again. flags at the white house and the united states capitol half staff after a deadly attack at the capitol ground. a police officer was murdered. williams and billy evans. he died in the line of duty today killed by the attacker. another officer remains hospitalized at this moment. and we are at this hour learning new details of the 25-year-old suspect who allegedly rammed his car into the barrier and hitting two officers. he posted a video on social media with the caption the u.s. government is the number one enemy of the people. today s attack comes just 86 days after the deadly insurrection on january 6th and horrible reality that it comes less than two weeks of all that fencing that surrounded the capitol after the insurrection finally removed. that fencing may have prevented the suspect from getting as close as he did. to hear the news of another officer killed and protecting the united states capitol just three months after january 6th is devastating for the famili
years of washington football on tv has shown me it s better to spike the football one safely in the end zone november after a couple completions. nationally are all clear wear a mask, not forever, but for now. it s today intersecting with a shaky picture of economic relief. , the white house chaff of staff warning, it will take until that rate to get back to where it was, that s where we stand on both fights, on razor s edge, americans have been hoping for for more than a year. that nearly two thirds of the country in recent polls support. and last night, senator ron johnson, same one who has about usee peddling misinformation about the insurrection, trying to take the heat off trump supporters, forced a delay of the bill strictly for delay s sake, demanding that senate clerks read aloud all 628 pages of the bill from the floor, which took 10 hours, 43 minutes and 9 seconds of the senate s time, during a national emergency with lives at stake. for what it s worth, phili
the senate becomes jurors and the case in front of them they witnessed. incitement of insurrection spurring a hoard of radical right wing terrorists to breach the capitol. the mayhem left five dead that day, including u.s. capitol police officer brian sicknick in one of the darkest days in modern history for america s democracy. the trial starts with debate and then a vote on whether the proceeding against the former president is constitutional. a source says citizen trump is telling former aides and advisers that he s convinced the senate will acquit him. the former president s lawyers tha have dismissed the impeach. as political theater, and a system gone awry. they call this the logical and heinous conclusion of a months-long campaign by donald trump and his allies, including some accomplices, to cast doubt on the election results. they say the president has no defense and the evidence of his misconduct is overwhelming. today s historic trial, the first time a former p
the argument that then president trump was in on this the whole time. it s the kind of evidence that can as a constitutional matter cut against any defense that maybe things just got out of hand, or donald trump would oppose and regret what his fans did. lead impeachment manager jamie raskin capping a dramatic day with an appeal for facts and sense. i ve talked a lot about common sense in this trial because i think i believe that s all you need to arrive at the right answer here. let s not get caught up in a lot of outlandish lawyers theories here. exercise your common sense about what just took place in our country. exercise your common sense. at a time of incredible division, where politics and ideology, which a system under rule of law ought to be able to debate and debate peacefully, when those conversations of debates have turned into lies, we re all living through it. it was part of the recent political era, but it s clearly part of the action of the insurrection th
tonight the department of homeland security warning about the threat of possible violence by domestic extremists emboldened by the attack on the capitol. and meanwhile the biden administration moving to battle the climate crisis vowing to create clean energy jobs to the stimulate economic recovery. and with a few days still to go, january s already the deadliest month for covid-19 since the pandemic began, nearly 80,000 deaths so far. good evening to both of you. john, you first. today we saw the first coronavirus briefing in months and sweeping plans to combat climate change and create jobs. it seems like science is driving the biden agenda. there s no question about it. and, look, the reliance on science and data and evidence and reason is one of the key dividing lines between democrats and republicans now. and that was the message that the biden team was trying to showcase today. there was some audio glitches. it was a little technical and wonky at times, but they re mak