think part of this is what you're seeing already, being very visible and very direct about the focus that the government is putting on this, ensuring the security of the event. and also remember they not only want to ensure the security of the event but the well-being of everyone who is there. regardless of what your political views are, you don't want anybody to get hurt. you're also seeing visible presence already days in advance by design, and you can compare that with the kind of preps you saw last wednesday. you can tell it's a

fundamentally different approach. >> admiral, you say a combination of failures and oversights led to this attack. just today "the washington post" reported dozens of insurrectionists were on a terrorist watch list. how did this turn into such a huge security and intelligence failure? >> well, first i'm perplexed. i'm the first to acknowledge. i think it was pretty clear to almost anyone who stopped and thought that we were going to have a large group on capitol hill on wednesday the 6th of january and this group's stated purpose was to both demonstrate against the process that was ongoing as well as attempt to forestall its ability to be completed. now, i think you can have a question about so how far they were willing to go? and i don't think there'd be any doubt in anybody's mind you were dealing with a mob, a large group that was prone potentially to become violent and take matters into their own hands. and that would suggest to me that that would call for advance preparation, a strong perimeter,

additional forces on the ground. i mean you saw it, you heard from your discussion earlier tonight with officer fanone. he talked about 30 individuals trying to hold back a mob that clearly numbered in the thousands. i mean my concern would be sadly we were setting our people up for failure, and that's just not a good thing. >> admiral, i want to talk to you about you being part of a bipartisan group of former officials on election integrity. this group put out this statement on the insurrection. it says this is what happens when people challenge the peaceful and orderly transition of power. the people responsible for inflaming this lawlessness including president trump must be held accountable. so you -- you worked for president trump. how do you think -- >> and president obama. >> and president obama. but since you worked for president trump you may have some insight into his thinking, but also i want to know from you

as someone who worked for him, how should he be held accountable? >> well, first of all as a military individual accountability is a fundamental part of the ethos and culture i was part of for 37 years. and as a leader in the military you're always taught that your focus, number one, should be the mission you've been tasked with. and then secondly, the men and women you are responsible for and the execution of the mission. and that when suddenly it becomes about you, when you stop focusing on the mission, when you stop focusing on the well-being and the safety and security of those men and women you're responsible for, when it becomes about you, you have lost focus on what we are all about. and decidedly, to me to me you seeing that play out here where the leadership of our nation decided the most important thing was to continue to attempt to validate based on falsehoods and incorrect information the view that they should continue to be

the president despite an election process that was without -- without significant widespread fraud, that was validated and tested applied to it. i mean, it's gone through multiple validations and i don't think there should be any doubt. i would tell my fellow citizens, as part of the group, there shouldn't be any doubt in anyone's mind this was a fair and free election process. i won't argue there weren't some errors but nothing to overcome the difference of 7 million. >> admiral, thank you for coming on. thank you for your service to this country. we appreciate it. please come back. >> thank you, don. trump holed up at the white house. and take this -- leaving his duties to someone else entirely.

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so, take this, everyone -- vice president mike pence making a surprise visit to the capitol to greet national guard members and thank them for their service. tens of thousands of national guard troops have been called to d.c. to protection the inauguration following last week's deadly riot, a riot that saw pence himself menaced. he spoke to individual service members asking when they were called the come to washington and how long they have been a part of the call. >> 34 year in the national guard? >> yes, sir. >> i think that deserves a round of applause. >> and we thank you for your

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hello, everyone. there's a lot of breaking news tonight. president trump shutting down any suggestion that he might resign. sources are saying that he explodes at any comparison to president richard nixon. also fbi director chris per cray saying he's concerned about online chatter, which includes calls for potential armed protests. fbi identifying more than 200