that leads to an attack on the u.s. capitol is consistent with uphold office of president or protecting and defending the u.s. constitution, and it is directly assaulting it. so the argument that trump s lawyers were trying to make of the pandora s box and using examples of president bush and president obama to come under scrutiny they took while actions of war and peace do not track with this unprecedented action of president trump. especially given that trump s own lawyers as judge pan pointed out in the first impeachment and republican senators in the second impeachment pointed out that someone does not have to be convicted on their actions later. it does not hold water, and trump is just threats and threats of retributions to further degrade the promise to faithfully execute the office of president. and michael, what are you
taken by president trump, trying to overturn the 2020 election, so we will, of course, continue to cover this and continue to watch this closely. another historic day here. jose? yamiche alcindor in washington, thank you. catherine, what do you make of what you heard in court today? well, it was shocking to have attorneys, you always want to represent your client and be vigorous about it, but when i believe it was judge pan, as you reporter said, ask, well, can the president sell pardons, can a president direct navy s.e.a.l. team six to assassinate a political rival, and basically donald trump s lawyers argument was unless he has been impeached and convicted by the senate, he can t be prosecuted. eventually there was a lot of torturous pulling of teeth, the trump lawyers conceded that there are some circumstances