almighty god, our shelter from the storms, give our senate jurors discernment that will rescue our nation from ruin. illuminate their minds with your truth as you speak through the whispers of conscience. remind them that the seeds they plant now will bring a harvest. made the choices they make bring blessings, healing and prosperity to our land. we pray in your merciful name. amen. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands: one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. please be seated, and if there is no objection the proceedings are approved to date and i would ask the sergeant at arms to make the proclamation. here ye hear ye hear ye. all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment while the senate of the united states is sitting for the trial of the article of impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives again
[background sounds] this and will be in order. dr. barry black will lead the senate in prayer. let us pray. almighty god, our shelter from the storms, give our senate jurors discernment that will rescue our nation from ruin. illuminate their minds with your truth as you speak through the whispers of conscience. remind them that the seeds they plant now will bring a harvest. made the choices they make bring blessings, healing and prosperity to our land. we pray in your merciful name. amen. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands: one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. please be seated, and if there is no objection the proceedings are approved to date and i would ask the sergeant at arms to make the proclamation. here ye hear ye hear ye. all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment while the senate of the unit
congress some of whom they threaten to kill they ve also argued trump s campaign of misinformation at his comments to supporters about election fraud amounted to insurrection trumps legal team is preparing its defense we ll hear that in the coming days let s go live to capitol hill al-jazeera as alan fischer is there for us so i don t want can we expect today. well very dramatically on wednesday thursday we re not expecting to get to run as long probably somewhere in the region of 6 hours of evidence but the democrats will point to the aftermath of what happened here on capitol hill on the 6th of january they will point to donald trump s lack of remorse the fact that he has acknowledged that he lost the election the hasn t congrats to joe biden as the winner that he didn t go to the inauguration even though he committed to a peaceful transition of power and the fact that he continues to insist that the election was stolen from him there s not likely to be as much dramatic vid
they have remaining. president trump s lawyers will start tomorrow and we reacquainted with the sheer terror and horror, security video that we ve never seen before gave the nation a fresh look at the violence, the evil that gripped the seat of american democracy and the heroism that likely saved lives of elected officials an others. we saw just how close mitt romney and majority leader chuck schumer came to running head on into the terrorist horde. we learned that the mop came within a hundred feet of where mike pence was forced to shelter with his family and we witnessed the mob s blood lust aimed at the democratic speaker of the house. nancy, oh, nancy. nancy. where are you nancy? it is something like out of a horror movie. it certainly was. and senators who seemed to pay little attention on day one, they intently watched most of them on day two but the new evidence and the recreation of the january 6th mayhem apparently did very little to sway most, most of those re