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

House impeachment managers presented evidence on Thursday that Donald Trump "showed no remorse and took no accountability" in the wake of the 6 January insurrection at the Capitol, which he was impeached for inciting.

After releasing several tweets and video statements on the day of the riot saying he "loves" the people in the mob, the ex-president was then "eerily silent" for nearly 30 hours before finally condemning the actions of the mob he had addressed just minutes before they stormed the legislature.

"But we know President Trump didn't make a mistake," Mr Lieu says.

"Because, you see, when you or I make a mistake and something very bad happens, we would show remorse. We would accept responsibility. President Trump didn't do any of that. Why not? Because he intended what happened on January 6th. And why do we know that? he told us."

Griffin Connolly has more.

The House impeachment manager said that convicting Donald Trump is about making sure he and no future official or president can do the same thing.

“President Trump’s lack of remorse shows that he will undoubtedly cause future harm if allowed because he still refuses to account for his previous high-grade crime against our government,” Lieu says.

“I’m not afraid of Donald Trump running again in four years, I’m afraid he’s going to run again and lose, because he can do this again.”

White House press secretary said the president and his staff were shocked by graphic videos showing how close the mob got to the members of Congress.

“Anyone who watched it, and many of us watched it when our days concluded, found it harrowing and deeply disturbing and that is certainly how the president felt and he was affected by that and what he was reflecting on was that it was a reminder of what an unprecedented assault it was on 6 January,” she said at her Thursday press briefing.

Ms Psaki added that Mr Biden had not been trying to “give a prediction” when he said the video may have changed “some minds.”

Ms Psaki was then asked why the president had not said publicly if he felt Mr Trump should be convicted by the Senate.

“The president made it clear, as he did again this morning, about the fact he felt that what happened was an assault on our democracy, that he was shocked and saddened, but he knows that there is a role for Congress to play and a role for him to play and that is to be the president of the United States,” she added.

“The president was in the senate for 36 years and he is an institutionalist and values the role that the Senate plays.

“He is not a member of the jury, he is watching, he was impacted by the video, like we all were of course, and he will speak out as he sees fit in the future.”

One the third day of his impeachment trial in the US Senate, House impeachment managers screened Donald Trump's remarks to his supporters at his campaign rallies to illustrate his history of encouraging violence, leading up to the insurrection at the Capitol on 6 January.

Impeachment manager Jamie Raskin pointed to Mr Trump's directions to his crowds of supporters to attack counter-protesters at his rallies, telling them "get them the hell out of here" and "kick the crap out of them" in 2017.

Mr Raskin also showed senators footage of Republican Gregory Gianforte assaulting a reporter, and Mr Trump's apparent support.

Alex Woodward reports.

“Just like the insurrectionists who showed up and invaded this chamber on January 6, the siege of the Michigan statehouse was effectively a state-level dress rehearsal for the siege of the US Capitol,” says Raskin.

“It was a preview of the coming insurrection. President Trump’s response to these two events was strikingly similar.”

The Independent's Andrew Buncombe is delving deeper into Diana DeGette's testimony that Donald Trump invited rioters to the Capitol.

“This pro-Trump insurrection did not spring to life out of thin air,” Raskin says.

“We must remember this was not the first time Donald Trump had inflamed and incited a mob.”

Trump's Save America Rally speech, which proceeded the violence in the US Capitol on 6 January, has become a central piece of evidence in support and defence of the charge of incitement.

Democrats point to Mr Trump's explicit call to supporters to "walk down to the Capitol", selectively editing out the following sentence from their video submitted at impeachment trial as evidence:

"Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. After this, we’re going to walk down and I’ll be there with you. We’re going to walk down. We’re going to walk down, any one you want, but I think right here. We’re going walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women. We’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong."

Republicans will point to the following sentence - not mentioned during Democrat testimony - that explicitly calls for supporters to march to the Capitol building to "peacefully and patriotically" make their voices heard:

"We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

Read the complete transcript for the full context:

While the White House said he wouldn't be watching, Joe Biden tuned in long enough to say "minds may have been changed" by the graphic videos showed during former President Trump's second impeachment trial.

During a meeting with Republican Senators on the morning of the third day of the trial, Mr Biden suggested that some of the Senators who previously were going to acquit the former President and leader of their party might now be convinced to vote to convict Mr Trump.

“I think the Senate has a very important job to complete, and I think, my guess is some minds may have been changed. But I don’t know," Mr Biden said during a photo op with reporters after a meeting on infrastructure and jobs.

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The Congresswoman is speaking for the first time during the trial, focusing on rioters who believed they were sent by Donald Trump.

“It wasn’t just the words of the insurrections that proved that they did this in response to orders from their commander in chief, we can see this in the fact that they were not hiding,” DeGette says.

“One rioter in a live stream at the Capitol said, quote, ‘he’ll be happy we’re fighting for Trump’.”