Trump impeachment trial live updates: Biden says charge 'not in dispute' in 1st comments on acquittal

The Senate has returned from a nearly 25-minute break to resume arguments from the House impeachment managers.

Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., one of the House impeachment managers momentarily lost her composure when talking about her experience in the Capitol during the Jan 6 riots.

"I stood with colleagues in the gallery above the House floor to observe the Arizona challenge. Moments later, police radios reported a breach of the Capitol grounds. Someone shouted up to us: 'duck,' then 'lie down,' then 'ready your gas masks.' Shortly after, there was a terrifying banging on the chamber doors. I will never forget that sound. Shouts and panicked calls to my husband and to my sons, instructions to flee and then the constant worrying of the gas masks filtering the air," Dean said. "The chamber of the United States House of Representatives turned to chaos."

Dean then criticized the speech made by Trump made to protesters right before they stormed the Capitol and she showed videos of how crowds of rioters reacted to the former president's remarks.

"He'd assembled thousands of violent people, people he knew were capable of violence, people he had seen be violent," Dean said. "They were standing now in front of him, and then he pointed to us, lit the fuse, and sent an angry mob to fight the perceived enemy, his own vice president and the members of Congress, as we certified an election."

Dean laid out a timeline of the events after the rally and emphasized that it was just one hour after Trump's speech that rioters breached the Capitol.

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"At 1:10, the president ended his speech with a final call to fight and a final order to march to the Capitol. At 1:45, the president's followers surged past Capitol Police, shouting: "this is a revolution." Just after 2:10, an hour after President Trump ended his speech, the insurrectionist mob overwhelmed Capitol security and made it inside the halls of Congress. Because the truth is, this attack never would have happened but for Donald Trump. And so they came, draped in Trump's flag, and used our flag -- the American flag -- to batter and to bludgeon. And at 2:30, I heard that terrifying banging on House chamber doors," Dean said. "For the first time in more than 200 years, the seat of our government was ransacked on our watch."

The Senate is taking another roughly 15-minute break before continuing with arguments from the House impeachment managers.

Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, argued Trump's repeated patterns and practices of violent incitement led to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and went through social media posts that she claimed were monitored by Trump officials, which spelled out his supporters' plans for violence on his behalf.

"Donald Trump over many months cultivated violence, praised it and then when he saw the violence his supporters were capable of he channeled it to this big, wild, historic event," Plaskett said. "He made sure that those violent people would literally march right here -- to our steps -- from the Ellipse to the Capitol to 'stop the steal' -- his cavalry," she called them.

She also said that a permit to march from the Ellipse to the Capitol was not authorized until Trump got involved in planning.

"The permit stated in no uncertain terms that the march from the Ellipse was not permitted. It was not until after President Trump and his team became involved in the planning that the march from the Ellipse to the Capitol came about," she said.

Plaskett repeated, as most managers have, Trump's Dec. 19 tweet to "save the date" before ticking through disturbing social media posts from Trump supporters leading up to the Jan. 6 event -- showing the attack, at least for some, was meticulously planned out.

"They treated it as a war and they meant it," Plaskett said. "His supporters took it as a call to arms to attack the Capitol. There were detailed posts of plans to attack online."

She closed her remarks using Trump's own words to his "cavalry" -- once he had them assembled before him in Washington.

"When those thousands of people were standing in front of President Trump, ready to take orders and attack, this is what he said: 'We're going to the Capitol, and we fight. We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore,'" Plaskett said. "And that's why this is different, and that's why he must be convicted and disqualified."