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🗓️ 11 February 2021
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0:00.0 | Good morning, I'm Arjun saying from the Washington Post, and this is the Daily 202 for Thursday |
0:08.3 | February 11th. |
0:10.1 | In today's news, the CDC is urging Americans to wear two masks to better prevent the |
0:14.7 | spread of COVID-19, and the Biden administration tells the Supreme Court the Affordable Care |
0:20.4 | Act is constitutional and should be saved. |
0:24.6 | But first, the big idea. |
0:27.1 | It was a tough day on Capitol Hill for summer publicans as they were forced to relive |
0:31.3 | the events of January 6th, when a violent mob stormed the Capitol. |
0:35.7 | In the second day of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial, House managers |
0:40.1 | were given the chance to present their case for conviction. |
0:43.6 | As the post Amy B. Wang, Colby Itkowitz, Felicia Sanmez, John Wagner, and Anne E. Merrimow |
0:49.9 | report, the impeachment managers didn't pull any punches when they illustrated for senators |
0:55.3 | just how close they came to confronting the pro-Trump mob. |
0:59.1 | In gripping previously unseen video that Republican Senator James Langford said was difficult |
1:04.4 | to watch, delegate Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands demonstrated how one Capitol |
1:10.1 | Hill officer, Eugene Goodman, led the mob away from the still-full Senate chamber. |
1:16.2 | Plaskett also credited Goodman's efforts with allowing former Vice President Mike Pence |
1:20.7 | and his family to safely escape from the mob, some of whom Plaskett said had explained |
1:25.2 | implicitly said previously that they wanted to execute him. |
1:29.0 | And to underscore just how close the mob got to elected officials that day, in another |
1:33.4 | video introduced by the impeachment managers, Goodman can be seen directing Romney away |
1:37.8 | from the mob just before leading them away from the Senate chamber. |
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