No need to make this complicated. It's important to call witnesses, but the case can and should be sewn up with surgical precision. @RepRaskin can introduce all the testimony he needs with 3 witnesses: 1/
FACT: @ 2:00 - McCarthy calls Trump to say attackers coming thru windows; staff going to hide; Trump plea to call off attackers: "[T]hey care more about the electors than you do."
WITNESSES: Reps. Jamie Herrerra Beutler & Anthony Gonzalez can describe McCarthy's account of call.
FACT: @ 2:10 - Pence escorted out of Senate [replay live tv & security tape - no witness.]
FACT: @ 2:14 - After refusing to call off attack, Trump calls Tuberville find more ways to delay. Tuberville says he can't talk, that Pence was just led out.
WITNESS: Sen. Tuberville
FACT: @ 2:24 - Despite knowledge of ongoing attack and that Pence had been evacuated, Trump sends out tweet targeting him: "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution..." [no witness needed.]
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