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

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer briefly spoke to reporters during the Senate dinner break following House impeachment managers playing security footage from inside the Capitol and showing Schumer's "near miss" with the mob.

"I don't think many of us feel like eating dinner," Schumer said at first, acknowledging the break. "It was gut wrenching. The bravery of our police officers is incredible. It was compelling. And I just hope that our Republican colleagues have an open mind as they look to seeing what we've seen today."

He called the House managers' case "overwhelmingly compelling" and offered a few words signaling to his own close call.

"As for me, in my situation, I just want to give tremendous credit to the Capitol Police officers who are in my detail. Like the rest of the Capitol Police officers, they are utterly amazing and great, and we love them."

-ABC News' Trish Turner

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska called the evidence presented by House impeachment managers "damning" and told reporters during the Senate trial's dinner break Wednesday, "I don't see how Donald Trump could be reelected to the presidency again."

"I'm angry. I'm disturbed. I'm sad," said Murkowski, who is in the minority of Senate Republicans. "We lived it once and that was awful. And we're now we're now reliving it within a more comprehensive timeline."

"I know what I was feeling in the Senate chamber when I could hear those voices. I knew what it meant to be running down this hallway with my colleagues. I wasn't fully aware of everything else that was happening in the building and so when you see all the pieces come together, just the total awareness of that the enormity of this, the threat -- not just to us as people, as lawmakers, but the threat to the institution and what Congress represents -- it's disturbing."

"I think that the House managers are making a very strong case for a timeline that laid out very clearly, with the words that were used, when he used them, how he used them to really build the anger, the violence that we saw here," she continued.

Asked if she was concerned with the Senate not acting and barring Trump from running for office again, she said she doesn't see how he could be reelected, citing the House managers' evidence.

"Frankly I don't see how -- I don't see how after the American public sees the full story laid out here," she said. "I just, I don't see how Donald Trump could be reelected to the presidency again."

She also said she's under no pressure from leadership to vote a certain way and feels free to vote her conscience. Murkowski did not vote to convict Trump at his last impeachment trial. She did join five other Republicans Tuesday in voting to affirm the trial was constitutional.

-ABC News' Trish Turner

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney told ABC News when he was exiting the chamber for Wednesday's dinner break that it was his first time seeing the footage of Officer Eugene Goodman directing him away from the mob during the Jan. 6 attack.

"Obviously very troubling to see the -- the great violence that our Capitol Police and others are subjected to. It tears you at your heart and brings tears to your eyes. That was overwhelmingly distressing and emotional," Romney said.

He said he didn’t know it was Goodman, the officer who has gained notoriety for directing rioters away from the Senate chamber, and looks forward to thanking him.

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders

After Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., spoke, the Senate took a break for dinner. Arguments will resume at 6:15 p.m.