Capital rotunda this morning. John mccain will be the 31st american to lie in state. 242 years of this republic. We have a team of correspondents, analysts, friends, all here this hour, as we watch poet of theboth of the. We want to begin in detroit, where the final goodbye to the queen of soul is just beginning. As you might imagine, it is a starstudded sendoff for Aretha Franklin. Some of the biggest names in entertainment are attending the funeral in detroit. This is just beginning now. Ron mott is there. Ron, so far, seems like this is going to be a ceremony fit, fittingly, for a queen. Reporter its unbelievable, the people who have come out here to pay their final respects to the queen. It is hard to remember that this is a funeral and hearts are heavy, hallie, obviously. This is a real celebration of this woman. Detroits own. She loved this city. They loved her right back. This morning, before the sun even came out, people were standing in line. The family initially was saying th
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brother officers and sister officers experienced, that resulted in some of them dying literally, do they ever say to you, i m sorry that i did that? i m sorry i lied about january 6th? there are individuals who walk the hall, not necessarily lawmakers, the capitol community it s a lot of people that work there but it s a small community and majority of the individuals who were there feel bad about what we went through. they thank us for our service. it means a lot. as far as specific members of congress, i haven t been personally approached to say, you know, sorry about that, i haven t. but that s not necessary for me. i don t do my job for recognition or to make people doing the right thing. it s important to defend people s right to say what they feel even if i disagree. even if it s a lie.
though it s the number one thunderbolt, i can t see them making a referral that doesn t include donald trump. garrett, let me talk about the hundreds of police officers who defended the capitol during the insurrection. they received congress highest honor, the congressional gold medal. talk about the significance of the gold medals. reporter: it s a reminder of the gratitude that everyone in the capitol community, reporters and myself included, have towards these officers from the capitol police and the d.c. metropolitan police who responded on that day and were able to secure the capitol before the night was over and let congress continue with their work. this ceremony was voted on back in june of last year. it takes about this long to mint the medals and prepare the ceremony. it was a bipartisan vote, but not every house republican did vote in favor of the ceremony. a very emotional day here today. speaker pelosi captured some of