A pass from House Republicans, while congresswoman liz cheney had to fight back a challenge for her leadership post. Cheney more than survived, but the question is, whats next for Marjorie Taylor greene . Plus, new remarks from President Biden on his nearly 2 trillion Economic Relief proposal. He says he wants a bipartisan bill, but the question is, what is he willing to compromise . And democrats won control of the Senate Two Weeks ago, but they are just now taking control of the committees. The question is, how long before we finally see Confirmation Hearings for key Cabinet Posts like Attorney General . Its Way Too Early for this. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early, the show that has yet to hear any cries of voter fraud after the house referendum on liz cheney. I am kasie hunt on this thursday, february 4th. Well start with the news. The third highest ranking house republican, liz cheney, will remain in leadership after beating back a Secret Ballot challenge to strip her of h
Time. In july, 1998, a delusional seriously mentally ill man walked through the Metal Detectors at the Capitol Building while he was carrying a loaded smith and wesson resolver. A u. S. Capitol Police Officer stopped the man when he set off the alarm and asked the man to go through again. The man turned without a word and shot officer chestnut in the head and killed him. The man then shot and wounded another Police Officer, officer douglas mcmillan, who then returned fire and hit the attacker. The attacker then shot and mortally wounded a u. S. Capitol police detective, detective john gibson, as he was telling members of congress and their staff to take cover. Detective gibson was killed by the atactor that day, in 1998, but before he died, he nevertheless was able to return fire as well, and that is apparently what took that gunman down sxended that oneman attack on the u. S. Capitol in the summer of 1998. The attacker, although he was shot by officers who returned fire, he survived.
lawn of the white house with more on this this incident was seems safe at the moment, but has certainly rattled otherwise quiet sunday afternoon. lucas question eric. it s not often hear sonic boom in the dc area, and that s exactly what people heard around 3 p.m. eastern time. the big boom is a sonic boom coming from an f 16 fighter jet as you mentioned launching the d, c national guard at andrews home, 100 and 13th win the reason they scrambled because there was an unknown cessna. we re told, flying a radically in the dc area ignore radio calls that have 16 was cleared for supersonic and but when the jets responded that cessna the faa says crashed outside of stanton, virginia, which is not too close to dc but certainly a strange twist, but certainly has a lot of people s attention here on a sunday afternoon in washington. there certainly is this especially at that says no 1, 72 or 1, 50, or skyline crashed. it s very odd. we don t know what may have brought that plane down.
as we wrap up a holiday week, the problems facing our nation sometimes might seem insurmountable, the divide over abortion rights, the unease over the economy, an election lie getting more entrenched. we ll talk about all of that, but i want to start today talking about gun violence. tomorrow will mark one week since the deadly mass shooting of the july 4th parade in highland park, illinois, outside of chicago. while shattered families are still grappling with all they lost in that senseless slaughter, cnn is learning more about the warning signs from the alleged shooter that despite illinois s red flag law did not prevent him from buying that semi-automatic rifle police say he used last week. the young man spent time at his father s highland park deli growing up, and police were often called to the home for domestic disturbances between the parents. in 2019 police came to briefly confiscate a collection of knives after the then 18-year-old threatened to, quote, kill everyone
house counsel pat cipollone and his former deputy, patrick philbin. coming up on thursday, the federal magistrate judge who approved that search will hear arguments for and against unsealing the search warrant affidavit. cnn s jessica schneider joins us now. so what do you know about the fbi s interviews with pat cipollone and patrick philbin? reporter: yeah. anderson, we know that the most senior former trump officials to be interviewed in what we know is really this ongoing criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of the classified documents and this revelation that they have, in fact, talked to the fbi, it s significant because, you know, they were trump s designated representatives to the national archives when trump left office. so they would have these details. they d be able to give the fbi about what was taken to mar-a-lago. also, you know, whether trump insisted that documents remain with him, what his intent or mind-set was, and that could really be cr