fessor joining us from capitol hill allan so tell us exactly what's happening right now. they're going through there all call of all $100.00 senators it's a procedural motion then they will get into the debate on whether or not this hearing is constitutional donald trump's lawyers argue that it's not the can't be impeached after you leave office the democrats say that look if that was the case if that's what the founding fathers meant there's nothing to stop a president in the last couple of weeks in office even in the last day committing some huge big crime and then walking into the office thinking i'm free and clear so they will argue very clearly over the next 4 hours that donald trump can be held accountable for the actions on january the 6th we're talking about things that you've got to watch out for trusting that senator leahy who is a democrat he is the man who will oversee these proceedings normally it would be the chief justice of the supreme court of the united states it was john roberts almost a year ago the reason

gallagher in west palm beach florida close to donald trump's home a bit 1st alan fischer who's on capitol hill allan what are we expecting to happen today. well you'll remember the 13 minute video that was shown on tuesday should the scenes of violence on capitol hill itself that was intercut with parts of donald trump's speech and also some of the tweets that he sent out when he was 20 against mike pence is an actual was in the halls of the senate looking for the vice president allegedly to try and hang him well this time what we're going to hear from the democrats over the next 8 hours and it will be around 8 hours that they will make their case with another 8 hours on thursday it's going to be much broader and deeper much broader and deeper with more video than we've seen before this unseen. video that comes from the security cameras on capitol hill they will be used by the democrats and essentially they will sure to the senators just hope close the mobs came to actually capturing some of them you remember the. the rascal who is the congressman from maryland who's leading the democrats prosecutio

unconstitutional and we can cross now live to alan fischer who's following proceedings for us on capitol hill allan just walk us through what we've seen and heard so far. well you can see the 3 planks of what the democrats are arguing here 1st of all we heard from jimmy raskin who opened up the proceedings he's the lead house manager he's a democratic congressman from maryland and he essentially lead the case against donald trump and he did so in a video and it was a very telling video a very visceral a lot of the people of course who are making the decision about whether or not donald trump should face trial whether or not this is constitutional what people were actually here on what was a crime scene on january the 6th and they had no have to make that call what was interesting is that the with the also cut in donald trump's statements but more particularly his tweets as you saw the crowd moving through the capitol building donald trump's tweets essentially decrying the job of his vice president as crowds as thousands were going through the halls of the senate trying to track down in the vice pre

be an interesting few days here on capitol hill a historic time this 2nd impeachment of donald trump it's never happened before her that's a picture of capitol hill allan thanks a lot the white house says that joe biden is focused on the economy and will not be spending much time watching his predecessors impeachment trial biden met with chief executives of several large firms including wal-mart and j.p. morgan to discuss his proposed $1.00 trillion dollar relief package president is trying to boost support for the package which faces tough opposition from the republicans. on to main mon now where police are stepping up their crackdown on protests against last week's military coup the most national league for democracy says that police have raided its headquarters the political movements led by einstein suchi the civilian leader who remains in detention. and protesters took to the streets for a 4th straight day they were met with tear gas and water kind of scored high there is monitoring events from bangkok. facing live ammunition fire rubber bullets tear gas and more water cannon the antic who protesters defied a van and headed out to the streets in t

pushing for a conviction just want revenge trump accused of inciting the january 6 riots on capitol hill allan fisher has all the details. the time team took it to markedly short time to wrap up its defense just under 4 hours it argued that the proceedings were unconstitutional were rushed and were driven by a hatred of donald trump this impeachment is completely divorced from the facts the evidence and the interests of the american people the senate should promptly and decisively vote to reject it far from promoting insurrection against the united states the president's remarks explicitly encourage those in attendance to exercise their rights peacefully and patriotically if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore this is ordinary political rhetoric you have to get your people to fight and if they don't fight we have to primary the hell out of the ones that don't fight hatred is at the heart of the house managers frivolous attempts to blame donald trump for the criminal acts of the rioters based on double here stay for hearsay statements of fringe right wing groups

west palm beach in florida close to dan trump's residence but 1st let's go to alan fischer on capitol hill allan so we heard. patrick please saying this is adjourned until 1230 when they meet again where do we pick up what happens next. well apparently according to jeff merkley who is senator from oregon they are discussing at the moment just how many witnesses will be a load by both sides both the democrats and republicans want to get this done quickly the don't want those dragging on for weeks on end it means that the trial will probably go on for another couple of days until they can get the depositions as so they're talking about whether or not there will be 2 or 3 witnesses or perhaps as many as 10 both sides will come to an agreement they are discussing witnesses at the moment a decent miller who is one of donald trump's closest advisers has been seen on capitol hill with a list this long and includes everyone who is included in their 11 minute video that the eared on friday they're not going to get that many more chance to be honest of getting the tooth fairy in the easter bunny on the li

beach florida near trump's mar a lago say live here in a 2nd after his face alan fischer on capitol hill allan talk us through the highlights the evidence is that way. or nothing quite as dramatic as we saw on wednesday there was none of the video that hadn't been released before but what we got was the democrats laying in the case against donald trump as they saw particularly when it comes to the idea of political violence to me rascon who's the lead impeachment manager said he the history of this you talked about campaign rallies where donald trump had said to his supporters that if they punch protesters he would carry their legal bills he also talked about the assault on the state capital in michigan and how don't trump didn't condemn the people that had done that nor did he condemn the people who plotted and no been charged with trying to kid kidnap the governor of michigan in a fight said that she should be grateful to him and the f.b.i. for foiling the plot we then got to the idea that donald trump has shown no remorse after what happened here on january the 6th there were those who said

proceed tomorrow would just go back to alan fischer his following these proceedings for us on capitol hill allan just just. talk us through the main arguments made today and who do you think the of the most of america will be watching proceedings how will how will those 2 different sides been received by the people watching them. i mean it's always hard to say because america's become such a partisan country do is that think that donald trump did nothing wrong will be swayed by the argument and i've spoken to tom suppose. in places like illinois and they say look how can you possibly begin to impeach a private citizen this is just nonsense this is political retribution that was the case made by donald trump's lawyers that look if the democrats have been talking about impeaching donald trump since 2017 have been trying to overturn the result of the 26000 election for 4 years what is interesting is that during his speech chris castor said donald trump essentially lost the election he used a phrase that. the donald trump himself hasn't used he called joe biden president biden that did the people of

from west palm beach in florida near the former president's resorts but 1st to alan fish on capitol hill allan a number of twists and turns today took us through the events of the last few hours . well interestingly enough i'm just been speaking to stacey plaskett who's one of the impeachment managers i asked her where she heard about the results she said look they did their job as many republicans have agreed they actually prove the case against donald trump they just didn't get enough of them to vote they didn't get the 67 votes so the feel comfortable with the job that they've done and they see they feel they've established to the american public that donald trump did act as an in chief certainly the day started with the thought that the democrats were going to call some witnesses that came as a surprise we thought we were moving quickly to closing arguments but they decided that because of news reports that circulated in the united states late on friday there were a couple of people that they wanted to bring that was a surprise to everyone what happened then was that the senate went into r

most explicitly most dangerously most bloodily here on capitol hill on january the 6th 2021 house a serious challenge to live on capitol hill allan for the most. many thanks indeed let's. hear from a white house correspondent kimberly how could it. who's with us now live kimberly . in the middle of all of that the president came up and unspoken we'll talk to you about what he had to say in just a moment i just want to get you know people thoughts 1st of all on what's going on down the road in congress right now. oh well certainly this is. you know something that has been out of issue in the united states for some time i can tell you well capitol hill is squarely focused on this. ordinary americans are not they've already moved past this and in many cases they want to have their congress move past it to we know the outcome of this we know that republicans are not at least enough of them going to vote with democrats to ensure that donald trump doesn't run for office again so many americans are wondering in the midst of a pandemic why this is even happening i've heard this from everyone from drivers to people in the coffee shops tha

beach in florida close to donald trump's residence but 1st let's check in once again with allan fishies on capitol hill so allan way do we stand right now. we're on a quorum call which is essentially just a technical measure that you can put in place in the senate to give yourself a bit of time to think about things so we know that both sides are actually sitting discussing how they're going to proceed with the whole idea of witnesses as you say it was a bipartisan vote 55 republicans 55 democrats and republicans voted to call witnesses 45 all republicans voted against it i'm told on the floor of the senate there were harsh words between ron johnson big supporter of donald trump from wisconsin and mitt romney former presidential candidate of course for the republicans who's been a critic of donald trump he voted to call witnesses ron johnson didn't like that just to clarify something i said earlier a boat lindsey graham he was a surprise vote to call witnesses he's a big fan of donald trump know someone sent me a note saying always appeared on fox to say the reason he wants to call witnesses is it goin

on capitol hill. and allan spoke with one of the trial impeachment managers stacey plaskett she told them trump skillz is clear despite the result a majority of senators did believe us and in hearing this speech senator mcconnell they know that we prove the charges as well you know shame on them for holding themselves to an excuse that they gave themselves on a jurisdictional issue that was already resolved of course it's disappointing that the senate didn't do their duty in a manner that we felt was necessary but i think the fact that they themselves said that we prove the charges mitch mcconnell said that the evidence we had made the case should give the american people credence comfort to know that in fact it was true and history has recorded this we have seen with this president did we saw over time what he did to bring those individuals here to trying to overthrow the republic to attempt to assassinate the vice president of the united states the speaker of the house in danger all of the members not just of

individuals stop this is wrong you must go back we did not hear that sent out and that capitol hill in washington allan this moving at breakneck speed to talk us through what you think the highlights are today. well there was a moment of unity at the end when it was decided that they would present eugene goodman the capitol hill police officer with the congressional gold medal he was the officer who helped save mitt romney pointing him a wing from the crowd but also managed to divert the rioters away from the senate chamber for a remarkable number of minutes which probably saved a number of lives but really that was the only part of unity that we got in the boat hours of proceedings there was a lot of fractious exchanges not least donald trump's team accusing the democrats of prosecutorial negligence saying that the edited tapes that they had misrepresented tweets that they had falsified documents that is a big allegation to make the also said that this was driven by hatred by a dislike of donald trump that this was all about punishing him and that they wanted they were exercising a great the degree of

that he has to be held accountable for what happened on capitol hill here on what was a crime scene on january the 6th current thanks very much allan fisher there capitol hill let's head down to florida now away from washington d.c. where the former president is residing at his mar-a lago resort is live for us at west palm beach and the anything from the president. not a peep nick the president hasn't made any statements he is of course now off social media remember during the last impeachment trial he sent out about 140 tweets and retreats of course he's now been banned so complete silence from our log is only one thing that we actually know to be fact here or not is that the former president is that his mar-a lago estate there is plenty of reporting going on about his potential reaction to wall this some people saying that he's deeply unhappy almost screaming at the t.v. but again that is speculation there is also. some reports that many of his close aides those close to him those he may be talking to in the next few hours a deeply unhappy with his legal teams performance hence that reporting the president was potentially almost

near the former president's resort a fast less tense alan fischer is live for us in capitol hill so very eventful day allan talk astraea the highlights here. a real day of history you have been just talking to stacey class kid who was one of the impeachment managers saying that they're very pleased with the job they've done they believe they have convinced a majority of the u.s. senate and a majority of the u.s. public that donald trump was indeed the inciter in chief at the day started with quite a bit of a surprise because the democrats announced that they were going to call witnesses we weren't expecting that we thought we were moving straight on to the closing arguments at the quoted a number of reports that appeared in the american media late on friday night saying that they really had to speak to the people who were quoted in the one of them a republican congresswoman who is talking about what kevin mccarthy the leader of the republicans in the house had said to donald trump at the height of the insurrection well they decided to go into recess there was a discussion and then it came out that those co

defense papers saying the proceedings unconstitutional well alan fischer is on capitol hill following the story for us allan what more did trump's lawyers have to say what is their plan for his defense. well there's been a couple developments just in the last are so don't trump's lawyers say aleut the whole thing is unconstitutional is a private citizen you can't interfere with his 1st amendment right the people that attacked the capitol on the 6th of january did so because they wanted to and they will point to the fact that the f.b.i. says that in their investigations the plans for the attack on the capital were formulated days before donald trump made a speech and you remember during that speech on the mall on the 6th of january he said you've got to fight for your country if you want a country or words to those effect that's what the democrats say sparked the problems on capitol hill and the insurrection on capitol hill just in the last hour both sides in the senate republicans and democrats have agreed on the format of what will happen over the next few days it will start on tuesday there will be essent

let's go to alan fischer hair is at capitol hill washington d.c. in washington d.c. allan maybe you could tell us a little more about what is happening right now i believe one of the republicans mike lee is trying to get something stricken from the record some of the evidence that he's not quite happy with that's been presented. there was evidence presented during the last couple of hours about a phone call that was made by rudy giuliani to the senate floor no. he was trying to call tommy tolerable who is a newly elected senator from alabama but instead he got through to senator mike lee instead and mike lee 100 the phone over what mike lee is saying is that he is being courted in a context that is not true he is the source and he has asked for those comments that part of the evidence that has been entered into the congressional record to be stricken and that is what the vote is a vote at the moment. it's going to be a very close vote but you can see that mike lee is very unhappy about it mike lee is a constitutional lawyer he's a constitutional expert in the views of some

capitol hill washington d.c. and has been following all the testimony very closely allan gymnastics much effect on scene before the events of january 6th when right has invaded the capitol building the question is is this going to be enough to convince those 16 republicans to vote to convict trump. no one can sit through that and not be moved and many of the republican senators i suspect were seeing this for the 1st time we're told that james langford was actually quite emotional at the end of the last couple of years when there's lisa murkowski who is a republican senator from alaska has said that she will obviously listen to what the defense have to see when they make their presentation but essentially saying how can someone sit through that and not think that donald trump will never become president of the united states again and that may be what the democrats can achieve of this because as you see the numbers at the moment do tend to stack up and they me peel a few senators over to their side maybe as many as 10 but that will mean these still fall short of the 67 votes that they need in the senate to convict d

the 16 hours available to them let's go 1st to alan fischer he's live for us at capitol hill in washington d.c. so allan let's start with how things will kick off and the big question today is whether or not they're going to end up calling witnesses right. there's been a huge debate overnight among the democrats in the house managers about whether or not they should call witnesses key to be called would be kevin mccarthy the leader of the republicans in the house for the telephone call he had with donald trump asking him to send help when the capitol was overrun and also to call mike pence the vice president all about when he was at risk and when did the president know that and whether or not the president expressed any concern now the debate is the thing that senators have already made up their minds they know the timeline they know what happened they're well aware of all the facts but many of them decided they're standing by donald trump anyway and they are going to acquit so the question that the house managers are juggling with is there any value in calling witnesses at this stage given that the vot

in the capitol on january 6th alan fisher is following proceedings on capitol hill for us and joins us now allan why is mitch mcconnell saying this now. i'm sure people are watching this and listening to mitch mcconnell saying that donald trump was responsible they came with his flags they came because he had stepped up essential to what the democrats have been arguing over the last 3 days the big lie about a stolen election and he was responsible for what we saw but then they're probably screaming well why did you vote no and that's why we found out he said that impeachment was a narrow tool for a narrow job and he felt that you couldn't impeach donald trump one because he was no longer in office and 2 because it didn't quite meet the constitutional requirements for the job it's interesting that mitch mcconnell would make such a statement there are other republicans who are much more strident they still don't believe that donald trump was responsible for what happened here on january the 6th it was interesting that 7 republicans actually did vote to convict donald trump among them ben sasse who

right let's go to allan fisher is following proceedings on capitol hill for us and so we've been hearing really a continuation of the arguments there that the president did not incite the riot on capitol. just to get to go to the video which was 11 minutes and 800 seconds of democrats and independents centers as you see using the word fight the question that then could be directed to the trump defense team is if that is the case why would donald trump supporters the only one to act on it now they say that the speech that he gave done in the ellipse was not the precursor that this had all been preplanned but of course the democratic argument is that the new ad been pre-planned because donald trump or talked about the big lie of the election being stolen of his anger about the election being stolen even when he knew that that wasn't true even though he had lost several court cases it's interesting too that we hear words like heat and hypocrisy and punish they're being used by trump's the fence team aimed particularly at the case put forward by the democrats and they say that this is cancel

filed defense papers saying the proceedings are unconstitutional that's going to allan fessor he's joining us from capitol hill so what more can you tell us about the arguments put forward. by his team a very dismissive of what's planned here in the senate over the next week at least possibly up as long as 10 days they say this is simply political theater and it's congress trying to impact on the president's 1st amendment rights they point to the fact that the f.b.i. said that a lot of the violence that happened on the 6th of january was planned in advance therefore you can't possibly tie donald trump speech on the 6th of january into what happened on capitol hill they also insist that he used that sort of speech many times on the campaign trail to suggest that somehow he inspired people because he was seeing it no simply doesn't hold water they also see that many of those people acted on their own initiative although there are court cases where a number of people said that they actually 2 can actually to head to capitol hill because of donald trump and what he said remember of course he said you have to fight

capitol hill washington d.c. has been watching the events unfold over the course of this evening talk us through the highlights from today allan. at the end there we saw a real piece of unity in this chamber and that was for the awarding of the congressional gold medal huge in goodman just a reminder he was the officer who directed a number of the senators away from danger more particularly mitt romney who was walking towards the rioters mitt romney not big fan of donald trump who knows what may have happened after that eugene goodman directed him to safety and also led the riot. away from the senate chamber buying vital time and so you saw both sides of the house agreeing that he should be given the highest honor that congress can present which is the congressional gold medal but apart from that there was very little sign of unity we had from donald trump's team they were claiming that this was it's certainly an unconstitutional hearing to use words like shame apocalypse see they said it was done to punish donald trump he said it was a huge trip for donald trump the democrats had wanted to impeach him since 2017 or so as you