Completely unprecedented. Heres what they said. Theres nobody there. Thats, you know, thats not the business of the park services, that were in. Were in the business of welcoming people and providing access to these sites. So i think when the 20th gets here and there are few, if any, people around, its its, i think its going to be unfortunate, but it is being done to guarantee that the constitutional mandate of a peaceful transfer of power on january 20th takes place. Reporter from here on out gets harder and harder to get into d. C. Metro closed 13 Public Transit stations and bricdges from virginia to d. C. Close tomorrow through inauguration and weve learned the faa will more heavily restrict the all very restricted air space around washington. An Inauguration Day like no other. Like you said, unprecedented. D. C. Is shut down right now. Thank you so much, pete. Also learning much more about some of the people that the fbi says stormed the capitol two weeks ago, and that includes Ril
Rioters, accusing her of stealing Speaker Pelosis laptop and then trying to sell it to the russians. And amid this heightened security, the arrest in the capital. The man with an unauthorized credential, a gun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Martha raddatz with late reporting tonight. President trump spending his final hours isolated in the white house. What our team is learning tonight about any selfpardon or pardons for his family. The president now planning a militarystyle salute for himself, not attending the inauguration. Will there even be a phone call to the incoming president elect . Meantime, president elect joe bidens first plans after taking office. What he will do on his first day. Mary bruce standing by to go down the list tonight, from the coronavirus to Student Loans to the Keystone Pipeline and the paris climate deal. The pandemic tonight nearing a chilling milestone in the u. S. , set to reach 400,000 american lives lost. And tonight, the cdcs new and chilling pr
A lockdown downtown here in washington with just two days to go until joe biden is worn in as the 46th president , and an extraordinary move by the fbi this morning that we are now learning about, with as many as 25,000 members of the National Guard expected to be on hand after the january 6th attack on the capitol, the fbi now vetting those troops over concerns about a possible insider attack. We should point out there is no evidence of that. We are live with the latest reporting and with this chilling new look at the siege of the capitol, with never before seen video released by the new yorker. Where are they . While were here we might as well set up a government. Its only a matter of time. Justice is coming. That video making clear some of those attackers were on a mission to track down members of congress. Over at the white house the man impeached for inciting those riots remains out of site and offline but its not all quiet in the west wing, new details on President Trump preparin
Third obama term. A lot of people who worked in government before and we didnt hear a lot about their transition planning. The transition was so different this year. I think the reason they were able to take all these actions so quickly is because they knew exactly what they wanted to do, working on them and know the language they want to use. There might be legal challenges. I think because they had all this Establishment Experience they were ready to go on day one. Bill two things i would add. I wonder if its a nod to the difficulty of getting some of this done legislatively in congress with it 50 50 and i agree it feels like 2016 this morning. It does. Bill now the work begins. Dana we have to move forward. Inauguration is behind us. Bill overnight on the west coast. Check it out. Dana violent protests erupting on the west coast demonstrators in portland smashing windows at Democratic Party headquarters. More on that in a minute. Bill want to bring in White House Correspondent peter
Bidens cabinet nominees appearing before Different Senate committees today as they start the confirmation process. Next hour, secretary of state Anthony Blinken is set to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for whats likely to be a contentious hearing. Among those grilled earlier was Homeland Security secretary, being pressed on the Migrant Caravan heading toward the United States. If youre confirmed as secretary of Homeland Security, this is the message they need to hear when they arrive in the United States. This is not the first caravan that has approached the border over the last four years or the last 12 years. Theres a commitment to follow our asylum law, to enforce our asylum laws and that means to provide humanitarian relief for those individuals who qualify for it under the law. That cannot be accomplished with just the flick of a switch and turned on in day one. John we have Fox Team Coverage as we kick off this edition of america reports. We have more on the