1 00:00:03,363 --> 00:00:06,129 >>> I FEEL LIKE I'M KIND OF TRAPPED IN GROUNDHOG DAY WHERE 2 00:00:06,228 --> 00:00:09,461 APPARENTLY EVERY JANUARY WE'LL BE DOING ANOTHER IMPEACHMENT. 3 00:00:09,561 --> 00:00:14,794 >> THE TRIAL OF A FORMER PRESIDENT IS SIMPLY VINDICTIVE. 4 00:00:14,894 --> 00:00:18,226 >> ARE WE GOING TO IMPEACH EVERY POLITICIAN WHO HAS USED THE 5 00:00:18,326 --> 00:00:19,559 WORDS "FIGHT" FIGURATIVELY IN A SPEECH? 6 00:00:19,659 --> 00:00:21,692 SHAME! 7 00:00:21,792 --> 00:00:26,391 >> WERE MR. TRUMP'S WORDS INCITEFUL TO THE POINT OF 8 00:00:26,490 --> 00:00:30,690 VIOLENCE? THERE IS BEEN NO HISTORY OF 9 00:00:30,790 --> 00:00:33,690 VIOLENCE AT TRUMP EVENTS. 10 00:00:33,789 --> 00:00:36,689 >> DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT MY PEOPLE? 11 00:00:36,789 --> 00:00:38,355 THEY SAY I HAVE THE MOST LOYAL PEOPLE. 12 00:00:38,455 --> 00:00:40,554 WHERE I COULD STAND IN THE MIDDLE OF FIFTH AVENUE AND SHOOT 13 00:00:40,654 --> 00:00:42,387 SOMEBODY AND I WOULDN'T LOSE ANY VOTERS. 14 00:00:42,487 --> 00:00:45,320 INCREDIBLE. 15 00:00:45,420 --> 00:00:47,353 >> DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY USED TO DO TO GUYS LIKE THAT? 16 00:00:47,453 --> 00:00:50,485 THEY WOULD BE CARRIED OUT ON A STRETCHER, FOLKS. 17 00:00:50,585 --> 00:00:52,018 I WOULD LIKE TO PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE. 18 00:00:52,118 --> 00:00:55,284 I TELL YOU. 19 00:00:55,384 --> 00:00:57,684 >> HE WAS PUNCHED IN THE FACE AS HE WAS ESCORTED OUT OF DONALD 20 00:00:57,784 --> 00:00:58,784 TRUMP'S RALLY. 21 00:00:58,883 --> 00:01:01,649 >> YES, HE DESERVED IT. THE NEXT TIME WE SEE HIM, WE 22 00:01:01,749 --> 00:01:03,215 MIGHT HAVE TO KILL HIM. 23 00:01:03,316 --> 00:01:09,381 >> THE AUDIENCE HIT BACK. THAT'S WHAT WE NEED A LITTLE 24 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:12,880 BIT MORE OF. 25 00:01:12,980 --> 00:01:14,780 >> TONIGHT'S RALLY WILL BE POSTPONED. 26 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:17,545 >> GO IN PEACE. 27 00:01:17,645 --> 00:01:22,178 >> CONFRONTATION THAT HAS TURNED VIOLENT HAVE BECOME COMMON AT 28 00:01:22,278 --> 00:01:24,444 TRUMP RALLIES. 29 00:01:24,544 --> 00:01:28,976 >> NO DOUBT THE POLITICAL RHETORIC IS IN DOUBT TO BLAME. 30 00:01:29,076 --> 00:01:31,942 >> THE TWEET FROM THE PRESIDENT TODAY CALLING THOSE ARMED 31 00:01:32,043 --> 00:01:36,042 PROTESTERS WHO STORMED MICHIGAN'S CAPITOL VERY GOOD 32 00:01:36,142 --> 00:01:43,340 PEOPLE. 33 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:45,639 >> JANUARY 6th WAS A CULMINATION OF THE PRESIDENT'S ACTIONS. 34 00:01:45,739 --> 00:01:51,138 NOT AN ABERRATION. THESE TACTICS WERE ROAD TESTED. 35 00:01:51,238 --> 00:01:54,004 HE GETS BACK INTO OFFICE AND IT HAPPENS AGAIN. 36 00:01:54,103 --> 00:02:02,769 WE'LL HAVE NO ONE TO BLAME BUT OURSELVES. 37 00:02:33,595 --> 00:02:38,993 >> COME ON, LET'S GO. COME ON, GIRL, LET'S GO! 38 00:02:39,093 --> 00:02:41,493 >> BUDDY MADE HER CAMEO. 39 00:02:41,593 --> 00:02:46,558 >> I'M SITTING IN NEW YORK CITY IN AN EMPTY PIZZA PLACE. 40 00:02:46,659 --> 00:02:49,424 I NEED YOU GUYS. 41 00:02:49,524 --> 00:02:51,823 >> JOHN, I GOT PIZZA GOING, TOO. 42 00:02:51,923 --> 00:02:53,857 >> I'M GETTING USED TO THE NO PEOPLE THING. 43 00:02:53,957 --> 00:02:58,056 I'M KIND OF LIKING IT. SORRY! 44 00:02:58,155 --> 00:03:00,188 >> NEXT TIME WE GET TOGETHER, YOU CAN STAY HOME. 45 00:03:00,289 --> 00:03:02,354 >> ALEX WILL BE HOME WITH HER CATS. 46 00:03:02,454 --> 00:03:04,288 [ LAUGHTER ] 47 00:03:04,388 --> 00:03:07,287 >> IT'S CRAZY WE'RE ABOUT TO PLUNGE INTO THIS SECOND 48 00:03:07,387 --> 00:03:10,653 IMPEACHMENT TRIAL OF DONALD J. TRUMP. 49 00:03:10,753 --> 00:03:12,419 I THINK IT IS FAIR TO SAY THAT IMPEACHMENT TRIALS ARE PRETTY 50 00:03:12,519 --> 00:03:16,418 UNUSUAL. BUT THIS TRIAL IS UNUSUAL EVEN 51 00:03:16,518 --> 00:03:18,684 BY THE STANDARDS OF NORMAL IMPEACHMENT. 52 00:03:18,784 --> 00:03:22,616 THE TRIGGERING EVENT IN THIS IMPEACHMENT WAS A MONTH AGO. 53 00:03:22,716 --> 00:03:25,049 WE HAD A HOUSE IMPEACHMENT THAT TOOK DAYS. 54 00:03:25,149 --> 00:03:27,316 NOW WE'RE HEADING INTO THE SENATE WHERE EVERYONE IS IN A 55 00:03:27,415 --> 00:03:29,582 HURRY TO GET IT DONE. IT COULD HAPPEN IN THE COURSE OF 56 00:03:29,682 --> 00:03:32,347 A WEEK. 57 00:03:32,447 --> 00:03:36,047 >> IT FEELS LIKE THE BREVITY OF THIS IMPEACHMENT IS BY DESIGN 58 00:03:36,147 --> 00:03:37,513 THOUGH, RIGHT? THE DEMOCRATS LEARNED A LESSON 59 00:03:37,613 --> 00:03:41,113 FROM THE LAST IMPEACHMENT. SO THEY WENT FOR A VERY NARROW 60 00:03:41,212 --> 00:03:46,211 SINGLE ARTICLE OF IMPEACHMENT. 61 00:03:46,311 --> 00:03:47,810 >> INCITEMENT OF INSURRECTION. 62 00:03:47,910 --> 00:03:53,676 >> SO THE ALL NEW IMPEACHMENT TEAM IS COMPOSED OF A LOT OF 63 00:03:53,776 --> 00:03:56,675 PROSECUTORS AND PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERTISE IN THE U.S. 64 00:03:56,775 --> 00:03:58,109 CONSTITUTION. 65 00:03:58,208 --> 00:04:01,941 >> YES. AND THEY WILL BE THE ONES MAKING 66 00:04:02,041 --> 00:04:10,972 THE CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP IN FRONT OF THOSE 100 U.S. 67 00:04:11,072 --> 00:04:11,705 SENATORS. 68 00:04:12,238 --> 00:04:13,438 >> JAMIE RASKIN IS THE LEAD HOUSE IMPEACHMENT MANAGER. 69 00:04:13,538 --> 00:04:14,471 HE'S A CONSTITUTIONAL LAW EXPERT BUT HE ALSO HAS A REALLY TRAGIC 70 00:04:14,571 --> 00:04:14,971 PERSONAL STORY. HIS SON COMMITTED SUICIDE AT THE 71 00:04:15,071 --> 00:04:19,470 VERY END OF 2020. 72 00:04:19,570 --> 00:04:21,069 >> AND ON JANUARY 6th, HE HAD BROUGHT HIS DAUGHTER AND OTHER 73 00:04:21,169 --> 00:04:23,669 MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY TO THE CAPITOL HILL, ONLY TO HAVE THEM 74 00:04:23,769 --> 00:04:26,768 HIDE IN A LOCKED OFFICE FOR HOURS. 75 00:04:26,868 --> 00:04:29,635 >> HE STARTED WRITING THE ARTICLE OF IMPEACHMENT THAT DAY 76 00:04:29,735 --> 00:04:34,200 AND HAS BEEN THE LEAD PERSON OUT IN FRONT FOR THE DEMOCRATS EVER 77 00:04:34,300 --> 00:04:35,766 SINCE. 78 00:04:35,866 --> 00:04:38,032 >> ON THE OTHER SIDE, TRUMP HAD A TEAM OF LAWYERS. 79 00:04:38,132 --> 00:04:43,565 HE LOST THEM TEN DAYS BEFORE THE OPENING ARGUMENTS. 80 00:04:43,664 --> 00:04:45,098 >> HE BROUGHT IN TWO NEW LAWYERS. 81 00:04:45,198 --> 00:04:46,797 DAVID SCHOEN AND BRUCE CASTOR. DAVID SCHOEN REPRESENTED ROGER 82 00:04:46,896 --> 00:04:51,463 STONE IN 2019. HE WAS CASTOR'S FORMER DISTRICT 83 00:04:51,563 --> 00:04:52,695 ATTORNEY FROM PENNSYLVANIA AND THEY'RE MAKING A TWO-PRONGED 84 00:04:52,795 --> 00:04:59,461 DEFENSE. 85 00:04:59,561 --> 00:05:04,093 >> ONE ELEMENT WAS TRUMP WAS WITHIN HIS RIGHTS TO SAY WHAT HE 86 00:05:04,193 --> 00:05:05,159 SAID BECAUSE HIS SPEECH WAS PROTECTED BY THE FIRST 87 00:05:05,260 --> 00:05:06,059 AMENDMENT. TO THE SECOND BIG ARGUMENT, THIS 88 00:05:06,159 --> 00:05:06,959 ENTIRE PROCEEDING IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. 89 00:05:07,059 --> 00:05:08,192 >> YEAH. AND IT'S TELLING THAT NOBODY IS 90 00:05:08,292 --> 00:05:09,025 ACTUALLY DEFENDING WHAT HE DID AND THAT'S WHAT THE DEMOCRATS 91 00:05:09,125 --> 00:05:12,091 WILL PROSECUTE. 92 00:05:12,191 --> 00:05:14,624 >> THE HOUSE MANAGERS HAVE BEEN REALLY EXPLICIT THAT THEY WANT 93 00:05:14,724 --> 00:05:17,624 THE SUM TOTAL OF THE EVIDENCE THEY PRESENT TO BE HORRIFYING TO 94 00:05:17,723 --> 00:05:22,422 THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. SO THEY'RE GOING FOR A VISCERAL, 95 00:05:22,522 --> 00:05:26,355 EMOTIONAL, MORAL ARGUMENT TO PROSECUTE THE PRESIDENT ON. 96 00:05:26,455 --> 00:05:34,486 >> YEAH. I THINK THE OTHER THING THE 97 00:05:34,586 --> 00:05:35,685 DEMOCRATS HAVE LEARNED IS THERE IS NO BOTTOM WITH THIS GUY. 98 00:05:35,785 --> 00:05:40,285 YOU CAN'T JUST MOVE ON. THEY'RE DONE WITH THAT. 99 00:05:40,385 --> 00:05:41,551 >> BUT I DO LIKE TO THINK THAT THE LIKELIHOOD OF TRUMP GETTING 100 00:05:41,651 --> 00:05:43,017 CONVICTED IS VERY SMALL BUT IT IS NOT ZERO. 101 00:05:43,117 --> 00:05:44,351 I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF DEMOCRATS WHO WOULD LIKE TO 102 00:05:44,450 --> 00:05:45,583 BELIEVE MAYBE THERE ARE SOME REPUBLICANS WHOSE MINDS CAN BE 103 00:05:45,683 --> 00:05:48,882 CHANGED. 104 00:05:48,983 --> 00:05:51,349 >> YEAH. I THINK AT THE END OF THE DAY, A 105 00:05:51,449 --> 00:05:55,481 LOT OF DEMOCRATS THINK EVEN IF WE CAN'T CONVICT HIM, WE CAN 106 00:05:55,581 --> 00:05:56,847 DENT THE LEGACY. 107 00:05:56,947 --> 00:05:59,879 >> AFTER ALL THE MISSTATEMENTS AND THE SCANDAL AND THE FIRST 108 00:05:59,980 --> 00:06:03,679 IMPEACHMENT AND NOW AFTER A SECOND IMPEACHMENT, CAN THEY 109 00:06:03,779 --> 00:06:16,243 FINALLY UP EQUIVOCALLY MAKE DONALD TRUMP PERSONA NONGRATA. 110 00:06:16,343 --> 00:06:20,542 >> TODAY BEGINS THE HISTORIC SECOND IMPEACHMENT TRIAL OF 111 00:06:20,642 --> 00:06:21,609 FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. 112 00:06:21,709 --> 00:06:22,874 >> HOURS AWAY. 113 00:06:22,975 --> 00:06:25,774 >> THE FIRST VOTE WILL BE ON THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF TRYING A 114 00:06:25,873 --> 00:06:29,007 FORMER PRESIDENT, SOMETHING MANY REPUBLICANS HAVE USED AS A 115 00:06:29,106 --> 00:06:34,038 CRUTCH TO AVOID THIS TRIAL ALTOGETHER. 116 00:06:34,138 --> 00:06:40,937 >> ALOHA. WE GOT THAT. 117 00:06:41,037 --> 00:06:42,470 HAVE YOU GOT A LUNCH PAIL OR SOMETHING? 118 00:06:42,570 --> 00:06:51,235 >> THIS IS IT. 119 00:06:51,335 --> 00:06:53,901 >> YOU'VE GOT THIS OVERREACHING NARRATIVE. 120 00:06:54,001 --> 00:06:56,833 TRUMP WON'T BE CONVICTED SO THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THE SENSE OF WHY 121 00:06:56,933 --> 00:06:59,266 ARE WE DOING THIS? I THINK A LOT OF AMERICANS 122 00:06:59,366 --> 00:07:00,932 WONDER THAT. SO TRUMP IS GONE. 123 00:07:01,032 --> 00:07:03,799 IF HE'S NOT GOING TO GET CONVICTED, WHAT'S THE POINT 124 00:07:03,899 --> 00:07:04,332 HERE? 125 00:07:05,098 --> 00:07:07,397 >> WE'RE DOING THIS SO IN THE FUTURE WHEN THESE KINDS OF 126 00:07:07,497 --> 00:07:11,396 THINGS ARISE, THERE IS A PRECEDENT SET FOR THE IDEA THAT 127 00:07:11,496 --> 00:07:18,395 IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR. 128 00:07:18,495 --> 00:07:22,361 >> THESE GUYS ARE WITH ME. I'M GOING TO TAKE THAT. 129 00:07:22,461 --> 00:07:24,260 THEY'LL GO THROUGH SECURITY. THANK YOU. 130 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:27,759 HOW ARE YOU GUYS DOING? THANKS FOR BEING HERE. 131 00:07:27,859 --> 00:07:34,458 THANKS FOR BEING HERE. GOOD MORNING. 132 00:07:34,558 --> 00:07:37,024 >> WOULD YOU IMAGINE THERE'S ANY REPUBLICAN WHO WILL ACTUALLY 133 00:07:37,124 --> 00:07:40,823 STAND UP AND TRY ON DEFEND THE PRESIDENT'S BEHAVIOR AND SAY 134 00:07:40,923 --> 00:07:44,223 HE'S NOT GUILTY OF HAVING INSPIRED INSURRECTION? 135 00:07:44,323 --> 00:07:45,922 WILL ANYONE MAKE THAT CASE? 136 00:07:46,022 --> 00:07:49,487 >> I HOPE NOT. THEIR SILENCE WILL STAND AS A 137 00:07:49,588 --> 00:07:52,954 TACIT APPROVAL OF WHAT HE DID. OR THE IDEA THAT SOMEHOW IT 138 00:07:53,054 --> 00:07:59,752 DIDN'T MATTER VERY MUCH. WHEN A CAPITOL POLICE OFFICER 139 00:07:59,852 --> 00:08:06,017 WAS KILLED AS A RESULT OF WHAT HAPPENED. 140 00:08:06,117 --> 00:08:09,350 >> DO YOU STILL THINK BACK ON THOSE EVENTS ON JANUARY 6th AND 141 00:08:09,450 --> 00:08:10,350 FEEL ANGRY? 142 00:08:10,450 --> 00:08:12,982 >> ABSOLUTELY. MY OFFICE IS RIGHT UP THERE AND 143 00:08:13,082 --> 00:08:16,115 THIS ENTIRE PARK WAS FILLED WITH TRUMP PARTISANS WHO WERE 144 00:08:16,215 --> 00:08:20,914 STANDING OUT HERE, GETTING READY TO STORM THE CAPITOL. 145 00:08:21,014 --> 00:08:24,214 THE PLACE WAS RINGED WITH THESE FOLKS. 146 00:08:24,313 --> 00:08:31,611 AND I SAID TO MY STAFF STANDING UP THERE, IT IS AN INCREDIBLE 147 00:08:31,711 --> 00:08:34,211 THING THAT THE IRRESPONSIBILITY OF ONE HUMAN BEING COULD BRING 148 00:08:34,311 --> 00:08:37,810 US TO THIS POINT. SO I'M NOT JUST ANGRY ABOUT WHAT 149 00:08:37,910 --> 00:08:40,109 HE DID ONLY WEEKEND. I'M ANGRY ABOUT WHAT HE DID TO 150 00:08:40,210 --> 00:08:43,609 THE COUNTRY. 151 00:08:43,709 --> 00:08:46,841 >> PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS SENT HIS LAWYERS HERE TODAY TO TRY TO 152 00:08:46,942 --> 00:08:51,807 STOP THE SENATE FROM HEARING THE FACTS. 153 00:08:51,906 --> 00:08:55,372 THEIR ARGUMENT IS THAT IF YOU COMMIT AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE IN 154 00:08:55,472 --> 00:09:01,104 YOUR LAST FEW WEEKS IN OFFICE, YOU DO IT WITH CONSTITUTIONAL 155 00:09:01,205 --> 00:09:05,836 IMPUNITY. THIS WOULD CREATE A BRAND NEW 156 00:09:05,937 --> 00:09:10,303 JANUARY EXCEPTION TO THE CONSTITUTION. 157 00:09:10,403 --> 00:09:12,802 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS FORBIDDEN TO COMMIT 158 00:09:12,902 --> 00:09:16,401 HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS AGAINST THE PEOPLE AT ANY POINT 159 00:09:16,501 --> 00:09:21,200 THAT HE'S IN OFFICE. INDEED, THAT IS ONE SPECIFIC 160 00:09:21,300 --> 00:09:24,699 REASON THE IMPEACHMENT CONVICTION AND DISQUALIFICATION 161 00:09:24,799 --> 00:09:28,398 POWERS EXIST, TO PROTECT US AGAINST PRESIDENTS WHO TRY TO 162 00:09:28,498 --> 00:09:33,198 OVERRUN THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE IN THEIR ELECTIONS, AND REPLACE 163 00:09:33,297 --> 00:09:38,596 THE RULE OF LAW WITH THE RULE OF MOBS. 164 00:09:38,696 --> 00:09:41,196 >> THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO HEAR FROM ME. 165 00:09:41,296 --> 00:09:49,793 MY NAME IS BRUCE CASTOR. I AM THE LEAD PROSECUTOR -- LEAD 166 00:09:49,893 --> 00:09:51,726 COUNSEL FOR THE 45th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 167 00:09:51,826 --> 00:09:54,226 I WAS ASSISTANT D.A. FOR SUCH A LONG TIME. 168 00:09:54,325 --> 00:09:57,192 I KEEP SAYING PROSECUTOR BUT I DO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE, 169 00:09:57,292 --> 00:10:03,256 MR. RASKIN. IF MY COLLEAGUES ON THIS SIDE OF 170 00:10:03,356 --> 00:10:08,289 THE CHAMBER ACTUALLY THINK THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP COMMITTED A 171 00:10:08,389 --> 00:10:12,922 CRIMINAL OFFENSE, AFTER HE'S OUT OF OFFICE, YOU GO AND ARREST 172 00:10:13,021 --> 00:10:15,487 HIM. PRESIDENT TRUMP NO LONGER IS IN 173 00:10:15,587 --> 00:10:18,920 OFFICE. THE OBJECT OF THE CONSTITUTION 174 00:10:19,020 --> 00:10:23,585 HAS BEEN ACHIEVED. HE WAS REMOVED BY THE VOTERS. 175 00:10:23,685 --> 00:10:27,285 >> THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. 176 00:10:27,385 --> 00:10:33,516 >> MISS BALDWIN. MISS BALDWIN. 177 00:10:33,616 --> 00:10:36,949 AYE. MRS. BLACK BURN. 178 00:10:37,049 --> 00:10:37,882 MR. BLOUNT. 179 00:10:37,982 --> 00:10:41,748 >> 56-44. A BIPARTISAN VOTE WAS SIX 180 00:10:41,848 --> 00:10:43,214 REPUBLICAN SENATORS JOINING EVERY DEMOCRAT. 181 00:10:43,314 --> 00:10:48,679 >> ADVANCING THE PROCEEDINGS TO A FULL BLOWN TRIAL. 182 00:10:48,779 --> 00:10:52,978 >> THE PRESIDENT IS WATCHING ALL OF THIS FROM MARLEAU. 183 00:10:53,078 --> 00:10:55,945 >> IT IS DAY TWO. TODAY HOUSE IMPEACHMENT MANAGERS 184 00:10:56,044 --> 00:10:59,443 WILL BEGIN LAYING OUT THEIR CASE FOR WHY FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD 185 00:10:59,544 --> 00:11:00,410 TRUMP -- 186 00:11:00,777 --> 00:11:04,809 >> TO AN UPRISING FROM HIS FOLLOWERS THAT LEFT HALF A DOZEN 187 00:11:04,909 --> 00:11:08,475 PEOPLE DEAD. 188 00:11:08,575 --> 00:11:11,474 >> DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO MAKE THE CASE THAT THE 189 00:11:11,574 --> 00:11:14,607 INSURRECTIONISTS WHO STORMED THE CAPITOL THAT DAY WERE ACTING AT 190 00:11:14,706 --> 00:11:15,840 THE DIRECTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 191 00:11:15,940 --> 00:11:19,173 AS THEY'RE MAKING THAT ARGUMENT, THE LAWYERS FOR THE 192 00:11:19,273 --> 00:11:21,539 INSURRECTIONISTS ARE MAKING THE SAME ARGUMENT. 193 00:11:21,639 --> 00:11:25,071 RIGHT HERE IN THE D.C. CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, MATTHEW 194 00:11:25,172 --> 00:11:30,203 MILLER IS A 22-YEAR-OLD MAN FROM MARYLAND WHO WAS ARRESTED AFTER 195 00:11:30,303 --> 00:11:33,536 IMAGES SHOWED HIM DEPLOYING A FIRE EXTINGUISHER AT POLICE 196 00:11:33,636 --> 00:11:35,902 OFFICERS WHO WERE TRYING TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM ENTERING THE CAPITOL 197 00:11:36,002 --> 00:11:38,234 BUILDING. 198 00:11:38,334 --> 00:11:42,034 >> HE'S A YOUNG MAN WHO HAS NEVER BEEN IN TROUBLE WITH THE 199 00:11:42,134 --> 00:11:44,233 LAW BEFORE. HE LIVED WITH HIS MOTHER AND 200 00:11:44,333 --> 00:11:46,666 GRANDMOTHER. HE WORKED NORMAL SUBURBAN KID. 201 00:11:46,766 --> 00:11:50,199 THAT DAY, BUT FOR TRUMP'S EXHORTATIONS AND TRUMP'S 202 00:11:50,299 --> 00:11:53,831 WHIPPING UP THE CROWD, HE NEVER WOULD HAVE MARCHED OUT TO THE 203 00:11:53,931 --> 00:12:01,596 CAPITOL. 204 00:12:01,695 --> 00:12:04,961 >> HE THEN BECAME INVOLVED IN POLITICS UNTIL FAIRLY RECENTLY. 205 00:12:05,061 --> 00:12:08,095 AT LEAST DURING TRUMP'S FIRST TERM IS WHEN HE BECAME A 206 00:12:08,194 --> 00:12:09,827 FOLLOWER OF WHAT TRUMP HAD TO SAY. 207 00:12:09,927 --> 00:12:12,194 >> WHAT DEATH HE WAS DOING WHEN HE GOT TO THE MALL? 208 00:12:12,293 --> 00:12:16,026 >> WHEN HE WAS THERE, HE WAS LISTENING TO THE SPEECHES AND 209 00:12:16,126 --> 00:12:21,159 WANTED TO BE PART OF HISTORY. HE WENT DOWN TO SUPPORT TRUMP. 210 00:12:21,258 --> 00:12:25,690 THERE IS NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT. I DON'T THINK ANYONE AT THE MALL 211 00:12:25,790 --> 00:12:27,656 THAT DAY WAS THERE FOR ANY OTHER REASON. 212 00:12:27,756 --> 00:12:32,222 THEY WERE THERE IN ORDER TO HEAR THIS MAN WHOM THEY IDOLIZED. 213 00:12:32,322 --> 00:12:38,320 BUT THEN WHEN TRUMP STARTED WHIPPING UP THE CROWD, DEMANDING 214 00:12:38,420 --> 00:12:41,586 THAT PEOPLE MARCH TO THE CAPITOL TO STOP THE STEAL, TO FIGHT LIKE 215 00:12:41,686 --> 00:12:44,353 HELL, ET CETERA, AND OTHER SPEAKERS CAME IN AND PEOPLE IN 216 00:12:44,453 --> 00:12:48,352 THE CROWDS WERE WHIPPING THEMSELVES UP INTO A FRENZY, 217 00:12:48,452 --> 00:12:50,584 HE'S A YOUNG AND IMPRESSIONABLE YOUNG GUY. 218 00:12:50,684 --> 00:12:53,484 HE GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE MOMENT AND DECIDED TO MARCH TO THE 219 00:12:53,584 --> 00:12:54,084 CAPITOL. 220 00:12:54,917 --> 00:12:57,583 >> THE REPUBLICANS DEFENDING THE PRESIDENT SAY IN MANY CASES THAT 221 00:12:57,682 --> 00:12:59,849 THE PRESIDENT WAS BEING FIGURATIVE. 222 00:12:59,949 --> 00:13:03,548 NOT LITERAL. BUT YOU'RE STANDING HERE OUTSIDE 223 00:13:03,648 --> 00:13:08,647 OF A PRISON TELLING ME, OH, NO, IT WAS EXPLICIT. 224 00:13:08,747 --> 00:13:12,147 >> MOST OF THE PEOPLE YOU TALK TO WHO WERE THERE THAT DAY ACTED 225 00:13:12,247 --> 00:13:14,112 AT THE DIRECTION OF TRUMP. I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY DOUBT 226 00:13:14,212 --> 00:13:17,211 ABOUT THAT. THEY DO STUDIES ON MOB ACTIVITY 227 00:13:17,311 --> 00:13:20,544 AND YOU KNOW, ALL YOU NEED IS ONE PERSON TO LIGHT THE FUSE AND 228 00:13:20,644 --> 00:13:23,577 THAT'S WHAT TRUMP DID. THEY'RE HERE LEFT TO PICK UP THE 229 00:13:23,676 --> 00:13:24,810 PIECES OF TRUMP'S WORDS. 230 00:13:24,910 --> 00:13:28,809 >> ARE THEY ASHAPED AT ALL THAT THEY DID WHAT THEY DID? 231 00:13:28,909 --> 00:13:31,008 >> I THINK THERE'S A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF REGRET. 232 00:13:31,108 --> 00:13:34,241 THAT THERE WAS AN INVOLVEMENT IN THIS PARTICULAR ACTIVITY. 233 00:13:34,341 --> 00:13:36,640 MY CLIENT POSSIBLY HAVING A CRIMINAL RECORD AFTER THIS AND 234 00:13:36,740 --> 00:13:39,540 THE REST OF HIS LIFE CHANGED BECAUSE HE IS FACING 235 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,273 CONSIDERABLE TIME IN PRISON BASED ON THE CHARGES. 236 00:13:42,372 --> 00:13:47,005 WHILE TRUMP IS IN MAR-A-LAGO ENJOYING HIS RETIREMENT. 237 00:13:47,105 --> 00:13:50,570 >> I'VE COME TO REALIZE THESE ARE NORMAL PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND 238 00:13:50,670 --> 00:13:51,670 ME. BY DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES IN 239 00:13:51,770 --> 00:13:55,103 THEIR LIFE, THEY TOOK A DIFFERENT PATH AND ENDED UP 240 00:13:55,203 --> 00:13:56,469 WHERE THEY DID. 241 00:13:56,569 --> 00:14:00,635 >> THAT SUGGESTS HUMANITY TEETERS A LITTLE MORE ON A 242 00:14:00,735 --> 00:14:03,168 KNIFE'S EDGE THAN I THINK WE'RE ACKNOWLEDGING. 243 00:14:03,268 --> 00:14:07,100 >> I THINK THAT'S VERY CORRECT. WE'VE LIVED IN A DEMOCRACY FOR 244 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,399 OVER 200 YEARS, AND EVERYONE THOUGHT THE COUNTRY WAS STRONG. 245 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:13,866 WHAT DID IT TAKE? ONE GUY TO COME BY TO COME 246 00:14:13,965 --> 00:14:20,297 AROUND AND SHAKE THINGS UP. 247 00:14:20,397 --> 00:14:23,696 >> YOU SAW PRESIDENT TRUMP PRIME FOR MONTHS HIS SUPPORTERS TO 248 00:14:23,796 --> 00:14:28,195 BELIEVE THAT THE ONLY WAY THEIR VICTORY WOULD BE LOST WAS IF IT 249 00:14:28,295 --> 00:14:32,128 WAS STOLEN. JANUARY 6th. 250 00:14:32,228 --> 00:14:36,693 WE KNOW WHY HE PICKED THIS DAY. IT WAS HIS LAST CHANCE TO STOP A 251 00:14:36,793 --> 00:14:39,992 PEACEFUL TRANSITION OF POWER. 252 00:14:40,092 --> 00:14:42,525 >> YOU HAVE TO BE STRONG AND WE FIGHT. 253 00:14:42,625 --> 00:14:43,859 WE FIGHT LIKE HELL. 254 00:14:43,958 --> 00:14:49,290 >> 2:24 P.M. HE TWEETED. 255 00:14:49,390 --> 00:14:52,156 QUOTE, MIKE PENCE DIDN'T HAVE THE COURAGE TO DO WHAT SHOULD 256 00:14:52,256 --> 00:14:58,222 HAVE BEEN DONE TO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY AND OUR CONSTITUTION. 257 00:14:58,322 --> 00:15:00,821 >> MIKE PENCE DIDN'T HAVE THE COURAGE TO DO WHAT SHOULD HAVE 258 00:15:00,921 --> 00:15:12,618 BEEN DONE TO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY AND OUR CONSTITUTION. 259 00:15:16,884 --> 00:15:21,217 >> THAT'S WHAT OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF SAW HAPPENING AND THAT WAS 260 00:15:21,316 --> 00:15:24,316 HIS RESPONSE. 261 00:15:24,416 --> 00:15:28,881 >> WHILE ALL OF THIS WAS GOING ON, VICE PRESIDENT PENCE WAS 262 00:15:28,981 --> 00:15:32,780 STILL IN THE ROOM NEAR THE SENATE CHAMBER. 263 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:37,512 IT WAS NOT UNTIL 2:26 THAT HE WAS EVACUATED TO A SECURED 264 00:15:37,612 --> 00:15:41,911 LOCATION. 265 00:15:42,011 --> 00:15:50,509 >> ON JANUARY 6, PRESIDENT TRUMP LEFT EVERYONE IN THIS CAPITOL 266 00:15:50,609 --> 00:15:53,075 FOR DEAD. 267 00:15:53,175 --> 00:15:57,374 >> THEY TOOK A LOT OF EVIDENCE AND DISTILLED IT REMARKABLY WELL 268 00:15:57,475 --> 00:15:59,241 AND CONNECTED THE DOTS. 269 00:15:59,341 --> 00:16:00,974 >> THE SENATE STANDS ADJOURNED. 270 00:16:01,073 --> 00:16:10,105 >> IT HELPED LAY OUT THE CLEAREST MOST COMPREHENSIVE YET. 271 00:16:10,205 --> 00:16:15,571 >> TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DAY. WHAT WAS IT LIKE WATCHING THIS 272 00:16:15,670 --> 00:16:16,837 STUFF? 273 00:16:16,937 --> 00:16:19,802 >> I WOULD SAY OVERALL IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST MOVING DAYS THAT 274 00:16:19,902 --> 00:16:24,202 I'VE EXPERIENCED IN MY TIME IN THE SENATE. 275 00:16:24,302 --> 00:16:27,701 >> THEY SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH A LOT OF VIDEO TODAY AND MANY 276 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,834 WERE WATCHING IT, INCLUDING ME, REALLY STRUCK BY A LOT OF THE 277 00:16:31,933 --> 00:16:34,766 SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE WHERE YOU GOT TO SEE THINGS WE'VE 278 00:16:34,866 --> 00:16:35,732 NEVER SEEN BEFORE. 279 00:16:35,833 --> 00:16:40,531 >> RIGHT. THERE IS A SCENE OF ALL OF US 280 00:16:40,631 --> 00:16:44,497 BEING TAKEN OUT OF THE CHAMBER. THE POLICE ARE RIGHT THERE AND 281 00:16:44,597 --> 00:16:46,729 THE RIOTERS ARE RIGHT THERE. IT WAS SCARY. 282 00:16:46,830 --> 00:16:50,396 IT WAS TERRIFYING. I DON'T THINK ANYBODY IN THE 283 00:16:50,496 --> 00:16:58,427 CHAMBER HAD ANY IDEA HOW CLOSE THEY WERE UNTIL TODAY. 284 00:16:58,527 --> 00:17:01,926 ONE OF THE LINES OF ARGUMENT THAT WAS SO EFFECTIVE WAS WHAT 285 00:17:02,026 --> 00:17:05,826 DID PRESIDENT TRUMP DO WHEN HE KNEW WE WERE UNDER ASSAULT? 286 00:17:05,926 --> 00:17:10,558 LITERALLY NOTHING. HE'S, HE TWEETS OUT THAT PENCE 287 00:17:10,658 --> 00:17:14,123 HAS ABANDONED TRUMP. THEY HAVE A NOOSE OUTSIDE FOR 288 00:17:14,223 --> 00:17:17,689 PENCE WHILE PENCE IS IN THE FREAKING CAPITOL. 289 00:17:17,789 --> 00:17:24,854 THAT OUGHT TO BE ENOUGH. JUST THAT OUGHT TO BE ENOUGH. 290 00:17:24,954 --> 00:17:28,353 >> TODAY I THINK MADE JUST MORE VIVIDLY CLEAR THAN EVER BEFORE 291 00:17:28,454 --> 00:17:30,519 HOW MUCH TRUMP FED MIKE PENCE TO THE LIONS. 292 00:17:30,619 --> 00:17:33,319 >> ABSOLUTELY. NOBODY COULD BE MORE SUB 293 00:17:33,419 --> 00:17:36,752 SERVIENT TO HIM. HE WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO PUT 294 00:17:36,851 --> 00:17:38,018 MIKE PENSION IN THE CROSS HAIRS. 295 00:17:38,118 --> 00:17:43,217 >> HOW CAN YOU AT THE PURE LEVEL OF INTEREST, HOW CAN YOU SAY I 296 00:17:43,316 --> 00:17:44,949 THINK I'M GOING TO STICK WITH TRUMP. 297 00:17:45,049 --> 00:17:48,649 THAT'S OBVIOUSLY MY BEST LONG TERM SELF-INTERESTS. 298 00:17:48,749 --> 00:17:51,115 >> HE'LL GRIND PEOPLE INTO SMITHERINES. 299 00:17:51,215 --> 00:17:55,980 THAT'S WHAT HE DOES. 300 00:17:56,081 --> 00:17:58,946 >> IT IS DAY THREE OF DONALD TRUMP'S SECOND IMPEACHMENT 301 00:17:59,046 --> 00:17:59,546 TRIAL. 302 00:18:00,312 --> 00:18:02,646 >> HOUSE IMPEACHMENT MANAGERS ARE EXPECTED TO WRAP UP THEIR 303 00:18:02,745 --> 00:18:03,745 OPENING ARGUMENTS. 304 00:18:03,845 --> 00:18:06,445 >> THE SENATE HEADS INTO THE THIRD DAY OF THE SECOND 305 00:18:06,545 --> 00:18:08,777 IMPEACHMENT TRIAL. THE QUESTION REMAINS, WHAT WILL 306 00:18:08,877 --> 00:18:10,077 BE THE OUTCOME? 307 00:18:10,177 --> 00:18:18,241 >> WE HUMBLY, HUMBLY ASK YOU TO CONVICT PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR THE 308 00:18:18,341 --> 00:18:25,640 CRIME FOR WHICH HE IS OVERWHELMINGLY GUILTY OF. 309 00:18:25,740 --> 00:18:32,905 BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T, IF WE PRETEND THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN, OR 310 00:18:33,005 --> 00:18:39,937 WORSE, IF WE LET IT GO UNANSWERED, WHO IS TO SAY IT 311 00:18:40,036 --> 00:18:49,268 WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN? 312 00:18:49,368 --> 00:18:51,368 >> I UNDERSTAND THAT THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO TEACH DONALD 313 00:18:51,467 --> 00:18:54,966 TRUMP AND PARTICULARLY DONALD TRUMP'S SUPPORTERS A LESSON, BUT 314 00:18:55,067 --> 00:18:59,565 THE NOTION THAT 50 PLUS 17 SENATORS WILL DECIDE WHETHER OR 315 00:18:59,665 --> 00:19:01,698 NOT DONALD TRUMP CAN BE A CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE AGAIN 316 00:19:01,799 --> 00:19:09,064 STRIKES ME AS BEING SOMETHING THAT IS NOT THEIR DECISION TO 317 00:19:09,164 --> 00:19:16,262 MAKE. 318 00:19:16,362 --> 00:19:20,727 >> DURING THE FIRST IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, ONE OF MY PRINCIPLE 319 00:19:20,827 --> 00:19:22,927 ARGUMENTS AND OF THE DEFENSE TEAM WAS LISTEN, THEY'LL HAVE AN 320 00:19:23,027 --> 00:19:26,126 ELECTION IN TEN MONTHS. THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE SHOULD 321 00:19:26,226 --> 00:19:27,793 CONTROL. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS 322 00:19:27,893 --> 00:19:29,558 IMPEACHMENT? YOU HAVE A SIMPLE RECOMMENDED. 323 00:19:29,658 --> 00:19:31,458 VOTE HIM OUT OF OFFICE. 324 00:19:31,558 --> 00:19:34,124 >> PEOPLE LEARN THINGS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S BEHAVIOR THAT IN THE 325 00:19:34,224 --> 00:19:38,023 END MAY NOT BE IMPEACHABLE BUT MAY REALLY HURT HIS PROSPECTS 326 00:19:38,123 --> 00:19:39,756 FOR RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION. 327 00:19:39,856 --> 00:19:43,588 >> THE THING THAT STRUCK ME ABOUT THE TESTIMONY IS THAT I 328 00:19:43,688 --> 00:19:46,021 WAS DISTURBED BY WHAT HAPPENED IN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN 329 00:19:46,121 --> 00:19:50,820 APPROXIMATELY 1:00 IN THE AFTERNOON AND, YOU KNOW, AFTER 330 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,286 4:00, WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP FINALLY CAME IN TO TELL THEM TO 331 00:19:54,386 --> 00:19:56,253 GO HOME. AND I THINK. 332 00:19:56,352 --> 00:19:59,718 IN THREE AND A HALF HOUR PERIOD, THAT WAS TOO SLOW. 333 00:19:59,818 --> 00:20:04,017 IN MY MIND, THAT'S A DERELICTION OF DUTY. 334 00:20:04,117 --> 00:20:07,016 >> WOULDN'T YOU SAY IF SOMEBODY'S DERELICTION OF DUTY 335 00:20:07,116 --> 00:20:12,848 FOR THREE HOURS, A GREATER IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE THAN LYING 336 00:20:12,948 --> 00:20:13,815 ABOUT A BLOW JOB? 337 00:20:13,915 --> 00:20:15,481 >> IT'S AN ERROR IN JUDGMENT. 338 00:20:15,581 --> 00:20:17,714 >> HE COULD HAVE STOPPED PEOPLE FROM KILLING PEOPLE. 339 00:20:17,814 --> 00:20:20,746 >> I UNDERSTAND THAT. BUT IT HAS TO START WITH WHAT 340 00:20:20,846 --> 00:20:25,446 THEY CHARGED HERE. UNLESS YOU CAN PROVE THERE WAS 341 00:20:25,545 --> 00:20:29,278 INCITEMENT INSURRECTION AS A FEDERAL CRIME, YOU DON'T HAVE AN 342 00:20:29,378 --> 00:20:31,811 IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE. AND I IMAGINE YOU WILL HEAR -- 343 00:20:31,911 --> 00:20:33,977 >> SO IS THAT WHAT YOU FOCUS ON TOMORROW IN. 344 00:20:34,077 --> 00:20:37,675 >> I WOULD FOCUS ON FAILURE TO PROVE INCITEMENT VIOLATION OF 345 00:20:37,776 --> 00:20:39,809 CRIMINAL LAW. I THINK YOU WILL HEAR MUCH ABOUT 346 00:20:39,909 --> 00:20:40,409 THAT. 347 00:20:40,776 --> 00:20:45,174 >> PART OF THAT IS SAYING YOU'RE NOT 348 00:20:45,274 --> 00:20:46,441 N INSIDE DONALD TRUMP'S HEAD. 349 00:20:46,541 --> 00:20:50,507 >> TRIAL BY VIDEO WILL NEVER GET TO YOU WHAT WAS DONALD TRUMP'S 350 00:20:50,607 --> 00:20:51,873 INTENT. 351 00:20:51,973 --> 00:20:56,538 >> YOU DO HAVE INSURRECTIONISM. THEY INTERPRETED IT AS BEING 352 00:20:56,638 --> 00:20:58,071 CREATE VIOLENCE AT THE CAPITOL. 353 00:20:58,171 --> 00:21:01,337 >> I DON'T THINK FIGHT LIKE HELL IS AN INCITEMENT FOR VIOLENT OR 354 00:21:01,437 --> 00:21:02,004 LAWLESS ACTION. 355 00:21:02,103 --> 00:21:04,536 >> OR NOT TO SHOW WEAKNESS? 356 00:21:04,636 --> 00:21:07,935 >> IF HE SAID TO THEM, I WANT YOU TO GO TO THE CAPITOL AND 357 00:21:08,036 --> 00:21:11,301 BREAK WINDOWS OR BRING WEAPONS WITH YOU, I THINK THAT'S A WHOLE 358 00:21:11,402 --> 00:21:14,267 DIFFERENT SITUATION. I'M NOT ENDORSING ANY OF THOSE 359 00:21:14,367 --> 00:21:14,601 ACTIONS. 360 00:21:14,701 --> 00:21:15,734 >> SURE. 361 00:21:15,833 --> 00:21:19,333 >> THEY SHOULD BE CONDEMNED. I THINK THERE WERE SERIOUS 362 00:21:19,433 --> 00:21:23,399 ERRORS IN JUDGMENT TO ALLOW THIS TO GET TO THIS POINT BUT I DON'T 363 00:21:23,499 --> 00:21:25,098 THINK IT IS AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE. 364 00:21:25,198 --> 00:21:28,930 THERE'S A LOT OF BAD STUFF THAT HAPPENS THAT IS STILL BAD BUT 365 00:21:29,031 --> 00:21:31,230 NOT NECESSARILY IMPEACHABLE OR CRIMINAL. 366 00:21:31,330 --> 00:21:33,929 >> I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE INCLUDING SENATORS HAVE LEARNED 367 00:21:34,030 --> 00:21:36,295 THINGS THAT WENT ON THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT. 368 00:21:36,396 --> 00:21:38,295 >> YOU CAN COUNT ME IN THAT, TOO. 369 00:21:38,396 --> 00:21:41,762 A PRESENTATION TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, I WILL GRANT YOU, I 370 00:21:41,861 --> 00:21:44,227 THINK HAS BEEN A SERVICE TO THE COUNTRY. 371 00:21:44,327 --> 00:21:47,227 SO I WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT. I THINK IT HAS SERVED A USEFUL 372 00:21:47,327 --> 00:21:51,393 PURPOSE, YES. 373 00:21:51,493 --> 00:21:54,692 >> FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S DEFENSE LAWYERS HAD TAKE THE 374 00:21:54,791 --> 00:21:57,290 SENATE FLOOR TODAY. HIS LEGAL TEAM SAYS IT WILL ONLY 375 00:21:57,391 --> 00:22:02,656 NEED A FEW HOURS TO REBUT THE DEMOCRATS' CASE. 376 00:22:02,757 --> 00:22:06,322 >> AM I RIGHT TO SAY YOU BABBLED OND THIS OFFICE IN MARCH OF LAST 377 00:22:06,422 --> 00:22:11,421 YEAR, ALMOST A FULL YEAR AGO? A LIVING TIME CAPSULE. 378 00:22:11,521 --> 00:22:17,486 >> THE PRESIDENT'S DEFENSE IS GOING TO OFFER A VERY COMPACT 379 00:22:17,586 --> 00:22:20,885 DEFENSE TODAY. WE KNOW THEY ARE DOING ONLY A 380 00:22:20,985 --> 00:22:23,752 FEW HOURS. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT? 381 00:22:23,852 --> 00:22:26,851 >> I THINK THEY HAVE COUNTED THE VOTES AND THEIR VIEW IS THEY ARE 382 00:22:26,951 --> 00:22:28,684 HOME. THEY'RE GOING TO DO AS LITTLE 383 00:22:28,784 --> 00:22:31,449 DAMAGE AS THEY POSSIBLY CAN. AND I THINK WHAT THEY'RE GOING 384 00:22:31,549 --> 00:22:36,582 TO BE LEFT WITH IS MAKING LAWYERS' TRICK THAT'S WILL GIVE 385 00:22:36,682 --> 00:22:40,148 PEOPLE WHO VOTE NO A PRETEXT FOR VOTING NO. 386 00:22:40,247 --> 00:22:42,713 OR AN EXCUSE. 387 00:22:42,813 --> 00:22:46,246 >> I THINK YOUR VIEW LIKE EVERYBODY'S VIEW, THE LIKELY OF 388 00:22:46,346 --> 00:22:47,413 CONVICTION IS VERY LOW. 389 00:22:47,512 --> 00:22:50,745 >> MY SENSE IS THAT MITCH McCONNELL HAS NOT MADE UP HIS 390 00:22:50,845 --> 00:22:53,644 MIND. IF HE DECIDED TO VOTE TO 391 00:22:53,745 --> 00:22:58,243 CONVICT, HE COULD TAKE SOME PEOPLE WITH HIM. 392 00:22:58,343 --> 00:23:02,975 IN HIS MIND, YOU CAN ONLY SEE THE WHEELS TURNING AS HE IS 393 00:23:03,075 --> 00:23:04,942 SITTING THERE. THE QUESTION FOR HIM, WHAT IS 394 00:23:05,042 --> 00:23:09,141 THE BEST THING FOR ME TO DO TO GET US BACK INTO POWER? 395 00:23:09,241 --> 00:23:14,240 WHAT HE'S FACED WITH IS, ON THE ONE HAND, IF THEY VOTE TO 396 00:23:14,339 --> 00:23:17,839 CONVICT HIM AND THEY ACTUALLY DO CONVICT HIM, THEY'RE IN FOR A 397 00:23:17,939 --> 00:23:23,871 LOT OF VERY SERIOUS SHORT TERM PAIN FROM THE TRUMP BASE. 398 00:23:23,971 --> 00:23:24,970 >> BIG BACK LASH. 399 00:23:25,070 --> 00:23:27,803 >> HUGE BACK LASH. BUT THEY'VE TAKEN THE PARTY BACK 400 00:23:27,903 --> 00:23:30,203 FROM DONALD TRUMP. IF THEY VOTE TO ACQUIT, THEN 401 00:23:30,303 --> 00:23:34,002 THEY'VE TURNED THE KEYS OVER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO DONALD 402 00:23:34,102 --> 00:23:38,734 TRUMP. SAD TO SAY. 403 00:23:38,834 --> 00:23:39,834 >> OKAY. TEN MINUTES. 404 00:23:39,934 --> 00:23:47,765 >> OKAY. I'M READY. 405 00:23:47,865 --> 00:23:53,430 >> TO CLAIM THAT THE PRESIDENT IN ANY WAY WISHED, DESIRED OR 406 00:23:53,530 --> 00:23:58,563 ENCOURAGED LAWLESS OR VIOLENT BEHAVIOR IS A PREPOSTEROUS AND 407 00:23:58,663 --> 00:24:01,762 MONSTROUS LIE. LIKE EVERY OTHER POLITICALLY 408 00:24:01,862 --> 00:24:05,794 MOTIVATED WITCH HUNT, THE LEFT HAS ENGAGED IN OVER THE LAST 409 00:24:05,894 --> 00:24:06,527 FOUR YEARS. 410 00:24:06,627 --> 00:24:08,294 >> WORDS MATTER. THEY TOLD YOU. 411 00:24:08,394 --> 00:24:11,560 WE HEARD A LOT THIS WEEK ABOUT FIGHT LIKE HELL. 412 00:24:11,660 --> 00:24:15,425 BUT THEY CUT OFF THE VIDEO BEFORE THEY SHOWED YOU THE 413 00:24:15,525 --> 00:24:19,958 PRESIDENT'S OPTIMISTIC, PATRIOTIC WORDS THAT FOLLOWED 414 00:24:20,057 --> 00:24:21,024 IMMEDIATELY AFTER. 415 00:24:21,124 --> 00:24:25,156 >> FIGHT LIKE HELL. IF YOU DON'T FIGHT LIKE HELL, 416 00:24:25,256 --> 00:24:27,923 YOU WON'T HAVE A COUNTRY ANYMORE. 417 00:24:28,023 --> 00:24:31,989 OUR EXCITING ADVENTURES HAVE NOT YET BEGUN. 418 00:24:32,089 --> 00:24:37,987 >> LET US BE CLEAR, THIS TRIAL IS ABOUT FAR MORE THAN PRESIDENT 419 00:24:38,087 --> 00:24:42,186 TRUMP. IT IS ABOUT CANCELING 75 MILLION 420 00:24:42,286 --> 00:24:46,452 TRUMP VOTERS. ARE WE GOING TO ALLOW CANCELING 421 00:24:46,552 --> 00:24:51,517 AND BANNING AND SILENCING TO BE SANCTIONED IN THIS BODY? 422 00:24:51,616 --> 00:24:55,450 >> THIS CONCLUDES THE FORMER DEFENSE OF THE 45th PRESIDENT OF 423 00:24:55,550 --> 00:25:05,613 THE UNITED STATES. 424 00:25:05,714 --> 00:25:10,646 >> I CAN REMEMBER WALKING AROUND THIS PAR IN JUNE OF 2014, THE 425 00:25:10,746 --> 00:25:12,712 NIGHT THEY VOTED ON GAY MARRIAGE. 426 00:25:12,812 --> 00:25:17,445 >> THE CONFEDERATE FLAG DOWN FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA STATE 427 00:25:17,545 --> 00:25:18,410 CAPITOL. OBAMACARE HAD BEEN HELD UP THAT 428 00:25:18,510 --> 00:25:21,710 WEEK, ALL OF IT. AND MY FRIEND FROM THE OBAMA 429 00:25:21,810 --> 00:25:24,543 WHITE HOUSE AND BEING REALLY EXCITED AND THEN THINKING, A LOT 430 00:25:24,643 --> 00:25:28,342 OF PEOPLE IN AMERICA, WHEN THEY SEE THE CONFEDERATE FLAG COME 431 00:25:28,442 --> 00:25:32,341 DOWN, WHEN THEY SEE GAY MARRIAGE HELD UP, FEEL LIKE THIS ISN'T 432 00:25:32,441 --> 00:25:33,307 THEIR COUNTRY ANYMORE. 433 00:25:33,407 --> 00:25:36,306 >> YEAH. A LOT OF PEOPLE VIEWED THE 434 00:25:36,406 --> 00:25:41,938 ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA AS A MOMENT OF GREAT PROGRESS AND IT 435 00:25:42,038 --> 00:25:50,403 WAS. BUT ANY STUDENT OF HISTORY WOULD 436 00:25:50,503 --> 00:25:54,269 HAVE KNOWN HIS ELECTION WAS LIKELY TO TRIGGER AN IMMENSE 437 00:25:54,369 --> 00:25:58,468 BACK LASH AND IT DID. IT STARTED WITH THE TEA PARTY. 438 00:25:58,568 --> 00:26:04,534 BUT CULMINATED WITH THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP AND ENDING WITH 439 00:26:04,633 --> 00:26:13,098 VIOLENT CONSEQUENCES DURING THE INSURRECTION ON JANUARY 6th. 440 00:26:13,198 --> 00:26:15,297 >> YOU WERE AN IMPEACHMENT MANAGER OF THE FIRST IMPEACHMENT 441 00:26:15,397 --> 00:26:18,164 OF DONALD TRUMP. HE IS LIKELY TO BE ACQUITTED 442 00:26:18,264 --> 00:26:19,964 AGAIN. DOES THAT SEND A MESSAGE THAT HE 443 00:26:20,063 --> 00:26:21,263 HAS NOT BEEN REPUDIATED? 444 00:26:21,363 --> 00:26:24,128 >> THE TRIAL IS IMPORTANT HOPEFULLY TO BRING ABOUT 445 00:26:24,228 --> 00:26:28,194 ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE WAY THAT THE FRAMERS ENVISIONED. 446 00:26:28,294 --> 00:26:33,060 THE FACT THAT SO MANY SENATE REPUBLICANS ARE WILLING TO LOOK 447 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:38,492 PAST THE EVIDENCE TO VOTE TO ACQUIT IS SAD AND SHAMEFUL, AND 448 00:26:38,592 --> 00:26:41,991 WHILE THEY MAY NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE BY REPUBLICAN VOTERS 449 00:26:42,091 --> 00:26:44,557 IN THE SHORT TERM. THEY WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE 450 00:26:44,657 --> 00:26:48,489 THROUGH THE LENS OF HISTORY. 451 00:26:48,589 --> 00:26:54,822 >> DO YOU FEEL THAT COMING OUT OF THIS, WE ARE ON THE CUSP OF 452 00:26:54,921 --> 00:26:56,021 REVITALIZATION OF DEMOCRACY? 453 00:26:56,121 --> 00:27:00,387 >> IT IS THE CLASSIC CLASH BETWEEN PROGRESS AND BACK LASH. 454 00:27:00,487 --> 00:27:07,552 EVERY TIME WE'VE MADE PROGRESS IN AMERICA, WE'VE CONFRONT BACK 455 00:27:07,652 --> 00:27:14,384 LASH AND EMERGED FROM THAT TO CONTINUE TO MAKE MORE PROGRESS. 456 00:27:14,483 --> 00:27:18,616 SO I'M HOPEFUL. THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION 457 00:27:18,716 --> 00:27:21,782 WEREN'T PERFECT. THEY DIDN'T PROMISE A PERFECT 458 00:27:21,882 --> 00:27:23,581 COUNTRY. THEY DID PROMISE A JOURNEY 459 00:27:23,682 --> 00:27:27,348 TOWARD A MORE PERFECT UNION, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN ON. 460 00:27:27,447 --> 00:27:33,546 I'M CONFIDENT THAT WILL CONTINUE. 461 00:27:33,646 --> 00:27:37,912 >> MR. BENNETT. MR. BENNETT, GUILTY. 462 00:27:38,011 --> 00:27:43,110 MISS COLLINS. GUILTY. 463 00:27:43,210 --> 00:27:46,143 NOT GUILTY. MISS DUCKWORTH, GUILTY. 464 00:27:46,243 --> 00:27:48,475 MR. GRAHAM. NOT GUILTY. 465 00:27:48,575 --> 00:27:53,441 MRS. GILLIBRAND. MR. HAWLEY, NOT GUILTY. 466 00:27:53,541 --> 00:27:58,540 MR. McCONNELL. MR. McCONNELL, NOT GUILTY. 467 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,273 >> THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DONALD J. TRUMP 468 00:28:01,373 --> 00:28:05,172 HAS NOW BEEN ACQUITTED BY THE UNITED STATES SENATE. 469 00:28:05,272 --> 00:28:09,471 57-43 VOTES, FALLING SHORT OF THE 67 VOTES NEEDED TO CONVICT 470 00:28:09,570 --> 00:28:12,771 TRUMP. 471 00:28:12,870 --> 00:28:17,702 >> JANUARY 6th WAS A DISGRACE. THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT 472 00:28:17,802 --> 00:28:25,200 PRESIDENT TRUMP IS PRACTICALLY AND MORALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR 473 00:28:25,301 --> 00:28:29,800 PROVOKING THE EVENTS OF THE DAY. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ACTIONS 474 00:28:29,899 --> 00:28:34,565 WERE A DISGRACEFUL DERELICTION OF DUTY.