Police beg for help, senators flee in Trump trial video
WASHINGTON (AP) - Prosecutors unveiled chilling new security video in Donald Trump´s impeachment trial Wednesday, showing the mob of rioters breaking into the Capitol, smashing windows and doors and searching menacingly for Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as overwhelmed police begged on their radios for help.
In the previously unreleased recordings, the House prosecutors displayed gripping scenes of how close the rioters were to the country´s leaders, roaming the halls chanting “Hang Mike Pence,” some equipped with combat gear.
Outside, the mob had set up a makeshift gallows.
Videos of the siege have been circulating since the day of the riot, but the graphic compilation amounted to a more complete narrative, a moment-by-moment retelling of one of the nation´s most alarming days.
In addition to the evident chaos and danger, it offered fresh details on the attackers, scenes of police heroism and staff whispers and cries of distress.
At one dramatic moment, the video shows police shooting into the crowd through a broken window, killing a San Diego woman, Ashli Babbitt.
In another, a police officer is seen being crushed by the mob. Five people died.
The vice president, who had been presiding over a session to certify Joe Biden´s victory over Trump - thus earning Trump's criticism - is shown being rushed to safety, where he sheltered in an office with his family just 100 feet from the rioters. Pelosi was evacuated from the complex before the mob prowls her suite of offices, her staff hiding quietly behind closed doors.
_ Trial highlights: Harrowing footage, focus on Trump's words WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats opened their first day of arguments in former President Donald Trump´s impeachment trial Wednesday with searing footage of the U.S. Capitol riot as they painted Trump as an “inciter in chief” who systematically riled up his supporters and falsely convinced them the election had been stolen, culminating in the deadly attack. “He assembled, inflamed and incited his followers to descend upon the Capitol,” said the lead impeachment manager, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. As she presented harrowing footage of the siege, Del. Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat representing the U.S. Virgin Islands and one of the prosecutors, said Trump had “put a target” on the backs of then-Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who were leading the certification of President Joe Biden's election victory. “His mob broke into the Capitol to hunt them down,” Plaskett said. Highlights from the first full day of arguments: TRUMP´S WORDS COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM _
Is one day a week enough? Biden's school goal draws blowback
President Joe Biden is being accused of backpedaling on his pledge to reopen the nation´s schools after the White House added fine print to his promise and made clear that a full reopening is still far from sight.
Biden´s initial pledge in December was to reopen “the majority of our schools” in his first 100 days in office.
In January he specified that the goal applied only to schools that teach through eighth grade. And this week the White House said that schools will be considered opened as long as they teach in-person at least one day a week.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the goal Wednesday, calling it part of a “bold ambitious agenda.” But she also said it´s a bar the administration hopes to exceed.
“Certainly, we are not planning to celebrate at 100 days if we reach that goal,” she said.
“We certainly hope to build from that.”
The White House had faced increasing pressure to explain the goal as the reopening debate gains urgency. Biden had never detailed what it meant to be reopened or how he would define success. Pressed on the question Tuesday, Psaki clarified that one day a week of in-person learning would meet the mark.
_ Georgia prosecutor investigates election after Trump call ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia prosecutor said Wednesday that she has opened a criminal investigation into “attempts to influence” last year´s general election, including a call in which President Donald Trump asked a top official to find enough votes to overturn Joe Biden´s victory in the state. In a Jan. 2 telephone conversation with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Trump repeatedly argued that Raffensperger could change the certified results of the presidential election, 메리트카지노 an assertion the secretary of state firmly rejected.“All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” Trump said. “Because we won the state.”Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat elected to the job in November, did not specifically mention Trump in the letters she sent to state officials Wednesday announcing her investigation. But the former president has been under intense criticism for the call.Willis spokesman Jeff DiSantis told The Associated Press that while he could not name the subjects under investigation, he confirmed that Trump's call to Raffensperger was “part of it” and said “the matters reported on over the last several weeks are the matters being investigated.” In her letters, Willis also remarks that officials “have no reason to believe that any Georgia official is a target of this investigation.”_New riot video shows Officer Goodman point Romney to safetyDuring the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, Democrats revealed new footage of a U.S.
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