Rebecca Kaplan

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

RT @JakeSherman: PELOSI says the covid-relief bill the House will send the Senate will have a $15 minimum wage — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

.@SpeakerPelosi calls Capitol Police officers who lost their lives "martyrs for our democracy." She's introducing legislation to give them a Congressional gold medal. — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

What's coming on day 3 of the impeachment trial: Impeachment managers will offer additional evidence on Trump's role, the harm caused by the attack, and tie the legal arguments together: https://t.co/vkAa8jM8Fn — PolitiTweet.org

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More: "I don't see how after the American public sees the whole story laid out here, not just in one snippet on this day and another on that. But this whole scenario...I don't see how Donald Trump could be re-elected to the presidency." — PolitiTweet.org

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.@lisamurkowski on what she has seen today: "The evidence that has been presented thus far is pretty damning. But I also know that I have an obligation and responsibility and one that I accept to listen to what the defense will present." — PolitiTweet.org

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.@SpeakerPelosi was evacuated offsite because of the threat that day - @StaceyPlaskett says rioters would have killed her if they had found her. Video playing now shows 8 members of her staff running to an interior conference room. 7 mins later, rioters enter hallway outside. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alanhe: Via @lindsaywise "Romney didn’t move when they showed the video of Goodman directing him away from rioters. He has a mask on… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bensiegel: Goodman is working today, posted outside of the Senate chamber. https://t.co/b7AP7qI0PZ — PolitiTweet.org

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New video also shows former VP Pence being evacuated as rioters were in the building. Outside, rioters had built gallows and were calling for Pence's death because he was participating in the lawful certification of the election. — PolitiTweet.org

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The new video displays also feature maps of the Capitol that show where the mobs were in the Capitol -- and how close they got to the House and Senate chambers -- alongside the footage. — PolitiTweet.org

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We now see Ofc. Eugene Goodman, was previously seen in videos leading rioters away from the Senate chamber, encountering @MittRomney in a hallway and telling him to turn around and run for safety as rioters are entering the building. This is new Capitol security footage. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@StaceyPlaskett is recalling 9/11, when she was a staffer. "Almost every day I remember that 44 Americans gave their lives to stop the plane that was headed to this Capitol building...the Capitol stands because of people like that." — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

More never-before-seen material from the impeachment managers today: security camera footage from the U.S. Capitol. The first shots show rioters breaking into the building for the first time. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@StaceyPlaskett, who is leading this section, just revealed some of the new material that has not been heard by the public before: audio from MPD officer radio describing rioters attempting to break in and throwing explosives. — PolitiTweet.org

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As the impeachment trial resumes after the break, the managers are getting ready to walk the senators through a detailed description of what happened in the Capitol on January 6th. @RepRaskin warned the upcoming footage they show will be "very graphic, very violent." — PolitiTweet.org

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In a clear attempt to reach across the aisle, @RepSwalwell tells senators, “What our commander in chief did was wildly different than from what anyone in this room did to raise election concerns.” It's how many of his House colleagues feel - but they don't vote in this trial. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CHueyBurns: Some of Trump's backers "had been primed for this over many months," Rep. Neguse says, making the managers' argument that t… — PolitiTweet.org

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One big difference in the cases outlined in pre-trial briefs was that Democrats focused extensively on Trump's statements in the lead up to the election to argue it set the stage for 1/6. Trump's lawyers focused largely on what he said on that day and in the days that followed. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cbszak: Bruce Castor tells reporters Trump did not express disappointment in his opening yesterday. “Far from it,” he says. Re: critic… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CBSThisMorning: Wow: @RepRaskin warns the TV-viewing public that they will be showing more footage later and that parents and teachers… — PolitiTweet.org

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“It will provide new insight into both the extreme violence that everyone suffered, the risk and the threat that it could have led to further violence,” one aide said. More here: https://t.co/5D0nTWS88V — PolitiTweet.org

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Impeachment trial day 2: House managers plan to use "extraordinary" footage from Capitol security cameras that has never been made public before as they make their case to convict former President Trump of inciting riots at the Capitol on 1/6. — PolitiTweet.org

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New from @krisvancleave: The US Capitol Police Union is calling for a vote of no confidence against senior leadership, including Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman, for their handling of the 1/6 attacks. They expect the vote to begin by the end of the week --> https://t.co/qa1QSYOV2D — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BoKnowsNews: NEWS w/@saraecook: Biden admin school reopening guidance this week is expected to stress mitigation measures, rather than… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @edokeefe: Percentage who say they’d take the vaccine if eligible is up from last month in @cbsnewspoll. The number waiting and seeing w… — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

Meanwhile on the House side, @Liz_Cheney is working with some Republicans who tried to oust her from leadership. 50+write to @POTUS asking him to direct DHS Secretary Mayorkas to brief House members on the growing foot traffic at the southern border: https://t.co/RkXolq5qGk — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

Hardly the only Republican senator to express criticism of the president's team coming out of the first day of arguments - even those who ended up siding with them in the vote. — PolitiTweet.org

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Cassidy on his vote: "I always said I'm gonna be an impartial juror...the House managers were focused, relied upon and trusted upon the opinion of legal scholars. Anyone who listened to President Trump's legal team saw they were unfocused, they attempted to avoid the issue." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Grace_Segers: The Senate voted to uphold the constitutionality of the trial by a vote of 56 to 44. GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy joined the 5 R… — PolitiTweet.org

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So far, @SenatorCassidy is the first Republican to support moving forward with the trial after the start of the trial - he voted no last month. After House managers wrapped he said, "Clearly we have to hear the opposition but they presented very good arguments." — PolitiTweet.org