The days are 44 a clear decision in a divided chamber.

Donald Trump will face a second impeachment trial.

The Senate shall proceed with the trial.

The Senate vote affirmed that the trial waas constitutional.

We will stop the steal to make their case.

The Democratic prosecutors showed a video as evidence of Trump firing up his supporters ahead of the storming of the capital on January 6th.

And you can't vote on fraud and fraud breaks up everything, doesn't it?

When you catch somebody in a fraud, you're allowed to go by very different rules.

You ask what a high crime and misdemeanor is under our Constitution, That's, Ah, high crime and misdemeanor.

Ahead of the vote, Republicans had argued that Trump could not be convicted.

Once out of office.

This was dismissed by the prosecution.

Their argument is that if you commit an impeachable offenses in your last few weeks in office, you do it with constitutional impunity.

You get away with it and Page 45.

Trump's lawyers also resorted to video, arguing that the trial was politically motivated and divisive on the impeachment.

Donald Trump, would you vote yesterday?

I would vote.

Yes, I would vote.

I would vote.

With this trial, you will open up new and bigger wounds across the nation for a great many Americans see this process for exactly what it is.

A chance by a group of partisan politicians seeking to eliminate Donald Trump from the American political scene In a Congress still reeling from last month's events, it is partisan politics that makes it very unlikely the prosecution will get the two thirds majority required in the Senate to convict Trump.

Mhm.

Well, what does it all mean?

So let's bring in D.

W s U S analyst William Glue Croft.

William.

How did this first session of Trump's a second impeachment trial go?

Well, we got a good preview of what the trial itself is gonna be.

Both sides arguing whether the trial itself is even constitutional to hold in the Senate.

Eso arguing rather technical grounds.

We saw four hours of arguments in total from both sides.

The House managers who which is they act as the prosecution.

These are Democrats from the House who are leaving the prosecution case on the lawyers from Donald Trump's side.

Now the Trump defense is that it's unconstitutional as we heard in the report, because Donald Trump is not in office anymore, that is politically motivated.

But of course, Democrats made both a constitutional case, and there's also historical precedent for exactly this situation that we're seeing trying a former government official once they're already out of office.

They made that technical constitutional legal case, but also a very emotional case showing video from that day of January 6th, trying to a stoke in the minds of the senators, especially Republican senators who are much more skeptical, much more on the side of Donald Trump to remind them of that anger and fear from that.

Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland who is leading this prosecution, whose son died just a week before the those events on January 6.

He had a very emotional statement to make, and I think we can have a listen to it here.

I told her how sorry I was, and I promised her that it would not be like this again.

The next time she came back to the capital with me and you know what she said?

She said, Dad, I don't want to come back to the capital of all the terrible, brutal things I saw and I heard on that day and since then that one hit me the hardest.

Mhm.

But how much of an impact did this speech and the video indeed at that Raskin showed have on the lawmakers?

Well, it was a very emotional moment.

There's no denying that we just heard Jamie Raskin, referring to his daughter, who was with her with him on the day of the attack.

Again, the family being together, still mourning the loss of their son off her brother, um, just a week before those attacks.

And then, on that very day, the attack happening.

The Trump team, the Trump defense.

He was very being very careful not to play down the events of January 6th, in fact admitting and acknowledging that it was a horrible day for everyone.

They're questioning who's to blame for this, that, yes, it was a terrible event on people need to be held accountable.

But Donald Trump is not the one responsible on as we solved by the vote just yesterday on whether this trial is even constitutional, with just six Republicans breaking ranks and siding with Democrats, saying that it.

Waas gives us a good preview off what the outcome of the trial overall is probably going to be talking about previous our votes likely to fall along party lines in the end, which makes impeachment unlikely.

Yeah, you're exactly conviction they need.

They need 17.

Democrats need 17 Republican senators to join them, to make that 67 out of 100 Senator Mark to convict president.

And that is just unlikely goingto happen.

You might have some Republicans, as we saw in the vote yesterday on constitutionality ah, crossing lines.

But generally, Republicans are very much still in Trump's camp.

And what was very interesting about yesterday's vote because it because it was about constitutionality, whether this trial was constitutional, which so many Republicans all but six, saying that it wasn't constitutional and Democrats saying that it waas.

That could only mean one of two things.

Either There's two very divergent opinions in America right now about what the Constitution even is and what America's constitutional democracy is, or it says that Republicans were putting party above the country, and I think that vote yesterday is quite an interesting reflection on the state of American politics today.

Thank you very much.