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I hope you are hunkering down. John, you first. President biden met with republican senators for two hours tonight on covid relief. Senator collins called the meeting excellent, but their plans are incredibly far apart. So where do these negotiations stand now . I think were going to wait and see if the republican senators are willing to come up. Joe biden and his team have made pretty clear that fast is important to them and big is important to them. They reiterated that after the meeting tonight. Good discussion, got to be big. Well, the republican proposed package was onethird the size of what biden has proposed, and in addition to that it left out a musthave for democrats. That is state and local government aid. This is something democrats have been demanding for months, republicans have been resisting. The fact it was left out of the republican proposal is an indication that this wasnt a serious offer intended to really gain a response from biden. Question now is whether the republicans want to show that they want to make it hard for joe biden to turn away and do an all democratic route through the budget reconciliation process. Right now it is easy for biden to turn away and do that. It looks like he can control all 50 votes. If they come up significantly, biden might be tempted but he is not right now. Anthony, democrats can go it alone if they stick together, and biden knows a lot of Struggling Americans support a big bill. So why wouldnt he go with what people want over bipartisan support . Well, he may very well do that. I think john may be right. I guess hes just wanting to see what the other potential outcomes are. I predict he wont do that, by the way. It is just maybe my biases that the president wants to see if he can create some level of unity, don, but he certainly could do that. Bernie sanders is telling people that he has the votes, meaning the 51 votes so he could just ram it through. But i think he is trying to create a different environment in washington right now, and, hopefully, the republicans will come up. If they dont, then they will likely do that, don. So, anthony, listen, i dont disagree with your analysis. I know it is just you analyzing it. In any other time i would say, okay, fine, and i think most people would say that. But in a time where people are desperate every single day when they cant pay their bills, when theyre worried about putting food on the table, all sorts of things, every single minute hurts. Every single minute counts. So, listen, im all for the Lesson Teaching and the kumbaya, but it doesnt help folks who need the money, they need a check and they need it right now, you know what im saying . They need Covid Testing and vaccine and they need it right now. I agree with you. I got my 11day ph. D. In this nonsense. Im just telling you how it works. I said last year i know that, that was my caveat. If you do the math, they probably need a 3 trillion stimulus versus a 1. 9 trillion. Were at war, and i think theyre quibbling over this stuff but it is what they do. John, also tonight Mitch Mcconnell speaking out, calling Marjorie Taylor greene a cancer, but she is fighting back. It is not clear who is going to win this fight right now. Well, the House Republican leadership has been pretty weak in taking this on. Obviously mcconnell is right. Over the long term the more influence and visibility people like Marjorie Taylor greene get the worse it is for the Republican Party. She is crazy, and if you identify people like that as at the center of your political movement, as donald trump did by this phone call with her and she came out and said that donald trump had had a great phone call with me, and that suggests that donald trump is elevating her. And Mitch Mcconnell is trying to call out that threat. It is belated, of course. The republicans have tolerated pla Playing Foot Sisey with some ofe elements that produced Marjorie Taylor greene for a long time. But Mitch Mcconnell has lost his majority. He wants to win it back, and i think it is inescapable at some point, the republicans have to take this on unless theyre going to simply meltdown into a party of fanatics and basically all collegeeducated people with normal lives are going to graph date out of there, if they dont call it out. Lets talk about that phone call, anthony, that Marjorie Taylor greene had with the president this week. Do you think it is why she is feeling more empowered, so empowered to take on Mitch Mcconnell . Maybe, but i think she is nervous. I think thats a bombshell from Mitch Mcconnell, and i think that, you know, the real person here is kevin mccarthy. I mean im almost sad about where kevin is at this point in his life. About five years ago he said to me that we needed more thermostats in washington as leaders, not thermometers, meaning people just checking the temperature. We needed to guide people. If there was ever a moment to guide people, it would be her removal, don. So i just think hes wildly ambitious now. He wants to be the speaker of the house more than anything, and i think he is losing his principles and his judgment related to this. I think i think senator mcconnell is basically sending a message to him and other republicans, we better lead here and start to excise people with this sort of nonsense. Thank you, gentlemen. I appreciate it. Lets talk about how urgent the need is right now. Covid hospitalizations are beginning to decline, but january was by far the deadliest month of the pandemic. Over 95 th,000 americans lost tr lives, a 25 increase since december. Think about it like this. Of the over 440,000 people who died in the virus in the u. S. , about 22 of the deaths reported in january. 22 reported in january. With more than 470 kicases of t new more contagious variant in the u. S. , experts are warning that the worst of the pandemic could be yet to come. Thats the moment we are in. Joining me cnn medical analyst dr. Jonathan reiner. Thank you very much. 32 Million People have been vaccinated and the pace is picking up, but the new variants are alarming, some warning they could overwhelm the u. S. As early as march. It is a race against time to get vaccines into arms. It certainly is, don. But im really optimistic. Were seeing cases plummet in the united states. We havent seen this few people hospitalized in still quite a bit, we havent seen this few people hospitalized since the weekend of thanksgiving. What were going to see now with hospitalizations dropping very quickly is were going to start to see deaths drop. So were in this really important window of opportunity to get shots in the arms, and were averaging about 1. 4 million vaccinations per day, which sounds good but we need to do a lot better because dont forget some of those vaccinations are second shots. We need to maximize the number of new people that get vaccinated, and there are some interesting ways to do that, but thats where all of our priority should be, vaccinating new people right now. The task force is urging state Public Health officials not to hold on to second doses, saying the Vaccine Supply will be steady and reliable. Right. Will that make a big difference in terms of getting those Vaccination Numbers up . Yeah, absolutely. So nationwide weve given about 66 of the vaccines that have been distributed. It various, you know, from state to state, but on average about 66 . We need to give all of the vaccine that is distributed into arms as soon as that can be done and rely on the pipeline to resupply for the second shots. I had a conversation with a Government Vaccine Scientists last week who said to me, you know, it really doesnt matter at all whether the second shot for the Pfizer Vaccine is given at four weeks or the Moderna Vaccine given at five weeks or six weeks. It really makes very little difference. What does make a difference is getting immunity on board, and the way to do that is to maximize the number of shots now. States should be using all of the vaccine they have to vaccinate people right now. Theres also growing evidence that people who have already had coronavirus could be reinfected by the new south african variant in particular. This is what dr. Anthony fauci told cnn about that. Here it is. If it becomes dominant, the experience of our colleagues in south africa indicate that even if you have been infected with the original virus that there is a very high rate of reinfection, to the point where previous infection does not seem to protect you against reinfection. So how do we stop these variants from spreading and mutating any further, dr. Reiner . What dr. Fauci also said is if the virus can replicate, it can mutate. I need a tee shirt that says that. I think thats really the bottom line. If you stop the spread of the virus, you stop the virus from mutating, and thats what we do now. We mask up and we get shots in arms. We are on our way, we really are on our way. We have the ability to have Herd Immunity by summer if we continue to increase the number of vaccines we get into people now. Dr. Reiner, thank you. I appreciate it. So my pleasure. Parts of the northeast and mid atlantic getting pounded by a major snowstorm, a noreaster. More than 15 inches of snow falling here in New York City. Lets get to cnn correspondent evan mcmorrow santoro. You got the assignment. Good to see you. This storm is bringing massive disruption, huge snow totals and significant flooding is now possible. What can we expect . Reporter well, here in New York City the good news is probably not the kind of flooding weve seen before. Even though forecasts do call for the highest storm surge this city has seen since Hurricane Sandy back in 2012, this also is calling for only minor flooding in lowlying areas, but flooding is a part of this storm, don. Let me show you some footage from sea isle, new jersey, a town on the Southern Coast of new jerse new jersey. You can see significant flooding already. Forecasters are saying that flooding may continue even into wednesday. It is a big storm, as you mentioned. 16 inches of snow on the ground. Only a couple of inches away from being one of the top ten storms in New York City history, and here it is a snow problem. In new jersey right now it is a Flooding Problem, and it could be somewhat of a Flooding Problem here in new york in the future, don. Those pictures of flooding brings back, i mean, those horrible, horrible pictures and memories of Hurricane Sandy and the plaflooding that happened t. Thank you. Be safe out there. The former president s Second Impeachment Trial Set to begin next week. A member of his legal team making pretty clear tonight what theyre worried about, the videos from the scene of the crime. I think one of the Biggest Challenges we have as parents is finding an outlet or something that your kids enjoy doing with you. Wanna build a Gaming Business that breaks the internet . That means working night and day. And delegating to an experienced live bookkeeper for peace of mind. Your books are all set. So you can finally give john some attention. Trusted experts. Guaranteed accurate books. Intuit quickbooks live. New details tonight about the house impeachment managers case against donald trump. Sources tell cnn they plan to argue the former president incited the insurrection by intentionally pushing a monthslong campaign to subvert the will of the voters and illustrate the horrors of the Capitol Attack in visceral detail using video and tying the carnage back to trumps words and actions. Here is what his new lawyer david schoen said on fox news tonight. Does this country really need to see video tapes . We know now apparently mr. Swalwell and the other managers plan to show video tapes of the riots and people calling in, people being hurt. Police officers talking. Why does the country need that now . We would stipulate there was a riot that went on that day, it was a tragedy. President trump has condemned violence at all times. Read the words of his speech. It calls for peacefulness. It has nothing to do with president trump, and the country doesnt need to just watch videos of riots and unrest. We need to heal now. We need to move forward. Joining me now former democratic senator doug jones of alabama. He is now a cnn political commentator. Good to see you, senator. Well, he tried there to make his case. You just heard him saying, trumps attorney saying theyre worried about showing those videos from january 6th. Should they be worried . Yeah, of course they should, don. I mean thats kind of typical. You know, i was a prosecutor, i also did some defense work, and you never want to have, you know, pictures of a victim. You never want to have, you know, those kind of details that come out. You always want to argue that it is too prejudicial to do that. Of course he doesnt want to do that. That was the result, that is what the impeachment is all about, the result. It wasnt just the words. It was the result of the words, and so i would absolutely be stomping around, trying to keep it out, but i dont think hell have any success doing that. They also plan to argue, senator, that trump intentionally incited the rioters over many months. I mean you just you just talked about that a little bit, but over many months to subvert the will of the voters. Why is that important and how would you hammer this point in trial . Well, i would do just that. What i would do is i would try to build this. This is more, i believe, for the House Managers than just simply about that one day on january 6th. This is about the speeches ahead of time. It is about the tweets. It is about a carefully oh traited orchestrated plan to get a lot of people in the country convinced an election was stolen, absolutely convinced, and then move from that to a place where they would riot on the Capitol Steps. I think you have to have the building blocks, all of the pieces. Theyre just like a puzzle of any trial, don. You just have to bring the pieces together, and they culminated with all of them coming together on January The 6th at the mall with the speech and then marching down to the capitol. And what about the people who received the brunt of this . I mean even beyond the lawmakers because the lawmakers never really came into contact, close contact with the insurrectionists, but the Police Officers who ware willing to be witnesses, and some of them say that before the insurrection even happened when they heard trumps words from their professional training they knew that they were in trouble, that something was going to happen . What about them . Will they be called as witnesses or should they be called . Well, i think they should be considered given that kind of testimony. Look, what happened at the capitol was the ultimate result of all that had happened for months, but when you have got a Police Officer, someone who is defending the capitol, someone who is essentially acting as an expert witness, and thats what this would be, talking about listening to the president s words, listening to other peoples comments, members of congress and others, and knowing from their experience and their history, their training, their professionalism, that something bad may be in the works, i think that thats relevant. Now, theres a lot of pieces, again, to this puzzle, and they should probably at least be talked to, to determine whether or not to call them. I think theres going to be a really interesting dynamic about whether or not they call witnesses or just show the tweets, play the videos, play the speeches. We have been saying over the course of the past couple of years you cannot write this, and, senator, you really cant. Listen, the second Impeachment Trial is coming up next week. His previous lawyers quit over the weekend, all of them, because he he wanted them to argue his big lie, and they refused to do it. Republican senator john cornyn says it would be a disservice to trumps defense to focus on his baseless election claims but, you know, he is a wild card. If he goes there, how will the republicans, can they defend that . I think it is going to be really hard to defend if they go there. This can be if he wants to defend on the m