terrible videos of the police being physically abused and injured you remember what happened to officer for known and officer hodges the m.p. d. but there were scores of other officers whose names we don't know who are also brutalized that day injuries the u.s. capitol police and the metropolitan police department include concussions irritated longs serious injuries caused by repeated blows from bats holes and clubs. capitol police officers also sustained injuries that will be with them for the rest of their lives one officer lost the tip of a right index finger in a statement issued on generous 7 to chairman of the capitol police officers union said and i quote i have officers who are not issued helmets prior to the attack who have sustained brain injuries one officer has to cracked ribs into space mashed spinal this one officer is going to lose his i and another was stabbed with

a metal fence stake and quote in total at least $81.00 members of capitol police and $65.00 members of the metropolitan police department were injured during the attack on january 6th former capitol police chief's son described insurrection as violent unlike anything he'd seen in his 30 year career in law enforcement d.c. police chief robert j. conti the 3rd spoke with an officer who had been beaten and injured with a stun gun said quote i've talked to officers who have done 2 tours in iraq who said this was scary to them in their time in combat and quote. of course the physical violence is not the only thing that will have a lasting effect on our brave sworn officers trumps mob verbal denigrated their patriotism questioned their loyalty and yelled racial slurs they call them

traitors nazis on america for protecting us for example in the next clip a rider wearing a hunting jacket a cost a police officer was the day i was there was the good and the the one on your was 3 was like oh the bell they were for the listen to how the trump mob talk to these officers. you heard that with your own ears. was. cool it

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the earth the earth the earth the earth they called law enforcement officers traders who have to wonder who these fryers sworn to to whom do they believe the police oh their loyalty to the people to the constitution to our democracy what a doll trump even those who are not outwardly injured that the mental toll has been significant several capitol police officers have reportedly threatened self harm in the days following the riot and in one case an officer voluntarily turned in her gun because she was afraid of what might happen black police officers were also met with racist vitriol you heard league manager raskin

reference a black police officer who weary from racialize violence that he had experience that day sang tears just started streaming down my face i said what the half man is this america is this america lead manager ask and asked is this america what is your answer to that question is this ok if not what are we going to do about it these people matter. these people who risk their lives for us so i ask you respectfully to consider them the police officers the staff of this building when you cast your vote these people are in deep pain because they showed up here to serve to serve the american people to serve their government to serve all of us and i ask each of you when you cast your vote to remember them and honor them and act in service of them as they

deserve i also want to recognize that 4 individuals 4 insurrectionist were who also lost their lives during the attack these people were led here by the words and actions of an individual who made them believe that they were patriots the loss of human life is of course the most consequential but that was not the only damage rough that day. the trump mob also damaged this building they defiled some of the most sacred places statuary hall the return to where some of america's greatest champions presidents supreme court justices civil rights heroes and other defenders are honored after their death trumps violent mob had little respect for this place this video shows the wreckage left in the senate

parliamentarian as office by the insurrectionists. a bust of president zachary taylor was smeared with what appeared to be blood an empty picture frame presumably robbed of its contents was found on the floor and videos of the insurrection captured one man stealing a framed photo another one tearing a scroll from the wall and ripping it up and throwing those pieces on the floor a sign paying tribute to john lewis was also shamefully destroyed and only a broken piece of the memorial was found on the ground next to

a trash can the photo of mr lewis was gone. the damage done to this building is a stain on all of us and on the dignity of our democracy the attack we saw had a purpose stop the certification stop our democratic process fortunately they did not prevail. newspapers across america and gen 21st the day after the inauguration proclaimed democracy has prevailed president biden said that in his inauguration speech the headline was in so many places because the world's oldest constitutional democracy and the principles underlying it had been attacked and challenge this wasn't just an attack on the capitol building and the dedicated people inside it was an attack on what we were elected to preserve our democracy this attack on our elections on the peaceful

transfer of power from one president to the next didn't even happen during the civil war but it did just happen because of the cold calculated and conspiratorial acts of our former president donald j. trump we showed you that the interests or actions were deliberate that they came looking for vice president pence and speaker pelosi ready to kill and president trump incited a lawless mob to attack our process he was attacking our democracy who was trying to become king and rule over us against the will of the people and the valid results of the election for the 1st time ever in our history a sitting president actively instigated his supporters to violently disrupt the process that provides for the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the

next think about that for a moment what if president trump had been successful. what if he had succeeded in overturning the will of the people in our constitutional processes who among us is willing to risk that outcome by letting tram's constitutional crimes go unanswered the founders included impeachment in our constitution not as a punishment but to prevent that we have to prevent every president today tomorrow or any time in the future from believing that this conduct is acceptable today we have to stand up for our democracy and ensure we remain a country governed by the people for the people by telling dollar trump and people all across this country and all across the world that he is crimes

will not and cannot stand. continuing it watching out as there is continuing coverage of the 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump democrat prosecutors of these are not reserved have spent the past few hours painting a picture of a commander in chief whose words and actions throughout the 4 year term led to the insurrection at the capitol they should videos of riotous saying president trump told them to go there and a quick apology for any bad language you may have heard so far during the feed and that you may hear during the proceedings as they go ahead. we. would like them but sir john was there i gave you like you know just say we want it we love your group know you'll be happy what do you mean we're fighting for

a truck. through. some god lead impeachment manager told senators donald trump could incite further violence unless they ban him from office my dear colleagues is there any political leader in this room who believes that if he is ever allowed by the senate to get back into the oval office donald trump would stop inciting violence to get his way would you bet the lives of more police officers on or would you bet the safety of your family on the. beach but the future of your democracy on the. president trump declared his conduct totally appropriate so he gets back into office and it happens again we have no one to blame but ourselves. it's going to challenge fisher who's following the proceedings on

capitol hill for us and throughout this afternoon they've been painting a picture of the supporters who believe that they were following trump's orders and also an unrepentant trumper who has written refusing to to condone the violence or twister that the highlight so we've had this this far. astray afterwards the and that dramatic video where no discussing very much the aftermath whether or not donald trump showed any remorse the fact that many of his supporters when they have been arrested and remember has been more than 200 people know charged with the events on january the 6th here in capitol hill many of them have said they were acting because they were told to by donald trump they were simply following his instructions ted lou made the point he's one of the impeachment managers congressman from california a former prosecutor as well and delivered it very matter of fact lee saying look i don't worry about donald trump running in 4 years i run about him losing in 4 years and invoking the same sort of violence that we saw there one of the impeachment

managers made a very clear case that had the trump team not helped organize the rally on january the 6th would we have seen the violence and if trump had conceded would join you the 6th ever of happened so building a case that simply because he refused to accept that he'd lost the election refused to accept the mike pence ignore the constitutional power to overturn the electoral college votes the fact that he had lost many many court cases as well simply meant that when he asked people to go in protest he was doing so because it was the last through of the days there were no other constitutional measures open to him the best he could hope for was some sort of violent uprising where they would seize control of the country rex jimmy raskin also pointed out that the donald trump with a history of political violence where he had. complimented

a republican congressman who had body slammed a reporter for asking a question for asking a question where he talked at his rallies where he would pay people he would cover their legal fees if they confronted if they punched any protesters that were there and then of course there was the dramatic evidence of what happened in michigan where the state house was overrun by armed people after donald trump had said liberate michigan it was all about the issue of whether or not people should wear masks and whether or not businesses should be closed on the back of that there was an attempt to kidnap the governor of michigan who is a democrat and donald trump didn't condemn the people behind that in fact he said that murder should be grateful for the fact that the f.b.i. got involved this was all building the case against donald trump before during and after just looking through my notes that they were saying that donald trump

essentially. sparked the crowd and sent them on their way in for 2 hours 3 hours afterwards didn't do anything to stop it and several times they invoke the name of mike pence he is a republican he was very loyal to donald trump essentially i think what they're trying to do is draw a line in saying look mike pence was very loyal to donald trump and look what happened to him he was quite happy essentially to throw him to the crowd and there are they know that there are senators who are sitting in judgment here who are also very loyal to donald trump obliquely saying why why why you bring more oil to don't trump because if it's a case between what he wants and you he's never going to be loyal to use so not quite as dramatic as we saw on wednesday but just continuing to build the case broader and deeper from those opening statements yesterday morning and what's your sense of how this is going to playing with republicans given that it would require

17 of them to to cross over to convict trampy any sense of any numbers shifting their. no huge numbers you get the number the idea that maybe one or 2 are moving towards possibly voting. to convict donald trump but not in the numbers that the democrats there was speaking to people close to the public and over the last couple of hours we were talking about what had happened on wednesday said it was pretty strong stuff and it appears that among some republican sent senators the feeling was certainly long on sentiment short on facts they don't see how they are tying what happened on capitol hill directly to donald trump the see that when he talked about fighting politicians from all parties have talked about fighting their opponents are fighting an unjust law or fighting to change a situation they don't see anything different from that from what donald trump that

i think a very good point was made on whedon's the a boat that though the number of republicans who called either donald trump directly or the white house trying to get ahold of her or jerry krishna and asking them to make sure that don't trump essentially called off the mortgage on capitol hill in the words of one republican he is the only one that can do it so if they didn't think the more acting at the direction of don't trump why would they bother to make that effort and that is something that the democrats have addressed will that be enough to flip republicans it still seems unlikely we're hearing from me and hearing from sources that's been confirmed by jason miller one of don't trump spokes of people that to morrow on friday when donald trump will start his defense they're not expected to take much more than the 8 hours even though there are allocated 16 it will probably be 8 hours or slightly less to make their case that's because they think the numbers are there to make sure that donald trump will not be

convicted that would mean essentially that we would go to written questions being. sent to the chair and answered by the imp. it's managers and the defense on saturday with the possibility of a vote on sunday or a tentative timetable at the moment but the fact that donald trump's team aren't going to spend a great deal of time defending him the good to talk about freedom of speech the fact that others have talked in those sort of terms they're not going to address a lot of the specific instances that have been brought up by the democrats because they don't feel they have to and they think the votes are there to quit donald trump and fisher thank you very much indeed as crystalline marty and gallagher who's in west palm beach in florida so have we heard anything at all from trump himself during this. well laura not a peep since this whole impeachment the 2nd impeachment of the former president began but we are hearing things from those said to be close to the president and

those things are that he is watching that he is fairly angry with the legal defense team that has been put forward for him and how they are putting those arguments forward remember these are 2 lawyers that lied just a few days before this 2nd impeachment trial and it is being reported that peter navarro trump's very close ally or his former economic adviser called the president to tell him to fire this team and get a new team that would focus more on the lie that the election was stolen from the former president so not much being said from mar a lago where the president has been since the inauguration of president joe biden on january the 20th all we are hearing is that he's not particularly happy with what his legal team is saying the fact that they are not using the argument that the election election was rigged and even calling president joe biden president joe biden correctly and not the former vice president as apparently donald trump wanted them to do so this is a very quiet and

a very different occasion from the 1st impeachment on chart where he tweeted out something like 140 times during that 1st impeachment trial the president for now is very very quiet we do know that he wants this to be over very very quickly indeed which is why it's allen was saying his legal team is expected to wrap up their arguments by the end of business on friday and as you mentioned he's been quieten in part because he's banned from to turn and other places what do we have any inkling as to whether he might find other ways to project his voice once this is over. well i mean essentially he could hold a press conference at mar a lago if he wanted to tell the media he wants to speak and they would plummet to cover the words that he had to say i mean i'm on the e-mail list from the former president's now press office and there has been no e-mails coming out from that which normally i get one or 2 a week so we don't know if this is a deliberate strategy that he's been told by his close advisers to stay quiet

throughout the 2nd pietschmann trial or he's just very closely watching him trying to figure out what to do remember these 2 lawyers that he hired only got a few days to prepare for this 2nd impeachment trial and trump has a long history of litigating people of using lawyers but he's slowly gotten through all those lawyers people like sidney powell who was claiming that voting machines were controlled by chavez in venezuela he fired her all those things were lies that those previous lawyers are saying rudy giuliani of course president trump was said to be embarrassed by his performance in a press conference where you could see head i running down the side of his face so he seems to be running out of legal options but i think one important point lauren is this criminal investigation that's now been opened in the state of georgia following that hour long phone call that the president made with the secretary of state that asking him to specifically find 11740 votes that's a criminal investigation where the president the former president cannot rely on

his republican colleagues to protect him that may be something his legal team are looking towards and dealing with that as well as the 2nd impeachment trial and getting a thank you very much indeed. norm starkness is a law professor at amherst college who wrote the book will he go trump and the looming electoral meltdown of 2020 he joins us now by skype from sunderland massachusetts and it must have felt quite strange to you because it was quite prescient wasn't it just to come back to that to the trial trial itself. tell us about the legal aspects of incitement and what the democrats have to show i mean how would establish an incitement impeachment trial differ from any other legal context. well i think that was one of the things that was very interesting to see in the proceedings from today was the way the the house managers emphasized that we're talking about here are constitutional crimes we're not talking about crimes in kind of the conventional sense of a criminal trial and effect it also emphasizes that the purpose of the entire

proceedings is not punishment which is again the typical purpose of a criminal trial but really it's prevention to make sure these kinds of things don't recur in the future and i think the reason that they want to emphasize that besides the fact that it is just accurate as a description of what's happening is that i think some of the defenders of the president have tried to conflate a criminal trial involving incitement with this impeachment proceeding because in order to change that someone in a criminal trial of incitement you really have to try to make a very very close connection between the words and the deeds that is you basically have to make it very clear yet the state prove beyond a reasonable gap that the speaker was trying to ins incite in imminent an act of lawlessness of violence and i think what the house managers are already trying to point out is saying look this is not the standard that informs an

impeachment trial we're really talking about an abuse of office we're talking about a violation of the oath to uphold the constitution and in that sense what we need to demonstrate is that it's trumped basically was encouraging people to engage in an act that means designed to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power and again they made that argument pretty well i think this afternoon in trying to connect his words with deeds and also to you know as you saw yesterday when they were saying look this is part of his bigger lie that he had. challenge for months when he was trying to insist our. the lack of the integrity of that entire little process if they like it appears to be still that not enough republicans will vote with the democrats to convict trump if he's not convicted or

held accountable in any other way what the consequences be to think for the republican party. i think that is a very it's a very interesting question you know i thought one of the things that was also interesting is the degree to which the house managers are emphasizing the way in which the insurrectionists were targeting republicans that is they weren't simply you know threatening to shoot nancy pelosi in the head you know they were talking to hanging our former vice president mike pence and i think they were trying to show that look this is not a partisan issue and in many ways the the insurrection as they were going after the republicans and i think that is you know part of their strategy for trying to you know he'll weigh republican votes assuming that those votes are not are not there of course. you need 17 republicans to vote to convict i think it certainly will 'd leave the republican party that really divided and you will see the republican

party that is trying to move beyond this cult of personality which is you know assisted with president former president trump and then you find the loyalist still who believe that their political future is best served by tying their star to. to trump and try to remain. you know in the best graces of a. of the base that is prepared to engage in acts of violence against them and remarkable yaml and government giving you know full costing skills that he said in the past if trump is acquitted what do you expect him to do and would it embolden the kind of violence we've seen in the past. well i mean i think that is certainly the danger here and i think that is one of the things that the house managers were also very aggressively trying to argue trying to say that look there

is not simply the dangers associated with trauma there's the danger associated with the quibble that the insurrection is themselves so general 6 as a triumph the agency need to think of that as a recruiting tool the presence of violence remains remains real and unless we have some kind of unified response basically 'd you're bolder new people to engage in the type of violent acts that we saw on january 6th so i thought we were like yes are ok but i do worry about possibility of future violence and so when you talk about a unified response and what do you think biden needs to do to if trump is acquitted what should biden's response be in terms of trying to bring bring together the country and and perhaps deal with with what i knew to galvanized and disgruntled people around the country. well i mean you know it certainly helps to have a an occupant of the oval office for lease is

a decent person to be genuinely dedicated to the project of broome get together but i think it's a very very tall task it's usually given the asylum media environments in which we presently operate. but i do think that biden will continue to message a message of unity and i think the other thing is i think he will either not to continue to be litigators the constitution crimes of trot but to try to pre-marital gather legislatively to basically show that he's got a program that is designed to. aggressively address the problems that are facing all americans and not to rely on the politics of division at time i just go back to the trial and that's the mechanics of the next couple of days what do you expect the defense team to hear it was interesting today that the that the democrats were highlighting the fact that some of the people who've been arrested and charged with crimes on the on generally the 6 that what happened in the capital have been using

the defense the fact that they they say they were following the former president's orders how does that is that problematic for trump's defense if it. well i think what they'll try to say is look i mean anyone can say anything in trying to defend their actions and meaning that the insurrectionists have been arrested you know it's not it's not. entirely improbable that they were trying to make statements like that but i think they'll try to say this look the president is not responsible for deluded people who are misinterpret his message and i think they'll ride but never an argument i think as your correspondent pointed out they're not particularly eager in in protecting this trial they're quite eager to see it and in an expeditious fashion i think it's and just as they did their own interviews about half of the 16 hours there are a lot of them and i think they will rather.