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.
Starts right now. Today was the deadline for Donald Trumps legal team to file their brief with the senate for trumps upcoming Impeachment Trial. And it looks like trumps lawyers will be arguing that the trial is unconstitutional because trump is no longer president. Im going to use this. Im going to use this next time a cop pulls me over. Im going to be like, well, im no longer speeding. I was. I was. Im not now. Therefore this ticket is unconstitutional. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, february 3rd, along with joe, will li and me, we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press, jonathan lemire, former u. S. Senator now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst Claire Mccaskill and politics and Journalism Professor at Morgan State University and msnbc political contributor Jason Johnson is with us. So Donald Trumps second Impeachment Trial kicks off next week. And according to the case against him, the former president s role in the capitol hill riot is,
Alone while pushing new reform in congress as well. The centerpiece today is reversing Donald Trumps approach to immigration, launching a process for reuniting around 600 Migrant Children in the u. S. Who remain separated from their parents under Donald Trumps hardline policies. Biden ordering the federal government to do a top to Bottom Breakdown of Immigration Policies and finding ways to root out measures that bidens team says under trump were cruel and inhumane, or just not working. Im not making new law. Im eliminating bad policy. What im doing is taking on the issues that 99 that the president , the last president of the United States issues Executive Orders i thought were very counterproductive to our security, counterproductive to who we are as a country. We want to put in place an Immigration Process here that can that is humane, that is moral, thats going to take some time. Its not going to happen overnight. A moral policy, they say, pursuing an ethical approach to immigratio
Weve learned that house gop leader Kevin Mccarthy is expected to meet tonight, very soon were told, with congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene, who is under a lot of fire for spreading Conspiracy Theories and extremist social media lies and posts. Among those criticizing her, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell, who slammed what he called her looney lies saying theyre, quote, a cancer on the party. Meanwhile, both sides have filed pretrial briefings just ahead of former President Trumps upcoming Impeachment Trial next week on the floor of the u. S. Senate. They say trumps blame for the attack on capitol hill is, quote, unmistakable. Trump says the senate has absolutely no authority to try an expresident. Lots going on. Lets given with our coverage on capitol hill. Manu raju is joining us now. Republicans are piling on Marjorie Taylor greene ahead of her meeting thats coming up, were told, fairly soon with the house g op leader. Yes, Senate Republicans are piling on Marjorie Taylor gr
His shadow . Dana every groundhogs Worst Nightmare today running into Bill Deblasio. He dropped the groundhog in new york. Bill that was hedge hog sam. It wasnt the original punxsutawney. Dana no, he is protected. Bill i love the turtleneck. I forgot mine. Dana i think i might try to wear a turtleneck every day this week. Look, you got a lot of compliments. You didnt . I think so. If you wore a turtleneck you might break the internet. Well see. Lots more to get to this morning. Bill not indoors. Dana William La Jeunesse is live in san diego with whats going on at the border. Katie pavlich and Donna Brazile. Bill lets begin with david spunt. The president will sign those Executive Orders later this afternoon in the oval office in addition to the actions he took after coming into office of the presidency which halted construction of President Trumps border wall, also stopped that trump travel ban. One order biden will establish a task force that would reunite families separated at the bo