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The House speaker calls for establishing an independent panel to investigate "the facts and causes" related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. And she says more money is needed to boost security.
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Plaskett, a House manager in former President Trump's Senate trial, defends the decision not to call witnesses. "As all Americans believed at that moment, the evidence was overwhelming," she says.
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President Biden said that "even those opposed to the conviction, like Senate Minority Leader McConnell, believe Donald Trump was guilty of a 'disgraceful dereliction of duty'."
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In a statement issued shortly after a final vote in the Senate on a charge of inciting an insurrection, Trump said the "movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun."
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The Senate minority leader condemned the actions taken by Trump on the day of the Capitol insurrection but said he didn't believe the impeachment trial was constitutional.
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In his closing remarks, Michael van der Veen said Trump's words on the day of the Capitol insurrection were taken out of context and that any comments he did make are protected speech.
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Democrats did not gain enough Republican support to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting insurrection, but sevenGOP senators did break with their own party. See the vote breakdown.
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Lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin and his team wrapped up their arguments Saturday. Afterward, he said, "Trump stormed our house with the mob he incited, and we defended our house."
The impeachment managers and the former president's defense team agreed to enter a statement from GOP Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler into evidence instead of calling her as a witness.
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The Senate minority leader has made his decision on the article of impeachment, a source familiar with his decision tells NPR's Susan Davis.
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The trial of the former president concluded on Saturday with an acquittal of the former president.
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Trump disparaged Pence in a tweet while the insurrection was going on. GOP senators asked what Trump knew about Pence's status when Trump tweeted.
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The award is the institution's highest civilian honor and goes to an officer who is credited with saving the lives of many senators by distracting the mob away from the Senate chamber.
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The delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands discussed the stinging impact of some of the video clips, played by Trump's defense attorneys, of responses to last summer's protests for racial justice.
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The former president's attorney dug into the semantics of a phone call to Georgia's secretary of state in an effort to downplay the severity of his efforts to undermine the state's election results.
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Trump's defense used roughly three of their 16 hours to push back on House impeachment managers' case that Trump should be convicted for inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Attorneys representing former President Donald Trump equated instances of violence and rioting that broke out during protests for racial justice with the Capitol insurrection.
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In 2017, several House Democrats stood and objected to the certification of then President-elect Trump's electoral victory. Then-Vice President Biden was presiding.
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The defense team played its own videos before the Senate, attempting to show that the former president did not incite the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.