.@RepTedLieu pointing out that key former Trump officials --- Mattis, John Kelly, Bolton, Mulvaney, McMaster & Farah -- blamed Trump for fomenting violence at the Capitol on 1/6
Lieu puts quote up on screen from Trump's Transpo Sec Elaine Chao, who resigned from Cabinet over the 1/6 attack.
She just happens to be wife of Mitch McConnell
Lieu says he's not afraid of Trump running for president again. He's afraid of Trump losing the presidency again and provoking another attack on Capitol
.@RepDianaDeGette says taxpayers forking over $484M for extra security from National Guard to protect Capitol and other sites after Jan. 6 attack
.@RepCicilline playing clips of House lawmakers like @RepDanKildee telling stories of how they were prepared to fight their way out of chamber, calling loved ones to say goodbye
Many senators personally know these "witnesses" and "victims"
"All of us in this room made it out alive, but not everyone was so lucky" -- @RepCicilline
Officer Brian Sicknick was killed. Two other officers took their own lives, including Officer Howard Libengood, whose father had served as Senate sergeant at arms
The Trump rioters were repeatedly calling Capitol Police and DC Metro officers "f--cking traitors."
They were the same officers who saved the lives of the VP, senators, House lawmakers and all the rest of us in the Capitol that day
Sen. @JohnBoozman (R-Ark.) tells reporters he will vote to acquit Trump because he views impeach trial as unconstitutional.
"I think it's difficult to vote that it's unconstitutional & vote to convict"
Raskin closing now, with about 5-6 hours to spare, he says
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"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.
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.