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Top prosecutor to special counsel Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, said that the Republican official who gave the tour to the Capitol insurrectionists likely isn't under investigation yet, but will be soon.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace said that Virginia field offices sent messages to the Washington FBI saying that people were intent on violence against the Capitol. The lack of information wasn't a problem. The lack of a response to the investigation appeared to be the concern.

On CNN Wednesday, former White House counsel and House impeachment attorney Norm Eisen laid out the key evidence that will inform the Senate impeachment trial of outgoing President Donald Trump.

"The best witness to the president's betrayal of trust against the people of the United States is Donald Trump himself," said Eisen. "The two most important pieces of evidence that we have are his speech to the insurrectionists when he incited them, he used language of 'we have to fight' and 'if you don't fight your country will be taken away from you.' Let's march down Pennsylvania Avenue. We saw the results ... the other most important piece of evidence is the tape, the audiotape of his shocking conversation with Brad Raffensperger, the secretary of state of Georgia. Can you find 11,000-plus votes, 11,780 votes, one more than necessary to flip Georgia for me?"

President Donald Trump addressed the public in a YouTube video on Wednesday after the House voted to impeach him for a second time.

Sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, Trump said that he "unequivocally" opposes "violence and vandalism."

On CNN Wednesday, White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins reported that following the new impeachment for incitement of violence at the Capitol, President Donald Trump is hoping for Rudy Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz to help defend him in the Senate trial.

"There's no clear legal strategy developed for the president yet," said Collins. "Mitch McConnell said he will wait to hear the legal arguments. It's not clear if he has a legal team put together. He has been telling people, call Alan Dershowitz. We expect Rudy Giuliani to be involved. But that's really all we know so far, which is remarkably different than the last time the president was impeached. The question of what that's going to look like is that the president has been increasingly isolated from his top aides. Still remains to be seen."

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) confirmed the account by Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) that insurrectionists were doing a "reconnaissance tour" with a member of Congress the day before the attack.

Rep. Sherrill did a 13-minute video on Facebook Tuesday evening recalling seeing the incident.

On Wednesday's edition of CNN's "The Lead," immediately following the historic second impeachment of outgoing President Donald Trump, chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta reported that a White House adviser privately railed to him against Trump's behavior.

"One thing I would want to point you to, and that is some of the reactions I'm getting from Trump advisers ... from somebody who advises the president, speaks with him regularly, just spoke with him the other day," said Acosta. "This is what the adviser said: 'In the end, it all came crashing down,' in the words of this adviser, 'because Donald Trump could never tell the truth. He will be the cautionary tale that parents tell their kids. Don't end up like Trump because of your lies.' I just think that's an extraordinary statement to come from an adviser to the president of the United States, who is now the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice."

"Fox & Friends" hosts bickered over the possibility that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell might vote to convict President Donald Trump in an impeachment trial.

McConnell remains in control of the Senate until President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in next week, and he has signaled that he's ready to dump Trump overboard after the president's supporters violently stormed the Capitol to stop the congressional certification of the electoral vote.

The day before the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) said that she witnessed some of the insurrectionists doing what she thinks was a "reconnaissance" tour of the building, Politico reported.

Republicans who participated in the "Stop the Steal" rally with President Donald Trump have denied knowing anything about the violence that was to come. But at least three elected GOP officials were named by one person as giving them inside intelligence on the Capitol during the siege.

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) has spent the year isolating to protect herself from the coronavirus. She is finally cancer-free after a battle with a tumor in her lung. Now she has COVID-19. It wasn't from a casual trip to the supermarket or a vanity nail appointment, Rep. Watson Coleman went to the Capitol briefly on Wednesday, Jan. 6 for the certification of the 2020 Presidential Election.

She, along with a slate of other officials, were rushed to a safe room when the Captiol came under attack from President Donald Trump's supporters. While in that room with the members, several Republicans refused to wear a mask, despite being offered one. While Watson Coleman was wearing her mask, five days later, she tested positive for COVID-19. The only place where she'd been in close quarters with anyone was in that room with the other members.

After reporting on a letter from the Joint Chiefs of Staff calling the Capitol insurrection "sedition," MSNBC host Rachel Maddow looked straight to the camera and told President Donald Trump to cut a deal with Vice President Mike Pence and resign tonight.

"What is not a live question tonight but instead live motion that we are watching tonight and tomorrow," Maddow said. "We are watching it happen as history -- this is the first president ever to be impeached twice. It was on the precipice of an impeachment like this facing certain impeachment in the House and probable removal in the Senate that Republicans in August 1974 marched up to the White House and told President Richard Nixon that his time on the stage was up. And Nixon resigned."

The overwhelming flood of news this week obscured a simple document that MSNBC host Rachel Maddow wanted to draw viewers' attention to.

According to Maddow, the top military brass in the United States issued a letter in which they officially said that the attack on the U.S. Capitol was "sedition."

Republicans had a tantrum on Tuesday night when they were asked by Capitol Police to go through metal detectors before entering the Capitol ahead of a vote. Oklahoma Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R) joined shooting survivor Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) shouting at Capitol Police officers who just one week ago put their bodies between the members and armed insurrectionists.

Colleague Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) was incensed. Speaking to MSNBC's Chris Hayes she asked if these men refused to go through TSA or if they rushed the metal detectors at the airport.