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#LIVE: Former President Donald Trump's 2nd Senate impeachment trial continues today with House managers wrapping up their opening arguments. bit.ly/3a9eSY8 pscp.tv/w/cvQIzjk3MDk1…

"We're listening to Trump": House impeachment managers play videos showing January 6 rioters explicitly saying they are following Trump's orders to siege the Capitol bit.ly/2MO9VLL

Rep. Diana DeGette says rioters "truly believed that the whole intrusion was at the president's orders. And we know that because they said so." bit.ly/2MO9VLL

WATCH: Rep. Jamie Raskin plays clips of Trump in his 2016 campaign encouraging violence against protesters at his rallies and praising his supporters who attacked them, saying in one instance, "I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees"

Footage of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville and Trump's "blame on both sides" comments are shown as evidence in impeachment trial of Trump encouraging violence during his presidency.

Raskin: "Is there any political leader in this room who believes that if he is ever allowed by the Senate to get back into the Oval Office, Donald Trump would stop inciting violence to get his way? Would you bet the lives of more police officers on that?"

"This is what Donald Trump has done to America. This massive deployment of law enforcement has cost the taxpayer dearly," Rep. Diana DeGette lays out what she says is the cost associated with the Capitol attack.

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Rep. Ted Lieu argues that "lack of remorse is an important factor in impeachment because impeachment, conviction and disqualification is not just about the past it's about the future."

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Rep. DeGette: "In 2017, it was unfathomable to most of us to think that Charlottesville could happen. Just as it was unfathomable to most of us that the Capitol could have been breached on January 6."

"The loss of human life is, of course, the most consequential. But that was not the only damage brought that day. The Trump mob also damaged this building. They defiled some of the most sacred places," Rep. David Cicilline said.

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"Many of the insurrectionists that President Trump incited to invade this chamber were dangerous.

People on the FBI watch list.

Violent extremists.

White supremacists."

- Rep. Joaquin Castro

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Rep. Joaquin Castro: "We have spent trillions of dollars building the strongest military in the world, and billions of dollars on the most sophisticated weaponry on the planet, to prevent the kind of attack that occurred at this Capitol on January 6"

"According to Pres. Trump, everything he did, everything we showed you that he did, is perfectly OK for him to do. And for a future president to do again," Rep. Joe Neguse said while laying out what he says is the counterargument to Trump's impeachment.

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Lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin says that President Trump's actions were "the greatest betrayal of a presidential oath in the history of America. The greatest."

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"Democracy is over": Rep. Joaquin Castro reads reactions to the Capitol riot by U.S. adversaries like Russia, China and Iran — who celebrated the attack as a sign of American democracy faltering.

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“If you don’t find this a high crime and misdemeanor today, you have set a new, terrible standard for presidential misconduct in the United States of America," lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin said.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin: "If you think this is not impeachable, what is? What would be?...If you don't find this a high crime and misdemeanor today, you have set a new, terrible standard for presidential misconduct in the United States of America"

Impeachment managers, hours before their allotted time ran out, have finished making their case to convict former President Trump in his Senate impeachment trial.

The trial will resume at noon on Friday.

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