Governors outrage after revelations that vaccine reserves promised by the Trump Administration dont seem to exist. Lets go out front, and good evening, im erin burnett. Out front tonight, the breaking news, the nation under siege. At this moment, the nations capitol turning into a fortress as more governors activate the National Guard in their states. Tonight that number at 14, and its growing. And it comes ahead of warnings of armed protests starting as early as this weekend. So what did the president of the United States, the leader of the country, do at this moment of need. He hung out with the my pillow guy. Remember mike lindell, known for pillows, known for telling the American Public to take a plant extract that would end and cure coronavirus. Look what he had on his notes as he met with trump. A Washington Post reporter caught it. The documents include the words martial law, and the constitution. Dangerous ideas still making their way inside the white house. So now because, you know, we saw mike lindel, we know what it meant, President Trump will have many calls and have many meetings. We know of one meeting with the pillow guy who came equipped with notes about marstial law. This is disturbing and embarrassing for us citizens and exposes painfulfully for everyone to see around the world for trump who is the current president of the United States is not working. Hes not doing the job of president. The person who is doing the job is Vice President mike pence, a man who refused to invoke the 25th amendment, which would have formally removed trump from the job. Pence is just doing the job anyway. This as the Washington Post reports that if that mob had arrived just seconds earlier to an area by the senate floor, seconds earlier than when they got there, they would have actually seen the Vice President. His life could have been in serious danger. I mean, just listen to them. This is what they said. Hang mike pence, hang mike pence. We came this far, what do you say . We have a job to do. We want to kill these people. We have a job to do. According to an affidavit, one of the men charged was heard on a you tube video quote, once we found out pence turned on us and that they had stolen the election, like officially, the crowd went crazy, i mean, it became a mob. We should note they officially found that out that pence was going to go ahead and do his constitutional duty as trump was speaking to them in washington. Of course thats when they officially found that out, but turned on us, the us being the attackers and trump against pence. And now team trump is trying a new line to save his political future and his business. So let me start by saying, federal Law EnforcementOfficials Say they have uncovered some evidence which suggests the attack on the capitol was a planned attack, not just a protest that spiralled out of control, although there were parts of it that were that. Instead of facing the dark reality that a preplanned attack would mean trumps words and lies over months caused the planning to overthrow the election. Pence and members of congress. Donald trump jr. Tweets if these federal Law Enforcement agencies had prior knowledge this was a planned attack, then potus didnt incite anything. Okay, before i put the facts out there, we want to make sure everyone is aware that trumps argument, not an argument, is being echoed by his die hard supporters. How does the president incite an attack that was preplanned and underway before his speech concluded. We know this was preplanned and it started while the president was speaking. This was a preplanned attack on the capitol. Which would have happened, rally or no rally or irrespective of anything said at the rally. In this was a planned attack, you cant be the president of the United States being accused of inciting a spontaneous attack when it was planned days before. Okay. The people you just heard there are not stupid. Theyre simply trying to put up smoke flares to confuse the truth. First of all, you heard that one person, right, involved, say once we heard at that moment mike pence was involved, we went and stormed, so there was an element of immediacy to it, but preplanned is not a relevant defense because trump for months and months has been stirring up the very people who attacked the capitol into a frenzy. He built up the lie and the violence, even before the election. Theres only one reason to fight it, they cheat. Were going to fight for the survival of our nation and civilization itself. Weve got to end it. Wit weve got to end the fight. We fight, we fight to win. We fight to win. We fight, we fight, put them down. Fight for the survival of our nation, civilization itself. All of that was before the election happened, and then he lost, and so he turned up the volume. We will never give up and we will never back down. Were fighting. Were going to fight like you never saw before. Were going to fight like you never saw before. Well, we had never seen a mob of americans attack the capitol and threaten to kill the Vice President before for the active encouragement of the president of the United States, and then, and then, trump turned on his own party for upholding the result of a Fair Election putting republicans who wouldnt go along with his lies on notice, so on december 18th, trump goes on twitter, and he says Senate Majority leader mcconnell and republican senators have to get tougher or you wont have a Republican Party anymore. We won the president ial election by a lot. All caps, fight for it, dont let them take it away. And then he kept pouring lighter fuel on the fire. Nearly every single day on twitter, every single day, and his people heard from rallies, to riot. Stop the steal, stop the steal, stop the steal, stop the steal, stop the steal. Stop the steal. And the mobs echoes of trump are everywhere. The democrats are trying to steal the white house. You cannot let them. They dont get to steal it from us. Were bringing our country back. We want our country back. This is our country. This is our house. This is our country. This is our country. So the video, the tweet records, the echoes, they all prove the case, but if you want to hear it from someone involved, listen to jacobs defense, facing six charges, violent entry, Disorderly Conduct on capitol grounds. Prosecutors claiming that after standing at the dias, that he wrote a note saying quote its only a matter of time. Justice is coming, and chansleys defense completely contradicts what trumps sycophants are now claiming, which is that trumps hands are clean. He loved trump, every word. He listened to him. He felt like he was answering the call of our president. Answering the call of our president. A call that we all heard loudly, clearly, consistently, repeatedly, for months. Giving the attackers time to plan. Kaitlan collins is out front at the white house tonight. Kaitlan, what is trump doing . Reporter well, so far the only meeting we have confirmed the president has had today is with my pillow mike lindel, a long time ally of the president and a republican donor, someone that we have seen pretty often at the white house or the president s rallies, but of course today adds a new twist to it. The president has been large i invisible this entire week. We have only seen him in the videos that the white house produced that came as we reported after much pressure from advisers saying the president needed to strongly condemn violence. We know he met with mike lindel, it was the notes he was seen carrying that is raising eyebrows about what was happening in the meeting. While the president said he was committing to a peaceful and orderly transition of power, he has not called joe biden. Hes not going to his inauguration next week. Hes going to be leaving town beforehand. If you look at the notes, they mention things like martial law, they reference the pro trump attorney that appeared at the press conference with Rudy Giuliani and spread a lot of lies about the election. They talk about moving officials over to the cia, that would mean firing the cia director. Its not clear, you know, what these notes mean, whether they were given to the president. We have confirmed they actually met one on one today, but no other details have been offered by the white house or by lindels side other than that. I think it speaks to where the president s mindset is, and its what we reported, he has not changed his opinion or view of whats going on in this election, despite that siege we saw on capitol hill, and this comes at a time when the president is increasingly isolated in the white house. Youre seeing a lot of his top aides depart this week, including larry kudlow, hes now criticizing the president in an outgoing interview. The press secretary is expected to leave today and go to florida and not come back to the office. Other top officials as well. You see who the president is surrounding himself in his final days in office. Thank you. Out front, john dean who served as president nixons white House Counsel and john avlon, author of wing nuts, how the lunatic fringe is high jacking america. John dean, multiple members of the cabinet have resigned. Others have left, the acting secretary of defense said yesterday that he quote cannot wait to leave the job. Theres not even a press secretary. Meanwhile, the president of the United States is meeting with the my pillow guy whos talking about martial law, firing the head of the cia, and, i mean, thats who got with trump one on one today. That was the person. Very striking but very typical of trump, who has been unorthodox, and untutored in the presidency since he arrived. Hes learned very little since hes been there. Hes as chaotic at the end as he is in the beginning. Most president s, the president i worked for worked right up to the last minute until he was removed. All the president s i have locked at, and i have looked at most of them worked right up to the end and some of them have to be pried away because they want to keep doing things even though its over. So this is very unusual but very tr tr tr trumpin. My pillow ceo mike lindel has confirmed to jim acosta that he met with President Trump, and tried to hand to the president what he described as evidence of voter fraud. Jim did confirm that to mike lindel who repeated some of the serious theories that trump has spouted since the election, all of which are untrue. Lindel said trump told him to turn over the material to lawyers working at the white house. What do you say, john . Its pathetic. Its surreal. But its all too predictable. I remain surprised that people are surprised its 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 hes alone, he has betrayed everybody. In his final days in the white house, hes talking about martial law and conspiracy theories with the my pillow guy. Its perfect in a way, if it werent 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 preplanning would mean trump didnt 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 you think that this will hold up during the trial . Erin, incitement isnt a single act. It is a process. It can extend over a long period of time. In fact, it can be months hes at work inciting this, and what i think, one of the things im not upset that the trial is not immediately being held in the senate to attest to the bill of impeachment, is it gives the managers time to gather everydeve evidence, and i think there is much more evidence that trump was deeply involved in the planning and aware of it. As former white House Counsel, i can tell you, i was informed of every major demonstration in the United States and particularly in the district of columbia. 50 years ago, we had sources of intelligence that infiltrated. I dont know how all they got the information. Got information from the cia, the fbi. There was no director of National Intelligence as there is today, so theyre even getting more, so i can tell you with assurance that the white house knew exactly what was going to go down and why it was going to go down and the implications of it. So i think when that comes out, its going to make trump even more vulnerable to conviction in the senate. Interesting an argument that time may not necessarily hurt. John averlon, we hear the protesters, hang mike pence, kill these people, and you take into account what the president had been saying days prior, about mike pence, hes turned on us, going the wrong way. We all know what happened here, right, the question is whether the republicans in the senate will acknowledge what happened, right . Right. I mean, but, you know, i think one of the reasons the fever began to break with this is they finally experienced the theory that has been stirred by President Trump for no reason other than his own ego satisfaction attempt to hold on to political power personally. It came home. And i think thats why there remains an enormous amount of anger at those senators who persisted in trying to overturn an election after they were attacked. This is about a constant drum beat, an environment encouraged by trump and his supporters and his chief enablers online and elsewhere that created an atmosphere of sort of making these people believe that they had to kill people in order to save the republic. Its a Conspiracy Theory gone wildly wrong because the president has pushed it. All right. Thank you both very much. I appreciate your time. And out front now, i want to go to one of the house impeachment managers, democratic congresswomen, diana, i really appreciate your time skpand it our understanding that the House Speaker nancy pelosi is going to send the impeachment article next week. Obviously Mitch Mcconnell wasnt going to reconvene the senate prior to joe bidens inauguration, but immediately thereafter theyre going to go ahead and do it. Is that your understanding as well . I dont think it has been decided from my perspective, erin, i heard that rumor today but i know that the speaker has been talking to Mitch Mcconnell and chuck schumer, and i dont know when it will be, but whenever it is, the impeachment managers intend to be ready to present our case. So what can you tell us about how democrats will present their case during the senate trial . Were still working on that. Obviously the crime was just, what, nine days ago. I just heard what you were talking about, about this latest defense that they seem to be throwing up as well. It was planned in advance. Well, it was planned in advance because the president told them to come. The president helped them plan it. He said come to washington, come to the white house, were going to stop this count. Then they all went to the white house and he said, go up to capitol hill and stop the count, and then they all went up and had a big riot, putting everybody in that chamber, including the Vice President at risk. So, you know, early in my career, i was a public defender, and sometimes you have tough cases like this, and you come up with crazy defenses like this because its all youve got. It just seems, well, weak to me. So, you know, the impeachment article mentions the georgia secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, so hes obviously a potential witness. Obviously trump called him, right, and raffensperger put that call out there, and trump said, repeated all of the baseless conspiracy theories and, asked him to find one more vote than the margin of victory of joe biden in georgia. I wonder as to your thoughts on the strategy here. We laid out in audio and video and tweet trumps role in what happened on wednesday. The Brad Raffensperger part of this is almost a separate point about election fraud. Are you concerned it could confuse the issue to merge these things together . Well, were still talking about our trial strategy and how were going to present it and any good lawyer is not going to divulge their strategy in advance, but we are obviously looking at all of the pieces of the article of impeachment and planning to present a robust case, and really, it strikes me when were talking today, every person that was in the capitol complex is a victim, including the senators who are going to be hearing this case, so theyre the jurors and the victims. So you heard the argument don jr. Is making, i know you were talking about it, it took him a few days to get to this, if Law Enforcements say this was a planned attack, potus didnt incite anything. Obviously thats completely bogus, but you can hear his supporters, Rudy Giuliani, others in congress, the loyal few remaining echoing it. How do you respond to it . Well, i will say one thing about the trump people, theyre very good at echoing a message. We have seen that for four years. But its a ludicrous message because what theyre forgetting is that donald trump was part of the planning. Hes the one in many different, you played right before this in tweets and other venues, he said come to washington and help me stop this. And then when they got here, then he said, now were all going to march up to the capitol and were going to stop this. So thats really a pretty weak defense. Congresswoman, i really appreciate your time. Thank you very much. Thanks, erin. Great being with you. And next breaking news, writers came dangerously close, reportedly within 100 feet of V