Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, and we're in the middle of a very busy afternoon

as we come on air a moment to go.

We just saw the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor.

This was the 81-year-old's first public appearance with cameras since that recent freezing

episode in front of reporters, also right now, a sentencing hearing is underway for the

man known as the chairman of the far right group, the Proud Boys, Enrique Tario, his

name.

He's the last of the five Proud Boy defendants to be sentenced for their convicted

role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

Prosecutors are pushing for 33 years in prison for Tario because he was convicted on seditious

conspiracy charges.

Defense attorneys are making their best arguments against that.

Also a major show of force coming up on the lead.

The secretaries from three branches of the U.S. military calling on Republican Senator

Tommy Tuberville to stop his hold on all military nominations.

He's doing this because he objects to the Pentagon's abortion travel care policy in Washington

post op-ed.

They call Tuberville's actions, quote, dangerous to national security, that from the secretaries

of the Navy and the Air Force and the Army, all three will be here exclusively together

in studio coming up.

We're going to start, however, with that law and justice lead and the sentencing hearing

for the chair of the Proud Boys Enrique Tario, the hearing that's happening right now.

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