they had hundreds of cars, trump, trump, trump and the american flag. trump and the american flag. >> the president made a public joke of violence against campaigners in an american election and he made light of it. this was not a joke. in fact, it was so violent it put so many people in harm's way that the fbi investigated the incident in the criminal responsibility of those who attacked these campaign workers. now, our president donald trump could have said okay, i didn't realize how bad that was in this was very violent. please, stop. but he didn't. he saw the investigation and made a statement in defense of his supporters attack on the bus writing quote, in my opinion these patriots did nothing wrong and engaging in violence for him made them patriots to donald trump. for anyone who said donald trump did not know the violence he was inciting, i ask you to consider his supporters who try to drive a bus off the highway in the middle of the day to intimidate his opponents campaign workers and his response was to tweet the video of the incident that had

there is a lot of pre-trump conservatism that still exists in the trump coalition. that makes sense, that the vast majority of trump voters are people who voted for republican candidates in the past. 68% of the trump voters in 2020 voted for mitt romney in 2012. many of the people who do not fit into either category are people who aged into the electorate in 2012. if you are between 17 and 10, you are eligible to vote in 2020 but were not eligible to vote in 2012. that is a group that is likely to be substantially more republican as opposed to party switching. 74% of the voters say the government does too many things that charities and private businesses could do better. that is kind of the top level antigovernment support that reflects the pro-trump consensus. even many of the obama-trump voters agree with this figure. strong support for the idea that government is too big, strong support for the idea that taxes are too high. 45% of trump voters believe that government should guarantee a minimum standard of living if people work to the best of their ability. that i

trump. [chanting "fight for trump!" >> they weren't doing this just 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 from inside the capitol, "our president wants us here, we wait and take orders from our president." footage shows when the insurrectionists first got into the building and confronted the police, the mob screamed at the officers that they were listening to president trump. >> there are millions out there -- >> 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, one president-elect biden went on television to demand an end to the siege, one woman asked this: >> does he not realize president trump called us to see siege the place? >> these are endless, don't worry, i won't play all of them. but it was the words of the c

there is a lot of pre-trump conservatism that still exists in the trump coalition. that makes sense, that the vast majority of trump voters are people who voted for republican candidates in the past. 68% of the trump voters in 2020 voted for mitt romney in 2012. many of the people who do not fit into either category are people who aged into the electorate in 2012. if you are between 17 and 10, you are eligible to vote in 2020 but were not eligible to vote in 2012. that is a group that is likely to be substantially more republican as opposed to party switching. 74% of the voters say the government does too many things that charities and private businesses could do better. that is kind of the top level antigovernment support that reflects the pro-trump consensus. even many of the obama-trump voters agree with this figure. strong support for the idea that government is too big, strong support for the idea that taxes are too high. 45% of trump voters believe that government should guarantee a minimum standard of living if people work to the best of their ability. that i

trump voters. again, this is only people who are self-described trump voters. when you see liberal, moderate, conservative, or very conservative, this is not of the general electorate as a whole. this is only trump voters who describe themselves by this. we start with the question on everybody's mind. does donald trump dominate today's republican party? well, among republicans who voted for donald trump, he starts in a very strong but i would not say dominant position. we asked these voters if they are more of a supporter of donald trump or the republican party. two thirds of the people who voted for trump say they are more of a supporter of trump than the party. but that means 34% said they were not. as you can see, the number or -- the number of people or the share of people who say they are more supportive of donald trump than the republican party rises with self perceived ideological conservatism. in other words, the ideological base of the republican party is likelier to say that they are more

[chanting] fight for trump, fight for trump, fight for trump [chanting] >> thank you. [inaudible] >> yes. [shouting] >> invade the capitol building. >> we also have another perspective from this moment online 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 two-parter saying quote, time to fight, civil war is upon us. another user said, quote, we're going to have the civil war. get ready. an analysis found members of civil war crime quadrupled in partner in the hour after donald trump said show strength. when insurrectionists got to the capitol they continued those rally cries your insurrection is holding confederate flags and brandishing weapons cheered the president's very words. [shouting] [chanting] stop the steal, stop the steal, stop the steal [chanting] >> you heard them chanting stop the steal. and as the crowd chanted at the rally, the crowd at the capitol made clear who they were doing this for. they also chanted fight for trump. [chanting] fight for trump,

, we want trump, we want trump, we want trump, we want trump, we want trump, we want trump, we want trump>> i told you, they're going. they're going. >> you're not helping, you're not helping. >> stop the steal, stop the steal, stop the steal. >> those doors at home are the doors the president of the united states walks through when he gives the state of the union address. you heard one man yell, no violence and another responded, it's too late for that. they don't listen without that. they were there to stop the certification of the election. at this point, inside the house chamber, we can now hear the pounding on the doors. at 2:35 p.m., members on the house floor were told an evacuation route was secured and was time to leave. this video shows members of congress exiting to the side of the podium where we would go through the house lobby and downstairs. because of coronavirus restrictions, congressional members had been waiting in the gallery for their time to speak just one level above the house floor. representatives, staff, journalists, all took cover under their chairs. helped each

that is how the trump justice department, the trump administration, left it. now, the biden era justice department has to contend with what they're going do with the trailing ends of president trump having used the justice department on his own behalf, essentially as his own defense firm, in a case like that. and that's just the start of it. you may remember in december, we were first to report here on the show that federal prosecutors in the southern district of new york intended to seek a search warrant for electronic communications related to rudy giuliani and his business dealings. part of an ongoing criminal investigation into giuliani they wanted a search warrant. in the past few days, cnn, "the new york times," and "the washington post" have all matched that reporting and advanced it, finding that sdny prosecutors as we reported, they had in fact wanted to get that search warrant for mr. giuliani this past summer. trump appointees at the justice department blocked it. prosecutors at sdny reportedly tried again after the election. they again told main ju

senators to their willingness to acquit donald trump and i think that the g.o.p. was very afraid of having witnesses call and of course the democrats had the votes to do it so why did they back down that's a profound concern. i've heard a number of different possible explanations will probably learn more in the in the hours and and weeks to come but i think it's very possible that what happened was mitch mcconnell really did a number here he outmaneuvered democrats yet again and he said if you're going to call witnesses we're not going to get any business done for the next week while your witnesses are getting called while the trial is being. is taking place and we are not going to vote for a covert relief and we're not going to we're not going to confirm america orland we're not going to do anything else that you have on your agenda. and that he intimidated them into into pulling the demand for witnesses i think that would have been a profound mistake the whole point of course of being the majority party now is that in effect they call the shots but with the exis

this was about choosing country over donald trump, and 43 republican members chose trump. they chose trump. >> former president trump's actions preceded the riot were a disgraceful, disgraceful, dereliction of duty. we have no power to convict and disqualify a former office holder who is now a private citizen. >> cnn congressional spond ryan nobles is on capitol hill. ryan, this was the expected outcome but the final vote had a few surprises. >> reporter: there's no doubt this ended up the way we thought it would, but the path to get to that final vote took a number of different turns that we were not expecting. it started this morning when the house impeachment manager jamie raskin suggested that they were prepared to call witnesses. and if that had happened, it would have meant that this would have been a much longer trial. it probably would have been a much more heated argument between the two sides. but after a couple hours of negotiations, the two sides came back. they decided just to put on the record a statement by jamie herrera-beutler about a phone call between ke

donald trump is wrong. but at the end of the day, this is about the republican party hoping that donald trump is potent enough in 2022 to help them retake the senate, to help them take the house and to help them in the next presidential election try to win the white house again. so, this is about politics, this is not about the constitution and ana, the problem is that the next president who follows behind donald trump is watching what donald trump got away with. >> ann, mcconnell's argument for his vote is that trump was const constitutionally not eligible for conviction. what do you make of that? >> yeah, i think that that argument was really strongly rejected by the house managers and, look, by the vast majority of constitutional scholars, as well. i mean, there's precedent for trying someone who is not in office, who is an executive branch member and also what we know is that the senate voted to go forward and the senate makes the rules under the u.s. constitution. so, i don't think that's the correct a

"trump sent us". "we are listening to trump".esterday and today — to present their arguments and then hand over to the defence. the team is made up of these nine democrats who sit in the house of representatives — in this process, they are called house managers. and they've been chosen for their professional backgrounds in constitutional law, civil rights and criminaljustice. the lead house manager is jamie raskin. he has been making the argument that donald trump knew for years that his supporters would do anything he asked of them. president trump has said over and over his supporters are loyal. in his own words, his supporters are "the most loyal that we've seen "in our country's history". and he knew that his most hard—core supporters were willing to direct violence at elected officials. indeed, to attack and lay siege to the capitol building. and he knew they would be ready to heed his call onjanuary 6th to stop the steal by using violence to block the peaceful transfer of power in the united states. he knew they were coming

bruce castorjunior from donald trump's _ trump's lawyers.ump's legal _ trump's lawyers. bruce castorjunior from donald trump's legal team - from donald trump's legal team denied that the house manager's claims that mr trump had incited an insurrection. but claims that mr trump had incited an insurrection-— insurrection. but the critical issue insurrection. but the critical issue in this case _ insurrection. but the critical issue in this case is _ insurrection. but the critical issue in this case is very _ insurrection. but the critical issue in this case is very narrow- insurrection. but the critical issue in this case is very narrow issue i in this case is very narrow issue thatis in this case is very narrow issue that is charged against the 45th president. and that issue is that the 45th president engage and incitement of they continue to say insurrection. clearly, there was no insurrection. clearly, there was no insurrection. insurrection is a term of divined in the law that takes over a country, a shadow government, taking the tv statio

trump, trump, trump and the american flag the— trump, trump, trump and the american flag the suit— trumpresident made a public joke _ the american flag. the president made a public joke of— the american flag. the president made a public joke of violence i made a publicjoke of violence against campaigners and an american election. he made light of it. this was not a joke. in fact, it was so violent and put so many people in harm's way that the fbi investigated the incident and the criminal responsibility of those who attacked these campaign workers. now, or president donald trump could have said ok, i did not realise how bad that was. this was very violent. please stop. but he did not. he saw the investigation and made a statement in defence of his supporters attack on the bus saying, quote... engaging in violence for him made them patriots to donald trump. for anyone who says donald trump did not know the violence he was inciting, i ask you to consider his supporters tried to drive a bus off the highway in the middle of the day to intimidate his opponents campaign workers. and his respon

trump. and as you will see, this was just the preview for fentes, who, like the proud boys and the trump caravan organizers, would later heed the president's call and come to washington and be there on january 6. later in the rally, a former trump campaign spokeswoman, katrina pearson, also spoke. during her speech, she stated, "this isn't over. this is just beginning," referring to the fight to stop the steal. and then she added, "we knew both republican and democrats were against we people, we the people. we are the cavalry. no one's coming for us." it's clear that trump and some of his supporrs war, a fight against anyone who was unwilling to do whatever it took to keep donald trump in power. "we are the cavalry." and president trump continued to reinforce his support of these messages throughout the day. at 1:48 p.m., after both speeches, he retweeted his deputy chief of staff's tweet, showing the crowd that he had flown over on marine one, and we tweeted, "thank you, patriots." these pe

trump sent us l and we are listening to trump. the riotsio that day left at let seven people dead, 150 injured. members, senators and our staff all traumatized to this day. damage and pain to the capitol. the damage and pain to americans. damage to the police force and damage to other nations who have always seen us as a bastion of democracy. all of thesese people who've ben arrested and charged, they are being 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 insurrectionist's active in donald trump's direction. they said so. they were invited here. they were invited by the president of the united states. [shouting] [shouting] representative degettee showed how the insurrectionist'sms understood and believed themselves to be following president trump's marching orders. explained in chilling detail how they were acting in perfect alignment with his political instructions and his explicit strategy to ret

fight for trump! fight for trump! fight for trump! fight for trump! for trump! >> thank you. >> invade the capitol building! >> we also have another perspective from this moment, online 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 parler saying, quote, time to fight, civil war is upon us. another user said, quote, we are going to have a civil war. get ready. an analysis found that members quadrupled on parler in the hour after the president said "show strength." when insurrectionists got to the capitol, they continued those rally cries. insurrectionists holding confederate flags and brandishing weapons cheered the president's very words. >> stop the steal! stop the steal! stop the steal! stop the steal! stop the steal! stop the steal! stop the steal! >> you heard them chanting "stop the steal." and as the crowd chanted at the rally, the crowd at the capitol made clear who they were doing this for. they also chanted "fight for trump." >>

they're in a trump cult.matter who it is in 2024, they're going to have to run on a platform where they pretend that donald trump did a good job and pretend that the election was stolen from them in 2020, whether that's trump, ron desantis or christy nome, that's the platform of the nominee, all the policy doesn't matter at this point, believe it or not, brian. >> jason, coming to you at top of the next segment, both gentlemen have agreed to stay. coming up, more on how trump world is reacting, specifically to the new lawsuit against the ex-president, more when we come back. e back these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the services of the post office plus ups only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. a migrai

donald trump had made vice president pence a target. rallies, in speeches and on twitter. and during president trump's speech that morning of the attack, he ramped it up again, after privately pressuring mike pence. in front of thousands in the crowd, he called mike pence out 11 times, including saying, "mike pence, i hope you're going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of your country. and if you're not, i'm going to be disappointed in you. i will tell you right now." and this was the crowd's response to donald trump's days of relentless attacks on his own vice president. day three — and the prosecution returned again to that link of the individuals who stormed the capitol onjanuary 6. impeachment manager diana degette presented testimony of those who've since been charged, who had told investigators they were there at the invitation of the president. 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 he called them to arms. they were al

the trump slk mccarthy exchange evidences trump's state of mind, it shows that he knew and approved of his supporters r rioting and did nothing. instead, the violence continued. members of congress were running and hides for their lives, capitol police officers were being peten, th beaten, they we overwhelmed. and at the white house, the clock just ticked. finally at 2:38 p.m., trump tweeted please support our capitol police and law enforcement, they are truly on the side of our country, stay peaceful. that public comment came more than 90 minutes after the mayhem began. yesterday during the question and answer period of the impeachment trial, gop senators murkowski and collins asked the critical question. the howard baker question, if you will, what did trump know and when did he know it. specifically they asked exactly when did president trump learn of the breach of the capitol and what specific actions did he take to bring the rioting to an end and when did he take them. and please be as detailed as possible. here was the response. >> the house managers have given us absolute -- [ i

jonathan: the case against donald trump. >> donald trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became the inciter in chief. jonathan: house managers make the case donald truffer incited a mob to storm the u.s. capitol jeopardizing the lives of his own vice president and the democratic leadership. >> where are you, nancy? we're looking for you. jonathan: and brutizing law enforcement. >> i think most republicans found the presentation offensive and absurd. jonathan: with conviction in the senate unlikely, what about the court of public opinion? >> the house democrats hate donald trump. jonathan: did trump lawyers make the case that the former president is not responsible for the insurrection? >> we just want law and order. jonathan: next. anuncer: this is "washington week." corporate funding is provided by -- announcer: consumer cellular. kaiser permanente. additional funding is provided by the estate of arnold adams and koo and patricia yuen through the yuen foundation, committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities, the corporation for public broadcasting and by

trump."potus has the right to activate units too," jessica watkins wrote on november 9 according to court papers. "if trump asks me to come, i will." tim in tucson, arizona. caller: i keep thinking back to the testimony that congress -- that lawyer michael cohen. he said his boss, mr. trump, had an uncanny knack for making it known what he wanted without ever saying it. one of the committee members just asked him point-blank, did trump tell you to write that check? he said it is hard to explain. trump never comes right out and tells you to do anything. but he has some charisma, some code. host: how does that relate to january 6? caller: i wish the house managers had hit on that more. the parsing of words like fight does not necessarily mean violence and things like that. it won't cut it with whether or not trump communicated exactly what he wanted. this guy testified. he was hard-pressed to give a quote. a verbatim -- sort of like a jailhouse circumspection, if you will. he just knew exactly

to donald trump. wolf, i mean even inside trump world there are people who know this president's character, know who he is. and to have a longtime trump adviser say something like that, i think, you know, establishes that even inside his own circle of advisers, allies and associates, there are some major questions about this man's character, wolf. >> there certainly it is. . he also in the statement he once again said this is another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. kaitlan, i understand you are hearing that despite the acquittal, the former president is still very much worried about his legal future. >> he is, wolf. and privately he has expressed concern that ebbed be charged related to the january 6th rally. that's what -- or riot i should say. that's what he told multiple people. that's in part why he has been so quiet every since he left the white house. we hardly heard from the president only in written statements. he does not have access to his twitter account. and

some members even appealed directly to donald trump, these members who had quote been loyal trump supporters and even to vote against the electoral votes were now scared for their lives. minority leader kevin mccarthy reportedly got into a screaming match as the attack was underway demand trump do something, to the mob. imagine if you picked up your phone and tried to reach somebody at the white house to ask for help. this wasn't partisan politics, these were americans from all sides trying to force our commander-in-chief to protect and defend our country. he was required to do that. now, the extent of how many people tried to reach the president to get him to act is not known, but what is clear, what we know without any doubt, that from the very beginning, the people around donald trump lobbied him to take command. what's also clear is what donald trump, our commander-in-chief, did in the initial hours to protect us. nothing. not a thing. he knew it was happening. the attack was on. tv. we all know that president trump has the power to stop these attacks. he was our commander-in-chief. he h

trump.ilencing and banning the speech the majority does not agree with. it is about canceling 75 million trump voters, and criminalizing lyrical viewpoints -- political viewpoints. that is what this trial is really about. it is the only existential issue before us. it asks for constitutional cancel culture to take over in the united states senate. are we going to allow canceling and banning and sanctioning to be allowed in this body? to the democrats who view this as a moment of oppornity, i urge you instead to look to the principles of free expression and free speech. i hope, truly, that a next time you are in the minority you don't find yourself in this position. to the republicans in this chamber, i ask, when you are next in the majority, please resist what will be an overwhelming temptation to do this very same thing to the opposing party. members of the senate, this concludes the formal defense of the 45th psident of the united states to the impeachment article filed by the house of rep

story for donald trump.ven senate republican leader mitch mcconnell strongly suggested the former president could yet face criminal or civil charges. the final vote came after some debate over whether to call witnesses. cnn's ryan nobles has more on how everything played out on a dramatic and sometimes chaotic day in the u.s. senate. >> reporter: for a second time donald trump has escaped conviction by the u.s. senate. >> it is, therefore, ordered and a judged that the said donald john trump be and he is hereby acquitted of the charge in said article. >> reporter: the final vote capped off a dramatic and unpredictable day where house impeachment managers initially announced plans to call witnesses in the trial of the former president. >> we would like the opportunity to subpoena congresswoman herrera regarding her communications with house minority leader kevin mccarthy. >> reporter: calling witnesses would have most likely sent the trial in a dramatically different direction leading to a much longer affair.

he will though be aware that the trump _ donald trump.political spectrum. which he's been pursuing during his career as you just detailed. during his career as you 'ust detailed. , , during his career as you 'ust detailed.�* during his career as you 'ust detailed. , , , _, detailed. the disunity is coming from those _ detailed. the disunity is coming from those who _ detailed. the disunity is coming from those who oppose - detailed. the disunity is coming from those who oppose the - from those who oppose the commonality. the disunity is coming from those who want to whitewash what took place. that jamie and the other members, the other prosecutors so ably explained which was it was a riot, a violent mob incited by the president to undermine and prevent the peaceful transfer of power from an election that he lost. so disunity is coming from donald trump side. and this is a moment for accountability, for us to live up to our national creed. which is based in our constitution and to convict there is a former president so that he could never

is expensive trump is rude trump is brash and there's a lot of people that don't like him so he's he's trying to walk that fine line. at the end of day 7 republicans did vote to convict trump were you surprised by any of those that did and what does it tell us about the state of the republican party. well i was surprised to only that a week ago they had or a few days ago they had a vote where shifty flour scuse me 45 members of the republican party said this was an unconstitutional here it was contrary to the constitution of the united states so that 2 senators who didn't think it was constitutional would vote to impeach that was a little surprising but i think in the long term question is what's donald trump future what's the party's future and i move backward sometimes to see what will happen in the future it was only one year ago little over a year ago that donald trump was impeached the 1st time but because of coded and because of the election and because of other news stories going around the world it literally wasn't mentioned once during the election campaign by any major news o

hundreds of cars, trump, trump. trump and the american flag. you see trump and the american flag. >> president made a public joke of violence against campaigners in an american election. he made light of it. this was not a joke. it was so violent, it put so many people in harms way that the fbi investigated the incident and the criminal responsibility of those who attacked these campaign workers. our president could have said, this was very violent. please stop. but he didn't. he saw the investigation and made a statement in defense of his supporters' attack on the bus writing, quote, in my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong. engaging in violence for him, made them patriots to donald trump. for anyone who said he didn't know the violence he was inciting, his supporters tried to drive a bus off the road to intimidate his opponents. his response was to tweet the video with fight music, joke about it and call those individuals in that incident patriots. donald trump praised words to incite them further. they remained ready to fight. ready t

let's tell trump -- >> trump would be very upset. >> he'd be like, no, just say we love him.ve you, bro. no, he'll be happy. what do you mean? we're fighting for trump. >> i thought i was following my president. i thought i was following what we were called to do. >> all of these people who've 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. >> reporter: the big lie, that the election was rigged and stolen from trump, is also on trial. which prosecutors argue was dangerously misleading and not protected by freedom of speech. >> he was the president of the united states. and he had spent months, months, using the unique power of that office, of his bully bulpulpit spread that big lie that the election had been stolen. he struck a match. and he aimed it straight at this building. at us. >> reporter: prosecutors also say trump has still not told the truth and restored faith in american democracy. >> he does not say the one sentence that would stop future political v

they had hundreds of cars, trump, trump, trump and the american flag.ump and the american flag. >> the president made a public joke of violence against campaigners in an american election and he made light of it. this was not a joke. in fact, it was so violent it put so many people in harm's way that the fbi investigated the incident in the criminal responsibility of those who attacked these campaign workers. now, our president donald trump could have said okay, i didn't realize how bad that was in this was very violent. please, stop. but he didn't. he saw the investigation and made a statement in defense of his supporters attack on the bus writing quote, in my opinion these patriots did nothing wrong and engaging in violence for him made them patriots to donald trump. for anyone who said donald trump did not know the violence he was inciting, i ask you to consider his supporters who try to drive a bus off the highway in the middle of the day to intimidate his opponents campaign workers and his response was to tweet the video of the incident that had bi

annulled trump did not one condemn this attack he did not once condemn the attackers in fact on january 6th the only person he condemned this is on vice president mike pence who was hiding in this building with his family in fear for his life. in the 1st crucial hours of this violent attack he did nothing to stop it nothing to help us. by all accounts from the people that were around him he was delighted. and here is the last thing donald trump said that day and you might remember this from my motions presentation earlier in the week at 6 pm and january 6th after all the destruction that you just saw the capitol police and the national guard fighting to secure this building here's what donald trump tweeted these are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly and unfairly treated for so long go home with love and in peace remember this day for ever he got what he incited and according to don trump we got what we deserved donald trumps incitement of this insurrection i

trump prefused as trump pressured him privately and publicly. >> i hope trump's going to do the rightng, we win the election. >> reporter: it all culminated in this. thousands of riots storm the capitol building, tries to stop certifying the election result. five people died including a cap capitol police officer. on january 20th, 2020, the nonp peaceful transfer of power was complete. >> why do they still doubt election work? >> i remind people that president trump's hardest core supporters are not only real america. there are others who are interested in getting facting and getting -- they don't believe the conspiracy theorists. how do you get through people down the rob bit holes? i don't have answers. >> can you now say the election wasn't stolen? it wasn't a fraudulent election? >> yeah, i think i will say the election was not fraudulent. the constitution laugh horse to be able to push back as much as we could, andy that, so now i would say that joseph r. biden is our president. >> to be clear, voter fraud does occur in elections, but certainly not a rate that could over turn joe

here is what trump writes. this has been another faith of the greatest witch hunt of the history of our country. no presidents have ever gone through anything like it and it continues because our opponents can forget the 75 million people, the highest number ever for a sitting president who voted for just a few short months ago. a historic patriotic and beautiful movement to make america great again had only just begun. in the months ahead, i have much to share with you and i look forward to continue our incredible journey together to achieve american greatness for all of our people. there has never been anything like it. >> pointing out the 75 million votes he got for president that's consistent threat from trump and his allies and his legal team to fellow republicans who considered crossing trump as for what he has to share for his supporters, he's going to campaign and fund raise against those republicans. people like liz cheney voted to impeach and convict him. >> boris sanchez, thank you. >>> with us now s

trump and his behavior. my guest this morning, the top democratic impeachment manager jamie raskin, larry hogan and dick durbin. plus, the cdc announced new guidelines on opening schools. the biden administration secured 200 million more vaccine doses. i will talk to the director of the cdc rochelle walensky. joining me is kasie hunt, carlos carmelo and audie cornish. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. during the presidential campaign, donald trump made what will be the most accurate public statement he has made. >> i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lewis any voters. >> 43 of 50 republican senators voted to absolve him of responsible for the deadly january 6 riot at the capitol. le final tally was 57-43 to convict. ten votes shy of the 67 needed. this was after democrats read into the record a statement that presi

donald trump was asking the secretary of state to somehow find the exact number of votes donald trump lost the state by. remember, president biden won georgia by 11,779 votes. in his own words, president trump said, quote, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes. he wanted the secretary of state to somehow find the precise number plus one of votes that he needed to win. as a congress and as a nation, we cannot be numb to this conduct. if we are, and if we don't set a precedent against it, more presidents will do this in the future. this will be a green light for them to engage in that kind of pressure and that kind of conduct. and this could have gone a very different way if those election officials had bowed to the intimidation and the pressure of the president of the united states. it would have meant that instead of the american people deciding this election, president trump alone would have decided this american election. that's exactly what was at stake, and that's exact ply what he was trying to do. he intended, wanted to, and tried to overturn the election by

donald trump had other plans.mber 19, president trump tweeted his save the date for january 6. he told his supporters to come to d.c. for a big protest, the day, billing it as wild. days later, women for america first amended their permit to hold their rally on january 6 pursuant to the president's save the date, instead of after the inauguration. this was deliberate. reports confirm that the president himself, president trump became directly involved with the planning of the event, including speaking line-up, even the music to be played, just as he chose the music for his retweet of the caravan driving the biden-harris bus off the road with that fight song. he brought the same people who spoke at the second million maga martinelli as well. the trump campaign advisor, katrina pearson, who said, this is only the beginning, we are the cavalry, also became directly involved in planning the event. they even sent out invitations together. this is amy kremer, one of the founders of women for america first, tagging donal

trump didn't.mp wasn't shy about using his channels, he did, but he did it hour after hour after hour. in the end, i think some viewers were baffled by this, but i think it's rather telling, because as a lawyer, what you don't fight about is as important as what you do. i have two points that i have to make in any argument. what we saw in the end is senator lee raise a procedural objection and say, look, i never said something they're saying i said, so i want it stricken. then senator leahy was very hard to follow, and it looked like senator lee was going to set up a partisan almost 50-50 vote on whether or not his rights were being violated. then you had jamie raskin jump in, the lead house manager, say, we don't need this. we'll withdraw that testimony. we don't need it at all. such a smart, strategic move to keep everyone's eye on the ball, that what happened was a side show. raskin gets it. >> raskin was so impressive. he had a move along those lines yesterday when he literally yielded back 30

trump's conduct that day.trump's conduct that day. i want to— president trump's conduct that day. i want to start at the beginning, when _ i want to start at the beginning, when he — i want to start at the beginning, when he addressed his thousands of great _ when he addressed his thousands of great patriots, as he called them that morning. around noon, donald trump _ that morning. around noon, donald trump began speaking at is really 'ust trump began speaking at is really just down— trump began speaking at is really just down pennsylvania avenue. even before _ just down pennsylvania avenue. even before donald trump finished speaking, his supporters began to walk down toward the capital, and they were — walk down toward the capital, and they were already starting to chance "stop _ they were already starting to chance "stop the _ they were already starting to chance "stop the steel, storm the capital, invade _ "stop the steel, storm the capital, invade the — "stop the steel, storm the capital, invade the capita

donald trump had sent them there.they truly believed that the whole intrusion was at the president's borders. even after the attack, the insurrectionists make clear the law enforcement there were just following president trump's orders. they did not shy away from their crimes because they thought they were following order from the commander-in-chief, so they would not be punished. they were wrong. amy: house impeachment manager david cicilline accused donald trump of trying to become a king. >> president trump incited a lawless mob to attack our process, he was attacking our democracy. he was trying to become king and rule over us against the will of the people and the valid results of the election. for the first time ever and our history, a sitting president actively instigated his supporters, devoutly disruptive process that provides for the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next. think about that for a moment. what if president had been successful? what if he had succeeded in overturning the will

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 abo

these are the reasons why i decided to quit donald trump. he said that was just one draft the only other page there was another draft his name is bill cassidy he had said that essentially he was convinced by the argument he was condemned by his own state party on tuesday for his vote so he is facing a very rough ride when he goes back to louisiana i mean he is a surgeon he's a whole respected surgeon and i'm sure bill cassidy could easily walk back into that job but he likes being a senator he likes helping people he's approached many things on a bipartisan basis and basis but he knows he's going to get a great deal of criticism from his own state party which is not something that often happened in the past a real moment of history that no president has ever been impeached twice only 3 presidents have ever been impeached donald trump is one of them and it's happened to him twice and twice now he has been acquitted i'm seeing on my social media feed some of his supporters absolutely delighted by this idea they're saying great he's going to ru

, former president trump.e signaling that those people would have been hostile witnesses and not friendly. it's dangerous especially when you have a strong case. their case was strong. to bring in an unpredictable witness who could intentionally try to sabotage their case. so they likely made the right decision there, but there's a part of me that would have liked to have heard from a capitol police officer, from an employee, from a staffer, to put a human face on this argument, to look these republican senators in the eye and dare them to ignore the pain of real people who endured the insurrection. >> let me do a quick lightning round. let me start with you, neal. what do you think the outcome of this is, the bipartisan vote, but an acquittal. what do you think the outcome of that will be for us as a society? >> very bad for trump. i mean, biggest loss in a bipartisan basis. mcconnell making the statement he did, which is way more than just, like, tsk-tsk. he basically called for a criminal investigation of d

trump.is invitation and his direction and his command. they said this before the attack. and during the attack and they said it after the attack. leading up to january the sixth and post after post, the president supporters confirmed this was for donald trump. it was at his direction. one report added that if congress illegally certifies biden, trump would have absolutely no choice but to demand thus to stormed the capital. and killed, beat them up for it. they even say publicly and openly and probably, that president trump would help them the national guard. so all they would have to do is overwhelm 2000 capital police officers. during his speech on january the sixth, trump supporters chanted his words back to him. they been lied and tweeted his commands . and during the, insurrectionist at the capital chanted, donald trump's words from his tweets. in his rallies in the speech of the sixth. they held signs that said and chanted, fight for trump. stop the steal and they run is tweets over bu