congressional correspondent lisa desjardins reports.dins: inside the house of representatives -- >> the indecent behavior of this member is a threat to congress and our government. lisa desjardins: -- a reckoning over one of its own. >> the gentlewoman from georgia. lisa desjardins: republican marjorie taylor greene and inflammatory statements she has made in the pa, and today said she regrets. rep. marjorie taylor greene: these were words of the past, and these things do not represent me. lisa desjardins: she's talking about comments like these, supporting the qanon conspiracy theory -- marjorie taylor greene: so, that was proof right there that there's possible satanic worship. lisa desjardins: and the idea that mass school shootings and their victims are frauds. marjorie taylor greene: he has nothing to say guys because he's paid to do this. he's a coward. lisa desjardins: but, today, a different marjorie taylor greene. marjorie taylor greene: when i started finding misinformation, lies, things that re not true in these qanon posts,

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lisa desjardins, yamiche alcindor, thank you both.rn now to one of the jurors in this tria is he democratic senator mark warner of virginia. senator warner, thank you very much for joining us again. so tell us, what do you think the strong elements and maybe the weaker elements have been in the presentation by the house managers? >> i think the house managers made a very compelling case and i wish every american would spend a couple of hours what they were supporters of biden or supporters of mr. trump and watch the presentation. yesterday was very emotional, reliving january 6th. i was on the floor that day. we saw the mob, trashing the capitol, seven people dead, 150 law enforcement officers hurt, today was-- was i didn't think it would reach the same emotional pitch, but in many ways it did. the idea that show this would have happened without donald trump just makes no sense to me. the kind of but for argument. but for donald trump calling this mob together. but for him inviting them, urging them to go to the capitol. his failure t

judy woodruff: and yamiche joins us now from the capitol, along with our lisa desjardins. you. lisa, i want to come to you first. you were there. you were both intently paying attention to this. what stood out to you? and what did you see in the senators' reactions? lisa desjardins: it's clear that senators were more tired today. but, judy, they were still listening, both parties listening very carefully. and i want to talk about what democrats feel they did today. democrats feel very strongly about their case. they feel they made their case. exiting the chamber, representative madeleine dean said that: "we have made our case." this is what they did today on two levels. the emotional level is something that we have all been talking about, the video, the impact of that video. but there were a lot of important legal arguments that democrats are making today, high among them about the president's intent. they took the timeline tay and yesterday of the president's actions to try and show his actions before january 6, his words before january 6. and then, on january 6, his lack

senator lisa desjardins told me it was a missed opportunity. senator susan collins had this quote, she said, i was perplexed by that first lawyer who seemed to not make any arguments at all. general agreement that the second attorney for president trump, mr. shown, did a better job, but a missed opportunity is how republicans look at that. on the other hand, they also think, i hear from republicans and democrats, that the democratic team did better than the team we saw last year, that it was a more senatorial tone, less angry, less political, and more didactic and legal, something that senators seem to be paying closer attention to. >> woodruff: interesting that they said that, in that 44 of them, all by six, voted that it still was not constitutional to go ahead with the trial. but, yamiche, i know you've been in touch with the trump defense team before today. what struck you about the arguments they made? >> reporter: well, this was a trump defense that was really at times meandering, at times really struggling to get to their point and, at t

lisa desjardins covering it all for us at the capitol. woodruff: as we discussed earlier, the biden administration and senate republicans continue to debate the merits and details of the president's $1.9 trillion covid relief plan. senator john barrasso is the third highest ranking republican in the senate. and he joins us now. senator, welcome back to the "newshour". what do you make of the efforts by ten of your republican colleagues to meet with the president, to try to hammer out something that all sides can agree on? do you think it will bear fruit? >> well, i hope that it does and i think it was a good idea to meet together in a bipartisan way, judy, because we still need to do more to help people get back to work, to help kids get back to school and to put the virus behind us, to getting more shots into arms. you know, what the president has proposed, $1.9 trillion is an awful lot of money, and the concern that republicans have is it includes many things that are unrelated to coronavirus relief. you know, we just passed a $900 billi

here to help us understand it all is our congressional correspondent, lisa desjardins. llo, lisa. as the house now getting ready to vote on this big $1.9 trillion package, remind us what are the big items in this and what arehe sticking points, still? >> reporter: that's right, the house of representatives is set to vote on this on friday, just a couple of days from now. and i want to remind people-- this will affect most americans if it gets through. it looks like some parts of this will. here's what's in the house bill. first, $1,0 direct payments to most americans. also, unemployment, those on unemployment, would get an added $400 per week. that's up from the $300 per week that is set to run out in march. finally, for vaccines and testing, tens of billions of dollars, over $70 billion, to help manufacture vaccines, get them out, and, also, to test americans and kind of really try and have the first full-throated effort at contact tracing throughout this country. so it is a vigorous, huge bill. but anotheissue in this bill that we're watching closely this week, of cour

like they're going big, and they're going partisan. >> woodruff: all right, watching all this, lisa desjardinsrting on the capitol. thank you, lisa. >> woodruff: and to talk more about where the republican party is right now, i'm joined by former republican senator john danforth of missouri. senator danforth, thank you so much for joining us. you garnered a good deal of attention last month when after the attack on the u.s. capitol, you were quoted as saying that your support for your home state senator josh hawley a couple of years earlier was "the worst mistake you've made in your life." you said he was instrumental by his actions in creating perhaps the darkest day in american history. what did all that say about the republican party? >> well, it says that the republican party today is not just different from what it had been. it's the opposite, in many ways, of what it had been. america needs a srong, responsible, conservative party. that has been the republican party. it is neither strong nor responsible nor conservative today. it's losing, i think, its grip on the country as a whole. it'

. >> woodruff: yamiche joins us now along with lisa desjardins both of them watching all of this throughoutto you first. you were in the chamber when two of the house managers, delegate plaskett and congressman swalwell, were making their presentations. they were showing new video. tell us at that point, tell us what you saw and what you saw of the senators' reaction. >> much of this was video that no one had seen, including senators themselves. and it was video that was dramatic depicked of how close members of congress, including the senators watching it, came to encountering the mob as the democrats put it, bent on destruction of the chamber, and also of harming the senators themselves. i have to say, judy, i sat there watching senators observe their own lives, essentially, flash before their lives, as they saw silent video-- because it was security-cam video-- of protesters, as yamiche described it-- i should say rioters-- within 100 feet of the chambers. the senators were almost completely still, and it was so silent in that chamber, judy. i had a felt-tipped pen, i was above them, the

for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. >> woodruff: rush limbaugh was 70 years old.ome on the newshour: protests against the military coup in myanmar continue to grow despite an ongoing crackdown. nasa returns to mars hoping to learn whether life ever existed on the now desolate planet. a doctor who faced the ebola pandemic on the front lines provides lessons for covid-19. and much more. >> woodruff: tens of thousands of demonstrators filled the streets in myanmar to protest former civilian leader aung sung suu kyi's trial, which began this week in secret. protestors have been calling for the reinstatement of democracy since the military launched a coup on februar1st. and as nick schifrin reports, the protestors in myanmar are also calling to create a society that ignores theinew military rulers. >> schifrin: at secret locations across myanmar, healthcare workers who used to work for the government, now say they work for the people. >> this will be a great trouble for the military control, this kind of civil disobedience movement. it's the kind of protesting. do not

our yamiche alcindor and lisa desjardins join me now.ello to both of you on this monday nigh to you first, we are just a day away but they are still hammering out the details of how this is going to work. tell us what you know at this point. >> remarkably, swrudy, we just got the final details for this trial in the last couple of hours. this will be a shorter impeachment trial, it looks like at least, than the first one for former president trump. let's go through how this is going to, without. first of all tomorrow, the first day of the trial, that day is being set aside for arguments over the constitutionality of this trial. there will be up to four hours of arguments and then the senate will vote on whether this is constitutional to try a former president. you may recall the senate has taken a similar vote, it will do it again tomorrow. that is expected to pass. then wednesday for the rest of the week we will be-- will the argument of the trial itself. presentations for both sides up to 16 hours per side. so four dayses to all. now th

congressional correspondent lisa desjardins reports. >> desjardins: it began powerfully: capitol police captain carneysha mendoza, still with unhealed burns, told senators of hours of hand- to-hand combat to secure the capitol rotunda on january 6. >> i received chemical burns to mfaces that still have not healed to this day. officers begged me for relief as they were unsure how long they could continually hold the door closed with >> desjardins: this in aapitol complex now surrounded by razor wire, where on january 6, a complete breakdown of security left five killed, another two deaths by suicide and some 140 people injured. senators heard from the top security officials during the attack. foer house sergeant at arms paul irving pointed to an intelligence failure. >> based on the intelligence, we-- we all believed that the plan met the threat, and that we were prepared. we now know that we had the wrong plan. >> desjardins: as did former capitol police chief steven sund. >> we properly planned for a mass demonstration with possible violence. what we got was a military coordinated assa

congressional correspondent lisa desjardins reports. : at the capitol, a bipartisan move forward today -- a deal to give the senate basic and much-needed operating rules. democratic majority leader chuck schumer. senator schumer: we will pass the resolution through the senate today, which means that committees can promptly set up and get to work with democrats holding the gavels. lisa: but otherwise, the building remains a scene of bitter divisions, especially among house republicans. last night, house minority leader kevin mccarthy met with georgia freshman representative marjorie taylor greene -- who has promoted conspiracy theories and published threats of violence against other members. mccarthy is under pressure to take action against greene. >> we have never had a hearing like this one before. lisa: as house democrats today started moving on a rare resolution to strip her of all of her committee assignments. they argue greene is dangerous and unrepentant. >> anyone who questioned the 9/11 attack, endorsed executions against our col

here with an update on it all is our congressional correspondent, lisa desjardins. hello, lisa.house prepares to vote on this $1.9 trillion covid relief package, remind us, what are the big items in this, and what are the sticking points? lisa: the house of representatives is set to vote on friday couple days from now. i want to remind people this will affect most americans if it gets through, and it looks like some parts of it will. in the house bill, 1400 dollars direct payments to most americans. also unemployment, those on unemployment will get an added $400 per week come up for -- from $300 per week that is running out in march. for vaccines and testing, tens of millions of dollars, over $70 billion to help manufacture vaccines, get them out and also to test americans and kind of try to have the first full throated effort at contact tracing through the country. it is a vigorous, huge bill, but another issue in the bill that we are watching is the fight about the minimum wage. democrats would like to double, some democrats, doubled the minimum wage to $15 per hour and right

our congressional corporate lisa desjardins begins our coverage. r the second time in just over a year, the senate con veend as a courtroom. >> the senate will convene as a court of impeachment. >> in front of the dais, newly installed tables separated the defense from the prosecution. and senators already sworn in as jurors gathered for the second impeachment trial of donald trump. the former president is charged with inciting the deadly insurrection that more than a month later still has the capitol building on edge surrounded by razor wire and heightened security. >> we outnumber you a billion to one out here. >> democrats began dramatically with a video showing the attack. and president trump's actions and words that day. >> after this, we're going to walk down and i'll be there with you -- we're going to walk down -- we're going to walk down to the capitol -- >> yeah! >> take the capitol! take the capitol! >> we are going to the capitol. >> the team of house democrats acting as impeachment managers were inside the capitol themselves during the

congressional correspondent lisa desjardins reports. >> desjardins: with 16 hours on the clock for theirto make their case, lawyers for former president donald trump felt his defense needed far less time. right away, they rejected the charge that mr. trump directly caused the deadly siege on the u.s. capitol last month. >> no thinking person could seriously believe that the president's january 6th speech on the ellipse was in any way an incitement to violence or insurrection. the suggestion is patently absurd on its face. >> desjardins: it was a sharp rebuttal to presentations from democratic impeachment managers over the past two days that featured harrowing images of the chaos that day, and the words they say incited it. >> we're going to walk down to the capitol! >> take the capitol! >> take the capitol! >> desjardins: the defense team's michael van der veen dismissed democrats' approach as a partisan attempt to disparage the former president, and prevent him from runningor office again. >> to claim that the president in any way wished, desired, or encouraged lawless behavior is a pre

congressional correspondent lisa desjardins reports. >> the senate will convene as a court of impeachment with 16 hours on the clock with their turn to make their case lawyers for president do nalt trump needed his defense needed far less time. right away they rejected the charge that mr. trump caused the deadly siege on the capitol last month. >> no thinking person could seriously believe that the president's january 6th speech on the elipse was in any way an incitement to violence or insurrection. the suggestion is patently absurd on its face. >> it was a sharp rebuttal to presentations from democratic impeachment managers over the last two days which featured harrowing images of the day and the words tha incited it. >> we're going to walk down to the capitol. >> take the capitol. >> the defense team's michael van der veen said it was disparaging and to is present him from running for office. >> to claim that he encouraged lawless or violent behavior is a press post prouse and monstrous lie. they sought to appeal to senators with legal efforts. they said his speech was freedom of speech

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judy: yamiche alcindor joins me now along with lisa de chardin. -- desjardins.ou were in the chamber when two of the house managers, a delicate and a congressman, made their presentations. they were showing new video. tell us what you saw and what you saw of the senators' reaction. lisa: most of this was videoed that was nev before seen come a dramatic depiction members of congress, including the senators watching, came to encountering the mob as the democrats put it, bent on destruction of the chamber and also of harming the senators themselves. i have to say, i sat there watching senators observe their own lives and essentially flash before their eyes as they saw silent video, because it was security camera video, of protesters coming within 100 feet of the chamber. the senators were almost completely still and it was so silent in that chamber. i had a felt tip pen. the sound my pen was noticeably loud. somebody turned to me and heard my pen strokes. it was that silent during the video. i noticed senators having reactions when depictions of staff being threate