Today with a final vote to convict or acquit the former president likely this afternoon except except overnight developments may be changing that timeline. Heres why. We know for sure that when the senate comes back at 10 00 eastern, one hour from now, this is going to move fast and right out of the gate, a debate and vote on whether to Call Witnesses, and that is the wrench potentially because of new reporting overnight from nbc news. That reporting centering around two phone calls the thenpresident had in the thick of the capitol riots, one apparently involving a Screaming Match with Kevin Mccarthy. Thats why at least two senators are now suggesting this trial should be suspended. Still, theres not been much of an appetite to stretch this thing out much longer. Both sides moving ahead to wrap this up. Closing arguments may happen today, likely to happen today from both House Managers and the defense team. Well go through what our sources are telling us about those lastminute preparat
I am erin burnett. Out front tonight, the United States capitol under Extraordinary Security ahead of trumps second Impeachment Trial tomorrow. Members of the National Guard are patrolling the complex topped with razor wire. It is the site of trumps trial and the Scene Of The Crime where five people died including a Capitol Hill Police officer. Tonight as we await the start of former president donald j. Trumps trial to begin his defense, dont take him at his word. We finally reached the point in a court of law, the senate, the best Defense Trump has is dont trust him. Trumps lawyers in their 78page brief claims trumps call for the crowd to fight like hell was not meant to be taken literally. They say mr. Trump used the word fight a little more than a handful of times and each time in a figurative sense. Here he is on january 6th in his own words. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fighting. I would fight. I would fight their fight. Fight. We fight. Fight like hell. Fight like hell. At least 1
Can potentially ultimately keep donald trump from ever Holding Office again. Right now that kind of seems like a long shot. Were going to break down where things stand as this trial gets ready to begin. That happens at 1 00 eastern this afternoon. Thats when the senate gavels in. Both sides will present their arguments on one of the questions that is fundamental to the proceedings here, whether the constitution says a former president can even be tried in the first place. The Democratic House managers begin presenting their case tomorrow, foal l followed by the Trump Defense team later in the week. We will be there for all of it with the best reporters on the beat bringing you what they know, our experts to bring context and analysis and live interviews with the newsmakers at the center of it all, we are at the center of it all here in d. C. Im Hallie Jackson, and im joined by katy tur and Stephanie Ruhle. Before we go forward, lets take a step back and remind people how we got here. T
Holding a trial with a president out of office, and then the trial could continue until early next week. Former President Trump has been reaching out to allies and divorce, telling them he will be acquitted, because he does not believe there will be enough republicans to vote to convict at the trial. Just a day away from the start of his second Impeachment Trial, former President Trump is facing severe consequences, as he could be barred from ever again serving in the oval office. Senate democrats say they have a deal for a trial that could last for more than one week. Only the fourth trial of a president or former president in american history, and the first trial of any Public Officials thats been impeached twice. The. Reporter trumps defense team is arguing the former president is totally blameless for the bloody siege at the capitol. His lawyers are blasting the proceeding as a selfish attempt by democratic leadership in the house to prey upon the feelings of horror and confusion t
We have seen so much of it, read so much of it, seen so much video. And then we saw something new today. We had an experience of it we never saw before, they had material we had never seen before. And it is a completely different experience tonight than what our knowledge of it has been up till now. Yes. And, you know, hearing Senator Coons tonight tell me moments ago that he had never seen that footage before, in which you could cheerily see him, as one of the senators who was rushed down the corridor with the Capitol Police holding the mob at bay just 50 something feet away. Seeing the footage of nancy pelosi staffers holding one anothers hands while they, for the first time, were watching that Security Camera footage of them running into that Conference Room and barricading the door and moments later the mob came looking for them, banging in those doors and, and them seeing it for the first time tonight. Knowing that not only we, the public, are seeing it for the first time but the