some enjoy the perfect break in you. and when you leave with a smile we know a lot of day's work is done. welcome to our home. hello i'm a very in forget it is 1700 hours g.m.t. mid day in washington d.c. and we're taking you straight to the u.s. senate where day 3 of former president donald trump's impeachment trial is just getting underway the democratic beachfront managers are accusing trump of inciting a deadly insurrection on capitol hill last month so far they've released never before seen security video to demonstrate just how close rioters got to members of

congress some of whom they threaten to kill they've also argued trump's campaign of misinformation at his comments to supporters about election fraud amounted to insurrection trumps legal team is preparing its defense we'll hear that in the coming days let's go live to capitol hill al-jazeera as alan fischer is there for us so i don't want can we expect today. well very dramatically on wednesday thursday we're not expecting to get to run as long probably somewhere in the region of 6 hours of evidence but the democrats will point to the aftermath of what happened here on capitol hill on the 6th of january they will point to donald trump's lack of remorse the fact that he has acknowledged that he lost the election the hasn't congrats to joe biden as the winner that he didn't go to the inauguration even though he committed to a peaceful transition of power and the fact that he continues to insist that the election was stolen from him there's not likely to be as much dramatic video there

may be some use of video but it's going to stretch over 6 hours again all lanes drawing back to donald trump the events here on the 6th of january and what happened no after what we have heard to on whedon's the i've been asking around republican circles what was the feeling there's a feeling that they may be able to peel off a few republican senators but not more than maybe about 10 and some republicans were saying that even though they sat through pretty graphic and dramatic video that it was long and emotion but short on fact there was nothing they felt that the democrat house managers could tie back directly to donald trump for. instigating the trouble there's going to be a key moment here no yesterday right at the end there was a whole procedural issue about what mike lee had said when a phone call went to tony top of a one of his colleagues they told me top of the phone call is going to be important he's a new member of the senate a he is a donald trump supporter he was on a vote would leave that as he won election and he took a phone call from donald trump now according to the timeline he gave yesterday he

told donald trump that there was a problem and didn't mike pence have been taken out of the senate chamber and by highlighting not just 10 minutes later don't trump tweeted out a criticism of my pen saying that he failed to do you his duty and of course we've heard of people marching through the whole saying hang mike pence that is something that the democrats feel that they can exploit no they've shown respect to the entire senate chamber they haven't targeted just one single senator saying look you were part of this you did that you did that but the tommy tell the whole thing might become very interesting indeed chuck schumer who is the leader of the democrats in the senate is just it up let's go and listen to hear what he's got to say it 30 minute recess dinner assuming it is needed the presumed to the provisions a set of resolution 47 the measures for the house of representatives has hours remaining could make the presentation of their case. here you

feel and the presiding officer recognized mr manager rask to continue the presentation of the occasion house representing mr president thank you distinguished senators representative to get a colorado will now show how the insurrectionists themselves believed that they were following president trump's marching orders. my friends and colleagues yesterday it was an emotionally wrenching day as i watched the footage of the violence in the capitol building my own experience

flooded back to me i was one of the unlucky members who was stuck in the house gallery along with congresswoman dean as the house floor was cleared beneath us of members and staff we could see the mob pounding on the door to the house chamber we can see the capitol police officers inside the chamber pull their guns and point them at the intruders then we heard gunshots on the other side and we flung ourselves down on the floor and removed our member pins then we heard pounding on the very flimsy gallery doors right up above us finally after that situation for some time we were told to run out of the door at the end of the gallery as we ran through a line of police towards a staircase this is what i saw the swat team pointing automatic

weapons at marauders on the floor looking at these people makes you wonder who sent them here in the next few minutes i want to step back from the horrors of the attack itself and look at january 6th from a totally different perspective the perspective of the insurrectionists themselves their own statements before during and after the attack make clear the attack was done for donald trump at his instructions and to fulfill his wishes donald trump had sent them there. they truly believed that the whole intrusion was at the president's orders and we know that because they said so many of them actually posed for pictures bragging about it on social media and they tagged mr trump in tweets folks this was not a hidden crime the president told them to be there and so they actually

believed they would face no punishment the defense argued in their briefs and they argued again here on tuesday that the insurrectionists were acting on their own that they were not incited by president trump or acting at his direction this is in their brief quote they did so of their own accord and for their own reasons and are being criminally prosecuted but that's just not the case it's not what the insurrectionists actually sat they sad they came here because the president instructed them to do so leading up to the attack the in-service action and said they were coming to d.c. for president tribe he invited them with clear instructions for a specific time and place and with clear orders stop the fight there

to fight to stop the certification in congress by any means necessary the crowd at donald trump speech act out and chanted his words and when people in the crowd followed his direction and marched to the capitol they chanted the same words as they breach this building now let's return to the speech for a moment during the rally president trump led the crowd in a chant stop the steel chant. here's what that chant sounded like from the crowd's perspective thank you. it will be formulated by the group we will just die studio was the the go. soon after the president basked as the church crowd chanted fight for trop and when he had

sighted the crowd to show strength people responded storm the capital invade the capital here are both of those moments but from the crowds perspective oh. god god god god god god. if that's going to get over. it i have a very good point and this is where you have this right that yes it was the god obey god ok. we also have another perspective from this moment on line extremist chatter at the same time as the people in the crowd shouted. take the capitol building as president trump said show strength

a person posted to parlor saying quote time to fight civil roller is upon us another user said quote we are going to have a civil war get ready an analysis found that members of civil war quadrupled on parlor and the how or after donald trump said show strength when the insurrectionists got to the capitol they continued those rally cries insurrectionist holding confederate flags and brandishing weapons cheered the president's very words i. was. the only. god was the was.

the. the ok. you heard them chanting stop the studio and as the crowd chanted at the rally the crowd at the capitol made clear they were doing this for they also chanted fight for trump. the right and it wasn't just that they were doing this for mr trump they were following his instructions they said he had invited them and in fact as we heard he had invited them. as one man explained on a live stream he taped from inside the capitol quote our president wants us here we wait and take orders from our president footage from inside the capitol shows

when the answer action is 1st cut into the building and cut confront of police the mob screamed at the at the officers that they were listening to president trump. were of the building or. both the. the insurrectionists argued with law enforcement that they shouldn't even be fighting them because they believed that the commander in chief was ordering this this was the person's understanding when president elect biden went on television that day to demand an end to the siege one woman asked this to say not realize president trump called us to sage the what if. the examples of

these types of comments are endless don't worry i won't play all of them but it wasn't just the words of the insurrectionists that prove that they did this in response to orders from their commander in chief we can see this and the fact that they were not hiding one rioter in a live stream at the capitol said quote she'll be happy we're fighting for trump. let's go to yes you. do not like the word so troublesome to go there yes i do everybody knows you say we love it we love the row no you'll be happy what do you mean we're fighting for drug. and again this was not an isolated incident. the advantage of this slide posted photos of themselves committing these crimes trump supporters who had broken into the capitol or taking selfies

streaming live videos and posing in fact they wanted the president to know this is me and fact you can see the person wrote on his own posting this is me and if there were any remaining doubt after hours of prompting when president trump finally told the insurrectionist to go home only then did some of them begin to listen as you previously saw at 4 17 pm mr trump released a pre recorded video saying to the mob go home we love you you're very special shortly after he tweeted this video a few of the insurrectionists who had seen it could be claiming victory her claiming victory and telling people to go ha because of donald trump's message and instructions you saw earlier the answer actually this jacob chancellor who told

someone quote we won the day a little before that video of chancellor they said the same thing to the crowd through a bullhorn and instructed them to go home because of the video that president trump had tweeted let's watch. the archerd progress or corker go. for group work or go record oh oh. even after the attack the insurrectionists make clear to law enforcement that they were just following president tromps orders they didn't shy away from their crimes because they thought they were following orders from the commander in chief and so

they would not be punished they were wrong after the attack there were dozens of arrests these were federal offenses including assaulting the police when law enforcement and or interviewed the people who were at the capitol on january 6th they once again said it was because the president told them to be there robert sanford was seen in this widely circulated video carrying a fire extinguisher that struck a capitol police officer outside the building. a witness told the f.b.i. that sanford said he had traveled to washington d.c. on a bus with a group of people the group had gone to the white house and listened to donald

trump speech and then had followed the president's instructions and gone to the capitol folks the insurrectionists didn't just make this up as sanford's lawyer explained you're being told you fought that a fight like how does fight like hell mean you throw things at people. maybe the lawyer added that his client quote wouldn't have been there if it weren't for the president now samford wasn't the exception he was the rule in their statements after the attack in some reactionists routinely ack out what they had said before and during the attack they were they are because the president told them to be now look the lawyers who are saying that their clients were told to commit these acts by mr trout well they know that putting the blame on the president doesn't

exonerate their clients they're just saying it frankly because that's exactly what happened another trump supporter who's been federally charged is texas real estate agent jennifer ryan now ms ryan has been has given many t.v. interviews in which she says she was only doing what the president asked her and others to do she also recorded video before the rally talking about the mob's plans for violence and here's what she said personally i do not feel a sense of shame or guilt for my heart from what i was doing i thought i was following my president i thought i was following what we were called to do and he asked why there he asked us to be there so i was doing what he asked us to do ultimately yes we were going in solidarity with president trump president requested that we'd be in d.c.

on a 6 so this was our way of knowing. if it comes down to war guess what i'm going to be there we're all going to be up here in those windows. yet another trump supporter who was arrested after breaching the capitol douglas we explained in a media interview why he did it referring to donald trump mr suis sad quote he said hey i need my digital soldiers to show up on january 6th and we all did some of these individuals who joined in the attack on our capitol did so as part of violent racist groups which have been officially condemned by our government daniel goodman is a self-proclaimed member of the proud boys he was one of many on november 7th goodwin tweeted a picture showing the proud boys logo surrounded by stand back and stand by and to

quote again stand back and stand by and await orders from our commander in chief look closely at this slide you are looking at an image of goodwin's own tweet he was such a loyal follower of president trop that he used the president's photo as his own profile picture on twitter now remember president trump told them to stand back and stand by at the debate they took it as a call to arms and when they called he called them to arms they were o.-o. ready to act they were waiting for their order which they got on january 6th. and goodman followed those orders he stood ready as others broke into the windows

at the capitol and climbed inside here he is on another. and another of the insurrectionist live stream in one of the 1st floor hallways of the building when it became clear that donald trump was not going to save these folks from prosecution when it became clear that the commander in chief had given false commands that went against this country some of his supporters even rick were expressed regret at and they said they felt duped here's jacob chancellery again who we saw in a video claiming victory after the president told the rioters to go home earlier in the afternoon as. chancellor carried a spear is he preached the capitol entered the senate through the gallery and when it right here on to the senate floor chancellor left a threatening note for vice president pence right there on the senate dyess it read

quote it's only a matter of time justices coming up. on january 7th chancellor i spoke to the f.b.i. and he said that he came as part of a group effort with other patriots from arizona at the request of the president that all patriots come to d.c. on january 6th 2021. on january 14th chance lee's lawyer gave an interview to question chris cuomo in which he said that chance lee was there quote at the invitation of our president who said he would walk down pennsylvania avenue with him in fact chancellor's lawyer now says that chancellor felt duped by the president and he regrets what the president brought him to do. this man who ran through our house who

ran into this chamber who sat right there on the diocese and who wrote a note for president picked vice president pence that he was coming for. he and those with him declared they would remove aster ma office if we went against donald trump now he's saying he would not have done any of that if mr trump had told him not to chancellor is not alone and his post-arrest confession that he was following the door directions of donald trump as more and more of these people have been charged they can fashion and the regret simply cascades more and more insurrectionists are admitting that they came at trump's direction. when reilly june williams known for allegedly helping steal the laptops for speaker pelosi sophos appeared in court on january 21st her lawyer said to the judge

quote it is regrettable that ms williams took the president's bait and went inside the capitol to try smocks who was in the capitol riot on january 6th posted on line that day quote the pratt president today president trump told us to fight like hell he also posted that the president quote said that our case was a matter of national security samuel fischer was charged with disorderly conduct and illegally being in the capitol on january 6th that day before the attack on this building he wrote on his website quote trav just needs to fire the bat signal and quote then the paying comes the lawyer for dominick preside leader of the proud boys who was the 1st person to break inside the capitol sad that president trapped

effectively told his client and others quote people of the country come on down let people know what you think quote logical thinking was he invited us down because all of us lawyer went on these were people acting in a way they've never acted before and it begs the question who lit the fuse and quote on january 6th we know who lit the fuse donald trump told these insurrectionists to come to the capitol and stop the studio and they did come to the capitol and they tried to stop the certification they came because he told them to. and they did stop our proceedings but only temporarily because he told them to have you noticed

throughout this present taishan the uncanny similarity oh read over and over again of what all these people are saying they said what donald trump said and they echoed each other stand back and stand by stop the steel fight like hell trump sent us we are listening to tromp. the riots that day left at least 7 people dead more than 150 people injured members senators and our staffs all traumatized to this day damage and pain to our capital damage and pain to americans damage to our police force and damage to other nations who have always seen us as a bastion of democracy all of these people who have been arrested and charged

they're being accountable held accountable for their actions their leader the man who incited them must be held accountable as well but as i said earlier you don't have to take my word for it that the insurrectionists acted at donald trump's direction they said so they were invited here they were invited by the president of the united states.

well this is al jazeera with continuing coverage of the impeachment trial of the former president donald trump this is the 3rd day of the trial the democratic impeachment managers accused president trump of inciting the deadly insurrection on capitol hill last month the president's legal team is preparing its

defense and we'll hear that in the coming days. of senators represent him to get just showed how the insurrectionists

believed in understood themselves to be following president trump's marching orders she explained in chilling detail how they were acting in perfect alignment with his political instructions and his explicit strategy to retain power they did what he told them to do this pro trump insurrection did not spring into life out of thin air we saw how trump spent months cultivating america's most dangerous extremist groups we saw how he riled them up with corrosive lies and violent rhetoric so much so that they were ready and eager for their most dangerous mission invalidating the will of the people to keep donald trump in office but we assume we must remember that this was not the 1st time donald trump inflamed an insider to mop trump knew that his incitement would result in violence not only because of the thousands of violent messages that were posted all over the forums and the widespread news of preparations for.