Trump impeachment trial kicks off with disturbing, explicit footage of Capitol

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Authorities say multiple people were injured and one person was in custody Tuesday after a shooting at a health clinic in Buffalo, Minnesota.

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The shooting happened late Tuesday morning at the Allina Health clinic in the city about 40 miles northwest of Minneapolis, Kelly Prestidge, an office manager for the Buffalo Police Department, told The Associated Press. She said there were multiple victims.

Prestidge said one person was taken into custody but that she didn’t know if it was the shooter. She said she didn’t have further information on the attack, including how many people were shot or if anyone was killed.

Buffalo Police Chief Pat Budke told TV station KSTP that the shooting happened inside the Allina Clinic Crossroads campus. He said the situation was contained as of 11:42 a.m. and that there was no further threat to the public’s safety.

The Midwest Medical Examiners Office, which handles cases in Wright County, had no comment on whether it had sent anyone to the scene.

FBI spokesman Kevin Smith told the Associated Press that the agency’s bomb technicians were on their way to the scene, but he could not confirm media reports about a possible bomb or explosion at the clinic.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension special agents and crime scene personnel were headed to the scene to assist police in the investigation, Minnesota Department of Public Safety spokesperson Bruce Gordon told USA TODAY.

Spokespeople for Wright County and Allina Clinic did not immediately provide USA TODAY with additional details.

Allina Health, a nonprofit health system based in Minneapolis, owns or operates 12 hospitals and more than 90 clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin, according to the company's website.

U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., who represents Buffalo, said on Twitter that he and his staff were monitoring the situation.

"Praying for the staff and patients at @AllinaHealth in Buffalo. My staff and I are in contact with Allina’s team & we hope that this horrible situation will come to a quick and peaceful resolution," he wrote.

Trump impeachment trial kicks off with disturbing, explicit footage of Capitol riot

The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump kicked off Tuesday afternoon with a jarring video montage of the devastating events of the Capitol riots, forcing the chamber of senators to relive some of the most intense moments from Jan. 6.

Following a quick procedural vote on an organizing resolution dictating the structure of the trial, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the Democrats' lead impeachment manager, announced in his initial remarks that the case against Trump "is based on cold, hard facts."

Raskin, delaying what had been scheduled to be a roughly four-hour debate over the constitutionality of the trial, then played a devastating 20-minute video reel featuring the most intense moments from the Jan. 6. riots.

The video showed rioters smashing windows and overrunning barriers until they breached the Capitol building hurling expletives at Capitol Police officers and stalking down lawmakers still in the chamber.

Footage of the rioters was interspersed with scenes of Trump encouraging his supporters while speaking at the Jan. 6 rally and in footage posted to Twitter.

The former president can be heard telling his supporters that "we will stop the steal," and falsely claiming that "we won this election," before telling them, "We're going to walk down to the Capitol" and telling them, "you’ll never take back our country with weakness." In the vdeo posted to Twitter, Trump tells his supporters, who at the time were still wreaking havoc, that he loves them and they are "very special."

Twitter eventually flagged Trump's tweets for spreading false election claims and posing "a risk of violence."

After the video concluded, Raskin said Trump was responsible for the historic destruction of the Capitol.

"You ask what a high crime and misdemeanor is under our Constitution? That's a high crime and misdemeanor," he said.

"If that's not an impeachable offense, then there is no such thing," he added.

Impeachment managers then proceeded with debate over the constitutional questions over the trial. Up to four hours of argument over the constitutionality of proceedings against a former president by the House managers and Trump's lawyers will now occur.

Earlier Tuesday, a senior aide on the impeachment manager team said the case that House Democrats had built against Trump in his second impeachment trial would resemble a "violent crime criminal prosecution" — a plan the eye-popping video opening appeared to corroborate.

The House managers also plan to use evidence against Trump that hasn't been seen before, aides told reporters ahead of the start of proceedings, although they did not provide any details.

In their presentation, the managers will attempt to show that Trump spent weeks laying the groundwork for the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and that after he saw what was happening "he incited it further," an aide said.

Trump's second impeachment started at 1 p.m. ET. Formal opening arguments will occur on Wednesday.

Trump is the first president to be impeached twice by the House, and he will be the first former president to be put on trial in the Senate. He was impeached most recently on Jan. 13 for his role in the violent riot by a pro-Trump mob at the U.S. Capitol a week earlier.

In a legal briefing outlining some of the arguments they intend to make against Trump, House managers on Tuesday laid out how they were prepared to counter a potential defense from the former president's lawyers that his statements at the Jan. 6 rally were protected by the First Amendment.

"Accepting President Trump’s argument would mean that Congress could not impeach a president who burned an American flag on national television, or who spoke at a Ku Klux Klan rally in a white hood, or who wore a swastika while leading a march through a Jewish neighborhood — all of which is expression protected by the First Amendment but would obviously be grounds for impeachment," they wrote.