moment. we will talk to tom homan about that. sandra: alert to a city in mourning. a wake is underway for one of the two new york city police officers murdered in an ambush last weekend. and funerals for both officers are scheduled in the coming days. hello, sandra smith in new york. great to have you here. it s great to be with you, i m in for john roberts, a solemn site. fellow officers carrying the casket of 22-year-old jason rivera into st. patrick s cathedral this morning. he and his partner were ambushed inside an apartment last week after responding to a mother s call for help. as funeral services get underway, attention now turning to manhattan s far left d.a. and the soft on crime policies. now alvin bragg says he will attack gun violence at every angle. deadly and dangerous start for the nation s police officers. 24 have been shot and four killed since just january 1st. brian will kick things off outside st. patrick s cathedral. is the public allowed inside?
anniversary. we are approaching a solum anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the capitol where we saw the men and women of law enforcement demonstrate incredible courage. oh, oh, that did not sit well with the maga cult including trump s tv boss tucker, to an entire programming mantra, it was a totally normal day. tuckham reiterated it was definitely not a violent terrorist attack but cruz, cruz couldn t handle it so went on fox to bend the knee and clear the air and ran straight into a hailstorm. the way i phrase things yesterday, it was sloppy and it was frankly dumb and i don t buy that, whoa, whoa, i ve known you a long time since before you went to the senate. you re a supreme court contender. you take words as seriously as any man that served in the senate and every word you repeated that phrase. i don t believe you used that word accidently. it s caused a lot of people to misunderstand what i meant. what i was referring to are the limited number o
the proejt will take the pulse of the american electorate. we ll focus in seven different counties, presidential battleground states that have seven very competitive mid-term senate races. all of it begins today. one week out from the virginia governor s race. we ll crisscross the country. the nbc reporting teams on the front lines of our county-to-county project coming up. but first there is a reason we re launching it today. the same reason president joe biden is headed to virginia today. the start if you will of the mid-term cycle across america. the results in virginia have historically been a canary in the coal mine politically for what lies ahead for the party in power in the even numbered year. this year virginia is a dead heat. a new poll has the race virtually tied, third straight public poll that essentially has that. poll after poll has shown this race is for democrats uncomfortably close in the state joe biden won rather handily, by ten points. a loss here is a
a ziplock baggy filled with cocaine found just steps from the west wing where guests are often ushered through the white house. now the question who dropped it, setting off sunday s hazmat evacuation. then, the phenomenon unique to the united states, gun violence in america reaching a new level of horror. 356 mass shootings so far this year. a stunning 15 of them just this past holiday weekend. coming up, why these tragic shootings always seem to spike in the summer months and what can be done about it. plus, a federal judge slapping the biden administration with new restrictions on social media saying the biden administration cannot decide what is and is not misinformation. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we begin with something of a mystery in our political lead. who left a baggy of coke at the white house? there was a brief evacuation sunday night after the powdery substance was found in an area of the west wing that is accessible to some tour groups. this
you had conservatives from the house freedom caucus chip roy and dan bishop voting against it with all four democrat members of that committee refusing really to bail out the fractured g.o.p. conference over this bill that they didn t negotiate and would not have written themselves. this advances the legislation now to a full floor vote. and there is a considerable effort to whip the vote and count the votes on both sides. speaker mccarthy pledged yesterday that two thirds of republicans will end up supporting this on the floor. but conservatives like dan bishop are calling on their colleagues to oppose the bill saying that they expect it won t even get half of the conference in support. i m just fed up with the lies. i m fed up with the lack of courage. the cowardice. and i intend, in the time that i m here, i intend to see to it that those that there is somebody who is prepared to say what needs to be done. 434 members of congress, nobody could have done a worse job.