Democrats Ground Case Against Trump In Jarring Insurrection Videos

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🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The Democratic impeachment managers played a series of graphic videos demonstrating just how close senators came to encountering violent extremists inside the Capitol. Soon, those senators will have to decide whether Trump was responsible for the riot that put their lives at risk — and threatened to derail the transition of power.

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This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and congressional reporter Claudia Grisales.

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0:00.0	It's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.0	I'm Scott Detro.
0:06.0	I cover the White House.
0:07.4	I'm Tamer Keith.
0:08.4	I also cover the White House.
0:09.9	And I'm Claudique Viselleys.
0:10.9	I cover Congress.
0:12.4	It is 826 Eastern on Wednesday, February 10th.
0:17.0	And we are here to talk about the second full day of President Trump's second impeachment
0:22.1	trial.
0:23.1	House Democrats spent the day laying out their argument to convict former President Trump
0:26.7	for inciting an insurrection.
0:28.7	We promise that if the GOP would not do everything in their power to keep Trump in office, then
0:35.0	we would destroy the GOP.
0:38.3	There were graphic and violent videos of the attack on the Capitol in a trial, of course,
0:43.2	happening at the exact same location.
0:46.0	Before we talk about it, I'm just going to say that it was really hard to watch today.
1:02.9	I agree.
1:03.9	Yeah, it was difficult.
1:05.4	Claudio, let's just take a step back and start with how the House Democrats, the impeachment
1:12.0	managers laid out their case.
1:14.0	At the beginning of the day, they said they were going to split their case into three parts.
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