on the phone with president trump at that very moment. he told president trump on the phone that mike pence was being evacuated and still, donald trump did nothing to try to stop the mayhem. senators watch video of nancy pelosi, house speaker pelosi s staff running to hide from the mob moments before the insurrectionist tried to prbrea down their door. senators mitt romney and chuck schumer also seen on surveillance video. we had never seen this before, narrowly escaping the mob. we have new reaction from the senators this morning. we also have new reporting on what the house managers intend to present today. you can expect them to offer something of a pre-buhfpre-but the former president s defense. joining us now, mike rogers, and cnn legal analyst, norm eisen. he served as counsel for the democrats on the house judiciary question committee during president trump s first impeachment. gentlemen, great to see both of you. ambassador eisen, what was accomplished yesterday?
bring out pence! this morning, we have new reporting on what the house managers plan to present today. joining us now is democratic congresswoman val demings, one of the impeachment managers in the first impeachment trial. you were also a police officer for decades and a police chief. so in addition to the new video we have never seen before, we also heard police dispatch audio. recordings we were hearing for the first time. i want to play some of that for the first time. they re throwing metal poles at us. multiple law enforcement injuries! get up here! we re still taking rocks, bottles and pieces of flags and metal poles. the crowd is using munitions against us. they have bear spray in the crowd. we ve lost the line. we ve lost the line! all pd pull back. we ve lost the line! your decades in service with everything that you personally know about the job, what did you hear there? well, john, good morning. good to be back with you and, wow, just listening to that
other high crimes and misdemeanors.en the functioning of the state. i find that most illuminating not what trump said or did before january 6 or even his remarks that day, but, rather, what came immediately thereafter. the time line tells you all you need to know. first, the date. why hold a rally on january 6? because that was the day congress was to perform an important but pre-if you think t role. to hold a rally on january 5 or january 7 would not have carried the prospects of stopping that process. then there is the timing of his speech, trump began at 11:55 a.m. perhaps so as to make easier that his remarks would conclude just as the congress convened for maximum imimpact. the entire purpose was to stop what was about to happen. thereafter on the 6th, ask yourself, was trump glad or sad that the capitol was invaded? shortly after 1:00 p.m. just as trump was finishing his speech on the elipse, protestors were pushing through barriers along the perimeter of the capitol. i
president s defense team tried to get dismissed on constitutional grounds with the support of all but six republicans. the democratic house managers made their case in part by citing legal scholars who agreed with them. and they began with a documentary style video, a moment by moment timeline of the insurrection, seemingly k chrono chronological. here s a portion of it, with a warning, it s not easy to watch. traitor! traitor! heave, ho! heave, ho! [ screaming ] get off! fight for trump! fight for trump! fight for trump! this is what the defense is asking senators to put behind them barely a month after that happened. whether they choose to or not, jamie raskin was not about to let anyone off the hook. he made this legal and political moment intensely personal. his youngest daughter and son-in-law, were at the capito last month. here s his account of it. my chief of staff was with tabitha and hank locked and barricaded in that office. the kids hiding under the de
this was just another accommodation by democrats of the republicans and again, it s weird when the only reason we have this issue is mitch mcconnell. we ll talk about that more. the question now is, will half the jury give the ex-president a pass for what almost got them killed on january 6th? or will more republican jurors, you need to have 17, join democrats to convict hill. will they make this a so-called conscience vote? several unimpressed with the trump defense. even trump supposedly wasn t happy with the performance of at least one of his lawyers, according to sources. house impeachment managers, however, made a strong opening case for why we can t just move on. you can t just allow trump to walk away without any accountability after one of the worst days in american history. can that really bring no consequence for the man at the center of it? the man who had his name on all the hats, name on all the flags, coaxing exactly this kind of behavior for weeks, who is ident