effect on the midterm elections and an effect on the gop overall. this as the republican party is eager to move forward without trump s influence. 15 senators as well as republicans voted to acquit trump of insei insurrection of on january 6, and the vote fell short of keeping trump from ever running again. one of his closest friends and allies in the u.s. senate, lindsey graham, says trump is not ready to retire from politics just yet. he appreciated his lawyers, he appreciated all the help that we provided. he s ready to move on and rebuild the republican party. he s excited about 2022. let s go first to bore boris sanchez. how are they feeling? they are surprised that seven republican voters voted to convict trump, but you heard from lindsey graham that trump is thinking about their futures. we got an indication that trump is not going away anytime soon. he likely intends to fundraise and campaign against those factions. list ton the senator from south carolina.
results and prove it lead directly to be deadly riots at the u.s. capitol in january. but they also showed new security video from that attack showing the mob breaking into the capital, showing how close the mob came to senators and vice president mike pence. even showing body camera footage of capitol police officers are under attack. it trumps legal defense team will have a chance to make arguments later this week. chad pergram falling at all from capitol hill. good evening, chad. democratic impeachment managers with their argument into three parts, publication, the attack, and what they called the harm. democrats played never before seen security video of rioters hunting for nancy pelosi. a traumatic capitol police radio traffic of officers begging for help. house impeachment managers claims the mob stormed the capital and did so at the direction of the former president. these defendants themselves have told you exactly why they were hearing. he made them believe ove
come this afternoon. and the defense team said it did not incite riots. the key question the defense left unanswered ear, what if anything the then president did to actually respond to the riot, particularly, the danger to his own vice president. we have more on that report coming. but first, here s some of the key argument from the yesterday s proceedings. the senate will convene the court of impeachment. 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. the suggestion is patently absurd on its face. and we fight. you can t incite what was already going to happen. this unprecedented effort is not about democrats opposing political violence. it s about democrats trying to disqualify the political opposition. it is constitutional cancel culture. we have reason to believe, the house managers manipulated evidence and selectively edited footage. i know that ev
not in any way, shape or form, instructing these people to fight or to use physical violence. the house managers assert that the january 6th attack was predictable and it was foreseeable. if still, why did it appear that law enforcement at the capitol were caught off guard? holy cow. that is a really good question. and had the house managers done their investigate, maybe somebody would have an answer to that. but they didn t. they did zero investigation. they did nothing, they looked into nothing. but jiminy crickets there is no due process in this proceeding at all. my counsel said before this is the worst experience in washington, for that i guess we re sorry but then you should have been here on january 6th. rather than yelling at us and screaming about how we we didn t have time to get all of the facts what about your client did, bring your client up here and have him testify under oath about why he was sending out tweets denouncing the vice president of the unite
while at the same time republicans repeatedly saying they re ready to move on. and at the same time we are preparing for another clash over the biden stimulus package with democrats now poised to unveil a massive new benefit for families with children. all of this underscoring the divisions in congress and in our country about how america moves forward from here. i want to bring in garrett haake on capitol hill, and my colleague monica alba inwet palm beach, florida where former president trump resides. what are we learning how the trial will technically proceed, specifically how democrats are going to make their case? reporter: it s interesting, we still haven t seen the organizing resolution, the official rules of the trial, which is set to get started tomorrow afternoon. but we know that democrats think some of their strongest evidence will be to replay the events of january 6th in much the same way most of the rest of the country experienced it, which is by video, to pl