now on bbc news. donald trump was the first president to be impeached twice by the lower chamber of congress, and the first to be put on trial after leaving office. in a special programme christian fraser takes a look at an unprecedented moment in us history. it was an unprecedented moment in us history. donald trump, the first president to be impeached twice by the lower chamber of congress, was also the first to be put on trial after leaving office. they were the gravest charges everfaced by a us president incitement of insurrection. the former president was alleged to have made false allegations of election fraud, and onjanuary 6 to have encouraged his supporters to storm the capitol. we fight like hell, and if you don t fight like hell you re not going to have a country any more. conviction would require a two thirds majority in the upper chamber of congress, the senate. 17 of the 50 republican senators would need to break with donald trump. new evidence brought the act
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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
and give the latest from the multiple scandals now rocking the anti-trump lincoln project. now in complete meltdown mode. meghan mccain, wow, unleashed brutal tweets tonight. one of their cone founders, steve schmidt, just resigned in disgrace. but first, the democrats snap impeachment charade sham, it just faced its day of reckoning. finally, the president s legal defense team, they completely eviscerated all of the democrats paper-thin arguments, all of which were, as we told you, unconstitutional. none of which meet any real legal standard that would ever hold up in any court. no rules of evidence matter in any way, shape, matter, or form, and to add to that, they are editing, slicing, dicing, and then purposely ignoring all damaging, exculpatory evidence, and presided over by a judge who already declared trump guilty. wow. this is the united states of america. that s a kangaroo court. the house managers, they were eviscerated on their argument over incitement. their favor
who was in the room with trump as the attack unfolded on capitol hill. this comes amid a battle over documents and the release of documents from the trump white house. overnight, the ex-president filing an emergency request to block the national archives from giving the 1/6 records. the judge wasted no time shooting down donald trump s request in just hours calling it quote, premature. the final decision by the same judge on trump s records is due any day now. that decision and the decision by doj as to whether or not to prosecute steve bannon for defieing a congressional subpoena from the select committee will have huge consequences for the committee s investigation and frankly, the rule of law in this country moving forward. the january 6 select committee closing in on the roles of donald trump s inner circle is where we start this hour. joyce vance is here. former u.s. attorney, now professor at the university of alabama school of law. also, washington post congressional