we need to take some action because there should be no other child that should suffer the way my son and all the other parents here have lost their children. we need to get that bill passed. the parents of tyre nichols calling for action as their son is laid to rest. we ll have much more from yesterday s service and the push to pass police reform. plus president joe biden and house leader kevin mccarthy take the first step to finding common ground on the debt ceiling. and also ahead, another day, another scandalous headline for one george santos. this one involves the fbi. we ll tell you what the feds are investigating. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, february 2nd, ground-hog day. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with the investigation into president joe biden s mishandling of classified documents in another consensual search of one of the president s homes by the fbi. a personal attorney f
they don t need congress to pass anything. they can do experimental things, whether it comes to registries, bans on choke holds. a lot of the individual elements in the george floyd act are things states and cities can try on smaller levels within their own jurisdictions. there just needs to be a path forward. at the same time, jonathan, i think what we re going to see nationally is a messaging war between democrats and republicans for how to protect children, right? so this message around tyre nichols, police going too far, how to help get training, funding for police, and how to, you know how to put boundaries around police who are acting inappropriately, that is the push on the democratic side. on the republican side, we re seeing a completely different defining of what it means to protect children. it s going on not in the venue of law enforcement but the venue
laws for lawyers. couldn t get this bar without things they do. we have ways to deal with doctors. so why is it that we cannot deal with police officers? every police officer is not a good police officer. nobody wants to get rid of policing. we want to get rid of these bad cops. margaret, calls for police reform have, of course, grown following the deadly beating of tyre nichols in memphis. what more can you tell us about this push on capitol hill? good morning. you re right, if you watched yesterday s incredibly moving services, and if you re around washington paying attention on the hill, there is a renewed push. you re hearing vice president harris talk about it. we ll hear president biden talk about it between now and the state of the union. but what are expectations really? i mean, they sort of hit the wall. congress hit the wall on the george floyd policing reform act. nobody that we are talking to
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Judy Woodruff:
As we have heard, the Chauvin guilty verdict is renewing interest in the push for a federal police reform bill.
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act did pass the Democratically-controlled U.S. House of Representatives in February, but it has yet to receive a vote in the evenly split Senate.
To learn where things stand, we turn to our own Lisa Desjardins.
So, Lisa, I know you have been looking into this. And you have been for some time. Right now, it does appear a members of both political parties say they see a need to do something about this. Tell us, what s on the table and what are the holdups?