Oh, my goodness, all the networks. Wow and how the word unity is being weaponized for a covid rescue bill when allin starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The second impeachment of donald trump is now formally in the hands of the u. S. Senate. As the first president to be impeached twice, also becomes the first expresident to face an impeachment trial. This was the scene moments ago as the house impeachment managers walked over to the senate with the single article of impeachment charging donald trump with incitement of insurrection for his role in the january 6th assault on the capitol. Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. All persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment while the house of representatives is exhibiting to the senate of the United States an article of impeachment against Donald John Trump. Resolved, that Donald John Trump, president of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following article of impeachment be exhibited to the United States senate. In his conduct while president of the United States and in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of the president of the United States and to the best of his ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the lawes be faithfully executed, Donald John Trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting violence against the government of the United States. Wherefore, Donald John Trump by such conduct has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy, and the constitution if allowed to remain in office and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with selfgovernance and the rule of law. Donald john trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States. Tomorrow the senate will be sworn in as jurors in that trial. The trial itself will begin the week of february 8th. Alas the lead impeachment trial jamie raskin joins me live for an exclusive interview in just a moment. The leader of the senate, Chuck Schumer told my colleague Rachel Maddow what he expects to see in the trial and shares his own experience in the attempted insurrection. A Police Officer, a big flap jacket and a big automatic machine gun across grabs me nicely by the collar, senator, we have to get out of here. Youre in danger. I was 30 feet away from those sons of guns. 30 feet away from these nasty racist bigoted insurrectionist. Someone told me even during the civil war no Confederate Flag flew in the capital, even during the civil war. Could you hear them . Yes, yes. Now we have the trial and make no mistake about it, President Trump will stand trial and there will be a vote on his guilt. I hope he is voted guilty. The trial will be done in a way that is fair, but with relatively quickly. The evidence is all out there. Who is the witness . The entire American People. We all saw what trump did. That fullsit down interview with Chuck Schumer is coming up in the next hour in the Rachel Maddow show. Dont go he anywhere. Now every single day brings more evidence of the danger and threat posed by the i think recollectionists at the capitol earlier this month. The direct incitement of violence and the event was culmination of his months long openly engagedin plot to seditiously overrule a democratic election and instead install himself in power against the will of the American People. The article of impeachment is chiefly about that incitement. That is what he did after nothing else worked. His halftime act to stop the legitimate election to go forward was to instruct his followers to go up to the capitol. And when he told them to go to the capitol, they understood exactly what he meant. Take a listen to this new video uncovered by just security in their analysis of the evidence of incitement at the capitol. Now it is up to congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this were going to walk down and ill be there with you were going to walk down [ cheers and applause ] were going to walk down, anyone one you want. But right here were going to walk down to the capitol [ cheers and applause ] were going to walk down to the capitol yeah [ cheers and applause ] yes. Go down to the capitol the capitol building. Take the capitol take the capitol take the capitol take the capitol take the capitol take the capitol right now take the capitol yes its pretty clear what was going on there. Were going to go down to the capitol, storm the capitol, invade the capitol, take the capitol right now. They understood. Remember those instructions to his adoring crowd came just a few days after the former president tried to bully the georgia secretary of state to fraudulently fabricate votes for him. We have now learned just a few days after he attempted this insane coup within the department of justice, his plan to fire the acting attorney general, replace him with a lackey who believed in the former president s alternate reality in order to get the department of justice to start using the legal muscle of the u. S. Government to push the president s seditious plot. That episode is now the subject of investigation by the justice departments inspector general. But not much has changed. No one is out of the woods. Donald trump is off twitter and back at the maralago omlette bar, but there have been no retractions or mea copa from the faction of american politics that currently is just under 50 faction. That faction, the Republican Party, the part of it that aligned itself with sedition in the house and the senate, the danger remains. Thousands of National Guards, troops are staying in washington, d. C. Because of threats to members of congress as the impeachment trial itself looms. A very real serious threat. The mob in the capitol on january 6 chanting, hang mike pence, was just one minute away from coming face to face with the former vicepresident and his family. What do you think they would have done . What do you think they would have done if they ran into congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez. She talked about her life being threaten. And some prominent dinner heir scoffed, a man at the capitol ryan is being charged after threat nipping to threatening to assassinate the congresswoman. This radicalized force that wants to undo the countrys democratic rule of law is as present as it ever was, in some ways impeachment the rarest of opportunities, very rare opportunity indeed in which a party can formally attempt to exile that seditious faction. Congressman jamie raskin of maryland is the lead house impeachment manager. You just heard him reading the article impeachment on the senate floor and he joins me for an exclusive interview. Congressman, its great to have you with us. Lets start i guess with the history thats being made and why its important. Youve seen some republicans try to say, look, hes out of office now, so theres a lot going on. Why do we need to do this . And what is your answer to that . Chris, thank you for having me on. This was, as we have argued and as we intend to show, the worst president ial crime against the republic in american history. And the violence was terrifying and overwhelming. Five people died. A Police Officer hit over the head with a fire extinguisher. Police officers beat up, grabbed, pushed, shoved, jostled. We went through some extraordinary thing that day. What America Needs to understand, of course, wednesday, january 6, was not some random arbitrary date chosen by the president and the organizers of this rally. This was the day that congress met in joint session, the house and the senate, to count the Electoral College votes that had been certified by 50 states and the district of columbia. So this was the very last step in the ratification of the popular vote which went more than 7 million votes for the biden harris ticket and the Electoral College vote, which was 306232, the exact margin actually that trump had won by back in 2016 which he declared to be a landslide. So this was the last opportunity. And as we find out more and more every day, the president was willing to use any means, unlawful, lawful, lawless, violent, whatever, he was willing to incite insurrection against the United States in order to nullify the actual Electoral College vote that was to be counted and to try essentially to derail that election and to get himself reinstalled as president of the United States. And so that is a ghastly crime against the republic. One thing that i want to point out, chris, is that impeachment is not nearly so much about the past as it is about the future. The framers of the constitution put impeachment, conviction and disqualification from further federal Office Holding in the constitution to protect the republic, to preserve the constitution. Thats why its in there. President trump or any other trump who is impeached and convicted does not spend a single day, a single hour or a single minute in jail. It is not a criminal prosecution. It is a protective civil action to guard the republic against someone who has committed high crimes and misdemeanors against the people and proven himself to be a danger to the country. That remedy you mention, which is in the constitution and also in section 3 of the 14th amendment, of course, crafted by members of congress in the wake of the worst insurrection and rebellion the country ever faced that is the confederacy its very clear in that part of the 14th amendment which you cite and the article and in the impeachment language that this disqualification idea is present throughout the architecture of the constitution precisely for this reason. And it strikes me that its an interesting counter to the democratic argument that was made, the last impeachment trial, well, theres going to be an election in nine months. Do you want to do this . That isnt at issue here, is it . We were founded a a constitutional democracy. We overthrew monarchy in the idea the government belongs to the king or one man or one man and his friends. According to the framers vision, those of us who aspire to and attain to Public Office are nothing but the servants of the people. And the minute that we violate our constitutional oaths and begin to usurp the government for our own purposes and commit high crimes and misdemeanors against the government, that is the moment that we forfeit our Public Office. Nobody is a constitutional right to be there. And the framers wanted to create a lot of ways to separate ourselves from people who were a danger to the continuation of republican rule. And thats why we have a republican guarantee clause. Thats why we have a peaceful transfer of power. What happened on wednesday, january 6, was a direct attack on the peaceful transfer of power under the constitution. You refer to danger here, danger in the sense of to american constitutional democracy, but there is physical danger as well. You noted five people died. The more information we learn, particularly the moment mike pence a minute or two pulled into a chamber before that mob comes up and may have set upon him. We have an individual now being charged who said he was going to assassinate a. O. C. What is the sort of sentiment among you and your colleagues in both parties, i would say, about what happened there and the sort of firstperson effect of it, and how that affects the proceedings were going to see . Well, ill quote two of my republican colleagues, representative cheney, liz cheney from wyoming, said that the president summoned the mob, assembled the mob later said he incited the mob. None of this would have happened without the chain of events that he set into motion. And everything is due to what he did set into motion. She said it was the worst betrayal of office in american history. But ill also quote Lindsey Graham who i believe i saw said either the day of or the next day, they could have had a bomb. We all could have been killed. And that was my reaction, you know. Chris, i had my daughter with me and i had my soninlaw who is married to my other daughter with me that day. They were, you know, several hundred feet away outside of the house chamber. We all could have been killed. That mob that broke through all the windows and ran over the cops and muscled their way in and beat people up, that mob did not go through metal detectors. Did not go through security screening. And a lot of them were armed. Final question for you. I know that you lost your son tommy at age 25 just shortly before january 6th. What you and your family wrote about him, i found profoundly moving. I know a lot of people who have dealt with depression, loved ones in their lives found it profoundly moving and i know this has been just a brutally difficult period for you. I just wanted to offer my condolences, all of our condolences and ask how you and your family are doing. Well, thank you, chris. I have been carrying tommy raskin very close to my heart, and all of his friends from Blair High School in Montgomery County and the college at Harvard Law School have rallied behind us, as well as hundreds of thousands of people across the country who really saw the magnificent spirit of tommy raskin. And weve been collecting extraordinary essays that he wrote, and i hope well be publishing them soon. A lot of them were already online, a lot of his poetry, a lot of his plays. But also weve got a bunch of unpublished things, including, you know, papers he wrote during school and in addition to everything else, he was magnificently funny and lighthearted. And so anyway, we want to get these out to people. But thank you for your condolences, chris. We feel a little bit better each day and we feel a little bit better each day that the people rally to defend our republic against this monstrous attack on the constitution and the people. All right. From one father to another, i just, i just cant imagine what it is to do what youre doing right now and thank you for all that youve done. Congressman jamie raskin, the lead impeachment manager for the house. Thank you so much, sir. And thank you for having me, chris. Tonight even as thousands of National Guard members remain in our nations capital, republican officials continue to spread the dangerous lie that inspired the january 6 attack. Thats next. These folks, they dont have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps. 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But there are still thousands of members of the National Guard protecting the capitol and as many as 5,000 are now expected to stay there throughout the impeachment trial because the threat remains. Yesterday a federal judge blocked the release of erik munchel, seeing him carrying plastic handcuffs after a search of his home turned up, and i quote, approximately 15 firearms, assault rifles, sniper rifle with a tripod, other rifles, shotguns and other ammunition. Heres what that looks like in one place in case youre wondering. Thats what a guy who assaulted the capitol had in his house. Despite the lie donald trump won the election, state parties seem to be embracing it even tighter. This is really wild. In the last few days you have the texas gop telling people to follow them on gab. They call it home to terrorist plots hiding in plain sight. Also the texas gop repeating a slogan the q anon conspiracy, we are the storm. Official from the hawaiian gop after the people who threatened the capitol said, quote, the people who describe the q fiction were motivated by a deep and sincere love for america. They promoted a Youtube Vlogger who is a holocaust denier. The Republican Party passed a formal resolution and this is real saying, quote, there is growing evidence the violence at the capitol was a false flag operation in a frightening parallel of the february 1933 of the german flag. There were members in the capitol during the assault. The president said to go to the capitol. But if republicans need incentive to stop spreading conspiracy theories about a rigged election beside the fact those lies led and will continue to lead to violence under our democracy, they need not look any further than Donald Trumps own lawyer Rudy Giuliani who today was sued by the Voting Machine Company he has been publicly disparaging for months for 1. 3 billio