are telling our team they are satisfied with the case they ve made. they think they ve set a high bar for donald trump s defense but this morning conviction still seems unlikely. we re going to explain why coming to you live from the nation s capitol. i m hallie jackson and in the next 90 minutes you will hear what our sources are telling us about where this goes, you ll hear from massachusetts senator ed markey in the chamber, and former white water prosecutor, and you ll also hear from katy tur and stephanie ruhle in washington with us here. let s start with what to expect over the next 24 to 48 hours. this thing is about to start picking up speed. here s the timing. donald trump s defense plans to start and end their arguments in less than four hours today, that s the plan. attorneys say they don t see a need to, in their words, drag this out. which means the next step, the question and answer portion could also start today. and this part could be very, very interesting.
can potentially ultimately keep donald trump from ever holding office again. right now that kind of seems like a long shot. we re going to break down where things stand as this trial gets ready to begin. that happens at 1:00 eastern this afternoon. that s 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. i m hallie jackson, and i m joined by katy tur and stephanie ruhle. before we go forward, let s take a step back and remind people
so much to get to in the next 90 minutes, along with my colleagues here with us this week, katy tur, stephanie ruhle. the challenge today for the house managers is going to be to get into the aftermath of what happened on january 6th but we ve already learned a number of new things, just from the last 24 hours. because house managers showed a trove of never before seen security video, body cam footage, radio transmissions piecing together the day. we re going to show it to you in the order it happened on january 6th. starting with a new detail from before that day and of course a warning, you ve heard it before but some of this video and audio is disturbing. house managers say when then president trump tweeted what they described as a kind of save the date for the rally back in december permits had not even been requested yet for the 6th and organizers ended up amending their original request. fast forward to the 6th. listen to the police scatter audio from just after the pre
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
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