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 select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess pursuant the house deposition authority regulation ten, the chair announces the committee s approval to release the deposition material presented during today s hearing. good afternoon and may god bless the united states of america. four months ago, this committee started to present our findings to you, the american people. from the beginning, we understood that some people watching those proceedings would wrongly assume that the committee s investigation was a partisan exercise. that s why i asked those who are skeptical of our work to simply listen. to listen to the evidence, to hear the testimony with an open mind. and to let the facts speak for themselves before reaching a judgment. over the course of these hearings, the evidence has proven that there were a multi part plan led by former p
Location there has to be some way we can maintain the sense that people have that there is some security, some confidence that government can function and that we can elect the president of the united states. can we go back into session? we go back into session but now apparently everybody on the floor is putting on gas mask to prepare for a breach. they re putting on their? tear gas mask. do you believe this? do you believe this? i can t. we need an area for the house members [inaudible] and when a call up the acting secretary at the d.o.d.,
Where is it is on the map is amazing. what happens there will have serious repercussions around the world. the question today is where is this heading. richard engel is in istanbul where he has watched everything that has unfolded today. richard, these are amazing pictures to watch unfolding live. tell us how you see it. most people don t even have a grasp what this is about. well, i think this has also come as a great surprise to the prime minister of this country, who didn t see this coming, who has been dismissive of this, who seemed to think this morning that he could send in the riot police and it would all be over. now, beyond midnight well 14 hours into this, it is certainly not over. there is still a lot of tear gas here. there are still those water cannons in the square just below me. i m not sure if i m going to be able to get through this whole report with you without putting a tear gas mask on. so how did it begin? a small demonstration here that
Cannons in the square just below me. i m not sure if i m going to be able to get through this whole report with you without putting a tear gas mask on. so how did it begin? a small demonstration here that started about two weeks ago. riot police moved on that demonstration, as well. and some images of attractive young people, the kind of people who didn t look threatening at all getting pepper gassed, pepper sprayed into their faces were suddenly posted all over the social media. people got angry. protests grew. they grew to the point that this morning around 7:00, the prime minister ordered the heavies to come in. the riot police came in very strong today. and there have been running battles ever since. it peaked a few hours ago. when there must have been 10, maybe 15,000 people in the square. and then in what seemed to me to be an unprovoked action, the riot police rolled in.