I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Wednesday, February 3rd.

President Biden last night paid his respects to the remains of Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick killed in the

January 6th riot at the Capitol. Siknik is being given the very rare distinction of lying in

honor in the Capitol Rotunda, only the third private citizen ever to receive that honor after

Rosa Parks and Reverend Billy Graham.

When former presidents and other government dignitaries die, they call it lying in state.

For the few private citizens, it's called lying in honor.

Two other Capitol police officers who responded to the insurrection have also since died,

but by suicide. And the FBI says 14 more capital officers were injured in the attack. As the country gets ready for the impeachment

trial of President Trump next week on charges of inciting the insurrection, we'll focus more broadly

now on how the wider investigation into the

attack is going. How coordinated and pre-planned was it? Who were the groups and individuals who

most contributed? Could it have been avoided? How to prevent more such attacks, which we know

some people would like to carry out. With me now is New York Times Justice Department correspondent Katie Benner.

Katie, thanks for coming on with us for this.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Oh, thanks much for having me.

And let me begin with the death of Officer Sicknick.

I see that investigators are having trouble charging anyone in his death

because it's unclear who in that chaos struck the fatal blow.

What can you tell us?

Can you summarize what is known about how he died?

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