here's some of what was going on in the senate chamber during the trial from Yamiche Alcindor:

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Out of the Senate chamber and here's some of what I saw:

GOP senators seemed to pay attention the most as House Dems played videos of former WH Chief of Staffs Gen John Kelly and Mick Mulvaney laying blame for the Capitol Siege squarely at the feet of former Pres Trump.

Senators Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is sitting legs crossed watching most of the trial very closely.

Meanwhile, Senator Grassley seems to be spending much of this trial reading and looking down even as videos are being shown.

Senator Marco Rubio was looking down and reading as lead House impeachment manager Rep Jamie Raskin talked about former Pres Trump encouraging people to be violent at rallies.

Context: Rubio told me today former presidents can't be impeached so clearly his mind is not changing.

Trump attorney David Schoen is doing TV hits during the trial. He was on Fox just now, blasting impeachment managers' case as “an entertainment package.” He said he'll in part focus on "hypocrisy" of their statements and again warned "politicians will look bad if this continues."

Arguments that seemed to move GOP senators the least were when impeachment managers spoke of MI terror plot against Gov Whitmer & when they pointed to Trump encouraging supporters at his past rallies to attack anti-Trump protesters.

Sen Tim Scott, only black Repub senator, watched intently & took notes while video of the deadly racist events in Charlottesville & Trump's "both sides" comments were shown.

Reminder: Scott at the time appealed to Trump to condemn racism more vocally.

Link to tweet

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1. K&R

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2. Hey Rubio--it was established that former presidents can be tried.

He was ALREADY impeached when he was in office. You do remember the vote on
constitutionality at the beginning of the trial don't you? F'ing idiots.