周二，参议院开始了唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)的第二次弹劾审判，民主党人利用1月6日国会大厦(Capitol)骚乱的13分钟视频，帮助他们向参议院陈述案情，辩论对一名前总统的审判是否符合宪法。
以下是第一天辩论的三个要点，第一天的辩论以参议院投票以56比44继续特朗普的审判而结束。
六名共和党人与民主党人一起投票推进审判，这表明众议院经理仍然缺乏给特朗普定罪并禁止他担任未来职务所需的17张共和党选票。
特朗普的律师给人的第一印象很差
小布鲁斯·卡斯特，宾夕法尼亚州蒙哥马利县前地方检察官特朗普的首席律师在参议院的48分钟里，他大部分时间都在漫无目的地谈论与参议院面临的宪法问题没有明显关系的话题。
“参议员首先是爱国者，他们爱他们的国家，他们爱他们的家庭，”他说。“他们热爱他们所代表的国家。”
他发誓要上法庭捍卫立法者的言论自由，此前他努力回忆起他在电视上看到的哪位国会议员对她就一个未指明的话题发表的“收回评论”。
他赞扬了内布拉斯加州，称其为“一个相当有司法思维的地方”，这似乎让众议院的一些参议员感到困惑，包括参议员本·萨斯(Ben Sasse)，R-Neb。
“我很坦率地告诉你:我们改变了我们将要做的事情，因为我们认为众议院经理的陈述做得很好，我想让你知道我们对这些事情有反应，”卡斯特说。
特朗普的一名顾问淡化了卡斯特的表现，告诉美国广播公司首席新闻记者乔恩·卡尔，他正在“降低民主党人激烈的开场辩论的温度”。"
“我以为我知道它要去哪里，我真的不知道它要去哪里，”共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆告诉记者。
德克萨斯州参议员约翰·科宁对记者说:“我见过很多律师和很多辩论，但这不是我见过的最好的辩论之一。”。
共和党人发现跟随卡斯特的律师大卫·舍恩是特朗普更有效的辩护律师。两位律师都认为，审判将鼓励民主党和共和党对现任和前任官员进行“突击弹劾”，以获得政治分数。
他警告说:“这场审判将把这个国家撕裂，也许就像我们在历史上只见过一次一样。”。
参议员比尔·卡西迪。，与民主党人一起投票，支持审判的合宪性，并在对特朗普团队的评估中直言不讳。
“特朗普总统的团队组织混乱——除了谈论手头的问题，他们什么都做了。当他们谈到这件事的时候，他们似乎有点逃避，好像他们对自己的论点感到尴尬。“如果我是一名公正的陪审员，一方做得很好，另一方做得很糟糕...我将投票给做得好的一方。”
共和党人萨塞、犹他州的米特·罗姆尼、阿拉斯加州的莉萨·穆尔科斯基、缅因州的苏珊·科林斯和宾夕法尼亚州的帕特·图米也参加了卡西迪的投票。上周，这五个人都和民主党一起投票反对兰德·保罗对弹劾审判的合宪性提出的挑战。
参议员们被迫重温国会暴乱
民主党人为参议员播放了一段记录式的国会暴乱视频，这是一个令人痛心的演示，将严肃的众议院和参议院辩论的C-SPAN镜头与充满咒骂的坚韧镜头结合在一起来自暴徒和特朗普，以及一些前总统的社交媒体帖子。
对许多参议员来说，在一个平均议员年龄为63岁的议院里，这可能是他们第一次看到暴乱中最糟糕的时刻。这段视频强调了民主党人计划如何通过社交媒体和视频帖子增强他们本周在参议院的论点，这是为了避免特朗普第一次弹劾审判中枯燥和复杂的法律论点。
民主党方面也有激动人心的时刻，尤其是当首席经理、民主党众议员杰米·拉斯金(Jamie Raskin)讲述他在发生骚乱期间的经历时就在他失去儿子几天后汤米自杀身亡。
袭击发生时，拉斯金的女儿和女婿藏在离众议院只有几步远的办公室里，这位马里兰州的民主党人回忆起暴乱后她对他说的话时哽咽了。
“她说，‘爸爸，我不想回到国会大厦。’在那天我所看到和听到的所有可怕、残酷的事情中，从那以后，那件事对我打击最大，”他说。
民主党引用支持审判的保守派律师
在为参议院审判前总统的能力辩护时，民主党人争辩说，参议院没有把特朗普受审会向未来的总统暗示，他们在任期的最后几天不必为自己的行为负责。
拉斯金说:“这是对总统的邀请，要求他在出门时尽最大努力做他想做的任何事情，包括使用暴力手段锁上门，不惜一切代价保住椭圆形办公室，以及阻止权力的和平转移。”
科罗拉多州民主党众议员乔·内格斯(Joe Neguse)列举了一些著名的保守派律师，包括参议院共和党人熟知的史蒂文·卡拉布雷西(Steven Calabresi)和查尔斯·库珀(Charles Cooper)，他们支持对特朗普进行审判，以证明总统的律师没有提出“文本主义”或“原创主义”辩护。
卡斯特和舍恩则认为，既然特朗普是普通公民和前总统，参议院就不能对他进行审判，并在周二十几次提到第45任总统是“普通公民”。
这是一个大多数共和党人都接受的论点，因为大会的绝大多数人，包括少数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔(Mitch McConnell)，都同意这一点。投票反对继续审判。
“特朗普总统将被无罪释放，”德克萨斯州参议员特德·克鲁兹说。“我认为这次审判是浪费时间。”
Key takeaways from 1st day of Trump's 2nd impeachment trial
The Senate kicked off Donald Trump's second impeachment trial on Tuesday with Democrats using a 13-minute video of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to help make their case to the Senate, debating the constitutionality of the trial of a former president.
Here are three takeaways from the first day of arguments, which ended with the Senate voting to proceed with Trump's trial, 56-44.
Six Republicans voted with Democrats to advance the trial, suggesting that House managers still lack the 17 GOP votes needed to convict Trump and bar him from holding future office.
Trump's lawyers make poor 1st impression
Bruce Castor Jr., a former district attorney of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and Trump's lead lawyer, spent most of his 48 minutes on the Senate floor meandering through topics that weren't clearly related to the constitutional questions facing the Senate.
"Senators are patriots first, they love their country, they love their families," he said. "They love the state they represent."
He vowed to go to court to defend the free speech of lawmakers, after struggling to recall which member of Congress he saw go on television to "walk back comments" she made about an unspecified topic.
And he praised the state of Nebraska, calling it "quite a judicial thinking place," which appeared to confuse some senators in the chamber, including Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb.
"I'll be quite frank with you: We changed what we were going to do on account that we thought that the House manager's presentation was well done, and I wanted you to know that we have responses to those things," Castor said at one point.
A Trump adviser downplayed Castor's performance, telling ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jon Karl that he was "lowering the temperature from Democrats' emotionally charged opening argument."
"I thought I knew where it was going, and I really didn't know where it was going," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters.
"I've seen a lot of lawyers and a lot of arguments, and that was it was not one of the finest I've seen," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters.
Republicans found attorney David Schoen, who followed Castor, to be a more effective defender of Trump. Both attorneys argued that a trial would encourage Democrats and Republicans to conduct "snap impeachments" of current and former officials to score political points.
"This trial will tear this country apart, perhaps like we have only seen only once before in our history," he warned.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., voted with Democrats, in support of the constitutionality of the trial, and didn't mince words in his assessment of Trump's team.
"President Trump's team was disorganized -- they did everything they could but talk about the question at hand. And when they talked about it, they kind of glided over it, almost as if they were embarrassed of their arguments," he said. "If I'm an impartial juror, and one side is doing a great job and the other side is doing a terrible job ... I'm going to vote for the side that did the good job."
Cassidy was joined in voting by fellow Republicans Sasse, Mitt Romney of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. All five voted with Democrats last week against Sen. Rand Paul's challenge to the constitutionality of the impeachment trial.
Senators forced to relive capitol riot
Democrats played a documentary-style video of the Capitol riot for senators, a harrowing presentation that meshed C-SPAN footage of staid House and Senate floor debates with gritty, expletive-laden footage from rioters and from Trump, and some of the former president's social media posts.
For many senators -- in a chamber where the average member is 63 years old -- it may have been the first time they saw some of the worst moments of the riot. The video underscored how Democrats plan to sharpen their arguments to the Senate this week with social media and video posts, part of an effort to avoid the dry and complex legal arguments of Trump's first impeachment trial.
There were also emotional moments on the Democratic side, particularly when Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the lead manager, recounted his experience during the riot, which took place just days after he lost his son, Tommy, died by suicide.
Raskin's daughter and son-in-law were hiding in an office just steps from the House floor during the attack, and the Maryland Democrat choked up when he recalled what she said to him after the riot.
"She said, 'Dad, I don't want to come back to the Capitol.' Of all of the terrible, brutal things that I saw and that I heard on that day, and since then, that one hit me the hardest," he said.
Democrats cite conservative lawyers who back trial
In making their case for the Senate's ability to try a former president, Democrats argued that the Senate, by not putting Trump on trial, would suggest to future presidents that they would not be held accountable for their actions during their final days in office.
"It's an invitation to the president to take his best shot at anything he may want to do on his way out the door, including using violent means to lock that door, to hang onto the Oval Office at all costs, and to block the peaceful transfer of power," Raskin said.
Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., cited a number of prominent conservative lawyers, including Steven Calabresi and Charles Cooper, well known to Senate Republicans and who have endorsed a trial for Trump, to make the case that the president's lawyers did not put forward a "textualist" or "originalist" defense.
For their part, Castor and Schoen argued that the Senate couldn't put Trump on trial now that he is a private citizen and former president, and referred to the 45th president as a "private citizen" roughly a dozen times on Tuesday.
It was an argument that most Republicans were receptive to, as the overwhelming majority of the conference, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., voted against moving forward with the trial.
"President Trump will be acquitted," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said. "I think this trial is a waste of time."
