And demanding the release of inmates from a local jail they are. Police declared an Unlawful Assembly and ordered that crowd to leave. The former assistant u. S. Attorney, andy mccarthy, warned that chaos could continue to overwhelm authorities. The police can maintain law and order as long as you havent lost order in the first place. When order has been lost, conventional Police Departments dont have either the resources or the tactical expertise to restore it. Sandra dan springer on the ground reporting live from seattle. It could have been a lot worse. Yeah, sandra, it was a volatile situation last night in tacoma. You are right, it could have been worse, but Police Responded very quickly to what they thought was a breakin nearby, and that may have prevented bloodshed. They did make two arrests last night of people who were allegedly trying to pick locks at a building near these protests. Police say it appears they were trying to get on the roof where they could monitor the police response. They were dressed in all black with tactical riot year ski masks on. One had a gun, the other had knives and batons. During the riot, people broke the windows of cars and buildings including a candy building. Which houses the 911 call center. Seven people had to be evacuated for their safety. At least one fire was set. The anarchists were demanding the Police Officer involved in the incident saturday night be sired. They also demanded that all inmates at the county jail released. The spark was a night earlier when a tacoma Police Officer who had responded to a large group of street racers ended up surrounded as some people pounded on his patrol car. After moving slowly at first, he gunned it and ran over at least one person. A statement from the two, police said the officer feared for his safety and went on to say the officer had his lights and sirens activated while trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position. The officer drove forward, striking when individual, and may have impacted others. This follows other riots in portland and seattle over the last five days. The democratic politicians in those cities have not condemned the violence, and neither has President Biden. And biden is calling for unity, boy, it is falling on deaf ears when he fails to address the lawlessness we are seeing on our streets today as people are violated. What weve seen this year as a result of these socialisttype democrats not condemning the violence among us as we are seeing the defunding of the police. One person remains hospitalized from that incident saturday night, the other person taken to the hospital is released. The officer is on paid leave while the incident is being investigated. Sandra . Sandra dan springer lives in seattle for us. Thank you. John and just moments now white house Pescatore Jen psaki begins, each day bringing a new focus for the administration. Today is buy american monday. Peter doocy live in the Briefing Room at the white house. What is the president looking to accomplish today . President biden talked about buying American Products that hes going to tweak the policy with an executive order of his son, and we saw him sign a reversal of the pentagon policy that banned Transgender Service members. All qualified americans will serve the country in uniform, and essentially restoring the situation before with transgender personnel, if qualified in every other way, can serve the government in the United States military. Bidens pledge as a candidate was to repair relationships with allies, and his very first foreign leader call was with Prime Minister justin trudeau, who had it with some bad news. Our neighbors to the north are upset that biden pulled the plug on the permit for the keystone xl pipeline which canada was hoping to keep going. The white house tells us this about that call. The president acknowledged Prime Minister trudeaus disappointment regarding the decision to rescind the permit for the pipeline and reaffirmed his commitment to maintaining an active Bilateral Dialogue and to further deepen cooperation with canada. Remember, last week on his way out, President Trump tried to lift covidrelated travel restrictions on people coming into this country from the u. K. , the e. U. , and brazil. They are supposed to be lifted tomorrow but the Biden Administration is pointing out that joe biden is now president , they dont want that, so theyre going to keep those restrictions in place in their signaling they might actually strengthen. We will hear from press secretary jen psaki in about 5 minutes. John youve got what is called the letter a seat, not quite center rail, but we know that you will be representing us well there today. Peter do you see, thank you so much sandra . Sandra lets bring in former reagan Economic Advisor art laffer, former obama Economic Advisor robert wolf. Welcome to both of you. We love having each on. I dont know if he ever had you on together, so thisll be fun. Take this on first, buy american strategy. It sounds awfully familiar to what weve heard from President Trump. The first 10 minutes of President Trumps inaugural address back in 2017, he uttered the words buy american and higher american. How is this different . Hello, robert, how are you connected to see you, sandra. Its not different. It has been done by president s from eisenhower on. To buy american is supposedly to create u. S. Jobs. The point is that buy america is not a very good policy. If you can get quality products at lower cost from abroad, that makes the text. Ill go further. But also what you need to know is that americans export in order to gain the wherewithal to buy imports. If you prohibit the imports, he will cause export job losses in the u. S. Its a loselose situation. Every president has done it, republican and democrat, and theres no Holding Joe Biden at risk. Its a normal procedure. Sandra that it was a central pillar to his campaign, wright, robert can he planned to revive domestic manufacturing. Does this policy get us there . Every president does this. Buy american is a good thing. When you get into the deep dive of policy, to arts point, we can have debates to whether it is truly jobcreating or not. That said, the idea that the president will take federal tax money, 400 billion that goes to the government, and use it for american procurement, thats a good thing. Its good that we are buying American Made with u. S. Taxpayer money. It lowers the cost on things. To arts point, they are a consumerdriven country. We have to make sure we pass on these goods and services, that we are pressing it right. I think overall this is not a surprise to anyone. The president comes in, buy american is a good tagline. Sandra lets take on the 1. 9 trillion stimulus proposal. Its a big number, art. We hope that it helps struggling americans. You look whats in it, 1400 direct stimulus checks, 400 weekly Unemployment Benefits extended to reopen the schools, 350 billion to assist state and local governments, but this florida rep, carlos gimenez, has been bemoaning the hidden stuff and that massive plan. Listen. Everything he sang, if thats all thats in that covid19 package, i think youre going to find broad bipartisan support. Again, its the other hidden stuff in there that adds billions and billions of dollars that has nothing to do with covid19. It is somebodys pet project or somebodys agenda, that they are really trying to put in under the guise of covid19. Sandra knowing we know today to mechanic at the bipartisan support it needs . I dont know if it can get it. It should not get it. To be very honest, government doesnt create resources, it redistributes them. Whatever it gives to one group of people, it takes from another. Its just a plain old tax, especially if you have an appointment benefits. To pay people more for being unemployed i think is an economic mistake of the first order. When you look at some of these other things that go on in this program, these programs, they are counterproductive. I will take you back to fdrs secretary of the treasury. At the end of all of fdrs. Not, they added billions of dollars to the National Debt and the economy has not improved at all. This is not a stimulus plan, this is a redistribution plan that will hurt the economy over the long haul. Sandra robert come to that point, even republicans will admit people need these checks. They need help now. But where is the talk when we hear biden revealing these plans about rio being the economy . That would help more people than all of this. First, we have all agreed that there is no Economic Health without Public Health. This release plan, not a stimulus plan, it says it making sure we attack the pandemic. Vaccine, distribution. I think theres like 400 billion going right to the pandemic. So we should be clear. For us to open the economy, we have to get control of the pandemic. I would say secondly it is helping Small Businesses. Art and i are both big supporters of Small Businesses. One in every five or six Small Businesses sandra weve got everything youre laying out. The concern is the hidden stuff that gets packed in there. Thats fair. By the way, im not saying the 1. 9 trillion should pass. My point is that it should be about 1. 2 trillion to 1. 5 trillion. It should be purely for covid relief arendlief and those who n impacted the most. My guess is itll pass but not at 1. 9 trillion. Theyll be a argument especially on the minimum wage. Sandra we will learn more today sandra, can i just say, i agree with robert on that totally. I just want to make sure the covid relief part is wonderful. Sandra absolutely. We will have you both back. Thank you. John . John good discussion, sandra. Today marks the start of former President Trump second impeachment trial. The impatient managers are said to deliver the articles of impeachment to the senate around 7 00 p. M. In a formal procession. Democrats are united to convict, but republicans are divided. Theres no question that the articles impeachment sent over by the house suggests impeachable conduct. I think the trial is stupid and counterproductive. We already have a flaming fire in this country and its like taking a bunch of gasoline and pouring it on top of the fire. John we expect the child to begin february 9th. It would take a twothirds majority, 67 senators, to convict former President Trump. Now, sandra, there is question over who is going to preside over all of this. Looks like its not going to be the chief Justice John Roberts. It could be kamala harris, the Vice President , or senator Patrick Leahy of vermont, the president pro tem of the senate. That is in question right now. Sandra we will talk to senator cornyn about that at the top of this hour. Lawmakers calling for an investigation into parlers role in the capital, expansion right. They say facebook and twitter deserve a look, too. Plus, senator josh hawley sounding the alarm over cancel culture. Why he says america is inching close to the Chinese Communist party. Our own howie kurtz joins us on all of that, next. They are losing faith and trust, and this is not a new sudden development. This has been taking place for years. 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Singers safelite repair, safelite replace. John republican senator josh hawley of missouri slamming socalled cancel culture in the New York Post oped. He warns that the United States could end up like communist china on this conservatives unite against the growing trend. The oped is titled, its time to stand up against the muzzling of america. Howard kurtz joins us, Fox News Media analyst and a host of media buzz. Howie, good to see a pit in the oped he writes, social Credit Scores at the latest corporate import from communist china where the government and big Business Monitor every citizens social view and statements. Hawley claiming this the latest manifestation of socalled cancel culture. L, i dont like cancel culture, and i understand why josh hawley is ticked off after he led the senate tried not to accept the Electoral College results. Schuster canceled his book, loews hotel canceled a planned fundraiser. His book has been picked up, he has this oped in one of americas biggest newspapers, hes got a twitter account, he can speak out on the floor, and he can give interviews and hold news conferences. John so not exactly stifling free speech, but at the same time, howie, if hes getting his book pulled by simon schuster, he mentioned its being published by another publisher. But if corporations are taking actions against people, that certainly sounds like cancel culture. Sure, but the First Amendment battle is not quite right, because corporations are private, companies that have the right to support or not support anybody in public life. Josh hawley take certain actions, a Publishing Company or hotel says, we dont want to associate with this guy, you have that right. America says he can support lawmakers. This is smart politics from josh hawley. He wasnt that well known, he is said to be eyeing a White House Run in 2024, he energizes the Republican Base by promoting the idea he is being unfairly punished for fighting with donald trump against President Biden being formally accepted as the 46 president , and that is good politics in the Republican Party where trump still holds considerable sway. John we should point out that while hawley was canceled, if you will, there are a number of democrats who fought the Election Results, none of whom have been canceled. After him because the briefing is getting underway in the brady Briefing Room at the white house. Lets go to jen psaki now. Secretary psaki about the pandemic and the work our whole of Government Team is doing every day. You will all be able to participate within those, as well. Finally, i think finally, this morning President Biden issued an executive order saying the policy that all americans who are qualified to serve in the armed forces of the United States should be able to serve. Todays action revokes the president ial memorandum of marce revocation of the president ial memorandum of august 25th, 2017. Todays action fills another campaign promise. No one will be separated or a discharge from the military or denied reenlistment on the basis of gender identity, and for those Transgender Service members who are discharged or separated because of their gender identity, their cases will be examined. President biden believes that gender identity should not be a bar to military service, and americas strength is found in its diversity, america is stronger at home and around the world when it is inclusive. A lot going on here, this afternoon the president will sign an executive order that ta