The Senate will convene as a court of impeachment
And the chaplain dr. Barry black leads us in prayer
Let us pray
All powerful God
Sovereign of this beloved land
You are our Fortress
And you desire
Justice
To be done
Azar Senate jurors remember
Their accountability to you
Use them
To cause Justice to roll down like Waters
And righteousness
Like a mighty stream
Lord during this impeachment trial
Give our lawmakers the gift
Of discernment
So that they will know
Truth
From falsehood
Inspire them
To commit their thoughts
And decisions to you
Let your kingdom come
And your will be done
On Earth
As it is done in heaven
We pray in your mighty name
And satyrs will you please be seated
And if there's no objection I hear none the journal proceedings of the trial approved today these
Sergeant at Arms
We'll make the proclamation hear ye hear ye all persons are
Are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment while the Senate of the United States is sitting for the tri
Isle of the article of impeachment against Donald John Trump former president of the United States
Mr. president
The majority leader is recognized
Thank you mr. president now for the information of all Senators no motions were filed this morning
So we'll proceed to the house managers presentation we anticipate two 10-minute breaks
And a 45-minute dinner break around 6 p.m.
In pursuant to the
Provisions of Senate resolution 47
The managers for the House Representatives have
16 hours
To make the presentation that case
They said it will now hear you
And
Who recognized mr. manager Raskin to begin the presentation of the case
For the House Representatives mr. asking thank you very much mr. president members of the Senate good morning good day
Some people think this trial is a contest of lawyers or even worse
A competition between political parties it's neither it's a Moment of Truth for America
My late father Marcus Raskin once wrote Democracy needs a ground to stand
Pain and that ground is the truth
America needs the truth about ex President Trump's role in inciting the Insurrection on January 6th
Because it threatened our government
And it disrupted it easily could have destroyed
The peaceful transfer of power in the United States for the first time in 233 years
He was suggested yesterday by President Trump's Council that this is really like a Very Bad Axe
Didn't wear natural disaster
Where lots of people get injured or killed in society is just out looking for someone to blame
And that's a natural and normal human reaction according to president's Council
But he says it's totally unfair in this case
President Trump according to mr. casters essentially an innocent bystander who got swept up in the
This catastrophe but did nothing wrong in this assertion mr. Castor unerringly Echoes his client expert
President Trump who declared after the insurrection
Set the his conduct in the affair was totally appropriate
And therefore we can only assume
He could do and would do the exact same thing again
Because he said his conduct was totally appropriate
Now the factual inquiry of the trial is squarely posed for us
The jurisdictional Constitutional issue is gone
Whether you were persuaded by the president's constitutional analysis yesterday or not
The Senate voted to reject it
Inside the Senate is now properly exercising its jurisdiction and sitting as a court of impede
Peachment conducting a trial
On the facts
We are having a trial on the facts
The house says ex President Donald Trump
Inside a violent Insurrection against Congress and the constitution in the people
The presidents lawyers in the President's Day is conduct
Was totally appropriate
And he's essentially an innocent victim of circumstances
Like the other innocent victims that will see getting caught up in all of the violence and chaos
Over the next several days
The evidence will be for you to see and hear in Digest
The evidence will show you
Did ex-president Trump was no innocent bystander
Devon's will show that he clearly incited
The January 6th insurrection
It will show that Donald Trump has surrendered his role as commander-in-chief
And became The Insider
In sheep
Have a dangerous instruction
And this was as one of our colleagues put it so cogently
On January 6th itself
The greatest betrayal of the presidential oath in the history
Of the United States
Evidence will show you
That he saw it coming and was not remotely surprised by the violence
Eminem violence
Inexorably and inevitably came as predicted and over ran this body
And House of Representatives with chaos
We will show you
That he completely abdicated his duty as commander-in-chief to stop the violence
And protect the government
And protect our officers and protect our people
He violated his oath of office to preserve protect
And defend the Constitution the government and the people United States
Evidence will show you that he assembled inflamed and incited
His followers to descend upon the capitol
To stop the steel
To block vice president Pence
And Congress
From finalizing his opponents
Election victory
Over him
Full show
But he had been warned that these followers were prepared
For violent attack targeting us
Hit the capital through media reports law enforcement reports and even arrest
In short we will prove that the impeach president was no innocent bystander
Pecan duck was totally appropriate
It should be a standard for future presidents
But that he incited this attack
And he saw it coming
To us
It may have felt like chaos and Madness but there was method
In the madness that day
This was an organized attack on the counting of the Electoral College votes in joint session of the United
States Congress
12th Amendment and under the Electoral count Act
To prevent
Vice president Mike Pence and to prevent us
From
Counting sufficient Electoral College votes
To certify
Joe Biden's victory of 306
2 232
In the Electoral College
A margin that the President Trump had declared a landslide in 2016
When my colleague mr. Magoo speaks after me
He was set forth in detail the exact road map of all the evidence in the case
My fellow house managers and I will then take you through that evidence step-by-step so everyone can see
Exactly how these events unfolded
But I want to tell you a few key reasons right now
Do we know this case is not about blaming an innocent bystander
For the horrific violence and harm that took place on January 6th
This is about holding accountable the person singularly responsible
For inciting the attack
Let's start with December 12th
You will see during this trial a man who praised
And encouraged
And cultivated violence
We have just begun to fight
He says
More than a month after the election is taking place
And that's before the second million MegaMart a rally that ended in serious violence
And even the burning of a church
And as the president forecast it was only the beginning
On December 19th
18 days before January 6th
He told his base about where the battle would be that they would fight next
January 6th would be wild he promised be there will be wild
Said the president of the United States of America
And that too turned out to be true
You'll see in the days that followed Donald Trump
Continue to aggressively promote January 6th to his followers
The event was scheduled at the at the precise time that Congress would be meeting in joints
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Count the Electoral College votes
And to finalize
The 2020 presidential election in fact in the days leading up to the attack you'll learn that there were
Countless social media post news stories
And most importantly credible reports from the FBI and Capitol Police that the thousands Gathering
For the president save America March
We're violent organized with weapons and we're targeting the capital
This mob got working I so openly because as they would later scream in these Halls
And if they posted on forms before the attack they were sent here by the president they were invited here
By the president of the United States of America and when they showed up
Knowing of these reports that the crowd was angry and it was armed
Here's what Donald Trump told them
President Trump with the crowd into a frenzy during followers
If you don't
Fight like hell
You're not going to have a country
Anymore
And then he aim straight at the Capitol declaring you'll never take back our country with weakness
You have to show strength and you have to be strong
She told them
To fight like hell
And they brought us hell
On that day
Incited by President Trump his mob attacked the capital this is salts unfolded live on
On television
Before a horrified Nation
According to those around him
At the time this is our President Trump
Reportedly responded to the attack
That we saw him in sight
In public
Delight
Enthusiasm
Confusion as to why others around him weren't as happy as he was
Trump incited the January 6th attack and when is mob over ran and occupied the Senate and attacked
The house and assaulted law enforcement
He watched it on TV like a reality show
He reveled in it
And he did nothing to help us
As commander-in-chief instead he served as The Insider
And she sending Tweets
It only further incited
The rampaging mob he made statements logging and sympathizing with the insurrectionists
Over at 4:17 p.m.
Over three hours at the beginning of the siege for the very first time he spoke out loud
Not on Twitter
Spoke out loud to the American people here's what he said
I know your pain
I know you're hurt
She might be saying alright the president is going to consult us now he's going to reassure America he knows our pain
He knows where hurt
We just seen these horrific images of
Officers being
Impaled and smashed over the head
We just been under attack for 3 hours but here's what he actually goes on to say
I know your pain I know you're hurt
We had an election
That was stolen from us
It was a landslide election and everyone knows it especially the other side
So you think he's about to decry the Mayhem and violence the unprecedented spectacle of his mob attack
Talking to your Capital but he's still promoting the big lie that was responsible for in flaming and incited
The mob in the first place
If anyone ever had a doubt as to his Focus that day it was not to defend us it was not to consolas it was too
Praising sympathize and commiserate with the rampaging mob
He was to continue to act as Insider and she not commander-in-chief by telling the mob that there are
Election had been stolen from them
Even then after that vicious attack she continued to spread the big lie
And is everyone here knows
Joe Biden won by more than 7 million votes
And 306 to 232 in the Electoral College but Donald Trump refuse to accept his lost
Even after this attack and he celebrated the people who violently interfered with the peace
Will transfer of power for the first time
In American history and did that at his urging
And when he did in this video finally tell them to go home and peace he added this message
We love you
You're very special
Distinguished members of the Senate
This is the day
That will live in disgrace
In American history
That is unless you ask Donald Trump
Because this is what he tweeted before he went to bed that night at 6:01 p.m.
Not controlling the nation not referring every reassuring everyone in the government was Secure not a single
Word that entire date condemning the violent insurrection
Shorty says these are the things and events that happen when a sacred Landslide election victory
Is so unceremoniously and viciously Stripped Away from great Patriots
Who's been badly and unfairly treated for so long go home with love and peace remember this day
Forever
These are the things and events that happen when a sacred Landslide election Victory so unceremoniously and
Viciously Stripped Away from great Patriots in other words this was all Perfectly Natural and foreseeable
Did Donald Trump
At the beginning of the day told you was coming
At the end of the day you basically says I told you this would happen in any ads
Remember this day forever
But not as a day of disgrace a day of horror and Trauma
As the rest of us remember it
What is the day of Celebration
The day of commemoration
If we let it be it will be a day of continuation a call to action and a rallying
Cry for the next rounds of insurrectionary Justice
Because all of this was totally appropriate
Senators the stakes of this trial could not be more serious
Every American young and old and in-between is invited to participate with us
In this essential Journey
Define the facts
Ensure the truth
Trials are public events in a democracy and no trials more public or significant than an impeachment trial
Because the Insurrection brought shocking violence
Bloodshed and pain in the nation's capital and we will be showing relevant clips of the mobs attack on police
Police officers and other innocent people we do word parents and teachers to exercise clothes review of
What young people are watching here
And please watch along with them if you're allowing them to watch the impeachment managers will try to give warnings
Before the most graphic and disturbing violence that took place as shown
We believe that the manager's comprehensive and meticulous presentation will lead to one power
Powerful and irresistible conclusion Donald Trump committed a massive crime against our constitution
In our people and the worst violation of the presidential oath of office in the history of the United States of
America
For this he was impeached by the House of Representatives and he must be convicted
By the United States Senate
Before I close I want to address a constitutional issue still lingering from yesterday's argument
The president
Obviously still exploring ways to change the stud subject and talk about anything other than his responsibility
For inciting the attack we heard a lot yesterday about his claim that this incitement of insurrection was perfectly
Appropriate because it's not protected by the First Amendment and this little diversion caught my eye because I've been a professor
Gospel concerts in Lawton the First Amendment for decades and it's will demonstrate over the course of the trial the factual
Premise in the legal underpinnings of that claim are all wrong
They present President Trump is merely like a guy at a rally expressing a political opinion that we
We disagree with and now we're trying to put him in jail for it that has nothing to do with the reality of these charge
We're his constitutional offense the particular political opinions being expressed are not why we in
Impeach the president and I'm not going to do with it it makes no difference what the ideological content of the mob War
Was and if we license and forgive incitement to Violent Insurrection by militant Trump followers this week
You can be sure there will be a whole bunch of new ideological flavors coming soon
As will demonstrate with overwhelming evidence portraying Trump is a guy on the street being punished for his ID
Diaz is a false description of his actions his intent and the role that he played on January 6th
When he willfully incited an instructor in an insurrectionary mob to riot at
The capital
Last week 144 constitutional Scholars including Floyd Abrams
A ferocious Defender free-speech Charles freed President Reagan solicitor-general
Stephen callabresi the co-founder of the Federalist Society released a statement calling the president's first amendment
Arguments legally frivolous
Legally frivolous adding we all agree that the First Amendment does not prevent the Senate from convict
Acting President Trump and disqualifying him from holding future office
They went on to say no reasonable scholar or tourist
Could conclude the President Trump had a First Amendment right to incite a violent attack on the seat
Of the legislative branch we're going to sit back and watch on television as Congress was terrorized in the Kappa
Stacked
Incitement to violence is of course not protected
By the First Amendment most Americans have dismissed Donald Trump's First Amendment
Simply by
Referring to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's handy phrase
You can't shout fire in a crowded theater but even that time-honored principal doesn't begin
Capture how off base the argument is this case is much worse than someone who falsely
Shouts fire in a crowded theater where the town fire chief
Who's paid to put out fires sends a mob
Not to yell fire in a crowded theater actually set the theater on fire
And who then when the fire alarms go off in the calls start flooding Into the Fire Department
Asking for help does nothing but sit back encourage the mob to continue its ramp
Page and watch the fire spread on TV
Wiz Khalifa
Into light
So then we say this Byers Jeep should never be allowed to hold this public job again and you're fired in your
Permanently disqualified and he objects
He says
We're violating his free-speech rights just because he's
Promart we're profire or whatever it might be
Come on
I mean you you really don't need to go to law school to figure out what's wrong with that argument here's the key
Undoubtedly a private person can run around the street down the street expressing his or her support for the enemies
United States in advocating the overthrow the United States government
You got a right to do that under the First Amendment but if the president spent all of his days doing that ordering the exact
Same words
Expressing support for the enemies of the United States and for overthrowing the government is there anyone here who doubts
That this would be a violation of his oath of office to preserve protect and defend the Constitution of United
And that he or she could be impeached for doing that
Look at your president United States you've chosen a side
Winter oath of office and if you break it
We can impeach convict remove and disqualify you permanently from holding any office
Of Honor trust or profit under the United States
You can't ride with the cops
In route for the robbers
And if you become Insider in Chief to the Insurrection you can expect to be on the payroll
As commander-in-chief for the Union
Trump was the president night States needs Warner preserve for tax
And defend the Constitution he had an affirmative binding Duty one that set him apart from
Everyone else in the country to take care that the laws be Faithfully executed
Including all the laws against assaulting Federal officers destroying Federal property viola
Members of Congress in the vice president interfering with Federal elections in dozens of other
Federal laws that are well known to all of you
When he incited Insurrection on January 6th he broke that oath
He violated that Duty
And that's why we're here today
And that's why he has no credible constitutional defense
I'll tell you a final sad story in this Kaleidoscope of sadness and Terror and violence
River Capital officers who defended
Us that Dave was a longtime veteran of our force a brave and honorable public servant
Several hours battling the mob as part of one of those blue lines defending the
Capital in our democracy
For several hours straight
Has the Marauders punched and kicked and mold and
Spit upon and hit officers with baseball bats and fire extinguishers curse the cops
And stormed our Capital he defended us and he lived every minute of his oath of o
Office
And afterwards
Overwhelmed by emotion
He broke down in the Rotunda
And he cried for 15 minutes
Any shout it out
I got called
An n-word 15 times today
In any recorded I sat down with one of my buddies
Another black guy in tears just started streaming down my face and I said
What the f man
Is this America
That's the question before all of you in this trial is this America
Can I country in our democracy ever be the same if we don't hold accountable the person respond
Possible for inciting the violent attack
Against our country our capital in our democracy
And all of those who serve us
So faithfully and honorably
Is this America
Mr. neguse will now provide a roadmap a roadmap of our
Evidentiary case
Which president
Distinguished
Tenders
Council
Like several of you I am a child of immigrants
And it's a son of immigrants
I believe firmly in my heart that the United States is the greatest
Republic but this world has ever known
A Hallmark
About Republic
Since the days of George Washington
It's been the peaceful transfer of power
For centuries we've accepted it
Aspect
Unfortunately
Chadli
We know now that we can no longer take that for granted
Because it's lead manager Raskin explained on January 6th
The peaceful transition of power was violently interrupted when a mob
Capital
And desecrated this chamber
As you'll see during the course of this trial that mob
Was summoned
Assembled
And incited
Father former president of the United States
Donald Trump
And he did that
Because he wanted to stop the transfer of power
So that he could retain power even though he had lost
The election
And when the violence erupted
When they were here in our building
With weapons
He did nothing to stop it
If we are to protect our Republic
And prevent something like this from ever happening again
He must be convicted
Now I want to be very clear about what we will show you during the course of this trial
As my fellow managers present
Our case to you today tonight tomorrow
It'll be helpful to think
About President Trump's incitement of insurrection in three distinct parts
Be attacked the provocation
The attack
And the harm
Let's start
What the provocation
We will show during the course of this trial
That this attack was provoked
By the president
Incited
By the president
And as a result it was predictable and it was foreseeable and of course that makes sense
This mob was orchestrated their conduct was intentional they did it all in plain sight
Proudly
Openly
And loudly
Because
They believed
Truly believed
That they were doing this for him
But this was their patriotic Duty
They even predicted
Becky
Would protect them
And for the most part
They were right
In his unique role as commander-in-chief of our country
And it's the one person that the mob was listening to and following
Orders from
She had the power to stop it
And he didn't
Now some
Upset the President Trump's remarks speech on January 6th was just a speech
Well let me ask you this when in our
History
As a speech LED thousands of people to storm our nation's capital with weapons
To steal the walls
Break windows
Kill a capitol police officer
This was not just a speech
Didn't just happen
And as you evaluate the facts we present
Do you
It will become clear
Exactly where that mob came from
Because here's the thing President Trump's words is you'll see
January 6th
In that speech
Just like the mobs actions were carefully chosen
Those words had a very specific meaning
To that crowd and how do we know this
Because in the weeks prior to during and after the election he used this
Same words
Over and over and over again
You will hear
Over and over
Precincts
You can see them on the screens
First
What lead manager Raskin referred to as the big lie
That the election was stolen
Full of fraud richt
You will hear over and over
Him using
That why the urge his supporters to never concede
And stop the Steal
And finally
You will hear the call alarms that it was his supporters patriotic duty to
Fight like hell
To do what
To stop the steel to stop the election from being stolen
By showing up in this very chamber
To stop you
Stop us
I respectfully ask that you remember those three phrases as you consider the evidence
Today
Election was stolen
Stop the Steal
Fight like hell because they did not just appear
On January 6th
Let me show you what I mean let's start
With the big lie you will see during this trial that the president realize really
My last spring that he could lose you might lose the election
So what are you do
He started planting the seats to get some of his supporters ready by saying that he could only
We lose the election
If it was stolen
Other words really what he did as great a no-lose scenario
Either he won the election
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He would have some angry supporters not all
Who believed
But if he lost the election had to be rigged
And they would be
Angry
Because
He was telling Americans that their vote had been stolen
And in America
Our vote is our voice
Torres false claims about election fraud
That was the drumbeat being used to inspire
Instigate
And ignite them
Ingram
Watch this clip
Because we're not going to let this election be taken away from us that's the only way they're going to win her we're not going to
It's the only way we can be is the only way we can lose in my opinion is May
Massive fraud
We all know what happened
After that
He lost
He lost the election
Remember he had that no-lose scenario that I referenced earlier
He told his base that the election was stolen as he had forecasted
And then he told them your election has been stolen but you cannot concede Yuma
Must stop Bastille
You can't let another person steal that election from you all over the country
People are together
In holding up signs stop this deal the Democrats
Trying to steal the White House you cannot let them you just can't let them
Now while he's
Inciting
Supporters
He's also simultaneously
Doing everything he possibly can to overturn the election
First he begins with the courts illegitimate
Avenue
Legitimate Avenue
To challenge the election
But he ignores
All of their adverse rulings when all of his claims are thrown out
Then he moves on
The trying to pressure state election officials to block the election results
For his opponent even though he'd lost in their states you'll hear
My fellow managers discuss that in detail
Then he tries to threaten state election officials actually changed the votes to make him the
Even threatening criminal penalties
If they refused
He had the justice department investigate
His claims
Even they found
No support
Those claims show he tried to persuade some members of his party in Congress to block the Serta
Replication of his boat with attacks in public forums
When that failed
He tried to intimidate
The vice president of the United States of America
Two refused to certify the vote and send it back to the States
None of it worked
Joe
What does he do
With his back against the wall
When all else
Has failed
He turns back
To supporters who he'd already spent months telling them that the election was stolen
Any Amplified it further he turned it up a notch
He told them that they had to be ready not just to stop the steel
But the fight like hell
Where to fight for the survival of our nation and we are going to keep on fighting We Will Never Surrender
Now is not the time to retreat now is the time to fight harder than ever before
We have to go all the way and we're going to fight like hell I'll tell you right now we will not Bend we will
Will not break we will not you we will never give in we will never give up we will never back
Start down we will never ever surrender
You will see
The months
President
Maybe statements
People listened
Armed supporters
Surrounded election officials homes
The Secretary of State
For Georgia got death threats
Officials warned the president that his rhetoric was dangerous and it was going to resolve
In deadly violence and that's what makes this so different because
When she saw first-hand
The violence that his conduct was creating
Eden stop it
You didn't condemn the violence
He incited it
And you got more specific
He didn't just tell them to fight like hell
He told them how where and when
He made sure they had advanced notice 18 days advance notice
He sent his save-the-date
For January 6th he told them to march to the capital and fight like hell
On January 6th is
We measure rascon said the exact same day that we were certifying the election results
What time
Was that rally scheduled for
The exact same time
That this chamber was certifying the election results in joint session
When did he conclude his speech
Literally moments
Before speaker Pelosi had gobbled us
Indiscretion
Many of us were in the house during that joint session of Congress
I was sitting two rows behind leader Schumer and leader McConnell I remember it
Vividly
And as we were standing there fulfilling our solemn oath
To the Constitution
The president was finishing his speech just a couple of miles away
How did he conclude that Infamous speech
With a final call to action
He told them to march down Pennsylvania Avenue
To come here
That it was their patriotic Duty
Because the election had been stolen
And when they heard his speech
They understood his words and what they meant because they had heard it before
Let's take a minute and really look at his words on January 6th as he spoke at
Save America rally not remember I told you
Use your three phrases the election was stolen stop the steel and fight like hell let's start
With that first brace
All of us here today do not want to see our election Victory stolen Pacifica
In American history everybody knows it make no mistake this election was so
Stolen from you from me from the country
Now course
Each of you heard those words before
So hit the crowd the president it's been months
Telling his supporters that the election had been stolen stolen and he used this speech
To incite them further to inflame them to stop the steel to stop
The certification of the election results
We will never give up we will never concede it doesn't happen you don't concede with his theft
And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up
We will stop the steel we must stop this deal
Finally
The president used
The speech
Is it called arms
It was not rhetorical
Some of his supporters have been primed
For this over many months
As you'll learn
Days before the speech
Fleet manager Raskin noted there were vast reports across all major media
Outlets
Thousands of people
With the armed
The baby filing
You'll learn the Capitol Police and the FBI reported
In the days leading up to the attack
The thousands in the crowd would be targeting the capital specifically that they had arrested people with guns the night before
For the attack on weapons charges
And this
Is what our commander-in-chief said
To the crowd in the face of those warnings right before they
We will not let them silence your voices we're not going to let it happen
Not going to let it happen
You have to get your people to fight
Because you'll never take back our country with weakness you have to show strength
You have to be strong and we fight
We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore
You have
To get
Your people to fight
He told them
Senators this clearly was not just one speech
It didn't just happen
It was part of a carefully-planned months-long effort with a very specific
Instruction
Show up on January 6th
And get your people to fight desertification
He incited it
It was foreseeable and again you don't have to
To take my word for it
The president's former Chief of Staff to retired Marine four-star general
Was confirmed by this body
Through the Secretary of Homeland Security overwhelmingly overwhelming vote
That man is John Kelly and on the day after the insurrection
He said this
You know the president who's talking to when he tweets one mix statements
Who's talking to knows what he wants them to do and
Attracted to he sent the things kids spend saying the things
Georgian people no surprise again what happened yesterday
No surprise
Think about that no surprise
President had every reason to know that this would happen
Because he assembled the mob
He summoned the mob and he incited the mob he knew
When he took that Podium on that fateful morning that those in attendance
His words and they were waiting for his orders
To begin fight
And that of course brings me
My fellow managers to what happened here in this building
Leslie manager rascon
Stated my colleagues are going to walk through the event events of January 6th and the evidence in
Very great detail
They are painful to watch into account and I'm not going to repeat
The evidence now but I do want to be clear
About what also happened during that terrible attack in that is this that President Trump once again
Filled us
Because when the violence erupted
When we and the law enforcement officials protecting us protecting you we're under attack
Is each of you or being evacuated from this chamber for a violent mob as we were being evacuated
From my house
He could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence
It's commander-in-chief
To stop the violence and he alone
Had that power
Not just because of his unique role as commander-in-chief
But because they believed
That they were following his orders
Patience
I thought I was following my president I thought I was following what we were called to do
Requested that we be in DC on a stick
You heard it
From them
They were doing what he wanted them to do
They wouldn't have listened to you to me to the vice president United States who they were attack
Law enforcement
Police officers fighting for their lives to stop them they were following
The president
He alone or commander and chief had the power to stop it
And he didn't
You will hear evidence tonight
Tomorrow throughout the trial
About his refusal as commander-in-chief to respond to numerous desperate please
Phone across social media
Begging him to stop the attack
And you will see his Relentless attack
Vice president Pence
Who was at that very moment hiding with his family as armed extremists were chanting
Mike Pence
Calling him a traitor
You will see the even when he did finally three and a half hours into the attack
Help
These people to go home
In peace
He added
William Asher rascon said I'll quote you're very special
We love you
Think for a moment
Just a moment
Of the lives lost that day
Of the more than a hundred forty wounded police officers
And ask yourself
If as soon as this had started President Trump had simply gone on to TV
Log on to Twitter and said stop the attack
If you'd done so with even half as much force
As he said stop the Steal
How many lives would we have saved
Family didn't do that
At the end of the day
The president was not successful in stopping desertification
That we know thanks to The Bravery of our law enforcement
End of The Bravery of
The senators in this room
Each of you who still filled your constitutional Duty even under the threat of more
Mortal Peril but there can be no doubt
Of the Grave harm that he cost
To our elected leaders to us our families
Do all the work
In the capital our staff
Your staff
Who are brave Capitol Police who defend us tirelessly with little thanks
Who believed that they had a commander-in-chief who would defend and protect them and instead put them In Harm's Way
To those killed for heating
His command to our democracy and the system
Which ensures that we have a president elected by the people
To our national security and our standing in the world
The harm was real
The damage
What's real
5 people lost their lives
On that terrible tragic day
A woman was shot dead 50 ft
From where we later certified
Election results
And for those who question is how bad it was
Criminal complaints recently unsealed by the Department of Justice are more than revealing
You'll see one of these documents
On the screen
In the charging Affidavit of one of the leaders of The Proud boys we learned the members of this group said I'm going to quote
They would have killed Mike Pence
If given the chance
Another
We learned of a tweet in real time while they were in the building stating
We broke into the capitol
We got inside
We did our part
We were looking for Nancy Pelosi to shooter in the freaking brain but we didn't find her
And for anyone
Suggest
Otherwise
These
Dependence themselves
I told you exactly why they're here
You'll see this in the trial
That in the halls of the Capitol on social media and News interviews and in charging documents they
Confirm
They were following the presidents
Orders
You can see some of the statements on that screen
1
You said
Trump wants all Able Body Patriots another that President Trump is calling us to fight this isn't a joke
Another one I thought I was following my president I thought I was falling what we were called to do
Our president wants us here we wait and take orders from the president
He made them believe over many weeks
But the election was stolen and they were following his command to take back their country
As I prepared for
Today yesterday mistrial
One memory that I couldn't shake cuz on the night of January 6th and the feeling
Of walking back onto the house floor
And seeing many of you there
I remember us
Finishing our task
At 4 in the morning
And as off as I walked off the floor
I was so
Grateful so grateful
For the opportunity to thank
The vice president of the United States Mike Pence for his actions
For standing before us and asking us to follow our oath
Nor faith
Beauty
We only got a couple hours of sleep that
Morning early the next day I called my dad who came to this country as I mention
Is it 40 years ago
And I told him that the proudest moment by far
Serving in Congress for me
Was going back onto the floor with each of you
Finish the work that we had started
I'm humbled to be back with you today
And just is on January 6th when we overcame that attack on our capital country
I'm hopeful that at this trial
We can use our resolve and our resilience to again uphold our democracy
I Faithfully applying the law vindicating the Constitution
And holding President Trump accountable for his actions
Senators and representatives Joaquin Castro and Eric swalwell will now
Show the evidence of President Trump to Long campaign to delish delegitimize at electoral defeat in 2 gal
Galvanized his supporters to help him retain his power Denny cost so we're going to go at this point step-by-step
And explain the progression all the way up until the attack
Good afternoon y'all
My name is Joaquin Castro I represent San Antonio
In the United States Congress
There's a saying that I like and travel
Halfway Around the World
Before the truth has a chance to put on it shoes
That was before the internet
The point of that saying is the Lycan do incredible damage
And destruction
And that's especially true
When that lie
He's told
By the most powerful person on Earth
Our commander-in-chief
The president
Of the United States
This attack did not come from one speech
It didn't happen by accident
The evidence shows clearly
The Dismal provoked over many months
By Donald J Trump
And if you look at the evidence
His purpose will conduct
You'll see that the attack was foreseeable and preventable
I'll start by discussing President Trump's actions leading up to the election
When he set up his Big Y
Beginning in the spring of 2020
President Trump again
To fall behind in the polls
And by July President Trump had reached a new low
He was running 15 points behind his opponent
And he was scared
He began to believe that he could legitimately lose the election
And so he did something entirely unprecedented in the history of our nation
He refused to commit
To a peaceful transition
Power
Here's what he said
Can you give me the direct answer you will accept the election
I have to say yes
Do you commit to making sure that there's a people have a very trans
We'll have a very peaceful there won't be a transfer frankly they'll be a continuation
Senators the president of the United States said quote there won't be a transition of power
They'll be a continuation
President Trump was given every opportunity
To tell his supporters yes if I lose I will peacefully transfer power to the next
Instead he told his supporters
The only way he can lose the election is if it was stolen
In tweet after tweet
He made sweeping allegations about election fraud they couldn't possibly be true
But that was the point
He didn't care if the claims were true
He wanted to make sure that his supporters were angry
Like the election was being ripped away from them
On May 24th
Six months before the election he tweeted
It will be the greatest rigged election
In history
How could he possibly know
It would be the greatest rigged election in history six months before the election happen
And on June 22nd more of the same
Rigged 2020 election it will be the scandal of our times
Again about an election that had not even happened
On July 30th
2020 will be the most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history
Again
Just big words
With nothing to prove them
But he wanted to make his supporters believe that election Victory would be stolen from him
And from them
This was to rile up his base to make them angry
Now these were just a few of the many times
President Trump tweeted about this
And he did it in speeches
Rally's
Intellivision 2
This is going to be the greatest election disaster in history
We're going to lose this election is if the election is rigged to remember that the only way they can take this
Election away from us is if this is a rigged election we're going to win this election
With the recollection the only way we're going to lose but this will be one of the greatest fraudulent most fraudulent
This is clearly a man
Who refuses to accept
The possibility
For the reality
In our democracy
Of losing an election
There doesn't work weeks
Speeches of Donald Trump spreading his lie
But you get the point
His supporters got the point as well
They firmly believe that if he lost it was because the election was rigged
Will you accept the result of Joe Budden with under any circumstance
Because it's lies and deceit and Corruption
Yes
Absolutely I agree with that goes there's no way in heck
President's going to lose but yes
You and I I firmly believe that
Tell all of us in this room have run for election
And it's no fun to lose
I'm a Texas Democrat
We've lost a few elections over the years
But can you imagine
Telling your supporters
That the only way you could possibly lose
Is it an American election was rigged
And stolen from you
And ask yourself
Whether you've ever seen
Anyone
At any level of government
Make the same claim
About their own election
But that's exactly what President Trump did
He truly made his base believe
That the only way he could lose
Was if the election was rigged
And senators
All of us know
And all of us understand
How dangerous that is
Rockentry
Because the most combustible thing you can do in a democracy
He's convinced people that election doesn't count
That their voice and their vote don't count
And it's all been stolen
Especially
If what you're saying
Are lice
Let us turn now to the election
As you know the results were not fully reported on Election night
Which is not unusual
In our nation's history
But by November 7th major news networks including Fox News
Reported that once the remaining votes were counted
Joe Biden would be the likely Victor
So President Trump began urging his supporters to stop the count
I would imagine
But if we went around this room
Your folks sitting here
It started down on Election night
And ended up coming back up and winning the races
Perhaps that's why some of you are seated in this room today
But imagine if you were behind
And the results start coming in
And if you started pulling ahead
Your opponent said that's not fair stop the count while I'm still ahead
That's what Donald Trump did
But that's not how America works
Here
Every vote counts
You don't just stop counting
When one person is ahead
We count every vote
And let's be clear
President Trump knew that you can't just stop counting votes
What do you want to do inflame his base
There was a purpose behind this
The truly make them believe that counting votes
Would result in a stolen rigged election
He said at 12:49 a.m. on Election night quote
They're trying to steal the election
We will never let them do it
A little over an hour later
At roughly 2:30 in the morning
Before all the votes were even close to being counted
He goes even further and actually declares victory
Take a look on the American public this is an embarrassment
To our country we were getting ready to win this election frankly
We did win this election
Frankly
We did win
Rather than calmly saying
Let's count the votes
If there's legal issues
We'll go to court
It will resolve them
Instead
He told his supporters that he actually won the election and whole thing was a fraud
He said that on November 4th
And he has never recorded that statement since
Despite President Trump's pressure at the time
Election officials around the country
Continue to carry out their duties
It is both were counted and his lost became more certain
He rolled up his base further
Take a look at these tweets
On November 5th he tweeted in all capital letters
As if shouting commands
Quote stop the count
Stop the fraud
Senators
This
Is dangerous
I also want you to remember these tweets for another reason
Because that's what it looks like when Donald Trump wants people to stop doing something
Iron baron mine
This is not the president saying to his supporters
It's somebody stole your cup of coffee
This is the commander and chief
Telling his supporters
Your election is being stolen and you must stop the counting of American boats
And it worked
These words became their actions
His commands lead
To their actions
Take a look at this
The same day as those tweets the same day as those tweets
Around 100 Trump supporters showed up in front of a Maricopa County election center in Phoenix
Some of them carrying rifles
Literally trying to intimidate officials to stop the count
Justice President Trump
I commanded
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said that protesters were quote causing this delay
Play and disruption
And preventing those employees from doing their job
Let's call this what it was
We're facing a global pandemic
Workers were risking their health to ensure the Integrity of our elections
Imprisoned Trump supporters were encircling them
Trying to prevent prevent them from doing their own jobs
This was dangerous
It was scary and it was a blatant Act of political intimidation
In Philadelphia that same day
Police investigated an alleged plot to attack the city's Pennsylvania Convention Center
We're both were being counted
Police took at least one man into custody who was carrying a weapon
And this happened all over
In Atlanta
In Detroit
Eddie Milwaukee
His supporters used Armed Force
To try to disrupt lawful counting of votes votes because they bought into Trump's Big Y
That the election was stolen from them
President Trump's months of inflaming and inciting his supporters had worked
They believed it was their Duty
To quite literally fight to stop the count
So they showed up at election centers across the country to do just that
This is a fraud
On the American public this is an embarrassment to our country
We were getting ready to win this election frankly we did win this election
We were winning in all the key locations by
Actually and then our number started miraculously getting whittled away and Secret
And there it is
They bought into his big lie
President Trump told his supporters over and over again
Nearly every day
In dozens of tweets speeches and rallies that their most precious right in our democracy
Their voice their vote
Was being Stripped Away and they had to fight to stop that
And they believed him
So they fought
And you may say
But he didn't know that they take up arms
But when he did know
When it was all over the news
President-trump
Didn't stop
Is Mr swalwell Show
Happier Donald Trump lost
Became even more desperate
And incited his base
Even further
He hurts them
Again and again
With increasingly forceful language to fight to stop the steel
And even if the certification got closer
And he grew even more desperate
He gave them Specific Instructions
Wanhao wear
And when
The fight to stop Bastille
He told him to show up on January 6th
And March to the US Capitol
To stop the certification of the election results
Eddie told them
To come here and fight like hell
You will see clearly
That this violent mob that showed up here in January 6th
Didn't come out of thin air
President Donald John Trump
Incited this violence
That's the truth
Mr. president
Distinguished senators
My name is Eric swalwell I represent California's 15th congressional district
Manager Castro just told you about Donald Trump's lies and acts before the election
But
To paraphrase Winston Churchill
That wasn't the end of his efforts
That wasn't the beginning of the end
But perhaps
It was the end of the beginning
Here's what I mean
You saw President Trump
Crime for months his supporters to believe that the election was lost
It only could have been so because it was raped
But that took time
Just like to build a fire it doesn't just start with the flames
Donald Trump for months and months
Assembled the Pinder
The kindling
Through on logs for fuel
To have his supporters believe
But the only way their Victory would be lost
What if it was stolen
So that way President Trump was ready
If you lost the election
Light the match
And I'm November 7
After all the votes were counted
President Trump did loose
By 7 million votes
Before Donald Trump all was not lost
He had a back-up plan
Instead of accepting the results
Or pursuing legitimate claims
He told his base
More lies
He doused the Flames with kerosene
And this wasn't just some random guy at the neighborhood bar
Blowing off steam
This is our commander-in-chief
Day after day he told his supporters false outlandish lies
Set the victory
That the election outcome
Was taken and it was raped
And absolutely no support for his claims
But that wasn't the point
He wanted to make his base angrier and angrier
And to make them angry he was willing to say anything
November 15
He States
I concede nothing
We have a long way to go
Rigged election
Doesn't say why the election is rigged
November 17 and a Twitter statement
Dead people voted
That's it
No evidence
Just dead people voted
November 28th Twitter statement
We have found many illegal votes
Stay tuned
This just wasn't true
He never found illegal votes
Didn't even try to pretend that he had evidence for that
And stay tuned well that was all about inside in his base
Not about bringing legitimate claims
It was about dramatizing the election to anger his supporters
December 5
You see here he goes after the governors of Arizona and Georgia governor's from his own party claiming
They weren't with him
You see Senators he's casting this in combat terms
But either you are with him making sure that he won the election
Or you're fighting against him
These are just a few of the hundreds of Twitter statements that President Trump sent
And it wasn't just Twitter statements
As you'll see he was dialing into meetings
Holding rallies
Appearing on television continuing to spread the big lie that his election victory
Valid
Requesting balance
Dead people voting
The alleged Biden margin of victory in several States is entirely accounted for by
Georgia really large midnight vote dumps you saw them with going up to the sky
Massive midnight vote dumps
Dead people voting all over the place
He said there were boats going up to the sky
This was never about pursuing legitimate claims
He was saying anything he could to trigger an anger his base
So that they would fight like hell to overturn a legitimate election
And it worked
Just as manager Castro showed you President Trump supporters were taking up arms to stop the count
His message to fight like steel fight like hell
What's having real consequences
In Michigan
You'll recall that President Trump was attacking that state
And its officials
He continued these attacks even after Michigan certified its votes
Take a look at Michigan take a look at what they did with respect to counties
Then you get to Detroit and it's like more
Then people dead people voting
Did I won almost every County in Michigan almost every District we should have one that stayed very easily we have a similar
But I'll let you know that about a week
He's literally telling them
That there were more votes in Detroit than people
About 260.000 people voted in Detroit
There are roughly 500 thousand registered voters in Detroit
There are approximately 670000 people
Living in the city
So again
Not true but he needed to make these outlandish claims
To truly make his supporters believe that their victory was stolen from them
And it was working
A few days after these clips on December 5
His supporters surrounded the Michigan Secretary of State's home
Secretary of state house and
The steel steel steel
Stop the steal Steel
Your threats up election
Mine at Night
Secretaries families inside
Protesters have surrounded her home
Under Channing that she's a felon
As we saw it when armed protesters showed up to follow President Trump's direction to stop the steel
This was not the first time
The President Trump supporters used threats
And intimidation
President Trump cannot say I didn't know what I was inciting
Manager Castro showed what I just showed
There's plenty of evidence
But his words have consequences
And if he wanted to stop it
He could stop it
You saw mr. Castro read statement after statement from our commander-in-chief saying stop the count
Stop the Steal
President Trump was never shy about using his platforms to try and stop something
He could have very easily told his supporters
Stop threatening officials
Stop going to their homes
Stop it with the threats
But each time he didn't
Instead in the face of escalating violence the incited them further
The next phase in the certification of results
What's the certification on December 14 of the Electoral College votes
The night before President Trump personally issued 14 Twitter statements with more false
Claims about the election being stolen and directing his supporters to make sure that quote
They cannot be certified
Estates here
The rhinos
That run the state voting apparatus have caused us the problem of allowing the Democrats to so blatantly cheat
And their attempt to steal the election which we won overwhelmingly
We will never give up
In the face
Of threats to elected officials
This is his message
And he calls them rhinos Republicans in name only
And tell them to never give up
President-trump
The hymn
It was his supporters against anyone who would not overturn the election results so that President Trump could win
Put on December 14
Despite all of President Trump's efforts to stop
The electors cast their votes according to the will of the American people
And Joe Biden was certified
Is having one 306 Electoral College votes
The day after this occurred
Leader McConnell
Recognize this stating
Many of us hope that the presidential election would yield a different result
But our system of government has processes to determine who will be sworn in on January twenty
The electoral college has spoken
Manager Castro said
No one here don't want Among Us wants to lose an election
Sometimes there's a reason to dispute an election
Sometimes account is closed
Sometimes we ask for a recount or we go to court that's entirely appropriate
But what President Trump did was different
What President Trump did was the polar opposite of what any of us would do
If we lost an election
Because once the outcome is clear and a judge rules
We can seat we recognized the will
Of the American people because we let the people decide
And that's what all of the courts the justice department and the 50 states
Better town of the votes
They said it was time for a peaceful transition of power because that's what our Constitution and rule of law demands
Cept President Trump
Teacher directed all of the rage that he had incited
To January 6th
That was his last chance to stop
The peaceful transition of power
That brings us to the attack
Manager Castro told you the power of the Y
Especially when the light comes to the most powerful person in the world
Commander and chief
It also helps
If you spend millions of dollars to amplify that lie
You'll see here
In mid-December
President Trump announced the release of ads including ones entitled
The evidence is overwhelming
Fraud
Stop the Steal
He spent 50 million dollars
From his legal defense fund on these ads
To stop the steel and amplifies message
They were released nationally
Played in video ads
Online advertising and targeted text messages
They use the same words and phrases that President Trump has been spreading for months
That the election was full of fraud
Stop the Steal
But now they had a specific purpose
How do we know that purpose
These ads were designed to run all the way up to January 5
And then they stopped
This was purposeful and deliberate planning to Target his base to Rally around that day
And it wasn't just his dad's
He continued to use his own platform he told his supporters who truly believe their Victory had been stolen
And we're ready to fight when where and how
To stop what he believed was a steal
Donald Trump would issue a deliberate call to action
And just like in his ads
That was action that action centered around
January 6th
On December 19th
At 1:42 in the morning
Our commander-in-chief tweeted
Big protest in DC on January 6th
Be there
Will be wild
We know why he picked this day
It wasn't random
It was his last chance to stop a peaceful transition of power
And he gave his supporters plenty of time to plan
This was the save-the-date
Sent out 18 days before the event on January 6th
And it wasn't a casual one-off reference
Or a single invitation
For the next 18 days Donald Trump would make sure to remind them over and over and over
To show up on January 6th
And you would tell them exactly
What he wanted them to do
On December 26th c-suites if a Democrat presidential candidate
Had an election rigged and stolen
With proof of such acts at 11 never seen before
The Democrat Senators will consider it an act of War
And fight to the death
Mitch and the Republicans do nothing just want to let it pass
No fight
He's saying that the Republicans are doing nothing and have no fight because you are doing your job
Taking on the Constitutional process of certifying the Electoral College results
And he also suggests President Trump that if this was the reverse and the Democrats had lost
It would be an act of War
An act of War
That's how Donald Trump prepared his supporters for January 6th
He even stated again 14 minutes later to make sure his supporters understood quote
The justice department
And the FBI have done nothing about the 2020 presidential election voter fraud the bay
Biggest scam all-caps in our nation's history despite overwhelming evidence
They should be ashamed
Anthony ads
History will remember
Never give up
See everyone in DC on January 6th
That phrase history history will remember
Was the only time
The first time Donald Trump had used it in his presidency
And he sent this to 70 + million Twitter followers
The day they needed to show up and be ready to fight
December 27
You remind him again
Don't miss it
Information to follow
A few days later December 30th
All caps see you in DC
This continues all the way up to January 6th
On January 1 he States
The big protest rally in Washington will take place at 11 a.m.
Locational details to follow
Stop the Steal
You'll see that an hour later
President Trump retweeted one of his Twitter followers
Stop follower was Kylie Kramer
Executive director of women for America First the group organizing the January 6th rally in the
Creator of the Facebook group stop the Steal
Kramer treated quote the Cavalry is coming mr. president
Referring to the Cavalry showing up on January 6th
She also added a website for supporters to RSVP
And made clear what the message was
#stop the Steal
And what did President Trump say
In response to hearing that the Cavalry was coming
A great honor
He wrote back
This wasn't just a single tweet
Quienes organisers would do this over and over repeatedly
On January 3 another supporter tweets
We've been marching all around the country for you mister president now we will bring it to DC
On January 6th and proudly stand beside you
Thank you for fighting for us
I'm President Trump reposted her tweet she wrote back best day ever
Thank you for the retweet
It's been an honor to stand up and fight for you in our nation we will be standing strong on January 6th and DC with you
We are bringing the Cavalry mr. president
We are bringing the cavalry
That was the consistent message
This was not just any old protest
President Trump was inciting something historic
The Cavalry is coming
And he was organized
And her post
Miss Lawrence tag Kylie Kramer the organizer of the event
Who's post we just saw President Trump retweet
Again you see this is all connected
I want to show you all of the Twitter statements
And there are a lot
But here's one more
President Trump retweeted another Miss kremers post which had all the details of January 6th with the same
Same hashtags
March for President Trump do not certify stop the Steal
And in response
President-trump
He writes back
I will be there
Historic day
Before Congress
I prosecuted violent crimes in California
Is an Alameda County Deputy district attorney
When you investigate and prosecute violent crimes you have to distinguish
Was this a heat of passion crime
Or was it something more deliberate
Planned
Premeditated
The evidence here on Viscount is overwhelming
President Trump's conduct
Leading up to January 6th
What's deliberate
Planned and premeditated this was not one speech. One tweet
It was dozens in Rapid succession with the specific details he was acting as part of
The house committee
In fact when she has assembled his inflamed mob and DC
He warned us that he knew what was coming
This was President Trump statement
The night before the attack I should say this was one of his dozens of statements on Twitter
In the hours leading up to the attack
I hope the Democrats and even more importantly the week
An ineffective Rhino section of the Republican Party are looking at the thousands of people
Coin in the DC they won't stand for a landslide victory
To be stolen
At
Senate Majority Leader
At John cornyn
At Senator John thune
Thousands of people pouring into DC who won't stand for the landslide election to be stolen
It's all right there and he tags Senators to pressure you
To stop this
Any warrants all of us that has thousands of supporters
Come you'll see that the FBI had warned
Forearms and targeting the capital
Won't stand for us certifying the results of the election
This was never about one speech
He built this mob over many months with repeated messaging
Until they believe that they've been robbed of their vote and they would do anything to stop desertification
He made the he made them believe that their victory was stolen and incited them so he could
Could use them to steal the election
For himself
This election was rigged turning against the people of the United States and we are not planning for it
If we don't brood out the fraud that tremendous and horrible fraud that's taking place in art
2020 election
We don't have a country anymore
The left lies they cheated they feel they are ruthless
Are they are hell-bent on getting power and control by any means necessary
Get let it happen
The Democrats are trying to steal the White House you cannot let them
Can't let it happen never concede fight
He told them and speech after speech
These crowds were ready to fight
This is what President Trump was inciting
Before saw what was coming and this is what he deliberately led to our doorstep on January 6th
I want to be clear
During this trial when we talked about the violent mob during the attack
We do not mean every American who showed up at President Trump's rally
Certain Americans came to protest peacefully
As is their right
That is what makes our country so great
To debate freely openly and peacefully our differences
Just like all of you were attempting to do and this very room on January 6th
But what President Trump did was different
He didn't tell his supporters to fight or be strong and a casual reference
He repeatedly over months told him to fight for a specific purpose
He told them their victory was stolen the election was rigged and their patriotic Duty was to fight to stop
Bastille
And he repeated this messaging even after he saw the violence it was inciting
And when they were primed and angry and ready to fight
The escalated and channel deranged
With a call to Arms
Show up on January 6th
If the exact time the votes of the American people were being counted and certified and then March to the Capitol
Fight like hell
He told us the thousands of people who were armed to the teeth targeting us
And determined to stop the Electoral College count
What are commander-in-chief did was wildly different
From what anyone here in this room did to raise election concerns
This was a deliberate premeditated incitement to his base to attack our capital
By the county was going on
And it was foreseeable
Especially to President Trump
Who warned us he knew what was coming this is what the evidence has overwhelmingly shown
And will show in this trial
It's also the truth
Mr. president
A majority leader ask you consent the Senate recess for a 15 minute break
Without objection so ordered
It is the first of what we expect will be several breaks
Throughout the day here in this first day of arguments legal arguments
In the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump it began with the lead house manager Jamie Raskin
Of Maryland laying out the sum of the Constitutional arguments that they would address
Then we heard from then we heard from Joe neguse of Colorado who
Talked about the Ark of the managers
Legal case and what they would present ahead after that came up
Joaquin Castro of Texas and he looked at some of the
Pre-election
Alleged provocations by
Then president former President Trump ahead of the election
Well wrapping up there Eric swalwell of California
Was
Was a laying out the after election what happened after the election how the president
Contested the election and some of the events they Rally's etcetera leading up to the attack on the
US Capitol on January 6th
As you can see as you heard from Senator Chuck Schumer a 15-minute break
Andy
Proceedings in the Senate 15 minutes yesterday that 10 minutes turned into 20 minutes so it could be
A little bit longer and here's how the the schedule looks for today they've already begun as we mention there
16 hours of presentation here by the house managers do
You eight hours today eight hours tomorrow and then the president's team his lawyers
Will get there turn on Friday and Saturday with again a total of 16 hours
Over those two days
We expect on Sunday to the Senate will come in at
2 Eastern
And may take on any questions if any
Any questions that Senators have
Of the attorney stating may also
Choose to decide on Witnesses and submitting subpoenas for documents in the trial
Final arguments
Equal amount each side expected early next week with the final vote
On impeachment keeping in mind that the final vote in the Senate takes 2/3 + 2/3 majority
Miss k67 there are fifty Republicans there are 48 Democrats with two Independents who caucus with
Democrats effectively making it a 50/50 chamber
But the Senate and majority
And the Young
And the majority leader is a Chuck Schumer a couple of comments from people watching
Bu Senate impeachment trial people participating it
This is a tweet from Mark Meadows the former presidents former Chief of Staff he says
There's one line from President Trump's January 6th speech at Democrats keep conveniently leaving out peacefully and
Patriotically
Make your voices heard from the majority leader just before they gambled in today said Donald Trump is charged
Charged with inciting an Insurrection United States capital was invaded
And desecrated the Senate impeachment trial Donald Trump is about
True that accountability following the Despicable
January 6th attack
Yesterday the vote in the Senate was 56 to 44 to move ahead to
I decided that yes indeed these proceedings were constitutional one of the Republicans voting with the Democrats of that
That was a Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
After that vote later he talked about why he voted with the Democrats this time where's the last time we
Rand Paul questioned the constitutionality of going forward
He voted on the Republican side his reset
Amor okay shoot Miss Cochran what's question
So the reaction to the boat yesterday was very mixed some folks you Fredo
Some folks very negative those who are negative I replied that this is a constitutional question
And clearly it has been established that it is constitutional and the Constitution obviously become it is
Constitution and Country over party they get it and for others are not quite so sure
But that's to be expected this is not predict my vote or anything else it does predict that I will listen to these arguments
As I did to the argument yesterday with an open mind
That's Bill Cassidy Senator Bill Cassidy that's yesterday after the
The Senate voted 56 to 44 to move ahead with a
The trial deciding on the constitutionality of attempting to impeach
A former president keeping in mind he was impeached by the US House
In the house on January 13th a week ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden
Go from Craig Kaplan Capitol Hill producer caught up with the Indiana Senator Mike Braun this morning and on the couch
Cassidy vote
He talked to Mike Braun and in that Mike Braun said Senator Cassidy voting to move ahead with impeachment
Trial court after that when you have one Senator that changed the point of view I think that says a lot so I think
Pretty well fixes in place what you might see
That's the eventual outcome
What are remind you two that were in the middle of all outbreak could be a 15-minute break here in the Senate
Impeachment trial if you miss any of the
Goings-on any of the proceedings you can always follow what we're covering
Online it cspan.org impeachment in particular and you also find there
The briefs on each side submitted by the
House managers and also by the president's attorneys you can listen live in carries along wherever you go it's C-SPAN at the C-SPAN
Radio app and of course our coverage
You're on C-Span to throughout the the day today later on we'll give you a chance to weigh in with some of your thoughts on what
What you're seeing today at over the next couple of days will do that as well as we hear from the
The Democratic side basically the house managers the house to Judiciary Committee
Their overall view of this and Jamie Raskin
Jamie Raskin
I said some of this earlier saying incitement of insurrection against the United States government
Is the most of most Grievous constitutional crime ever committed by a President
But take a look at some video from earlier today
Here's a look
Remind me to take this afternoon
So the question
Was regardless what happens this week how do I feel about 2024 what I can see
Can you just support President Trump in 2020
Van Persie had the opportunity to run that to me raises another question it which is required
Democrats were concerned about having him on the ballot for years from now clearly he surprised them once they think that maybe they made
I think he could surprise them again which raises questions about their confidence at all so
Acme you know you talk about you talk about
While Bill Clinton was never punished for his
Losing elections and or it's called The Illusion your bar license or whatever it might be in the
That's from earlier let's pick you alive now just outside the Senate Senator Richard Blumenthal
Some of the people involved
It was a coup attempt an effort to overthrow the government
And stop democracy from working the founders worst nightmare that's why this high crime
Was among the most heinous that any public official could
Commit what we will say is that Donald Trump finally incited
This Riot and Insurrection but also then is commander-in-chief did nothing to
Save our democracy in fact he continued to inflame he called him special people and
The long-run lesson here is not only about January 6th or about Donald
It is about domestic violence the danger of domestic violence
Country is persistent and lethal as the domestic Terror
Bolton has said it is a real threat to our democracy
Thank you so much
Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut live just outside the Senate chamber work
Keeping arrive for statements like that as the senator to break the impeachment trial is it a break the first one of the afternoon
They gambled in today at noon Eastern keeping in mind that the the house managers the
Gratz will have 16 hours total of presentations today and tomorrow
Likewise with the president's attorneys
On Friday and on Saturday so they should return shortly here from that of first break
The day
The Newsweek is has a story today about some of the Senators not always just their second impeachment
In 13 months for a dozen of them it's their third impeachment
Twelve jurors will serve as impeachment trial jurors for a third time they talk about in particular Chuck Schumer
They say senator Schumer who now serves as the majority leader
Had the unique role of serving in the House of Representatives when Bill Clinton was impeached before joining the Senate
In 1999 and serving as a juror for the trial in the house Schumer voted against impeachment
And went on to vote against Clinton's conviction in the Senate
New York Democrat voted to convict Trump in the first Senate trial and has condemned the former president's actions in the
Wake of the January 6th riot
We mentioned the day began with the lead house manager Jamie Raskin laying out the Constitutional case respond
Some of the attorneys arguing yesterday in the opening the constitutionality question here some of them
We heard from Jamie Raskin this morning
The evidence will be for you
To see and hear in Digest
The evidence will show you
Did ex-president Trump was no innocent bystander
Devon's will show that he clearly inside
The January 6th insurrection
It will show that Donald Trump has surrendered his role as commander-in-chief
And became The Insider
In sheep
A bit dangerous instruction
And this was as one of our colleagues put it so cogently on January 6th itself
The greatest betrayal of the presidential oath in the history of the United States
Evidence will show you
That he saw it coming and was not remotely surprised by the violence
Eminem violence
Inexorably and inevitably came as predicted and over ran this body
And House of Representatives with chaos
We will show you that he completely abdicated his duty as commander-in-chief to stop the violence
And protect the government and protect our officers and protect our people
He violated his oath of office to preserve
Protect and defend the Constitution the government in the people United States
One of our Capital officers who defended
Us that day
Was a longtime veteran of our Force
A brave and honorable public servant who spent several hours
Battling the mob as part of one of those blue lines defending the capital in our democracy
For several hours straight
Has the Marauders punched and kicked and mold and spit upon and hit officers with baseball
Batson fire extinguishers curse the cops
And stormed our Capital he defended us and he lived every minute of his oath of off
Office
And afterwards
Overwhelmed by emotion
He broke down in the Rotunda
And he cried for 15 minutes
And he shouted out
I got called
In n word
15 * today
In any recorded
I sat down with one of my buddies
Another black guy in tears
Just started streaming down my face and I said
What the f man
Is this America
That's the question before all of you in this trial is this America
Can I country in our democracy ever be the same if we don't hold accountable the person responsible for
Inciting the violent attack
Against our country
Our capital in our democracy
And all of those who serve us so faithfully and honorably
Is this America
Jamie Raskin from earlier Democrats are about two hours into their
Total of 16 hours of
Arguments against the oppressive and as you can see the sedative
Recess here and break here in the Senate impeachment trial we expect them
To return shortly so they've so far heard from four of the nine managers Jamie Raskin Joaquin
Castro Eric swalwell and Joe neguse
Joaquin Castro Texas was talking a bit about
The supporters and what they had to say here's a look
They bought into his big lie
President Trump told his supporters over and over again
Nearly every day
In dozens of tweets speeches and rallies that their most precious right in our democracy
Their voice their vote
Was being Stripped Away and they had to fight to stop that
And they believed him
So they fought
And you may say
But he didn't know that they take up arms
But when he did know
When he was all over the news
President-trump
Didn't stop
Is Mr swalwell Show
Happier Donald Trump lost
Became even more desperate
And incited his base
Even further
He hurts them
Again and again
With increasingly forceful language to fight to stop the steel
And even if the certification got closer
He grew even more desperate
He gave them Specific Instructions
Wanhao wear
And when
The fight to stop Bastille
He told him to show up on January 6th
And March to the US Capitol
To stop the certification of the election results
Eddie told them
To come here and fight like hell
You will see clearly
That this violent mob that showed up here in January 6th
Didn't come out of thin air
President Donald John Trump
Incited this violence
That's the truth
You heard it
From them
They were doing what he wanted them to do
They wouldn't have listened to you to me to the vice president United States who they were attack
Law enforcement
Police officers fighting for their lives to stop them they were following
The president
He alone
Our commander-in-chief had the power to stop it
And he didn't
You will hear evidence tonight
Tomorrow throughout the trial
About his refusal as commander-in-chief to respond to numerous desperate please
Phone across social media
Begging him to stop the attack
And you will see his Relentless attack
On vice president Pence
Who is at that very moment hiding with his family as armed extremists were chanting
Mike Pence
Calling him a traitor
You will see that even when he did finally three and a half hours into the attack
Help
These people to go home
In peace
He added
Fleet manager Raskin said I'll quote
You're very special
We love you
Think for a moment
Just a moment
Of the lives lost that day
Of the more than 140
Wounded police officers
And ask yourself
If as soon as this had started President Trump had simply gone on to TV
Log on to Twitter and said stop the attack
If you'd done so with even half as much force
As he said stop the Steal
How many lives would we have saved
To him
It was his supporters against anyone who would not overturn the election results so that President Trump could win
December 14th
Despite all of President Trump's efforts to stop
The electors cast their votes according to the will of the American people
And Joe Biden was certified
Is having one 306 Electoral College votes
The day after this occurred
Leader McConnell
Recognize this stating
Many of us hope that the presidential election would yield a different result
But our system of government
Has processes to determine who will be sworn in on January 20
The Electoral College
Has spoken
Manager Castro said
No one here don't want Among Us wants to lose an election
Sometimes there's a reason to dispute an election
Sometimes the account is closed
Sometimes we ask for a recount or we go to court that's entirely appropriate
But what President Trump did was different
What President Trump did was the polar opposite of what any of us would do
If we lost an election
Because once the outcome is clear and a judge rules
We can seat
We recognize the will
Of the American people
Because we let the people decide
And that's what all of the courts the justice department and the 50 states
The town of the votes
They said it was time for a peaceful transition of power because that's what our Constitution and rule of law demands
Cept President Trump
Pete directed all of the rage that he had incited
To January 6th
That was his last chance to stop
The peaceful transition of power
And that brings us to the attack
Manager Castro told you the power of the Y
Especially when the light comes to the most powerful person in the world
Commander-in-chief
It also helps
If you spend millions of dollars to amplify that lie
You'll see here
In mid-December
President Trump announce the release of ads including ones entitled
The evidence is overwhelming
Fraud
Stop the Steal
He spent 50 million dollars from his legal defense fund on these ads
To stop the steel and amplifies message
They were released nationally
Played in video ads
Online advertising and targeted text messages
They use the same words and phrases that President Trump has been spreading for months
That the election was full of fraud
Stop the Steal
But now they had a specific purpose
How do we know that purpose
These ads were designed to run all the way up to January 5
And then they stopped
This was purposeful and deliberate planning to Target his base to Rally around that day
And it wasn't just as ads
He continued to use his own platform
He told his supporters who truly believe their Victory had been stolen and who were ready to fight when
Where and how
To stop what he believed was a steal
Donald Trump would issue a deliberate call to action
And just like his ads
That was action that action centered around January 6th
On December 19th
At 1:42 in the morning
Our commander-in-chief tweeted
Big protest in DC on January 6th
Be there
Will be wild
We know why he picked this day
It wasn't random it was his last chance to stop a peaceful transition of power
And he gave his supporters plenty of time to plan
This was the save-the-date
Sent out 18 days before the event on January 6th
And it wasn't a casual one-off reference
Or a single invitation
For the next 18 days Donald Trump would make sure to remind them over and over and over
To show up on January 6th
And you would tell them exactly
What he wanted them to do
On December 26th he tweets if a Democrat presidential candidate
Had an election rigged and stolen
With proof of such acts at 11 never seen before
The Democrat Senators will consider it an act of War
And fight to the death
Mitch and the Republicans do nothing
Just want to let it pass
No fight
He's saying that the Republicans are doing nothing and have no fight because you are doing your job
Picking on the Constitutional process of certifying the Electoral College results
And he also suggests President Trump that if this was the reverse and the Democrats had lost
It would be an act of War
An act of War
That's how Donald Trump prepare to supporters for January 6th
He even stated again 14 minutes later to make sure his supporters understood quote
The justice department
And the FBI have done nothing about the 2020 presidential election voter fraud
Biggest scam all-caps in our nation's history despite overwhelming evidence
They should be ashamed
Anthony ads
History will remember
Never give up
See everyone in DC on January 6th
Order
Pinterest
Thank you mr. president my colleagues at Madeleine Dean and Ted lieu will now detail former press
Increasingly desperate attempts to stop the steel
Mr. president
Esteemed members of the Senate it is my solemn honor to be before you today
I am Madeleine Dean congresswoman from the 4th congressional district of Pennsylvania
I'm a lawyer
I'm a former professor of writing
I'm a sister
I'm a wife
I'm a mother I'm a grandmother 2/3 with 4th on her way
I'm a person of faith
And I'm an American
Along with manager Lou I will present the actions of a desperate president
And we will present evidence today of a class of public servants who standing up to him
Enormous pressure from the president of the United States did the right thing and upheld their oats
My colleagues just presented evidence of a President Trump's months-long efforts to incite his face
Leading them to believe the election was stolen
That they needed to fight like hell to stop the steel on January 6th
These weren't President Trump's only efforts to overturn the results
Manager Lou and I will present evidence of President Trump's Relentless escalating campaign
To fabricate an election victory
Fight ignoring adverse Court rulings
Pressuring and threatening election officials attacking senators and members of Congress
Pressuring the justice department
And finally bullying his own vice president
President Trump and his allies
Filed
62 separate lawsuits
In federal courts
Across
More than half a dozen states and the District of Columbia including Pennsylvania my Homestay
As well as Arizona Georgia Michigan Minnesota Nevada and Wisconsin
Of the 62 post-election legal challenges
He lost 61
Only one was successful and that case involved Baloch Hearing in Pennsylvania
And had no impact on President Biden's 80.000 555
Victory in our Commonwealth
To be clear not a single quart
Not a single judge agreed that the election results were invalid or should be invalid
Updated
Instead Court after court reviewing these challenges said these cases were quote not Craig
Edible
Without Merit
Based on nothing but speculation
And flat-out wrong
The Judiciary resoundingly rejected Trump's fraud allegations
And upheld the election results
But it was more than that
The court said these cases were different
They were dangerous to our democracy
For example in an opinion by United States District Court Judge Matthew bran from pencil
Albania
He said and I quote this court has been presented with strained legal arguments without Merit
And speculative accusations
In the United States of America this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a
Single voter
Let alone all the voters of its six most populated state
Are people and laws
And institutions demand more
Because this court has no authority to take away the right to vote of even a single person
Let alone millions of citizens
It cannot Grant plaintiff's requested relief
That decision by Judge Brown was affirmed on appeal by judge stephanos bibas
A trump appointee who agreed and wrote and I quote
The campaign's claims have no merit
The number of ballots it specifically challenges is far smaller than the roughly 80 1000 vote margin
A victory
And it never claims fraud
More than any of the votes were cast by illegal voters
Plus tossing out millions of mail-in ballots would be drastic and unprecedented disenfranchising
Huge swath of the electorate
And upsetting all down-ballot Races
And quote
Similarly
As judge Linda Parker of the eastern district of Michigan framed it
She said
Stunning in its scope and breathtaking in its reach
If granted the relief would disenfranchise the votes of more than 5.5
Million Michigan citizens
Who with dignity and hope and a promise of a vote participated in the 2020
General election
Donald Trump told his supporters they are stealing the election they took away your vote it's Rae
Rigged
That was not true
According to judge after judge the truth was exactly the opposite
Trump was not suing to ensure election integrity
He was pursuing lawsuits that would in effect strip away American votes
So that he could win
In other words Donald Trump was asking the Judiciary to take away votes from Americans
So that he could steal the election for himself
Then after losing in all the courts Trump turn to another tactic pressuring and threatening election officials
You saw what happened in Michigan
After Trump attacked the state and its election officials his supporters surrounded the secretary
Estates home
As you saw in the earlier slide chanting calling her a felon
On November 17th the board of canvassers
For Wayne County Michigan home to Detroit unanimously certified the election results for Biden
That same night
After their boat to certify the results Trump called the two Republican members of that board
Pressuring them to change their minds
Nicole worked
The next day both Monica Palmer and William Hartman the Republican board members attempted to
To rescind their vote to certify Michigan's election results
But they simply couldn't
President Trump didn't stop there and then contacted majority leader of the Michigan Senate Mike shirt
And the speaker of the Michigan House Lee Chatfield
To Lobby them to overturn Michigan's results
Trump invited Mr Chatfield and Mr Sharkey to Washington to meet with him at the White House where the president
Lobby them further
Let's be clear Donald Trump was calling officials hosting them at the White House
Urging them to defy the voters in their state
And instead Award votes to Trump
The officials held strong and so Trump moved on to a different state
My home state of Pennsylvania
I am certain my Senators Casey and Senator Toomey remember what happened there
In early December as he did in Michigan he began calling election officials
Including my former colleagues in the Pennsylvania legislature Republicans Majority Leader Kim Ward
And Speaker of the House Ryan Cutler
Majority Leader Ward said the president called her to quote
Declare there was a fraud in the voting
And quote
Then on November 25th
President Trump phoned into a Republican state senate policy hearing
Trying to convince the Republican legislators
Senators and house members there had been a fraud in the boat
He even had his lawyer hold a phone up to the microphone in that hearing room
So the committee could hear him
Here is what he said
We can't let that happen we can't let it happen for our country and this election has to be
Turned around because we won Pennsylvania by a lot and we won all of these swing states by a lot
This was a gathering
I've attended many I have to tell you as a former state legislator lot of policy hearings I have to say what's up
Some confidence that would likely the first time
A president of the United States of America called into a State Legislative policy hearing and remember
Is the president saying he won Pennsylvania
And Pennsylvania had been certified for that Biden had won by more than 80.000 votes
Less than a week after calling into that meeting he invited multiple Republican members of the
The Pennsylvania legislature to the White House
The same scheme he had used on the Michigan legislatures
It didn't work
With those public servants either
Think about it the president of the United States
Was calling public officials
Calling from the White House inviting them into the Oval Office telling them to disenfranchise
Voters of their state
Telling them to overturn the will of the American people
Also he could take the election for himself
And then in Georgia a state Trump had counted on for victory his conduct was perhaps the most agreed
On November 11th Republican Secretary of State Brad raffensperger confirmed that he believed ballot
Accurately counted for Biden
Trump went on a Relentless attack here are just a few examples
In all Trump tweeted at raffensberger 17 times in the coming week
So you're just a few
Calling him a disaster
Abstinent not having a clue being played for a fool
And being a so-called Republican
All because raffensberger was doing his job ensuring the Integrity of our elections
And these attacks had consequences
Mr raffensberger and his family received death threats
Quote
Your husband deserves to face a firing squad
You better not botch this recount
Your life depends upon it
The raffensberger should be put on trial for treason and face execution
Just some of the threats they received after these death threats on November 25th
Mr raffensberger wrote an op-ed
Where he said
My family voted for Trump donated to him
And are now being thrown under the bus
By him
But he also noted elections are the Bedrock of our democracy
They need to be run fairly and perhaps more importantly impartially
That's a partisan that's just American
It's important to remember that this wasn't just a random attack truck wasn't just criticizing a
Politician over policy
We're saying he didn't agree
Donald Trump was savagely attacking a secretary of state because the official did his job
And certified the state according to how the people in that state voted
Donald Trump was trying to undermine our elections by taking votes away from the American people
So that he could remain president
And he was willing to blame and betray anyone
Anyone even his own supporters if they got in the way
Remember Senators those threats were to mister raffensperger family
So somebody say Trump didn't know his attacks against Mr raffensberger would result in death threats
Except that all of this was very public
The secretary publishes op-ed in USA Today
And major networks including Fox cover the threats against the raffensberger what did Trump do
Did he stop did he say no no supporters that isn't what I meant
No he doubled down
Let's see the evidence
We should never take place in this country where like a third world country
Who is real
He's an enemy of the people
The Secretary of State and whether is Republican or not
Character in JoJo is a disaster
Let that sink in a Republican
Public servant doing his job whose family had just received death threats and the president of the United States
Labeled him an enemy of the people
And that's why this is different because this was not just one attack or one
. it was attack after attack
In the face of clear threats of violence and on December 1st another official Gabriel Sterling
A republican who voted for Trump made this point and appealed directly to our president
To stop his dangerous conduct it looks like
Investigating there's always a possibility I get in you have the right to go to the courts
What you don't have the ability to do and need to step up and say this is stop inspiring people to commit potential ice if I was
Show me someone shot someone's gonna get killed
Mister Sterling put this perfectly in this country we can appropriately challenge a close count
Or go to the courts
Disagree with others
Or make bold statements what would Trump was doing was different
Someone's going to get hurt someone's going to get shot someone's going to get killed
Mister Sterling saw what Trump's conduct was fomenting he warned him on live t
TV violence was already happening and that more violence was foreseeable and inevitable
Sterling's please were played over and over on every Network
Rather than heed that warning
Trump escalated again
In early December Trump called Brian Kemp the governor of Georgia and pressured him to hold a special session
Of the state legislature to overturn the election results and to a point electors who would vote
For Trump
A few weeks later on December 23rd Trump called the chief investigator for the for the
Georgia Bureau of Investigations
Who was conducting an audit
An ordered of the signature matching for seizures for absentee ballots
Trump urged him
Find the fraud
And claimed the official would be a national hero if he did
Let's call this what it is he was asking the official to say there was evidence of fraud when there wasn't any
The official refused in the investigation was completed
And on December 29th raffensberger announce that the audit found
Quote no fraudulent absentee ballots with a 99% confidence
On January 3rd Trump tweeted about a call he had with Georgia Georgia election officials the day before
4
He said and I quote I spoke to Secretary of State Brad raffensperger yesterday about Fulton County and vote
Fraud in Georgia
He was unwilling or unable to answer questions such as the ballots under-the-table scam
Ballot destruction out-of-state voters dead voters
And more
He has no clue
On January 5th at Washington Post released a recording of that call which had occurred on January
Second
Remember just four days before the attack on the capital
Here is what President Trump said
It's more illegal for you that it is for them because you know what they did and you're not reporting it that's it that you know that's
Criminal that's a criminal offense
And you can't let that happen that's that's a big risk to you and to Ryan you lawyers
That's a big risk
Let's be clear
This is the president of the United States telling a secretary of state that if he does not find votes
He will face criminal penalties
And not just any number of votes Donald Trump was asking the Secretary of State to somehow find
The exact number of votes Donald Trump lost the state by
Remember President Biden won Georgia by 11779
In his own words Trump said all I want to do is this I just want to find eleven
780 votes
He wanted the Secretary of State to somehow find the precise number plus one
So that he could win
Here's what he said all I want to do is this I just want to find
11000
780
Votes which is one more than we have
He says it right there the president of the United States telling a public official to
Factor the exact votes needed so he can win
Senators we must not become numb to this
Trump did this across state after state so often so loudly so public
Quickly
Public officials like you and me receive death threats and call us threatening criminal penalties
All because Trump wanted to remain in power
These public officials exercised great political and personal courage in the face of on
President of pressure from a president of the United States senators ours is a die
Dialogue with history a conversation with the past
With a hope for the future
Senators I thank you today to your for your kind attention
Good afternoon
I'm confident Ted lieu
My colleague congresswoman Dean went through President Trump's efforts to overturn the election through the courts
And when that started failing his deeply disturbing attacks on State and local officials
I'm the walkthrough President Trump's extraordinary efforts remaining until January 6th when he
Tried again to overturn the election
I first want to highlight rough Nebraskans quietcontrol View today
Is this America
Like all of you
I love this country
I am an immigrant
My parents came to Ohio and we start off living in the basement of a person's home
We were poor
They want the flea market so gifts to make ends meet
Over many years ago to small-business open six gear stores and Achieve The American Dream It's one reason I joined
United States Air Force on active duty
I believe America is exceptional country
I was trained as a prosecutor at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama
And I remain in the reserves because we're the greatest country in the world
But how did our exceptional country get to the point
Gory violent mob attacked our capital
Murdering a police officer
Assaulting over a hundred forty other officers how do we get to point where rioters
Desecrated defiled and Dishonored your Senate chamber
Woodbury place in which you sit became a crime scene
And we're National Guard troops still Patrol outside wearing body armor
How to show you how we got here
President Donald J Trump ran out of non-violent options to maintain
Payne power
After his efforts in a quartz and threatening officials failed
He turn to privately and publicly attacking members of his own party in the house and in the Sun
Send it
He would probably bait Senators naming them in social media for example
On December 18th President Trump named at Senate Majority Leader and Republican Senators
Then they have to get tougher
Or they won't have a Republican party anymore
We won the president election by a lot fight for it
Don't let them take it away
President Trump was suggesting members of this Senate that if they didn't help him try to overturn the election
There would be consequences
On December 24th President Trump wrote
Isteve at least eight Republican Senators including niche
From losing in the last rig for president election now they almost all sit back and
Watch me fight against a crooked and vicious fall the radical left Democrats
I will in all capital letters he wrote
Never forget
!
President Trump was telling you
That you owe him
That if you don't help him fight over the results he will never forget and that there will be consequences
These are threats just like the threats you made to State and local officials
And it continued
On December 29th President Trump tweeted
Can you imagine the Republican store president election from the Democrats
All hell would break out
Republican leadership only wants a path of least resistance
Our leaders
Not me of course
Are pathetic
They only know how to lose
PS
I got many senators and congressmen and congresswomen elected
I do believe they forgot
President Trump targeted senators and members of Congress and social media calling them pathetic for letting you action get quote
Stolen from them
On January 4th two days before the attack President Trump tweeted
Disaronno caucus within the Republican party will go down in infamy as weak and ineffective Guardian
Of our nation
For willing to accept the certification of fraudulent presidential numbers
Now he's mocking some Republican members as surrender caucus calling them weak and ineffective Guardian
Insubordination because they would not pretend that he had one when the fact he had not
And then the very day before the attack Frozen Trump's threats do even more heated and specific
Towards Republicans that he considered to be part of that surrender caucus
Now we've shown you this tweet before but I want to draw your attention to how the present was not just inciting his
Bass
But how he was also calling out specifics than Republicans at the end of this tweet this is a
Specific warning to anyone who won't help an overturned the results anyone who was against the president be
Kman enemy
Let me be very clear the president wasn't just coming
For one or two people or Democrats like me he was coming for you
For Democratic and Republican Senators he was coming for all of us
Just at the mob did at his Direction
Condition is going after senators and members of Congress frozen shrimp also pressured our justice department
To investigate the false claims that the election was stolen
The presence Direction Attorney General William Barr Orleans member of the president's cabinet
Authorized Federal prosecutors to pursue substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation
Irregularities
Dilbar pursuing these allegations sparked an outcry
16 assistant us attorneys in the Trump Administration
Seace investigations because they had not seen evidence of any substantial anomalies
That means they did not find any evidence of real fraud
L'etranger Akbar pursue the investigations anyways and after his investigation
This is what he found quote
We have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election
Two weeks later on December 14th the electors voted to give Joe Biden 306 electoral votes
And ensured his victory
The following day Bill Barr resign
Attorney general Barr head loyally served President Trump here never probably come out against the president
But for dilbar making up election fraud claims
And say the election was stolen was a bridge too far
Stillborn make clear that Tempe overturning election results crossed a line
According to a news report dilbar the highest launch a Horseman official in the land
Told President Donald Trump to his face
That his theories are you watching the fraud were quote
B*******
Unquote
When do Barbie sign his former deputy Jeff Rosen took his place
President Trump tweet about Miss Rosa that he was an outstanding person
When he announced that he would become acting Attorney General
When roasting took over President Trump put the same pressure on him that you're done with State officials members
Congress US senators
And as former Attorney General
President Trump reported summon acting attorney general Rose into the Oval Office the next day
Impression Rose Centerpoint special counsel's to keep investigating their election
Including unfounded accusations of widespread voter fraud and also to investigate
Minion the voting machines firm
According to reports Mister Rosen refused based on the facts and
And reminded President Trump what had already been told by attorney general Bill Barr
The department had already investigated and quote found no evidence of widespread fraud
But President Trump refuse to follow the facts and the law
The present turn to someone he knew would do his bidding he turn to Jeffrey Clark and
Another justice department lawyer who had allegedly expressed support for using the department-justice to investigate the election
Shortly after acting strange and arose and followed his duty and the law to reopen
To refuse to reopen investigations
President Trump intended replace Mister Rosen when they're sick Clark to stop Congress from certifying
The Electoral College results
According to reports White House counsel Pat cipollone advise President Trump not to fire
Acting attorney general Rosen officials had also threatened to resign en masse if he has fire Rosa
President Trump's actions time and time again made clear that he would do anything and pressure
Anyone if it meant overturning the election results
We watch President Trump use any means necessary to pursue the same feverishly
Grasping for straws at retaining his hold on the presidency
But all his efforts prior to January 6th kept failing
And finally in his desperation he turned on his own vice president
He pressured my pencil violate his constitutional oath and to refuse to certify 200 present
Decided the vice president Pence who presided over the certification could somehow stop it
Repent later confirm the vice president does not have that power in the Constitution
Imprison Trump never try to explain why he thought the vice president could block the certification of election results
He just began relentlessly attacking the vice president
Publicly President Trump attack pants on social media and at rallies
Getting his supporters to believe that Mike Pence could stop desertification on January 6th
What President Trump said in Georgia on January 4th
Through for us I have to tell you I hope that vice-president
A great vice president comes through for us he's a great guy plus if he doesn't come through
I would like it but as much
Behind closed doors President Trump applied sniffing and pressure to his second-in-command
Reports confirm that President Trump use his personal Turney's and other officials to pressure the vice
Trump before they tone almost anyone who called him to also call the vice president
According to reports when Mike Pence was in the Oval Office
President Trump would call people to try to get them to convince the vice-president to help him
And present from kept repeating them with their pants could stop a certification to his base to anger
Hoping to intimidate my pets
On the morning of the rally on January 6th President Trump tweeted
All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States
In all caps you wrote and we win
Do what Mike
Is the time for extreme courage
Present later went out to attack Pence nearly a dozen times
And his speech at the Save America March
Privately in person before Pence headed oversee the joint session on January 6th President Trump
Again threatened pants
You can either go down in history as a patriot mr. Trump told him according to people briefed on a car
Conversation
Or you can go down in history as a p****
As a veteran I fight a deeply dishonorable
That our former president and commander-in-chief equated patriotism with violating the
In overturning the election
You will see and hear the consequences are President Trump's repeated attacks on the vice president the chance of trade
The chance of hang Mike Pence thankfully
Brown like or other Brave official stood their ground
To refuse the president and fulfilled his duty on January 6th
Even after the capital was a pack even after he was purposely targeted even after his family
Was targeted vice-president Pence stood strong and certified do you like
Auction
Vice president Pence showed us what it means to be an American what it means to show courage you put his country
His old his values and his morals above the will of one man
The prison had tried everything in his power to seize the
In his attempt to seize power from the rightful director of the election
President Trump's extraordinary actions to increase leeboard desperate
You saw him go from pursuing claims in the courts
Do threatening state and local election officials
Do then attacking members of Congress and the Senate to compromising our justice department and then truth
Hacking the Republican vice president
These Brave public servants were being pressured by our commander-in-chief to overturn the results some of them and
Your family's got death threats thankfully
At every turn our Democratic process has prevailed and the rule of law prevailed
There's only because all these people stay strong and refused present rub that are
Republic held fast and the wealthy electorate was seeing through and at this point
President Donald J Trump ran out of non-violent options to maintain power
I began begin today by raising the question of how we got here
What you saw was a man so desperate to cling to power that he tried everything he could to keep
And when you ran out of nonviolent measures he turn to the violent mob
That attack your Senate chamber on January 6th as you cast your vote after
For this trial I hope each of you will think of The Bravery of all these people
Who said no to President Trump
Because they knew that this was not right that this was not America
Next representative Stacey Plaskett the Virgin Islands will show in quite chilling detail
So I should say how President Trump was well aware of the threat of violence on January 6th
And how he welcomed an amplified his supporters plans for insurrection
Against the Union
I should say as lead manager this is a moment of special Pride for me because representative Plaskett
Is not only the first delegate ever to be
Ion a team of impeachment managers in American history but she was also my law student at
American University Washington College of Law and I hope I'm not violating any federal educational records laws when I
She was an a student then and she's an A+ student now
Thank you so much
Height
Mr. president
Distinguished senators
I'm Stacey Plaskett
And I represent the people of the Virgin Islands of the United States
Over this past weekend my eleven-year-old daughter I overheard her telling one of my sons
Mommy doesn't seem really nervous about the impeachment trial
Switch that son sounding like an older brother said
Talia you learn that most of the time mommy really seems to have it under control
Now we know his parents that's not always the case but I've learned throughout my
Ilife that preparation and Truth
Can carry you far
Can allow you to speak truth
Power
I've learned that as a young black girl growing up in the projects in Brooklyn
Housing community on st. Croix
Sent to the most unlikeliest of settings
And now as an adult woman
Representing an island territory
Speaking to the US Senate
And because of Truth
I am confident today
Speaking before you
Because truth and facts are overwhelming
Our president
President of the United States incited a mob to storm the castle
Capital
To attempt to stop
Desertification of a presidential election
My fellow managers have shown it will continue to show
Clear evidence
The President Trump
Incited a violent mob
Storm our capital
When he ran out
Non-violent means to stop the election
Once assembled
That mob
At the president's Direction
Erupted
Into the bloodiest attack on this Capital since 1814
Some of you have said
There's no way
President could have known how violent the mob would be
That is boss
Because of the violence
It was foreseeable
I want to show you why the spineless was foreseeable
NY Donald Trump
Was different than any other politician just telling their Fighters their supporters
Fight for something
Violence that occurred on January 6th
Like the attack itself
Did not just appear
You'll see the Donald Trump knew the people he was inciting
He saw the violence that they were capable of
And he had a pattern and practice appraising
An encouraging that violence
Never
Ever
Condemning it
And you'll see that this violent attack
Was not planned in secret
The insurgents believe that they were doing the duty of their president
They were following his orders
And so they publicized openly
Loudly
Proudly
Exact blueprints of how the attack would be made
Law enforcement saw these postings ever reported that these insurgents violently attacked
The capital itself
This was not just a comment by an official to fight for a Cause
This was months of cultivating a base of people who were violent
Praising that violence
And then leaving that violence
That rage
Straight at our door
The point is this
By the time he called the Cavalry of his thousands of supporters
On January 6th and an event he had invited them to
He had every reason to know
But they were armed
But they were violent
I bet they would actually fight
He knew who he was calling
And the violence they were capable of
And he still gave up marching orders
Go to the capital and quote
Fight like hell and stop the Steal
Make no mistake
The violence was not just foreseeable
To President Trump
The violence was what he deliberately
Encouraged
As early as September Trump set the precedent that when asked to denounce violence
He would do the opposite
And encourage it
Now the president had only said something once about fighting to stop the steel and violence erupted
There would be no way to know he intended to incite it or saw it coming
But just as a president spent months
Spreading his big lie the election
He also spent months cultivating groups of people
Following his command
Repeatedly
Engaged in real
Dangerous
Violence
And when they did
When the violence erupted as a response to his calls to fight against the soling elect
He did not walk it back
He did not tell them no
He did beat opposite
Opposite
He praised and encouraged the violence so that it would continue
He fanned the flame of violence
And it worked
You'll see this overtime
He's very groups and individuals whose violence the president praised
Help lead the attack
On January 6th
And that's how we know clearly
The President Trump
Deliberately incited this and how we know
He saw it coming
There are many examples where the president engaged in this pattern
And I'm just going to walk you through a few of them
Let's start with the president's Trump's incitement of The Proud boys
Main if you've heard of this group
Which since 2018 has been classified by the FBI as an
An extremist organization
Since by classification the group has repeatedly engaged in serious activity
Including at Pro Trump rallies
And one such act on September 7th
The proud boys attacked a man with a baseball bat
And then punched him while he was down on the ground
On September 29th
During a presidential debate
President Trump was asked specifically if he was willing to condemn white supremacy
And militia groups if he was willing to tell them to stand down
Stop the violence
Let's watch
But are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and
Say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence and the number of the Insidious as we saw it
And as we've seen in Portland
Let's hear now the president's response
Do you want to call him
What do you want to call and give me a name
Stand back and stand by
When asked
To condemn the proud boys and white supremacist
What did our president say
He said
Stanback
And standby
His message with her loud and clear
The group adopted that phrase stand back and stand by as their
Official slogan
Be created merchandise with their new slogan which they wore proudly cross their backs at
Trump's rallies and they followed the president's orders
You'll see more about this later in the trial but you'll see in these photos
To the left Dominic pezzola
And to the right William Pepe
Two of the leaders of the group
Heading to the Capitol on January 6th
They were later charged with working together to obstruct law enforcement
As we go through this evidence I want you to keep in mind these words by President Trump when asked
To condemn violence
Stand back
And standby
And see example after example
Other kinds of people
Like the proud boys who he had standing by
On January 6th
By October as my colleagues mr. Castro and mr. swalwell's Shoujo Donald Trump was s
Escalating his big lie that the only way he could lose the election
Was if it was raped
So as election day nears his supporters were frustrated
And they were angry
They were prepared to ensure his victory
By any means necessary
One of these violent acts was on October 30th
Sometime after 12:30 p.m.
A caravan
I'm more than 50 trucks
Covered in Pro Trump campaign gear confronted and surrounded
Cars Karen Biden Harris campaign workers
And a Biden Harris campaign bus as they were traveling down Interstate 35
From San Antonio to Austin
According to Witnesses this Caravan repeatedly tried to force the bus Esau and you see in that video
To slow down in the middle of their Highway
And then to run it off the road
What that video you just saw does not show
Is that the bus that they tried to run off the road
Was filled with young campaign staff
Volunteers supporters
Surrogates
People
After Trump supporters closing on the bus
A large back black pickup truck adorned with Trump flag suddenly and intend
Eventually swerved and crashed into a car driven by a biden-harris volunteer
News of the event went viral on social media
The president of the United States
Anna campaign
Saw his own supporters trying to run a bus
Karen his opponent's campaign workers
Off the highway
Physically intimidate people in this country campaigning
Here was his response the next day
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President of the United States
Tweeted a video of his supporters trying to drive a bus
The road
You re calling that first video that I showed you there was no sound
Well the one that he tweeted had a fight theme song place to it that the president
President put that music
To that video
And he added at the top
I love Texas
By the next evening
That's sweet that he did
Have been viewed 12.6 million times
And it wasn't just a tweet
On November 1st
Adam Michigan rally with a sieve supporters
The president talked about that incident
Again
Here it is you know they were protecting his bus yesterday because they're not
SARS busted hundreds of cars Trump Trucking Trump in the American flag
American flag
President made a public joke
A violence against campaigners
In an American election
He made light of it
This was not a joke
In fact
It was so violent it puts so many people In Harm's Way
But the FBI investigated the incident
And the criminal responsibility of those who attacked these campaign workers now
Our President Donald Trump
Could have said okay I didn't realize how bad that was
This was very violent
Please stop
But he didn't
He saw the investigation
And made a statement
In defense of his supporters attack on the bus riding quote
In my opinion these Patriots
Did nothing wrong
Engaging in violence for him
Made them patriots to Donald Trump
For anyone who says Donald Trump didn't know the violence he was inciting
I ask you to consider his supporters tried to drive a bus off the highway in the middle of it
Today to intimidate his opponents campaign workers and his response was to tweet the V
Video of the incident that had fight music
Joke about it
And call those individuals in that incident
Patriots
And once again Donald Trump's praise
Worked
To incite them further
Emboldened by that preys
They remained ready to fight
Ready to stand back
And standby
This link is not hypothetical
Just like we saw with the proud boys showing up in full force on January 6th Donald
Encouragement of this attack made sure his supporters were ready for the next one
The Caravan bus attack
Have been organized by Trump supporter named keighley
Leading up to the attack on our capital of January 6th
Easterly
Teamed up with other supporters
The fundraise
The help to bring people to Washington DC for that day
The morning of the attack he filmed footage of the capitol
Pointed out the flimsiness of fencing
MN address to supporters before the attack saying quote
As soon as you all get done hearing president
Y'all get to the Capitol
We need to surround this place
During the attack
Use the bullhorn to call out to the Mob to Rush In
He later went to the Rotunda himself
And then back outside
Urge the crowd come inside
These are the people that President Trump
Cultivated
Who are standing by
I'd like to look at another example
After the election on December 12th
Trump supporters gathered in math
To protest the stolen election in DC
It was built by his loyalists
As the second billion Mega March
The orc the rally was organized
By women for America first
The same group that you'll see later
Secured the permit
For the January 6 rally
And who else was there
The proud boys standing by
Donald Trump did not attend that rally
But he made sure to make clear his supporters throughout the day
How he felt about the event
At 8:47 a.m.
He sent out a tweet
We have just begun to fight
And then the rally begin
And Donald Trump allies who spoke at the rally
Carried on his message of the stolen election
And the importance of fighting to stop the steel
Here's Nicholas Fuentes a commentator who would organize a stop the steel rally in Michigan
We Trump supporters
Making promises that we are going to destroy the GOP
Those words
That was Trump's message
Destroy anyone who won't listen
Who won't help them take the election for Trump
And as you will see
This was just the preview for Fuentes
Who like the proud boys and the Trump Caravan organizers would later he the president
Call
And come to Washington
And be there
On January 6th
Later in the rally of former Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson also spoke
During her speech
She stated quote
This isn't over
This is just beginning referring to the fight to stop the steel
And then she added
We knew both Republican and Democrats were against we people We the People
We are the cavalry
No one's coming for us
It's clear the Trump and some of his supporters
Saw this as Ward
A fight against anyone who was unwilling to do whatever it took
Keep Donald Trump in power
We are the cavalry
And President Trump continue to reinforce who supported these messages throughout the day at 1:48
P.m. after both speeches he retweeted his Deputy Chief of staff's tweet showing his crew
Crowd that he had flown over on Marine one and he tweeted quote
Thank you
Patriots
These people were as you can see
Gathered in mass and being told by the president's allies that their election had been stolen
And they were told they were the cavalry
No one else could do it
And after hearing these speeches
And seeing the president's support
This is what Donald Trump's cavalry
Was capable of
What you just saw
Was the violence that ensued
After that rally
The proud boys
After that rally in Cason serious acts of violence in downtown DC
Some Trump supporters and self-identified proud boys
Vandalize churches
After that rally
If we look at these events
It's clear
How-we-got-here
Because what did the president do after that
He turned right around and a little over a week later he began coordinating for January 6th
Save America rally with the same people who had planned the second million Maga March
You'll recall that the women for America First had organized that second million Maga March
They had originally planned
Rallies for January 20th January 22nd
In January 23rd
After
The inauguration
The Donald Trump had other plans
On December 19th
President-trump
Tweeted his save-the-date
For January 6th
He told his supporters to come to DC for a big protest
The day billing it as
While
Just days later
Women for America first
Amended their permit to hold their rally on January 6th
Pursuant to the president's save-the-date instead of after the inauguration
This was deliberate
Reports confirm that the president himself
President Trump became directly involved with the planning of the event
Including speaking lineup
Even the music to be played just as he chose the music for his weak freak
Of the Caravan driving the biden-harris bus off the road
Without fight song
And he brought the same people who spoke at the second million Magnum rally
To help as well
Trump's campaign advisor
Katrina Pierson who you recall said on December 12th that this is the only the beginning
We are the cavalry
Also became directly involved in planning the event
We even sent out invitations together
This is Amy Kramer one of the founders of women for America first
Tweeting the invitation
Packing Donald Trump and other organizers inviting the same supporters
We just engage in serious violence at the second million magarelli to show up
To the largest rally to stop Bastille
I'm President Trump seemed to have other plans for what was going to happen at that rally to
Women for America First had initially planned for the rally boers to remain at the ellipse
Until the counting of the state electoral Slate's Bruce was completed
Just like they had remained at Freedom Plaza
After the second Million Man March
In fact the permit stated in no uncertain terms
But the March
From the ellipse was not permitted
It was not until after President Trump and his team became involved in the planning
Set the march from the ellipse to the Capitol
Came about
In direct contravention of the original permit
This was not a coincidence
None of this was
Donald Trump over many months
Cultivated violence praised it
And then when he saw the violence his supporters were capable of
He channeled it
To his big wild historic event
He organized January 6th with the same people that had just organized a rally resulting in
Substantial violence and made absolutely sure this time these violent rally go
Wooden just remain in place
He made sure
That those violent people would literally
March right here
2 hour steps
From the ellipse
To the Capitol
Stop the Steal
His
Cavalry
This was deliberate
And because the president of the United States inside of this
Because he was orchestrating this
Because he was inviting them
The insurgents were not shy
About their planning
They believed they were following the orders of the commander-in-chief
The word as a tweet we just saw quite literally
His cavalry
Silver posted exact blueprints of the attack
Openly
Loudly
Proudly
And they did this all over public forums
These were not just hitting post
Dark web sites that Trump would not have seen
Quite the opposite
We know the President Trump's team monitor these websites we know this
Because his advisors confirm it
Annex White House in campaign insiders you'll read who has known both scavino and the president for you
Here's said there was no way that's the Vino and the Trump social media operations would not have been aware of the
The plant circulating online
To storm the capitol
Because
And I quote
The Trump operation closely monitored the web's darkest corners
Ranging from mainstream sites such as Twitter Facebook and Reddit
Two Fringe message boards like 4chan Annex Chan Now call ex-con
To the Donald. Win an auction of a band Reddit Community dedicate
Hated to rapidly supporting all things Trump
Actively monitored the exact sites
Like the Donald. Win
On which these insurrectionists wrote their posts
And so what would Trump and his team have seen when they were monitoring
These white sites
What would his supporters have said
They would have seen a clear roadmap
Exactly what happened
This is an example of a poster was captured from one of the sites
Dedicated to Donald Trump
That we just talked about shortly before the site was taken down
And the meme reads quote
The capital is our goal
Everything else is a distraction
Every corrupt
Member of Congress locked in one room and surrounded by Real Americans
It's an opportunity that will never present itself again
Let that sink in
Think about that
Exact thing that happened on January 6th
That was their goal
And they said it
Out loud
On sites that the Trump Administration was actively monitoring
A third-party site capture to post on the Donald. Win
Where one user posted quote
This cannot simply be a protest
It has to be the establishment of the Maga militia with the command offices setup
With all for the militia tactical missions spreading from there
Another user said in response quote
We will have to achieve an actual tactical Victory like stormy
Occupying the capital
To have the intended effect
That's what they understood Donald Trump to want
There it is in black and white
And they explained why they felt justified in this another poster on the form the Donald. Win
Road on January 4th quote
If Congress illegally certifies Biden
Trump would have absolutely no choice
But to demand us to storm Congress and kill slash
Beat them up
Donald Trump will have no choice
That was what he made them belief
To the point his supporters felt Justified
Even and carrying weapons and storming our capital
This was imposed after post
Here's another
When discussing how to carry guns into DC One noted quote
Yes it's illegal
But this is war
And we are clearly in a post legal phase of our society
What
They treated it as a war
Implemented
The morning of the Attack under the thread
Today I told my kids goodbye
One poster wrote
Today I had the very difficult conversation with my children
Daddy might not come home
From DC
Within a matter of hours
That post amassed
4000 likes
President Trump has truly made them believe that their election had been stolen and that it was their page
Patriotic Duty
To fight to steal it back
Patriotic
A term he gave those who use violence for him
And they were willing to say goodbye to their children
For this fight
And their supporters didn't just rely on entering the capitol with guns haphazardly
Beyhadh maps of this building
They talk through which tunnels to use and how to get to the Senate chamber
Some posted specific floor plan layout of the capital alongside hopes of overwhelming lawn
To quote
Find the tunnels
Arrest worst traitors
Posters also fixated on what they saw as their ability to easily overwhelmed the Capitol Police as
Quote
They're only around 2000 of them
And again the urge quote
The capital is our goal
Everything else is a distraction
There were hundreds of these posts
Hundreds
Monitored by the Trump Administration
Envious post
They were chillingly accurate
Write down two communication devices a new affidavit filed by the FBI describe pepper
Operations by the right-wing group The Proud boys
To storm the capitol
Including using earpieces and walkie-talkies to direct movements throughout the building
This happened
That's the level of planning in advance that occurred
They had earpieces
On the slide you'll see proud boy member Dominic pezzola
Have an earpiece in his right ear
Consistent with the affidavit
In addition to these detailed post they make clear why they fought they should do this
Why they thought they could do this
It wasn't just that they were doing it to following the president's orders
They thought he would help them
Third-party site capture to post
On the Donald. When again the site monitored by Trump's team
And he broke broke quote he meaning Donald Trump in this instance can order the
Nap guards to stand down if needed
Unfortunately
He has no control over the Capitol Police
But they're only around 2000 of them
And are a lot are useless fat asses or girls
All right there
The overall goal
Maps of the capital
The weapons
Communication devices
They even said publicly
Openly
Proudly that President Trump will help them to commandeer the National Guard so all they have
Is overwhelmed the 2.000 Capitol police officers this was reported in the NBC News
And the Washington Post with headlines like violence threats Ripple through far-right internet forum
I had a protest
Pro Trump Forum erupt with violence threats ahead of Wednesday's rally against the 2020
Action Fox News also reported that the proud boys would come to the January 6th rally
Paired for violent action
Even quoting a proud boy member who said they would quote incogmeato and Spa
Spread across downtowndc and smaller numbers
City officials seeing the same warnings also publicly warned about the violence and online
Lawful weapons at the event
DC mayor Muriel Bowser
Cautioned residents of the District of Columbia to avoid the downtown area while the rally at
Attendees were in town federal law enforcement
Warned of these threats also on January 3rd a Capitol Police intelligence report warned
Find a violin scenario in which
Congress itself
Could be the target of the angry supporters of President Trump
On January 6th
According to that report obtained by The Washington Post supporters of the current president ceejay
January 6th
2021
As the last opportunity to overturn the results of the presidential election
This sense of desperation and disappointment may lead to more incentive to become
Violent
Unlike previous post-election protests the targets of the pro Trump supporters are not necessarily
The counter protesters as they were previously but rather
Congress itself is the target
For January 6th
The day before the Riders storm the Congress
An FBI office in Virginia also issued an explicit warning that extremists were preparing to try
Travel to Washington to commit violence and quote
War
According to internal reports
The FBI report cited to an online post reviews are declared the Trump supporters should go to war
Washington and get violent
The supporter said quote stop calling this a March or Rally or protest
Go they're ready for war
We get our president or we die
These bright mornings when. Just hypothetical
Actual arrest occurred in the days leading to the attack
On January 4th two days before the rally one extremely well-publicized
What's up a proud boy leader who destroyed a Church's black lives matter Banner a month earlier
During the December 12th second million Maga March
Report emphasized that when he was arrested
He was carrying high capacity firearm magazines
Which it claimed were meant to be supplied to another rally attendee
For January 6th
By the night of January 6th attack
DC police had already made 6 arrests in connection with the planned protests on charges a parent
Weapons and Munitions assault
Assaulting police
This is all
In public View
All of it
Truth is usually seen
And rarely heard
Truth is truth whether denied or not
And the truth is
President Trump has been months
Calling his supporters to a March
On a specific day
A specific time
Specific places
To stop desertification
I'm leading up to the event
There were hundreds
Hundreds opposed online showing that his supporters took this as a call to Arms
Who attacked the capitol
Sewer detail post a plan
To attack online
Law enforcement warned that these posts were real threats and even made a rest
Days leading up to the attack
And yet
In the face of all this is credible warnings of serious dangerous threats to our capital
Windows thousands of people were standing in front of President Trump
Ready to take orders an attack
This is what he said
We're going to the Capitol
And we fight
We fight like hell
And if you don't fight like hell
You're not going to have a country anymore
That's why this is different
That's why he must be convicted
I disqualified
Representative Dean will not return to the events of January 6th itself
She will demonstrate President Trump's repeated incitement of the crowd that morning as he directed them the capital
His last-ditch effort to retain his hold on power
For me and for many Americans January 6th is forever etched in our memories
I went to work with a sense of excitement
The start of my second term in Congress and the first time I would participate in the certification of a presidential
Election
And then we all know what happened
I know many of us have similar experiences from that day but I'll briefly share mine
I stood with colleagues in the gallery above the house floor
To observe the Arizona challenge
Moments later Police radios reported a breach of the Capitol grounds
Someone shot it off to us duck
Then lie down
Then ready your gas masks
Shortly after there was a terrifying
Banging on the chamber doors
I will never forget that sound
Schoutsen
Panicos to my husband into my son's
Instructions to flee
And then the constant worrying of the gas masks filtering the air
The Chamber of the United States House of Representatives turned to chaos
For Donald Trump it was a very different day
Earlier I showed you Donald Trump's desperate attempts to maintain power ignoring adverse Court rule
Attacking elected officials
Pressuring his justice department even attacking his own vice president
You saw a man who refused to lose who was desperate to retain Power by any means necessary
You saw a man willing to attack anyone and everyone who got in his way
And you saw a man who thought he could play by different rules
He told his supporters as my colleague Miss Plaskett just showed you exactly what he thought those
Rules were
Combat
Fight
Violence
This was not just one speech this was weeks and weeks of deliberate effort
By Donald Trump to overturn the election results
So they didn't have to give up the presidency
The speech on January 6th Builds on refers to an amplified that same pattern
The pattern Trump had used and broadcasted for months
He refuse to lose
His attacks on others and his different rules
The only thing different about his speech on January 6th
From all these other times that we went through
Was that he was no longer telling his face just that they had to fight to stop the steel
He was finally telling them now is the time to do it
Here's the place and here's how
Four weeks he urged his supporters to show up at a specific time and place and when they got there he told them exact
Actually what he wanted
Let's start with his desperation
You saw how much planning went into January 6th
And when the day arrive Donald Trump's desperation
Was in full force
Between the time he woke up on January 5th
And the start of the save America March
That next day he had tweeted 34 times
When Donald Trump wants to get his message across he is not shy as you all know
These tweets were relentless
And these tweets all centered on his singular Focus
His drumbeat to motivate anger and incite his supporters
His big lie
The presidential election had been rigged it had been stolen from him and they had to fight to stop it
And the timing was no coincidence he sent 34 tweets because this was his last chance
To rile up his supporters
Before the big historic Wild event
He had planned
Now I won't go through all of these tweets but let me just highlight a few
At 1 in the morning he tweeted if vice president Mike Pence comes through for us we will win the presidency
Mike and send it back
This will look familiar to you because mr. Lu just showed you how Trump had privately
He was pressuring and publicly attacking his vice-president to stop desertification
And when vice-president Pence refused when he explained that the constitution simply does not allow
Him to stop certification Donald Trump revoked his base to attack him
The late in the evening tweet was no different
It just got more forceful
Let's be clear what Donald Trump was saying that vice-president Pence could send back
Desertification
Was not true
One thing all 50 states states had ratified this election
And for another
Vice president Pence
Explain to him
That he does not have the power to unilaterally overturn states votes and just send the certification
Back
And Donald Trump knew this
But this was his last chance
To get his vice president to stop desertification
And so he was willing to say or do just about anything
These tweets attacking the election is fraudulent attacking his vice-president and urging his supporters to fight
Continued throughout the morning
Here's another example
At 8:17 a.m. he tweeted all Mike Mike Pence has to do is send it back
Back to them
And back to the States
And we win
That's what he said even though by then he had clearly lost
Has Trump continued tweeting the save America March at the White House was now in full swing
The speakers who warmed up the crowd for Trump were members of his inner circle
Family members his personal attorney
People President Trump had deputized to speak on his behalf
Some of the speakers also spoke at the second million Maga March
Which resulted in serious violence
The warm-up acts on January 6th focus on promoting Donald Trump's big lie
Tastoke the same fears
A stolen election
A fraud of ripping Victory away from them
And the speakers told them what to do about it
As the crowd erupted in fight for Trump
Chance throughout that morning Donald Trump jr.
Urged that's the message these guys better fight for Trump
The speaker's lasted three hours repeating President Trump's message and finally at about noon Donald
Trump took the stage with the Seal of the presidency
On his Podium and the White House as his backdrop
President Trump spoke for more than 70 minutes
His narrative was familiar it was the same message we he had spent months spreading to his supporters
The big lie
The election was stolen
But they should never concede
And that his supporters should be Patriots and fight much harder to stop the steel
To take back our country
The same phrases heat spread for weeks
But now the message was a median
Now it was just no longer just fight it was fight right now
All of us here today do not want to see our election Victory stolen by emboldened radical
Democrats which is what they're doing and stolen by the fake news media that's what they've done and
We will never give up we will never concede it doesn't happen you don't conceive
About our country
I will not take it anymore and that's what this is all about
And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with we will
Stop the Steal
That set the tone our country has had enough and we will not take it anymore
He told them and us right at the beginning that the only way to take back the country was to fight
Let's look at what he said next
Andrew. You did a great job he's got guts
Republican Party
Ms Plaskett showed you example after example of Donald Trump
When confronted with violence
Praising it
We saw him instruct the proud boys a violent extremist group
To stand back and standby
That group was there on January 6th
We saw him praise a caravan of his supporters after they tried to drive a bus
Belonging to the Biden campaign off the road
The organizer of that attack was there on January 6th
And we saw him team up with the organizers of the violent second Mega Million March
To plan his rally on January 6th
And what does he do with that rally he tells Giuliani he's doing a great job addressing the cap crowd
Sing
He has guts
To call for fighting
And to be clear this is what he was praising
Trial by combat Donald Trump praised Rudy said he did a good job had guts for tell
Telling the crowd that we need trial by combat
Next more attacks
All vice president Pence has to do is send it back to the states to
Certified and we become president and you are the happiest people
This attack like the tweets he sent that morning had a purpose convincing his supporters that the future of our country
Country of our democracy hinged on whether vice president
Pants would overturn the election
Something he knew Pence could not and would not do
He called out vice-president Pence 9 times that day
And each time he got more forceful
Here's what he said at 12:15
And we're going to have to fight much harder and Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us Hanabi
That will be a sad day for our country because
This egregious assault on a democracy and
After this we're going to walk down and I'll be there with you we're going to walk down
We're going to walk down any one you want but I think right here we're going to walk down to the calf
How do I get to cheer on our brave
Congressmen and women and we'll probably not going to be cheering so much for
Some of them because you'll never take back our country
With weakness you have to show strength and you have to be strong
We're going to have to fight much harder and Mike Pence will have to come through for us
That's what he said
And he told the crowd what he meant
And exactly what to do literally commanding them to confront us at the Capitol
He even told them he'd walk there with them
Which of course was not true
And then he told him exactly what to do when they got to the capital you'll never take your country back with weakness
Have to show strength
And don't forget who is standing there the same people Miss Plaskett describe to you
Many people violent
Violent people law enforcement had warned would be armed and would be targeting us
One of President Trump's key defenses focus on what he said for a few second
15 minutes into the speech
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol Building to peacefully
Patriotically make your voices heard
In a speech spanning almost 11000 words yes we did check
That was the one time
The only time President Trump use the word peaceful or any suggestion of non by
Violence
The implication of the president's tweets the rally in the speeches were clear
President Trump use the word fight or fighting 20 times including telling the crowd they needed to fight like hell
To save our democracy
We know how the crowd responded to Donald Trump's words and he knew how they responded to his speech
Here is the evidence of how the crowd reacted
Yeah
Storm the capitol
Invade the capital
Fight
Take the capital right now
These were the words of the crowd
Trump was telling them to fight and he would keep telling them to fight throughout the rest of his speech
These are not only words of aggression they are words of insurrection
And if you have any doubt listen to what he says next
Today we see a very important event though because right over there right there
We see the event going to take place and I'm going to be watching because history
He's going to be made looking to see whether or not we have great and courageous leaders or where
Whether or not we have leaders that should be ashamed of themselves throughout history throughout
Eternity will be ashamed and you know what if they do the wrong thing we should never
Ever forget that they did never forget we should never ever forget
The commander and chief points to Congress
And tells those assembled
I'm going to be watching
History is going to be made
This was clearly not just some Rally or March or protest
This was about Donald Trump trying to steal the election for himself
Claiming that the election was fraudulent
Illegitimate
So that his supporters would fight to take it back
In fact after stoking the crowd's anger for nearly 40 minutes after repeating false
Action conspiracy after false election conspiracy
He said
This in no uncertain terms
You will have an illegitimate president that's what you'll have
Any outcome besides him keeping the presidency would be illegitimate
This was building on the big lie of a rigged and stolen election
And here's what he said a little later in the speech
When you catch somebody in the fraud you're allowed to go by very different rules
So I hope bike has the courage to do what he has to do
When you catch somebody in a fraud
You're allowed to go by very different roles
We told you that context matters here's the context
This was not just one reference
Or a message to supporters by a politician to fight for a Cause
He'd assembled thousands of violent people
People he knew were capable of violence
People he
Had seen be violent
They were standing now in front of him
And then he pointed to us
Lit the fuse
And sent an angry mob
To fight the perceived enemy
His own vice president
And the members of Congress
As we certified an election
But I said something's wrong here something's really wrong can't have happened and we fight we fight
Fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore or exciting Adventure
Have not yet begun my fellow Americans for our
For our children and for our Beloved Country and I say this
Despite all that's happened
The Best Is Yet To Come
So we're going to we're going to walk down
Are we going to the capital and we're going to try
Democrats voting for anything not even
But we're going to try and give our Republicans
The weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help with drunk going to try and give them
The kind of Pride and boldness that they need to take back our country so let
Let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue I want to thank you all God bless you and
God Bless America thank you I'll figure this is incredible thank you very much
If you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore
And there was only one flight left
And it was a mile up the road
Donald Trump the president of the United States
Ordered the crowd to march on Congress
And so the crowd marched
This is incredible you heard him say
That's how President Trump ended his speech
I'd like to close with a very brief timeline of what was happening in parallel alongside the president as he
He spoke on the 6th of January
A little afternoon President Trump began his speech
With a fiery refusal to concede
He commanded the crowd to fight in March down Pennsylvania Avenue
And around 12:20 some rally go or some attendees began marching
By 12:30 as President Trump continue to incite his supporters large segments of the
Rally crowd had amassed at the Capitol
At 12:53 is the president's speech was playing on cellphone broadcast the outermost
Barricade of the northwest side
Of the capital was breached
And Capitol Police were forced back to the steps of the capitol
At 1:10 the president ended his speech with a final call to fight and a final order
To March to the Capitol
At 145 the president's followers
Surged past Capitol Police shouting this is a revolution
Just after 2:10 an hour after President Trump
Ended his speech
The insurrectionist mob overwhelmed Capital Security
And made it inside the halls of Congress
Because the truth is
This attack never would have happened
But for Donald Trump
And so they came
Grapes in Trump's flag
And used our flag
The American flag
To batter
Enter bludgeoned
And a 2:30
I heard that terrifying banging on house chamber doors
For the first time in more than 200 years
The seat of our government
Was ransacked
On our watch
Mr. president on my think this would be good time for a break
Remember recess
You mean to press their case they have 16 hours to do so in the impeachment trial of former president
Donald Trump's 8 hours today they'll have eight more hours tomorrow in the president's attorneys
The former president's attorneys get their turn
Beginning on Friday so that a break here up till 4 Eastern or so here's what the the schedule
Your looks like for the
Rest of the week as we mention house managers today and tomorrow
The president's defense team Friday and Saturday a total of 16 hours for both sides
On Sunday at 2 p.m. the Senate will return they will take up from a questions to the
Lawyers on both sides the house managers in the lawyers
And they met on early next week to consider whether to allow
Eyewitnesses subpoena additional of documents the closing arguments and a vote on impeachment
Set the happened early next week we don't have a specific day quite yet keep in mind as they are in a break now
If you've missed any of the earlier activities the presentation by house managers you can find that on her website
At C-SPAN. Org impeachment we are streaming this live obviously live you're on C-Span
2 +
As you go out and on your way you can also also bring it along in the C-SPAN
Radio app
Keeping an eye on things on the capitol hill we hear from Daniel Flatley who writes for business and
What senators are doing
As the
Trial is underway tweets this senators were still attentive to the trial managers presentation
In the mid-afternoon many of them taking notes and listening intently especially when videos were played
Tweets were displayed
Daniel Flatley says Senator Mike Lee had some books tacked on his desk including the federal impeachment process in the contested where
Removal power
1789 to 2010
Greg Caplan is keeping an eye on things on Capitol Hill tweets out this map and it's about Senator Hawley who's been
Reported to be watching actually from the
The visitors Gallery saying this Senator Hawley said this to
To NBC the galleries I feel
I had a little bit of kind of you kind of where I sit over the Senate chamber is in the corner so here you can sit head
I can also to space out a little bit more it's not quite as crowded and see on that map
Where he is seated in the chamber itself so he's gone up to the gallery
To keep an eye on the proceedings
One Senator we heard from earlier during the first break is Senator Richard Blumenthal Democrat from Connecticut
On how he felt the house managers
We're handling the case so far
So powerful brick-by-brick are showing how
Donald Trump killed at mom in a very premeditated and deliberate
Not only in town and stopped at school
But to come to watch them and do it violet
Result of Donald Trump deliberately buildings mom and Nanny
Inviting them to come to Washington and then just go on the capitol was in fact
Violent injury that results
I am over a week before the election
Morning
It was the result of premeditated
The rate of a fall asleep
That's what I
But his mobile
Only way.
McAllen infact apparently likes killing some of the people involved
Overthrow the founders worst nightmare
This high crime was among the most heinous that any public official
What we will say is that Donald Trump Iranian
Is riot an insurrection
Save our democracy
The long run is not on. January 6th
For about Donald Trump it is about domestic violence
Violence in this country as the
Domestic terrorism
A little over three hours into the arguments by house managers in the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump
We heard from his attorneys yesterday in the in the argument over constitutionality and see it in tweets this about
President the former president's reaction a trump aide says the former president thinks his lawyers need to quote tight
Up their arguments
Jason Donna from Fox tweets this Senator Graham on speaking with Trump quote re-enforce to the president
The case is over it's just a matter of getting the final verdict now asked if he sends frustration from Trump
About his attorneys performance quote-unquote no not particularly the mostly talked about the vote
The Rand Paul senator Paul tweeting this afternoon about one of the managers is boat this afternoon we've been lectured by Eric swallow
Call wela Guy accused of consorting with a Chinese spy
How appropriate
Frank Bowman attorney on alterations say who's written a new book on impeachment
Observing this saying first really new fact I've heard
Delegate Plaskett said original permit for the protest was January 22-23 but that changed the Jan
January 6th the date of certification was made
Buy or behest of Trump would like more details true but if true a key Point delegate plastic
It as was pointed out by
Jamie Raskin the first ever delegate to present a
Impeachment case she among the four managers who spoke of that last session with her twice from
Madeleine Dean's we also heard from Ted lieu
And
We expect to hear from Diana degette she's the only one so far who is not spoken
In the in the Senate here on C-Span to waiting for the Senate to return to resume the court of impeachment against
Former President Donald Trump set to be back in the
Next 10 minutes or so at 4 Eastern what should I use some of the arguments made in this last session
By house managers
Donald Trump told his supporters they are stealing the election they took away your vote
It's rigged
That was not true
According to judge after judge
The truth was exactly the opposite
Trump was not suing to ensure election integrity
He was pursuing lawsuits that would in effect strip away American boats
So that he could win
In other words Donald Trump was asking the Judiciary to take away votes
From Americans
So that he could steal the election for himself
Then after losing in all the courts Trump turn to another tactic pressuring and threatening election officials
You saw what happened in Michigan
After Trump attacked the state
And it's election officials
His supporters surrounded the Secretary of State's home
As you saw in the earlier slide chanting
Calling her a felon
On November 17th the board of canvassers
For Wayne County Michigan home to Detroit
Unanimously certified the election results for Biden
That same night
After their boat to certify the results
Trump called the two Republican members of that board
Pressuring them to change their minds
The call worked
The next day both Monica Palmer and William Hartman
The Republican board members attempted to rescind their vote to certify Michigan's election results
But they simply couldn't
Present transactions time and time again made clear that you would do anything and pressure
Anyone
If it meant overturning the election results
We watch President Trump use any means necessary to pursue the same previously
Grasping for straws
Retaining his hold on the presidency
But all his efforts prior to January 6th kept failing
And finally in his desperation he turned on his own vice president
He pressured my pastor violate his constitutional oath and refused to certify 200
Present from a decided that vice president Pence who presided over the certification could somehow stop it
A pencil a to confirm the vice president does not have that power in the Constitution
Imprison Trump never try to explain why he thought the vice president could block the certification of election results
He just began relentlessly attacking the vice president
Publicly
President Trump attack pants on social media and at rallies
Getting his supporters to believe that Mike Pence could stop desertification on January 6th
Here's what President Trump said in Georgia on January 4th
Vice president vice-president comes through for us he's a great
Guy doesn't come through I would like it but it's much
Behind closed doors President Trump applied sniffing and pressure to his second-in-command
Reports confirm that President Trump use his personal attorneys and other officials to pressure the vice
Trump before they told almost anyone who called him to also call the vice president
According to reports when Mike Pence was in the Oval Office
President Trump would call people to try to get them to convince the vice-president to help him
And present from kept repeating them best their pens could stop a certification to his base to anger
Hoping to intimidate Mike Pence
On the morning of the rally on January 6th President Trump tweeted
How Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States
In all caps you wrote
And we win
Do what Mike
This is a time for extreme courage
Present later went out to attack Pence nearly a dozen times
And his speech at the Save America March
Privately in person before Pence headed oversee the joint session igme 6 President Trump
Again threatened Pence
You can either go down in history as a patriot mr. Trump told him
According to people briefed on a conversation
Or you can go down in history as a p****
As a veteran I fight a deeply dishonorable
That our former president and commander-in-chief equated patriotism with violating the
In overturning the election
You will see and hear the consequences are President Trump's repeated attacks on the vice president the chance of traitor
And the chance of hang Mike Pence
Thankfully vice-president Pence stood his ground like or other Brave official stood their ground
Refuse the president and fulfilled his duty on January 6th
Even after the capitol with a pack even after he was personally targeted even after his family
Was targeted vice-president Pence stood strong
And certify the election
Vice president Pence showed us what it means to be an American what it means to show courage you put his country
His old his values and his morals above the will of one man
The present had tried everything in his power
To seize everything in its attempt to seize power from the rightful director of the election
President Trump's extraordinary actions who increasingly more desperate
You saw him go from pursuing claims in the courts
Do threatening state and local election officials
Do then attacking members of Congress and the Senate to compromising our justice department and then to attack
Rocking the Republican vice president
These Brave public servants were being pressured by our commander-in-chief to overturn the results some of them and
Your family's got death threats thankfully
At every turn our Democratic process has prevailed and the rule of law prevailed
And the impeachment trial of former president
Donald Trump set to resume shortly here they're on a bit of a break but to yard about 4 Eastern they should get back underway
And continued into the early evening at least we do expect a dinner break at some point
Again the house managers get 16 hours spread over two days stay with President Trump's attorneys
16 hours spread over two days that will carry the legal arguments on both sides into into Saturday is
Delegate Stacey Plaskett focused on the The Proud boys and one showing article from Politico about
Not that this is this published today the headline of Politico says proud boys charged and Insurrection blast
Trump's deception
In the new court filing they said the defendants criticism of trump dovetails with the house
Impeachment managers case and again her focus and her presentation was on how the violence built up
Will show you as much as what she has to say
As we can until the Senate Campbell's back in here momentarily
My fellow managers have shown it will continue to show
Clear evidence
The President Trump incited a violent mob
Storm our capital
When he ran out
Non-violent means
Stop the election
Once assembled that mob
At the president's Direction
Erupted
Into the bloodiest attack on this Capital since 1814
Some of you have said
There's no way the president could have known how violent the mob would be
That is false because the violence it was foreseeable
I want to show you why the spineless was foreseeable and why Donald Trump was
Any other politician
Just telling their Fighters their supporters to fight for something
The violence that occurred on January 6th
Like the attack itself
Did not just appear
You'll see the Donald Trump new
The people he was inciting
He saw the violence that they were capable of
And he had a pattern and practice appraising
An encouraging Matt violence
Never
Ever
Condemning it
And you'll see that this violent attack
Was not planned in secret
The insurgents believe that they were doing the duty of their president
They were following his orders
And so they publicized openly
Loudly
Proudly
Exact blueprints
Of how the attack would be made
Law enforcement saw these postings ever reported that these insurgents violently attacked
The capital itself
This was not just a comment by an official to fight for a Cause
This was months of cultivating a base of people
Who were violent
Praising that violence
And then leaving that violence
That rage straight at our door
The point is this
By the time he called the Cavalry of his thousands of supporters
On January 6th
And an event he had invited them to
He had every reason to know
But they were armed
But they were violent
I bet they would actually
Bite
He knew who he was calling and the violence they were capable of
And he still gave up marching orders
To go to the Capitol
And quote
Fight like hell
I'm stop the Steal
Make no mistake
The violence was not just foreseeable
To President Trump
The violence was what he deliberately encouraged
As early as September Trump set the precedent that when asked to denounce violence
He would do the opposite
And encourage it
Now the president had only said something once about fighting to stop the steel
Violence erupted there would be no way to know he intended to incite it
Or Sade coming
But just as the president spent months spreading his big lie the election
He also spent months
Cultivating groups of people
Following his command
Repeatedly engaged in real
Dangerous violence
And when they did
When the violence erupted
As a response to his calls to fight against the stolen election
He did not walk it back
He did not tell them no
He did beat opposite
Opposite
He praised and encouraged the violence so that it would continue
He fanned the flame of violence
And it worked
You'll see this overtime
He's very groups and individuals whose violence the president praised
Help lead the attack
On January 6th
And that's how we know clearly
The President Trump
Deliberately incited this and how we know
He saw it coming
There are many examples where the president engaged in this pattern
And I'm just going to walk you through a few of them
Let's start with the president's Trump's incitement of The Proud boys
Main if you've heard of this group
Which since 2018 has been classified by the FBI as Amex
Extremist organization
Fruits by classification
The group has repeatedly engaged
In serious acts of violence including at Pro Trump rallies
In one such act on September 7th
The proud boys attacked a man with a baseball bat
And then punched him while he was down on the ground
On September 29th
During a presidential debate
President Trump was asked specifically
If he was willing to condemn white supremacy
And militia groups if he was willing to tell them to stand down
And stop the violence
Let's watch
But are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacist and militia groups and
Say that they need to spend down and not add to the violence and the number of these cities as we saw
And as we've seen in Portland
Let's hear now the president's response
Do you want to call him what do you want to call and give me a name
Standby
When asked
To condemn the proud boys
And white supremacist
What did our president say
He said
Stanback
And standby
His message
Was Heard loud and clear
The group adopted that phrase
Stand back
I'm standby
Asbury official slogan
Be creative merchandise with their new slogan
Which they wore proudly across their backs at Trump's rallies and they followed the
Supporters
You'll see more about this later in the trial
But you'll see in these photos
To the left Dominic pezzola
Into the right William Pepe
Two of the leaders of the group
Heading to the Capitol on January 6th
They were later charged with working together
Obstruct law enforcement
As we go through this evidence I want you to keep in mind these words by President Trump
When asked to condemn violence
Stanback
And standby
IC example
After example
Other kinds of people like the proud boys
Who he had standing by
On January 6th
By October
As my colleagues mr. Castro and mr. swalwell Shoujo Donald Trump was escalating his big lie
Only way he could lose the election
Was if it was raped
So as election day nears his supporters were frustrated
And they were angry
They were prepared to ensure his victory
By any means necessary
One of these violent acts was on October 30th
Sometime after 12:30 p.m.
A caravan
I'm more than 50 trucks
Covered in Pro Trump campaign gear
Confronted and surrounded
Cars Karen Biden Harris campaign workers and abide Harris campaign bus
As they were traveling down Interstate 35
From San Antonio to Austin
According to Witnesses this Caravan repeatedly tried to force the bus you saw and you see
Send that video to slow down
In the middle of their Highway and then to run it off the road
What that video you just saw it does not show is that the bus that they tried to run off the road
Was filled with young campaign staff
Volunteers supporters surrogates
People
Aspen Trump supporters closed in on the bus
A large back black pickup truck
Adorned with Trump flag
Friendly and intentionally swerved and crashed into a car driven by a bye
Biden Harris volunteer
New
The Senate will come to order
We have order in the
Center please
Thank you for asking thank you mr. president members of the Senate
At this point Representatives Plaskett and swalwell will take you through the X
Shuffle Dave the attack
They will recreate the attack as an unfolded focusing on the threats to vice president Pelosi
Vice president Pence speaker Pelosi
The Joint session
And law enforcement
I do want to alert everyone that there is
Awesome very graphic
Violent footage coming to so people are aware and I'm going to call again on
Mizpah Scott who I should also tell you went to work at the Department of Justice and was the senior counsel for Deputy attorney
General Larry Thompson under attorney general Ashcroft so she's a very well-trained and experienced prostitute
Scooters you can tell
Mr. president senators
Almost all of us were here
On January 6th
We all have our individual experiences
But we felt
What we saw
What we heard
We seen Clips in reports in the media
I have to tell you
It was not until preparing for this trial
But I understood
Fullscope
And learned information that you're going to see
But I understood the effort to attack
Our seat
Of government
In order to carry out
President Trump's mission
To prevent the certification of a presidential election
It was an attack
To our Republic
To our democratic
Process
My colleagues manager swalwell and I
Are going to walk you through the attack
Onto the cat on the capitol that day
And the danger that opposed
To the vice president
To the Speaker of the House
To you all as senators
My colleagues in the house
Capitol Police
Everyone who works in and around this capital
As you've heard
President-trump
Have been telling his supporters and his millions of Twitter followers that Pence
Had the ability to secure the presidency for Trump
But Mike Pence alone
Have the power to overturn the election results
If you would just
Do it
But at 12:55 p.m. on January 6th
Vice president Pence
Formally
Refused the president's demand
He wrote and I quote
It is my considered judgment
Set my oath to support and defend the Constitution
Constrains me
From claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted
And which should not
Pence ended his letter
With a passage including the words
I will do my duty
Even though the count resulted in the defeat of his party and his own candidate
Sissy
Vice president Pence have the courage
To stand against the president
Tell the American public
The truth
And uphold
Our constitution
Fat is patriotism
That patriotism
Is also would put vice president in so much Danger
On January 6th
By the mob
Sent by our president
To the president and the mop he incited
That duty to our constitution
With an all-out betrayal
And the vice president
What's the direct
Target
Of that rage
At 12:53 p.m.
Senators members of Congress
Vice president pence in their respective Chambers
Outside Riders
Including some linked to the proud boys
Broke through the outer barricade
Surrounding the lawn of the capitol
12 minutes later
Vice president Pence began presiding over the joint session of Congress
To certify the results
Of the presidential election
You can see vice-president Pence
Gambling in the joint session here
Madam speaker members of Congress
Pursuant to the Constitution and the laws of the United States
Senate and House of Representatives are meeting a joint session
Verify the certificates and count the votes of the electors of the several States for president and vice president of the
United States
While vice president Pence presided over the joint session
Trump supporters
Began their assault
On our capital
Radio communications from the Metropolitan Police Department highlight during and following press
Trump speech
Trump supporters
Descended on the capital and became increasingly violent
What you are about to hear
Have not been made public before
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The Advisory speed
It's a 150 charging up the hill on the west front
30 seconds
Okay we're here
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Firework material
After attempting to dismantle the outermost perimeter
The Riders did everything in their power
The storm passed the police and into the capitol
Be coordinated
Moving metal barricades
The police were using to maintain distance
Listen to the yelling pull them this way
As we grab the barriers
And attack officers
Trying to hold the line
At about 1:10
I'm 1:23 p.m. respectively
Capitol Police sent out the first evacuation alerts of the day
Telling people to evacuate the Madison Building and the Cannon Building respectively
Shortly after at 1:45 p.m.
Trump supporters surged past Capitol Police protecting the capitals
West steps
Beside that is facing the White House
In another radio communication
Between metropolitan police officers you can hear an officer declare
That there is a riot at the Capitol
At 1:49 p.m.
Who's your friend
1349 hours to Coronavirus
The next video
As well as several videos with follow
Have a model of the Capitol complex
The video is from the West front of the Capitol on the Senate side
Side facing the White House
Watch the red.
Which moves up the lower steps of the capitol
Indicating the approximate location of the Riders
As we search past the police
While the mob did Donald Trump sent to stop the certification
Came closer and closer to breaching the capital
Just one floor below where we are now
Vice president Pence continue to preside over the session in the Senate chamber
Above
At about 2:12 p.m.
Secret Service quickly and suddenly
Evacuated vice president pence from the senate floor
Here's the immediate reaction to that evacuation
Looks like
Yes they did that's exactly what just happened there
I got your Mike Pence out a move them fast there was I saw the Motions to
While the vice president Pence was being evacuated from the Senate chamber
Riders were at that time
Breaking into the capitol
This next video shows their approach and the initial breach of the Capitol complex
Remember to watch the red.
Which broke is Bean tracking
Throughout this incident
Now we're going to show you through security footage that has not been made public before
What satsang breech look like
From the inside
No because this is security footage
There's no sound
Note as a video begins we are seeing the inside view
As a mob approaches from outside
And beets the windows and doors
You can see that the right of first break the window with the wooden beam that you saw previously
And a lone police officer
Inside
Response
And begins to spray the first man who enters
What is quickly overwhelmed
I want you to pay attention to the first group of assailant as they break into the building
The second man through the window is wearing full
Tactical body armor and is carrying a baseball bat
Others are carrying riot shields
Among this group are members of The Proud boys some of whom like Dominic pezzola
Who was recently indicted on federal conspiracy charges we will discuss later
Can watch where they're coming
On our model as well
When I first saw this model
It was created for this
I thought back to September 11th
I know a lot of you senators were here
Some of you might have been members on the house side
I was also here on September 11th
I was a staffer at that time
My office was on the west front
Of the capital
I worked in the capitol
And I was on the house side
This year is 20 years since the Attacks of September 11th
And almost everyday
I remember
44 Americans
Gave their lives
Stop
Plane
It was headed to this Capitol building
I thank them every day for saving my life
And the life
A so many others
Those Americans sacrifice their lives
For love of country
Honor
Judy
All the things that America means
The capital stands
Because of people like that
This capital
It was conceived by our founding fathers
It was built by slaves
It remains through the sacrifice of service men and women around the world
And when I think of that
And I think of these insurgents
Images
Incited
By our own president
AB United States
Attacking
Bizcapital
Just stop the certification
Of a presidential election
Our democracy
Our Republic
At the same time that that breach on this Capitol Building occurred
At approximately 2:13 p.m.
Just one floor up
While Senator Lankford
Was speaking on the senate floor
Senator Grassley
Who had taken over for vice president Pence
Called an unscheduled immediate recess of the Senate
A senate aide approach Senator Lankford and informed him
But the capital have been breached
Senator Grassley is immediately escorted out of the Senate chamber
Thank you
Now all this was going on
Officer Eugene Goodman
Responded to the initial breach
You all may have seen footage of Officer Goodman previously
But there's more to his heroic
Story
Envista security footage
You can see officer Goodman
Running to respond to the initial breach
Officer Goodman
Passes Senator Mitt Romney
And direct him to turn around
In order to get to safety
On the first floor
Just beneath them
The mob had already started
To search
For the Senate chamber
Officer Goodman
Made his way down to the first floor where he encountered the same insurrectionist we
Just saw watch breach the capital
In this video we can see the Riders surged toward officer Goodman
Recall that the Riders are in red and officer Goodman in this model is in blue
Watch officer Goodman
Who backs up the stairs
Although they were shouting that they did not have any weapons we know from the earlier video that that's not true
The second assailant through that breach
Was the one carrying a metal baseball bat
We know there were other weapons there that day
Did you hear the other shouts
We're here for you
He's one person
Where thousands
And where do they count the votes
They were coming at the urging of Donald Trump
To keep Congress
A separate branch of government
From certifying the results of a presidential election
As the Riders reach the top of the stairs
They were within 100 ft
Aware the vice-president was Sheltering with his family
And they were just feet away from one of the doors
Tempest chamber
Where many of you remained at that time
I also want to show you a different angle
From the security field footage of Officer Goodman sacks
This video is on the second floor of the Senate wing of the capitol
The red. As you recall
Represents the insurrectionist
The blue. Is Officer Goodman
Who led the mob away from the chamber
Just minutes earlier
On the left-hand side of the video just inside the hallway is the door to the Senate chamber
And watch her officer Goodman provokes the Riders and purposefully draws them away from the door to the
Senate chamber
And towards the other officers waiting down the hall
The Wider seen carrying a baseball bat
In this video is the same one we saw moments ago
Reaching the window
On the first floor
While all of this was going on
Vice president Pence
Was still in the room near the Senate chamber
It was not until 2:26
But he was evacuated
To a secure location
This next security video
Shows that evacuation
His movements are depicted by the orange. In our model
The red and blue dots represents the location where the mob and officer Goodman work
And we're officer Goodman led the mob away from the chamber
Just moments ago
You can see vice president Pence and his family quickly move down the stairs
The vice-president turns around briefly
As he's headed down
Expense was being evacuated
Riders started to spread
Throughout the capital
Those inside help other Riders breaking through doors and several locations
Round this entire building
And the mob was looking for vice president Pence
Because
Of his patriotism
Because the vice president had refused to do what the president demand
And overturn the election results
During the assault on the capital
Extremist reportedly coordinated online
And discuss how they could hunt down
The vice president
Journalists in the capital reported they heard Rider say
They were looking for pence in order to execute him
Trump supporters
How to record a Gallows on the lawn
In front
Of the Capitol building
Another group of riders chanted
Hang Mike Pence
As a student open door of the Capitol building
You can hear the security alarm
From the door in the background
And you can hear the mob
Calling for the death
Of the Vice President of the United States
This wasn't an isolated area or incident where that was being told where that was being said
It was going on everywhere
Here's another example of the crowd outside yelling
Bring out Pence
Bring them out
After president
Trump
Had primed his followers
4 months
And inflamed the rally-goers that morning
It is no wonder
That the vice president of the United States with the target of their Wrath
After Pence refused to overturn the election results
Listen to this man
Explain
Address to the coward inside and wear emergency
Is the fear of the people can't do the right thing
Reply. She's a total treasonous Pig and his name will be Bud forever
Now the real battle begin and it looks like American people are very pissed
So good luck with that peace out
Peace out
Several inch insurrectionist describe what they had planned to do
If they encountered the vice president or other lawmakers
One of them
Dominic pizzola also known as spaz is a member of The Proud boys as we discuss
Zola came to the capital on January 6th with deadly intentions
He commandeered a Capitol Police Shield
Use the to smash a glass window
Enter the capital and pave the way for dozens of insurrectionists
As you recall from an earlier video
Bozzolo was one of the first wave of rioters to breach the building
On the left
You can see a screenshot from the video of the break-in we showed earlier
And on the right
You can see pizzola in the mob
Chase Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman through the building
Fazoli's the man in the center of the photo
With the Gray beard
Missoula has since been charged
With eight federal crimes for his conduct related to January 6th
According to an FBI agent's affidavit submitted to the court
The group that was with him during the sack of the capital confirmed that they were out to murder quote
Anyone got their hands on
Here's what the FBI said
And I quote
Other members of the group talked about things they had done that day
And they said that anyone that got their hands on
They would have killed
Including Nancy Pelosi
I'm a quote
They would have killed vice president Mike Pence
If given the chance
They were talking about assassinating
The vice president of the United States
During the course of the attack
The vice-president never left the capital
Remain lockdown with his family
With his family
Inside the building
Remember that
Is he think about these images in the sounds of the attack
The vice president
Our second-in-command
Was always at the center of it
Vice president Pence was threatened with death
By the president's supporters because he rejected
President Trump's demand
But he overturn the election
The mob also went after Speaker of the House
Who alongside the vice-president was providing over the joint session of the certification
In the house chamber
The chilling evidence shows that on January 6th
Armed and organized insurrectionist
Train their sights on speaker Pelosi
They sought out the speaker on the floor
And in her office
Publicly declared their intent to harm or kill her
Ransacked her office and terrorized her staff
And they didn't
Because Donald Trump sent them on this mission
As we insurrectionist got closer
Capitol Police Rush the speaker from the house floor at 2:15 p.m.
Mere minutes after the capital was first breach
They recognized immediately
But she was in danger
The speaker was not just rushed from the floor
The Capitol Police
Deem the threat so dangerous that they evacuated her entirely
From the capitol complex
Rushing her to a secure off-site location
The insurrectionists intent to murder the Speaker of the House
Is well-documented in charging documents that are now available
We know from the Riders themselves
But if they had found
Speaker Pelosi
They would have killed her
I've already discussed proud boys member Dominic pezzola
Who has since been charged with eight federal crimes for his conduct on January 6th
As you will recall according to the FBI agent's affidavit submitted to the court
The group he attacked the capital with confirm that quote
Anyone they got their hands on
They would have killed
Including Nancy Pelosi
William Calhoun
A lawyer
From Georgia
Also participated in the Insurrection that day
And he too has been charged for his actions
This insurrectionist detailed his criminal activity at the capital online
Calhoun wrote about his involvement on his own Facebook page
Here's the post
Calhoun stated quote
And get this
The first of us who got upstairs
Kicked in Nancy Pelosi's office door and push down the Halls towards her inner Sanctum
Howling with rage
Crazy Nancy probably would have been torn into little pieces but she was nowhere to be seen
Crazy Nancy
That's Trump's nickname for the Speaker of the House
Then he explains that he and his group
Only abandon their claim to the speaker's office when quote
A SWAT team showed up
He writes quote
Dallas SWAT team showed at we retreated back
To the Rotunda and continued our hostile takeover of the Capitol building
Retreated
Hostile takeover
Confusing military terms for this attack
The mob continued to look for speaker Pelosi throughout the time that occupied the capital
Including invading her offices
Watch now how the mob searches
For speaker Pelosi's office which is marked in red and the house chamber itself
What are you doing looking for you
During The Siege
The speaker's staff
Took cover in her office
Hiding in fear for their lives four hours
His rioters broke in
And ransacked her office
As the Riders were breaking into the capitol
Christophe retreated into an interior room
Eight of them gathered in a conference room
About the same time Capitol Police announced the capital have been breached
Speaker Pelosi staff
Heeded the call to shelter in place
On our model you can see the riders in the Rotunda in red
And the speaker's office again in Orange
So this is a security video so there is no sound
As you can see here the staff moves from their offices through the Halls
And then enters a door on the right hand side
That's the outer door of a conference room
Which also has an inner door
That they barricaded with furniture
The staff been hid under a conference room table
In that in a room
This is the last staffer
Going in
And then barricading themselves
Inside of the interoffice
After just seven minutes of them barricading themselves
And the last after entering the door on the right
A group of riders enter the hallway outside
And once inside
The Riders have
Free reign in the speaker of the house is offices
Invista curio video
Pay attention to the door that we saw those staffers leading into and going into
One of the Riders you can see
Is throwing him spotty against the door 3 times until he breaks open that outer door
Luckily when faced with the energy or he moves on
Another Rider later tried
Unsuccessfully
To break through that energy or
At this point the mob had already broken into the speakers formal conference room that is in the back
At the hall
At the top of the video
I want to play some audio we have of the speaker staff
With the Riders at the door that day
You can hear the terror in their voice
As they describe what's happening to them
As they are barricaded in that conference room
Please listen carefully
Because the staffers Whispering into a phone
If a hive from the Riders
Bitter outside the door
You can hear the pounding
In the background
Is that Stafford speaking
One of those staffers explain later that they could hear the mob going through her offices breaking down the door
And yelling
Where are you now antsy
The mob also pillage and vandalize the speaker's office
I documented their crimes on social media
They stole objects
Desecrated the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States
As you can see in these photos
Riders break down a door
They also shattered a mirror
At 2:50 p.m. sober Riders including Richard big old Barnett
Entered speaker Pelosi's office
The world is all all now too familiar with the images from the slides
If you look closely however at the now-infamous pictures of Barnett
With his feet on the desk you might see something that you didn't notice previously
Here's a better luck
At this photo highlights he's carrying a stun gun
Tucked into his waistband
BFB identify the device
As a 950000 volt stun gun walking stick
The weapon could cause serious pain
An incapacitated anyone Barnett have used it against
Richard Barnett bragged about his actions
He was proud of the way he desecrated the Speaker of The house's office
He left a note
We will not back down
Here's Barnett in his own words
You Got It Bad on it
Amazing man I couldn't f****** see and so I figure well I'm in her office I got Pledger office
And I left her and her dad
Here you did
Trump's mob
Ransacked the Speaker of The house's office
They terrorized
Her staff
Again
That is a mom
It was sent by the president of the United States
To stop desertification
Of an election
The vice president
The Speaker of the House
The first and second in line to the presidency
We're performing there
Constitutional duties
Presiding over the election certification
And they were putting Danger
Because President Trump
Put his own desires
His own need for power
Over kids Duty
To the Constitution
And our Democratic process
President-trump
Target on their backs
And his mob broke into the capitol
Hunt them
Down
Shortly after 2 p.m.
The Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police
We're overwhelmed
By President Trump's mob
Perimeters were broken
The capital
Have been breached
Those officers kept fighting back for hours and hours to hold the line
They fought to defend the Capitol building
And all of us within it
But they weren't there just to protect us
I made it
And our staff
Custodial staff
All the people who work so hard in this building
They were there
Protect
The votes of the American people that were being counted that day
I will show you more later about what that day was like for those Brave officers
But first
Let's go back to what was happening or manager Plaskett left off in the house chamber
Riders would enter the building through the Senate
Quickly spread out through the capital
Many headed towards the House and Senate chambers
After speaker Pelosi was ushered out
Chairman McGovern was presiding in the house
Attempting to cheat the counting process going
Honor phones
Members were receiving security updates
And watching social media to see the horror that was going on outside
We never thought it would make its way in
By 2:25 p.m.
Writers who were already in the building
Open the east side doors of the Capitol Rotunda
To let more of the mob in
They quickly flooded through the doors
Overwhelming the officers
This is new security footage of those doors
And as before the mob is identified with the Red Dot on the model of the capitol
If you look closely you'll see the first person through the door
It's holding a trump flag
At the same time
Just one floor below
The mob finally pushed through a line of Capitol police officers
And overtook the area
We all know that area and the capitals decrypt
This is directly beneath the Rotonda
At the very center of the capital
Inside the house chamber a security officer suspended the floor debate update members
We were told they would tear gas masks
Underneath our seats and be prepared to grab them
Determined to keep the count going Sherman the Govern called the house back into session
But only four minutes later at 2:30 p.m.
The house abruptly recessed
A new security announcement was made
Get down under your chairs if necessary
So we have folks entering the Rotunda and coming down this way so we'll update you as soon as we can but just be for
Impaired
Cuz I heard that announcement on the floor
I saw the new house chaplain
I'm just her fourth day on the job
Walk to the front podium
Unannounced and amidst the chaos
She started to recite a prayer for peace
Uncertain what would happen next
I sent a text message to my wife
I love you and the babies
Please hug them for me
I imagine many of you sent a similar message
What we cannot see from inside the chamber
Was that outside the mob was growing larger and larger
Approaching our doors
But we could hear them
The security footage
Which does not have sound shows a close-up of Trump's mob as they move toward the second floor of the house
Chamber
To stop the counting of votes
In the back of a group uc-1
Individual carrying a stop the steel sign
Budget within footsteps of the house tour
The next video is the Viewpoint of the insurrectionists
It begins with the mob amassing and then Cuts ahead to show you their surge
Tobacco store
Those doors to orient you at home
Are the doors at the president United States walkthrough
When he or she
Give the State of the Union Address
You may have heard one man yelled
No violence
And another responded
Too late for that
They don't listen without that
They were there to stop the certification of the election
At this point inside the house chamber we can now hear
The pounding on the doors
At 2:35 p.m.
Members on the house floor were told an evacuation route was secured
It was time to leave
This video shows members of Congress exiting to the side of the podium
Where we would go to the house Lobby
I'm downstairs
Because of coronavirus restrictions
Congressional members have been waiting in the gallery for their time to speak just one level above
The house floor
Representatives staff
Journalist Alta cover under their chairs
Help each other put on their gas masks
And held hands
Is Ryder's got it outside
Here in this slide you see representative Jason Crow comforting our colleague representative Susan Wild
The writers continue to surround the house chamber
Flooding the Halls
And kicking on the doors if they pass them
This security video
Shows Ashley Babbitt
Followed by others in the mob
Turning the corner toward the house Lobby doors for the members were leaving
Turn on McGovern was one of the last members to leave the floor
As you left to the house Lobby just after 2:40 p.m.
He was spotted by the mom
Minutes later at 2:44 p.m.
Ashley Bobbitt attempted to climb through a shattered window
Into the house Lobby
To protect the members in the lobby
An officer discharged his weapon
She was killed
I want to warn everyone that the next video
What shows her death
It's graphics
Inside the chamber
Representatives
Staff and journalists
Remain trapped in the gallery
One floor above the house floor
And heard the gunshot
My colleague representative Dan kildee
Produce this recording
Out of fear that they be seen
Or taken by the mob
My colleagues were telling each other to take off their Congressional pins
That buzzing sound that you hear in the background of these videos
What's the sound of the gas masks
It was not until approximately 2:50 p.m.
About 6 minutes after the shooting
Downstairs remaining members staff and journalist
In the gallery
We're finally able to sleep
And the security footage video
You can see them exiting
Many members are still wearing their gas masks
They walk just feet away from where Capitol Police are holding an insurrectionist at gunpoint
Just minutes earlier that insurrectionist
I tried to open the gallery door
And thankfully was stopped
Spike Tactical Team
Although members were now being moved to another location
The mob continue to fight
Stop the count to find the members to engage with the police
The building was not yet secure
This security video from 2:56 p.m. shows the mob in the House of Representatives wing on the second floor of the cat
Capital
Insurrectionist you are still inside the building
Are fighting with the police
You're overwhelmed and trying to get them out
Rapids presentation we have been very careful to not share
Where members of Congress were taken on the paths they followed
To get out
Turn off the floors
But that very issue was under discussion by the insurrectionist themselves
One example comes from an FBI affidavit
Which stated that a leader of a militia group known as The Oath Keepers receive messages while he was at the Capitol
The leader was given directions to where representatives were thought to be Sheltering
And instructions to quote
Turn on gas
Seal them in
And as you know the threat to the Senate was no less
And that of the members of the House
The mob approach the Senate with the same purpose
Fulfilling President Trump's goal
Stopping the count
Delaine desertification of the Electoral College votes
Of the American people
Is you heard from Andrew Plaskett
Vice president Pence was moved away from the area near the Senate chamber
Around 2:25 p.m.
By that time
Riders had breached several areas close to this chamber
And they were flooding the hallways just outside in nearby
The Senate chamber was not evacuated until 2:30 p.m.
The mob have been in the building for more than 15 minutes
This new security footage of the Senators and staff leaving the chamber
Will be displayed on the screens
It is silent
You cannot see it in this footage
Quick thinking
Senate floor staff
Grabbed and protected
The Electoral ballots
But the mob is after
Those of you who were here that day will recall
That once you left the senate floor
You moved through the hallway to get to safety
The hallway was mirror officer Goodman had encountered a mob and let them upstairs and away from the Sun
Chamber
You know how close you came to the Mob
Some of you I understand could hear them
But most of the public
Does not know
How close
These Riders
Came to you
As you were moving through that hallway
I paced It Off
You were just
58 steps away
From where the mob was amassing and where police were rushing to stop them
They're yelling
I miss security video you can see how the Capitol Police created a line and block the hallway with their bodies
Prevent Riders at the end of the hall from reaching you and your staff
Because this is security footage that you have not seen before
I'll play it again
The top of the screen
Steeler into the hallway where the mob is a mast
The officers
Are rushing to
Protect you
Additional security footage shows how leader Schumer
And the members of his protective detail
Had a near miss with the mob
They came within just yards of riders and had to turn around
Here in this new video you see leader Schumer
Walking up a ramp
Going up the ramp with this detail he'll soon go out of view
Seconds later they return and run back down the hallway and officers immediately shut the door
And use their bodies to keep them safe
At 2:45 p.m. shortly after senators were ushered to safety from the senate floor
Insurrectionist
Reach This Senate gallery
The following video was filmed by a New York reporter
Minutes later
The insurrectionist invaded and desecrated the senate floor
These vandals shouted
And rifle through the desks in this room
They took pictures of documents and of themselves
Celebrating that they had taken over the floor and stop the counting of Electoral College votes
Objection to the Arizona
Larry Brock who was arrested for his role in the insurrection
Was photographed on the senate floor
Wearing a helmet
Tactical gear and carrying Flex cuffs
BisMan
Also in the Senate Gallery is Eric Michelle
Like Brock he was dressed in what appears to be tactical gear
Also
Holding up Flex cuffs
If the doors to this chamber had been breached just minutes
Earlier
Imagine
What they could have done
Put those cuffs
After insurrectionist occupied the capital and stop the joint session from counting the votes
The capital was in lockdown
For 5 hours
As long as it took to get back
To the capital to get back to the certification of the election it could have been so much longer
Or
We might not finish we might not been able to have resumed at all
As horrific as it was
140 officers injured
3 oz four officers who ultimately lost their lives
We all know that awful day
Could have been so much worse
The only reason it was not
Was because of the extraordinary bravery of the men and women
Of the Capitol Police
And the metropolitan police departments
For hours and hours
These insurrectionists
Or in hand-to-hand combat
What these brave men and women
Like some of you
I come from a law enforcement family
My dad was a cop
My two brothers
My little brothers are cops who walk the beat today
I'm proud of them
And liking every law enforcement family
Let me hang up the phone
We'd only say I love you
We say
Be safe
So let's focus now on the attack and what it was like for the officers defending the capital that day
Again I want to warn you that the following audio and videos
Are graphic
And are unsettling
But it's important that we understand
The extent of what occurred
Here's an audio recording from the radio traffic of the DC metropolitan police department describing the violence
I need a real
You're the officer described their using ignitions they
The Riders are using the missions against us
This video shows
How the sprays that were described were used against the officers
And separate Metropolitan Police Department radio traffic recording you can hear an officer when he realizes
At the insurrectionist
Had overtaken the police line
Albany
Cmpd officer calls out 1033 that's the code for emergency
Officer in need of assistance
His words
We've lost the line
Hours after members of the House and Senate
Had left this area
On the west front of the building the mob continued to grow
Continue to beat the officers
As they tried to get in
And this new security video you can see the mob attacking officers
With a crutch
A hockey stick
A bullhorn
A trump flag
I want to show you that same attack
From the officer's perspective
From his body camera footage
This body camera footage is from 4:27 p.m.
Over 2 hours from when the capital was first breached
The attack on police that afternoon
Wisconsin
Metropolitan police officer Michael fanone
A 20-year police veteran with four daughters
What part of a line of officers
Protecting the capital
He was one of three officers
Set the mob dragged down the stairs
When they dragged him
They stole his badge
His Radio
Is ammunition magazine
And they taste him
Triggering a heart attack
Here he describes his experience
Looks like a medieval battle scene there's someone most brutal combat and I've ever ever encounter
The one point I got teased people were yelling out here we got one we got one
Officer Christina Lowry
Who regularly serves in mpd's Narcotics and specialized investigation division also protected
The front Capital entrance
Piercer experience
I can't say enough about the officers that were there the officers that were on the front line and when I say the
Frontline I mean literally officers that were in a line stopping these people that were beating them with met
Metal poles they were spraying them with bear maze I mean they did everything in their power to not let those people in
And this was going on for hours
Around 4:30 p.m.
Hours into the capital riots
Officer Daniel Hodges was protecting a Westside Capital entrance
When rioters who were trying to stop desertification
Trapped in between two doors
One officer Hodges was interviewed later
This is how we describe it was happening
Knock down the
Got pulled up over my eyes so I was on the ground and blinded and they started attacking
Riders crushed officer Hodges
He was wedged in the doorway
Blood dripping from his mouth
Struggling to breathe
All while the instruction is hit him
Officer Hodges experience reminds me of what he and many other officers experience that day
What they went through
We're also reminded of the three officers
Who lost their lives
Capitol Hill police officers
Picnic
Leaving good
A metropolitan police officer Smith
How many law-enforcement families
We pray for our loved ones
And we know the scripture of Matthew
Chapter 5 verse 9
Blessed
Are the peacemakers
For they shall be called
The children of God
I'm sorry I have to show you the next video
Put in it you will see how blessed we were that on that hellish day
We had a peacemaker
Like officer Hodges
Protecting our lives our staffs lives
This
Capital
And a certification process
May we do all we can
In this chamber
To make sure
That never happens again
Mr. president will now have a recess for dinner and will resume at 6:15
He said it will stand in recess
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Their arguments legal arguments laid out today over the past
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And then they will continue on
Is unclear if the house impeachment managers will use their entire 8 hours today but they can do so
And then they will convene tomorrow morning tomorrow noon Eastern Time
4 day to another 8 hours to lay out their case against the former president after that
We will hear from the presidents lawyers
Former presidents lawyers will make their case and they will have two days to a tower sessions
To make their defense of the former president
It will then be followed by questions from the Senators
As well as a consideration of calling Witnesses
And then finally closing arguments after that we'll take a vote on whether to acquit
Or convict
We want to show you a little bit
Of the argument made
Just in this last session
From house managers
From Stacey Plaskett the delegate from the Virgin Islands age 54
Here's part of the argument that she made while we wait for your calls
As the Riders reach the top of the stairs
They were within 100 ft
Aware the vice-president was Sheltering with his family
And they were just feet away from one of the doors
To this chamber
Where many of you remained at that time
I also want to show you a different angle
From the security field footage of Officer Goodman sacks
This video is on the second floor of the Senate wing of the capitol
The red. As you recall represents the insurrectionist
The blue. Is Officer Goodman
Who led the mob away from the chamber
Just minutes earlier
On the left-hand side of the video just inside the hallway is the door to the Senate chamber
And watch her officer Goodman provokes the Riders and purposefully draws them away from the door to the Sea
Senate chamber
And towards the other officers waiting down the hall
The Wider seen carrying a baseball bat
In this video is the same one we saw moments ago
Breaching the window
On the first floor
While all of this was going on
Vice president Pence
Was still in the room near the Senate chamber
It was not until 2:26
But he was evacuated to a secure location
This next security video shows that evacuation
His movements are depicted by the orange. In our model
The red and blue dots represents the location where the mob and officer Goodman work
And we're officer Goodman led the mop away from the chamber
Just moments ago
You can see vice president Pence and his family quickly move down the stairs
The vice-president turns around briefly
As he's headed down
Expense
Was being evacuated
Riders started to spread
Throughout the capital
Who's inside help other Riders break in through doors in several locations
Around this entire building
And the mob was looking for vice president Pence
Because of his patriotism
Because the vice president had refused to do what the president demand and over
Turn the election results
During the assault on the capital
Extremist reportedly coordinated online
And discuss
How they could hunt down
The vice president
Journalists in the capital reported they heard ridersafe
Big we're looking for pants in order to execute him
Trump supporters
Had erected a Gallows on the lawn
In front of the Capitol building
Another group of riders chanted
Hang Mike Pence
As a student open tour of the Capitol building
You can hear the security alarm from the door in the background and you can hear the mob
Calling for the death
Of the Vice President of the United States
This wasn't an isolated area or incident where that was being told where that was being said
It was going on everywhere
Here's another example of the crowd outside yelling
Bring out Pence
Bring them out
After president
Trump
Had primed his followers
4 months
And inflamed the rally-goers that morning
It is no wonder
That the vice president of the United States with the target of their Wrath
After Pence refused to overturn the election results
Listen to this man
Explain
Congress to the cowards hidden inside and wear emergency
The fear of the people can't do the right thing
Plaid dress is a total treasonous Pig and his name will be Bud forever
Now the real battle begin and it looks like American people are very pissed
So good luck with that peace out
Peace out
Several inch insurrectionist describe what they had planned to do
If they encountered the vice president or other lawmakers
One of them
Dominick pezzulo
Also known as spaz is a member of The Proud boys as we discuss
Zola came to the capital on January 6th with deadly intentions
He commandeered a Capitol Police Shield
Use the to smash a glass window
Enter the capital and pave the way for dozens of insurrectionists
As you recall from an earlier video
Zola was one of the first wave of riders to breach the building
On the left you can see a screenshot from the video of the break-in we showed earlier
And on the right
You can see pizzola in the mob
Chase Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman through the building
Fazoli's the man in the center of the photo
With the Gray beard
Missoula has since been charged with eight federal crimes for his conduct related to January
6
According to an FBI agent's affidavit submitted to the court
The group that was with him during the sack of the capital confirm that they were out to murder quote
Anyone they got their hands on
Here's what the FBI said
And I quote
Other members of the group talked about things they had done that day
And they said that anyone that got their hands on
They would have killed
Including Nancy Pelosi
I'm a quote
They would have killed vice president Mike Pence
If given the chance
They were talking about
Fascinating
The vice president of the United States
During the course of the attack
The vice-president never left the capital
Remain lockdown with his family
With his family inside the building
Remember that
Is he think about these images in the sounds of the attack
The vice president
Our second-in-command
Was always at the center of it
Vice president Pence
Threatened with death
By the president's supporters because he rejected
President Trump's demand
But he overturn the election
See how I don't pass it on the senate floor earlier today now Lisa murkowski at the mic stock
The reporters let's listen and another on that but this whole
This full Vince laid out the
I just I don't see how Donald Trump could be
Re-elected to the presidency again I just don't say that
Under no pressure or are you from your leadership
Absolutely absolutely
Alaska Republican Lisa murkowski they're talking to reporters during this dinner break
Of the second day of the impeachment trial against President Trump now Lisa murkowski voting yesterday along with five
Other
Republicans
To say Anna vote 56 to 44 that this trial could move forward she voted that it was
Constitutional to move forward she joined Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana Susan Colin
Photos of Maine that Romney of Utah Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania 6
Voting to move forward and so you had today the house impeachment managers
Their first day laying out their legal argument we want to know what you heard
From them today Carol and Louisville Kentucky Democratic color you're up first Carol go ahead
I guess J
If this man is not
Impeached
It would be a disgrace to this country
What
Because I'm an older woman I have never seen anything like this
In my life
When are loose
You wish the other one well you take it as it is and you just keep going as a country
This man is dangerous
He's not well
Mentally I don't feel
I and he is just
He's a wannabe dictator to me Carol have you been watching the arguments today
Yes I have and what what has stuck out to you what it what has really made you
Have the thought that you are having that he needs to be
Convicted and not
And barred from running for office again
Well
Play just seeing
The things
The trial today they're just asking so much
Best led up to it
I'm all the things that he's done throughout his time but
Allowed this to happen and other things
It just
I just never seen it before her a Carolyn house the house managers today
Including just in this last portion
Showed it to all of you and those Senators sitting in that room
New surveillance video taken from inside the capitol on that day on January 6th
Video that had not been seen before
We want to get your thoughts on that as well today Carl in Maricopa Arizona Republican
Carl go ahead
Yes thank you for taking my call
I do want to say I am a republican I mean I thought Republican
Jimmy Carter
Beaufort
Pops in December but I am I am so
Subset
@mr Trump
The reason why was really convincing and what we saw today
Then when you see those Jello that they really wanted to assassinate
United States
My cats
Injustice
So you have to go through he has family for protection here is vice president United States
So loyal
And here he's trying to do the right thing she's trying to do what the Constitution
And hear you
The right thing and I feel like Richard Trump
He basically.
He's just doing his own thing you just thinking about himself
I would I would vote for impeachment if I was a Republican senator Bill question and parts
Why because he should never ever be allowed a federal office based on how he has cheated
Vice president Mike Pence and you know the residents just start
At that speed before they storm the capital it started
AllHipHop
I'm a socialist country or communist country
CCC
Ecchymotic
Again suppose because all that took place the past voted for the president in November
Did you vote for him in 2016 as well
Ultratech to cuz I really like to reply to her
Vice president candidates
Carly fiorina
In the election general election I voted for Ted Cruz again which is a write-in ballot
Set reservations about President Trump back in 2016
Is my wife a die-hard Republican and I wanted Unity of Family Dining
Okay and Arizona Maribel in Bronx
New York independent your turn
Have you been watching all day
I like to watch it all day and I have to say that the
Impeachment managers and done such a great job laying out the timeline now I like many other people have
I've been home for months because of the coronavirus and I went from being like not too political
Not really voting all the time to having all of this time on my hands and
Just watching daily briefings from the president not matching up with my own research
And see that they were lying to the public and rewriting history
Real-time it was extremely disturbing so I speak
Documenting all of this tweets and interviews and everything because I thought my God if he's blind
Presidency this is des will be wiped from history and no one will know what really happened
He really quietly having a freak out attack and then and documenting everything and I'm when
January 6th happen in a way I was relieved because it was sort of validation that my fears of house
Where was heading you know they were validated so
Was that the Democrats were going to try to drop the ball
And let him get away with it and I'm just glad that picture pretty such a concise and clear
Easy-to-follow timeline of what's going on in and I can't imagine
Scene.
And not voting to to convict you mention the house managers
We've heard from eight of the nine
What who do you think has made the most compelling case of them
Circle I've been watching I killed her name is she's from the Virgin Islands
Stacey Stacey Plaskett we just heard from a couple of times today but just heard from you I think she
I love the way she delivered and she just has this reality to her she's like a queen
I was most impressed with her
Her presentation
Okay alright Stadium free who covers Washington DC tweets this out
4 things we learned today speaker Pelosi was evacuated entirely from the capitol complex
Officer Goodman may have saved Mitt Romney's life
The majority leader Schumer and his security detail had to run from rioters
And the vice president Pence withhold holdup
Just off the senate floor with attackers
In the Halls those are for
Things new today revealed by the house impeachment managers
Let's listen to Eric swalwell Democrat
One of the impeachment managers talking about that moment
With the then minority leader now majority leader
Chuck Schumer
The mob have been in the building for more than 15 minutes
This new security footage of the Senators and staff leaving the chamber
Will be displayed on the screens
Ellis Island
You cannot see it in this footage
Quick thinking
Senate floor staff
Grabbed and protected
The Electoral ballots
But the mob is after
Those of you who were here that day will recall
That once you left the senate floor you move through a hallway to get to safety
The hallway
Was mirror officer Goodman had encountered a mob and let them upstairs and away from the Senate chamber
You know how close you came to the Mob
Some of you I understand could hear them
But most of the public
Does not know how close these Riders
Came to you
As you were moving through that hallway
I paced It Off
You were just 58 steps away
From where the mob was amassing and where police were rushing to stop them
They're yelling
And this security video you can see how the Capitol Police created a line and block the hallway with their bodies
To prevent Riders at the end of the hall from reaching you and your staff
Because this is security footage that you have not seen before
On Play It Again
The top of the screen
The other end of the hallway with the mob is a mast
And the officers
Are rushing to
Protect you
Additional security footage shows how leader Schumer
And the members of his protective detail
Had a near miss with the mob
They came within just yards of riders
And had to turn around
Here in this new video ushilo leader Schumer
Walking up a ramp
Going up the ramp with this detail he'll soon go out of you
What's listen to Majority Leader took sure where he's at the microphones
And my situation I just want to give tremendous credit to the Capitol Police office
Sisters who were in my detail like the rest of the Capitol police officers they are utterly amazing and great and Lila
Majority Leader they're reacting to the video that you all were just watching the replay of new
New surveillance footage made public today during the second day of the impeachment trial
You heard Eric swalwell one of the house managers unveiling that
Capitol footage Capital surveillance footage he's 40 years old elected in 2012 in a day
Democrat from
California
And you just saw the majority leader thanking the police and his security detail for that day we're asking all of you
Your reaction to what you heard from the house managers we've yet to hear from the presidents lawyers we will do so
In a couple of days and they will get the same amount of time
The house managers get to present their case but what have you heard today
And what have you make of it Jelani in Southfield Michigan Democratic color go ahead
Just want to say thank you to take my call I was watching the impeachment trial last year and I tried to call and didn't get
Unfortunately we're at this position yet again
Will my good friends he's really good seats historian I really like his but he said and he said if I'm starting to run out
Quotes and relevance has irrelevancies in history we have a
Problem and it's very scary to think that in my very first 20 years that we've had a president who has tried to overthrow look up
Who has tried to corrupt another another government in Ukraine to influence Arden
2020election and then try and get away with it like it's a free republic
Guillermo duty to convict Trump there's no way he can get away with this
Without
Corrupting the system of America
Chilling what what do you think today was the most powerful piece
Of evidence
I can't remember her name.
Delegate from the Virgin Islands
She hasn't streamlining all the all of the everything that we've seen throughout their January 6th riots
Everything that's been leading up from all the house managers really bad and I believe one of these senator
Building a case against Trump brick-by-brick which I cannot find it
He let this Riot he they are proving how this affected everybody
I could not be better more crowd of Democrats at the moment
Alright Priscilla in McAllen Texas Priscilla what do you think
Priscilla good evening what do you think
It's been quite a day hasn't voted for McCain
Like the party of GOP is changing the party is Trump
It's unfortunate to see personal loyalty
As such a requirement
In this day and age
Shocking to see
A Gallows elected it's been shocking to see
Officers risking their lives for elected officials doing their job
It's been a very difficult
Period of time for all of us I think
Time when we were more dogs with our neighbors and
Evidence speaks for itself
And how did you vote in November
In November that voted against Trump
Because
Because I felt that his
Party
But no longer
Timing for any principle other than Trump
Cuz I felt it
The American people need to stand for America not for a king
How did you vote in 2016
2016 I didn't vote
And I regret it
Priscilla what would be your message to Senators who've been sitting in that chamber today listening
To be evidence
But the American people care about America
They care about their well-being
That
American people are people
Just like the Senators our families and lives
And that we see that they were at risk for doing a job
Put it rescuing around jobs
Especially during a pandemic
Do your job
Don't let this person put us in danger again
Priscilla you would want them to convict the president
And then
Bar him from running for office again
I would wish them to Bar him from office
Any other penalty that needs to be adjudicated in a different Court perhaps
Certainly this person
Needs to be barred from office
A Peterson self
And those are two
Separate actions according to the Washington Post now when this is all
Sitting down at the end they'll heal
Do you they will hear closing arguments and it'll take a two-thirds majority of the Senate to convict
The former president
If they do so
Then they would take a vote unbarring
The former president from future
Federal office in that would be a simple majority meeting 51 votes
Are needed so here is the
Schedule
We heard from the house managers today they have a couple of hours or more remaining in their first eight
Hours tomorrow they will get another eight hours for a total of 16 and then you will hear from the
The pret the former presidents lawyers they will get their turn
Friday and Saturday
8 hours each day to make their case to finding
Mr. Trump and then on Sunday we expect the Senators to get to ask questions of the lawyers
And then it'll turn to whether or not they want to call witnesses that will be a vote
From reporting today in Washington
Seemed both parties
Are reluctant to call witnesses then we could see closing arguments early next week
Followed by
That vote on whether to convict or quit
Fill in Kansas City Missouri is a republican Phil
What is the makeup today how did what did you make of today's evidence
Well I'm kind of old school
I seen a lot of stuff going on
Last year and two and
I just I just can't believe what's going on
What's up mister sister Trump
I can talk now
Slashfilm this year I go to for Trump and
Election
I did not vote for Trump because
Because of the personal and the person that
Three times if I remember right in the past to represent United States of America
I asked you do you think the president is guilty of inciting violence
Course I do
Why
Keep my mouth shut on that
Okay
Charges the government
That's like treason
I should be off a little bit all that but that's how I feel
Doing what I seen on TV and what
California
I was just appalled what I seen in this country in the separation and what
Queen has done
To us go on to Stephen who's in Kernersville North Carolina Democratic color
Steven
Thank you for taking my call
I was listening to the past couple calls and Priscilla especially kind of move me
Cuz we
I feel like she
Submachine sentimentals I would like to say that to me
Divided
And
The reason for that is because the racism massaging me
Homophobia xenophobia has always been
On the back burner
And there were certain things you couldn't stay until a present such as Donald Trump
Came into office
And he has
He was elected and
Now it's as though the Cowboys and the
Steelstacks this feels that needs to be filled gratification
Sounds grandora being backed by the highest person that landed the country
And so they ran with it
They lost and they lost
Not once but twice
This is not their first loss this is their second or third
And they're not willing to deal with that okay with that
Let me get your reaction to Scott Wong reporter on Capitol Hill
Foothill newspaper tweeting out this summer Republican Senators say they were moved by the video presentation
Here is Senator John thune Republican of South Dakota who's in the leadership for the Republicans
MP3 Meadows Footwear very effective they had a strong strong presentation put together in a way that I think makes it very
Compelling I think they've done a good job connecting the dots
Stephen what do you think
I think that's a good sentiment but that is from one senator from not mistaken and do we need
I think we need two-thirds majority to actually impeach and make a difference
Exactly so that's a good first step
For the other
49
Republican Senators who are willing to turn the blinds
Horrible crimes of inciting violence
The highest position in the offensive
The world
To act as it is though
This is Norm This Is The New Normal
This is not normal I've been alive for 40-plus years now
And I've seen Republicans Or democrats
Never been normal
To actually incite violence
Because you're
You have a deficiency in your mental capacity to be able to deal with losing
Alright that's what this boils down to you need 2/3 you need 67
7 senators
That would mean 17 Republicans have to vote with all 50 Democrats to convicted former president
Ucv test most one of them yesterday on the question of constitutionality
You did not have enough Republicans side with Democrats on that question you got enough then
Democrats had enough
To move forward with these proceedings
But it does not seem that they would have enough
Two convicted
Now one of the Senators who is open to voting
Two convicted former president is Utah Republican Mitt Romney want to show you
From Stacey Plaskett presentation today the moment where she talks about
How Capitol Police
And the law enforcement on Capitol Hill
Saved his life and others
At approximately 2:13 p.m.
Just one floor up
While Senator Lankford was speaking on the senate floor
Senator Grassley
Who had taken over for vice president Pence
Called an unscheduled immediate recess of the Senate
A senate aide approach Senator Langford and informed him that the capital have been breached
Senator Grassley is immediately escorted out of the Senate chamber
Thank you
Now all this was going on
Officer Eugene Goodman
Responded to the initial breach
You all may have seen footage of Officer Goodman previously
But there's more to his heroic story
Envista security footage
You can see officer Goodman
Running to respond to the initial breach
Officer Goodman
Passes
Senator Mitt Romney
And direct him to turn around
In order to get to safety
On the first floor
Just beneath them the mob had already started to search
For the Senate chamber
Officer Goodman made his way down to the first floor
Where he encountered the same insurrectionist we just saw
Watch breach the capital
After seeing that video Mitt Romney told reporters that he had not seen it before and he said
About officer Goodman quote no I did not know that was officer Goodman but I look forward to thanking when I next see him
I was very fortunate indeed that officer Goodman was there to get me
In the right direction
That was new video shown in today's proceedings
Now you can watch that video and all the other video If you go to a website C-SPAN. Org
Watch / impeachment you can watch
Anytime on demand
All of the impeachment proceedings
Back to your calls Steven in st. Lake st. Louis Missouri Independence Stephen have you been watching today
I have all day yes and what have you been thinking
Honestly the there to Chi things that come to mind of the first and foremost but it's insane that we need
The future of accountability for the executive depends on finding 17 Republicans who are will
Going to Uncle Darrow's and instead of
Chief Keef Chief
People need to know about this isn't the wind the Senators go in for the impeachment the first thing to do is it take to be an impark
And
Reports 20 minutes ago which prompted me to call in which said that there were reports of Republicans
Core doodling and sitting with their feet up not paying attention all basically just being present
How is that being impartial juror
The other thing that's really stood out to me has just spins
Really the terror of how close we were to losing our Republic
We were
What are you saying 50 at steps away. He was swallowed and said 58 steps away from the mob catching up to
Keep on we could have ended up with a lot of assassinated Representatives that is
It's pure Insanity again that we have a group of people who call themselves Patriots
And yet
Are willing to go and kill our elected officials
How can they call themselves Patriots if they want to subvert democracy
Steven why should
In your opinion
They
How should they rule these Senators do you think
And why
The reason being that if
It seems very clear to me from what the impeachment managers of duck laid out that
Compass guilty of incitement sub between everything they've done up to
January 6th and then the speech you gave on January 6th what he gave his one little kitten towards
People protest in his 1000 Samad word speech
Read the transcript if you haven't this great people
He absolutely incited this Insurrection is Attack on the capital they have to do it because if this isn't it
Impeachable offense nothing is
Who do you think has made
One of the more compelling arguments today of all the house managers that you've heard from
Fantastic job my favorite husband swalwell
Biddy last thing you show like for break the unfortunate
Police officer getting crushed in the door I can't reverse name offhand but that was
That was powerful heavy shaking it was thought I'd seen it before but even seeing it
Shaking I was just so
I was afraid for his life I was afraid for the future to democracy I would scare at was angry and I mean
I don't know how you can watch these things having happens and not be
Terrifying
It's a scary time it is Cesar scary things that happened and even weeks later I'm still shaking about it
Steven we are 4 hours and 30 minutes into the house managers
8 hour
Presentation
That means they have
And we don't know if they will take
The rest of their time to get 8 hours today
In 8 hours tomorrow they are in a dinner break we are waiting for them to return
The majority leader Chuck Schumer said it would be around 6:15 p.m. eastern time
When they resume of course we will bring you gabble gabble uninterrupted coverage right here
On C-Span to and you can also watch on C-Span. Org on our website you can live
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There
Adam kinzinger who's been a vocal critic
Of the former president of Republican from Illinois tweets out
The prosecution is compelling Donald Trump inside it and directed The Insurrection he knew what he was doing I cannot imagine
Imagine how any Senator could vote against
Removal
That's Adam kinzinger Republican of Illinois
Also chat program who covers Capitol Hill for Fox News sent this tweet a little bit before 4 p.m. eastern time
His colleague David spawns report said the FBI director Chris Wray will testify
About the capital of tack on March 2nd that will be raised first major remark since the attack
In January
From Andrea and Corona California Republican Andrea welcome to the conversation have you been watching today
Yes I have first of all I would just like to say I'm a trump supporter and
I think I can probably speak for 770 other million Trump supporters saying that I do not condone
Violence in anyway I don't condone what happened at the Capitol that day
I think that we need to get back to the basics here the question is whether or not President Trump incited
The one thing that I come back to is in and all that
But
Footage from today there was people that had baseball bats there's people that have helmets
Bear spray
Zip tie cuffs I've been to a trump rally and you don't get into a trump rally with that stuff
So those people plan that before the speech that Trump gave and I I just
I mean I mean how can you say that he incited it with his speech if those people came prepared to do that
So Adrian did you see earlier on in the day the argument being made
By the house managers
Was that the president
Before that day
In a series of tweets had retweeted people who said the calvary was coming to DC that they were ready to fight
Fight for him that he was retweeting
That type of language that it started before that so what do you make of that argument
Well I think that we I think that the rally was there and then and in my tat you know I would have liked to have gone to that
Rally it was an unfair
Vote count I believe that there was voter fraud it's unfortunate that happened at the Capitol
I think it's actually very convenient for the Democrats did it did because it took it away from the boat fraud onto the Vine
To the right of the capital which I is not where I wanted the conversation to go at all we needed to talk
Talk about Cyril action and that's what that was all about and we needed to go and we needed to make our voices heard
The Senator's understood that we want a fair election and that we
And I'm a reasonable person and I look at things at all different views and I thought about this and I've looked at it and every different or
Correction and I have friends that are Democrats and I have friends that are Republicans and this is not what we wanted
This is political theater that we're dealing with right now they could have made it a documentary and posted it on any MSN
TV station with a play that form we've been seeing stuff that has nothing to do with him
We need to go back to why is he being impeached because he incited violence he did not tell us to go dookie to tell anybody
Go down there there was $100 over a hundred thousand people at that rally all those people were not there
It was a couple hundred people that were there and the proud boys and the people that were in
Nerve and Biggie windows and have a baseball bat and that
What your average Trump supporter and I don't appreciate being labeled as a as a violates
Bigoted and all these things that that's the mainstream media and these Democrats
That are up there with their videos are terrible I don't condone and you know a lot of trump supporters are Miller
There they are law enforcement
Condone it
Wondering
If you think now
That the president
Should have been more forceful in his denouncing of
Groups like The Proud boys
I think that he did denounce violence he's denounce violence All Summer Long
All Summer Long Houston out Scarlett's how many times he have to say that he was not you know that he wasn't a racist
He was in a white supremacy white supremacy
And respectfully I mean they're watching the TV and the TV is unfair
It's unfair you know what's really frightening right now is Ivan label. I have to be afraid that say that I'm a trump supporter
Because the TV has told people that that means I'm a bad person
The last four years the what you're watching on TV today the Senate proceeding
Are you saying that's unfair
No I know I don't know what you guys are doing is great and I think your phone calls are great I appreciate it I wouldn't waste my time if I didn't
I just am trying to get my voice out there
It seems like there's been a lot of calls that are Saints are saying that
Let me let me just clarify because important to know that the cameras inside the Senate chamber
Are not our cameras there not any media cameras they are operated by
The Senate recording studio they sent it
Itself the chamber itself
And so C-SPAN and other networks when they're showing you what's happening inside that chamber they are giving
That feed we don't have
That video feed we don't have any control of it
Aaron Chef who writes for the New York Times is a staff photographer puts out this tweet with a picture of member
Pelosi staff
Who were barricaded in a conference room terrified for their lives during the January 6th attack on the capital watch video
From that day during the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump
A Capitol Hill
On today let's take a moment
Let's listen to that moment when Stacey Plaskett talks about
The Pelosi staffers and what they went through that day
The mob also went after Speaker of the House
Who alongside the vice-president was providing over the joint session of the certification
In the house chamber
The chilling evidence shows that on January 6th
Armed and organized insurrectionist
Train their sights
On speaker Pelosi
They sought out the speaker on the floor and in her office
Publicly declared their intent to harm or kill her
Ransacked her office
And terrorize her staff
And they didn't
Because Donald Trump sent them on this mission
As we insurrectionists got closer
Capitol Police Rush the speaker from the house floor at 2:15 p.m.
Mere minutes after the capital was first breach they recognized immediately that she was in danger
The speaker was not just rushed from the floor
The Capitol Police
Theme the threat so dangerous
The thing evacuated her entirely
From the capitol complex
Rushing her to a secure
Off-site location
The insurrectionist intent to murder the speaker of the house is well-documented in charging
Documents that are now available
We know from the Riders themselves
But if they had found speaker Pelosi
They would have killed her
I've already discussed proud boys member Dominic pezzola
Who has since been charged with eight federal crimes for his conduct on January 6th
As you will recall according to the FBI agent's affidavit
Submitted to the court
The group he attacked the capital with confirm that quote
Anyone they got their hands on
They would have killed
Including Nancy Pelosi
William Calhoun
A lawyer
From Georgia
Also participated in the Insurrection that day
And he too has been charged for his actions
This Insurrection has detailed his criminal activity
At the capital online
Calhoun wrote about his involvement on his own Facebook page
Here's the post
Calhoun stated quote
And get this the first of us who got upstairs
Kicked in Nancy Pelosi's office door and push down the Halls towards her inner Sanctum
Howling with rage
Crazy Nancy probably would have been torn into little pieces
But she was nowhere to be seen
Crazy Nancy
That's Trump's nickname for the Speaker of the House
Then he explains that he and his group
Only abandon their claim to the speaker's office when quote
A SWAT team showed up
He writes quote Dennis SWAT team showed and we retreated back
To the Rotunda and continued our hostile takeover of the Capitol building
Retreated
Hostile takeover
Is using military terms for this attack
The mob continued to look for speaker Pelosi
Throughout the time that occupied the capital including invading her offices
Watch now how the mob searches
For speaker Pelosi's office which is marked in red and the house chamber itself
What are you looking for you
During The Siege
The speaker's staff
Took cover in her office
Hiding in fear for their lives hours
His Riders broke in and ransacked her office
As the Riders were breaking into the capitol
Christophe retreated into an interior room
Eight of them gathered in a conference room
About the same time Capitol Police announced the capital have been breached
Speaker Pelosi staff heeded the call to shelter in place
On our model you can see the riders in the Rotunda in red
And the speaker's office again in Orange
So this is a security video so there is no sound
As you can see here the staff moves from their offices through the Halls
And then enters a door on the right hand side
That's the outer door of a conference room which also has an inner door that they
Barricaded with furniture
The staff been hid under a conference room table
In that in a room
This is the last staffer
Going in
And then barricading themselves
Inside of the interoffice
After just seven minutes of them barricading themselves
And the last after entering the door on the right
A group of riders enter the hallway outside
And once inside the writers have
Free reign in the speaker of the house is offices
In the security of video
Pay attention to the door that we saw those staffers leading into and going into
One of the Riders you can see
Throwing him spotty against the door 3 times until he breaks open that outer door
Luckily when faced with the energy or he moves on
Another Rider later tried unsuccessfully to break through that energy or
At this point the mob had already broken into the speakers formal conference room that is in the back
The hall at the top of the video
I want to play some audio we have of the speaker staff
With the Riders at the door that day
You can hear the terror in their voice as they describe what's happening to them
As we are barricaded in that conference room
Please listen carefully
Because the staffers Whispering into a phone
As a hive from the riders that are outside the door
You can hear the pounding
In the background
Is that Stafford speaking
One of those staffers explain later that they could hear the mob going through her offices
Breaking down the door
And yelling
Where are you now antsy
House manager Stacey Plaskett from earlier today in the house Democrats at the presentation of their case
Against
President Trump male Senators have been in a dinner break and that some of them are making their way back
Back into the chamber what you are looking at is the hallway outside of the Senate chamber
Leadership has their offices to the right and the left
Of that hallway and we know that the movie the minority leader Mitch McConnell has already made his
His way to his seat
For the resumption of today's impeachment proceedings the house management house
Managers have been making their case for 4 hours and 30 minutes according to pull reports on
Capitol Hill they have eight hours total today to make their case when they
Reconvene the Senate
When they when they gobble back in we will course
Bring you to the floor
Live coverage here on C-Span 2
CNN is reporting that the house managers will show even more new evidence when they resume
Their case against the former president this evening
You can watch that here uninterrupted on C-Span 2
Looks like one of the lawyers for the president
Are the president's team making their way into the chamber I don't know if that was Mister shown one of the lawyers
On your screen
So people are getting in place
And we will bring you our coverage then you can also watch on our website C-SPAN. Org you can download our free
Free C-SPAN radio app
And listen to the proceedings there and if you've missed anything you can find and watch it on demand
Others the presidents lawyers Mr Castor
Making his way into the chamber
Anyway you can watch everything you've seen today
Everything that you will see in the coming days on our website on demand
Add to cspan.org impeachment
Senator Cassidy
Of course is powerful influences final decisions remains to be seen
Say that one more time
Absolutely
So much there's no one thing or many things
Again there's so much to say that should be taken away
How does one narrow it but you realize that there are
People insurrectionist who attempted to affect the peaceful transfer of power and that should give
Give anyone who loves our Republic great cause
Senator Bill Cassidy Republican in Louisiana he was one of its six Republicans yesterday that voted
With the 50 of Democrats 56 to 44 to reject the argument from mr. Trump's defense
Esteem
And decided to go on a long party-line votes that the senate had the jurisdiction to try and impeached
Former president
This paved the way for the trial proceedings today
We are waiting for the Senate
To reconvene to get back underway and continue with the house managers legal arguments
They've laid out for hours and 30 minutes so far today they get a total allotment of 8 hours day followed by
Another 8 hours tomorrow and then you will hear from the former presidents lawyers
They will have
Friday and Saturday to lay out their arguments in defense of the president on this
1
Article of impeachment
Inciting
An Insurrection on the US Capitol
After the lawyers make their arguments
And then the Senate will turn
Two questions from the Senators they have four hours to do so at that point then there will be
Consideration of whether or not to call witnesses followed by closing arguments
And then deliberation and vote on conviction
They will need two-thirds of the Senate
Two convicted 67 senators
Yesterday's vote on the Constitutional question
Garnet six Republicans that means they would need 11 more Republicans to convict the four
Former president
Now Brian stelter for CNN reports from his colleague on Capitol Hill Manu Raju
Several GOP Senators have made clear they view the footage they've seen today by house manager
Throughout the afternoon is Chile
And are shaken by what they saw but they are signaling they won't change their plans to vote to acquit former President Trump
In the impeachment case
Yes of Kyle Griffin of MSNBC
Republican James Lankford watching the footage of the Capitol police officer being crushed appeared emotional
Sitting at his desk with his head bent down
Steve daines put his hand on his colleagues arm appearing to comfort him
And you had cbs's news reporting Mitt Romney was blinking rapidly and watching intently as in
Impeachment managers showed that January 6th footage of him being directed to safety by Capitol police officer
Eugene Goodman
And then finally Rebecca Shabad of NBC Reporting Center Rick Scott
Read that later the Senate is back will take you there now live coverage
Raskin mr. president remembers the Senate
Managers cicilline and Castro will now remind us of what
What President Trump was doing during the attack they will show
How he continued to stoke the Insurrection and refuse to speak out
Against the violence or do anything to stop it
Is the president
Distinguished senators
You just heard from my colleagues about the harrowing events that happened here at the Capitol on January 6th
And saw that very disturbing video
And now like to turn your attention to what was happening on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue
At the White House
And the truth is
The facts are
Turn on January 6th
Donald Trump
Did not once
Condemn this attack
He did not once
Condemned the attackers
In fact on January 16th only person he condemned
Has his own vice president
Mike Pence
Who was hiding in this building
With his family
In fear for his life
In the first crucial hours
This violent attack
He did nothing to stop it
Nothing to help us
By all accounts from the people that were around him
He was delighted
And he was the last thing Donald Trump
Said that day and you might remember this
For my emotions presentation earlier in the week
It's 6 p.m.
On January 6th
After all the destruction that you just saw the Capitol Police and the National Guard fighting to
To secure this building
Here's what Donald Trump tweeted
These are the things and events that happen when a sacred Landslide election victory
Is so unceremonious Lee and viciously Stripped Away from great Patriots who have been bad
Ugly and unfairly treated for so long
Go home with love and in peace
Remember this day forever
He got what he incited
According to Donald Trump
We got what we deserved
Donald Trump's incitement of this interaction
Including his dereliction of his duty as commander-in-chief to defend the capital and the people in it
Complete refusal
The Condemned the attack while it was going on
His continued incitement of violence during the attack
Require impeachment
Let's turn to then President Trump conduct that day
I want to start at the beginning when he addressed his thousands of great Patriots as he called me that morning
Around noon Donald Trump began speaking at his rally just down Pennsylvania Avenue
Even before Donald Trump finish speaking his supporters began to walk down for the
Capital and they were already starting to chat stop the steel storm the capital invade
The capital fight for Trump
And by 12:53 p.m. they had violently forced their way through the barricades here at the Capitol
About 1 that day
With this chaos just starting speaker Pelosi as the Constitution requires
Formally commence the process by which
This chamber certifies election results
Within 10 minutes
At 1:11 p.m.
Is it almost done Q
Donald Trump concluded his speech
With his final reminder to the thousands gathered there was time to go to the Capitol
Let's watch
Are we going to the capital and we're going to try and give
But we're going to try and give our Republicans
The weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help with drunk going to try and give them
The kind of Pride and boldness that they need to take back our country so let's
Walk down Pennsylvania Avenue I want to thank you all God bless you and God
Bless America thank you I'll figure this is incredible thank you very much
Now you've seen what happened when these supporters following his orders
Arrived at the at the Capitol
We want to look at what happened next
Have you recalled during the speech President Trump said we're going to the capital so to suggest that he was going to go with
This crowd that was not true
Here we set
About is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on a Demarcus
And after this we're going to walk down and I'll be there with you we're going to walk down
We're going to walk down any one you want but I think right here we're going to walk down
To the Capitol
This of course was not true
He did not go with him to the Capitol
He laughed my back to the White House and while he was en route to the White House
Violence really began to grow here at the Capitol
And within minutes of Donald Trump's
Speech ending there were significant reports of escalating violence that began to surface
Buildings around the capitol were starting to be evacuated
Y115 an explosive device have been found
At the DNC
A pipe bomb have been found at the RNC about 15 minutes earlier
Alarm to call for immediate assistance
The 1:34 p.m.
The mayor of Washington DC called for additional National Guard troops
Won't go through all of the details of the violence that unfolded here you just saw that
Walkthrough what are commander-in-chief
Did that day I'm going to be very clear about exactly what was happening here
At the same time
For 40 minutes
The buildings were being cleared
Pipe bombs were being found his supporters were literally breaching the perimeter of the cap
Overwhelming law-enforcement you saw the violence that was occurring
We heard nothing
The president of the United States
We didn't hear anything
From Donald Trump until 1:49 p.m.
Unwell all of this is unfolding
President-trump
Send out a tweet
This was the first
Thing he did
We need to learn the United States capitol
All the members of Congress
She's on vice president was under violent attack
What was that tweet
Nearly an hour after the rioters breach the capital perimeter
At 1:49
Donald Trump released a propaganda real
How do you save America speech
Any given an hour before
Wendy clear
The events I just described the writers are reaching the capital attacking law enforcement
The violence is being broadcast all over the television for the whole world to see
Including the president United States
Imma show you this is what is happening right before Donald Trump send that video out again and as
Our country has had enough we will not take it anymore
That's what this is all about and to use a favorite
All of you people really came up with we will stop the Steal
Because you'll never take back our country with weakness you have to show strength and you have
Have to be strong
Even if President Trump claims he didn't know the extent of the violence that would follow his speech
It was now happening in Plainview
Broadcast on television
His supporters were attacking enforcement the mayor and the police chief were calling for help
Members of Congress and the vice-president were inside
Scared for their lives
He doesn't send help
Doesn't try to stop it
Doesn't even acknowledge the attack
Instead our commander-in-chief
Tweeted the video of the speech that he's given before
That included language like our country has had enough will not take it anymore
And that's what this is all about
You have to be strong
Those around Donald Trump
It was later reported
We discussed it
Close aides is advisors those working for him former officials even his family were bag
Making him
To do something
Kellyanne Conway
The president's closest advisor call to quote add her name
To the course of AIDS origin Donald Trump to take action
Ivanka Trump the president's own daughter went to the Oval Office as soon as the riding Escalade
Was as confirmed by Senator Graham quote trying to get Trump to speak out to tell everyone to leave
Info
Minority leader Kevin McCarthy call Jared Kushner pleading with him to persuade Trump
Issue a statement
What you do something and Kushner to
I'm down to the White House after that call
It wasn't just the people at the White House
Members of Congress from both parties
Who are trapped here
Calling the White House
Ask
For help
Some members even appealed directly to Donald Trump
These members who had quote been loyal Trump supporters
Even willing to vote against the Electoral College results
We're now scared for their lives
Minority leader Kevin McCarthy
Repeatedly even got into a screaming match
As the attack was underway demanding that Trump do something issue a statement denouncing the mob
Imagine many of you sitting here today
Pick up your phone and try to reach somebody at the White House
To ask for help this wasn't partisan politics
These were Americans from all sides trying to force our commander-in-chief
To protect and defend
Our country
He's required to do that
Extent of how many people tried to reach the present to get him to act is not known
But what is clear
But we know without any doubt that from the very beginning the people around Donald Trump
Lobbied him to take command
What's also clear
Is what Donald Trump our commander-in-chief did in those initial hours to protect us
Nothing
Not
Thing
You knew what was happening
The attack was on TV
We know all know that President Trump had the power to stop these attacks
Who's our commander-in-chief
Get the power to assess the security situation send backup send help
He also had incited this violent attack they were listening to him he could have commanded them to leave
But he didn't
The first critical hour-and-a-half
Abyss bloody attack
Donald Trump
Tweeted his rally speech
And did nothing else
And we know why
We know his State of Mind
The prompted his utter complete refusal
The Defenders
As reported by those around him
The president
As reported by sources
At the time was
Delighted
He watched the violence unfold on television
President Trump was reportedly and I quote borderline enthusiastic
Because it meant the certification was being derailed
And quote
Senator Ben Sasse with a conversation with senior White House officials
The President Trump was quote walking around the White House
Confused about why other people on his team weren't as excited as he was
Aamco
Trump's reaction
Today's attack reportedly genuinely freaked people out
Understand why
We just suffered a very serious attack
Attack on our country
We saw him in the people around him do it
But when Donald Trump's wife
He was delighted
What President Trump did next
Confirms why he was so delighted
I wanted this
Because it shows that his singular Focus that day
The day we were attacked but not protecting us
Protecting you is not protecting the capital it was stopping the certification of the election results
The evidence is clear
Shortly after 2 p.m.
As the seed was fully underway
When President Trump made a call
This is the first call that we are where he made anyone inside the capitol during the attack
Didn't call the vice president to ask how he could help defend the capital didn't call the next two in line to success
Session of the presidency to check on their safety or well-being
Instead
He attempted to call center tuberville
Dial Sara Lee by accident
Senator Lee describes that he had just ended a prayer with his colleagues here in the Senate chamber
And
Phone rang
Who's Donald Trump
And explains that the phone call goes something like this hey Tommy
And sadly said this isn't Tommy and he hands the phone
To Center tuberville
Then confirm that he stood by as Center tuberville and
President Trump spoke on the phone and I'm not call
Donald Trump reportedly asked senator tuberville to make additional objections the Serta
Defecation process
That's why you called
Let's be clear at roughly 2 p.m.
When Donald Trump was walking around the White House watching the TV delighted
I spent 5 to 10 minutes talking to senator
Tuberville
Urging him to delay the election results
This is what was happening in the capital
Thank you
You saw Senator Lankford stop speaking leave the floor quickly in that clip
Because you surgeons had broken through
The barricades and intrude the building
And as these armed Insurrection has bang on The Doors members of Congress were told to put on their gas masks to put
Bags over their heads for safety and prepare to evacuate
Donald Trump was calling to ask Senator to delay the certification process
But that's thinking
Donald Trump didn't get to finish that call was cut off because the Senators had to move to another location
For your security
Thank God they did
Because as a call was occurring the Riders got closer to the Senate chambers
And as we all know now
But for the heroism of Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman and other law enforcement officers who took them in
A different direction to the police line
They very likely would have gotten here
Think about that
Armed insurrections
Guns
Weapons zip ties
Brass knuckles they were coming for us
Inside United States capitol
Trying to stop the certification process
The police were outnumbered
But for the grace of God they would have gotten us
All of us
In our commander-in-chief makes a call
About an hour after The Siege began
Not to preserve protect and defend you and our country
And the capitol but to join forces with the mob and pressure a senator
To stop certification
Pictures can't get Mom to this kind of behavior
You're can be no doubt as to the purpose of Donald Trump's call
Today was not calling to assess the security threats
What to check on the well-being of you anyone else
Indy later on that evening while all of the destruction and damage still continued
Dozens of officers were being treated for serious injuries
Deaths were confirmed
About 7 p.m.
The president's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani made a call
And just in case you don't think there was some coordination he also called
Senegalese phone trying to reach senator tuberville
We don't have to guess as to what
Rudy Giuliani said in that voicemail because we haven't recorded so let's listen to what the president's person
Lawyer
Sad on the night of this attack
I'm calling you because I want to discuss with you how they're trying to rush this hearing
And how we need you or republican friends
Strategist slow it down
This was the singular focus of Donald Trump
During this bloody violent attack on the capital
Stopping desertification
Because I mentioned I was a trailer for 16 years
Sometimes you have to ask the jury to use reasonable inferences to piece together a defendant state of mine
We don't have to do this here
What country was violently attacked by an armed mob
President Trump not only refused to stop the attack
Or even address the attack at all
He made clear his Focus was the same goal of the attackers he incited
To stop the certification process
And prevent the peaceful transition of power
The only action we know that he took
An hour into this attack
Was to call center tuberville
Ask him to delay the certification
This is as clear as much as I have ever seen of what Donald Trump really cared about that.
Hello certification process as we all know
Food debate and objections some of us disagreed
To formally administer the certification process pursuant to our constitutional duties
At the end of it Congress certify the results to ensure that
We continue to be a country with leaders who are elected by the people
For the people
Donald Trump's objection to the certification are not on trial
But what is on trial
Is while we were under armed attack
Being evacuated
Well our law enforcement officers were fighting for their lives
Our commander-in-chief
Was calling not to determine how to best secure the building and the people in it
But they continue to pressure Senators to stop the certification process and the peaceful transfer of power
Just has incited the mob to do earlier in the day
This was a breathtaking dereliction of his duty of his violation
His house
As our commander-in-chief
Sinners before I hand this over to manager Castro to walk through the rest of the day
Please let me make one final point
These attackers stood right where you are
They went on that Rostrum they rifled through your desk and they desecrated this place
And literally the presidents that delighted
Doing nothing to help us
Calling one of you
To pressure you to stop desertification can't be
But the commander and chief
Can inside a lawless bloody insurrection
Elderly fail in his duty as commander-in-chief to defend us from the attack to defend our lawn
Enforcement officers from that attack
Just get away with it
Donald Trump abdicated his duty to assal
We have to make this right
And you can make it right
My fellow Manager David cicilline showed you what President Trump did and did not do
In those first critical hours of the attack
He sent a tweet and 149 p.m.
Reposted a video of the speech
But incited
The attack
Any call to senator
To ask him to delay the certification
As a senator was being evacuated
For his own safety
We left off around 2:15 p.m.
At this point
Insurgents were inside the Senate and the house
And the Senate have been evacuated for everyone's safety
And if you saw
Vice president Mike Pence and his family
Even had to be evacuated
For their safety
Now
You'll recall
Donald Trump
Handmade vice president Pence
A Target
He attacked the vice president at the rallies
In speeches
Turn on Twitter
And during Trump during President Trump's speech that morning of the attack he rented up again
After privately pressuring Mike Pence
In front of thousands in the crowd
He called Mike Pence out 11 times
Including saying quote
Mike Pence
I hope you're going to stand up for the good of our constitution
And for the good of your country
And if you're not
I'm going to be disappointed in you
I will tell you right now
And this was the crowd's response
Did Donald Trump days of Relentless attacks
On his own vice president
By 2:15 p.m.
The crowd was chanting
In unison
Hang Mike Pence
Outside the very building
He'd been evacuated from
Willis family
Now
Even if
President-trump
Didn't know that his inflammatory remarks
About his vice president
Would result in chance
I'm hang Mike Pence
By 2:15 p.m.
He surely knew
The attack was all over television
They were doing this
Out in the open
This was a vice president whose life
Whose family's life
Was being threatened by people whom the president
Had summoned
To the Capitol
And what did President Trump do
In response
3 stop
Snow
Don't attack my vice president
Even when President Trump knew what his words were causing
He didn't do any of those things to stop the crowd
In fact
He did the opposite
He fueled the fire
At 2:24 p.m.
He tweeted
Quote
Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country
In our constitution
USA demands the truth
Over an hour and a half into the attack
And this is what he tweeted
He still
Even at this point
Did not acknowledge the attack on the capital
Let alone
Condemn it
Instead
He further incite the mob against his own vice president
Whose life was being threatened
What some of you may say well
Who is paying attention anyway
Well that mob was paying attention
What state were asked to previously certified us demand the truth
Phimosis
You don't have to go
The insurgents Amplified President Trump's tweet
Attacking the vice president
With a bullhorn
They were paying attention
And they also followed instructions
In fact
The insurgents were at one point as you saw
60 feet away
From the vice president
And the vice presidents
Family
Some of these insurgents were heard saying quote that they hope to find vice president Mike Pence and execute
Shoot him
By hanging him from a capitol hill tree as a traitor
And then
They erected a Gallows
The news
This
Eastwood Donald Trump
Incited
Please
Take a close look
At that picture
It Harkens back
To our nation's worst history
Of lynching
The president's words
Have the power to move people
To action
These were the results
And why did the president insight
Such Rage Against the vice president
He was fulfilling his constitutional Duty
As we all were
That day
Vice presidents in this country have been carrying out his constitutional Duty
Overseeing the certification of the election results
Without incident
Without contest
Without a word
For the entirety of our nation
It's part of our peaceful transition of power
United States
The vice president said he reviewed the Constitution and he could not block certification as president
Trump wanted him and was pressuring him to do
He told the president
In a letter that morning a few hours
Before President Trump's tweet
Quote
I will approach this moment with a sense of Duty
And an open mind
Setting politics and personal interests aside
And do my part to Faithfully discharge my duties are duties under the Constitution
I also pray
That we will do so with humility
And faith
And the president's response to that statement
Was to attack Mike Pence
While he was with his family under the threat of a violent mob
The vice president
Was following his faith
His duty and his oath
To our nation
The vice president die
Don't agree on too much in politics
But he's a man who uphold his oath
His faith is Duty
And most of all upholds the Constitution
And Mike Pence is not a traitor
Today's country
He's a patriot
And he and his family
Who was with him that day
Didn't deserve this
Didn't deserve a president unleashing a mop
On them
Especially
Because he was just doing his job
As this was unfolding
In the crowd grew more violent
The president of course
Was not alone at the White House
And the people closest to him
His family advisors
Who saw this unfolding in real time
Begged him
Implored him
To stop the attack
I need to Mark Meadows
The President's chief of staff
Urged his boss to go see the president
San quote
They are going to kill people
They're going to kill people
That's what those around President Trump
Fear
Instill
Nothing
It wasn't until 2:38 p.m.
Nearly two hours
After the start of the siege
The Donald Trump
Even
Acknowledged
The attack
And when he finally did acknowledge the attack here's what he said
On the right
You'll see what have been happening prior to that tweet and as he sent the tweet
And on the left
You'll see exactly what he tweeted
I'm going to stop you there for just one moment because we do have some breaking news we want to bring a congressional correspondent shed program
This is just all developing right now Chad I understand the capital is now on lockdown
The Chant by the way I heard the most today was fight for Trump and that's clearly
That's what our presidents all unfolding in real-time
Broadcast all over television
And this is what he tweeted at 2:38 p.m.
Quote
Please support our Capitol Police and law enforcement they're truly on the side of our country
Stay peaceful
How much has been made of the fact that in his tweet he says stay peaceful
Senators
Say peaceful
Think about that for a second
These folks were not peaceful
They were breaking windows
Pushing through law enforcement officers
Waving the flag as they invaded this Capitol building
This was a violent armed attack
Stay peaceful
How about stop the attack
Stop the violence
Stay peaceful
How about you say immediately leave
Stop
And he said
Please support our law enforcement
How about he actually support our law enforcement by enforcement by telling these insurgents to leave the Kappa
Immediately
What you never did
He didn't
Because the truth is
He didn't want it to stop
He wanted them to stay
Had to stop desertification
His failure
Had grave
And deadly
Consequences
By 2:45 p.m. the warnings were tragically proven correct
Ashley Babbitt was shot by an officer as she tried to break through glass door to reach the speaker's Lobby
At this point
The police did Donald Trump publicly and privately even more desperate
At 2:54 p.m. Alyssa Farah a former strategic communications director begged the president
Quote condemn just now
You're the only one they will listen to
For our country
Mick Mulvaney the president's former Chief of Staff his right-hand man at one point tweeted at 3:01
The president's tweet is not enough
You can stop this now and needs to do exactly that
Tell these folks to go home
He can stop this now
Tell these folks to go
Home
At 3:06 p.m.
Rep McCarthy appeared on Fox News
Here's what he said
I could not be Federal more disappointed with the way our country looks at this very moment
Anyone involved
This is not the American flag
He sang on Fox News which the president watches
This is not the American way
Stop the attack
Representative Gallagher at 11 3:11 p.m. while secured in his own office
Posted a video to Twitter
Mr. president
You have got to stop you are the only person who can call this
Off
Call it off
And then
When the president didn't answer his please on Twitter
Representative Gallagher went on live television
I mean like this
Pollo Rack in 2007/2008 I mean America
The president needs to call it off like call it off call it off
Representative Gallagher you see there
Said he not seen anything like this since he was deployed in Iraq
The message around the president was clear
From everyone
You need to call this off
Stop it
But does he
No
His next week was not until about 3:13 p.m.
Once again
It's important to consider what was happening between Donald Trump's 2:38 p.m. tweet and his new
Next week at 3:13 p.m.
You'll see footage from the attack during that time on the right
And Donald Trump's tweet on the left
Play band
Informed that protesters have penetrated
The capitals
This is turning violent this is getting dangerous
This isn't ten minutes into the insurrection
This isn't
Just after
His speech earlier that day
That's what our commander-in-chief saw
Happening
And that was his response
You'll notice
One of the things he says to his mob
Cities insurrectionist
Rather than to stop or to leave
Was to say thank you
Thank you
Thank you for what
Thank you for shattering the windows and destroying property
Thank you for injuring more than 140 police officers
Thank you for putting in danger
All of our lives and the lives of our families
How about instead of thank you
Donald Trump on that day
Acted like our commander-in-chief
And stop this as only he could
And told those people to leave
Here's what former Governor Chris Christie
He's very good friend
Sad after that tweet
Pretty simple the president caused this protest to occur
The only one can make it stop
His supporters to leave the capitol grounds
Congress to do their business peacefully and
Application of his responsibilities
He's right
Chris Christie is right
We know how Donald Trump tax on Twitter and otherwise when he has a message to convey
In fact I asked you to remember
Those tweets early this morning
When he yelled on Twitter stop the count
What do you want to do inside his supporters to show up on January 6th
President Trump tweeted 16 times
Between midnight on January 5th
And his noon rally speech the next day
16 *
To get them to do something he wanted
And his message in those 16 x was clear
Fight
Stay strong
Be strong
But when the violence started
He never once
Said the one thing
Everyone around him
Was begging him
Touche
Stop
The attack
He refused
To stop
And is Governor Christie
And representative kinzinger
And others made clear
Only
Donald Trump
Could have stopped at attack
You know a guy that knows how to how to tweet very aggressively on splitter you don't put that one of the weakest statements and
One of the saddest days in American history because his ego won't let him know admit defeat
He was not just our commander-in-chief
He had incited the attack
The insurgents were following his commands
And we saw
When they read aloud this tweet
As we saw when they were allowed this tweet attacking the vice president
They confirm this during the attack to
Senators ask yourself this
How easy would it have been
For the president to give a simple command
A simple instruction
Just telling them
Stop
Weave
This was a dereliction of Duty
Plain and simple
And it would have been for any president
Who done that
And that brings me to my next point
You heard from my colleagues that
When planning this attack
The insurgents predicted
Did Donald Trump would command the National Guard
To help them
And there's a lot that we don't know yet
About what happened that day
But here's what we do know
Donald Trump
Did not send help
Police officers
Who were badly outnumbered
Overwhelmed at being beaten down
2 hours into the insurrection
By 3 p.m.
President-trump
Had not deployed the National Guard
Or any other law enforcement
To help
Despite
Multiple
Pleased to do so
President Donald Trump
Was it the time our commander-in-chief of the United States of America
He took a solemn oath
The Preserve protect and defend
This country
And he failed
Dope hold that off
In fact
There's no indication
The President Trump
Ever
Meet a call
To have the guard deployed
Or had anything to do with the guard being deployed
When did ultimately was
Shortly after 3:04 p.m.
Be acting defense secretary announced that the guard has been activated
A list of the people he spoke with prior to this activation
Including
Vice president Mike Pence
Speaker Pelosi
Leader McConnell
Senator Schumer and representative Hoyer
But that list
Did not include the president
This omission of his name was reportedly not accidental
According to reports
Quote Trump initially rebuffed requests to mobilize the National Guard
And required interference by other officials
Including his own White House counsel
And later
Quote as a mob of trump supporters breach police barricades and seize the capital
Trump reportedly was quote disengage in discussions with Pentagon leaders about
Deploying the National Guard to Aid the overwhelmed US Capitol Police
President Trump was reportedly and I quote completely
Totally
Out of it
He made no attempt
Teresa National Guard
And it was vice president Pence still under the threat for his life
Who reportedly spoke to the guard
President Trump's conduct
Confirms this to
At no point on January 6th did Donald Trump
Even reference
The National Guard
The only thing that we heard connecting the president to the guard
Was from his press secretary
Who tweeted about the guard being deployed at the president's Direction over half an hour later at 3:36 p.m.
And we have seen with Donald Trump does when he tries to take credit
4 something
And yet
Even when the National Guard was finally deployed
He didn't even acknowledge it
In fact he didn't say a word about the National Guard the entire
Day
Think about that
The bloodiest attack we've seen on our capital
Since 1812
And our president
Couldn't be bothered
To even mention
But help
Was on its way
These insurgents have been attacking our government for over 4 hours by that point
And we may have been the target
But it was the brave men and women who protect our capital
Who are out there combating thousands of armed insurgents in a fight for their lives
That's who Donald Trump left entirely
Unprotected
This is hard to watch but I think it's important we understand
What the Capitol Police were facing
How severely they were outnumbered
Well our commander-in-chief whose job it was to protect and defend them
Was just watching
Doing nothing
4 hours refusing
To send help
If you wanted to protect these officers
If he cared about their safety
Has he tweeted about
He would have told his supporters to leave
He would have sent help right away
One Brave officer was killed
Others took their lives
After the attack
More than a hundred forty police officers were injured
Including cracked ribs
Smash spinal discs
One officer will lose an eye
Another was stabbed with a metal fence take
They were completely
And violently overwhelm
By a mob
And needed help
And our commander-in-chief
President-trump
Refuse to send it
Senators
You've seen all the evidence so far
And this is clear
On January 6th
President-trump
Left everyone
In his capital
4 Dead
For the next hour
After President Trump's 3 p.m. tweet
He still did nothing
Not until 4:17 p.m. over three and a half hours after the violence started
Did our president send a message finally asking the insurgents to go home
On the right you'll see what happened that day in the hours leading up to his pre-recorded video video
On the left you'll see his message
Let's watch I know your pain I know you're hurt
We had an election
That was stolen from us it was a landslide election
And everyone knows it especially the other side
But you have to go home now
We have to have peace
We have to have Law and Order we have to respect our great
People in Law and Order
We don't want anybody hurt it's a very tough period of time
There's never been a time like this where
Such a thing happened with a could take it away from all of us from me from you from our country
This was a fraudulent election
But we can't play into the hands of these people
We have to have peace
So go home we love you you're very special
You've seen what happens you see the way others are treated that are
So bad and so evil
I know how you feel
But go home and go home and peace
This is the first time our commander-in-chief spoke publicly at all since he attacked again
Over the three and a half hours after it started
And these are the entirety of the words the president spoke out loud
To the American people
Or the attackers
That entire day
Nowhere in that video not once
Did he say I condemn this Insurrection I condemn what you did today
Nowhere did he say I'm sending help immediately stop this
Here's what he said instead
I know your pain
I know you're hurt
We had an election that was stolen
Even after all the things we witness
Even after all of that Carnage
He goes out
And tells the same
Big
Lie
The same big lie
Fitting rage
And excited
The attack
He repeated this
While the attack was ongoing
And while we were still
Under threat
Here's what else he said
Go home in peace
We love you
You're very special
Senators you were here
You saw this with your own eyes
You face that Danger
And when President Trump had an opportunity to confront them
As the leader of us all as our commander and chief
What did he tell them
We love you
You're very special
This was not a condemnation
This is a message of consolation of support of praise
If there's any doubt that his supporters he's insurgents
Took this is a message of support and praise
Watch for yourselves
Donald Trump as everybody to go home just put out a tweet at the minute-long yes everybody go home
Why you think so because
It's okay that if they don't do it
Darrow's to do if they don't know if hold the Constitution then we will remove them from office
One way or another
I suspect you recognize that man
You'll hear him say that we won the day
Who won today
We know that least five people lost their lives that day
The house and the Senate were in life-threatening danger and so is the vice president
And think of everyone else here
As well
Who won on January 6th
That's not a win for America
But it is a win for Donald Trump
Unless we hold him accountable
Now
A little over an hour after that video
The brave members of law enforcement secured the capital and we is a congress got ready to continue certifying
The results of our free and fair election
A half-hour after that President Trump issued another tweet
In case there was any doubt
As to whether he was happy
With the people who did this
As to whether he had incited this
He commemorated what happened on January 6th
At 6:01 p.m.
On January 16th tweeted
Quote
These are the things that events that happen when a sacred Landslide election Victory so unceremonious Lee and viciously
Stripped Away from great Patriots who been badly and unfairly treated for so long
Ending with
Remember this day forever
My colleague manager cicilline started with this tweet
Because this tweet
Shows exactly how Donald Trump felt about what happened on January 6th
These are the things that happened
He saying this was for BECU this was foreseeable
He saying I told you this was going to happen if you certify the election for anyone else
And you got what you deserve for trying to take my power away
Great Patriots go home with love and peace remember this day
Forever
He sang to them you did good
He's not regretful he's not grieving he's not sad
He's not angry about the attack
He's celebrating Addie's commemorating it
This is the entirety of what President Trump said to the public once the attack began
5 Tweets in a pre-recorded video
On the day of the most bloody Insurrection we faced
In Generations
Our commander and chief
Who's known for sending 108 tweets on a normal day
Send five Tweets in a pre-recorded video
That
Is the entirety of President Trump's public statements
From when the attack began
Until he went to bed on January 6th
That's all he did
Despite all the people we know who begged him
The Preserve protect and defend
That was our commander in Chief's response
He began the day with quote
Our country has had enough
We will not take it anymore
And that's what this is all about
And he ended the attack
Letting us know
That we got
What he forewarn that morning
We will of course each of us remember that day forever
But not in the way that President Trump intended
Not because of the actions of these violent unpatriotic insurrectionist
I'll remember this day for that day forever
Because despite president trumps
Vicious attempts throughout the day
To increase the siege
Unblock the certification
He failed
At 8:06 p.m.
The Senate gavel in a session
And the counting of the electoral votes
Continued
About an hour later
The house
Followed suit
And close to 4 a.m.
After spending a significant part of the day of actuated or on the floor or hiding
This great body
Fulfill the will of the people and certified the Electoral College vote
And I'm proud to be part of Congress
I'm proud that we ensure that the will of the American people
Finally prevailed on that day
And I'm proud that I and everyone in this room
Abided by our oath of office even if the president
Didn't abide by his
President Trump to
Toucan oldest president
He swore on a Bible
To preserve protect and defend
And who Among Us
Can honestly say
They believe
That he upheld that oh
And who Among Us
Will let his utter dereliction of Duty
Stand
The president the managers are prepared to
Recessed for the evening and to finish our opening statement tomorrow
Mr. president
Impeachment rules 16 I make a motion
Statements were attributed to me moments ago by the house impeachment managers
Statements relating to the content
A conversations between phone call involving President Trump and senator tuberville
We're not made by me they're not accurate
Inter-country the fact I moved pursuant to rule 16 that they be stricken from the record
Pursuant to the Senate resolution 47 section 4
Artesa presentations are not limited to the record provided for in Section 1 of that resolution
I couldn't hear what he said
Mr. president Mr president
Mr. president
Right here we might as well
Hear clearly what the ruling of the chair was so if you would repeat that song
Resume the Senate resolution 47 section for the prize presentation to not limited
Resolution 47 section for parties presentations are not limited
Do the record provided for in Section 1 of that resolution
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Aurora is that correct yes I have
The new Asian Asian
Kristin Fisher what is the question
Is it she'll the ruling of the chair be sustained is that the question
Yes no
May I ask is the ruling of the chair my point was not about whether it's appropriate for them to make characterization my point was just
Because they were false
Ruling of the chair that
Senate resolution 47
The question is whether
Resolution 47 section 4
Is correct the price presentations are not limited to the record provided for in Section 1 of that resolution
Emotion emotion you've ruled on something that was not what I moved
What I asked was Stephen for attribute attribute it to me repeatedly
After which I have personal knowledge because I am the source
They are not true I never made those statements I asked if they'd be stricken
Has nothing to do with whether or not they're based on depositions with they're not
It's simply based on the fact that I'm the witness I'm the only witness those statements are not true when I ask that you strike
Present
Mr. president
Joe
Mr. president
Is
Come on the
Requesting explained
Please let him explain mr. president
Why is it false what was not false what was false about it
Order under Senate resolution 47 section for a prize presentation not limited to the
Record provided for in Section 1 of that resolution
Today's event requested the clerk will call the roll
Miss Baldwin
Mr. barrasso
Point of clarification
What what is the question
We're not allowed to hear yes
I suggest the absence of a quorum while we work this out
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Mr. barroso
This is Blackburn
Pastor Booker
Mr. Bozeman
The Senate impeachment trial of former President Trump
In a holding pattern right now as you can see what
We understand that happen is that
The house impeachment managers were ready to
Adjourn for the evening
They were done making their legal cases for the day you saw Senator Mike Lee Republican of Utah
Ask
That the the comments attributed to him and a phone call
I made by President Trump beat
Struck from the record
You didn't saw
The presiding officer Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont
Unclear as to what his ruling was you heard Senators asked for him to
Enunciate that ruling again then he had technical problems
It is unclear right now what exactly they are voting on or if a vote is taking place
At this moment you can see the huddling on the senate floor will continue to watch
Is a quorum call underway
Order mr. President we need order
Santo beer order
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Quit before he went
Blackjacks okay and I withdraw the Quorum call and call on them at the
Manager mr. Raskin for brief statement
The impeachment manager mr. cicilline correctly and accurately quoted a newspaper
Account which the distinguished Senator his taking infection too so we're happy to withdraw.
Play on the grounds that it is on the grounds that it is not true and we are going to
Okay we're going to waste right this evening and without any Prejudice to the ability to resubmit it if possible
We can debate if we need it but it's not this is Much Ado About Nothing because it's not critical anyway chart case
It's so the managers issue stands
Mr.lee has withdrawn his request and we may re-litigate it tomorrow if we have to
I now ask unanimous consent
The trial adjourn until 12 noon tomorrow Thursday February 11th
And it's also constitute the adjournment of the Senate
Does Jacksonville Jackson sorry in German
Set a timer
Meet the mic is broken
The Senate has adjourned for the evening they will return tomorrow at noon Eastern Time
What unfolded just moments ago
At was the senator from Utah Mike Lee Republican asking that the record
Struck
When it when it referred to a phone call that the president made now you heard
For the house management impeachment managers
Withdrawal that for now they may we litigated tomorrow when they reconvene it noon Eastern Time
Time for the second day of the house impeachment managers case against the former president for in
Inciting an insurrection
At the Capitol there the phone numbers on your screen
We want to get to your thoughts in just a minute and what you heard today on the case made
By house Democrats now you might have noticed right before the Slate went up
That's the the signage that says the Senate stands adjourned
You might have noticed that the presiding officer
Patrick Leahy Democrat Vermont who's presiding over this call out Mike
To Michael Lee and then mikeli approaches
The podium there as those to discuss
Those two look like they were discussing what just happened eagleby Bobak barbecue reports for
The Huffington Post with the this