i booked our hotel on kayak. it's flexible if we need to cancel. cancel. i haven't left the house in a year. nothing will stop me from vacation. no canceling. flexible cancellation. kayak. search one and done. this week, the officer who shot and killed ashli babbitt in the january 6th riots identified himself. lieutenant michael byrd is a 28-year veteran of the u.s. capitol police. he spoke publicly about the incident for the first time in an nbc news exclusive. congresswoman madeleine dean was among the lawmakers lieutenant byrd was defending that day. she reacted to the news with msnbc's joy reid. >> this is a man who has some sense of duty that is absolutely within his core. i -- like you, i didn't know who he was. i didn't know what color he was. and -- and just -- you can see the extraordinary integrity in him. >> lieutenant byrd told nbc's