Impeachment trial – live: Trump poured ‘kerosene on the flames’ as Pence family fled for lives, Democrats say

House impeachment managers will now make the case that Donald Trump refused to speak out about the riots at the Capitol or attempt to stop them.

Hillary Clinton has weighed in on Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, with a blistering take on the proceedings.

In a post on Twitter on Wednesday, the former secretary of state hit out at Republican senators who supported Mr Trump's baseless election fraud claims ahead of the riot on 6 January.

“If Senate Republicans fail to convict Donald Trump, it won't be because the facts were with him or his lawyers mounted a competent defence,” she said.

“It will be because the jury includes his co-conspirators.”

The post quickly went viral on the platform, amassing more than 85,000 likes and 15,000 retweets in the hours after it was posted.

Louise Hall reports.

A Washington DC police officer who was crushed by a far-right mob during the insurrection at the US Capitol earlier this month has said that he would do it all again to protect US democracy.

“If it wasn’t my job I would’ve done that for free,” Officer Daniel Hodges said in an interview with NBC. “It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection … We’ll do it as many times as it takes."

On 6 January, Officer Hodges responded to a radio call for back-up as pro-Trump rioters breached the Capitol building during a joint session of Congress to certify the 2020 election results which the president has sought to overturn.

Alex Woodward has the story.

The trial will resume at 6:15 pm.

“It looked like a Medieval battle scene, some of the most brutal combat I’ve ever encountered,” said Mike Fanone.

“At one point I got tased, people were yelling out ‘we got one we got one’.”

Officer Christina Laury, who protected the front Capitol entrance, said people were beating them with metal poles.

“They were spraying them with bear mace, I mean they did everything in their power to not let those people in. And this was going on for hours,” she says.

Officer Daniel Hodges was trapped between two doors. He said he was hit in the head by a “huge metal object”.

“I was also knocked down, the medical mask I was wearing at the time got pulled up over my eyes so I was on the ground and blinded and they started just attacking me from all sides,” he says.

“In this new video you see leader Schumer walking up a ramp, going up the ramp with his detail, he’ll soon go out of view,” says Eric Swalwell.

“Seconds later they return and run down the hallway, and officers immediately shut the door and use their bodies to keep them safe.”

“As you were moving through that hallway, I paced it off, you were just 58 steps away from where the mob was amassing and where police were rushing to stop them,” says Eric Swalwell.

“You can see how the Capitol police created a line and blocked the hallway with their bodies to prevent rioters at the end of the hall from reaching you, and your staff.”

The Independent's Graig Graziosi has more on the mob coming for Nancy Pelosi:

The Democratic impeachment managers introduced frightening new footage into Donald Trump's trial in the Senate showing a man wandering the halls and calling out for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a threatening manner.

In the video, a man can be seen wandering down the halls of the Capitol, calling out to Ms Pelosi in a sing-song way.

"Where are you, Nancy?" the cameraman calls out. "Oh Nancy, we're looking for you!"

The intonation of the call is clearly influenced by the cliche mocking tone often associated with killers in horror movies calling out to their victims.

The video was part of the impeachment managers' room-by-room examination of the insurrection, which included several videos.