I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Friday, February 12th.

I hate to start the show with the words none of this might matter, but none of the dramatic revelations about the January 6th

insurrection coming out at the impeachment trial might matter to the outcome. Some of them are

genuinely new this week. Some of them are just new to a lot of people's awareness. But we're going to

go over a few and then we'll talk to former U.S. attorney, Prit Barara, and see what he thinks

about these and other things. The biggest new thing to my eye is that even if you've decided

that former President Trump didn't originally incite the insurrection, once he was back at the

White House, knowing it was taking place and taking place on his behalf,

he may have egged it on in a new way than previously understood. He certainly didn't demand

that the rioters cease and desist. At very least, he watched it on TV as a very interested

observer without immediately trying to make it

stop. We knew that. But there is new evidence that emerged Wednesday night that Trump may have

tweeted an attack on Mike Pence after he learned that Pence was in danger in a phone call

with Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville. Now, Tuberville revealed that he

became aware that the vice president was being escorted to safety while he, Tubberville,

was on the phone with Trump and told Trump that right as he was learning it, right as Pence

was being escorted to safety, or just

after it. As Politico reports it, the existence of the phone call had been previously reported,

but the detail that Tuberville informed Trump, his vice president was in danger, is a new

and potentially significant development for

House prosecutors seeking Trump's conviction. It occurred just around the time that Trump sent a

tweet attacking Pence for not having, quote, the courage to unilaterally stop Joe Biden's

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