pass lindell off to someone else. first, trump met with lindell, but it was a brief meeting trump sent him upstairs to the white house counsel's office lindell was then escorted by the national security adviser robert o'brien o'brien seeking to end the conversation, said if there was evidence of what he was saying, it should go to white house counsel, and he steered lindell upstairs to the counsel's office then once lindell got to the counsel's office, lindell spoke sharply to one of cipollone's assistants after he was brought upstairs cipollone told him he wouldn't speak to him until lindell apologized to her. so, everyone just kept trying to get rid of him by passing him off to someone else. in fact, lindell is still in the white house as we speak, getting shunted from office to office. the white house chef just got done telling him what kind of flour they use, and now he's pitching his plan to the lawnmower kid. "do you know how to declare martial law? you know, you could also just not let him into the building. wh

. >> tucker: mike lindell, he sells pillows, why has he been censored? anyone who is censored has been wrong as an american. period. and the censorship of any person diminishes the rest of us and diminishes this country, period. it doesn't matter what they are saying, it doesn't matter if you agree with them, the fact that you disagree with them you should argue more forcefully and argue against the point they are making. anyone who has been censored is welcome on this show is one of the last venues you can speak whether you agree with them or not. a major court decision has just come down on joe biden's deportation order, a decision that completely upends that order. pretty amazing news, we'll bring it to you in just a moment. when you switch to xfinity mobile, you're choosing to get connected to the most reliable network nationwide, now with 5g included. discover how to save up to $300 a year with shared data starting at $15 a month, or get the lowest price for one line of unlimited. come into your local xfinity store to make the most of your mobile ex

, if necessary. >> hello, i'm mike lindell, inventor of mypillow. mypillows not only give you a great night's rest, but they're also the only pillows that whisper conspiracy theories to you as you sleep. the election was stolen by china... joe biden's dog is a satanic pedophile... nancy pelosi will be thehe next bachelororette... the secret is my patented shriek capture technology. >> the pillows are then quickly sewn shut and stuffed into plastic to seal in all my delusional juices! >> thanks to mypillow, i'm both well rested and ready to commit sedition. >> plus enter the code "lizard people" now and get 10% more paranoia. so what are you waiting for? the resolution starts now! take over, america! ♪ get a live pillow and supplicate democracy today ♪ >> announcer: it's "a late show" with stephen colbert! tonight's police- full transfer of power. tonight stephen welcomes senator cory booker and infinity song, featuring jon batiste and stay human. now at the at the ed sullivan tr office building in new york city. it's stephen colbert! >> stephen:

lindell inadvertently shared his homework with us. as you saw earlier in the broadcast, his thoughts on mart martial law, on who should run the cia for the next few days are clearly visible in photos. four years of this and the trump crowd has never learned the lesson of modern digital photography. we can see you. we could read, for example, when the president insisted to himself that he did nothing, there was no quid pro quo with ukraine when of course there was. how about that day he almost slipped and called his preferred chinese virus by its actual name, the coronavirus. i wonder if the parkland families who lost a child felt his sincerity when he told them "i hear you" as he was told to do on the card. some other greatest hits john bolton's 5,000 troops to colombia, something colombia must have been psyched to read about. and kayleigh mcenany's famously comical cross tabs on her binder, a veritable refrigerator magnet collection that included absurd, golf, goya, and wins back before we all got so tired of all the winning. here is

, if necessary. >> hello, i'm mike lindell, inventor of mypillow. mypillows not only give you a great night's rest, but they're also the only pillows that whisper conspiracy theories to

and by the way, even in the face of a lawsuit and lost business, lindell still can't offer any proof for his conspiracy theories for example, in an e-mail to nbc news, lindell said, "all the evidence against dominion is before the supreme court china and others used the machines to corrupt our election here's one page of the proof." the e-mail did not include an attachment when asked if he had mistakenly omitted it, lindell sent another e-mail with an empty attachment and a third with screenshots of illegible text we've all pulled that move when you're behind on a work project and your boss wants to see a draft so you pretend your e-mail isn't working. "here it is. hmm, that's weird, the attachment didn't go through can you try again? "sure, look at this. "that's just a picture of your thumb. [ flushing sound ] "mel oh there, you are. the trump presidency may be drawing to a close, but the dysfunction, the corruption, the authoritarianism, and the moral rot trump exposed within the gop and in our system will remain, and we can't just let it go. we've got to fix it. we have to hold ac

lindel said trump told him to turn over the material to lawyers working at the white house. what do you say, john? >> it's pathetic. it's surreal. but it's all too predictable. i remain surprised that people are surprised it's ended this way. when you rule by lies, and you live by lies yoru die by lies ad the president's obsession with strength was to mask his weakness. now he's alone, he has betrayed everybody. in his final days in the white house, he's talking about martial law and conspiracy theories with the my pillow guy. it's perfect in a way, if it weren't so perfectly tragic and sad as this man is still our president for a few more days. >> john dean, you know, the argument that donald trump jr. is making, by the way, i was surprised it took him a few days to think of it, but the whole idea that pre-planning would mean trump didn't incite it that day. you have people that were incited that day. some are saying so. preplanning would be beside the point, right, because i think we just made the case very clear for what trump did over months and months and months. so do

for the crime of having different opinions, mike lindell has been banned for twitter. several retailers have also stopped selling his products. that includes bed bath & beyond, kohl's, and kroger. it bed bath & beyond, kohl's, and kroger, just a few. when you support freedom of speech, you're no longer allowed to speak. that's the new rule. it's one of the last places in this country where americans are allowed to speak and we are honored to have him on tonight to give his perspective but want to note for you, the transmission line that connects his studio to our show got cut before the show. but thank you, he has faced time and is on it right now. thank you so much for coming on. >> that list is bigger, also the shopping channel, shop hq, they just keep turning in their pos and saying we don't want my pillow anymore. if >> tucker: so your views on politics whether viewers or anyone else agrees with them are not are the views of millions of other people, and you've expressed that. if you now been shut down it seems pretty clear they are sending a message. people in the

nonetheless, cnn's jim acosta got on the phone and talked to lindell briefly. lindell said that he talked to the president about five minutes, wanted to give him some information about election fraud. it sounded like the same kind of conspiracy theories we've been hearing many times before. one thing is for sure, mike lindell would like to see another term for donald trump, but fact of the matter is, that train has lost the station ever since the election's votes were counted. >> it's amazing that's the kind of guy who is in the oval office in the president's waning days, the my pillow guy who wants to rearrange the cia. think about that. the country saw a rare republican pushback this week. ten republicans voted to impeach him in the house. some lawmakers openly condemned the president for what he said last week. is he facing any criticism from within the administration? >> reporter: well, he sure is, and we're really starting to hear it, for example, the director of the national economic council, larry kudlow, who has been very loyal and careful to stay on me

lindell is the ceo of my pillow. he's a long time supporter of the president and his baseless claims about fraud in the november election and now there are reports that trump's departure ceremony at joint base andrews may look more like a state visit. that's per the president's request, douglas brinkley is a cnn presidential historian and a professor at rice university. good to see you. >> good to see you, fred. >> what do you make of these reports that the president says he wants, you know, a red carpet event, you know he wants a 21 gun salute. he's leaving office with his lowest approval rating of his presidency, at 33%. and clearly he wants, you know, a heroes sendoff. >> yeah, and he wants to be a -- he's going to be a showman to the very end. we need to remember that his -- he professes that his heroes were george c. patton and dou douglas macarthur. he likes the pomp and circumstance, military parades, wanted tanks, wants to rumble around washington, d.c. to celebrate the 4th of july. alas, we've got 20,000 nat

and, yesterday, twitter banned lindell. oh, that's nice-- no more fascist conspiracies to distract you from the toxic misogyny. but with mypillow in trouble, there's an opening in the market for conspiracy-spreading, as-seen-on-tv products. and one company is taking advantage with this new ad: >> eggs! they're impossible-- holding them, cracking them, making them hot. but not anymore, thanks to the egg whizzard! the egg whizzard makes perfect eggs every time, and it's the only kit pnteed to fight the secret cabal of satan-worshipping cannibals who control our water supply! no more messy counters! no more sloppy plates! no more george soros lizard men. the egg whizzard makes eggs easy! as easy as it was for mr. rogers to fake his own death and live under an assumed name in cuba until he receives the signal to return at the head of an army of child patriots and arrest bo and sunny obama! wn i tried the eggiz way a single product can make great omelets, fluffy meringues, and stop the trilateral commission from using ikea.com t

we saw mike lindell going into the west wing today. it was when he was leaving that a photographer captured his notes. that raised eyebrows. it talks about the insurrection act, martial law, the constitution and sidney powell. the president is committing in a video he's going to commit to this orderly transition of power, but he hasn't called joe biden yet and of course he's meeting with mike lindell. we're told it was a pretty brief meeting, but it does go to show that there are still people coming to the president with this information. you can't just walk into the white house. you have to be cleared in by someone, you walk in with staffers and are escorted to the oval office. that's what mike lindell did. >> just because you're a reality tv show star that was built on something that someone else wrote for you doesn't mean that you can be the president of the united states or that you will be an effective president of the united states, i should say. just because you built a business like the my pillow guy doesn't mean you are qualif

mike lindell, i reached out to him for a comment and did not offer a comment other than he wanted us to call him back. it's just an extraordinary commentary on who the president is surrounding himself with in these final days in office. >> certainly is. truly, truly hard to believe. extraordinary. let's turn to our experts for some analysis. we're joined by jamie gangel, our chief political analyst gloria borger, and deputy director andrew mccabe. now 25,000 u.s. national guard troops are expected to protect the nation's capitol during next week's inauguration next wednesday. we're watching as washington, d.c. effectively becomes a fortress. what do these preparations reveal about the current threat level? >> well, wolf, let me give you a little bit of perspective from another inauguration. so i was in charge of the fbi's security and intelligence and counter terrorism efforts for the -- for president obama's first inauguration. it was a huge event. we had significant concerns about domestic terrorist activity, things of that nature. and what you are seeing today is an order of magni

jim acosta over here actually talked briefly to mike lindell and asked him what was going on, and he said he talked to the president about five minutes, tried to give him information that was essentially about fraud in the election, but sounded like conspiracy theories we've been hearing for weeks and months. what is clear about lindell is he'd love to see this president get another term in office but that train has left the station especially after the votes were counted, fred. >> five-minute meeting. it takes longer to get into the building. >> reporter: absolutely right. >> joe johns, thanks so much fi white house, appreciate it. >>> still ahead, republicans walking a fine line, forced to choose between their loyalty to the president and loyalty to country. >>> plus, rioters facing theft, vandalism, trespassing charges. but what about domestic terrorism? why authorities may have trouble making the most serious charges stick. >>> and governors across the country are confused and angry after the trump administration promised coronavirus vaccines that are no longer in supply. the str

that's what lindell claims. of course, there's been no evidence of widespread voter fraud presented since election day. nonetheless, it gives you insight as to what trump is discussing as he waits in the last four days of his presidency to tick by. vice president mike pence has been filling a lot of public-facing duties at this time. and frankly is acting more presidential than president trump at this moment. pence on thursday called to be his soon to-be successor, vice president-elect kamala harris and offered assistance. and also hosted a briefing at fema. on the importance of keeping the nation's capitol safe on election day. that's something we haven't heard from trump. and cnn is reporting that pence was upset with the way trump handled the events on january 6th and there's clearly discomfort among administration officials about that day. house secretary alexa czar submitted his resignation letter this week, and in it, he criticized the way trump handled that insurrection, i want to read you part of that le

but that's what lindell said he told the president when he met with him yesterday. it gives insight to what the president is doing behind closed doors in his final days in office. meanwhile, mike pence has been taking on more of a public role, more of a presidential role, quite frankly, in the last days in the white house. pence called his soon to be succ successor vice president-elect kamala harris and offered her assistance and spoke to the fema director on wednesday. that's not something we've heard from trump in the last days but it is a role that pence has been filling. and pence will be the only one attending the biden inauguration. though we do not expect to hear a whole lot from the press shop either. press secretary kayleigh mcenany signed off yesterday. she's completed her final day. her deputy has left her position. so the press shop here at the white house, pretty empty heading into the last four days of trump's presidency. also, a third cabinet member resigned overnight. that would be house sector alex azar who submitted a letter of resignation in which

lindell has repeatedly claimed the 2020 election was a fraud. last week he was seen leaving the white house with some notes and documents with all kinds of conspiracies along those lines. dominion boating systems has also sent a cease and desist letter to lindell over his spread of lies related to the election. >>> we end today with an elementary school teacher from virginia among the national guards men currently protecting the u.s. capitol, yet he's still teaching classes from the back of his humvee. in between guard shifts he jumps online to teach his young students band lessons. he's a soldier for both the constitution and music education. >> i try to actually give an explanation ahead of time, explaining what's going on and to make sure they're not worried about us or me or anything like that. my wife is just awesome taking care of our 3-year-old son. his birthday is on sunday. i hope i get to see him. >> he says it's important to keep teaching his students while fulfilling the guard duties given the challenges of remote learning. talk abou

lindell seen leaving the white house with this page of notes appearing to say "martial law if necessary," telling abc news there was no mention of martial law in his conversation with the administration. the white house saying nothing was taken seriously and that the president has committed to a peaceful transition of power. with president-elect joe biden's inauguration just four days away, there are no plans for the outgoing president to come face-to-face with his successor. vice president mike pence will be present at the inauguration. and breaking the decades-long tradition of the outgoing president leaving from the steps of the capitol, as the trumps did with former president barack obama, instead president trump wants an elaborate sendoff. sources say he's requested a red carpet and a military band. by the time president-elect joe biden takes the oath of office, trump plans to be out of washington and on his way to mar-a-lago. despite the threats, the inauguration will still take place outdoors in the same location of that deadly riot. >> do you feel safe about wednesday based on t

mike lindel, the mypillow guy, has been kicked off twitter forever. earlier, bed, bath, and beyond, and other retailers removed his products from their shelves. twitter says it is a permanent ban because lindel would constantly make claims about the election that president trump won and, of course, he didn't. those are inaccurate claims, and lindel will not be on twitter ever again. back to you. >> maybe he should have just stuck with pillows. thanks a lot, scott. >>> all right. for those of you who like shopping at target, they're rewarding their workers. essential workers are given a big new year's bonus. all hourly employees in stores, distribution centers, and target headquarters will receive an extra $500. it's a thank you for those who keep them open, clean, and safe. this is the fourth bonus target has given out since the start of the pandemic. we have they've remained open. >>> they're behind some of the most iconic commercials of all time. for the first time since 1983, we're talking about anheuser-busch here. they're not going to advertise d

. >> reporter: the president did meet with my pillow ceo mike lindell in the oval office on friday. "the washington post" capturing this image of his notes appearing to detail drastic actions like martial law and an insurrection act. lindell confirming the meeting saying he presented president trump with an entire packet containing repeatedly false theories regarding election hacking. white house sources tell abc news say nothing lindell presented would be taken seriously or acted on by officials. meanwhile, the nation still reeling from a deadly riot on the u.s. capitol is now preparing for an inauguration and an impeachment trial. >> that president was impeached in a bipartisan way by the house of representatives. so urgent was the matter, they're now taking this to trial. >> reporter: that trial in the senate could be playing out during biden's first 100 days in office. >> we have to multitask, which means as with anyone, we have a lot of priorities, and we need to see them through. >> reporter: one of those priorities, getting congress to pass a nearly $2 trillion covid relief p

we saw mike lindell, the founder of my pillow. a pillow manufacturer, perhaps you've talked of him. he's been espousing the same silly conspiracy theories about the election the president has. he met with the president for about five minutes. i confirmed this with him on the phone this evening. he said that he brought some documents in for the president to see, claiming to be evidence of election fraud and the 2020 election and he says that president trump took that material and gave it to staffers, the other thing we should point out, mike lindell points out, at no point does the words martial law appear. if you look at a closeup, the words martial law do appear. it one of the strange type of things that are said in these documents and anderson, it's another example how the president despite everything that happened on january 6th, the fact people died because of these lies spewed by the president, he's welcoming people to the white house reinforcing crazy ideas about the election and mike lindell is one of those people and when i talked to him on the phone this evening, he just wa

lindell said he presented president trump with an entire packet containing repeatedly discredited theories regarding election hacking. white house sources tell abc news nothing lindell presented will be taken seriously or acted on by officials. meanwhile, the nation is reeling from a deadly riot on the u.s. capitol, is now preparing for an inauguration and impeachment trial. >> that president was impeached in a bipartisan way by the house of representatives. so urgent was the matter, they're now taking this to trial. >> reporter: the trial in the senate could be playing out during biden's first 100 days in office. >> we have to multi task which means as with anyone we have a lot of priorities and we need to see them through. >> reporter: one of those priorities, getting congress to pass a $2 trillion covid relief package, including $1400 in direct payments to most americans. rachel scott, abc news, washington. >>> still ahead, solving zoom fatigue in kids. how a bay area organization is getting their creative juices flowing. >>> and here's a live look outside at the golden gate bridge. it

there have been photographers over here, wolf, who zoomed in on some of the notes that mike lindell was carrying around. they appear to have very fringe ideas, just unbalanced views when it comes to the election. we're digging into that, trying to get more on all of that. it goes to show you even after everything that has transpired, they are still welcoming people over the white house who have fringe ideas about what happened on november 3rd. >> so disturbing. jim acosta, thank you very much. >> let's get more on the breaking news. chief political correspondent dana bash and "new york times" white house correspondent and political analyst maggie haberman. dana, i want to begin with why your new reporting that capitol police had banned tours for january 6th, the day of the deadly riot, after democrats raised security concerns. you obtained a copy of that memo. tell us what it reveals. >> that's right. our colleague, annie grayer and ryan nobles obtained the copy of that memo. i've done reporting along with them about perhaps what the genesis is of rereleasing the guidelines for no tours

yesterday we know that the president was meeting with mike lindell, ceo of my pillow, who handed him a document talking about more false allegations of voter fraud and even talk of martial law, according to a photograph of a document that lindell handed the president. and in just the last hour or so, wolf, rudy giuliani, the president's personal attorney who has been spear heading the efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election, he was spotted arriving here at the white house presumably for a meeting with the president. but as for the president, wolf, he has really been consumed with this second historic impeachment that he faces on the final days of his presidency. that's a big contrast to what we're seeing with vice president mike pence who just today was visiting a military installation in california, touting the achievements and accomplishments as he sees them of the trump administration's national security policy, these last four years. mike pence has also been doing other presidential duties, visiting with the national guards men who are guarding the capitol this week and also

zbl >>> twitter has permanently banned mike lindell, the ceo of my pillow. the twitter take false action against the account after he made the false claim the former president won the 2020 election. a spokesperson for twitter said lindell repeatedly violated their civil integrity policy it's unclear which of his posts led twitter to pull the plug. >>> it's launching a new program to combat misinformation twitter reports it's relying on users to flag misleading tweets. it's a problem with which the platform has struggled mightily. in the two weeks leading up to the election it flagged about 300,000 tweets for potentially misleading content the latest program called bird watch is more power in the hands of the users really the answer julia boorstin is here how is this going to work? >> well, shep, it's kind of like wikipedia. users will be able to write notes on posts to write context and clarity, and debunk misleading information here's what the new system will look like. a drop down menu will appear where users can answer why the tweet is misleading, and jud

the president's lawyers were very dismissive of mike lindell. he left frustrated. he felt he had one morbid to make to the president, try to find a way to overturn the election and obviously that's not going to happen with four days left. but he spent five or ten minutes with the president and then he was with the lawyers for some time. and even the president seemed fairly uninterested in his theories at this point. >> i mean, dismissive of him, but the fact that he got into the oval office, that tells you a lot, given that one of the pages, one of his notes apparently used the phrase "martial law". any details on that? >> reporter: it's unclear what his notes said. he told me last night that a lawyer that is, you know, in the presidential orbit gave him the notes to share with the president. he refused to say repeatedly what lawyer. he was handing off a packet. he left with a packet, the president did not keep it. you know, lindell has been a supporter of the president nonstop on television networks, at all of the rallies. he's kind of a celebrity in maga world, s

mike lindell. [ applause ] are you just on auto-clap now? [ laughter ] mike lindell, the mypillow guy. kicked off twitter. for posting the election was rigged over and over again, twitter had enough. can you imagine, 10 years ago, if i told you a former crackhead pillow executive would be kicked off twitter for helping donald trump overthrow the government? [ laughter ] i feel like we're not fully appreciating the comedy here. imagine if biden's closest adviser was the guy who invented the shake weight. it's incredible. if you wrote this character, you'd get an award. mypillow, the company right now, is having a tough go. business is suffering, as many big box stores take his product off the shelves. people are tired of the nonsense. it's time to say goodbye to mypillow, and hello to something more inclusive. >> it's a new era in washington. time for a new beginning. a new spirit of unity and common purpose. time for a new pillow. ourpillow. "snugger together." >> available at no more walgreens. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you know what? when the

but trump still has plenty of "only the best people" in his corner, including mike lindell, ceo of my pillow, who's been out there lindelling it like it is. >> so many votes came in for our president that the algorithms and machines broke at 11:15. they shut everything down at the exact same time, which is impossible, that somebody had to order that. i'm going to call my hand fraud, and i'm going to call my foot, that there was no fraud. all nine of those supreme court justices are going to vote 9-0 because here's -- is that a hand or a foot? they're going to go, it's a hand. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: well. why is there a shoe on it? [ laughter ] thanks, my pillow guy, now go back to sleep, please. crack is a hell of a drug, isn't it? [ applause ] president-elect biden is stocking his cabinet. today he announced a notable nominee for secretary of transportation, none other than mayor pete buttigieg, who you can see here he loves transportation. [ laughter ] running his butti-choo choo around the track. if confirmed by the senate, mayor pete would be the first openly lgbtq cabinet secreta

trump loyalist and tv pitch man mike lindell. lindell's paper, words like martial law and cia. lindell has supported the president's false claims of voter fraud. on capitol hill house speaker nancy pelosi keeping a grip on strategy for when she will send the new article of impeachment to the senate. >> you'll be the first to know when we announce we are going over there. >> the timing is crucial because a senate trial i expected during the early days. trump ally lindsey graham says that's too late. >> impeaching a president after he leaves office i s washington the final hours of his presidency. peter? >> kelly o'donnell at the white house this morning. thanks. we'll have complete coverage of the inauguration all day on on wednesday starting with a special edition of "today." >>> now to the other big story. of course we are covering the coronavirus. the trump administration's rollout of the vaccine is coming under fire who say they haven't been given what they were promised. it comes amid another painful milestone. more than 2 million dead of covid-19. the u.s. accounts for nea

mike lindel, the my business pillow guy, has been kicked off of twitter forever. earlier stores removed his items from stores. he kept posting inaccurate claims that president trump won the election and other falsehoods that hurt america. now as to how he sleeps at night, i would assume quite comfortably. >> also not with a crick in his back. thank you. >>> target is giving its essential workers a big new year's bonus. all hourly employees in stores, distribution centers, and target headquarters will receive an extra $500 as a thank you to those who keep them open, clean, and safe. this is the fourth bonus target has given out since the start of the pandemic. >>> and while children have been stuck at home for the past year, toy have skyrocketed. sales of skateboards, lego's, and other playthings grew by over $25 billion in 2020. that's a 16% increase from 2019. the trade group releasing the data says once families were in lockdowns, despisable incomes shift -- disposable incomes shifted from other types of entertainment to toys. toy sales also spiked after the fir

zbl >>> twitter has permanently banned mike lindell, the ceo of my pillow. twitter taking action against his account after he kept pushing the false claim that the former president won the 2020 election a spokesperson for twitter says lindell repeatedly violated their civil integrity policy it's unclear which of his posts actually led twitter to pull the plug. >>> it's also launching a new program to combat misinformation twitter reports it's relying on users to flag misleading tweets. it's a problem with which the platform has struggled mightily. in the two weeks leading up to the election, it flagged about 300,000 tweets for potentially misleading content this latest program called bird watch is more power in the hand of the users is it really the answer? julia boorstin is here how will it work >> notes to offer clarity and some cases debunk misleading information. here's what the new system will look like. a dropdown menu will appear where anusers can answer whether it's misleading, cause little harm or considerable harm. users can explain why the tweet i

lindell made false claims about the election and dominion voting machines. he was one of president trump's closest adviser on post election matters and presumably pillows as well. >>> we're talking about it on twitter. find me cgrew. >> thank you. >>> so with the question a lot of people want the answer to, when will the first dogs officially move into the white house? some news outlets are reporting that the german shepherds chance and major will move in soon and when that happens, history will be made as major will be the first rescue dog in the white house. stay with "today in the bay" as we will have all paws on deck on this story. >>> now to a -- i cannot get enough of that. a gymnast is making headlines again for her epic floor routine. >> have you seen this girl? it is amazing. it is all going viral this morning. take a look. ♪♪ >> this is nia dennis, the senior gymnast from columbus, ohio. the all american gymnast was part of the growing 2018 national title team. look at her go. social media going crazy for her after the most recent floor routine

the types of people now surrounding the president, people like mike lindell, better known as the ceo of my pillow, who is a trump loyalist, who as of late has been circulating baseless conspiracy theories about that riot at the capitol actually being a false flag by antifa. he was spotted going into the west wing yesterday, and a "washington post" photographer actually got a copy -- a photograph, i should say, of some of the notes that he was carrying, zoomed in on that and saw some pretty concerning language about possibly invoking the insurrection act, creating martial law in the united states, or sending a loyalist named kash patel to the cia as an acting director in the final days, just an indication of some of what the president is hearing as he tries to navigate his exit from the white house. >> yeah, some people reacting to that photo and that meeting, calling him the rasputin of the administration. garrett, to you and the insurrection and the new video emerging showing what that mob inside the capitol was searching for as they tried pushing past officer eugene goodman. we're

mike lindell says it's been dropped by bed, bath & beyond, kohl's and wayfair. dominion voting systems is threatening to sue lindell and he falsely claimed the company rigged that election. >>> another sign of the times in response to inauguration day, facebook banning weapons related ads at least through friday. the suspended ads are for weapons accessories, things like hollisters, facebook already banned ads for actual weaponry, including guns and ammo. the social media giant is expanding on abundance of caution. political ads are also banned. >>> hotels and rental properties in washington, d.c., would typically be sold out around a presidential inauguration. in 2009 and 2017, hotel occupancy was 97% but this year of course is very different amid the pandemic and the wake of the capitol hill riot. hotels are open but they tell cnbc they've beefed up security measures. airbnb is blocking all reservations in d.c. this week. >>> if you haven't gotten your tickets yet, get ready. after all $ 1.5 billion grabs is up for grabs in the next two days. we have two days

mike lindell says my pillow pedr the dominion voting system is threatening to sue him who visited the white house and falsely claimed that dominion rigged the election. >>> an oregon mother describing the moments after her suv was stolen but the thiefamback ci her fvi h chlo. here's megan tevrizian. >> reporter: this morning an oregon mother revealing a scary and bizarre encounter during a carjacking. >> it's that split-second decision that could just change everything. >> reporter: on saturday someone stole crystal leary's suv while it was this meat market in portland. leary says she left her honda running with her 4-year-old son inside as she ran into the store to grab a few things. that's when someone stole the suv and drove off. but then moments later to her amazement the man returned to the parking lot and threatened to call the police on her for leaving her son unattended. the man ordered leary's son out of the suv and then drove off again. >>s e get by, and we think we're just running in for a second, and this is just a perfect example of just letting our guards down and how te

mike lindell was banished from twitter. he continued to insist the election was rigged even after the u.s. capitol rise to left several people dead. harvard and yale are amongst the universities is endowments through digital currency. the biggest of those currencies, bitcoin, rose four-fold in 2020. that is the latest business flash. francine: this is what the markets are looking at. we had a correction yesterday because of a pushback, a possible delay in the recovery fund. global stocks mixed. we do have a bit of m&a news here in europe. worries about new virus variants. i am not seeing a lot on the market of volatile politics. tom: earnings coming in. a price move up to $4000, a nice lift for joe feldman. his enthusiasm on amazon. bitcoin is down a little bit. we need clarity on the american economy. it will be delivered by andrew of citigroup, next. this is bloomberg. good morning. ♪ tom: suddenly, yields reversed, schumer says a lack of stimulus until march. equity futures split this morning. the minority leader relen

mike lindell, my pillow guy, was in the white house on friday. the president may have only given him five minutes. these are the kind of people, rudy guiliani as well, spouting these utterly insane conspiracy theories about the election since november 3rd. that's what donald trump's circle is now. the people who have the capacity to act with wisdom and reason and rationality have almost entirely fled. there may be a couple. maybe pat cipollone, the white house counsel has some control of the president. this is the world of donald trump. it's the world we saw january 6th. it is the world he is going to walk out of the white house within a couple of days. >> gentleman, ken, john, thank you both very much for all of your reporting. >>> we have some incredible newly-released video to show you inside the siege of the u.s. capitol. how it will help authorities track down the trump supporters in this violent mob and just what they were saying and doing when they were in there. >>> this morning, we have newly released video to show you. it's been put out

meeting with mike lindell, the founder of my pillow, who has pushed conspiracy theories online. leaving the white house with this page of notes appearing to say martial law, if necessary. telling aks news there was no mention of marshal law in his conversation. nothing was taken seriously, and that the president has committed to a peaceful transition of power with president-elect joe biden's inauguration just four days away, there are no plans for the outgoing president to come face to face with his successor. and breaking the decades-long tradition of the outgoing president leaving from the steps of the capitol, instead, president trump wants an elaborate sendoff. sources say he's requested a red carpet and military band. by the time president-elect joe biden takes the oath of office, trump plans to be out of washington and on his way to mar-a-lago. >> that senate-impeachment trial could be starting as soon as next week but at this point, no clear strategy from the white house. rachel scott, abc news, the white house. >>> in the meantime, vice president mike pence is on a bit o

as you were saying lindell has been lying to the american people. what we cannot allow is use the microphone of twitter facebook, whatever that is to hurt our democracy. when you have these people lying to the american people, violating a policy of a private company, they can ban whoever they want. >> harris: i want to step in. i want to follow up -- it's an american issue for certain. an everybody issue but i have to say this. they get protection from section 230. it is more than just a private company. they can't have their cupcake and the favorite icing. they have to give up that section 230. i don't know if you read this morning headlines coming that twitter wants to use its users. it wants to enlist its users to fact check for them and to decide what should be on the platform and what should not. i don't know that that's necessarily a great thing because they will be picking and choosing, won't they, the users that will be doing that. >> yeah. the fact we would trust anybody in big tech to be fair to independent voices and conservatives is laug

that was just a day after mike lindell the ceo of my pillow who has been spreading conspiracy theories relating to the 2020 election was meeting with the president on friday night discussing those debunked allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election. adds the president does that what you are seeing is vice president pence beginning to fill a leadership void that the president has left in this final week in office. while we haven't seen president trump talk about the coronavirus pandemic, we haven't seen him really substantively address security around the inauguration, what you've seen vice president mike pence do is lead coronavirus task force meetings. on saturday we saw the vice president touting the trump administration's national security achievements as he sees them in a speech at a military base in california and just a couple days ago the vice president also calling vice president-elect kamala harris to congratulate here and offer his assistance as she steps into his role. all of this would be traditional in any transition, peaceful transition between administrations, but p

lindell has been on social media questioning the legitimacy of the election, and so even, you know, five days left before this president leaves office he's still associating with people who have been engaging in this, you know, ridiculous lie about what happened on -- what happened on november 3rd, and, you know, it is another sad commentary as to how this presidency is coming to an end, sort of like the way he's going to end it on january 20th leaving washington and the white house without doing the common courtesy of wishing his successor well, welcoming him to the white house and sending him off as all presidents do during a peaceful transfer of power, brooke. >> and from what i've read mentalial trump, not doing the traditional welcoming of dr. jill biden. thank you. >> you bet. >>> just ahead, the violent mob that stormed the capitol came within 100 feet of vice president pence and his family. many calling him a traitor there. still, he's sticking by this president. we're asking why. people were afraid i was contagious. i felt gross. it was kind of a shock after i started cosentyx.

the president says he is holding meetings and calls, on friday meeting with mike lindell the founder of my pillow who has pushed conspiracy theories online seen with this page of notes appearing to say marshall law is necessary telling abc news there was no mention of marshall law with the administration and nothing was taken seriously and the president committed to a peaceful transition of power with joe biden's inauguration four days away, there are no plans to come face-to-face with his successor and breaking the decades long tradition of the outgoing president leaving from the steps of the capitol, instead, president trump wants an elaborate sendoff, sources say he requested a red carpet and a military band. by the time president-elect joe biden takes the oath of office, trump plans to be out of walk and on his way to mar-a-lago. that senate impeachment trial could be starting as soon as next week. at this point, no clear strategy from the white house. >> vice president mike pence is on a bit of a farewell tour. he visited the naval air station in la moore yesterday. his daughter

was a flury at white house over the weekend, a number of characters going in and out, including mike lindel, the founder of my pillow only stuffed with human hair, mike's a former crack addict, there he is leaving the house, after mike that's the mover with the president's famous goldenk.commode, trump's friend the hamburgler stops by for a vizsla the -- visit and the qanon buffalo guy who lives with his mom. even as his reign comes to an end trump is still telling everyone he won the election. bill barr attorney general fell out of favor when he flat out told the president that is bull you know what. president was very unhappen yi when he confrionted barr who why would you say such a thing, up must hate trump. he uses the third person, he uses trump instead of me, so when trump goes to prison he can make the case he doesn't have to. the recount of monte cysto is fixated at getting revenge at the house who voted against him on impeachment and new detail who's will or won't represent him in the senate, rudy guiliani saying he can't be on the impeachment defense team because he was a witness

>> well, certainly these conversations with michael lindell, apparently a ten-minute conversation with the ceo of a pillow brand best known for running ads on fox news all day long. it shows the president is still hearing conspiracy theories, hearing people tell him he could somehow basically steal the election and stay in power. we know that's not true, we know it will be visible on wednesday, trump will leave. but he's still hearing people promote conspiracy theories to him. that is troubling. because it means that this big lie, this idea that trump actually won the election when he lost, this big lie will continue in his post-presidency. it could be the new lost cause. that's dangerous in america. however, i do think what's going to happen in the coming week is all the language we're used to, pro-trump, anti-trump, all of this kind of division that we've become accustomed to, some of it may go away a little bit. i know i'm not going to be pollyannaish about this. the idea of everyone having to choose a side, maybe that's going to fade away a little bit once biden takes office. we wi