Caitlin Huey-Burns

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"We humbly, humbly ask you to convict," Neguse tells the senators. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Lankford suggests he's a no on conviction: "Today was not connecting the dots," he told reporters. — PolitiTweet.org

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Impeachment is “not to punish, but to prevent,” DeGette says — PolitiTweet.org

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Rep. DeGette making the point that the consequences of Jan. 6th are still literally visible here. "This Capitol has become a fortress," she says. — PolitiTweet.org

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Managers are now playing video of Republican office holders and former Trump officials saying Trump incited the insurrection. But will they play or reference McConnell saying that rioters were "provoked" by Trump? — PolitiTweet.org

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Managers are now making their case that Trump's lack of remorse showed that he "intended what happened on January 6th." — PolitiTweet.org

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Managers continuing to show a pattern of behavior of inciting violence, today using Trump's response to the kidnapping plot of MI Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. — PolitiTweet.org

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Getting the #'s to convict is still unlikely, but doesn't mean there isn't political fallout: The vote could be more bipartisan than the last time + brings Trump back into spotlight after having faded from public view which could be a challenge for GOP trying to win back voters — PolitiTweet.org

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Murkowski, a possible vote to convict, tells reporters: Managers "are making a very strong case for a timeline that laid out very clearly, the words that were used, when he used them how he used to really build the anger, the violence that we saw here in this Capitol." — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Thune, part of leadership, tells pool Dems did "a good job of connecting the dots" to Trump. "The president's Twitter feed is a matter of public record and they, you know, I think [did] an effective job of going back several months and just showing that public record." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AndrewDesiderio: Sen. Lankford (R-Okla.) was incredibly shaken up after that last video of Officer Hodges being crushed. I and other re… — PolitiTweet.org

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Cruz not persuaded by new video: "Today's presentation was powerful and emotional reliving a terrorist attack on our nation's capital, but there was very little said about how specific conduct of the President's satisfies the legal standard" of high crimes&misdemeanors ht @alanhe — PolitiTweet.org

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The lack of audio on the security footage makes it all the more jarring — PolitiTweet.org

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Sorry for my clumsy typo: meant *Plaskett* — PolitiTweet.org

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Another big theme of today's presentation: How much this could have been even worse — PolitiTweet.org

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Here is where Plaskin is making the connection between the video and Trump: Supporters coming for the VP chanting "hang Mike Pence" after the president demanded that Pence overturn the election. — PolitiTweet.org

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Plaskett plays never before heard audio in which you can hear an officer say "they're throwing metal poles at us." — PolitiTweet.org

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After outlining Trump's attempts to overturn the election in multiple states, Rep. Dean implores the senators: "We must not become numb to this." — PolitiTweet.org

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The prosecution includes multiple times in which Trump reached out to election officials and politicians in various states to try and overturn the results. — PolitiTweet.org

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House managers had said they would treat this as a violent criminal prosecution, and Swalwell uses such language: This was "deliberate, planned, pre-meditated." — PolitiTweet.org

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Some of Trump's backers "had been primed for this over many months," Rep. Neguse says, making the managers' argument that the rally on Jan 6th was a culmination of incendiary words and actions. "This wasn't just one speech...it was part of a carefully planed months long effort." — PolitiTweet.org

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Lindsay Graham tells me he spoke to Trump yesterday and told him “ his team will get better, they’ve got room for improvement. But 44 votes for this process being unconstitutional we know how it ends.” He says he thinks the votes to not convict will grow “beyond 44” — PolitiTweet.org

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Relevant for the impeachment proceedings today, as managers argue it was not only Trump's words on Jan. 6th that incited the riots but also his words leading up to it and his pressuring of state officials to overturn the results — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RebeccaRKaplan: “It will provide new insight into both the extreme violence that everyone suffered, the risk and the threat that it cou… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @saraecook: NEWS: CDC school reopening guidance will focus on mitigation practices rather than vaccinating teachers as a precondition. R… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Grace_Segers: THE REVIEWS ARE IN: "disorganized" "terrible job" "rambled on and on and on" "I really didn't know where it was going" ht… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alanhe: CASSIDY: "President Trump’s team was disorganized....if I'm an impartial juror, and one side is doing a great job, and the othe… — PolitiTweet.org

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Oh, this is also interesting: Cassidy suggests Cruz agreed with him at one point that the defense was lacking. "I leaned over to Cruz and I said, Cruz, are they talking to the point at hand? And he goes, not now." — PolitiTweet.org

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More from Cassidy, who voted that the trial was constitutional: "Now if I'm an impartial juror, and one side is doing a great job, and the other side is doing a terrible job, on the issue at hand, as an impartial juror, I'm going to vote for the side that did the good job." — PolitiTweet.org

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GOP Sen. Cassidy w a scathing review of Trump's legal team: "Disorganized, they did everything they could but to talk about the question at hand. And when they talked about it, they kind of glided over it, almost as if they were embarrassed of their arguments." (h/t @alanhe) — PolitiTweet.org