WATCH LIVE: Trump’s second impeachment trial | Day 3
Trump, the House impeachment managers argued, whipped his supporters into a frenzy with the "big lie" that their votes had been stolen, and urged them to fight.
Category: U.S. CAPITOL ATTACK
WATCH: New Capitol attack footage shows police fighting violent insurrection
Democrats at former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial are playing audio recordings of police officers begging for more help against rioters storming the Capitol, the fear and panic apparent in many of their voices.
WATCH: Video shows Capitol ‘mob calling for the death of the vice president,’ Plaskett says
In video showed Wednesday at Trump's second impeachment trial, rioters chanted "Hang Mike Pence!" and "Bring out Pence!" as they roamed the halls searching for the former vice president and other lawmakers. Outside, the mob set up a makeshift gallows on the field near the Capitol.
WATCH: Trump used ‘fight’ or ‘fighting’ 20 times in rally speech, Dean says
Prosecutors at President Donald Trump's impeachment trial are using footage of the rally he headlined ahead of the riot on the Capitol to argue he incited the crowd.
Democrats say Trump ‘built’ mob behind Capitol riot
Prosecutors at Trump's impeachment trial on Wednesday said Trump fired up his supporters with lies about a stolen election and followed up with an invitation to a Jan. 6 rally near the White House.
Democrats say Trump ‘inciter in chief’ of Capitol attack
The first full day of arguments are beginning in Donald Trump's impeachment trial, as House Democratic prosecutors said the former president was no "innocent bystander" but the "inciter in chief" of deadly attack at the Capitol to overturn the election.
Republicans criticize Trump lawyers’ performance on the first day of impeachment trial
Many said they didn't understand Trump's lawyers' arguments as they sought to persuade the Senate to dismiss the trial on constitutional grounds. Trump was impeached by the House for inciting the insurrection at the Capitol.
A constitutional scholar on why Trump’s impeachment trial should proceed
Democrats and Republicans Tuesday made their arguments over the constitutionality of President Trump impeachment trial and his role in the attacks on the Capitol in January. Michael McConnell, of the Stanford Law School, is a constitutional scholar and former judge who was nominated to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals by President George W. Bush. He joins Judy Woodruff to discuss.
WATCH: Trump lawyer says impeachment trial will tear the U.S. apart
Trump was impeached one week before he left office and one week after he told his supporters to "fight like hell" before they laid siege on the Capitol. The rioting resulted in five deaths.
WATCH: Lawyer for Trump concedes he lost election during impeachment trial
In opening remarks Tuesday, lawyer Bruce Castor said: "The American people are smart enough to pick a new administration if they don't like the old one. And they just did."