interesting body language we see, of course. senator bill cassidy, the republican of louisiana, who, of course, was one of the six republicans last evening who voted that this is, indeed, constitutional. he has been pacing the back of the chamber. certainly a different reaction from other republican senators like josh hawley of missouri who, of course, was one of those republican senators who questioned the electoral college vote. he has been sitting up in the gallery, away from his colleagues, at one point with his feet on the chairs in front of him. rand paul, at one point, was not looking at the video screen when they were playing some of these remarks. republicans, some of them are less engaged. of course, that speaks to what really is a sense here of how many are going to vote. jake, one thing that is dramatically different from the first impeachment trial one year ago, the almost utter silence in terms of defending president trump. one year ago we saw a war room putting
hello, i m laura trevelyan in washington. christian fraser is in london. we re about four hours into day one of the prosecution of donald j trump. day two. it s been an afternoon of text book legal strategy laying argument upon argument, fact upon fact, example upon example. house managers aim to prove without a doubt that the former president should be convicted of inciting an insurrection. but as we ve said before, it s notjust a legal matter. there are politics at play. it s not a traditionaljury of one s peers, but a group of 100 democratically elected senators who will decide the outcome. and while the democrats have clearly come out with a strong presentation, it s only day one. and it s not even over yet. anthony zurcher is in washington. hejoins us now. i was he joins us now. i was struck by how house managers have gone all the way back tojuly of house managers have gone all the way back to july of last year to point out that back then, donald trump was refusing
the genie was out of the bottle. house managers will make the case this this was really an insurrection created by the president of the united states. that is why they are still pushing to have him convicted and even entertaining running from office again. the legal read right now with jonathan turley, the george washington constitutional law professor, the fox news contributor. john yu, the berkeley law professor. welcome to both of you. jonathan, to you first. i don t know if any minds are being changed or we re getting closer to the 17 republicans that would have to be swayed to go ahead and make a conviction stick. but at this stage, how do you think it s going? it s going as we expected. your observation is the correct one. quit frankly, the strategy i see more of an effort to enrage than to convict. the problem with the house brief and now their arguments is that they re focused on how world were interpreted, now how they were intended. what is interesting is the hous
i took a cab out, and i am still zero. we are going to talk about congressional staffing. i created a legislative our cheeky motto is make congress great again. there are those who will often ask me, when was it ever great? i say episodically, that is an important thing to remember, you can only expected to be episodically great, not listlessly great. humor aside, are undertaking is a serious one. the constitution establishes congress as the first branch of government, the institution that is supposed to most reflect the diversity of the country answer the wellspring for the laws that govern us. lee and i were concerned about the health of congress and the trouble that it seems to be increasingly struggling to find its footing in the 21st century and to adapt to the shifting demands. so we have monthly discussions on the hill to which you all are invited. we announce the dates and the topics on our site legbranch.com. we have a book under review by university press. we try
spreads. some big districts going remote others pushing forward with ramped up testing. it would be much better if we stayed in school all the time. seeing the devastation up close residents finally allowed back in after a thousand homes were burned to ground by the wild fire in colorado rising tensions. president biden today on the phone with ukraine s leader vowing to respond decisively if russia invades. and the on field tantrum from the nfl star in the middle of a game antonio brown now gone from another team. good evening more than a hundred million americans were expected to travel around christmas and new year s exceeding last year and now they re all trying to get home in the midst of nasty weather and a continued pandemic more than 2500 flights were canceled just today. part of more than it 12,000 canceled over the past week. the airlines are dealing with employees sick with covid and winter weather today from flooding in kentucky to icy roads in arkansas.