AND MSNBC LEGAL ANALYST, PAUL
BUTLER IS WITH US.
SO HOUSE DEMOCRATS RESTED THEIR
CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP
YESTERDAY WITH THE LEAD
IMPEACHMENT MANAGER URGING
SENATORS TO EXERCISE, QUOTE,
COMMON SENSE AND WARNING OF WHAT
COULD HAPPEN IF TRUMP IS NOT
CONVICTED
CONVICTED.
>> IF WE DON’T DRAW THE LINE
HERE, THEN WHAT’S NEXT?
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THE LAW
MAKING AND VIOLENT MOBS IS OVER?
IF WE LET HIM GET AWAY WITH IT,
AND THEN IT COMES TO YOUR STATE
CAPITOL OR COMES BACK HERE
AGAIN, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO SAY?
>> YOU KNOW, I’M NOT AFRAID OF
DONALD TRUMP RUNNING AGAIN IN
FOUR YEARS.
I’M AFRAID HE’S GOING TO RUN
AGAIN AND LOSE.
BECAUSE HE CAN DO THIS AGAIN.
>> WHEN YOU OR I MAKE A MISTAKE
AND SOMETHING VERY BAD HAPPENS,
WE WOULD SHOW REMORSE.
WE WOULD ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY.
PRESIDENT TRUMP DIDN’T DO ANY OF
THAT.
HE WAS ASKED BY A REPORTER,
QUOTE, WHAT IS YOUR ROLE IN WHAT
HAPPENED AT THE CAPITOL?
WHAT IS YOUR PERSONAL
RESPONSIBILITY?
AND THIS WAS HIS ANSWER.
>> -- MY SPEECH AND MY WORDS AND
MY FINAL PARAGRAPH, MY FINAL
SENTENCE.
AND EVERYBODY TO THE T THOUGHT
IT WAS TOTALLY APPROPRIATE.
>> ON JANUARY 12th, PRESIDENT
TRUMP HAD SEEN THE VIOLENT
ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL.
HE KNEW THE PEOPLE THAT DIED.
AND HIS MESSAGE TO ALL OF US
WAS, THAT HIS CONDUCT WAS
TOTALLY APPROPRIATE.
I’M A FORMER PROSECUTOR.
AND WE’RE TRAINED TO RECOGNIZE
LACK OF REMORSE.
BUT IT DOESN’T TAKE A PROSECUTOR
TO UNDERSTAND THAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP WAS NOT SHOWING REMORSE.
HE WAS SHOWING DEFIANCE.
HE WAS TELLING US THAT HE WOULD
DO THIS AGAIN.
THAT HE COULD DO THIS AGAIN.
>> YOU KNOW, THERE WERE TIMES,
WILLIE, THAT I WOULD WALK A
LITTLE BIT OF THE ROOM.
THE TV WAS ON.
IMPEACHMENT ARGUMENTS WERE BEING
MADE.
AND I JUST SHRUGGED MY
SHOULDERS.
ARE WE REALLY PRETENDING THAT A
CASE HAS TO BE MADE?
BECAUSE EVERYBODY THAT WAS
WATCHING YESTERDAY, EVERY ONE OF
THESE SENATORS, THEY ALL KNOW
THE BASICS.
THEY KNOW THAT THAT MOB CAME TO
WASHINGTON, D.C. BECAUSE OF ONE
PERSON, BECAUSE OF DONALD TRUMP.
>> THEY HAD BEEN THERE THE WHOLE
TIME
TIME.
>> HE HAD CALLED THEM TO
WASHINGTON, D.C.
THEY ALSO -- WE ALSO KNOW, AND
EVERYBODY THAT’S IN THE SENATE
UNDERSTANDS THAT HIS INTENTION
ALL ALONG WAS TO DISRUPT THE
PROCEEDINGS.
THAT’S WHY WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
THERE WAS A PERMIT FOR HIS
SPEECH, AND HE CHANGED IT TO A
SPEECH AND THEN A MARCH FOR A
MOB UP TO THE CAPITOL.
THEN WE UNDERSTAND ALL THE
RIOTS, WHILE THE INSURRECTION,
WHILE THE COP KILLING WAS GOING
ON, HE WAS WATCHING WITH GLEE AS
THE TRUMP TERRORISTS WERE
BRUTALIZING POLICE WITH AMERICAN
FLAGS AND BREAKING THROUGH
WINDOWS AND THREATENING THE
LIVES OF MIKE PENCE AND OTHER
MEMBERS THAT WERE INSIDE THAT
BUILDING.
WE LEARNED ALSO THAT HE TALKED
TO TOMMY TUBERVILLE WHO SAID
MIKE PENCE HAS JUST BEEN TAKEN
OUT.
SO HE SAID I CAN’T TALK TO YOU,
MR. PRESIDENT, BECAUSE MIKE
PENCE AND EVERYBODY IS IN
DANGER.
TEN MINUTES AFTER THAT HE TWEETS
AN ATTACK AGAINST MIKE PENCE TO
PUT HIM MORE IN DANGER, TO PUT
HIS LIFE MORE IN DANGER, TO PUT
HIS WIFE’S LIFE MORE IN DANGER,
TO PUT HIS FAMILY’S LIFE MORE IN
DANGER WHILE THEY WERE CHANTING,
HANG MIKE PENCE.
AND OF COURSE WE UNDERSTAND WHAT
HAPPENED AFTER.
THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS SHOWN
TIME AND AGAIN UTTER REMORSELESS
FOR ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED HERE.
SO WHY ARE WE HAVING THIS TRIAL?
WE’RE HAVING THIS TRIAL BECAUSE
SOME REPUBLICANS ACTUALLY CARE
MORE ABOUT THEIR POLITICAL
CAREERS THAN THEY DO THIS
REPUBLIC OF OURS.
THAT’S WHY.
>> NO, THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT.
AND THE EVIDENCE WAS
OVERWHELMING.
THE PRESENTATION WAS
COMPREHENSIVE.
BUT WE KNEW A LOT OF THIS
BEFOREHAND.
IT WAS DAMNING BEFOREHAND.
NOW, AS YOU JUST LAID OUT, WE
HAVE ALL THIS NEW INFORMATION
THAT BOWL SISTERS THE CASE.
IF YOU DID A BLIND TEST AND SAID
THIS IS PRESIDENT X, IF YOU WERE
A UNITED STATES SENATOR AND YOU
HEARD ALL OF THIS EVIDENCE, IS
THERE ANY DOUBT THAT THE VOTE
WOULD BE UNANIMOUS TO CONVICT.
IF THIS WERE BARACK OBAMA GOD
FORBID, BILL CLINTON, IF HILLARY
CLINTON HAD BECOME PRESIDENT,
DON’T YOU THINK IT WOULD BE
UNANIMOUS JUST BASED ON THE
EVIDENCE.
INSTEAD YOU HAVE REPUBLICANS
COMING OUT AGAIN YESTERDAY
REITERATING THEY ARE GOING TO
VOTE TO ACQUIT.
THIS IS A WASTE OF TIME.
THE VIDEOS ARE OFFENSIVE.
THEY ARE SHOWING THE VIDEOS TOO
MANY TIMES.
IT IS GETTING GRATUITOUS.
COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE
PRESENTATION BEING MADE.
YOU HAD THREE REPUBLICAN
SENATORS, MIKE LEE, TED CRUZ,
LINDSEY GRAHAM, MEETING WITH
DEFENSE COUNSEL LAST NIGHT.