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7 Republicans vote to convict Trump

Despite failing to reach a two-thirds majority, an unprecedented number of Senate Republicans joined Democrats in voting 57 to 43 to convict former President Trump at his second impeachment trial on Saturday. Mr. Trump was ultimately acquitted of a charge of "incitement of insurrection." CBS News political analyst Leslie Sanchez and former senior adviser to the Biden transition team Ashley Allison join CBSN to discuss the future of the Republican party and whether or not President Biden can rally bipartisan support for his $1.9 trillion Coronavirus relief package.

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Republican Senators acquit Trump for role in Jan. 6 insurrection

The yeas were 57, ten votes short of the 67 required in the Senate to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting the deadly January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett reviews this week's historic trial, in which most Senate Republicans, including GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, chose to acquit Mr. Trump, even as McConnell excoriated him for election fraud lies and the violence that spread into the very halls of Congress.

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Trump acquitted by the Senate

The Senate voted to acquit former President Trump of inciting the riot at the Capitol on January 6. The vote was 57-43, falling 10 "guilty" votes short of the 67 Democratic House impeachment managers needed to convict. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson, CBS News political contributor Molly Hooper and Vice News political correspondent Liz Landers spoke with CBSN’s Vladimir Duthiers about the political fallout from the trial and the closing arguments presented on the Senate floor.

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McConnell denounces Trump after acquittal

After voting to acquit former President Trump in his second impeachment trial, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a scathing address denouncing Mr. Trump's conduct, saying the January 6th Capitol assault "was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories and reckless hyperbole which the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet earth." But he argued impeachment was unconstitutional because Mr. Trump is already out of office. Watch his remarks in full.

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