ABC News' Chief White House correspondent Jon Karl talked about the video released Wednesday showing former Vice President Mike Pence being evacuated from the Senate floor during the violent riots on Jan 6, after protestors made threats on his life.

"They wanted to get there, they wanted to stop the certification and they wanted to get at Mike Pence because they saw him as a traitor because he was unwilling to do Donald Trump's bidding at this," Karl said.

Karl also noted that just two minutes before the video of Pence being evacuated from the Hill, former President Donald Trump had tweeted about him lacking the courage to change the results of the election.

"I really think it's one of the most damning pieces of evidence we saw today, on a day when there were obviously many damning pieces of evidence," Karl said.

ABC News' Senior National Correspondent Terry Moran said the House managers' arguments were "intense," and that they had clearly prepared the case they presented in the Senate chamber.

"Their presentation was both methodical and infuriating. It was organized and terrifying at times," Moran said.

Moran added that the timeline that the House managers presented spanned from well before the election to the Capitol riots on Jan. 6.

The Senate has recessed for the day after roughly eight hours of arguments from House impeachment managers.

The House managers will continue laying out their case charging Trump with "incitement of insurrection" at noon on Thursday.

Trump's legal team will have its turn to respond to the House impeachment managers' arguments on Friday and, if more time is needed, on Saturday.

-ABC News Trish Turner

Moments before the Senate was to adjourn for the evening, there was confusion in the chamber as Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, challenged comments made by Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I.

Lee said that the account of a phone call Cicilline described was not "factual," and argued that as the witness he should be able to have the remarks stricken from the record.

However, the senators are not supposed to speak on the floor during impeachment proceedings. If they have questions, they are supposed to be submitted in writing. Lee's request prompted confusion on the dais and from the floor where several senators were unclear what was happening.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., was acknowledged and returned to the microphone to withdraw that portion of Cicilline's remarks.

"The impeachment manager Mr. Cicilline correctly and accurately quoted a newspaper account which the distinguished senator has taken objection to, so I am happy to withdraw it, but on the grounds that it is not true -- we will withdraw this evening and without any prejudice to resubmit it, and we can debate if we need to, but this is much ado about nothing because it's not critical in our case."

-ABC News' Trish Turner and Benjamin Siegel

After the Senate decided it will not call any witnesses, lead House manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., was the first to speak during closing arguments. He reiterated the prosecution's case, calling for the conviction of Trump.

"It was suggested by defense counsel that Donald Trump's conduct during the attack, as described in Congresswoman Beutler's statement, is somehow not part of the Constitutional offense for which former President Trump has been charged," Raskin began. "I want to reject that falsehood and that fallacy immediately. After he knew that violence was underway at the Capitol, President Trump took actions that further incited the insurgents to be more inflamed and to take even more extreme, selective, and focused action against Vice President Mike Pence."

Raskin went on to use his time to describe Trump's months-long campaign to discredit the 2020 election results by spreading misinformation, which he argued laid the groundwork for deadly events of Jan. 6. He went on to claim that the former president assembled the mob, incited it and then sent it off to the Capitol during his speech. At every point, Trump sided with the insurrectionists rather than the Congress, Raskin said.

Once when the violence began, Raskin declared that Trump ignored the violence and further incited it by aiming the attacks on his own vice president.

"There has never been a greater betrayal by the president of the United States of his office, and of his oath to the Constitution."

Raskin then took a moment to suggest the GOP used "cancel culture" against one of its leaders, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who voted to impeach Trump in the House.

"Liz Cheney is a hero for standing up for the truth, and resisting this retaliatory cancel culture that she was subjected to."

Raskin emphasized his gratitude toward the Capitol Police, and finished his argument by saying convicting Trump is a vote for the "security of our democracy."

"They attacked this building, they disrupted the peaceful transfer of power, they injured and killed people, convinced that they were acting on his instructions, and with his approval, and protection," Raskin finished. "And while that happened, he further incited them, while failing to defend us. If that's not ground for conviction, if that's not a high crime and misdemeanor against the republic in the United States of America then nothing is. President Trump must be convicted for the safety and security of our democracy and our people."