Hey all, Vivian Ho on the west coast taking over for the unbeatable Joan E Greve.
As she already mentioned, we have a meeting with Joe Biden and a group of Republican senators to discuss the coronavirus relief package to look forward to later today.
As of now, CNN has a preview of what should expect of the House’s pre-trial impeachment brief on Tuesday:
The House impeachment team plans to argue the riot was the result of an intentional effort months in the making. They intend to show how Trump repeatedly claimed that the election would be stolen from him before November 3, then unleashed a flurry of disinformation as part of his “stop the steal” campaign to try to overturn the election result and question the validity of President Joe Biden’s win, which culminated in Trump’s actions on January 6 inciting the rioters that attacked the Capitol.
The case will be “starkly different” than the first impeachment trial of Trump…