Short chaos as sen Lee demands withdrawal; ends with the Senate adjourning for the day
House executives made a small withdrawal amid a rally by Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, who said the Democrats had wrongly proposed a call Trump made to him to speak to Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. .
Lee said he wants a portion of Rep. Cicilline’s presentation on the call had to be knocked off the record, which led to a brief chaos in the Senate when Democrats and Republicans tried to figure out how to proceed. The situation was resolved after Raskin, the general manager of the House, offered to make a brief statement explaining the earlier remarks.
“The indictment manager quoted a newspaper account correctly and accurately,” Raskin said of the comments and CNN article. “We would like to withdraw it on the grounds that it is not true. We are going to withdraw it tonight.”
He added the ordeal was “very difficult over nothing, because it does not matter to us.”
Lee apparently had to do with how Cicilline described his role in the Trump / Tuberville call in the midst of the riots, although he did not explain what was virtually inaccurate about the remarks.
As both CNN and The Deseret News reported, Trump accidentally called Lee while trying to talk to Tuberville, with CNN reporting that Trump wanted to talk to the first-year Senator from Alabama about further objections to the Electoral College. Lee’s office confirmed to CNN that the call happened.
With that, the Senate closed for Wednesday. The hearing will take place on Thursday at 12:00.
Castro details the timeline of Trump’s public messages during riots
Castro highlights GOP allies begging Trump to intervene
Graham blames Capitol police for not killing more rioters
Sen. Lindsey Graham, RS.C., a close ally of former President Donald Trump, told reporters he believes there are more votes for acquittal after today than yesterday.
“Because hypocrisy is pretty big for these people, compared to rioters when they came to my house, Susan Collins’ house, I think it’s a very hypocritical presentation by the House,” he claimed.
He also blamed the Capitol police officers for not killing more rioters.
“I got angry. I mean, these police officers have every right to use lethal force. They should have used it,” he said. “The people in charge of the Capitol have failed the country.”
House leaders focus on Trump’s failure to act after riots erupted
The house managers returned after their interruption, pointing to Trump’s failure to act while the riot continued.
Rep. Cicilline began outlining the president’s actions during the riots, citing his tweets promoting his protest and attacking Pence for attacking the Capitol, as well as reports that the president Watch TV.
Cicilline then asked the senators a rhetorical question: What did Trump do to help them when Democrats and Republicans reached out to him and the White House?
“Nothing,” Cicilline said. “Not a thing.”
Cicilline mentioned the president’s attempt to reach Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., To get him to voice additional objections to the Electoral College’s votes as the riot raged. He then contrasts it with footage of what was going on in and around the Capitol at the time.
House Republicans who voted to accuse Trump say he trusted for hours to stop the riot as influential in their vote.
Inside the chamber, senators are responding to new evidence of the danger they faced on 6 January
Senators were shocked on Wednesday when Democratic accusation leaders gave them new details about how close to the violent crowd of Trump’s supporters they were on January 6.
While Representative Swalwell played unseen recordings of how close the rioters got to the Senate, minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Expressionless but observant, sat folded on his lap. Majority leader Schumer had a hand on his forehead.
The room was in absolute silence when Swalwell showed the moment of Ashli Babbitt’s death. There was a longer silence of about ten seconds as he showed new security footage of how close the rioters got to the Senate Hall – and asked them to suggest if they had breached the room just minutes earlier.
Some of the six Republicans who voted in favor of the constitutionality of the Senate hearing sat side by side – Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
As Swalwell showed evidence that Schumer was an ‘almost mist with the mob’, the New York Democrat nodded in agreement.
Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, watched attentively but non-reactively as he watched the video captured by a reporter for the New Yorker of a riot that takes Cruz’s name to plunder the Senate to justify.
Murkowski: ‘Do not see how Donald Trump can be re-elected to the presidency’
Sen. Lisa Murkowski said the evidence presented by Home Managers is disturbing and that they make a very strong case. ‘
“The evidence presented so far is very damning,” she told reporters. “I do not see how Donald Trump can be re-elected to the presidency.”
However, the Alaska Republican said she keeps an open mind while Trump’s defense prepares to respond.
She said what the House of Representatives put forward made her ‘sad’ because she had to relive the violent riot “with a more comprehensive timeline” of Trump’s rhetoric that fueled the anger of his supporters.
Schumer: ‘I don’t think many of us fancy dinner’ after watching a new video
In a brief statement during the lunch recess, Chuck Schumer, leader of the Senate, DN.Y., suggested that senators lost their appetite after watching the video from January 6th.
“I do not think many of us feel like eating,” Schumer told reporters.
He said he hoped his GOP colleagues would keep an open mind and that the House of Representatives had presented an “overwhelming case” against Trump on Wednesday.
Sen King recounts the emotional response of one anonymous GOP senator to videos
