"We'll be using footage never seen before that shows a view of the Capitol that is quite extraordinary, and a view of the attack that has never been public before," says a senior aide on House impeach managers' team
Unclear if Dem impeachment managers have access to body cams from DC Metro Police, who were assisting on 1/6.
Capitol Police don't have body cams but some officers, I'm told, used their personal iPhones to record the rioters attacking them.
STORY: Democrats to offer new footage showing 'extreme violence' in Capitol attack thehill.com/homenews/house…
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DEMS’ TRIAL STRATEGY: The nine House impeachment managers plan to avoid any long or abstract legal analysis in favor of efforts to tell the “gripping and spellbinding story” of how Trump incited the deadly insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“The case for the president’s guilt is overwhelming and the evidence is devastating,” one impeachment manager says. “We’re going to tell America the gripping and spellbinding story of what happened on Jan. 6.”
The nine House prosecutors plan to use video in this week's Senate trial. LOTS OF IT.
Unclear, however, if they will have access to previously unseen surveillance video from the dozens of security cameras in the Capitol or will only us footage in the public domain.
.@RepRonWright's office confirms the Texas Republican congressman has passed away just two weeks after testing positive for COVID-19. He had also battled cancer in recent years
.@RepRonWright served as mayor pro tem of Arlington TX and later served as chief of staff for Rep. Joe Barton. He won election to succeed Barton in 2018 and had just been sworn in for a second term in the House
Wright is second House lawmaker to die after testing positive from COVID-19. In late December, Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R-La.) passed away at age 41
NEW: MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE @RepMTG is increasingly becoming a liability for her GOP colleagues due to a string of controversies that have thrown the conference off message and led to repudiations by Republican leaders.
.@RepJahanaHayes, fmr Nat'l Teach of Year, is circulating letter calling on @GOPLeader to boot @mtgreenee off the Education Committee after she supported false conspiracy theory claiming Sandy Hook mass shooting was a hoax.
Hayes reps Sandy Hook and Newtown.
The internet sleuths are just getting started digging into @mtgreenee's digital trail. Today, @mmfa revealed MTG penned a 2018 FB post espousing a wild and false conspiracy theory that deadly wildfires in CA, McCarthy's home state, had been caused by a laser from space.
Capitol Police chief apologizes, admits to department's failures in Jan. 6 Capitol riot thehill.com/homenews/house…
Approps Chair @rosadelauro on today's hearing on the 1/6 Capitol attack:
"[T]here is the disturbing matter of how the law enforcement response to peaceful Black Lives Matter protests was so much more stringent than the response to this dangerous threat."
After today’s closed-door hearing on 1/6 attack, Rep. @RodneyDavis, top R on House Admin, calls for public hearings on the Capitol insurrection:
“Closed-door briefing with selectively leaked information is not the next step in addressing this issue”