Dems begin to lay out their case for impeaching Trump
With the first procedural debate wrapped and a second procedural vote on deck, the House of Representatives will soon debate the article of impeachment -- charging the president with "Incitement of insurrection."
At least once during the hearings, lawmakers were reminded by the presiding officer that masks are required on the House floor at all times.
Rep. Sheila Lee Jackson, D-.N.Y., appeared to summarize the heart of Democrats' arguments when speaking ahead of the imminent impeachment vote.
"The president of the United States is an insurrectionist," she said. "He led an insurrection against the United States of America."
"The president provoked these domestic terrorists with words, with actions, with conduct, that portray and have contempt and hostility to the national value of equal justice under the law, telling domestic terrorists -- nearly all of them white supremacists -- many of them who support them politically -- who stormed the Capitol to derail Congress for derailing its constitutional required duty of counting the vote," she said. "He must be impeached because he is a threat."
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a strong critic of Trump's who called to impeach Trump last week while the siege was ongoing, said it's about holding the president accountable, as their oath as lawmakers requires, she said.
"It was a violent attempt to interrupt our democratic process," said Omar, who also called Trump a "tyrant." "We cannot simply move past this or turn the page. For us to be able to survive as a functioning democracy, there has to be accountability."
-ABC News' Benjamin Siegel and Mariam Khan