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Eviction. >> a federal ban on evictions expired midnight last night after congress failed to extend the moratorium. missouri congresswoman cori bush slept outside the capitol steps friday night to draw attention to the crisis. listen to her. >> when you sleep outside on the ground you are open and you are vulnerable to all of the elements however, whatever those elements are, it was cold last night, now its super hot. we have been here. i have on the same clothes i had on last night. im dirty im...

Including yvonne bryant. >> i dont want to be on the street. >> reporter: yvonne bryant lost her job in the pandemic and has been struggling ever since, one of more than 6 million americans behind on their rent. how far behind are you on your rent? >> three months? i might be hopeless any day. >> in protest some progressive house democrats rallied on the steps of the capitol overnight calling on their colleagues to come back to washington to extend the moratorium. leigh ann caldwell is on capito...

This fire has destroyed about 250,000 acres and 42 buildings. a new member set to join the british prime ministers boris johnsons family. carrie johnson announcing she is pregnant with their second child. johnson says that she hopes to welcome their baby around christmastime. as we saw this week, johnson cant quite handle how to open an umbrella. so we could only hope that hell be able to handle fatherhood a little bit better. >> that was so sad. >> it was incredibly sad. and prince charles wa...

We cannot just allow humans-- seven million of them, possibly-- to, over the next few weeks, be sent out to the streets. >> reporter: after a night of camping out on the capitol steps, missouri representative cori bush was joined by senator elizabeth warren. >> weve got 11 and a half hours for the c.d.c. to step up and say were going to extend the moratorium. >> our states and our localities need to push the money out. the money has to be released. >> reporter: but the white house says a recent ...

January 6th is true. you know, theyre resisting the full investigation into what happened that day. some of them are even saying these were tourists who came to the capitol, that they werent intending harm. you look at this video here and theyre clearly intending harm. these are violent rioters. >> i just want to play one more piece of sound, and it is when he talks about mike pence. >> i always liked mike. i was very disappointed and so were a lot of republicans, very disappointed. because had ...

Nature of the crowd what would have happened if they made it through the doors, body cam video of what happens to police officers engaged in literal hand-to-hand combat with the mob. officers like d.c. metropolitan police officer michael fanone, who suffered a heart attack after being dragged down the capitol steps, beaten unconscious, and tasered by the mob. officer fanone has since tried to get republican lawmakers to publicly denounce the lies about the deadly attack, to get them to stop tryi...

Stupid to be running. >> reporter: republican joey xwil bert a former boxer turned lawyer is launching a bid for nevada lawyer. >> im not a politician. i am probably going to be doing this, called running for governor. >> reporter: the announcement coming just months after gilbert says he was in washington and scaled the capitol steps january 6th. >> one of the most beautiful things ive seen, people on the capitol steps, walked right up when i went up there. >> reporter: uncysts he never went in...

He knows me well enough to know the introduction i prefer is a little bit shorter. im a christian. a conservative and a republican, in that order. and i am -- >> john, isnt that wild given that mike pence has been a christian conservative, i mean, since, i mean, since birth, i think? >> well, i cant vouch for his childhood years but the seriousness of the situation is you cannot compromise with this kind of corrosive crazy. mike pence is never going to make the people who were trying to -- chant...

Riot? >> yes, i was in washington, d.c. >> reporter: -- to the campaign trail. f. election integrity is not the number one issue of these guys running, then they are either lost, confused or too stupid to be running. >> reporter: republican joey gilbert, a former boxer turned lawyer says hes launching a bid for nevada governor. >> im not a politician. i never want to be a politician. let me tell you something i am probably going to be doing. thats called running for governor. >> reporter: the an...

Lost, confused or too stupid to be running. >> reporter: republican joey gilbert a former boxer turned lawyer says hes launching a bid for nevada governor. >> im not a politician. i never wanted to be a politician, but let me tell you something i am probably going to be doing shortly and thats called running for governor. >> reporter: the announcement coming just months after gilbert said he was in washington and scaled the capitol steps january 6th. >> one of the most beautiful things i have ev...