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points means. it's good or bad for brady? he gets three points. >> bill: probably good for him if you think he will win. >> dana: the over/under. >> bill: i think it's 56. >> dana: i don't know what that means. >> bill: total combined scores. it could be a track meet. we'll see. >> dana: maybe harris can tell us. >> bill: "the faulkner focus" now. >> harris: we will continue to follow the journey of capitol hill police officer brian sicknick who died from injuries sustained while protecting the u.s. capitol on january 6th. he is lying this. the bloodiest day in decades for the f.b.i.
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a man opened fire yesterday on f.b.i. agents attempting to serve a child pornography warrant. after he spotted them on his security camera, killing two of them, wounding more. the bureau identified those agents as 43-year-old laura schwartzenberger and we do not yet have the photograph of 36-year-old david alfin who also was killed. three other agents wounded. a live report from sunrise, florida, is coming up. president biden is set to meet with democrat senators at the white house this hour on his covid-19 stimulus plan after suggesting that republicans counter proposal is dead on arrival. biden told top democrats he wants a big, bold package and the party is prepared to pass it without republican votes despite the president's push for unity and working together. i'm harris faulkner and you are
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in "the faulkner focus". democrats are fast tracking a stimulus plan despite lacking any republican support as the president faces increasing pressure from the far left of his political party to act. but democrat senator joe manchin is warning against passing a bill along party lines. >> we are going to make this work in a bipartisan way. my friends on the other side will have input and we'll do something we agree on. i'm not going to do it just down the lines of saying party line vote. it has to make sense and if it's out of the realm that makes sense we built too much trust up among each other to allow this to fall apart. they can count on me to make sure we do everything to make this bipartisan. >> harris: now post columnist michael goodwin wrote this. if biden is sincere trying to unite the nation there is only one option, take the gop gift,
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joe. also in focus this hour republican congressman andy biggs who just returned from visiting the southern border. he will join me with a new warning on joe biden's move to dismantle former president trump's america first policies. our power panel on critics calling out democrats' double standard as they push to strip a republican congresswoman of committee assignments and lawrence jones is here on the campaign to recall california governor gavin newsom. they need 1.5 million names. they have more than 1.3 million. they are getting close to putting that on the ballot. first let's begin with larry kudlow, former director of the national economic council and we begin on our top story. larry, good to see you this morning. first of all, getting to the middle. is that just a fantasy? where should democrats and republicans and the president trying to get to at this point? where should they be trying to get to?
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>> well look, michael goodwin is a friends of mine and a very smart guy. it would be lovely if we had a more moderate bill. in fact, i'm not really sure why we need stimulus because the cbo is saying 2021 is a big growth year. imf is saying it will be stronger in the u.s. i think we have a v-shaped recovery. we haven't spent the earlier so-called stimulus or assistance and seems like minimum wage increases are job and prosperity killers if you ask me. so is killing the fossil fuel industry and so is open borders. which is going to be a job killer along the border. the logic here is completely wrong. one last point on this. there is a turning point here with respect to covid, which of course is the biggest driver. we have to get the economy and the schools completely open, okay? that's not coming from stimulus.
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now, the 26 million total covid cases so far, guess what? we have now over 33 million vaccinations. 1 1/2 million per day. so the vaccines are beating the cases. the cases by the way, are hooking down. these are all very positive signs for the economy. i would give money out if you want to help the covid process, to help solve the cases, to help solve the vaccination distribution. that's fine. i don't know why we need the rest of that package. the gop moderates have a decent idea. democrats are not going to buy it. they'll run through. it is being pulled to the left. national review editor rich lowry, my pal, says the most leftist presidency so far after two weeks. may well be right. we'll see. i don't expect miracles here.
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they will drive through their agenda. it will be counterproductive for the economy in the longer term. >> harris: i wrote that down. you know, i didn't think it would be a miracle it would take when president biden before he became president said he could do this bipartisan. you see a push from senator joe manchin. quickly before i move on. how much power does joe manchin have in all of this? >> he has a lot of potential influence. so does senator sinema from arizona. but i just think i'm not optimistic about this. you know, the democrats might lower the threshold for individual assistance, get it back down to $40,000 or something like that. but the thrust of that package is probably going to go through. i am concerned though, harris, let me throw this in before we move on. there is a lot of talk,
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elizabeth warren and others pushing for higher taxes now. that's very counterproductive. >> harris: you mentioned arizona senator sinema. before she was a senator she was known as a congresswoman for going with president trump about 60% of the time on what he supported. you mentioned democrat senator elizabeth warren. i'm glad you did. renewing her push for a wealth tax, larry. she plans to introduce legislation slapping a 2% tax on americans with assets valued over $50 million. with a tax rate rising for higher asset levels. what does that do to the overall economy? >> it is a job killer. it is a prosperity killer. look, the left has always said oh, tax cuts for the rich, the rich don't pay their fair share. yes, they do. the rich so-called, however you measure that, the top 1%, they pay about 40% of the income
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taxes, okay? people in the middle once you get down to 50,000 or 60,000 dollars those folks don't pay hardly any income taxes. the trump plan lowered business taxes and individual taxes, lowered them and guess what? incomes went up for the middle. incomes went up for the lower rungs. you know. the geese that lay the golden eggs are the folks who are the investments. the best friends of the middle class worker. they start the investment that generates the productivity and new technology and new generation tools and equipment. that in turn raises productivity, that in turn raises real wages for families which is exactly what happened in the prior four years before the pandemic. why unravel that? it's a religion, a left wing theory that has no basis in fact whatsoever. don't go there now.
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this is a terrible idea. >> harris: larry kudlow, i could listen to you all day. you bring two things together. you bring positivity and facts together. even if the facts are tough, you've got a positive plan to go forward. i wish you could just shout it from the rooftops. we'll use "the faulkner focus" to put it in focus today. i have to let you go. i'll bring you back, i promise. >> if i got a second we should persuade the unity should be in calm persuasion, not name calling. both sides need to get rid of the extremists who are violent prone. let's grow the economy, help the american workers and school kids. this shouldn't be that hard but i fear it may be. >> harris: got it. you said calm persuasion plus facts. good to see you. the f.b.i. is investigating now that deadly ambush on agents in florida that happened yesterday.
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remember this hour we were telling you about it and saw first pictures. the shooting turned into one of the most bloody days in the f.b.i. history. daniel alfin and laura schwartzenberger who you see on your screen. the f.b.i. now is paying tribute to the fallen. >> dan and laura left home this morning to carry out the mission they signed up for and loved to do, to keep the american people safe. they were valuable members of the f.b.i. and will forever be heroes. >> harris: steve harrigan is live in sunrise, florida with the latest. >> officials are calling it a dark day for the f.b.i. this apartment complex behind me a gated community around a lake is where that gun fight
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went down. it happened just before dawn at 6:00 a.m. when a child pornography task force was trying to enforce a search warrant on an apartment. two agents killed, three agents wounded. of those three wounded two were hit with multiple gunshot wounds. they're in stable condition in the hospital. the third wounded agent was treated on the scene. as they approached the apartment, according to miami herald, which cites unnamed law enforcement officials it is said that the suspect fired from inside the apartment through a closed door with an assault rifle hitting the agents. he was apparently monitoring their approach on a doorbell camera. a nearby swat team came in armored vehicles to join in the fight and headrest cue one of the wounded agents. the two agents killed are being mourned by the f.b.i. as fallen heroes. >> the f.b.i. is a family.
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in our chosen profession it is fraught with danger. today this grim reality has taken two of our best from our family. >> those two agents leave families of their own behind. alfin leaves behind a wife and one child. schwartzenberger leaves behind a husband and two children. harris, back to you. >> harris: steve harrigan, thank you very much from florida. republicans are accusing democrats of a double standard for trying to remove a republican congresswoman from her committee post. while protecting one of their own. matt schlapp, leslie marshall, the power panel moments away as they debate. plus the approval ratings for california's governor have taken a nose-dive as a recall petition is picking up steam. they have over a million signatures. republicans say this is what happens in a state with one-party rule. >> if you want to have the
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t now. it's a relief to know >> i don't think myself greene should lose committee assignment. you have democrat members of congress last summer who said we need more unrest in the streets, shannon. while there was unrest in the streets. if that's not incitement i don't know what is. we didn't say that individual should be kicked off their committees. >> harris: thanks jim jordan accusing democrats of a double standard over that your push to
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strip congresswoman marjorie taylor greene of her committee assignments. they're meeting today on that issue. one editorial said miss greene won and judged how she handles in office. democrats have pranks in the ranks. ousting a member of congress has been left to the voters with the exception of criminal behavior. democrats were silent when omar remarked political support for israel was all about the benjamins, which many saw as anti-semitic. some house republicans are pushing an amendment to have omar stripped of her committee posts. it was pretty much crickets from democrats back in 2018 when representative maxine waters called for the public harassment of trump white house officials. waters chairs the powerful financial services committee. power panel slides in now.
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matt schlapp, leslie marshall. double standard or something else? >> i give nancy pelosi and the democrats great credit. they will -- they control almost everything in washington but yet they will put the republicans on the defense for one member of congress. and i think this is all part of this cancel culture. the democrats are brilliantly trying to cancel the election from voters in this district in georgia by saying their selection of ms. greene is somehow beyond the pale. what i would say is we didn't endorse her tear american conservative union. we were aware of some of these social media posts. she has the right to be asked these questions and to give answers if her answers are well outside the mainstream and voters in georgia don't want her to be their representative they'll send somebody else to congress. that's how the democratic process works.
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>> harris: let's talk about what is going on on the left side of the aisle and compare these situations, leslie. because, you know, anti-semitic remarks count. they are offensive. so should democrats also be willing to kick out one of their own? >> i find as you know i'm half jewish, i find anti-semitism very different than threatening lives and violence. i don't want to get any quote wrong. here we go. quote, put to death regarding the f.b.i. this is from marjorie taylor greene either liking these post. hang them regarding former president obama and former secretary of state hillary clinton. she berated and called false 9/11. hartland and sandy hook. >> harris: nobody is excusing this behavior.
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do you let the voters figure it out both for greene and for omar and potentially for others? how do you handle it is the point. we all know what dangerous behavior and offensive behavior. we know what it looks like. do you let the voters decide or do you want to take that away from them? >> you are not taking away from the voters their vote if she remains a congresswoman. but the republican party do have a responsibility not only to their party but to the nation and there are republicans among the family members of parkland and sandy hook who said they don't want her on the education committee making decisions for our children when they have -- >> harris: if the voters want to be represented in the high profile ways. >> they didn't vote for her to be on the education committee. they didn't vote for her to be on the education committee but a member of congress. >> let me speak to this. as far as being a member of
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congress is your ability to serve on committees. the thing that is ahistoric here is somehow the democrats reaching across the aisle no not unify but disparage and remove committee assignment in mccarthy's conference. it's a fair challenge to republicans that part of our responsibility, which we i think have risen to the challenge with members of congress like steve king and others, there are times to reprimand your own colleague. if your challenge is to kevin mccarthy to look at what she has said, i think that's a fair challenge. my answer to that if i were -- if that question was posed to me would be all questions are fair game for politicians. they deserve to have -- to give answers about how they think and they deserve to vote. this is a premature attempt to smear the entire party after that terrible violence that occurred on the capitol. i think we're trying to make politics out of things we shouldn't make politics. there is a system.
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go through the system. let her answer. if you don't like her answers, take her own. >> harris: let them all answer. i don't hear leslie saying let's not talk to omar as well. it would be interesting to hear from these people saying these things. look how they do it in other countries, the videos that go viral with kicking knees in parliament. they can go around the tough issues and it gets tough on the floor of the house or senate or whatever. but just to stop the process is what i was asking about. why can't you let it go forth? at matt says let them answers the questions for their tweets or thoughts or whatever it is. we'll move on. thank you, both. chicago public schools at an impasse with the teachers union over reopening classrooms. how mayor lori lightfoot is somehow blaming former president trump for the stand-off. and this. >> unless you have the i.q. of
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>> i want to make it clear there is a lot of talk with good reason about the number of executive orders that i have signed. i'm not making new law, i'm only eliminating bad policy. this is about how america is safer, stronger, more prosperous when we have a fair, orderly and humane legal immigration system. >> harris: president biden there defending his latest executive orders on immigration which aim to address what he
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has called the moral failing of the trump administration. his words. those orders include creating a task force to reunite migrant families, implementing a new three-part plan for migration across the southern border. our border with mexico. and reviewing all federal policies that have set up barriers to our legal immigration system. again that's a quote. but republican senator john kennedy says legal immigration is not the concern. >> unless you have the i.q. of a sloth, you know the difference between legal and illegal immigration. illegal immigration is illegal, duh. vetting people at the border as every country does is not racist. it is prudent. it is how we enforce our immigration laws.
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>> harris: republican congressman from arizona andy biggs joins me now. great to have you. your recent visit to the border what warnings and cautions are you issuing based on what you saw. >> i would like to say if we don't get back to building the fence we'll have huge gaps. we've displaced a lot of workers already to do that but moreover, some of the safety that is there when you build the fence in the areas where you have the fence is going to be basically undermined and we're seeing that already. different areas have become the hot bed for human smuggling and drug smuggling of the border and the other side of the border. we need to get back to finishing the >> harris: i'm curious how fast it reverted back to that. we moved beyond that point in some areas. why the quick, you know, clap back? >> what happens is because of
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the incentive policies that the administration has announced you have people amassing on the other side of the border. as soon as they stop building we have big gaps where we've taken down barbed wire and there is nothing there now. they'll keep coming across. i'm hearing that they are getting slammed right now. >> harris: congressman, you and some fellow republicans went south. that's what i just told our audience. now we'll get more detail this week where they are building the border wall that had stopped. it was going on, now it stopped. you tweeted this. we observed the equipment these workers left behind as they were forced to leave the project. it was a sober reminder not just of the callousness toward a secure border but of the wasteland of lost jobs in the wake of biden's radical policies. we reported on the impact of president biden ending the keystone pipeline, for example, and you say this also deserves
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that level of attention, if not more. why? >> well, when you get down there you really are reminded how many people were working. this is the first time in many months that i've been down to the border where i haven't seen crews going day and night to put up fencing. all those crews are gone. all this equipment is sitting there. i talked to one of the developers or builders of the wall just yesterday. he is working on infrastructure. they'll lay off an additional 60 people this week. he doesn't want to lay them off but they don't have the work. that's one more aspect of this that humanity aspect that is forgotten these people making good wages, working hard, skilled labor, and they are out of work all of a sudden. >> harris: i know that area well, we got married down there. when you talk about 60 jobs you don't just mean 60 jobs. the collateral damage of that spreads. there are so many small
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businesses supporting those efforts. democrats are preparing to debate a resolution stripping congresswoman marjorie taylor greene of her committee assignments because of past statements in support of conspiracy theories. you are proposing the house instead strip congresswoman ilhan omar from her committees over past statements that both republicans and democrats have deemed anti-semitic. our power panel got into this. i come to you for the facts of the situation. how will this go forward? >> well, looks like they may not actually have the rules hearing today. we'll see how it plays out. the democrats actually have the authority to remove marjorie taylor greene from her committees but we're talking about statements that were made before she was even ever a candidate to congress. and that i think has some bearing here. she -- she will answer and tell you how she feels. you have statements from maxine
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waters, nancy pelosi or omar, a whole plethora of folks while they are sitting here that made offensive ordaining rouse statements as well. and we are really trying to say look, if it's good for the goose it's good for the gander. maybe what should happen you let republicans take care of our own and you democrats take care of your own. when someone is elected and by the way, most of these statements were already known when she was running. she won overwhelmingly. >> harris: an interesting viewpoint. an interesting point. on our power panel moments ago the query was about whether or not you just let the voters decide. i want to point out to our audience no one is defending that either of these women said. you are talking about a course that goes ahead in the committees and what happens now. it's always a wonderful pleasure to have you on the program first person eyes on the border for us.
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appreciate it. thank you. white house press secretary jen psaki is taking some heat for mocking the newest branch of the u.s. military and she is not apologizing for it. power panel comes back just ahead. and the campaign to recall california governor gavin newsom is picking up steam. challengers are now emerging to take on the embattled governor if he is still there to run. so is newsom's job in jeopardy? >> governor newsom has botched the basic during the crisis. his continuous failures are an immediate hazard to the state of california. he must be replaced. lowest in history, mortgar it's time to refi. but if you're a veteran homeowner and need cash, here's big news. introducing refiplus from newday usa. it lets you refi at all-time low rates plus you could take out $50,000 or more. money for security today, money for retirement tomorrow.
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against newsom in a recall if that qualifies for the ballot this year or next year if it does not. businessman john cox who lost to newsom in 2018 is planning a challenge if the recall is approved cox saying this a short time ago. >> newsom has failed on the vaccine distribution, he has kept small businesses closed and crushed them. and he has kept our kids out of school and off their activities. really destroying the mental and emotional health of our kids. >> harris: and a brutal new poll shows support plummeting for governor newsom since the start of the pandemic. his disapproval among californians has risen to 48% this month compared to 36% in just september. also less than half of them say they would vote to retain newsom if a recall election was held. and 36% say they would vote to remove newsom from office.
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i want to bring in lawrence jones, fox news analyst and fox nation host. these numbers are not good for governor newsom. >> he is the villain right now. you know, i think so many people were focused on the president back in california but like in new york where we're at right now, when the facts start rolling in, you see who is accountable for a lot of the mismanagement. rick grenell told hannity last night part of the problem is that it's one-party rule in california. there is one party accountability as well. so i think if we're seeing the other edge of the sword. >> harris: you know, i want to hit you with one more question on this and i wonder, too, we see this with people leaving states sometimes that their politics can start to change because they realize where they live things are not working. what are some of the telltale
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signs that maybe gavin newsom missed? >> one of the things he missed. people were already leaving california and heading to texas and florida to begin with. that's right. but i think a lot of people saw not only is the state closed but i have to pay all these taxes, i can't send my kids to school. so he has to look at the other states and we aren't talking about the vaccine roll-out how they have been able to distribute that versus california and new york. so i think he is experiencing a lot of what governor cuomo is experiencing right here in new york is that accountability will come. it was delayed for sure, politics played because of the past election and many people were focused on presidential politics. now that's gone, people are starting to settle in and say look, this is on you, too, bro. >> harris: i bet they are
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calling him bro. chicago mayor lori lightfoot now is blaming former president trump for the dispute in the public schools and the teachers union. after a day earlier calling the situation uniquely local. watch. >> these issues are uniquely local issue and we're very, very close and we can get there if the union takes some step in our direction. come back to us and respond to the plans we put on the table. this is a very difficult situation. and we're in it still because of the incompetence of the previous administration. >> harris: what is she talking about, lawrence? >> this is not even crafty, this is just lazy. on one part she blames the teachers union and said if they would just come to the table. but she can't totally blame them because she is in the pockets of the teachers unions. they run the democratic party and the most powerful union
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that there is it. is like trump is the easy target but trump is no longer there first of all. you gave the teachers union everything. not just chicago to begin with. this is everywhere across the country. we've seen the stories, they ask for all the ppe and these accommodations, change the air filters in the schools and they do all of it and decide they still don't want to go to school. instead of blaming them totally for not coming to the table and doing what the private schools and charter schools have been able to do she says oh, this is on president trump. >> harris: quickly the "wall street journal" editorial board questions where president biden is on opening schools saying perhaps you heard a few thousand times the bind administration will listen to the science and so on. what is your thought on it? >> they aren't listening to the science. i would remind people part of the reason why we never know where joe biden is on a lot of these issues is because he doesn't come to the microphone
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that much and he doesn't answer questions that aren't written on his pad. this is a new administration. you won't see the same things you saw the last four years. you can be critical of the last four years but when you had a question for the president he was always willing to go in front of the camera. >> harris: you had so much access to him. i wonder if i give jen psaki, the press secretary who would like to canvas questions from people behind the scenes. if i give her that question about reopening schools do you think she would call on me or do i get disqualified? open-ended question. pretty please? all right. lawrence jones, good to see you always. thank you for being on the program. >> thanks, harris. >> harris: i just mentioned here the white house press secretary jen psaki being accused of making fun of the space force at the white house press briefing and now she is facing backlash. the comments that sparked the controversy. power panel comes back in.
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>> harris: we're following breaking news at the u.s. capitol. officer brian sicknick killed the day of the riots on january 6th now is the departure ceremony underway for him for his final resting place and you will notice that you will not see a casket carried down those steps but the processional is a beautiful flag draped carrier of his remains. he has been cremated. i just say that because when we watch these things together, we look to see what looks familiar and so this may seem a little different to you but i can tell you that the presence of law enforcement, the f.b.i., the capitol hill police, those who know when an officer is -- has fallen is personal and it is family. all of those people are here. let's watch and listen together.
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[silence] >> harris: as we're watching this moment by moment i wanted to give that a chance. we don't have the exact layout of how this will go. you saw people pulling into position with all of this and i want to bring in griff jenkins who can tell us how this afternoon is going to play out. griff, we'll lower our voices as officer sicknick's remains are brought out and the music begins to play. griff. >> hi, harris, a solemn, cold and windy day here on the east front of the capitol. i will step out of the way and let it take a wide shot.
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what you will see as officer sicknick's remain come down these hallowed steps you can see hundreds of u.s. capitol police lining what will be the motorcade to arlington national cemetery. there is a line of lighter blue police officers you see here on their mountain bikes. officer brian sicknick was part of the first responders mountain bike unit. they will follow the motorcade all the way slowly to arlington across the memorial bridge. now officer sicknick, as we watch this happen, obviously is as we've learned the fifth american to lie in honor here in the rotunda, in the capitol rotunda. the third member of the u.s. capitol police to do so. in 1998 officer jacob chestnut and detective john gibson were killed at a house checkpoint on the east front of the capitol.
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lying in honor we should point out similar to lying in state. it looks very much the same, although it is one protocol lower status reserved for former presidents and members of congress as was the case with the late john lewis this past summer. the other two americans to lie in honor were civil rights icon rosa parks and reverend billy graham. inside an hour ago we saw senate majority leader chuck schumer talked about blessed are the peacemakers and house speaker nancy pelosi making a promise to officer sicknick's family to carry him and his memory in her heart. she walks every day going into the house chamber past a plaque honoring chestnut and gibson. what we'll see now, though, is steeped in high tradition as urn comes down the steps, harris.
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>> harris: what we are watching are the first responders mountain bike force of which brian sicknick was a member. earlier today, minority leader mitch mcconnell said this about the man who was lying in honor inside the dome and now leaving to go to his final resting place. senator mcconnell said that he recognized him here at the
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institution he died defending. the senate and the entire country send our deepest condolences to officer sicknick's family and all who loved him. his name will never be forgotten. of course, as i cemetery there in that hearse. they brought him out in an urn. he was cremated. they have that beautiful flag to put with him. the initial export is not a motorcade of cars. the initial escort for those first responder mountain bike force members who rode with sicknick as part of their duties to defend the u.s. capitol building. they will lead the procession, as he makes his way to arlington national cemetery. we are watching that now. we've heard "amazing grace" being played. as we watch this, we just want
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to remind everyone of what happened on january 6th, in particular, as it pertains to officer sicknick. he was brutally attacked and did not survive his injuries from that day. and so this is part of remembering what happened in the insurrection on january 6th. remembering someone who did his best to defend those inside that building and to fend off from those who would do harm outside and some of those members of the crowd were able to reach him and attack him. you saw his family coming down the stairs there. now you can see some of the members of congress. you see speaker of the house nancy pelosi there. you see senator mitch mcconnell, whom i just mentioned, minority leader in the house, kevin mccarthy, so on, so forth. as you watch all of this, they will make wear now to arlington national cemetery.
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