Trump impeachment trial day 2: Live updates and video

New footage of the Capitol through the Jan. 6 riot reveals Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., dash down a hallway to flee the mob that had damaged into the constructing.

Schumer and his protecting element got here “simply yards” away from the swarm of rioters, Home supervisor Eric Swalwell stated because the safety footage performed throughout former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.

The video reveals Schumer, accompanied by safety, strolling up a ramp and out of view, earlier than rapidly working again by means of the hallway.

Schumer’s safety element slams shut a pair of doorways on the mouth of the hallway, and used their our bodies to carry them shut. — Kevin Breuninger

The Republican Nationwide Committee is fundraising off of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.

The RNC despatched out a mass textual content message at round 3:00 pm on Wednesday with a hyperlink to a fundraising web page. The textual content message learn “1,709 DONORS SHORT! Pres. Trump & the GOP are relying on YOU to hit our $1M purpose in order that we are able to END this PARTISAN IMPEACHMENT!”

The fundraising plea got here as Democratic lawmakers made their case for Trump to be convicted, accusing him of inciting a lethal riot on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6.

The fundraising webpage says “STAND WITH US” in all capital letters. It then goes on to say that the impeachment effort is unconstitutional and known as on donors to “contribute ANY AMOUNT IMMEDIATELY to face together with your Get together towards this IMPEACHMENT towards President Trump.”

Donors may give as much as $2,900 to the RNC. The committee didn’t reply to CNBC’s request for remark.

Democrats on Wednesday offered new video that dropped at mild further particulars on what came about on the Capitol final month.

Dramatic, newly disclosed footage from the Capitol riot reveals a rioter angrily demanding, “The place do they rely the votes?” as he and different pro-Trump rioters have been confronted by heroic Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman

“The place they counting?” a member of the mob shouted at Goodman as he tried to forestall them from heading as much as a flooring close to the place then-Vice President Mike Pence and his household have been hiding from the invaders of the complicated.

The footage was proven through the Senate impeachment trial of ex-President Donald Trump, who’s accused of inciting the riot, which disrupted the counting of Electoral School ballots that confirmed Joe Biden had received the presidential election. Pence had been overseeing the opening of every state’s ballots.

Among the many never-before-seen video was inside safety cameras on the Capitol which confirmed invaders, together with members of the racist Proud Boys group, pouring by means of home windows that had been smashed and thru a doorway, carrying a Accomplice battle flag, a Trump flag and a baseball bat.

A rioter is seen on footage shouting at Goodman that the mob didn’t have weapons, which was a lie, and an obvious effort get the cop from utilizing lethal pressure to forestall the horde from getting up a stair case.

Trump hours later praised the rioters, who killed one other Capitol police officer, Brian Sicknick, when he tweeted that they need to go house in peace.

“These are the issues and occasions that occur when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from nice patriots who’ve been badly & unfairly handled for thus lengthy,” tweeted Trump, who has falsely claimed he beat Biden within the election.

“We love you. You are very particular,” Trump wrote in his tweet.

— Dan Mangan

New video of the invasion of the Capitol reveals police officer Eugene Goodman dashing to steer Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, away from the mob that had simply damaged into the constructing.

Safety footage contained in the halls of the Capitol, shared throughout former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, reveals Goodman working towards the preliminary breach.

As he rushes previous Romney, Goodman slows down and motions for the senator to show round and get to security away from the mob, the video reveals.

On the ground under them, the mob “had already began to seek for the Senate chamber,” stated Home impeachment supervisor Stacey Plaskett because the safety footage performed.

Goodman had been celebrated as a hero after beforehand launched footage confirmed him single-handedly drawing the rioters away from lawmakers.

Goodman was subsequently promoted to performing deputy Home sergeant at arms. He escorted Vice President Kamala Harris on the inauguration of President Joe Biden. — Kevin Breuninger

Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., sought to move off one potential line of protection in her remarks from the Senate flooring, which zeroed in on the textual content of Trump’s Jan. 6 speech.

Supporters of the president have pointed to his name to supporters on the rally to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

Dean acknowledged that Trump stated that his supporters needs to be peaceable. However she stated the only comment, taken from a 70-minute tackle, did not negate the then-president’s repeated pleas to his supporters to “combat” for him.

“In a speech spanning virtually 11,000 phrases — sure, we did examine — that was the one time, the one time, President Trump used the phrase ‘peaceable’ or any suggestion of non-violence,” Dean stated.

To bolster her level, Dean additionally performed video taken from the group on the rally, which confirmed that at the same time as Trump delivered the road, these in attendance have been encouraging one another to storm the Capitol constructing.

“He had assembled hundreds of violent folks, folks he knew have been able to violence, folks he had seen be violent,” Dean stated.

“They have been standing now in entrance of him,” she added. “After which he pointed to us, lit the fuse, and despatched an indignant mob to combat the perceived enemy — his personal vice chairman and members of Congress — as we licensed an election.”

— Tucker Higgins

Home impeachment supervisor Stacey Plaskett argued that former President Donald Trump’s staff knew about plans to assault the Capitol that have been circulating on-line.

Plaskett, a delegate who represents the U.S. Virgin Islands, stated that Trump’s supporters who mentioned storming the Capitol noticed themselves as Trump’s “cavalry,” so they freely “posted precise blueprints” of their plans.

“They did this throughout public boards. These weren’t simply hidden posts in darkish web sites that Trump wouldn’t have seen. Fairly the alternative,” she stated.

“We all know that President Trump’s staff monitored these web sites. We all know this as a result of his advisors verify it,” Plaskett stated. She cited a report from The Independent quoting an unnamed ex-White Home staffer who stated Trump’s social media staff monitored discussions on all corners of the web.

Plaskett then pulled up quite a few screenshots of social media posts from pro-Trump boards, together with messages showing to anticipate violence on the Capitol.

“Main as much as the occasion, there have been lots of — lots of — of posts on-line displaying that his supporters took this as a name to arms to assault the Capitol,” Plaskett stated. — Kevin Breuninger

As Washington is consumed with the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, President Joe Biden is urgent forward with main international coverage selections.

Biden introduced that he’s imposing sanctions on army leaders in Myanmar who led a coup towards the nation’s civilian leaders. The coup in Myanmar is the primary main worldwide flashpoint Biden has needed to face since taking workplace.

Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are additionally assembly with the secretary of Protection and different army and civilian leaders this afternoon.

The Biden White Home has made clear that it’ll not be commenting about or weighing in on Trump’s impeachment trial. — Christian Nunley

Within the tail finish of his remarks, Home impeachment supervisor Ted Lieu, D-Calif., zeroed in on former President Donald Trump’s efforts to strain his vice chairman, Mike Pence, to reject the election outcomes.

Trump was “feverishly greedy for straws at retaining his maintain on the presidency,” Lieu stated on the Senate flooring.

“Lastly, in his desperation, he turned on his personal vice chairman. He pressured Mike Pence to violate his constitutional oath” and refuse to certify the election outcomes, Lieu stated.

Trump had determined that Pence “may by some means cease” the outcomes from being licensed, Lieu stated.

Pence, who presided over Congress when it met on Jan. 6 to substantiate President Joe Biden’s victory, stated that day that he had no energy to reject Electoral School votes.

The previous president “by no means tried to clarify why he thought the vice chairman may block the certification of election outcomes,” the impeachment supervisor stated. “He simply started relentlessly attacking the vice chairman.”

Lieu confirmed a video clip of Trump at a Jan. 4 rally, telling the group, “I hope Mike Pence comes by means of for us, I’ve to let you know … he is an important man. After all, if he would not come by means of, I will not like him fairly as a lot.”

Lieu additionally confirmed a Jan. 6 tweet from Trump’s now-deleted Twitter account, through which the previous president claimed, “All Mike Pence has to do is ship [the electoral votes] again to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, it is a time for excessive braveness!” — Kevin Breuninger

After a brief break, the Home managers resumed laying out their case for convicting former President Donald Trump.

Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., stated that she and Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., would dedicate their portion of the prosecution to presenting proof of Trump’s “relentless, escalating campaigns to manufacture an election victory.”

Trump tried to do that, Dean stated, by “ignoring opposed court docket rulings, pressuring and threatening election officers, attacking senators and members of Congress, pressuring the Justice Division and, lastly, bullying his personal vice chairman.” — Kevin Breuninger

Home impeachment supervisor Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., argued that former President Donald Trump engaged in “purposeful and deliberate planning” to attempt to cease the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory on Jan. 6.

“He directed the entire rage that he had incited” to that day, Swalwell stated on the Senate flooring. “That was his final likelihood to cease the peaceable transition of energy.”

Swalwell famous that commercials selling the “cease the steal” message, paid for by Trump’s election protection fund, have been posted as much as Jan. 5, the day earlier than Congress convened to substantiate Biden’s win.

“This was purposeful and deliberate planning to focus on his base to rally round that day,” Swalwell stated.

“Donald Trump would situation a deliberate name to motion. And similar to his advertisements, that motion would focus on Jan. 6,” he stated. — Kevin Breuninger

Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., stated that former President Donald Trump, realizing he may lose the 2020 election to Joe Biden, “began planting the seeds” that led to the Capitol riot.

“He was telling Individuals that their vote had been stolen. And in America, our vote is our voice,” the Home impeachment supervisor stated. “So his false claims about election fraud, that was the drumbeat getting used to encourage, instigate and ignite [his supporters], to anger them.”

“He instructed his base that the election was stolen, as he had forecasted. After which he instructed them, ‘Your election has been stolen, however you can’t concede, you will need to cease the steal,'” Neguse stated.

Neguse’s remarks included video clips displaying Trump claiming to crowds of his supporters through the marketing campaign that solely “huge fraud” may rob him of reelection. Neguse additionally performed clips of Trump claiming after Biden received that Democrats had stolen the race.

“Individuals listened,” Neguse stated. “Armed supporters surrounded election officers’ houses. The secretary of state for Georgia acquired loss of life threats. Officers warned the president that his rhetoric was harmful and it was going to end in lethal violence.”

“And that is what makes this so totally different, as a result of when he noticed firsthand the violence his conduct was creating, he did not cease it,” Neguse stated of Trump. “He did not condemn the violence. He incited it additional, and he acquired extra particular. He did not simply inform them to combat like hell. He instructed them how, the place and when. He gave them advance discover — 18 days’ advance discover. … He instructed them to march to the Capitol and combat like hell.” — Kevin Breuninger

Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., previewing Home Democrats’ case, instructed senators that Trump’s speech on Jan. 6 forward of the storming of the Capitol was particularly focused to incite his supporters to violence.

“Some have stated that President Trump’s remarks, his speech on Jan. 6, was only a speech. Properly, let me ask you this: When in our historical past has a speech led hundreds of individuals to storm our nation’s Capitol with weapons? To scale the partitions, break home windows, kill a Capitol police officer?” Neguse requested.

“This was not only a speech. It did not simply occur. And as you consider the info that we current to you, it’ll change into clear precisely the place that mob come from,” Neguse stated.

The Colorado lawmaker stated that Trump’s speech was laden with that means, and that Democrats would show it.

“President Trump’s phrases, as you will note, on Jan. 6, in that speech, similar to the mob’s actions, have been rigorously chosen. These phrases had a really particular that means to that crowd,” Neguse stated.

— Tucker Higgins

Lead Home impeachment supervisor Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., kicked off the second day of the trial by detailing former President Donald Trump’s phrases and actions earlier than and through the Capitol riot.

Blasting Trump as “the inciter in chief,” Raskin laid out his staff’s case that Trump actively inspired and straight incited the Jan. 6 assault.

“They have been despatched right here by the president,” Raskin stated of the rioters. “They have been invited right here by the president of the US of America.”

Raskin additionally famous studies on the time describing Trump as “enthusiastic” and “delighted” as he watched the scene unfold dwell on tv.

“He watched it on TV like a actuality present. He reveled in it, and he did nothing to assist us,” Raskin instructed the Senate.

Raskin then performed parts of a video Trump had launched whereas the riot was ongoing, through which the previous president repeated his false declare that he received the 2020 election “in a landslide.”

“He is nonetheless selling the massive lie that was liable for inflaming and inciting the mob within the first place,” Raskin stated. — Kevin Breuninger

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the chief of Democrats’ impeachment push, kicked off his opening assertion Wednesday showing to handle criticism of Trump’s protection legal professionals the day earlier than.

“Some folks assume this trial is a contest of legal professionals or, even worse, a contest between political events,” Raskin, a former constitutional legislation professor, stated. “It is neither. It is a second of reality for America.”

Trump lawyer Bruce Castor had confronted harsh criticism, even from some Republicans, for his rambling efficiency on Tuesday.

Castor defended himself earlier on Wednesday, saying that Trump did not disapprove of his efficiency and that he did not anticipate altering his technique.

Raskin later took on Castor’s argument that Trump was basically an harmless bystander, which Raskin stated “unerringly echoes” Trump’s personal claims. — Tucker Higgins

Protection lawyer Bruce Castor Jr. pushed again on reports that former President Donald Trump wasn’t pleased together with his efficiency within the impeachment trial to this point.

Castor, whose rambling speech within the Senate on Tuesday was instantly panned on social media and by lawmakers from each events, additionally instructed reporters that he had no plans to vary his technique going ahead.

Requested if Trump expressed any displeasure about his efficiency, Castor stated, “Removed from it … just one particular person’s opinion issues, and that’s what I’m going by.”

“I do not anticipate any” adjustments to the protection staff’s recreation plan, Castor stated.

He added that he has spoken with Trump since his much-criticized Senate look however refused to enter element about their dialog, citing attorney-client privileges. — Kevin Breuninger

The highest prosecutor in Fulton County, Georgia, has opened a felony investigation right into a name by former President Donald Trump through which he sought to strain state election officers to overturn Joe Biden’s win by discovering votes to tip the election in his favor.

Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis despatched a letter to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and different state officers requesting that they protect proof of Trump’s January name, a state official with data of the matter instructed NBC Information.

In the letter, Willis says she is investigating “the solicitation of election fraud, the making of false statements to state and native authorities our bodies, conspiracy, racketeering, violation of oath of workplace and any involvement in violence or threats associated to the election’s administration.”

— Spencer Kimball

Democratic Home managers acquired bipartisan reward for his or her efficiency on the opening day of the impeachment trial, whereas Donald Trump’s authorized staff was not so warmly acquired — not even by the previous president himself, outlets reported.

The Home prosecutors, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., stayed laser-focused on the query at hand: whether or not the Senate had jurisdiction underneath the Structure to attempt Trump, despite the fact that he’s now not in workplace.

They cited ample precedent, supplied an in depth studying of the textual content of the Structure itself and even cited the views of recent students who’ve supported Trump’s positions up to now. Their presentation additionally related on an emotional stage: A teary-eyed Raskin recounted his expertise on the Capitol within the context of coping with a private tragedy, and he shared a prolonged video montage that put the crimes of the Jan. 6 invasion on full show.

Trump’s lawyer Bruce Castor Jr., in distinction, supplied a tortuous, tangent-filled speech that hardly ever grappled straight with the arguments put ahead by his opponents.

Trump, watching on tv from his Palm Seaside membership Mar-a-Lago, was not impressed, The New York Instances and other outlets reported.

“There is no such thing as a argument. I don’t know what he is doing. I don’t know why he is saying what he is saying,” stated Alan Dershowitz, who beforehand stated he could be keen to defend Trump within the trial.

A second lawyer for Trump, David Schoen, delivered a extra targeted and forceful argument, accusing the Democrats of being motivated by their “hatred” of Trump.

Nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient to cease the Senate from voting that the trial was constitutional, and will due to this fact proceed. Republican Sen. Invoice Cassidy, who had beforehand voted to dismiss the trial on constitutional grounds, voted alongside the Democrats Tuesday night.

“If anybody disagrees with my vote and would love an evidence, I ask them to hearken to the arguments offered by the Home Managers and former President Trump’s legal professionals,” Cassidy stated in an announcement.

“The Home managers had a lot stronger constitutional arguments. The president’s staff didn’t,” he stated. — Kevin Breuninger

The Democratic managers of the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump plan to indicate the Senate on Wednesday beforehand unseen safety video footage from the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol, aides stated.

Aides talking to reporters hours earlier than Trump’s trial started its first day of proof stated the footage “reveals a view of the Capitol that’s fairly extraordinary and a view of the assault that has by no means been public earlier than.”

The footage is getting used to help the cost that Trump incited the invasion of the Capitol, which left 5 folks useless, in an unlawful effort to get Congress to invalidate the election of Joe Biden as president.

The aides stated that the brand new video proof “will present new perception into each the intense violence that everybody noticed, the chance and the menace that it may have led to additional violence and loss of life to many however for the courageous actions of the officers and reveals actually the extent of what Donald Trump unleashed on our Capitol.”

“Yesterday was our dry constitutional argument day,” the aides stated, referring to arguments by Home managers and Trump’s legal professionals over whether or not the Senate can attempt a former president.

“In the present day, the precise trial begins. Now we have the products, we will probably be presenting the products,” the aides stated.

“We will probably be tying the proof all collectively in a compelling case that can make it clear for everybody — Democrats, Republicans, everybody — that Donald Trump dedicated essentially the most heinous Constitutional crime potential.”

“Count on a compelling presentation from supervisor after supervisor,” they stated. — Dan Mangan

The impeachment debate within the Senate ought to decide up on Wednesday because the Democrats main the prosecution transfer past the heady dispute over jurisdiction and begin sparring over the primary query of whether or not the ex-president dedicated impeachable offenses.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., kicked off Tuesday’s debate by noting that he was a constitutional legislation professor — and outlined “professor” as one who talks whereas others sleep. On Wednesday, he’s anticipated to take off his professor hat and pursue the case like a prosecutor.

Given the character of the impeachment trial, Wednesday’s debate will probably be extra vital than what has come earlier than.

It stays exceedingly unlikely that something stated from the Senate flooring will persuade 16 Republicans to convict Trump, who, off Twitter and residing in Florida, continues to be a significant pressure within the GOP.

Due to that, Wednesday’s arguments, through which Democrats will make the case that Trump incited the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, are way more vital than Tuesday’s, as they’re anticipated to pack a bigger political punch.

However Democrats, basically unable to disqualify Trump from working for workplace once more, should have the ability to make Republicans pay a political value for sticking with the ex-president. Or, at the very least, that’s their hope. — Tucker Higgins