Right now, washington, d. C. And all 50 State Capitols are hardening their defenses. Theyre bracing for large, possibly violent armed protests leading up to inauguration day. These images here arent what youd expect to see around the seat of americas government, and its not just around the u. S. Capitol building. Much of official washington is sealed off in all directions by trucks, barricades, troops, armed security. The National Mall is closed. Up to 25,000 National Guard troops are pouring into washington from all over the country. Authorities say the immediate threat appears domestic extremists upset by Donald Trumps election loss and emboldened by the deadly capitol siege. The fbi warns all 50 State Capitols could be targets. Most of them have greatly enhanced their security. For his part, the president elect has readied about a dozen executive actions as soon as hes sworn in. Well have more on that in just a moment. But we begin with cnns shimon proc ewe pes and the scene right now in fortress washington. Reporter roadblocks like this all across washington, d. C. The National Guard now patrolling almost every intersection across the district. This is a check point. This is one of the areas where sometimes cars will come through, the National Guard will ask for i. D. , will ask for credentials to allow them to come through. This is blocks from the capitol. The perimeter across the capitol, across washington, d. C. , is wide. Every iconic structure from the white house to monuments to the National Mall fenced in. Everything around there has fences. Authorities here very concerned over the threat that the district faces, and also the threat that much of the country is facing. Shimon prokupecz, cnn, washington. As mentioned, joe biden plans to get right to work the moment he becomes president on wednesday. Cnns Arlette Saenz has most details. Reporter president elect joe biden is readying dozens of executive actions to sign once he takes office on january 20th. Many he outlined during his president ial campaign. The first day alone he plans to sign a dozen executive actions, some of them undoing policies from the trump administration. One will rescind the travel ban on travelers from majoritymuslim countries, something President Trump unveiled early on in his administration that biden plans to undo. The president elect is also planning to rejoin the paris climate agreement, something that was negotiated during the obamabiden years that President Trump pulled out of. There are also items relating to the pandemic. Biden will be halting foreclosures and evictions, something thats happening right now, as well as keeping that pause on payments for Student Loans and interest. The president elect will be issuing a 100day masking challenge, trying to get people across the country to wear masks. While biden doesnt have the authority to mandate masks everywhere, he can do it in federal buildings and interstate travel. This cexecutive actions are joining bidens legislative priorities. Hell be sending an immigration to congress in his first 100 days. He has also unveiled a 1. 9 trillion covid stimulus relief package. Something hes hoping congress can get to right away. What the president elect is making clear with these executive actions is hes looking to hit the ground running on january 20th. When donald Trump Leaves Office on wednesday, hell have just about the worst Approval Rating of any u. S. President after the first term since scientific polling began. Just 33 now approve of him, 60 disapprove of his job performance, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. Hes also facing an unprecedented second impeachment trial which will likely start after joe bidens inauguration. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to set that process in motion next week. As trump enters the final days of his presidency, hes spending most of his time away from the public eye. Cnns Jeremy Diamond has that part of the story. Reporter silence on social media, now becoming the first president in American History to be impeached twice. President trump spent his last weekend at the white house holed up inside the building behind closed doors with no Public Events listed on his schedule. What we do know is President Trump was still meeting with some of his advisers, rudy giuliani, the president s personal attorney, who led the president s efforts to try and overturn the results of the 2020 election which he lost. He was spotted at the white house on saturday. That was just a day after mike lindell, the ceo of my pillow, who has been spreading many of these conspiracy theories relating to the 2020 election, he was also meeting with the president at the white house friday night, discussing many of these debunked allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election. And so as the president does that, what you are seeing is Vice President pence really beginning to fill a Leadership Void that the president has left in this final week in office. While we havent seen President Trump talk about the coronavirus pandemic, we havent seen him really substantively address security around the inauguration what youve seen Vice President mike pence do is lead Coronavirus Task force meetings. On saturday we saw the Vice President touting the trump Administrations National security achievements as he sees them in a speech at a military base in california. And just a couple of days ago the Vice President also calling Vice President elect Kamala Harris to congratulate her and offer his assistance as she steps into his role. All of this would be traditional in any transition, peaceful transition, between administrations. But President Trump has avoided all of those niceties, all of those traditions, during this period of transition. No communication between him or president elect joe biden. Of course, President Trump is not planning to attend joe bidens inauguration. Instead, sources are telling us that the president is expected to leave washington on wednesday morning before, just hours before that inauguration, to head to his maralago resort in palm beach, florida. But the president has been asking aides for a last taste of the trappings of the presidency, asking for a huge militarystyle sendoff. Its not clear whether that will happen at the white house or at joint base andrews before President Trump sets foot on air force one for the last time as president. But that is what he is looking to do. Hes also hoping to have a large crowd of supporters there to send him off in his final hours as president. I want to bring in Jessica White, an expert on terrorism and domestic extremism. Shes with the uks Royal United Services institute, the worlds oldest defense think tank. Thank you so much for coming on to speak with us. You wrote a piece at the end of november called farright extremism steals the show in 2020. Seems prescient to say the least. What surprised you most by what you saw january 6th and what are you expecting to see across the country on january 20th . Thank you for having me this morning. I think, you know, obviously that piece was written before the events of january 6th. And i cant say that i didnt expect something of that kind to happen. I mean, unfortunate as it was. I think we should expect to see more of the same kind of protests and potential violence. Obviously everyone is gearing up for that. I think, you know, long after the transition happens, there will be the need to sort of ratchet back, ratchet down the polarized nature of the political discussion in an effort to sort of to lessen the base of support for farright extremism in the United States. The trust needs to be rebuilt in the democratic process and the public conversation brought back to the discourse of moderate and collaborative politics. I think that will take some time. And i think we should be ready to deal with what might happen before that. I mean, whos the onus on there for that . You know, theres i imagine only so much that President Biden can do. Is it on republicans to sort of dial back and maybe distance themselves from President Trump and his rhetoric . I think the onus is on everyone, actually. I think its on all politicians and its on the public themselves as well. I think there is a need for everyone to sort of push out the extremist discussion out of the mainstream political conversation. In the last several years theres been uptick in how much Conspiracy Theory and disinformation has made its way from social media into mainstream political and public conversations. So i think its the onus of everybody, you know, from the president down to the public, to make an effort to sort of push the extreme out of the mainstream. I mean, the growth of that extremism. It predated President Trump. But, you know, it certainly took off and was emboldened during his administration. Do you see that changing with a new president in the white house . And how do you think that the new president will confront this . Do you think authorities will be sort of better equipped to deal with rightwing extremism under a new administration which might be less liable to undermine them . Yeah, i mean, i think under the Biden Administration that he will put more attention and more focus on sort of the resources and the research thats needed to understand how to dial back the base that they have developed over the last several years. Like you say, far right extremism is not a new thing, but its been given a new voice. And especially with the polarization of u. S. Politics and with the pandemic and the racial inequality movements in the last year, and before that, these are all feeding an environment that makes it very easy for them to sort of grasp on to narratives that are running. So i think, you know, theres certainly there needs to be resources put towards an engagement with National Security organizations as well as state and local governments and Civil Society and how to handle this and to, you know, to sort of lessen its base of support. And i think that the Biden Administration will put more attention to that, yes. You mentioned the Movement Towards racial equality. Im wondering, many republicans, certainly many in the rightwing media, have sort of tried to establish an equivalency between the growing violent extremism and black lives matter, antifa, things like that. Are there is there any merit to that . Or, you know, are they completely distinct and shouldnt be mentioned in the same breath . I think they are distinct. They have distinct ideologies, both of them. They have distinct purposes. Obviously violence is violence, and that shouldnt be upheld by either side or any of the participants. But i think, you know, they are not the same thing. No, i dont mean the same thing. I just mean that are there similar social forces operating in the sense that growing inequality, frustration over the status quo, things like that . Yeah, certainly. You know, i think they polarize each other. You know, one sort of is a circular process of where black lives matter or similar farleft, if you want to bring them into the conversation, farright, these are all going to feed off of each others activities and narratives. Although, you know, they have different purposes, and i would say that there are legitimate grievances that need to be acknowledged and addressed in an open way, you know, while trying to reduce the sort of negativity that they feed off of from each other. Yeah, so much work still to be done. 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We need President Biden, secretary becerra, to restore some competence and sanity to figure out what the hell is going on. And if they have extra doses, to get them out. The cdc is predefecting the uk variant could become the most dominant form of the virus here in the u. S. By march. Los angeles county has now reported its first case of that covid variant from the uk. Its also become the first u. S. County to report more than 1 million total covid cases. California Health Officials are rolling out a massive Vaccination Campaign in an effort to stem the spread. Cnns Paul Vercammen has more. Reporter a ray of sunshine in los angeles on this unusually warm day. The mega testing site at Dodger Stadium is up and running, and business is brisk. You can see behind me the cars are snaking through these cones. And these are filled with people who are medical workers. Thats the first wave here in los angeles. The cars stop at some point, and they get the shots in their arm, in their cars. They then wait 15 minutes or more to make sure that they dont have any allergic reactions. Down the road they hope to process 12,000 vaccinations a day. And it could not come at a better time, as Los Angeles County has passed the grim milestone of 1 million covid19 cases. This has been an ordeal for the medical workers, the firefighters, the volunteers. All those people behind me down in that parking lot who have been trying to get ahead and stop the virus from spreading. Working nonstop, theyre working hard. Talked to a captain who had two hours of sleep, trying to set this up, trying to set up the logistics part of this huge ontaking here at dodgers. You see him, and he has a smile on his face. Because hes doing everything he possibly can, humanly, to make a success, to make us efficient. Reporter one of the concerns at Dodger Stadium is the supply of vaccine does not get stuck up somewhere in the pipeline. They say they have enough to keep on putting shots in arms until wednesday. But this one glimmer of good news in Los Angeles County, which has been so hard hit by coronavirus. Reporting from los angeles, im Paul Vercammen. Back to you. Infectious disease expert dr. Steven pardy joins me from san francisco, Permanente Medical Group at keizer permanente. Thank you for joining me again. We just heard the catastrophic situation in l. A. County, the situation terrible across the state as you well know. You know, you help oversee some 21 hospitals, 4. 5 million patients. What are you seeing on the ground there . Yeah, it is very busy right now. We have over 3,000 hospitalized covid patients, 650 are in the icu, and its time to put this to a stop. And the possiblization efforts for mass vaccination are critical right now. Were deeply involved with it. Numerous other Health Systems are involved. And this is really going to take all hands on deck to put a stop to this pandemic. Yeah, thats what i want to get to. 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