Thread by @scottwongDC

DAY TWO OF THE TRUMP IMPEACHMENT TRIAL: Live updates throughout the day on @thehill's live blog here thehill.com/homenews/senat…

Democratic prosecutors' team praises GOP @SenBillCassidy and expresses hope they can win over more Senate Republicans:

"We have the goods, we will be presenting the goods, we will be tying the evidence all together in a compelling case" thehill.com/homenews/senat…

Dems say new video footage will provide 'extraordinary' window into 'extreme violence' of Capitol attack thehill.com/homenews/senat…

Trump defense attorney Bruce Castor on Day One criticism: 'Only one person's opinion matters' thehill.com/homenews/senat…

"Distinguished members of the Senate, this is a day that will live in disgrace in American history ... that is, unless you ask Donald Trump" -- Lead impeachment manager @RepRaskin

This is the @BuzzFeed article @RepRaskin cited on the floor of Black Capitol Police officers who experienced racism, including the N-word, from rioters during Jan. 6 attack buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanu…

Raskin calls Jan. 6 'a day that will live in disgrace' thehill.com/homenews/senat…

.@MadeleineDean plays audio of Trump pressuring @GaSecofState Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes" so he can win the Georgia election.

This is @RepTedLieu (D-CA), a Taiwanese immigrant who went on to become an Air Force JAG.

He's a member of House Democratic leadership and has been a vocal Trump critic on cable news/Twitter

I'm imagining there are a lot of words being said this week that have never appeared in the congressional record

Dean focused on Trump's attacks on GA Sec of State Raffensperger.

Lieu focusing on Trump's attacks on his own VP, Mike Pence

"Vice President Pence stood strong and certified the election. Vice President Pence showed us what it means to be an American, what it means to show courage" -- impeachment manager @RepTedLieu

Raskin says @StaceyPlaskett (D-Virgin Islands) is first delegate to appear on an impeach managers' team but also was his former law student at American Univ.

"She was an A student and she is an A+ student now"

“The exact thing that happened on Jan. 6. That was their goal. And they said it. Out loud, on sites that the Trump administration was actively monitoring” — @StaceyPlaskett

.@MadeleineDean chokes up while describing the Capitol breach; rioters, she says, were draped in Trump flags while bludgeoning officers with American flags.

"Because the truth is, this attack never would have happened but for Donald Trump"

"For the first time in more than 200 yrs, the seat of our government was ransacked. On our watch." -- @MadeleineDean

Senate trial back from a brief recess. Raskin warns senators and viewers that there is some "violent" and "graphic" video coming next

Impeachment managers playing audio from police radio as rioter attack officers.

You can hear in officers/dispatcher's voices how chaotic it was

Here are the evacuation and lockdown alerts sent by Capitol Police that day as they were happening on Jan. 6

https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/1346887660183433217?s=20

Impeachment managers play never-before-seen security footage from Capitol as rioters break through window on Senate side

.@StaceyPlaskett lays out the timeline:

At 1:49 p.m., the breach at Capitol was formally declared a riot.

Pence wasn't evacuated away from the room connected to the Senate chamber until 2:26 p.m.

.@StaceyPlaskett confirms that @SpeakerPelosi, whom rioters wanted to assassinate, was evacuated out of the Capitol because of the severity of the threats.

NEW SECURITY VIDEO shows harrowing details of Capitol attack, and just how close rioters came to attacking VP Pence and US senators thehill.com/homenews/house…

Powerful moment earlier: @StaceyPlaskett showed video of Pelosi staffers barricading themselves inside a room just minutes before rioters broke into Pelosi office, hunting for the Speaker

.@RepSwalwell recounts how he sent text message to his wife as mob closed in: "I love you and the babies. Please hug them for me"

Impeachment managers are in strange position of being both prosecutors of and witnesses to the crime.

Senators are both jurors and witnesses

Some GOP senators say they were moved by the video presentation:

THUNE: The impeachment managers "were very effective. They had a strong, strong presentation, put together in a way that I think makes it very compelling ...

"I think they've done a good job connecting the dots"

PORTMAN makes a good point: He says Senate staff were not as well protected as the senators themselves, who had Capitol Police with them.

Staff fended for themselves

"I talked to some of the staff afterwards and, you know, for them they were in a worse position than we were"

UPDATED: New security video shows harrowing details of Capitol attack and just how close rioters came to PENCE and the very Senators who will vote to convict or acquit TRUMP thehill.com/homenews/house…

.@RepSwalwell said he went back to the scene of the crime and paced out the distance between the swarming mob and the senators: 58 steps.

.@JoaquinCastrotx: “On Jan. 6, President Trump left everyone in this Capitol for dead."

Interesting framing by @JoaquinCastrotx: “Who won on Jan. 6?”

Castro suggests Trump and insurrectionists will claim the violent assault as a victory unless the Senate holds Trump accountable

Former House Republican says if he were Pence, he would have socked Trump in the face and then resigned after POTUS sicced an angry mob on VP and his family

https://twitter.com/RepPaulMitchell/status/1359641409133944835?s=20