Appreciate you, Koop. Happy Monday. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime. The question is simple.

Did Trump encourage or stir up the events of January 6th? If you think he did, that is called

incitement and it is why he was impeached. It's hard to argue. His constant lies about the

election being rigged, lies about proof that didn't exist, lies about biased judges, some of whom

he put on the bench and bad politicians, many of whom he supported and were from his party,

did not make people distrust to the point of this insurrection. That's why almost all the senators

in his party don't want to have to answer that question. We are hours away from the first ever

second impeachment trial of a president in United States history. And his party wants to pretend

the trial is improper. So they don't have to be on record ignoring everything that most will see

as obvious. Trump's lawyers argue this is all unconstitutional and political theater by Democrats.

Two points. First, this was by far the most bipartisan impeachment in our history.

Ten members of Trump's own party formally accused him of a high crime. Second,

if that's what you think, why don't you go to court? If you don't think the constitution

means what it says about a trial following the impeachment, go to court. They can't. Do you know why?

Because this is not about the law, per se. Despite all the familiar terms like trial and jurors

convict, this is a political process. It is about votes and integrity. Trump seems to have the

former in his pocket and these senators appear to have too little of the latter. And so the trial

will begin with a four hour debate on the constitutionality of it all, which really means

why they don't want to do with the overwhelming number of legal scholars agree they must do.

Including Chuck Cooper, you know him. He's a big shot conservative lawyer. He's represented

House Republicans, John Bolton, even Ted Cruz. He was an advisor to his campaign. He says,

look at Article 1, Section 3 of this constitution. In there, it says this Senate has an option

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