Youre watching the fimt farewell for officer brian sicknick, the hearse poised to leave the capitol for the last time. The capitol he had served and defended and died in defending the capitol in the assault on january 6th. That is the east front of the capitol. The leaders have escorted him down to the plaza. The remains were brought down with military precision. There was the mournful playing of the bagpipes of Amazing Grace and those final steps by the pall bearers carrying a flag, as well, that had been flown by nancy pelosi over the capitol on january 7th, the day after the assault, when congress was again showing resilience and showing that they were returning to order. The Motorcycle Escort now for the final trip to arlington for his burial. As we see the cortege moving outside of the capitol, it will go across the bridge to arlington cemetery, across memorial bridge, this after a rare tribute. Only five times in American History have we seen this tribute for a civilian lying in
Daily briefing this hour. Chuck schumer announces the senate has finally, nearly a month after the Georgia Senate results has finally reached an agreement to give democrats the gavels in this 50 50 chamber. Public Health Officials at the White House Strike a cautiously optimistic tone at this mornings Covid Briefings as cases and hospitalizations decline but warning about what lies ahead remain dire. Well speak with one of the white house top covid advisers about the road ahead, coming up. Well, welcome to wednesday. Its meet the press daily. Im chuck todd. Wednesdays have been pretty consequential. The sources confirmed that House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy that they will take her off of one committee if they put a resolution not to strip her of all assignments. A moment ago the the democratic Majority Leader rejected the offer saying the house will vote tomorrow on the resolution about stripping her of all of her Committee Assignments even though it will set a dangerous precede
and one thing democrats and republicans can agree on, the classified briefings for bind intelligence officials from them landed with a thud with the intel community unable to provide clearance absences oo that 21-year-old was able to leak top secrets to his chat group. certainly wasn t satisfied with any plans that they have for the future too many people with access to too much information without safe guards. and i was left with more questions than answers i m andrea mitchell. with the legal future of the most widely used abortion pill still in limbo the supreme court has pushed back its self imposed deadline until midnight tomorrow on whether or not to extend the stay on lower court rulings that will severely limit access to the pill if the court fails to act or denies the stay, every dose would be pulled off the market because the labels would be misbranded adding to the legal problems ahead and battles, the drug maker behind a generic version has filed its own laws
but it took months and months to get it from doj. so just a lot of tension here. i spoke to an aide that it is believed that people may have died result of the leaks ukrainian soldiers for example that is the first i ve heard that sgla . exactly and more questions to be asked but they are taking it seriously and they are not happy with the answers or lacks answers and it may be just because the pentagon themselves doesn t have answers to the questions of for example how were the documents printed out, wasn t it logged, did anyone else fail do their job. there is a pretty big investigation going on jack teixeria that may not be the only person who faces some kind of accountability. and yesterday we spoke to jeremy bash who was the pentagon chief of staff and he said that there is really no way with the millions of people in the military to do bag checks or,
right legislation. he doesn t have the votes to advance the bill or change senate rules to do so. arizona senator and west virginia senator delivering the one-two knock out punch. the president tried to get them to change their minds during a white house meeting last night but there was no breakthrough. the president promising to continue to fight even while acknowledging this effort may be over. sgla i hope we can get this done. the honest to god answer is i don t know if we can get this done. as long as i have a breath in me, as long as i m in the white house, i m going be fighting to change the way these legislatures have moved. this defeat couldn t come at