realizing this, sicknick's family went to capitol hill.lobbied senators personally to pass this bill. the police were ignored. the washington post reports that at least 20 senators didn't even meet with them. senate republicans, at least for now, has successfully blocked any chance of an independent investigation into the january 6th insurrection that led to the death of officer by and sicknick and for others. sandra garza, brian sicknick's longtime pars partner, who is on the hill last month along with officer sicknick's mother, trying to persuade republicans, joins me now. thank you so much for being on the program. i want to start by offering by congress condolences on your. lost i hope you're doing okay. how are you? >> first, thank you so much, chris for having me. i'm doing as best as i can. it's hard, but i'm surviving. >> if you can tell us a little bit about brian. what he was like. what kind of things he like to do. what kind of person he was. >> sure. brian was a very, very kind, humble person. one of the reasons that i loved br

mother and partner of brian sicknick.r all. >>> today's movement represents fealty. house republicans to affirm the sedition refusing to move statues of confederate traders if in the capitol. today 90% of the republicans banded together to vote against the select committee. if you had any doubt of how willing the party is to wrap its arms around extremism look at the utter silence from gop leadership on arizona congressman paul gosar planning a fund-raiser with an open and proud whitalist. joining me is congressman and former impeachment manager eric swalwell author of "endgame" and sandra garza, long time partner of officer brian sicknick. normally i give deference to the congressman, forgive me, miss garza first. how did it feel to watch only two republicans vote to investigate at tack that took brian sicknick from you? >> joy, it was like a knife to my heart. it really was. it was a travesty and i think it really speaks to the fact that there are only two republicans that have a backbone and that care about this countr

>> i'm not sure officer sicknick is even dead. i'm serious. that's how -- i hate to be crazy conspiracy minded. i'm not even so sure ashley babbott is dead. >> coy. >> who is to say -- have you seen anything of her family? >> up until the point she passed we lived two blocks apart. >> reporter: yes. >> through my school me and my sister were best friends. >> reporter: this is her brother roc roger. he and his 35-year-old sister were very close. >> it was weird. we saw it on the news, and it was like, you know, that's my sister. >> anderson, craig griffin is not only the founder of cowboys for trump, he's a new mexico county commissioner. he is so far off the rails, i would dare to use the loaded term he is brainwashed. he is out there. he still believes in this stuff and others like him, i don't believe coy would be dangerous but others like him can and will be dangerous. >> he's a county commissioner? >> yeah. >> i spoke with officer sicknick's life partner sandra garza last night and she said it enragers her they gaslight it. she was a trump

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especially, the death of my colleague -- >> brian sicknick. >> evans and sicknick and livengood. them, i -- i didn't know well but i knew the names. either work under my command or as an officer, when we were officers, we worked together, sometime, capacity, whatnot. >> what do you -- what do you want to say to america? because there are a lot of people in america, who believe we should move on from january 6th. there should not be a commission. you see the -- you -- you see the reports. you see the -- the lawmakers on capitol hill. thinking the same thing. what do you want to say, sergeant? >> what i want them to know is that that could have been my family. and i saw myself the day i had decided to come forward with it. i have many and multiple incident or moments that i could have lost my life or taken other people's life because they continue to believe this lie that, somehow, people that are not living voted. that it was cheated, whatnot. but when you have this personality and someone who -- a party lost the house, lost the senate, and lost the presidency. and for them to con

brian sicknick's death by the gop. what has that been like for you, especially a party that claims to support the police? >> yeah, it's -- it's devastating. it's, you know, outright like officer fanone said, lies. they know the truth. they're lying about this. and some of them may have been lucky in the sense that when they said i didn't feel threatened, well, that was due to the bravery of the officers that day who fought brutally. and i think one of them had said, you know, we fought too good that day. i thought that was such a poignant, powerful statement. things could have much differently. >> yeah. >> so, you know, it's very upsetting, and i just want to say one last thing. the individual who planted those pipe bombs still has not been found, and i think -- >> so true. >> i think this political game that they're playing is incredibly dangerous. i mean, you know, it's like they're just setting the stage for another serious attack to happen and people to die. so they need to knock it off and get serious about this.

by the way, she was a trump supporter, as was officer sicknick, apparently. so, to hear that rioter you spoke to say he doesn't know if officer sicknick is even dead. i mean, it's beyond insulting to, obviously, to the officer's memory, sacrifice to his family. i -- i don't understand how he justifies these views. i mean, i understand somebody being ignorant of the facts. but when the facts are out there, and available. i mean, what's his excuse? >> i -- i came away, in a lot of these interviews, feeling sorry for these people. because they have been lied to for so long. they've been lied to by a president, who has been scamming for years and years and years, long before he was president. they have been lied to and deceived by these so-called media outlets who have led them down these conspiracy theories, where they only get their news from these echo chamber kind of conspiracy profiteer news outlets. and as ruben gallego said, they are being lied to by politicians, who know better, anderson. but, see, power and profit, in spreading these lies. and getting be

i know you and officer sicknick did support former president trump.ed that officer sicknick had donald trump playing in the background and he was a supporter. i know you are a supporter because you believed in blue life matters and you believed in the former president's defense in the department. what do you think this report does not look at trump's role in what happened that day. >> that bothers me immensely. and, i think it goes back to why glad gladys and i were up on capitol hill and we were meeting with the republican senator have them do this full 9/11 style commission. this report is important, we can get a lot of good information from it. we need to go deeper than that. i know gladys feel it deeper than i do. to hear mitch mcconnell asking us do us a favor and vote no on this. that's atrocious. why does he not say that to officer jeffery smith's family or the numerous officers who were uniinjured that day. one officer lost an eye and officer hodges almost lost his life that day, almost crushed to death. or even myself, i was not working for t

and i wanted to tell sandra, who i have met, officer sicknick's life partner. in the senate. it's now headed over to the senate with senator roy blunt. it's a bipartisan effort. and i hope we can prevent what happened in the house with those basically representatives who aren't even respecting the very officers who defended them that day. >> yeah. senator klobuchar, appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> thanks, anderson. >>> up next, a followup to our report last night about the mysterious firm or person conducting arizona's so-called audit, which is anything but. cyber ninjas and how it -- its roots appear to be in florida but not in actual election audits. about getting back to the way things were. but what does that mean? does it mean getting back out here to feed the world? is it about getting back to this commute? this community? or this ingenuity? for folks who run with us, there is no going back. because they've never stopped working towards a better tomorrow. together, we run forward. this past year has felt like a long, long norwegian winter. t

you are out there, and you and brian sicknick's mom have been on capitol hill. is that something you have ever done before? i doubt this is an experience that you're used to doing. you put yourself out there. what has been the reaction that you have gotten? >> no, i have never done this before. and as i was saying yesterday, i'm just a regular person who happened to be thrust into this due to the events of january 6th, like most, i would say, you know, people who were moved by the footage of that day. i was appalled. and i could not sit idly by and do nothing. also, obviously in addition to knowing that someone i loved very much suffered and saw his colleagues suffer during his last moments on earth, you know, i felt compelled to do something. and because of that, sadly, i have received a lot of backlash and unkind comments online. but you know, that's not going to stop me from doing the right thing. i feel that this is more important than dealing with trolls and people who hide behind fake names and not even putting their photo out there, and you know, people's

sicknick. did you really think that you might be able to, for lack of a better term, talk some sense into their heads and really make a difference? get them to change their minds? >> no i mean, again, i really just -- i went there to support mrs. sicknick. as a police officer. and, you know, as an american, i went there to advocate for -- for this commission, which i believe is necessary. really, to get to the root causes of january 6th. um, i don't -- like, i -- i guess, i have, like, more of a cynical outlook on whether or not, you know, i was going to be able to change hearts and minds. but i did want them to go in there, and cast their votes with the images of, you know, my body-worn camera footage on their minds. when they did so. >> so, this is what we've come to, now. mike. we have reporting from "new york times." maggie haberman. that the former president is claiming that he is going to be reinstated, by august. while his former-national security adviser, michael flynn, saying that coup

you were there with brian sicknick's mother, with his partner. and then as we know, those lawmakers struck it down. they voted against it. i want to listen and get your reaction on the other toned what they said to my colleague jake tapper. >> if they had a child that was hurt, was killed on a day like that, they would think very differently. what if they were hurt? somebody could have been killed. one of the congressmen, one of the senators. but apparently, they just think, well, we're safe because of the men in blue. >> i think it is all talk and no action. clearly they're not back in the blue. it is unbelievable to me that they could do nothing about this. so officer done, you heard what they had to say. what is your reaction? is it the same as theirs, that the whole backing the blue talk was just talk, no action? >> so they're such strong women. it took so much courage and strength for them to come down. and lobby for justice. and honestly, i believe that's what this is all about. accountability. justice. we weren't just blue. we weren't just

joining us is gladys sicknick, the mother of brian sicknick and officer sicknick's life partner, sandra garza. appreciate both of you being with us. sandra, initially you couldn't watch videos of january 6th. i know you did decide to. you wanted to see everything you could and understand what happened that day. when you see these new videos, i mean, showing the intimate horror of the insurrection, i'm wondering what goes through your mind? what stands out to you? >> well, it's heart wrenching. it's disturbing and some of the footage is just downright sadistic. some of those violent protesters were absolutely -- that's just the best word to put it as, is sadistic to the officers. and it's -- like i said, it's heart wrenching. it's brutal for me to watch, especially to know that brian was there that day and, you know, experiencing what the officers were experiencing as well as seeing this and to know his last moments on earth were, you know, experiencing all of this. it's just horrible. it's heart breaking. >> gladys, no one would want their loved one to be on the front line of that facin

. >> evans and sicknick and livingood.ome of them i didn't know well, but i knew the names. they work under my command or as an officer when we were officers, we worked together sometimes, capacity, what not. >> what you want to say to america? because there are a lot of people in america who believe we should move on from january 6. there should not be a commission. you can see the reports. you see the lawmakers on capitol hill thinking the same thing. what do you want the say, sergeant? >> what i want them to know is that could have been my family. and i saw myself the day i had decided to come forward. i moments i could have lost my life or have taken other people's life because they continue to believe this lie that somehow people it was cheated, what not. but when you have this personality and someone who helped a party, lost the house, lost the senate, and lost the presidency, and for them to continue being on the side and taking -- choosing sides for or sticking up to this individual who he continued to shield himse

you are a real person and officer sicknick, you know, was a real person beyond just a police officer doing a heroic job. if you could speak to the man you once supported, the former president, what would you want to say to him right now? >> well, you know, like i said before, i would be willing to meet with him and it would be to give him the tough questions. i mean, i shouldn't have to reach out to donald trump. he should be reaching out to me. he was the former president. he should be reaching out to me. you know, i have a lot of questions. i deserve answers. i supported him for various reasons, clearly that's out the window now. and i want to educate as many people as i can that all of the things that he talked about as far as loving america, wanting to keep america great, supporting the police all of this stuff is not true. i'm a real person. i was living my life, doing my job, living in anonymity, and because i lost someone very important to me due to the events of january 6th, it's forced me -- i shouldn't say forced -- i am here willingly -- but i'm here to come out to say thi

. >> you have new reporting on fallen officer sicknick, and the family met with lawmakers on capitol coming up in our power newsletter shortly which you can subscriber to, we have the full list of republicans who declined or did not make the time to meet with the families -- the mother and the girlfriend of the fallen officer, brian sicknick, who, you know, was -- he died the day after potentially due to the insurrection as he defended the lives of these lawmakers and people who work on capitol hill. i think that number is fairly shocking for the party of law and order who claims to, you know, really have this bond and respect lawmaker and has presented themselves as allies. many of these lawmakers we reached out to cited scheduling issues, they were not able to clear their schedule or make any amount of time for gladys sicknick and sandra garza who were making their rounds on capitol hill and last week prior to the january 6th commission, holding six senator -- republican senators voted in favor of the commission and nancy pelosi has floated the idea of potentially having another vo

sicknick was wearing her son's shirt.t contained brian's ashes. she say that is a way to keep him close. they are still looking for ways to carry out his legacy. but they have not given up on a january 6th commission. they say they plan to keep meeting with lawmakers. including congresswoman liz cheney later today. tony. >> unimagine grief. powerful interview. it's breathtaking to hear the sicknick family and his partner sandra talk about supporting mr. trump and then say where are you. >> i appreciate them sharing the story, look, to them, it's not democrat or republican. it's pain. i like the message, let's do right by brian. >> and the last text, i'm busy right now, can't talk. such an ordinary text that we know what he was doing at that time. >> heart goes out to both of them. >>> you can get the morning news by subscribing to the cbs news podcast. >>> plus, women in china respond to a sudden policy change encouraging them to have more children. find out why most of them probably will not. we'll be right back. we don'

joining us now, gladys sicknick, the mother of fallen capitol police officer, officer sicknick. also, his life partner, sandra garza. sandra, i know, initially, you couldn't even watch video of what happened on january 6th and i can certainly understand why. i know, ultimately, you did decide to. because you wanted to see everything you could, and understand what happened that day. when you see these new videos, i mean, showing the -- the intimate horror of the insurrection. i'm wondering what goes through your mind? what stands out, to you? >> well, it's heart-wrenching. it's disturbing. and some of the footage is just downright sadistic. some of those violent protestors were absolutely -- that's just the best word to put it as sadistic to the officers. and it's -- like i said, it's heart-wrenching. it's brutal, for me to watch. especially, to know that brian was there, that day. and, you know, experiencing what the officers were experiencing, as well as seeing this. and to know, his last moments on earth were, you know, experiencing all of this. it's just horrible. it's heartb

officer brian sicknick lost his life.ow his life partner is speaking out. >> it's- it enrages me that they continue to gas light their supporters. they all have the opportunity to do the right thing by not only their constituents but the american people as a whole. what happened on january 6th should unite us as americans. and they're not doing that. and it disgusts me. it's despicable and needs to stop. >> disgusting and despicable. cnn's jessica snyder is here to talk about this. what more do we know about the suspects we saw that day. >> alisyn we are getting the glimpse at the more violent rioters with the new video cnn fought in court for months to get released to the public. the first video, scott fair lamb, the new jersey gym owner but he is in jail because of what he is accused of doing on january 6th. the judge in proceedings back in april determined he posed a danger to society. we saw that video, guys, you showed the video of him taunting and punching a police officer. but here is more video of fair lamb in his

you, as well as the sicknick family, the family of brian sicknick who died afterwards, tell me aboutrom the republican leader? >> so the first time i spoke out to -- or the first time i reached out to kevin mccarthy's office was back -- i can't remember the exact day, but it was the day that there was a hearing regarding january 6th and andrew clyde described that day as something of a normal tourist day on capitol hill. >> let me just pause you for a moment because that is congressman andrew clyde, republican congressman, and we have that quotation here because he said, you know, that -- that from what he knew, it was just luke a regular tourist day. if you didn't know that the tv footage was january the 6th, you would think it was a normal tourist visit, clyde said. we also know where he was on that day because there was video of him on that day hardly looking leak a normal tourist visit. what is your reaction to that? >> he was lying. it's not downplaying it and it's not whitewashing it and it's an out and out lie about what happened that day, and clearly, with the -- that's andre

do you believe officer sicknick died because of the riot? >> no.nick is even dead. i'm serious. that's how -- and i hate to be so crazy conspiracy minded. i'm not even sure ashli babbitt is dead. i mean, who is to say that -- have you seen anything of her family? >> up until the point where she passed we lived two blocks apart. >> the answer is, yes . >> i'd say through high school my sister and i were best friends. >> this is ashli babbitt's sister. he and his 35-year-old sister were very close p. it's weird because we saw it on the news and it was like, that's my sister. >> reporter: his sister was a tomboy who joined the military out of high school. >> she could do anything. she was invincible. >> reporter: after the air force, ashli babbitt then bought a pool company in san diego, which she ran with her husband and her brother. >> she was happy. talked about how she lives in a beautiful place. does what she wants. it's the american dream. >> reporter: and he says his sister had voted for barack obama. >> i think that proves in itself she wasn't

let me just ask you, do you believe officer sicknick died because of the riot? >> i'm not so sure officer sick sicknick is even dead. >> coy. >> i hate to be crazy conspiracy minded. i'm not so sure ashli babbitt is dead. >> coy. >> who is to say -- have you seen anything of her family? >> up until the point she passed, we lived two blocks apart. >> the answer is yes. >> through high school me and my sister were best friends. >> this is ashli babbitt's brother roger. he and his 35-year-old sister were very close. >> it was weird because we saw it on the news and it was like, you know, that's my sister. >> he says his sister was a tomboy who joined the military out of high school. >> she could do anything. she was invincible. that's the way i looked at her. >> after the air force she bought a pool company in san diego which she ran with her husband and her brother. >> she was happy. talked about how she lives in a beautiful place, you know, does what she wants, it's the american dream. >> and he says his sister voted for barack obama. >> i think that proves in it

. >> do you believe officer sicknick is dead because of the riot? >> i am not even so sure that officer sicknick is dead. i hate to be crazy conspiracy-minded. i am not sure if ashley babeth is dead? >> the answer is yes. >> i mean i would say through high school me and my sisters were best friends. >> this is actushley babbet's brother. >> it was clear because we saw it on the news and it was like that's my sister. >> reporter: his sister was a tomboy and joined the military out of high school. >> reporter: after the air force, ashley babbit bought a pool company which she ran with her husband and brother. >> she was happy and talked about she lived in a beautiful place. >> reporter: his sister voted for barack obama. >> that proven that she was not as crazy as a lot of the media portrayed her out to be. then she became a trump fan. >> drew griffin's special report airs on sunday night at 9:00 p.m. republicans on right-wing media who are down playing the antifa. >> so fbi operatives were organizing the attack on the capitol on january 6th according

sicknick was wearing her son's shirth shirt and they were wearing ncklaces that contain brian's ashes and they are looking for ways to carry out his legacy and they have not given up on a january 6th commission. >> nicole killion reporting. >>> as the u.s. continues to reopen after a year of pandemic shutdowns a growing number of businesses are complaining they cannot find enough workers and with the busy summer months around the corner, they are run are out of time to recruit employs. we have the story from new jersey. >> reporter: after a difficult year, crowds on the jersey shore are a welcome sight for local businesses hoping to maximize the summer season. >> this has been the toughest start to a season? >> absolutely. >> this woman and her family have are run this resort for 35 years and usually hire 150 employees but this year, they are having trouble. >> we really only have a third of what we normally hire. >> reporter: a third? >> a third. we are really, really shorthanded. >> reporter: everyone, including remora is working double time, she has posted help wanted ads all over

officer sicknick is former military.that's the biggest part that hurts me the most and why i was so devastated about all of this, and nowing what he experienced prior to his death because he was such a good person, but i wish he could have had a much more peaceful last moments on this earth. it hurts me a lot that he didn't get that, that he had to deal with -- not only with what he had to deal with but seeing his colleagues deal with such brutality. and knowing that, my gosh, his own fellow americans were doing this. that's the worst part about it all, too. >> reporter: nicolle, and senator mccaskill, she wants speaker pelosi to initiate a committee to get some answers. >> that's barbara comstock from virginia. there's a bipartisan sort of cry now for subpoenas to start flying, for records preservation requests to start, for the investigation to commence. do you think that's overdue? >> there needs to be a bipartisan group. i know discussions are on going about that. i think something will be forthcoming. my question in

it was no substitute for something i know the officer stood with the sicknick family along with manyat is a full, independent, 9/11-style commission to get to the bottom of the causes of this, president trump's role in this and we do mention, by the way, in this report, i think him 44 times, but we do make a point that he did send those rioters, those insurrectionists down the mall to the capitol and in the lean-in to this, we discuss the fact that he had made these claims over and over again. and obviously this would not have happened if it was not for donald trump. but that aside, we still have to fix the problems at the capitol with the police leadership, we're going to get a new police chief. we have to put new policies in place and we have to immediately pass a law to give the police chief the authority to call in the national guard and not make three calls before he can get it done. >> listen, you know, there's a lot going on in this report about, you know, who was there, who incited it, urging people to confront members of congress and bring firearms to the protests on january

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detention orders these people are denied bail one man who is accused of allegedly spraying brian sicknickpper spray a federal judge denied a 15 million-dollar bond package put together by 16 of his family members and this judge 83-year-old reagan appointee said he could not see any circumstances to let this man out of jail because he attacked the cop, thinking about what you said what we saw over and over in 2020 and still see in cities every night the fact that these people are treated differently if they allegedly and this is all allegations are based on evidence that the government is putting together based on video the only the government has access to they are keeping this over 14000 hours surveillance footage captured by the capital security system, that day there keeping the under wrapped away from defense attorneys and defendants they are cherry picking these clips using this as evidence in the evidence presented in court to convince the judges to keep the people behind bars awaiting trials that could be months and maybe a year away from the original arrest and detention time, thi

she and brian sicknick, i think. but then they obviously through this saw the light. here she is. >> i supported him for various reasons. clearly that's out the window now. and i want to educate as many people as i can that all of the things that he talked about as far as loving america, wanting to keep america great, supporting the police, all of this stuff is not true. he is the mastermind. yes, those people made choices that day. the people that committed violence made choices. we are all responsible for the individual choices that we make. but donald trump was the mastermind of that day. >> in other words, she's not falling for the whitewashing. >> yeah. i love the uses of the word choices because that's really what this has been about from the time he came down the escalator in 2015. you always have a choice to make. what trump demands of his followers, the people he hires and the voters who follow him, and with the insurrection those who want to begin this insurgency, what he demands is that they disregard not just what's in front of their eyes and common sense

they have lied repeatedly about brian sicknick. the u.s.that he was killed in the line of duty when we know that he wasn't. but two men still rot in the d.c. deplorable jail in order to keep that narrative alive that trump insurrectionists murdered a cop and resulted in the suicides of two other cops afterwards and that these other people died because of what happened that day when the only person who was killed really was ashley babbitt and we still don't know the i'd tiff the officer who did that so why do they have to keep lying? why do they have to conceal video evidence? why are they lying in court about what happened? i mean, i have listened to judges and i have listened to prosecutors say that five people were killed including a police officer. they keep up flatulating what happened that day all for political purposes to keep political prisoners in jail and act as a threat and intimidation and bully to millions of trump supporters. people on the right that you better watch your step or else you are going to pay a price: and the media

the family of officer brian sicknick, an officer who died shortly after the capitol riot, horrified bynew footage. >> it's heart wrenching, it's disturbing, and some of the footage is just downright sadistic. it's brutal for me to watch, especially to know that brian was there that day. and, you know, experiencing what the officers were experiencing as well as seeing this, and to know his last moments on earth were, you know, experiencing all of this. it's just horrible. it's heartbreaking. >> reporter: officer sicknick's mother can't understand why some lawmakers are trying to whitewash the events of that day, despite the overwhelming video evidence that continues to emerge. >> they're afraid of losing their jobs. i don't know what they're afraid of. and i don't understand why they're afraid of, you know, the former president. there's some reason they're afraid of him and they just keep doing what he says that they should do. >> and denying what you can see with your own eyes. wendy wild, thank you very much. >>> let's speak more about this with retired army lieutenant who served in t

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. >> believe officer sicknick died because of the riot? >> i'm not even so sure that officer sicknick's even dead. >> coy. >> i'm serious. that's -- that's how -- and i hate to be so crazy-conspiracy minded. i'm not even so sure ashli babbitt is dead. >> coy. >> i mean, who is to say that was -- have you seen anything of her family? >> up until the point where she passed, we lived two blocks apart. >> reporter: the answer is yes. >> i mean, i'd say through high school, me and my sister were best friends. >> reporter: this is ashli babbitt's brother. roger witthoeft. he says he and his 35-year-old sister were very close. >> it was weird, because we saw it on the news. and it was, like, you know, that's my sister. >> reporter: he says his sister was a tomboy, who joined the military out of high school. >> she could do anything. she was invincible. you know, that's the way i looked at her. >> reporter: after the air force, ashli babbitt then bought a pool company in san diego, which she ran with her husband and her brother. >> she was happy.

. >> do you believe officer sicknick died because of the riot? >> i am not even so sure that officer sicknick is even dead. >> they're pushing lies and conspiracies about the january 6th insurrection, continuing to bitterly divide the country. >> i wrote this poem for my husband about two years ago now for his first father's day. >> meghan, the duchess of sussex tells npr how she's turned the sentimental poem to prince harry into a children's book. >>> i'm pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you're live in the "cnn newsroom" on this very busy sunday. we begin this hour with a first look at the tragic aftermath of a 15-car pile-up in alabama that has left ten people dead. 9 of the victims are children. we want to warn you the images you're about to see are graphic, so if you have any children in the room, now is the time for them to leave. these are new images just in to cnn. they show just how horrific the accident was. cnn's martin savidge is in alabama for us tonight with this heartbreak

officer sicknick's family along with other officers ninjured tht day are deeply, deeply hurt by these attempts to shift blame by some in the gop. here's officer fanone and others who have spoken. >> i think a lot of times these lawmakers on capitol hill, they feel like they can say whatever they want and they're never going to be held accountable for those words. well, your words have consequences and congressmen, you're lying about what happened on january 6th and i'm going to be there to confront anyone who lies about january 6th. >> we held the line, and that, to me, we sacrificed for them to not only put everything on the line, but they are not doing what they're supposed to. they're not fulfilling their oath for office, to put the country before their party and for me, for them to continue these lies and turn and twist, this happened and this -- it's uncalled for. it's a betrayal to us, the officers. >> i was absolutely broken, devastated. you know, i mean, it's just absolutely atrocious and it makes me even angrier and they're doing this to protect donald trump. >> congresswoman

>> i am not even so sure that officer sicknick is even dead.

brian sicknick's long time partner was on cnn last night really sharing her anger toward these housethis and have been white washing what happened on january 6th. brian sicknick was one of the police officers who died as a result of this attack so this is a story that continues to unfold. >> the amount of denial for political ends when you have loved ones who are facing pain from losing people close to them is just -- it's remarkable. thank you for your reporting as always. >>> some covid news. children and young adults causing an exponential growth in coronavirus cases in england. the new study finds the numbers are doubling every 11 days. while young people are certainly less susceptible to the virus experts fear the current growth rate could mean an increase in infections of more vulnerable people. phil black is live in london. phil, how did the vaccinations factor in here? obviously young kids aren't getting vaccinated yet. >> that's right, laura. there is growing evidence as the highly transmissible delta variant moves through the population it is moving most likely through age

sicknick and the partner of capitol police officer sicknick went around, door to door, draped in their grief, and asked them to, please, just find out the facts of what happened. they weren't trying to condemn anybody. they said, simply, find out the facts of what happened. what took my son's life? and what threatened so many others? it is shameful. and then, of course, you saw those same members go home. i wonder if they recognize the hypocrisy of going home for memorial day weekend. and lifting up war dead. those who fought and gave the ultimate measure to protect us. to protect our democracy. i guess, they can't smell the hypocrisy. we need an independent commission. failing that, we have other options as you well know. >> thanks so much. good to see you again. >> >>> coming up. sales of firearms surging across the u.s. and the buyers may not be who you might expect. stay with us. governments in record debt; inflation rising, currencies falling. but i've seen centuries of this. with one companion that hedges the risks you choose and those that choose you. the physical seam of a digi

officer brian sicknick died after trying to approximate fight off the violent mob. to prevent a similar disaster, the senate has recommended direct national guard support including police training and equipment and streamlining intelligence. the report did not examine former president trump's role in motivating the rioters, who one police officer spoke. >> president trump sent us here and we won't listen to nobody else but him. >> reporter: the senate report strengthens the case for a sweep ing. >>> operation involving 16 countries. 800 suspects and eight tons of cocaine. today hundreds of suspected organized crime figures are under arrest. the fbi teamed up with australian authorities to develop an encrypted electronic device company. the criminals thought the devices were secure so they used it to move drugs, launder money and plan other crimes but the fbi was watching. they obtained more than 27 million messages over 18 months. >> they revealed unprecedented insights into how organized crime works to remove drugs, money, guns and to organize murders. >> this will

capitol police officer brian sicknick. his mother, gladys, is still in mourning. >> i just can't believe i have a son that's going to be in the history books. who knew, like this, to get into the history books like this. it's not right. >> reporter: she's still pushing for a january 6 commission, even though the senate rejected it last month. meantime, a joint senate panel that has been investigating the attack is expected to issue its first report next week. norah. >> o'donnell: all right, nikole killion, thank you. well, the c.d.c. tonight is sounding the alarm after a troubling spike in hospitalizations among young covid patients. we get more on this from cbs' mola lenghi. >> reporter: tonight, the c.d.c.'s stark warning... >> it is these findings that >> i demonstrating the level of severe disease, even among youth, that are preventable. >> reporter: before most were eligible for the vaccine, many teens who got covid and had to go to the hospital wound up in intensive care, nearly one-third of them, and nearly 5% were

bipartisan panel was defeated to look in to the insurrection, but the mother and partner of officer sicknickng. he died after being doused with bear spray during the raid. his family met with congress woman liz cheney. >> he texted me, he said, i'm busy, i cannot talk. that was the last, you moknow, heard from him. >> reporter: it was january 6th, the final time she communicated with her son. after he was attacked with chemical spray and collapsed, his long time companion got the call to rush to the hospital. did you get to say goodbye? >> no, they would not let me back to see brian. it was only then when the emergency physician and the charge nurse came out to tell me that he was on a ventilator and i knew. i knew then that he was not fine. >> thinking of you. >> reporter: for nearly five months, consulation has come from cards from strangers. >> just when you think the cards stop, they start coming again from all of the country and the world, actually. >> reporter: what does that mean to you? >> that they are good people in the world sgloompt last week, they finally made the decision to sp

>> brian sicknick died from a stroke one day being attacked. griffin cannot accept their so-called peaceful protest led to death so they deputy it. >> do you believe he died because of the riot? >> i'm not sure he's even dead. >> reporter: coy. >> i'm serious. that's how -- and i hate to be so crazy conspiracy minded. i'm not so sure ashley babbitt is dead. >> come on. >> who's to say -- have you seep anybody in her family? >> the answer is yes. >> i'd say through high school me and my sister were best friends. >> reporter: this is her brother roger. he said he and his 35-year-old sister were very close. >> it was weird because we saw it on the news and it was like, you know, that's my sister. >> reporter: he says his sister was a tomboy who joined the military out of high school. >> she could do figure. she was invincible. that's how i looked at her. >> ashley babbitt ran a pool company which she ran with her husband and brother. >> she was happy. talk about how she lest in a beautiful place, does what she wants, it's the american dream. >> re

and hurt by the idea sicknick gave his life, died because of what happened. you have fanone who has a traumatic brain injury for the rest of his life who looks at this and says these are the things that happened to me. we have video of many of the police officers being hit in the head with flagpoles, beat up over and over and over and that's going to, like you said, when this testimony starts that's going to be huge and emotional. we saw all of those videos we hadn't seen at that point and all of that will feed into it. the problem still is, like we've been saying, it's all wrapped up in politics. that is unfortunate that fanone is talking about. for someone who wasn't very political to have to realize now the politics in washington, d.c., and on capitol hill are making it at this point pretty impossible for this country to get to the bottom of an insurrection that happened on sxwran 6th. it's troubling. and what it means, it could mean when you talk to experts what they say it makes it hard for us to make sure this doesn't happen again. i've said that before

democrats claimed that officer sicknick was bludgeoned to death, claiming the insurrectionists killed a capitol police officer, but that too was a lie. why are the democrats continuing with the lies that t democrats in the media stuck with this lie, particularly with officer sicknick, because it was part of e their narrative. in judiciary committee, just last week, one of my democratic colleaguesco asked director wra if january 6th was an insurrection. director wray disputed that, quote, well, congressman, i certainly understand why you would describe did that way. in my 6 role as fbi director, because that's a a term that ha legal meaning, i really have to be careful about using words like that, close quote. t well, a legal finding of armed insurrection allows the president to act with incredible power even to the extent of extending habeas corpus, but referring back to the pretrial memo of the house impeachment managers, the overarching rationale for stretching the truth was to lay the table for the second impeachment of president trump. according to director wray, most of the peopl

you something that happened on hallie jackson's program from sandra garza, the partner of officer sicknickknew the severity of the threat that day, but donald trump did, and the people in his administration i believe did, and that's why these republicans don't want it -- some of the republicans -- i don't want to say all, because clearly, you know, for me this is about the person. this isn't about the party. this is about the person. they knew, and that's why they don't want this full commission, because it's going to expose a lot of ugliness, and they want to sweep it under the rug. i'm not going to allow them to do that. i'm going to expose them for what they are. >> no doubt her commitment, and i don't doubt her ability to do what she said she's going to do, expose them. as barbara details, having worked with evidence and records, it is all knowable. it is knowable who paid for the space. it is knowable where the money flowed between the trump campaign and the people who carried out the insurrection. these things, it is knowable how many times kevin mccarthy was on the phone with donald

kinds of viruses that you know, once that art 96% similar to the virus that is now making us all sicknick were doing gain of function research using humanized mice. >> laura: could this information indicate that we can't necessarily just rule out that this just was not some lab leak or, you know, could even be a dual use situation? >> we don't know. i thought the statement that matt made we knew the same thing. we saw the same data. your view risk should note, people talk about this as if we don't know anymore. we knew a lot. effect that this lab was level four and had security leaks before. there were doctors who became ill and work hospitalized in the fall of 2019. we have an awful lot of evidence pointing to what happened. what was that chinese communist party's intention? we knew there was a military activity taking place. we do not know what they were doing. we note that they don't want you to know and that is adjusting to me that we should give them no benefit of the debt and we should impose enormous costs until they come clean about what happened inside their country. >> laura: sh