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9 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I asked Marco Rubio if he believes Trump was responsible for riot: "I hold responsible the people who did it. Now do I believe that the things leading up to it that was foreseeable...
“... that you invite that all these people to the city, some element of that, ginned up appropriately could lead to something bad? I don't know if anyone could have told you that's the way it played out, but you certainly worry about it.
“I wish there had been more awareness of that. Words do have consequences. I'm not sure if it rises to the level of a crime, and if it does, and people believe it does, then let a U.S. attorney go to a grand jury and get an indictment and let someone sue,” Rubio said
Rubio added: “That's how private citizens should be tried."

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10 Feb
Several GOP senators make clear they view the footage as chilling and are shaken by what they saw - but are singaling they won’t change their plans to vote to acquit

“Same way that I was before,” Sen. Mike Braun told me when asked if he was shaken.
Braun added: “When you think the process is flawed in the first place,” it’s hard to vote to convict.

“Who wouldn’t be” shaken? said Sen. Ron Johnson. But he added that he blames the rioters - not Trump.
Sen. John Cornyn, usually very talkative, told me: “I’ve got nothing for you now.”

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who is likely to convict, said “that the evidence that was presented thus far is pretty damning.”
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10 Feb
Romney, sitting in the chamber just now, was stoic and didn't move when the Senate was shown this video showing Officer Goodman saving him from the mob
Romney just told reporters “no” he didn’t know he was this close to the mob until just now
Romney and Officer Goodman were speaking just before they started back up, per reporters in the gallery
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10 Feb
Sen. Josh Hawley insisted to me he was paying attention when sitting in the upstairs gallery and while reading a stack of documents from his manilla folder. He said he was reading legal briefs in the case. He's the lone senator sitting in the upstairs gallery.
“Well I've got the trial briefs with me, and taking notes. I'm sitting up there A, because it's a little less claustrophobic than on the floor, but B, I've also got a straight shot. Where I sit in the Senate chamber, as you know, I'm kind of in the corner,” he said
Hawley added: “I can basically see the back of their heads. But I sort of picked a spot where I can look right down on them, I can see the TV, and it's interesting."
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9 Feb
Lots of criticism from Republicans over Trump attorney Castor. John Cornyn:“And then I thought the President's lawyer the first lawyer just rambled on and on and on and didn't really address the constitutional argument. That was it was not one of the finest I've seen.”
“I don't think the lawyers did the most effective job," said Sen. Ted Cruz to @karoun when asked about Trump's lawyers. He added that Rep. Jamie Raskin was "impressive" and a "serious lawyer."
Bill Cassidy: “Anyone who listened to President Trump's legal team saw they were unfocused, they attempted to avoid the issue. And they talked about everything but the issue at hand."
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9 Feb
Hawley votes no on the Trump trial’s organizing resolution. So does Ron Johnson. It was negotiated by leaders of both parties
Cruz and Paul also voted no
Hagerty, the new senator who replaced Lamar Alexander, also a NO
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9 Feb
Thune to me on Cheney saying don’t embrace Trump: "If we want to speak to the issues that people in this country care about, the longer we're tied to a personality -- a cult of personality -- I just don't think that's a good durable model for the future.” cnn.com/2021/02/08/pol…
Murkowski: "I think we're in a place where Donald Trump is gone -- and in terms of his role in party, that has yet to be determined. But I have not embraced the party of Donald Trump. I'm looking for the Republican Party."
"In eight years in Congress, I probably had a hundred votes that I could have gone either way, and I maybe second-guessed a little bit," said Rep. Tom Rice, the South Carolina Republican who was censured by his state party for his vote. "This is not one of them."
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