Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily 202 for Friday, January 8.

In today's news, two cabinet secretaries resign as calls intensify to remove President Trump from

office. Aside from Trump, no Republican is taking more blame for the mob violence

than Josh Holly and adding insult to injury the siege of our

capital may have been a super spreader event for COVID-19. But first the big idea.

Inside the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, the rioters were in charge. Capital police did not ask other law enforcement agencies for help until their building was overwhelmed by a violent

mob seeking to overturn the results of the election.

Top congressional leaders hidden in safe rooms during the siege were directly calling the governors of

Maryland and Virginia on their cell phones to plead for backup because the

Pentagon was not sending in the DC National Guard to rescue them.

At last, reinforcements arrived.

DC police officers, who wear an image of the Capitol building

on their department's official patch,

but rarely enter the building itself came in and

saved the day. Sadly late last night a capital police officer died of injuries

that he sustained during the attack.

The department says Officer Brian Sicknick, a 12-year veteran of the force, was injured

while physically engaging with protesters.

There are reports online that one of the pro-Trump rioters hit him on the head with a fire extinguisher.

Officer Sicknick collapsed after returning to his division headquarters before being

taken to an intensive care unit. Three of Congress's top security officials, the

Capitol Hill Police Chief Stephen Sund, the House Sergeant-at-Arms, Paul Irving, and the Senate

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