For Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, serving as jurors in the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump has meant returning, in graphic detail, to the trauma of Jan. 6, when a mob of far-right Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

“None of this is fun. What we are doing as a jury is reliving that day,” Murphy said in a Facebook Live video Wednesday evening. “This was, for instance, the first time that I believe any of us had seen security footage of all of us fleeing for our lives from the United States Senate chamber.”

Democratic House impeachment managers are seeking not only to convict Trump on a count of “incitement of insurrection,” but also to disqualify him from running for future office. In their presentation Wednesday, they showed never-before-seen security footage of the riot.

In one video, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York turns around and runs down a hallway to avoid the rioters; in another, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman franticly directs Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah away from insurrectionists. Other footage showed the mob violently attacking law enforcement officers.

The footage left some lawmakers visibly affected. At one moment, as a video played of an officer being crushed in a door, Sen. James Lankford, a Republican of Oklahoma, bent his head and a Republican colleague placed a hand on his arm in comfort. Lankford later said the video was “painful to see.”

Blumenthal said he was shaken by the video footage, too.

He wrote on Twitter Thursday: “All last night & still today the desperate cries for help from Capitol police & [the DC Police] ring in my head — haunting & heroic.”

Following Thursday’s proceedings, Murphy recounted leaving the Senate chamber with a freshman senator who acknowledged the heavy emotional toll of viewing the evidence in the trial.

“It should feel that way,” Murphy said. “You’re talking about multiple deaths on January 6th. Police officers who lost fingers, who lost the use of an eye, people who were scarred and are bearing scars that will last for a very long time.”

Almost 140 police officers from two departments were injured during the insurrection, including some with brain injuries and spinal injuries. Five people died.

As the mob stormed into the Capitol, Blumenthal, Murphy and other members of the Connecticut delegation were ferried out of their congressional chambers and into a secure location. Blumenthal glimpsed the armed insurrection flooding the Capitol grounds as he was evacuated.

Blumenthal Wednesday said watching the House managers’ case was a disturbing reminder of how easily lawmakers could have found themselves swept into mob violence.

“The testimony this evening was particularly striking and shook many of us to the core because we came to see how close we were to this danger and how much worse it could have been,” Blumenthal said.

It is unlikely that House impeachment managers will persuade enough lawmakers of Trump’s culpability to reach the two-thirds majority needed for conviction. At least 17 Republicans would have to join with every Democratic senator to ensure a conviction.

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Some Republican lawmakers, while acknowledging the destruction of the riot, argue that it is the insurrectionists, not Trump, who bear responsibility.

Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican of Texas, told The New York Times: “Today’s presentation was powerful and emotional, reliving a terrorist attack on our nation’s capital. But there was very little said about how specific conduct of the president satisfies the legal standard.”

For Blumenthal and Murphy, there is a clear through line between Trump’s attempts to undermine the presidential election, his role in encouraging his supporters to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6 and the violent destruction that followed. They argue that Trump’s actions and rhetoric constitute “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors,” the standard set for conviction.

Murphy said that he was “stunned at the effectiveness of the managers’ case” as well as the “sheer volume of impeachable conduct,” noting Trump’s efforts to undermine the presidential election, effort to turn his supporters on the Capitol and his failure to tell the rioters to stand down.

Blumenthal contended that many rioters arrived in Washington “armed, intending violence, as the cavalry for [Trump’s] overthrow of the vote,” and that Trump directly encouraged his supporters to resort to violence.

“For the commander in chief to encourage the use of violence against our own government at the Capitol is a betrayal of his oath,” he said. “For him to fail to protect the Capitol when it was assaulted was a violation of that oath.”

On Thursday, Murphy noted that the trial’s testimony included video of a 2018 interview with the mother of Heather Heyer, the woman killed in a car attack while counter-protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

“In that clip, she talked about the danger of too quickly moving on from a tragedy,” Murphy said. “Her point was, healing is good, but if you skip accountability and go straight to healing, you’re just asking for the same thing to happen, over and over and over again.”