Trump impeachment trial live updates: Biden makes 1st comments on acquittal

The video montages from Trump's defense team cut some of the tension in the chamber that had been building over the last few days as senators earlier in the trial watched the close calls with rioters and a desecrated Capitol building on Jan. 6.

Some senators, like Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, were seen giggling on Friday.

Some in the GOP appeared to appreciate and enjoy the "fight" montages. Republican Sens. Rick Scott of Florida and Rand Paul or Kentucky appeared to revel in the mashups from the defense.

Democrats, meanwhile, audibly groaned when the Trump legal team played the video montages of them using the word "fight." Others laughed at the comparison. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., spent a long time staring at the ceiling with his hands in a prayer pose, tapping the tips of his fingers together in agitated boredom.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sat slouched in his chair while Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was statute-like during the presentation.

When van der Veen accused lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., of hypocrisy and gestured to him, Raskin was sitting just feet away, looked straight at him and began writing fervently in his notepad.

Every senator in the chamber was wearing a mask, according to one pool reporter, except for Paul, who hasn't worn one at the Capitol for weeks.

Officer Eugene Goodman, who helped protect the Capitol on Jan. 6 and saved Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, from a potential confrontation with rioters -- is providing security from the gallery again Friday, as he has the last few days.

-ABC News' Trish Turner, Katherine Faulders and Adia Robinson

During the trial recess, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., blasted Trump's defense team for playing selective, mashup videos of Democrats telling supporters to "fight," accusing the attorneys of "trying to draw a false, dangerous and distorted equivalence."

"I think it is plainly a distraction from Donald Trump inviting the mob to Washington, knowing it was armed, changing the route and the timing so as to incite them to march on the Capitol and then reveling, without remorse, without doing anything to protect his own vice president and all of us," Blumenthal said.

"I think that the case is even more powerful after this very distorted talk," he added.

-ABC News' Trish Turner

During the recess, ABC News Senior National Correspondent Terry Moran noted that "the table's turned" during Trump's defense presentation.

"It is really what our partisan politics are all about right now," Moran said. "It is less about what you believe than who you hate."

As a part of the defense, Trump's lawyers showed clips of videos of Democrats using fighting language during their own political speeches, drawing a comparison to the former president.

"Counter attacking with what about-ism is basically what partisan politics has come to in the United States," Moran continued.

ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent, Jonathan Karl said this defense was considerably more effective due to the audience of the trial and who needs to be swayed, mainly Republican senators.

"They put it back very much on a partisan line, describing this as a political act of vengeance -- this impeachment trial -- and playing all those Democrats saying things that could be seen as incendiary," Karl said.

The Senate has returned from a roughly 40-minute break to resume arguments from Trump's defense team.