Time. In july 1998 a delusional, seriously mentalally ill man walked through carrying a loaded. 38 caliber smith and wesson revolver. Jacob chestnut stopped the man and asked him to go through the metal detector. The man turned and shot the officer in the head and killed him and shot and Wounded Another Police officer. Officer Douglas Mcmillian who Returned Fire and hit the attacker. Shot and mortally wounded a u. S. Capitol police detective. John gibson. As gibson told members of congress and their staff to take cover. Detective gibson was killed by the attacker that day. But before he died he nevertheless was able to return fire as well and that is apparently what took the gunman down and ended that oneman attack on the u. S. Capitol in the summer of 1998. The attacker, although he was shot by officers that Returned Fire, he survived. A u. S. Senator, who was a Heart Surgeon was nearby when the Gun Fight Broke Out and may have saved the gunmans life after the shooting stop and accompanied him to the hospital. One tourist was wounded in the attack. Officer chestnut and Detective Gibson were killed that day. Soon thereafter they lay in honor at the u. S. Capitol. You are looking live tonight at the scene of chaotic violence on friday. Tonight a place of grief and latesting tribute. Capitol steps serving as a memorial, people left flowers, cards, notes to show their appreciation for the two Police Officers who died in service to their country. Inside a formal goodbye fit for a head of state. Reporter hundreds of Police Officers marching to the capitol in a moving display of national grief. Fathers brought daughters and strangers wept together. Mourning two men. What makes our democracy strong is not only what congress may enact or a president may achieve. Even more it is the countless individual citizens who live our ideals out every day. Reporter both houses of congress voted honors for Jacob Chestnut and john gibson, each killed in the line of duut during a Shocking Gun Battle At The Capitol last week. Hundreds of schoolchildren and lawmakers filed into the rotunda to pay tribute. Many wore blue ribbons as signs of respect. Blue for The Thin Blue Line used to describe Police Officers. No member of the Capitol Police force had been killed in the line of duty and nobody was prepared to cope. It was an assault on the capitol. An assault no one wants to live through again. An assault no one wants to live through again on the nations most recognizable symbol. The last time the u. S. Capitol was attacked and a u. S. Police officer was killed in the line of duty, the summer of 1998. Ceremony tonight for Brian Sicknick who was killed in the attack on the capitol last month will look different than the footage we saw on nbc news from 1998. Obviously now because of the pandemic, the crowds cant come to a certain degree that is a Security Condition now as well. The Capitol Grounds are just closed. The public cant come through in any numbers, let alone huge numbers. But this will be tonight the first chance that the country has had to kind of have a moment here to recognize the loss and the terror of the protrump mob attack last month on the capitol. In the Court Filings for those that were arrested and charged. The fbi says that more than 100 Police Officers were injured in the attack. At least 15 severely injured. So severely injured they had to be hospitalized. Capitol Police Officers union told congress that the number even just in the u. S. Capitol police was more like 140 officers injured, including they say officers that are working that day without helmets, suffering brain injuries, officers with cracked ribs and smashed final disks. One officer will lose his eye. Another was stabbed with a metal fence stake. And of Course OfficerBrian Sicknick died. The circumstances of his death havent officially been described in detail. There were reports the rioters hit him in the head with a fire extinguisher. But there is no release of information from the medical examiner. The Prosecutors Office in washington d. C. Opened up a federal Murder Investigation. They have not briefed the pubcn in the case. Officer Brian Sicknick will lie in honor tonight at the Capitol Rotunda like the officers before him that were killed by a madman back in 1998. This time it was a mad mob of hundreds of rioters who were trying to find and kill the speaker of the house and the Vice President and broke into the office of the speaker. They broke into the senate floor. Went through senators desks. Trying to stop the count of the electoral votes on the floor of the senate to keep donald trump in office as president. They thought they were the physical force part of a multifaceted coup by the outgoing president that would somehow keep him in power. They thought they were there to keep donald trump president and by their actions that would happen. Head of Capitol Police and sergeant at arms all resigned. Of course no politician has. Some things today, u. S. Senators got Committee Assignments as republicans consented to let the democrats take control of the u. S. Senate. Democrats are in control of the senate and won it in the elections. Republicans have been dragging out the hand over of power for weeks now. In the house, tonight is the vote on issuing fines to members of the house who refuse to go through Metal Detectors designed to keep guns off of the floor of the congress because that is the kind of thing they have to do now. They voted in the senate to move ahead with the covid relief bill. Democrats can pass it themselves if they have to do so. Pete buttigieg, former democratic president ial candidate was confirmed as the nations newest secretary of transportation. The first openly gay cabinet official ever confirmed by the u. S. Senate. Mayorkas, he will be secretary of Homeland Security under President Biden. Secretary mayorkas confirmed and sworn in. At the white house today Executive Action from President Biden to reverse one of the inarguably one of the most unconsciousable thing the Trump Administration did and left in their wake. With the first action today we are going to work to undo the morale and the National Shame of the previous information that literally and not figuratively ripped children from the arms of families at the border with no plan, none whatsoever to reunionifiy the children. With that i am going to sign the first order. A reestablishment of a reunionification of families. As promised a task force on reunionification and finding the kids that the Trump Administration took away from moms and dads at the southern border. In the text of the executive order, signed by the president tonight. It spells out the chair of the task force will be the secretary of Homeland Security. Secretary of state and house secretary. Also including the attorney general. This is a highpowered thing and 120 days to report back to President Biden on progress and recommendations for how to ensure the u. S. Government can never, ever do this to kids again. Work of setting up the new administration is underway and congress is starting work. We know covid relief will come first and the republicans cant stop it even if they try. And they will try. Covid response at the white house includes announcements they are dramatically increasing shipments of vaccines to local pharmacies in the hopes that will boost the number of americans able to get Vaccine Shots near to where they live and in settings where we have fairly easy access. In the world, the new administration is taking a new and a very, very different hard line against Vladimir Putin and russia. Thousands of russians turned out to protest in the streets again tonight. Today they put the main Opposition Leader in russia, alex navalny in prison. He survived, came back to russia. They immediately locked him up. After two weeks of protests on his behalf, today they sentenced him to years in prison. That is why there are large protests in moscow and across russia. He spoke from court about Vladimir Putin saying he has never participated in any debates or campaigned in an election. Murder is the only way he knows how to fight and he will go down in history as nothing but a poisoner. He said we all remember Alexander The Liberator and jaroslav the wise. Now vladimir the poisoner. He said i am standing here, guarded by the police and the National Guard is out there with half of moscow cordoned off. All of that because that small man in a bunker is losing his mind. The main thing in the trial is not what happens to me. What happens most is why it is happening. It is happening to intimidate large numbers of people. They are imprisoning one person to frighten millions. He is the main Opposition Leader and the most serious challenge to Vladimir Putins Authority Russia ever faced. U. S. State department demand russia release Navalany Unconditionally and immediately. After four years of the previous president looking the other way and actively excusing the behavior of Vladimir Putin, taking putins word over the word of u. S. Intelligence agencies about it. Night and day in terms of the Biden Administration now. The work of the country proceeds. Cleaning up from the previous presidency, getting on with the work of the new one. But through all of this and even on days when a lot happened. January 6 looms very large. It looms in the pending Impeachment Trial of President Trump for inciting the attack. Initial reporting over the weekend that President Trump lost his Legal Defense team when they refused his demands that they use the Senate Trials to advance his false claims that the president ial results in the country shouldnt be recognized and he should somehow be president. In addition to that President Trump might also may not have wanted to pay their lawyers contribute to their discussion to dump him this weekend. He got new lawyers on sunday. We will see if in the end they get paid. They did submit a brief on behalf of the former president responding to the charges laid out against him in the impending impeachment. 14 pages with multiple misspellings and typos, misspelling the United States in the first line of the things. The president s defense brief did in fact argue trumps line that joe biden maybe wasnt legitimately elected to be president. The whole brief, for one never once describes donald trump as the former president. It describes him over and over again as the 45th president , as if he is still the president and never describes him as the former or previous president. He thinks he is still the president. The brief argues that the Election Results that voted trump out and biden in, argues that the results are, and i quote, suspect. It argues that when President Trump told his supporters on the day of the attack that he had actually won the election in the landslide that there is no evidence to say that is false. Who can say, really. That claim that President Trump won the election somehow and that President Biden is not really the president. He is a pretender. He has stolen it. Trump is the rightful president. That was the base for the mob attack on the Capitol On January 6th. The former president is still trying to advance that claim. He spelled Out Today In Black And White that will be part of his defense in his Impeachment Trial. That starts next week. The Election Results are suspect. Who can say whether or not it is a false claim that trump won the election in a landslide. Maybe he did. We are not saying. Yes. The work of the country. The work of the government continues. Days like today, a lot gets done. January 6th looms every day because it isnt over. The former president is still trying to undermine democracy and telling his followers that he is the rightful president. He needs to be avenged. His followers are still being arrested for various roles in the attack on january 6th. They are citing the words of President Trump as what they took to be their instructions to violently attack the capitol less than four weeks ago. The person that placed the pipe bombs the night before. That person still hasnt been caught. There is a 100,000 reward. The murderers of Brian Sicknick havent been identified. That remains unsolved. Before that he was in the new jersey National Guard. From new jersey. One of his senators. Cory booker eulogized Officer Sicknick on the senate floor. He was steadfast. He was courageous. He stood in the breach to protect the lives of the members of the body, the staff, personnel, and he faced down Terrorist Attackers and sacrificed himself, his own safety, security and ultimately his life In The Name Of country, country men and women. Officer sicknick is the very definition of a hero and he deserves to be remembered for the richness of his life. The way that he loved. The devotion that he gave this nation. That he is no longer with us today is a tragedy and it is also a crime. This great man was murdered. This crime demands the full attention of federal Law Enforcement officials and anyone who harbors doubt about what happened here on january 6th should think of him. On january 6th when extremists and terrorists and White Supremacists attacked our nations capitol they took the life of one of our officers. They spilled his blood. They took a son away from his parents and a sibling away from their brothers. They committed this treachery while waving flags claiming solidarity, some of them with Law Enforcement. But it was hate. It was hate. It was hate. It brought terror to our capitol and the death of one of our sons. Joining us now is u. S. Senator cory booker representing Officer Sicknicks home state of new jersey. You saw him there eulogizing Officer Sicknick on the senate floor last month. Thank you for taking time. I know it is a solemn night. Thank you very much, rachel. So Officer Sicknick will lie in honor at the capitol. Can you talk about the rarity of the honor . What do you continuing means in context . It is something that does not happen in the United States of america. This is our capitol. We have rarely seen in the history of our country people die here. We know the british attacked in the war of 1812. Beyond that we have seen very little violence at our capitol. On a dark and shameful day when the attack was happening, he was one of those people that rushed to fight and defend the United States of americas most sacred spot, the capitol of our country. And what is bemoving to me is to talk to the other officers that knew him. They describe him as a leader and perhaps more honorary as a servant. He was there for other officers. That he was a man of kindness and grace. The pain with his family, it is a just thing that he is lying in honor. We can do the family no justice. Just that tonight and tomorrow people will pay respects, but we can give that family no justice. Justice would be their son and brother alive right now. So i hope that we as a country hurt right now and that we put down partisan posturing and just hurt. This is a sad and painful moment of remembrance. A person that gave his greatest devotion possible to the country he loved and served it in the military, as a Police Officer and died in a insurrection. For those that cant truly honor