Time. In july, 1998, a delusional seriously mentally ill man walked through the Metal Detectors at the Capitol Building while he was carrying a loaded smith and wesson resolver. A u. S. Capitol Police Officer stopped the man when he set off the alarm and asked the man to go through again. The man turned without a word and shot officer chestnut in the head and killed him. The man then shot and wounded another Police Officer, officer douglas mcmillan, who then returned fire and hit the attacker. The attacker then shot and mortally wounded a u. S. Capitol police detective, detective john gibson, as he was telling members of congress and their staff to take cover. Detective gibson was killed by the atactor that day, in 1998, but before he died, he nevertheless was able to return fire as well, and that is apparently what took that gunman down sxended that oneman attack on the u. S. Capitol in the summer of 1998. The attacker, although he was shot by officers who returned fire, he survived.
Guard before joining the Capitol Police. Sicknick was defending the Capitol Building and congressional lawmakers on january 6th when he was brutally killed by protrump rioters. Please consider this man lost his life protecting the building, his remains now lie in. His viewing comes just days before Donald Trumps Impeachment Trial begins, when a lot of those very same lawmakers paying tribute to sicknick will be in the same chamber deciding if trump will be held accountable for that deadly riot. I want to bring this Garrett Haake on capitol hill and Peter Alexander at the white house. Garrett, this is going to be a very emotional day where you are. Lets talk about this tribute and whats expected for the rest of the day. It it started with an emotional, somber ceremony last night when officer sicknicks remains were brought into the capitol in the bitter cold. Dozens and dozens of his fellow Capitol Police officers were lining the steps in the east front outside of the capitol. His remain
too far but essentially wasted americans times and efforts is now coming with the is dotted and the ts crossed. david spunt has more from the justice department. good afternoon. 306 pages from john durham transmitted this to attorney general merrick garland friday. garland looked it over, decided to release it to the public. did not change one word. he didn t add anything. so now it s public. durham says the conclusions from his own research and we re talking four years, he said those conclusions are sobering. may 13th, 2019, when he came on board at the request of then attorney general bill barr to look at the origins of the trump russia collusion narrative. he lost two high profile cases in court but secured a guilty plea from a former fbi attorney. this today is his narrative to the public after four years of work. the cost over $6 million in taxpayer money. first we have to do back, neil, to the years 2016 and 17. the primary focus of this report. the overarching theme
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good to be with you. i m katy tur in for hailey jackson. frustration surrounding the secret service. the dhs watchdog is accusing the agency of wiping text messages from january 5 and 6th last year. it was discovered a after an internal watchdog questioned records of electronic communications tied to the insurrection. a spokesperson said the agency did not intentionally delete information after it was requested by the inspector general s office. it is explaining the data loss with a three planned agency wide system migration and phone reset and disputed claims that the agency has not cooperated with the watchdog. all nine members of the january 6th committee were breached by the dhs inspector general about the issue. those missing messages could be crush that will sheafed that could potentially back up testimony from cassidy hutchison. she claimed that the former president got physical with his protective detail after the speech on the ellipse when they would not let him go t