senate has voted to go ahead with the 2nd impeachment trial of former president donald trump house impeachment managers rejected the defense's argument that it is unconstitutional to try a former president. defense team has accused democrats of recognizing the impeachment process insisting the trial would further divide the u.s. his lawyers say the former president is not responsible for the comfortable last. place and a stepping up their crackdown on protests against last week's military coup there are reports they've raided the headquarters of the national league for democracy that political movement led by and sons hoochie the civilian leader who remains in detention. protesters took to the streets for a 4th straight day and were met with tear gas water canon scott hietala is monitoring events from bangkok. facing live ammunition fire rubber bullets tear gas and more water cannon the addict who protesters defied a van and headed out to the streets in their thousands for a 4th straight day. the military junta has barred any gathering of more than 5 people and imposed a curfew in many areas f

senate has voted to go ahead with the 2nd impeachment trial of former president donald trump house impeachment managers rejected the defense's argument that it is unconstitutional to try a former president. national league for democracy says that police have raided its headquarters that is the political movement led by deposed leader and sent to cheap protesters rallied for a 4th straight day games to last week's military coup. nearly 60 hours after the flooding in a tunnel in the indian state of the turk and rescue teams have managed to clear enough to free to enter the structure 35 workmen are trapped 30 people have died and more than $197.00 are missing. now a court in poland has ordered 2 prominent holocaust researches to apologize for suggesting a polish man helped kill jews during the 2nd world war the family of edward melanau ski argue he saved jews during the german occupation and they reject the holocaust survivors testimony connecting him to the death of 18 people the court found discrepancies in that testimony the authors plan to appeal they say the ruling jeopardizes independent re

trump rejecting the defense's argument that it is unconstitutional to try a former president but only 6 republicans joined all 50 democrats in voting to proceed with the trial $67.00 votes needed for conviction from wednesday house impeachment managers and trump's defense lawyers will have 16 hours spread over the next 2 days to present their cases both sides presented that opening arguments. our case is based on cold hard facts it's all about the facts a president trump a sent his lawyers here today to try to stop the senate from hearing the facts of this case they want to call the trial over before any evidence is even introduced their argument is that if you commit an impeachable offense in your last few weeks in office you do it with constitutional impunity you get away with it this is nothing less than the political weaponization of the impeachment process pure raw sport fueled by the misguided idea of party over country when in fact both will surely suffer with this trial you will open up new and bigger wounds across the nation for a great many americans see this process for exactly what it is a chance by a group of partisan politicians seeking to eliminate donald trump from the american political scene an

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they see this as a vendetta against donald trump, in the house prosecutors are just as adamant tha repubcanrguments are nothing but a diversionary tactic to avoid holding trump accountable. are minds going to be changed? they need 17 republicans to join with the democrats for that 2/3 vote. that is not going to happen, given the fact he had five last month, voted with the democrats. they will bring the trial forward but as far as getting that 2/3 threshold, the chances of -- the chances are virtually nil. >> thanks for your insight as always. i want to turn to thomas gift, a lecture at ucl and founding director of the center on u.s. politics. thanks so much for joining us. the impeachment managers appear to be making a compelling argument, showing video of trump 's speeches and of the riots, but what you make of the argumentrom the defense that he was exercising his right to free speech? >> well, that's certainly the case that republicans are going to make. they are going to say essentially this is constitutionally protected speech, and unless there was an imminent threat of violence that w

officers called the n word and janitors cleaning up blood and feces left behind by the pro trump rioters. >> house managers tried to link the insurrection to the former president showing how long he tried to undermine the election, how his supporters were conditioned to attack. how donald trump drew them to washington and unleashed them on the capitol. democrats warned senators a refusal to convict could incite more of the same. >> i'm not afraid of donald trump running again in four years. i'm afraid he's going to run again and lose because he can do this again. >> we humbly, humbly ask you to convict president trump for the crime for which he is overwhelmingly guilty of. because if you don't, if we pretend this didn't happen, or, worse, if we let it go unanswered, who's to say it won't happen again? >> house democrats used most but not all of their allotted 16 hours. former president trump's lawyers won't go nearly that long we're told. cnn's jessica dean is live for us on capitol hill this morning. jessica, nice to see you. how is the trump defense shaping up? how are they planning to go about

trump. never before seen video of the deadly riots at the capitol. house managers presenting graphic images of that day. much of it from security video from capitol police. showing the mob of trump supporters storming the capitol building at the very moment congress was working to certify the election. the secret service rushing former vice president mike pence and his family from the senate chamber to an undisclosed location. the mob yelling, "hang mike pence" and "fight for trump." the mob searching for house speaker nancy pelosi as she was being evacuated. the haunting moment they call her name in the hallways, with >> where are you nancy, we're looking for you! >> reporter: -- with her staff hiding under a desk in a locked room, as rioters ransacked her office. officer eugene goodman seen rushing senator mitt romney to safety, before leading the mob away from the senate door. senator schumer seen racing down the hallway to get to safety with others. and the difficult body cam video tonight of an officer pinned against the door, screaming in pain. house

saying that on social media over the summer and flynn was in the white house, back at the white house after trump pardoned him for his crimes related to the robert mueller investigation. he was back in the white house egging trump on, talking about calling for martial law to overturn the results for a redo of the elections, so there were clear indications that this very bizarre qanon conspiracy cult reached right into the oval office during the trump presidency. darren: how much does this case expose the deep faultlines within the republican? many see it as a battle for the very soul of the gop. guest: it is. that is clearly a factor what is going on and kevin mccarthy is trying to balance various members of his caucus -- he has a hard-core, pro-trump membership in the caucus and they wanted to strip liz cheney of her position as chair of the house republicans conference, the number three position for republicans in the house because she voted to impeach donald trump. mccarthy was able to dodge that bullet. he had a secret ballot and the majority voted to retain liz cheney but they also gave a st

trump won the election. she wore a mask at the house of representatives that said "trump won." house democrats said if the committee doesn't take her out within 72 hours, they will do it themselves, and they have the power to do it. interestingly tonight, the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell, released a statement calling congresswoman greene a cancer, saying she doesn't live in reality. senator mcconnell supposedly supports the idea that republicans need to cut off this kind of insanity from the rest of the party. honestly, the news gods made tomorrow groundhog day for a reason as the former president is still out there putting out statements that refuse to describe him as the former president. apparently he doesn't think he's a former president as he is pushing to keep claiming that the election didn't really happen, so i guess somehow he's still secretly the president in exile? that's all happening right now as -- as -- the "new york times" reports, newly this weekend, that it was the white house specifically that changed the plan for the rally on january 6 so tha

will remain in afghanistan for the foreseeable future this is a major policy shift from the trump white house and this will be biden's 1st major policy decision for the middle east and could have a deep impact on this presidency americans have grown exhausted from endless wars and it will be a tough sell to the public that remaining in afghanistan is the best course of action. nato allies welcome the change in telling from the u.s. administration the alliance relies on you as forces for logistical support in afghanistan and secretary general stoltenberg made it clear that nato wants leave before the time is right to clear hands that there may deadline could be extended things there's no decision or the ongoing event in this case and that from my point you can only be a decision to say these stay has it is for that i mean that means he continued but how they continue remains a big question after 20 years of military presence in afghanistan elyse are growing increasingly war weary they've been successful in defeating al qaeda by had to realize they didn't have the capacity to really ingenue afg

1st such gathering since the us election meaning the may deadline for withdrawal set by the trump white house is now in doubt so here's a closer look at the situation on the ground including what's at stake for the major players and for the people of afghanistan. and tacks on police and civilians roadside bombs targeting officials afghanistan continues to be hit by violence despite the ongoing talks between the government in kabul and the taliban and this very tickler juncture with such kind of the deterioration of situation we are getting closer to a situation of chaos and the need to ministers should really that he knows of this based on the other global universe so obligations of protecting civilians no one wants to troops to stay forever or ashraf nemat says but to a responsible with troll should be based on conditions on the ground that seems to be a notion shared by many in afghanistan. for the average person rather than what they want in the decision that will lead to an end to the fight so that they can come to market like this without work for the government what they want is an answ

officials that president trump was quote, walking around the white house, confused why other people on his team weren't as excited as he was, end quote. trump's reaction to this attack reportedly genuinely freaked people out. i can understand why, we just suffered a serious attack, attack on our country and we saw people around him do it, but when donald trump saw it, he was delighted. now, what president trump did next confirmed why he was so delighted, why he wanted this, because it shows that his singular focus that day, the day we were not protecting us, not protecting you, not protecting the capitol, it was stopping the certification of the election results. the evidence is clear, shortly after 2 p.m. as the siege was fully underway, then president trump made a call. this is the first call that we are aware he made to anyone inside the capitol during the attack. didn't call the vice-president to ask how he could help defend the capitol. didn't call the next two in line to success of the presidency to check on their safety or well-being. instead, he at

it has become very clear that the house democrats heat donald trump. this hyper political hatred has no place in our political institutions and certainly no place in the law. this hatred has led the house managers to manipulate and selectively edit mister trumps speech to make it falsely appear that he sought to incite the crowd to violently attack the capital. he didn't . and we will show you why. the hatred has also led the house managers to make them astounding legal arguments. they astoundingly urge you to disregard your oath by ignoring the first amendment of the constitution. they also ignored landmark binding united states supreme courtcases . precedents would and bob. both of which unequivocally hold that elected officials have first amendment rights to engage in the exact type of political speech that mister trump engaged in.i was shocked the house managers not only spent a mere three pages on the first amendment analysis in their trial memo but yesterday, they spent a mere 10 minutes at the end of their case as a throwaway. what we have read a

the clerk will read the question. >> the house managers's single article of impeachment is centered on the accusation that donald trump singularly incited a crowd into the riot. didn't house managers contradict their own charge about the premeditated nature and planning of this event and showing the crowd that gathered at the capital even before the speech started, and barriers were pushed over for 20 minutes before the conclusion of donald trump's speech. >> yes, the house managers contradicted their own charge by outlining the premeditated nature and planning of this event and also showing the crowd gathered at the capital even before the speech started and barriers were pushed over some 20 minutes before the conclusion of donald trump's speech. and it is completely missed by the house managers. brandenburg versus ohio, and it is not an elected official case. the problem house managers with the first amendment argument here, elected officials are different from anybody else. he's talking about fire chief's, they are not elected officials, police officers aren't elected officials. elected officials have a different h

one of the house managers told you this is not about the words mr. trump used in isolation but rather the big lie, the claim the election was stolen. the house managers told you it is the big lie to incite thehe riots and it was president trumps claim that the election was not a fair election but that it was stolen claiming it was stolen you were told our words that are insightful to the candidates followers causing people to respond violently claiming the election was stolen are not legitimate is something a candidate should never do because he or she knows or should know such a claim and such words can insight violent insurrectionrr you were told. it seems the house managers position must be more narrow than that. the house managers position is really want republican candidates for office claim the election is stolen or the winner is a legitimate it constitutes inciting the insurrection and a candidate should know it but the democratic party candidates are perfectly entitled to claim the election was stolen or the winner is a legitimate or to make any ot

it has become very clear that the house democrats hate donald trump. this type of political hatred is no place in our political institutions and certainly, no place in the law. this hatred has led the house managers to manipulate and selectively edit mr. trump's speech to make it sleepier that he sought to inside the crowd to violently attack the capital. he did not. and we will show you why. the hatred has also led the house managers to make some astounding legal arguments. they astoundingly urge you to disregard your both by ignoring the first amendment of the constitution. they also ignore landmark findings, united states supreme court cases. both of which unequivocally hold that elected officials have core first amendment rights to engage in the exact type of political speech which mr. trump engaged in. i was shocked at the house managers not only spent a mere three pages on the first amendment analysis in their trial memo. but yesterday the spent mere ten minutes at the end of the case as a throw away. but we have read and what we have heard is the

talk about the legacy of rush limbaugh with help our oliver north and larry kudlow the former trump white house official weighs in on the media. it was the radio titan's sad death that prompted donald trump to break his silence since leaving office, calling into fox, describing rush as i replaceable and offering his views on the election. >> well, rush thought we won and so of do i, by the way. i think we won by substantially. i don't think that could have happened to a democrat. you would have had riots going all over the place if that happened to a democrat. we did win the election as far as i'm concerned. it was disgraceful what happened, totally disgraceful. howie: and that not surprisingly touched off a media storm. joining us to analyze the coverage, in new york, will cain, co-host of "fox & friends weekend," here in washington, susan ferrechio, chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner and leslie marshall, radio talk show host and fox news contributor. will, media are acting shocked. in response to those call-in interviews on fox, news max aoan, some liberal comment t

in spite of this, the house leadership denied the then president all of his basic protected rights. for then president donald trump, the house impeachment procedure lacked any semblance of due process whatsoever. it cannot be argued to the country and we do not make special rules for different targets. it's the very integrity of the institution that suffers when we do and that's what the house leadership has caused. a debate and vote was sent straight to the floor without a vote. the house show notice committee hearing, no evidence, no opportunity for the accused to respond or have counsel present to object. as "the new york times" recently reported, there were no witness interviews, no hearings, no committee debates and no real additional fact-finding. house managers claim the need for impeachment was so urgent that they had to rush the proceedings rather than any investigation at all. that claim is belied or what didn't happen next. they waited another 12 days to deliver the articles to this senate to begin the trial process. the house leadership spent more time holding the adopted article than i'd did it on the

senate has voted to go ahead with the 2nd impeachment trial of former president donald trump house impeachment managers rejected the defense's argument that it is unconstitutional to try a former president an official has the latest now from capitol hill. this is really just an appetizer for what's going to come over the next couple of days this with both sides only in their argument the republicans on donald trump's team essentially saying look you can't hold them responsible because he's left office but the democrats simply not having that same what happened in january the 6 was appalling and the president was responsible for driving the more towards capitol hill and for all the violence that took place after that miles national league for democracy says that police have raided its headquarters state is the political movement led by deposed leader aung san suu kyi earlier protesters rallied for a 4th straight day against last week's military. and humanitarian crisis is unfolding in chile where thousands of mostly venezuelan migrants have entered through the andean border with bolivia there i

majority leader of the michigan senate and the speaker of the michigan house, lee chatfield to lobby them to overturn michigan's results. trump invited mr. chatfield to washington to meet with him at the white house where the president lobbied them further and let's be clear, donald trump was calling officials and hosting them at the white house and urging them to defy the voters in their state and instead awarded votes to trump. the officials held strong and so trump moved on to a different state and my home state of pennsylvania and i am certain my senators casey and senator toomey remember what happened there. in early december, as he did in michigan, he began calling election officials, including my former colleagues in the pennsylvania legislator, republicans majority leader kim ward and speaker of the house

majority leader of the michigan senate and the speaker of the michigan house, lee chatfield to lobby them to overturn michigan's results. trump invited mr. chatfield to washington to meet with him at the white house where the president lobbied them further and let's be clear, donald trump was calling officials and hosting them at the white house and urging them to defy the voters in their state and instead awarded votes to trump. the officials held strong and so trump moved on to a different state and my home state of pennsylvania and i am certain my senators casey and senator toomey remember what happened there. in early december, as he did in michigan, he began calling election officials, including my former colleagues in the pennsylvania legislator, republicans majority leader kim ward and speaker of the house

trump's impeachment trial in the senate. as you can see, it's signed by jay sekulow and the white house counsel, pat cipollone. ot one of these a year ago for president trump's first impeachment. tomorrow, on groundhog day, we're going to get one of those again for president trump's second impeachment because for all of this faults, for all of his failings, the one thing you can never take away from president donald j. trump is he is the only president ever in the history of the country to be impeached twice. mazel tov. this time, though, he's not going to have the same lawyers defending him. mr. sekulow and mr. cipollone said they want nothing to do with defending president trump in this second impeachment trial. the president has reportedly had a very hard time finding any lawyers at all to defend him in this impeachment. lindsey graham was finally able to set up president trump with some lawyers he knew from south carolina. but this weekend, that all fell apart, too. cnn was first to report, then the "washington post" and "the new york times" and nbc news all confirmed, that the president on saturday lost al

mike sherky and the speaker of testimony house, lee chatfield to lobby them to overturn michigan's results. trump invited mr. chatfield and mr. sharkey to washington to meet with him at the white house where the president lobbied them further. let's be clear. donald trump was calling officials, holesing them at the white house, urging them to defy the voters in their states, and instead award voelgts to trump. the officials held strong and so trump moved on to a different state. my home state of pennsylvania. i am certain my senators casey and senator toomey remember what happened there. in e as they did in michigan, he began calling election officials, including my former colleagues in the pennsylvania legislature. republicans, majority leader and speaker of the house. majority leader ward said the president called her to quote

trump. amy: i want to go to house impeachment manager congressman joaquin castro of texas. >> using the evidence and this is clear, on january 6, president trump left every wind in this capitol for dead. when he wanted to incite his supporters to show up on january 6, president trump tweeted 16 times between midnight on january 5 and his new rally speech the next day. 16 times to get them to do something he wanted. and his message in those 16 times was clear -- fight, stay strong, be strong. but when the violence started, you never once said the one thing everyone around him was begging him to say, "stop the attack." he refused to stop it. donald trump did not send help to these officers who were badly outnumbered, overwhelmed, and being beaten down. two hours into the insurrection, by 3:00 p.m., president trump had not deployed the national guard or any other law enforcement to help, despite multiple please to do so. amy: so that is joaquin castro. now i want to go to house impeachment manager rhode island congressman david cicilline who laid out what donald trump was tweeting as the mob attack

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majority leader chuck schumer says he hopes the evidence house managers laid out is enough to convince at least 17 republicans to convict donald trump. but many senators including florida republican marco rubio say they want to wait to hear both sides before making a final verdict. >>and today we'll hear again from the house impeachment managers and then the following today's well here so we from former president donald trump's legal team live in washington, i'm anna wiernicki back to you. thank you anna for that. >>i will now to the coronavirus the south african variant has made its way to not only the state, but it is also been found and a couple of counties right here in the bay area. well, the first 2 cases were detected and that number is expected to grow kron four's taylor force act he has the very latest. >>both cases of the south african very were discovered in laboratories here at stanford university and while only 2 cases have been detected so far health officials believe that there could be more cases circulating in the bay area, the south african variant of covid-19 is now in the bay area. one case detected in alameda co

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mike sharkey and speaker of the michigan house lee chatfield, to lobby them to overturn michigan's results. trump invited mr. chatfield and mr. sharkey to washington to meet with limb in the white house where the president lobbied them further. let's be clear. donald trump was calling officials hosting them at the white house urging them to defy the voters in their state, and instead award votes to trump. the officials held strong, and so trump moved on to a different state. my home state of pennsylvania. i am certain my senators casey and senator toomey, remember what happened there. in early december, as he did in michigan, he began calling election officials, including my former colleagues in the pennsylvania legislature. republicans, majority leader kim ward and speaker of the house brian cutler. majority leader ward said the president called her to "declare there was a fraud in the

calling donald trump at the white house, to say you need to do something about the mob that is attacking the capitol. other members of the senate and congress called ivanka trump to speak to her father, called jared kushner to speak to his father,. all of the making an expert -- effort to say, you have to call office crowd. what is interesting as well, is that the national guard were not called for more than two hours. singh, there was a difficulty on capitol hill. as we saw in the videos, those anguished radio messages. capitol hill police were being overrun, outflanked, outnumbered, and they needed reinforcements. they wanted help from the national guard, but for more than two hours, there was no call made. donald trump did not activate the national guard, even though he was watching on tv. the democrats are claiming the reason he did not want to stop this, but because he was quite happy for the interruption to go ahead, because in his view, it increased the possibility of the election results being overturned. that is ongoing, we should get the results shortly. it has

the house managers cannot get past the 1st prong of the brandenburg test they have not and can not prove mr trump explicitly or implicitly encourage the use of violence or a lawless action period brandenberg requires a close examination of the words themselves the words are either important or they're not the house managers in mid that the incitement issue is not about the words why not because on the face of it mr trump's words are no different than the figurative speech used by every one of the senators assembled here today if it is not about the words but about the big law of a stolen election then why isn't house manager raskin guilty since he tried to overturn the 2016 election the more the house managers speak the more apoc recy gets revealed. a poc recy even though they say it's not about the words the law under brandenburg requires a close analysis of the words to determine incitement. so we need to look at those words mr trump did the opposite of advocating for lawless action the opposite he expressed the advocated for peaceful action at the save america rally he explicitly stated these

angry, i'm disturbed, i'm sad. >> they came, draped in trump's flag and used our flag, the american flag, to batter and to bludgeon. >> reporter: house managers detailed donald trump's efforts to overturn the election. >> we were getting ready to win this election. frankly we did win this election. >> reporter: alleging the riot was far more choreographed than it appeared. >> there was method in the madness that day. >> they believed that they were following his orders. they said so. >> we were invited by the president of the united states. >> reporter: telling after egging on the mob watched the violence unfold with glee. >> president donald j. trump ran out of nonviolent options to retain power. >> reporter: some republican senators noted they were not impressed. >> there weren't a lot of surprises. we were all here. words are pr free speech and he never intended to provoke the susan mcginniss, nbc news, washington. >> stay with nbc bay area for live coverage on the trial. nbc will air a special report when the coverage begins and we will stream it on our app. >>> another international covid variant coming from south africa has arr

senate has voted to go ahead with the 2nd impeachment trial of former president donald trump house impeachment managers rejected the defense's argument that it's unconstitutional to try a former president donald trump's defense team has accused democrats of weaponize in the impeachment process insisting the trial would only further divide the united states his lawyers say the former president is not responsible for the capitol hill writes last month that official has the latest from capitol hill this is really just an appetizer for what's going to come over the next couple of days this with both sides laying out their argument the republicans on team essentially saying look you can't hold them responsible because he's left office but the democrats simply not having that same what happened in january the 6 was appalling and the president was responsible for driving the more towards capitol hill and for all the violence that took place after that. national league for democracy says that police have raided its headquarters that see political movements led by to post media uncensored choose only o

president donald trump house rejected a request by democrats to testify during his 2nd senate impeachment trial democrats who drafted the charges have accused him of and danger in the lives of all members of congress by inciting his supporters to storm capitol hill last month. legal team says senate lacks the authority to try him now that he's no longer president the trial is due to begin on tuesday. politicians belonging to the deposed. party have defied the military and met in a symbolic session of parliament and close aide of suci has reportedly been arrested when 10 had called for civil disobedience following monday's coup. hong kong has issued sweeping guidelines to schools on how to teach children as young as 6 about beijing's controversial national security law students will learn about tough penalties found government offenses schools have been asked to teach primary school children how to sing china's national anthem and learn about the police as well as the people's liberation army they've also been asked to stop students and teachers from shouting political slogans ok as you ha

government is quite extraordinary that that failed and really shows the strength to hold that donald trump house on the republican party. the democrats. chance i doubt is that phone really where you are. that's coming from my followers . i'm sorry about that question like do you think democrats missed their big chance here because witness testimony would have really pin down what trump knew on january 6th and whether whether mike pence for example was in danger. yes i wrote an op ed that was published this morning with richard painter saying that what was critical now was witnesses was absolutely essential to call in witnesses that might have really confronted the commitment of a number of these g.o.p. 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 wa

we'll take that up with former trump white house chief of staff mark meadows and proud trump are republican terrell here tonight. we'll also be talking with pastor robert jeffress as is our custom on friday evenings about president biden's authoritarian actions on the issue of abortion. and we'll be talking about the pastor the's new book, "a place called heaven devotional: 100 days of living in the hope of eternity." the pastor will join us, as he always does on a beautiful friday night in america. our top story, the fight against the china virus pandemic. johnson & johnson's single-dose vaccine is only 66% effective in a global study, but the company will file for a emergency use authorization from the federal drug administration next month. the biotech novavax says its vaccine is 90% effective against covid-19 but also makes something of a dent on the south african strain. that's a 50% dent. 50% efficacy which, it appears, is the best performance of any vaccine that has been unleashed on the south african strain. pfizer and moderna say their vaccines are somewhat effective against is sou

calling donald trump at the white house to see you need to do something about it the more that is attacking the capitol other members of the senate and of the congress called 'd a vanka trump to speak to her father called gerry cousteau to speak to his father in law all of them making an effort to say to the president you have to call this crowed what is interesting as well is that the national guard were not called up for more than 2 hours a point made by what he cussed or saying there was a difficulty on capitol hill that the as we saw in the videos and hair did in those anguished radio messages the police service here on capitol hill the capitol hill police were being overrun they were being outflanked they were being a number and they needed reinforcements they wanted help from the national guard but for more than 2 hours there was no call moved donald trump didn't activate the national guard even though he was watching on t.v. the scenes but the democrats are claiming the reason he didn't want to stop this was because he was q

also in the news the senate gives the go ahead to try former president trump over the capitol hill riots house managers will soon start presenting their case for impeachment. and the european commission president says mistakes were made when it comes to how the e.u. handled the covert 19 vaccine. so protesters of return to the streets of may in mar a day after violence broke out when crowds confronted security forces this is now the 5th day of demonstrations against last week's military coup even the true rulers of imposed a curfew in the 2 biggest cities young dawn and mandalay and also banned large gatherings water cannon rubber bullets were both used against protesters on tuesday with more now from younger. people in the streets again. when they are on our 2nd day since they declared martial law and young going around on part of the country but it doesn't seem to put off the protesters we're seeing that just as many numbers if not more all coming out today and yesterday and depending on the area you go to rhyme chiron the atmosphere is very different you can see behind me here it's nearing

will remain in afghanistan for the foreseeable future this is a major policy shift from the trump white house and this will be biden's 1st major policy decision for the middle east and could have a deep impact on this presidency americans have grown exhausted from endless wars and it will be a tough sell to the public that remaining in afghanistan is the best course of action. nato allies welcome the change in tone from the us administration the alliance relies on you as forces for logistical support in afghanistan and secretary general stoltenberg made it clear that nato wants leave before the time is right to clear hands that there may deadline could be extended there's no decision or ongoing event in this case and that from what we miss you can only be a decision to say. as it is for a meeting that means you continue but how they continue remains a big question after 20 years of military presence in afghanistan elyse are growing increasingly war weary they've been successful in defeating al qaeda by had to realize they didn't have the capacity to reinjure new afghanistan they wanted to coo

election because he did not like the results as for the 43 republican senators who stood behind trump house speaker democrat nancy pelosi didn't hold back but what we saw in the senate today was the care wordly group of republicans who patently have no option of because they were afraid to defend their job respect the institution in which they are an exam like he says professor of history and social policy at harvard kennedy school is in style in the state of vermont many thanks for joining us and is there not just been said about how this impeachment trial was more than convicting trump it was about making sure that the events of january 6th were marked in history how will history remember the actions of both the republicans and the democrats from this trial. well it is a little hard to predict how history will remember. it but you know speaking right now as i would imagine i think that. trump will be remembered as. as a as a quite disastrous president for the united states and i think that these if the events of january and events since the election. with his endless repetition of false n

impeachment trial of former president donald trump continues at noon and on c-span 3, a house judiciary subcommittee holds a hearing examining employment arbitration agreements. that gets underway at 10 a.m. eastern. you're watching c-span2, your unfiltered view of government. c-span2 was created by america's cable television companies and today were brought to you by these television companies who brought c-span as part of a public service. >> at the close of wednesday's impeachment trial, senator mike lee made an effort to have a remark attributed to him in a newspaper article removed from the record. the remark caused some confusion on the senate floor. >> mr. president. >> majority lead are. >> pursuant to impeachment rule 16 i make a motion. statements were attributed to me moments ago by the house impeachment managers. statements relating to the content of conversations between the phone call involving president trump and senator tuberville were not made by me, they were not accurate and i request pursuant to rule 16 that they be stricken from the record. >> murt to the senate res

well, it doesn't surprise me that trump's defense team puts together this false notion because the house managers have used it quite effectively throughout their entire case, making a real appeal to republicans, taking somebody that is popular with republicans, who has been this loyal lieutenant to donald trump for the entirety of his presidency, and holding him up as an example in this case that this tells you more about donald trump's character in this moment in terms of not defending the democracy, that his most loyal lieutenant is in danger as well, and he lets him sort of hang there to die. >> and he does that, and yet we're learning now that pence right now is deliberately laying low, being quiet, still patching up his relationship with trump. pretty incredible that that would be a priority. what do you make of pence's silence? >> well, it fits how pence has treated his relationship with trump for the entirety of their time together in office, right, erin? he played that role of loyal lieutenant to a "t." he never took his criticism public. it would be out of character for him to d

as politico puts it tonight, "trump is the party undisputed leader for the moment and the foreseeable future. his grip on the republican base and the mines of the white houseefuls is so total that the path to gop nomination is best defined by the degree of loyalty to trump." back with us tonight, mark mckinnon and one of the co-host of "the circus" on show time. we welcome back, jeremy peters, he's been hard at work on his fourth coming book, "insurgency," how republicans got everything they wanted. fantastic title. congrats. when the time comes we'll have you back onto sell some books. mark, first off to you, you are at cpac though not against your will. if we are wrong, blink your eyes, we have a rapid intervention team that can come and get you. tell us what you expect to see. does this mean, the norm we are breaking here when ex-president used to disappear and be silent for six months to give the new president a chance for footing. is this the coronation of the former president? >> certainly is. as somebody, i was interested coming down hearing the ideas of what's the next chapter going to be post-donald trump. we know it is going to be with donald tru

>>> today both sides file the argument at of next week's impeachment trial of former president trump. house impeachment managers say the senate should convict him and bar him from ever holding federal office again. they say he "summoned a mob to washington." but his lawyers deny he incited writers in the january 6 capital attack and claim whatever statements he made to his supporters were protected by the first amendment. they also call the trial unconstitutional since he is no longer in office. >>> later this evening the police officer who died from his injuries suffered in the capital assault will lie in honor. he joined the was capitol police in 2008 and previously served at the new jersey national guard. tonight members of the capitol police force will attend a private viewing, a congressional tribute will be held tomorrow morning. >>> sad news, the 100-year-old british fundraising hero captain tom moore has died. he wanted to show his appreciation to british healthcare workers so he raised nearly 33 million pounds for charity by walking laps around his garden prior to his 100th birthda

the pro-trump house republicans furious at anyone that crossed him. the senate seems to be a little different. do we expect recriminations for the seven, or will they move on? >> i think the republican senators will move on. i talked to senator cramer of north dakota. he gave pretty eluding comments to me as well, saying he thought it would be harder for even himself to support trump in the future. and i think that's really the question to kind of understand what is trump's role? many of them know that they can't completely forget trump, that he can't completely move on from what trump might encourage them to do on policy or how he talks, but there aren't many who are going to be willing to support him as their nominee moving forward. and i think that that is going to be a delydelineation and may that's what you see between the senate republicans and the house republicans. that's because they're more gerrymandered, and that's different when you're in a state that you have to win the election in, correct? >> senator cramer among them, go home to your s