-Mr President, in a moment, I will call up the resolution
to govern the structure of the second impeachment trial
of Donald John Trump.
-There should now be four hours of argument by the parties,
equally divided, on the question of whether Donald John Trump
is subject to the jurisdiction of a court of impeachment
for acts committed while president of the United States,
notwithstanding the expiration of his term in that office.
-It's an invitation to the president to take his best shot
at anything he may want to do on his way out the door,
including using violent means to lock that door,
to hang on to the Oval Office at all costs,
and to block the peaceful transfer of power.
In other words, the January exception is an invitation
to our founders' worst nightmare.
-We will stop the steal.
And after this, we're going to walk down,
and I'll be there with you.
We're going to walk down.
We're going to walk down to the Capitol!
-Yeah! -Let's take the Capitol!
-[chanting] USA!
USA!
-If that's not an impeachable offense,
then there is no such thing.
-What you experienced that day, what we experienced that day,
what our country experienced that day,
is the framers' worst nightmare come to life.
Presidents can't inflame insurrection
in their final weeks
and then walk away like nothing happened.
And, yet, that is the rule
that President Trump asks you to adopt.
I urge you, we urge you, to decline his request,
to vindicate the Constitution, to let us try this case.
-So you'll never hear anybody representing
former President Trump say anything at all other
than what happened on January 6th
and the storming and breaching of the Capitol
should be denounced in the most vigorous terms.
Nor that those persons responsible should be prosecuted
to the fullest extent that our laws allow.
-They don't need to show you movies to show you
that the riot happened here.
We will stipulate that it happened
and you know all about it!
This is a process fueled irresponsibly
by base hatred by these House managers
and those who gave them their charge,
and they are willing to sacrifice our national character
to advance their hatred and their fear that,
one day, they might not be the party in power.
Consider this.
-I want to say this for Donald Trump,
who I may well be voting to impeach.
-Donald Trump has already done a number of things
which legitimately raise the question of impeachment.
-I don't respect this president
and I will fight every day until he is impeached!
-The impeachment article should be treated
as a nullity and dismissed,
based on the total lack of due process in the House.
It should be dismissed
because of Speaker Pelosi's intentional abandonment
or waiver of jurisdiction.
If the House ever acquired jurisdiction.
And the article should be dismissed
because the trial in the Senate
of a private citizen is not permitted.
-And the question is whether Donald John Trump
is subject to the jurisdiction of a court of impeachment
for acts committed while president of the United States,
notwithstanding the expiration of his term in that office.
The yeas at 56, the nays are 44.
In pursuant to S Res 47,
the Senate having voted the affirmative
on the foregoing question,
the Senate shall proceed with the trial,
as provided under the provisions of that resolution.