Guard before joining the Capitol Police. Sicknick was defending the Capitol Building and congressional lawmakers on january 6th when he was brutally killed by protrump rioters. Please consider this man lost his life protecting the building, his remains now lie in. His viewing comes just days before Donald Trumps 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. Lets talk about this tribute and whats expected for the rest of the day. It it started with an emotional, somber ceremony last night when officer sicknicks 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 capitol. His remain
tomorrow s funeral, one of the biggest gatherings of world leaders ever, many meeting with king charles today, as president biden pays his respects to the queen. remnants of a typhoon flood parts of the coast, entire homes swept away, the worst storm there in nearly 50 years. deadly earthquake in taiwan, buildings shaking, some toppling, and a gym ceiling collapses sending children fleeing. our in depth look at the border crisis, the law enforcement agents overwhmed, and what residents of the inundated border town say about bussing them to the northeast. and the bench clearing football brawl that got multiple players ejected. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, remembering queen elizabeth ii, reporting tonight from london. good evening, everyone, from london. just hours before the state funeral for queen elizabeth. we ll begin that coverage in a moment. but first to puerto rico. as we come on the air, the island reeling after a direct hit fro
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at the polls but we also saw that their concentration manifested itself most state by state which actually echoed with the nra had done going state by state. do you believe that that is the future of change, it is not going to happen at the federal level? so when i started at the end of 2012 a few months into 2013 there was a bill, a bipartisan bill called manchin/toomey to close the loophole and not buy unlicensed gun sales and sell them without a background check. that failed so it became apparent to us in 2013 that we were going to have to go state by state and we have. so many people are waiting for a cathartic moment in congress which i believe is coming but it is important to remember we have passed hundreds of good gun laws at the state level. we have stopped the nra s agenda. year after year in state houses
temporary protective status and i ll give a little bit on the dreamers. it s too little, too late. it s completely anemic. both of those are policies he rescinded. he s going to give back a little bit of what he has already taken away. that s not a compromise. who s he kidding? he s got zero credibility on immigration. a man who gave us a muslim ban, rescinded daca, rescinded dps. shut down the asylum laws. did family separation. do we think that this man has actually had a cathartic moment, oh, i have an epiphany, i m going to be better on immigration? come on. who s buying that? certainly not nancy pelosi, not any of us. anthony romero, executive director of the aclu. keep us apprised, my friend. you bet. take care. we ll be right back. stay with us. ay with us