Responsible or acquit him of inciting an insurrection. At this hour, nbc news confirming brand new reporting out tonight about what trump knew and the actions he failed to take as rioters descended upon and then looted and desecrated our capitol in his name, while also hunting for the speaker of the house and the Vice President. Kevin mccarthy had a phone call with trump as the head of the riot was underway. As mccarthy pleaded for help, trump is said to have responded, well, kevin, i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. At one point, mccarthy said, who the f do you think youre talking to . According to a republican lawmaker familiar with the call. Sources tell Nbc News Mccarthy was shaken up during the call and was asking the president for help. Sources describe the call as incordial and borderline incoherent. Today trumps lawyers mounted their defense using under three hours of the 16 hours they had allotted to them. They argued trump was not to blame for anything that happened at the capitol on 1 6, that his rhetoric at the rally was free speech. They denied their use of whataboutism before engaging in rampant whataboutism. Facts got twisted, history got rewritten on the fly, and there were the grievances weve heard before from their client in florida, that this impeachment is all about hate and political vengeance. No thinking person could seriously believe that the president s January 6th Speech on the ellipse was in any way an incitement to violence or insurrection. This Sham Impeachment also poses a serious threat to Freedom Of Speech for political leaders of both parties. It is constitutional cancel culture. We have reason to believe the House Managers manipulated evidence and selectively edited footage. There is an entire body of law, Supreme Court landmark cases supporting the conclusion that mr. Trump has actually enhanced Free Speech Rights because he is an elected official. The democratic managers know that the word fight has been used figuratively in political speech forever. Mr. Trump was not in any way, shape or form instructing these people to fight or to use physical violence. What he was instructing them to do was to challenge their opponents in primary elections to push for sweeping election reforms to hold big tech responsible. He explicitly stated, these are the words. I know everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol Building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. President trump wanted the Signature Verification to be done in public. How can a request for Signature Verifications to be done in public be a basis for a charge for inciting a riot . This trial is about far more than President Trump. It is about silencing and banning the speech the majority does not agree with. It is about cancelling 75 million trump voters. And criminalizing political viewpoints. The Democratic House managers rejected the Defense Accusation that evidence was manipulated and video was selectively edited. But during their presentation, trumps attorneys rolled their own selectively edited videotape, including repeated clips of democrats, including a couple celebrities, using the word fight in sentences during rallies in an effort to somehow equate that with trumps use of the same word to a Weaponized Mob in washington during his rally on 6 january. Heres a brief sample of what that was like. Take him out now. When is the last time an actor assassinated a president. Theyre still going to have to go out and put a bullet in trump. Tell me where it says protesting is supposed to be peaceful . I have thought a lot about blowing up the white house. Please, get up in the face of some congress people. People will do what they do. It went on and on for about 11 minutes. Once the Defense Lawyers completed their arguments, senators like republican Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski wanted to know more about what trump knew and what he did during the riot. Exactly when did President Trump learn of the breach of the capitol, and what specific actions did he take to bring the rioting to an end, and when did he take them . Please be as detailed as possible. The House Managers have given us absolutely no evidence one way or the other onto that question. With the rush to bring this impeachment, theres been absolutely no investigation into that. And thats the problem with this entire proceeding. The House Managers did zero investigation. After failing to provide an answer for that, trumps legal team got this question submitted by one mitt romney. When President Trump sent the disparaging tweet at 2 24 p. M. Regarding Vice President pence, was he aware that the Vice President had been removed from the senate by the Secret Service for his safety . The answer is no. At no point was the president informed the Vice President was in any danger. Several news outlets have reported donald trump was on the phone with new alabama senator Tommy Tuberville right before he sent that tweet, that tuberville told trump that pence had just been rushed to safety. After todays proceedings, tuberville told reporters he still stands by that account. And tonight there are several reports the former Vice President does not agree with these Defense Lawyers and their claim that trump did not know his own Vice President was in danger during last months insurrection. Its a lot, its been a long day, and with that lets bring in our leadoff guest this friday night. Peter baker, chief White House Correspondent for the new york times, among the coauthors of the book we turn to every year or so. Its called impeachment in american history. Susan page, bestselling author, usa today. Jeff rosenberg, former attorney, former fbi official, also plans to be host of the msnbc podcast called the oath. Chuck, i want to begin with you, and lets talk about lawyering. These may be down to about the last three lawyers willing to represent this guy, and the old phrase comes to mind, you get what you pay for. By my count, among the three of them, there is the prosecutor who passed on charging bill cosby, there is the Defense Lawyer for roger stone, also represented a Couple Mobsters along the way, met with Jeffrey Epstein before his death, and there is a personal injury lawyer. On the other side of the ledger is this new mccarthy story out tonight, chuck. In addition to the lawyering, does it make a better case for witnesses . Do you think well see them . Im not sure were going to see them. It is a case where i would love to see witnesses. How do you get testimony from documents, from exhibits . I spent time getting testimony from witnesses so the other side would know what happened. The Defense Lawyers keep saying we dont know stuff because the House Managers, the prosecutors, wouldnt give it to us. They did no investigation. Well, guess who has access to President Trump . Not the House Managers, they invited him to come testify, and he said no. The Defense Lawyers have access to the former president. So if you really want to know what he did after the insurrection at the capitol started, whether or not he knew that Vice President pence was in danger, why he didnt send help, why he didnt condemn the riot, they know. Defense attorneys have every right to do an investigation just as much as prosecutors. Its so clear to me that this group, brian, like you said, maybe the last three on earth, were unprepared, didnt know the facts, didnt do an investigation, and had a client who was either unwilling to help them or couldnt tell the truth. Susan, what is the chance, not that they would be up to this kind of skullduggery, what is the chance that the story of the mccarthy phone call, and that goes with us knowing that trump didnt call pence for five days after the insurrection, but that the story of the mccarthy phone call might be a republican leak to offer air cover to those republicans who want to vote to convict . Well, its possible. Its also possible its just reporters doing their jobs, or it could be both. One thing that struck me along those lines, brian, today was the issue that seemed to get the most interest from republican senators was whether trump was aware of the danger to his Vice President and what did he do about it. And then the mccarthy phone call goes along those lines as well, because even if you believe that former President Trump had no responsibility for unleashing the mob, certainly everybody thinks he would have some responsibility as Commander In Chief to protect the Vice President and members of congress when he was in a position to do that. And the fact we now have evidence, we have stories based on ontherecord sources who are republicans about the former president s kind of unwillingness, his disregard for the safety of others in our government, i think is pretty serious stuff. I dont know why it got leaked, but i think its one of those things that could have some impact on tomorrow. Maybe it will peel off a couple more republican votes. And about tomorrow, peter baker, though i note your newspaper tonight broke a story that donald trump, who famously has not paid bills over the years, famously has had trouble maintaining legal representation, mr. Schoen actually quit the legal team last night until trump called him to ask him to come back on. Do republicans is their presence of mind, peter, according to your reporting, they realize they have an offramp here. They have the means of growing up without donald trump defining their party with a conviction vote. Well, look, obviously there are republicans eager to put trump in the rearview mirror. Obviously Mitch Mcconnell is one of them. He has made that clear repeatedly now in the last few weeks. Whether that means he or other republicans who have been on the fence will actually now vote for conviction is unclear. I mean, i think the likelier scenario we may see happening tomorrow is several more republicans will vote but not the 17 to get to twothirds under the constitution that you need, but even some republicans who dont vote to convict offer system pretty tough statements, making it clear that their votes are not meant to condone or anyone may sanction what he did. Whether thats satisfying to critics, thats a different question, but you dont have what you had last year. Republicans did acquit President Trump and were willing to basically say, okay, it wasnt that big a deal. This year they do think its a big deal, and a lot of them are quite critical of the president. A lot of them were disappointed by the president s lawyers presentations over the last few days and dont think theyve been effective or very compelling. Chuck rosenberg, youve done a lot of things in your lifetime. One of them does not include being a republican senator scared to death of donald trump. But if you could possibly put yourself in the shoes of a republican senator who is scared to death of donald trump, did you hear any arguments today compelling enough to get you over the finish line to acquittal . Yes, of course, with an enormous but if. But only if, brian, they care more about the oath they took, which was to render an impartial verdict than they do about reelection. Look, history one day will judge everyones actions here. This is not a hard call. I learned a long time that you have to be able to walk away from a job, particularly if youre asked to do something that you just cannot countenance. So for those who care more about their political prospects, their next office, a higher office, their next reelection, a primary, its pretty clear how theyre going to vote. But there are those who put principle above politics. We know who they are. We saw mitt romney do it already, we saw Susan Collins do it, there are any number. Its not just about being a republican senator, because some of them are extraordinarily principaled. Its about being a republican senator with principle. If im going to be one, thats the one i would like to be, but i think youre right. Ive done a lot of things in my life, thats not one of them, and i dont see it happening. All right, susan, well take that as a confession from chuck. Go back to your last answer because you left the door hanging open, at least verbally. The senate likes to refer to themselves as the worlds greatest deliberative body. That indicates deliberation, that indicates the potential, at least, for changing minds. Do you really think there are votes on the move, if not tonight, tomorrow depending on how this matter of the mccarthy phone call is handled in that chamber . I think probably not. But i do think there is one vote to watch for, and that is Mitch Mcconnell. Mitch mcconnell, the Senate Majority leader, has been very unhappy with former President Trump for a long time, very critical of him for his actions on january 6. His wife quit the Trump Cabinet in a sign of protest. I think it is possible that Mitch Mcconnell will vote for conviction, and that would send a big message for one of the highest ranking republicans in our government. In fact, i guess maybe he is at this point the highest ranking republican in our government, along with Kevin Mccarthy. If he voted for conviction of former President Trump, that would be interesting and a message. That would be a new story, indeed. And, peter baker, it was argued today these Defense Lawyers might as well be on a closed Circuit Setup to palm beach. Is there any news today from the bunker, and by bunker i dont mean the kind with sand in it . I havent heard anything new tonight. Obviously there seems to be a daily drama in this client lawyer relationship that you pointed out at the top of the show. This is not the ateam that hes had, the people who represented him a year ago didnt return for the sequel. The first set of lawyers he hired didnt last very long because they had a dispute with him about how to approach this. This team seems to be on the verge of in and out the door with each passing hour. As you pointed out, the Lead Attorney who presented most of the day today, and i think very combatively, which is what the former president wants him to do, but he has no experience with this kind of thing. His experience in philadelphia is a personal injury attorney. If you go to his website, he talks about the settlements he gets for Auto Accident Victims and people who have been bitten by dogs. This is out of his normal lane of experience, and you saw the results there. I think he gave some ammunition to republicans who were looking for a reason to vote for acquittal by presenting these tapes, however disputed you might find them, by saying its the same thing democrats do, theyre a bunch of hypocrites, theyre using incendiary language, why are they going after trump when they do what they do . Its probably what some republicans need to get to acquittal, and there will probably be 34 of them tomorrow. If you get the six who voted to proceed with the trial and mr. Mcconnell, that by itself would be a pretty significant repudiation in history. Youve never seen that many members of his own party vote to convict a president in trial. Absolutely right. If the three of you will indulge me, id like all three of you to stick around to continue this conversation. Coming up, tomorrows vote offers a potential day of reckoning for the gop. Or not. And later, 160 years to the day after the birth of one abraham lincoln. Jon meacham with us tonight on what the nations 16th president might make of what he saw today, make of us, make of the state of his Republican Party. All of it when our special coverage of the second Impeachment Trial of now private citizen donald trump continues on this historymaking friday night. On this historymaking fr night. Ree access to research. Yep, td ameritrades got that. Free access to every platform. Yeah, that too. I want to know what im paying upfront. Yes, absolutely. Now offering zero commissions on online trades. 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Peter, id like to begin with you. Im not a lawyer, but lawyers tell me there is a test in high school that they call the but for test. Meaning, but for in this case, but for the actions of donald trump, would there have been insurrection and looting at our capitol . Thats one of the questions the senate is now deciding. The Defense Attorneys are firm in their resolve the president did not incite this. That differs with what we heard from prominent republicans in the days and the hours right after insurrection. Ill play a sample of that for you. Well discuss on the other side. The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people. All i can say is count me out. Enough is enough. Mr. President , you have got to stop this. You are the only person who can call this off. The president bears responsibility for wednesdays attack on congress. So, peter baker, add to this the new reporting on what we know went on in the phone call between mccarthy and trump, and that really adds to the pressure. You talked about the hint that republicans may migrate one by one to a conviction vote. How will history judge those who vote to acquit . Well, i think its a good question. Look, first i would say that what the defense team will try to do today is reduce the prosecution case to that one speech on january 6 and that one phrase Fight Like Hell and by playing the tape of the democrats saying Fight Like Hell. What the managers did over the last few days make clear was that the case of incitement was not just that one day, that he had been laying this foundation for months. He told supporters the only way joe biden would win is if the election was stolen. He told them before the election, after the election, so the incitement was something that had played out for months, not just on january 6. Where does that leave the republicans voting to acquit tomorrow . I think that will be a question on some of their minds tonight, because i think a lot of them would like to be done with donald trump, they dont want to be remembered to be defending him. They spent four years looking the other way and avoiding the questions of what do you think about this, what do you think about that. Heres the moment of truth, right . This is the last chance they really have to make their feelings known on this president. Theyre tugged between the politics of the day and the verdict of history, and i think thats, you know, a conundrum were going to watch play out in realtime tomorrow on our Television Sets and in the chamber for those who are there. Susan, we talked about mcconnell. What must it like tonight to be Kevin Mccarthy . Heres a guy who flew down to maralago putting his selfesteem on a shelf for the afternoon. He has been such a slavish example for President Trump, but now his name is attached to this. He badly wants to be speaker of the house if they get the majority in two years. Talk about what life must be like for him right about now. Its pretty clear that most republican officials, i think, in washington wish donald trump would not be continue to be the face and the loudest voice in the gop. But the problem they have is that most Republican Voters dont arent there. Most Republican Voters continue to be astoundingly loyal to donald trump, more loyal than they are, in many cases, to the party itself. So loyal that a majority of Republican Voters continue to say that they do not believe joe biden was legitimately elected president , because former President Trump has not yet said that he believes joe biden was legitimately elected. So you do see this, as peter was saying, this tug between calculating how do you keep the Republican Voters you want by getting rid of this guy who caused so much grief and shows no signs of going away. Does anybody doubt that donald trump will claim an acquittal by the senate as vindication . He did it the first time around, i would expect him to do it this time. Finally, chuck, i know you love the law, and i know its been your lifes work. This is such a deeply cynical process as was the first impeachment, the fight against doing right and the fight against the political expedience. But what do you think the legacy of this impeachment is going to be . And talk about young people perhaps mulling over entering the field of law. What kind of message has this sent . You know, its interesting, brian, because i teach at georgetown college, and one question i get a lot is should we do this, this being government . The law . The justice department, the Intelligence Community, the state department, the Foreign Service. And my answer is always, absolutely you should do this. We need you now more than ever, but there is that trepidation. One other thing that worries me. We talk about whats happening in the senate as a trial. Its really not a trial. Its nothing like a criminal trial in Federal District court. And so i worry that people think that this is how it happens that unprepared lawyers like you see on the defense team get up and spout nonsense and make stuff up and are unprepared and hurl accusations and dont know the answers to simple, basic, factual questions. This is not a trial. This is something else. Its a proceeding, its a hearing, its something else. And one thing i want people to understand is that the work that we do in government, whether its the Foreign Service or the Intelligence Community or the Law Enforcement community is real and its serious, we need good people to come up and do it and replace us because were old and useless, and i dont want people to be discouraged because this is an incredibly important time for that next generation to do this important work. As a great man once said, i know its late, i know youre weary, and i know your plans didnt include staying up on friday night and doing cable. We greatly appreciate your willingness to do so, all of you, peter baker, susan page, chuck rosenberg. Thank you very much. Well be at it again tomorrow. Coming up, the insurrection discussed today proved to be too much for one likely president ial candidate. A former ally who didnt like trump before she did, now she doesnt again. Well talk about her and the problem for the party, when we come back. Come back. 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Bring your client up here and have him testify under oath about why he wassending out tweets denouncing the president of the United States while his Vice President was being hunted by a mob who wanted to hang him and were chanting in this building, hang mike pence, hang mike pence, traitor, traitor. Jamie raskin wonders what donald trump has to hide and why he wouldnt come speak on the record and under oath. Now lets turn to absolute pure politics. We have been warning you over these past few months of what we call the great migration, the great walkback. Watch for republicans who were fullon trumpers, especially those who want to be president , watch for them to start saying, i never liked the guy, i thought he was wrong all along. Ben sasse is already on the board in this effort, and now so is wait for it nikki haley, the former South Carolina governor, trumps former u. N. Ambassador, not happy with her old boss for turning on mike pence. Tim alberta of politico magazine, on july 12 hailey said she was disgusted with his comments. She said, we need to acknowledge he let us down. He went down a path he shouldnt have. And we shouldnt have followed him. We shouldnt have listened to him, and we cant let that happen ever again. So back with us tonight, jon meacham, president ial historian. Professor, on the american president on vanderbilt, he advises the current president , and also author of that book impeachment. Michael steele is with us tonight, former chairman of the Republican National committee, former Lieutenant Governor of maryland. Hes also the host of the Michael Steele podcast. Michael, here is a further quote from tim alberta. This is about nikki haley. Im going to set this up for you like a bowling pin. Her distaste for trump is no secret. Actually, it is a secret if youre not in the business, but we continue. But neither is her goal of becoming president. For the past five years, she has struck a delicate balance, and she has done so better than other members of her party. Her vicious criticisms of trump never came back to bite her, nor did her public silence in the face of his manifest abuses. Michael, what do you make of this . What do you make of ms. Haley and the Landing Pattern she is clearly trying to set up for herself on Final Approach . Well, she did become governor of South Carolina for nothing. She is one of the more skilled political candidates and elected officials in our party, if not maybe in the country. I remember working closely with her in 2010 when we worked on the campaign to help her get elected governor. Im a fan of hers. I really admire her, and i understand the situation shes been in, at times disappointed with it, a lot of times disappointed with it, because the nikki haley that i knew then, i guess its a calculation now, but she was one who always kind of carved out her space and stood very proudly in that space and wouldnt let anyone remove her. Trump was one of these things that comes into your orbit that kind of gets you to wobble a bit, and you saw that with her. Youve seen that with some of the comments particularly around matters of race where she tries to separate more from trump. But theres also the political opportunity, not necessarily opportunism, but the opportunity to, you know, keep that at bay while you try to move the party in a different direction. Thats going to be an interesting challenge with a liz cheney. Im not saying liz is looking at aspirations for president , but liz is going to try to anchor whatever the party will be, and its going to be interesting to see if she aligns herself more with that or with whatever form trumpism takes. Well, nikki haley is invited on this broadcast any time she wants, but fair warning, shell have to listen to some clips of her being all nice with donald trump. Now, jon meacham, i think its fair to cast tomorrows vote to convict or acquit as kind of a choice. Republicans saying, dear leader, were going to sign up for another four years in your thrall or not. Talk to us about other times when Political Parties have been broken down to the studs, the bare bones and find themselves in a position of rebuilding. Well, i was at the risk of total selfparody, i was working on the 1856 president ial election today, and it was as was i in my spare time. Go ahead, sure. Yeah, i know, jane gets upset when you disappear into the buchanan papers. But what were really what you saw there was the disintegration of the wigs, you had the rise of antislavery, you had everything echoes, you had antiimmigration sentiment, ferocious anticatholicism in the country, you had this majority of voters in that race voted for a republican or an antiimmigrant candidate. That allowed the democrats, the proslavery party of the day, to win. Whats fascinating about that is the Republican Party, which michael once led, emerging out of that cataclysmic moment when the country was trying to grapple with the nature of slavery and freedom and the extension of slavery. And you had a fellow whose birthday we celebrate today, abraham lincoln, who in 1857, theres a fragment in his papers where hes talking about the Republican Party. And he says that today the Republican Party this is 1857 represents the best hope of the nation and the world, and their work lies before them. And if they dont do it, they cannot turn away guiltlessly. They cant turn away guiltlessly because of the centrality of the question, were we truly all created equal . Was jefferson right . That was the question. The question on the floor of the senate tomorrow is, are we a Constitutional Republic or are we a cultive personality who took a reality show and made it all of our reality . I dont think its a lot more complicated than that. Im not an elected official, ive never sought office. I think i have an intellectual understanding of the forces on these folks, so im not minimizing it. It would be like telling me i couldnt write anymore if they couldnt run for office. I understand the Human Element there. But at a certain point, you do have to decide, why are you here . Are you simply here to hold the office, or are you there to play your part in this unfolding pageant of the country that has been, to use another phrase of lincolns, the worlds best hope . Okay, Michael Steele, were going to take a break. 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And, you know, i was a participant in the impeachment proceedings. They called me recently to ask my private opinion about the rally and what unfolded in the insurrection, and ill say publicly what i said privately, which is that if words dont matter, then we, the people doesnt matter. Then all men are created equal doesnt matter. Then a house divided against itself doesnt stand does not matter. A shining City On The Hill doesnt matter. Words matter. And i think what hopefully what were seeing in the country is a if not the end of trumpism, at least were beginning to see it up close even more directly, and we do have a new president who is actually off governing. Its kind of a novel thing, right . Hes trying to vaccinate the country. Hes trying to get the economy back in shape. And so im not saying move on, put down your phones, im not saying that. But i am saying that what i hope the senate does tomorrow is they decide that words matter, and not just the words at that rally but that 77day period where an incumbent president denied reality, denied selfevident truths and persistently lied to the American People a lie that continues unto this hour. I have a little bit of news and a question for michael. The news is the white house for rhode island says their opinion is they should suspend tomorrow, depose senator tuberville and mccarthy and get the Secret Service in there to talk about the record of what happened during the insurrection. So this will be interesting to watch as it plays out overnight and into tomorrow. This does not get you off the hook, michael. Heres the tweet from politico. When i talked about taking a Political Party down to the studs, this is not the guy i was thinking of. Lindsey graham says hell be meeting with donald trump in the coming weeks to talk about the future of the Republican Party. So, michael, you must be psyched. These guys, theyve got this. I cant wait im so stoked i wish i could be a Fly On The Wall for that planning session. Wow. So to my good friend, The Philosopher poet historian meacham, we cant get away from trumpism if they dont let it go. And so no matter how much we do that push and pull thing, as we push our way and pull our way away from it, somebody is pushing us back towards it. I dont know why the hell lindsey is going to talk to donald trump about the future of the Republican Party. Hes a former president who will have no role, as other president s have had in the past or not had in the past, but apparently they want one for him. So he doesnt get to let go because we wont let him go. And so this gets harder, it doesnt get easier. Youve got candidates that are preparing to run for office from United States senate to governor to dog catcher who got a big t on their forehead. Theyve got a big t on their forehead. Theyre all in for trump. 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