Congressman Ted Lieu shared a series of remarks from current and former Republican officials from around the country who denounced the riot. Some even directly faulted Trump for his role.

"The fact that these flames of hate and insurrection were lit by the president of the United States will be remembered as one of the darkest chapters in our nation’s history," said Vermont's Republican governor Phil Scott.

John Kelly - who was chief of staff to President Trump - said the insurrection was "a direct result of him poisoning the minds of people with lies and fraud".

"We've seen a president stoking fear," said HR McMaster, Trump's former national security adviser.

Lieu also pointed out how many administration officials had resigned in the aftermath of the attack.

"They all took this dramatic step," said Lieu, "because they saw the clear link between President Trump's actions and what happened."

Here's a look at how members of Congress reacted to the violence:

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America reporter

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Was the April 2020 protest at the Michigan state capitol a “dress rehearsal” for the January US Capitol attack, as House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin asserted?

The images certainly look strikingly familiar. An angry crowd waved Confederate flags, wore Trump-themed clothing and angrily confronted law enforcement blocking entry into the building’s legislative chambers.

Michigan has been a hotbed of right-wing fringe movements for decades. The men behind the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, may have trained for a time with a Michigan-based extremist militia.

Several of the individuals arrested by the FBI in October for plotting to kidnap and murder current Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer also had ties to the state’s extremest movements.

“If we don’t draw the line here, what’s next?” Raskin told the Senate when discussing the Michigan unrest last year. “What makes you think the nightmare with Donald Trump and his lawbreaking violent mobs is over?”

The House impeachment managers are trying to show a pattern of escalating unrest that first took shape in Michigan, reached the heart of the US government in a matter of months and could continue to fester unless stopped.

“I’m not afraid [Trump] is going to run again in four eyars,” Congressman Ted Lieu of California said on Thursday. “I’m afraid he’s going to run again and lose. Because he could do this again.”

Trump's team plans on wrapping up their arguments by the end of Friday, the former president's senior adviser Jason Miller has said.

Democrats should finish their argument today, and then it'll be the Trump defence team's turn.

Yesterday, Miller told Fox News that Trump was "in a great mood".

So what happens after arguments?

There will be time for questioning and a vote on whether or not witnesses should be called.

We could see a conviction vote as early as this weekend if the trial proceeds without witnesses - and both sides are said to favour a speedy end to impeachment proceedings so as to get on with other business.

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As he breaks down the argument for Trump's lack of response, Lieu cites a video Trump posted after the riot, telling his fans: "You are very special, we love you."

"And to all of my wonderful supporters I know you are disappointed, but I also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning," Trump says in the clip.

Trump did not condemn the attack, Lieu says, and when telling the "violent extremists to go home" hours later, he told them he loved them too.

Lieu also notes that the president "not only failed to show remorse - he made clear he is just beginning".

"We needed our commander-in-chief to lead, to unite a grieving country, to comfort us. But what did President Trump do? Nothing. Silence."

Lieu emphasises: "This is not a man who shows remorse."

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Raskin concludes: "If [Trump] gets back into office again, we'll have no one to blame but ourselves."

Here, he's referencing the Senate's power to ban Trump from holding elected office again - but that can only happen if they first agree on convicting him.

Congressman Ted Lieu is now up.

He is arguing that President Trump showed no remorse in the wake of the Capitol attack.

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Michigan - a pivotal state in the presidential race - was a centerpiece of political violence last year.

Last May, armed protesters opposed to the governor's Covid regulations stormed the state capitol.

In October, the FBI announced it had thwarted a plot to abduct and overthrow Michigan's Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

All throughout that saga, Trump did nothing but incite political violence, said lead impeachment manager Jamie Raskin at today's proceedings.

"Trump did not condemn the violence," he said.

"He did not criticise the extremists. He did not even check on Governor Whitmer's safety."

Instead, Raskin said, he riled up crowds at his Michigan rallies, calling her by the nickname "Half-Whitmer" and saying "she doesn't have a clue".

Raskin used video and tweets from the past year to show how Trump's conduct then was a precursor to the violence at the US Capitol last month.

"He used a crowd that he knew would readily engage in political violence," said Raskin.

"Trump says his supporters are loyal and he knew his most hardcore supporters were willing to direct violence at elected officials."

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Democratic impeachment managers have been sharing quotes and clips from Trump supporters to show their mindset and beliefs going into the 6 January attack.

But what's happened to the rioters since then?

Most of the individuals who stormed the Capitol were allowed to leave the building without facing arrest that day.

But a month-long search for offenders has resulted in charges against over 200 people.

They came from at least 41 different states. On average, they were about 40 years old.

And while some had ties to far-right extremist groups, the vast majority were ordinary pro-Trump activists.

Here's a closer look at who conducted the siege and why.

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Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin is now arguing that under the Trump presidency, white supremacist and extremist groups "spread like wildfire".

He is showing footage from Trump's speeches to prove his point that he "galvanised, encouraged and electrified" his extremist followers.

Raskin says the violence on 6 January was the "culmination" of Trump's actions - "not an aberration".

Inciting extremist violence was "uniquely intolerable when done by a president of the United States", he adds.

You can read more about US right-wing extremist groups here.

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America reporter

On Wednesday, the House impeachment managers tried to use Donald Trump’s own words – in speeches and tweets – against him. On Thursday, the Democrats started the day citing the words of his supporters.

The goal is to illustrate that the group of supporters who turned from a rally crowd to a band of insurrectionists intent on storming the Capitol did so because they believed they were doing the president’s bidding.Citing social media posts, recorded video and court documents, Congresswoman Diana DeGette of Colorado laid out the evidence.

“We were invited by the president of the United States,” one rioter is heard shouting. Others testified that they were doing the president’s bidding; that he had ordered them to the Capitol.

The Democratic impeachment managers have spent hours drawing a line from Trump to the riot of 6 January. Now they’re drawing a line from Trump’s base to that fateful day. Their next, greatest challenge will be connecting the two.

Impeachment manager Diana DeGette is using the legal defences of Capitol rioters to build the case against Donald Trump.

"The number of confessions and regrets are simply cascading," DeGette says. "More and more insurrectionists are admitting they came at Trump's direction."

She then has the chamber listen to remarks given by the rioters and their lawyers to the FBI, in court and on television.

Jacob Chansley, the self-described 'QAnon shaman', told the FBI his visit to Washington DC was "a group effort" with other "patriots".

A lawyer for another rioter said: "He was there at the invitation of our president. He invited us down."

DeGette notes that they had "echoed" Trump's own words, including "fight like hell" and "stop the steal".

"They came because he told them to," she says.

"And they did stop our proceedings - temporarily - because he told them to."

She concludes: "They are being held accountable for their actions. Their leader must be too."

Lead impeachment manager Jamie Raskin is now speaking.

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We're hearing a lot at the moment about how Trump supporters felt during the Capitol siege - how many believed they were patriots helping stop a rigged election.

But where did this 'stop the steal' ideology come from?

Thousands - and likely millions - of Americans were exposed to voting disinformation for months before polling day.

Influential right-wing accounts repeatedly plugged unsubstantiated claims for months, including debunked claims of dead people voting and Trump ballots being burned.

Frequently those claims were amplified by the most influential account of all - the one belonging to Donald Trump.

Read our disinformation reporter Marianna Spring's analysis about the deep roots of this 'voter fraud' strategy here.

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Democratic Congresswoman Diana DeGette of Colorado is the first speaker up today.

She is using footage and audio from the rioters themselves to demonstrate that they believed they were doing Trump's bidding when they stormed the Capitol building on 6 January.

"They were following his instructions," she says. "They said he had invited them."

She says the fact most of the rioters "were not hiding" is proof that they believed they were acting with the full permission of the president.

Gary O'Donoghue
Washington Correspondent

Yesterday's blockbuster will be hard to follow; but still Democrat impeachment managers are promising fresh new evidence as they enter the final few hours of their allotted time.

With the aid of their video inserts and the model showing the positions of protestors and legislators inside the Capitol on 6 January, the House Managers have sought to demonstrate just how close some of their fellow members came to falling into the hands of the mob.

They've also focussed their case tightly on the actions of the former president, choosing, for understandable tactical reasons, to ignore the extent to which Republican senators themselves were echoing the election lies peddled by Donald Trump.

Walking the corridors of the Capitol, It's hard to avoid the effects of that day - with the National Guard still here and the razor wire topped fencing outside. Congress has been changed by those few hours last month, and it may have changed forever.

It's day three of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and Democrat prosecutors will finish laying out their case that he incited the 6 January riots on Capitol Hill.

You can watch events unfold in the Senate chamber on the BBC's own livestream. Just click 'Play' in the image at the top of this page.

Warning: Some video evidence may contain some upsetting scenes and foul language.

We will be explaining all the aspects of this trial - and the actors taking part - step by step. But, if you have any questions you want the answers to right away, these four pieces will help guide you.

• What is Trump accused of?

• Who are the key players?

• Did Trump's words incite a riot?
• The other impeached presidents

Tara McKelvey
BBC News, Washington

The effort to create a new, centre-right party reflects widespread despair among Republicans.

Trump has destroyed the party, in their view, and images shown during the impeachment trial confirm their worst suspicions.

Many of the individuals who hoping to start the new party come from the shadowy world of spies and counterterrorism, and are maverick thinkers.

One of them, Evan McMullin, a former CIA officer, helped in the search for Osama Bin Laden.

Another, Miles Taylor, wrote anonymously about the White House while working as chief of staff at the US homeland security department. In his op-ed, he condemned Trump’s “amorality”.

These individuals do not always play by the rules: they criticised their boss, the president, anonymously, collected intelligence for the CIA, and acted in unconventional ways.

It remains to be seen whether they will be able to adapt their iconoclastic style, and their idealism, into a party that will function in the rigid confines of Washington.

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Dozens of former Republican party officials have held talks to discuss forming a new centre-right party that will break with Donald Trump, Reuters reports.

More than 120 people were on a Zoom call last Friday, the report says - including former elected Republicans, former ambassadors and strategists, and former officials in the administrations of Ronald Reagan, both Bushes, and Trump himself.

They are concerned at the grip Trump still appears to have on the party, according to Evan McMullin, who told Reuters he hosted the call. McMullin was chief policy director for the House Republican Conference and ran as an independent in the 2016 presidential election.

The plans - which remain at an early stage - would involve running candidates in some races but also endorsing centre-right candidates in other races, regardless of whether they are Republicans, independents or Democrats, the report said.

Of the 50 Republicans in the Senate, only five voted to go ahead with Trump's impeachment trial.

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Security is tight around the Capitol, where day three of Trump's impeachment trial is due to get under way in just under half an hour.

Democratic impeachment managers will be concluding the case against former President Donald Trump, accused of "incitement of insurrection".

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As senators gear up for day three of Trump's impeachment trial, President Biden has continued rolling back his predecessor's legacy.

On Thursday morning, Biden informed Congress that he had rescinded the national emergency over the US-Mexico border, first declared by Trump in February 2019. The order was used by Trump to fund barrier construction.

Biden has also announced that no more American taxpayer dollars will be spent for the construction of a wall.

"I am directing a careful review of all resources appropriated or redirected to that end," Biden said.

Media reports estimated that Trump's wall cost nearly $20m (£14.5m) per mile. By the time Trump left office about $25bn (£18bn) had been spent on its construction.