guard before joining the capitol police. sicknick was defending the capitol building and congressional lawmakers on january 6th when he was brutally killed by pro-trump rioters. please consider this man lost his life protecting the building, his remains now lie in. his viewing comes just days before donald trump s 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. let s talk about this tribute and what s expected for the rest of the day. it it started with an emotional, somber ceremony last night when officer sicknick s 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 ca
now and too frequently been visited on this floor that is not conducive to the exercise of free constitutional politics. former leader of my party, dick gepheart said that democracy was a substitute for war. that we should settle our differences peacefully and nonviolently. the speech that has been the subject of this resolution wills away at the rule of law and the stability needed to constructive debate. indeed, violent words and images are too often a precursor to the practice of violence. we ve seen that. we saw it on january 6th as the president of the united states incited and urged people to come to the congress to stop democracy in its tracks. and people wanted to hang the vice president of the united states as a result of those words because he was not doing that because he thought it was not legal. he wanted to follow the law. my friend gabby giffords and senator kelly know that all too well that violent words and images are too often a precursor, as does representa
critical. a new nbc poll shows his approval rating is at the lowest point of his presidency, down seven points since august. on the world stage president biden secured new agreements at the g20 meetings today including one on a tariff war put in place during the trump administration. we ve got significant progress too on ending a dispute between the united states and our closest european partners where we were engaged in a tariff war over steel and aluminum. that s gotten resolved. there s an agreement not to finance coal projects around the world. this is one of the largest drivers of emissions. going into glasgow, as a result of american engagement, american leadership, we re getting that over the finish line. donald trump meanwhile showed up in georgia for game four in the world series and took part in the atlanta braves controversial tomahawk chop. that was hours after a list was made public outlining the documents and records he wants to hide from the house select co
we begin in the us where a congressional committee has released the tax returns, covering a six year period, for the former president donald trump. some 2,700 pages of documentation, which mr trump had battled for years to keep secret, stretch from 2015 through 2020, covering mr trump s candidacy and time in the white house. the fight went all the way to the us supreme court this year, and last month the justices refused to block the release of the tax returns to the committee, thereby paving the way for their release. i m joined now by our washington correspondent gary 0 donoghue. this is the end of one long road but there is a huge amount of documentation, this is not a straightforward case of having a look and making a judgment i presume. m0 look and making a “udgment i resume. ., , ., ., ., presume. no it is not although the committee presume. no it is not although the committee has done presume. no it is not although the committee has done some - presume. no it is
members of congress were still dodging the disgraced ex-president s phone calls on the floor of the house. kevin mccarthy was still cutting back room deals, negotiating with his hostage-takers, trading away everything but the gavel so he could ascend finally, at long last, to the speakership. now less than one week into republican rule of the house of representatives, here we are, one newly minted republican of the house, george santos, is facing multiple open investigations and mounting evidence that he is both a pathological liar and a potential campaign finance violator among other things. speaker mccarthy is dangling the possibility of expuning one of the disgraced ex-president s impeachments. republicans are unleashing a so-called weaponization with mccarthy. democrats of the house are now receiving death threats like this one against congressman eric swalwell. getting your kicked off the committee is the least of your problems. the american people aren t going to be