♪ ♪ ♪ >> he was something, my son. jamie raskin: he was, he was something, my son. what >> did you think about taking some time off?

>> you know, tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me, my illness won today. look after each other, the animals and the global poor for me. all my love, tommy. so he didn't have anything in there about take some time off. and why -- >> usa! usa? usa! >> why is america such an extraordinary country?

we are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity or one ideology or one religion. we are unified by one constitution and one rule of law and in the values under our constitution. [applause] it is an aspiration, it's a challenge to us. the constitution shouldn't be some kind of fetish document. it should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in the service of the common good. that is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. that is the constitution that we have been fighting for since then. and we've got to keep fighting for it. [crowd chanting]

>> trump! trump! trump! [applause] >> please raise your right hand and repeat after me, i donald john trump, do solemnly swear -- >> i, donald john trump, do solemnly swear -- to preserve, protect and defend the constitutional united states, so help me. god >> congratulations. ♪ ♪ ♪ [sound of gunfire] [sound of artillery] >> mothers and children trapped

in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered light tombstones across the landscape, and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much on realized potential. this american carnage stops right here and stops right now. [applause] >> we don't trump talked about american carnage in his first inaugural address, it was a pivotal moment, because american carnage of course was not a description of everything anything, it was a promise on his part. when i saw the violence on the january 6th, i thought about the american carnage speech. he had foreshadowed the whole thing. american carnage what was not what he was running against, it

was what he was running for. ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> we can now efficiently project that the democrats will take control of the house -- >> now for the first time don trump will have an effective opposition party that will be able to thwart his agenda. [applause] >> all right, our next speaker is a very special people. if you guys would listen up for a second and pay attention for one second, i am bringing on two of my three kids, who are going to introduce me so i can make my speech. please welcome tommy raskin and tabatha raskin tonight. come on up. >> good evening, everybody.

i'm tommy raskin. >> i am tabatha raskin. so, if the best representative is the one who works the hardest and -- then you are representative, my dad, is the best. i [laughter] [applause] >> my father started running for office when i was ten and since that time i have kept an informal tally of all questions that have gotten on the -- and when i get the most is, do you think your dad is going to win? and i suppose my familial hubris is showing, because i never doubt that he's going to win. it's not because your -- and -- so there is none -- not because of his --

so he has that, as well. -- deep moral convictions. and his appreciation of -- democratic values -- >> i represent i will give it my all. i will give it. all [applause] >> it was an amazing feeling to be in the majority. we were going to have the chance to investigate a lot of the corruption and missed reasons of the trump

administration. but of course right when we got into the majority and the new term started, donald trump shut the government down. -- come on, man. all right that's doable. backup, backup. it's better. >> lacombe of the tie? >> no, no no. >> so the new shouldn't -- its route to -- >> this is the third government shutdown on president trump's watch. as they failed to reach

agreement a border wall funding the prisons banning roughly -- employees will not be getting paid during the shutdown. more than half of them will still have to report to work. the rest are being furloughed, i mean they won't go to work but they still won't get paid. nice to meet, you good to see. you >> this is wonderful. very very exciting. >> i love these guys. i have to make my contribution. i'm giving my entire january salary away since the government shut down. so i'm really give it all the groups. that's you guys. >> we really appreciate being a part of that. we appreciate where you're trying to do when you're on the hill. >> thank you. hello. nice to see you. what a pleasure. i'm here with -- and re-collecting food just helped give away to people who are affected by the government shutdown. >> okay. >> thank you so much. what don't give them the viking

law. >> for over charlottesville. never get a device on the. gus >> we have a system of checks and balances and you don't hold the federal workforce of the people of the country hostage in order to get air away in a policy debate. we're able to get the mexico he wasn't able to get the mexican government papers wiley, was unable to get congress to do it even though we control that was in the senate with republican coal, now suddenly the democrats took over the house, we won 40 seats and he decides to shut the government down. it's just an unacceptable way to do business in a democracy.

>> i never thought the trump could turn out to be a good guy. i thought maybe all of this right-wing authoritarian populist stuff, all this mussolini stuff, which is fade away quickly when he got into office, that cooler heads would prevail, the conservative republican establishment would kind of take over and run things like a standard run-of-the-mill right-wing presidency. as opposed to an existential threat to constitutional democracy. [applause] >> donald trump today due to the rose garden to wave a white flag, a green two o reopen the government without funding for his border wall. >> i'm proud to announce that we have reached a deal to end the shut down and reopen the federal government. >> i think he thought that he was going to practice extortion,

political extortion, and that we would give again and we stood strong. now for the first time donald trump will have an effective opposition party that will be able to thwart his agenda and have that power to investigate and the power to subpoena and most importantly the end of one party rule in washing ten win. >> congressional oversight of the president united states finally begins in earnest today. >> trump's former personal lawyer, michael cohen, will be give public testimony between house oversight committee, and i will be televised live. >> in the statement we got last night he said the president was a racist con man and a cheat.

my reaction was, tell us something we don't know. [laughter] so, you know, i'm basically looking at him like, renegade refugee from organized crime family and he's going to tell us the internal dynamics of the trump operation wow the big story, in my mind, is that we have a president who has turned the government to vote states of america into a moneymaking operation for himself, for his family, for his business, and for his friends, and so we want to try to get the best and most fine grained portrait we can get of what is taking place within the trump corporation then we have to ask a question about whether this is a president who was an actual threat to the character of our public. >> oh my god, look at those people. what >> mr. cohen, if you would

please rise and i will begin to swear you in. raise your right hand. >> my loyalty to mr. trump has cost me everything. my family's happiness, friendships, my law license, my company, my livelihood, my honor, my reputation, and soon my freedom. and i will not sit back, say nothing, and allow him to do the same to the country. indeed, given my experience working for mr. trump, i fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of

power, and this is why i agreed to appear before you today. we [applause] >> michael cohen did issue a stark warning to the country that if donald trump lost there would be no peaceful transition. there's no way he would accept it. that is a frightening and startling thing for the presidents own lawyer to say about him. but it seemed far off at that point, to a lot of people. people have said from the beginning, there is no way he would do that. there's no way anybody would do that. that community. i offer what i can when i can. i started noticing my memory was slipping. i saw a prevagen commercial and i did some research on it. i started taking prevagen about three years ago. i feel clearer in my thoughts, my memory has improved and generally just more on point. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription.

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♪ reporter: we've got a big story coming out of washington this morning. today is the public release of the mueller report. washington today. today's public release of the mueller report. >> after 23 months of secrecy, this morning answers for the american public. when attorney general william barr releases a redacted version of the nearly 400-page mueller report. >> was there a conspiracy in the election between russians and americans trying to help donald trump? was there obstruction or other crimes arising under that investigation? >> mueller never concluded either way whether the

president obstructed justice. so william barr made a determination himself. >> you know, there is an attempt, i think here, to preempt congress's role. we are the law making branch of government. we have the primary and dominant branch of government and we are the ones who will decide whether there were high crimes and misdemeanors committed by this president. >> barr had done a master bashful job propagandize in the public about it, basically pulling the wool over everybody's job eyes about what was in the report. he took a complicated set of facts, which showed lots of wrongdoing, condensed it to no collusion no construction. >> there was no evidence of the trump campaign collusion with the russian governments hacking. >> there was no collusion. there was no obstruction. there was no nothing. >> either of those things was in there but that was the mantra. you could hear it 500 times a day. i mean, it's just a classic propaganda tactics of

authoritarian regimes. i feel like pulling in all i pulled an all nighter. i didn't, but it's just that feeling. being back in college in cramming for three hours straight. >> going up. >> do you think that impeachment is more on the table now? >> i don't think it's any more or any less than it ever wise. you know, my attitude from the beginning has been that impeachment should not be a fetish for anybody, but it should not be taboo for anybody either. it's not a panacea for everything that ails us in america. it's not going to get health insurance to people. and it's not gonna lower prescription drug prices. but it is the peoples last line of self-defense against a president who insist upon acting like a king and trampling the law. the great thing about america, what we love about america, is

that it is a constitutional democracy. it's government of the people by the people for the people. and if somebody decides to disrupt the basic fabric of our public and to violate the law, we've got to take that seriously, even if -- this is a system of lies in the president is not above the law. he's bound by the law like everybody else. we are charging through agreed that we have three coequal branches. we are not coequal branch of government. where the preeminent branch of government. there's a reason why we are in article one. all legislative power is vested in the congress of the united states. so the constitution all sovereign power of the people to create the country, to raid the constitution, flawed into congress. and one is the core job of the president? to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. that's it. if the president doesn't take care that the laws are faithfully executed, get rid of him.

i overslept. can i use your phone to call? julie >> of course. >> he found me in a one and 1000 days when i was really angry. because my phone doesn't work. it doesn't belong with his schedule. taking the dog for a walk -- because my phone died. i need new phone. good morning >> good morning. >> be quiet. >> here, what if you take this. potter, you stop that attitude. i am so upset right now. the president was engaged in all kinds of corruption and he just gave the finger to the separation of powers and congress's oversight role. so there was great frustration

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(door closes) (footsteps pattering) ng>> the problem with this tv jamie raskin: the problem with these tv interviews, interview was that can't get anything done. i have no time to work. what cover, hello? wow.

let me explain. this this is pavia. my friend, my constituent, and he is going to change my life so the newspapers don't just -- that's the plan. that's fantastic. should i try them on? >> i would like you. to >> which one we like to try? on >> i'll try this one. >> and our custom pinstripe suits. i like mine. it's beautiful. jamie, awesome. >> i gotta put my shoot shoes on but i'm embarrassed from my old shoes on. you know, i didn't get into politics to impeach donald trump. i didn't think donald trump was going to be in the white house when i ran for office. iran is a constitutional law professor. i know one thing really well, which is about the constitution in the rule of law in american democracy. and it became clear to me that trump was actually attacking

the constitutional underpinnings of american government. >> what a pleasure. >> thank. you >> thank you poverty. so most of the history of humanity, of our species, people have lived under kings and queens and dictators and despots and belize and authoritarian system. democracy is very much the exception and the whole point of the constitution is to keep people in office from just doing whatever they want. it was the idea of lawless discretion in government officials that motivated the american revolutionaries to write a constitution that woodbine people in power. so we've got to make democracy

work, and it is something that we do together. we need every buddy out organizing to get everyone out to vote in 2020. and we have to capture all these facts cystic style tactics coming from donald trump. as hard as we were fighting trump, we are going to stop him from his rampage in america, we were also working to turn out a landslide for the democrats in 2020. hi, good morning. good to see you. what >> everybody likes to -- hear >> soy and stand. you don't wanna see spend rest your live looking at my poor head. really. >> we like it.

going up. ♪ ♪ ♪ down by the riverside, down by the riverside. i'm going to study war no more. ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] [applause] >> hello democracy summer in the house! we brought some organizers today. one of them is sitting behind me. [bell ringing] [applause] thomas jefferson said, we are

by blood and tradition the heirs of rebels and revolutionaries who overthrew kings and tyrants, and we must never forget who we are. [applause] i >> i studied congress and saw the kind of member that i had in mind, who a member of congress is, what they are like. it's pretty much exactly who j.d. raskin is. [applause] graciously intellectual, relentlessly principled, eminently compassionate, and able to quote jefferson as the -- [applause] >> i have always felt the politics at its best is about education. so when i first ran for office i started democracy summer. [applause] it's about teaching people about the process and how it works, about the issues and the

competing merits of different kinds of solutions, and then teaching people about how you go out and make change. [applause] >> mother and son, i need a shot. that's excellent. and, congratulations. >> thank you so much. what >> we're in the perfect place right now. >> i feel everybody knows one thing. they all want to know about the constitution. hello.

happy labor day, everybody. happy labor day. nice to see you. >> take a few more of those? i love you guys. happy labor day. nice to see you. nice to see you. >> you're doing an awesome job. >> do you guys need a constitution. you got it. the impeachment clause in there too. happy labor day, guys. constitution is a big hit this year. nice to see you, happy labor day. that's great. that's awesome. all right, so hello. oh good. happy labor day, you guys. hey they elongated the parade route? come on, man.

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exchange for military aides which would've meant the election. >> three trying crimes here. excuse extortion by the president, using a threat to obtain something of value, conspiracy to engage extortion, conspiracy to violate federal election law, to obtain foreign interference in the united states election. >> the actions of the trump presidency revealed betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security, and betrayal of the integrity of our elections. >> it was a breakthrough day. we waited for it for three years. and i get the newspapers. i'm saving the newspapers, julie. >> awesome. >> the whole shake down seemed like a shake down because they were caught red-handed. and unify those people who are very concerned about the political bullet corruption and lawlessness with those who are

concerned about what don trump was doing to americas image and reputation in the world. and i think that is why the impeachment pressure built up in such a large way. people understood that he was trying to wage war against not just our political party but our whole constitutional order. it was an extraordinary abuse of power. a wait, i forgot to tie my tie. don't look at my collar with a scowl. now [laughter] >> make a quick and easy, not elaborate set up like last time. >> crazy couple of days, half? >> yeah. really wonderful couple of days. >> you want to hold this for a second. >> the times have found us. the moment that the ukraine and poland came to light, you could tell everything was going to change. at the same time that i was shocked and startled by the radicalism of this new chapter,

i felt it was completely consistent with everything we knew about donald trump. he has been betraying the office and betraying the constitution. he's been betraying national security from day one. >> thank you so much. great to see. you >> american elections belong to the american people. they don't belong to the president and they don't belong to a president working in league with foreign powers against us. that is what the framers were afraid of. i used to have a bunch of these winters are now only have one which. oh my god, are these are guys already trick or treating? and you guys already trick-or-treating? >> we're already trick-or-treating. >> come back because i'm getting my decorations. i've been a little busy, but you guys will promise to come back? >> absolutely, welcome back. >> we have to come back. >> all right, happy halloween, you guys. >> oh, man.

this is not even a pumpkin? can you carve a gourd? >> how many? >> as many, can you fit three in your hand? there we go. do you like skittles to? you like m&ms? >> we will make them fit. >> there we go. well then you got, it you've got it. because this is the trump era. it's whatever you can grab. >> oh, dad! >> would you guys like a baby constitution? >> what is that? >> look, come here. it's a own constitution, okay? it's got the first amendment in it. >> at a sobering milestone houston regrets turned weeks of testimony and speeches into actual articles of impeachment against the president. >> the house judiciary committee decided to charge the president's two articles impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. >> president trump is now the

fourth president in u.s. history to have articles of impeachment drawn up against him. >> good morning. it is my solemn responsibility this morning to present for your consideration house resolution 755 concerning the impeachment of donald john trump, president of the united states. investigating committees collected and -- hours of deposition testimony, and the judiciary committee is in possession of overwhelming avidins that the president states has committed high crimes and misdemeanors. impeachment is like an indictment. when the house votes to impeach, it is acting like a grand jury, and it's essentially saying we believe that there have been these crimes. >> president trump has abused the awesome powers of the presidency by using his office to corruptly demand that a foreign government interfere in our american presidential election. in order to promote his own

political campaign in 2020. this scheme subordinated the democratic sovereignty of the people to the private political ambitions of one man, the president himself. the way i thought of it was that this would be an attempt to state the case against the president before the country, because the tv cameras would be there. so i was trying to bring it back to the question of elections. >> if we just let this misconduct go and authorize unlicensed presidents to coerce, could joel, pressure, and into his foreign powers to enter our election campaigns, we can only ask with the 2020 election will look like, or indeed, what any future election in america will be like. the presidents continuing course of conduct constitutes a clear and present danger to democracy in america. we cannot allow this misconduct to pass. it would be a sellout of our constitution, our foreign

policy, our national security, and our democracy. thank you, mister chairman, i yield back. >> on this vote the yeas are 229, the nays are one 98. president is one. article two is adopted. >> it is official. president trump impeached, putting the bitterly divided america on display. virtually every democrat voting for impeachment. every republican voting against it. >> today we took action to hold president trump accountable for the serious and undisputed risky poses to our free and fair elections and to the separation of powers thief growth our liberty. >> we passed the two articles of impeachment. the president is impeached. >> what is the house speaker since the articles of impeachment over to the senate, not that in motion a trial. >> when it comes to the senate,

the senate has this power to try the case, in other words, to be the court that conducts the trial on those charges. and they are two thirds is required to convict. a jury in the senate is almost by definition biased and certainly in trump's case it's because he demanded that kind of personal loyalty. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 45th president to the knighted states, donald j trump. [applause] >> thank you, thank you. this lawless partisan impeachment is a political suicide march for the democrat

party. they have nothing. they're the ones that should be impeached. every one of them. [applause] we have tremendous support in the republican party, like we have never had before. [applause] nobody has ever had this kind of support before. it's going to come out to a beautiful great victory for the republican party and for the -- [applause] >> this is not about painting the country. this is about destroying the president. >> hey hey, whoa, donald trump has got to go.

>> i was made a partisan political decision to impeach. i wouldn't preserve a will have a largely partisan outcome in the senate. i'm not impartial about this at all. >> there is no way this can or should be viewed as legitimate. certainly not by republicans whose minority rights have been trampled on every step on the way. >> we were treated unbelievably unfairly, but this is what the end result is. [applause] >> it didn't surprise me that much that our side was unequal to dislodge that monolithic republican support. because the leadership were all trump accomplices. well basically had all these sycophants in the house and in

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(wings flapping) ♪ ♪ reporter: the cdc is mobilizing teams right now right now in an urgent effort to head off a newly identified deadly virus from china. >> you can call the, determining holiday, floating holiday virus. you can call it many different names. i'm not sure anyone knows what it is. the >> coronavirus has now been detected in at least 48 different countries, with case numbers rising rapidly. >> the coronavirus has altered daily life across the united states. record unemployment, tens of millions of americans out of work. >> the death toll in the u.s. rising as new cases appear in more parts of the country.

>> covid-19 was a catastrophe for our country. the economic consequences of it were calamitous. we ended up losing hundreds of thousands of people were. we have 82,000 of our fellow citizens who have died already. we have tens of millions who have been thrown out of work. we have seen massive shutdowns. harvard law school closed, physically, and tommy came back to live with us. he was on zoom doing his

classes. it was a very strange, isolating time. and trump demonstrated how terrible his leadership wise. he never had a plan. what was happening in terms of police violence and police brutality also reflected the tendency of us to become a failed state, the state that could not deliver the basic goods of existence to its people. one of those good's public health. another good is equal administration of the laws. [crowd chanting] what >> george floyd! >> my friends, we've got to organize now the third reconstruction of united states of america. now is our time. it's our moment to make it happen.

you can't have democracy without participation, without people getting engaged in it. your were not unified by being one ethnicity or one religion [bleep] or one ideology. where unified by one constitution. it's not that the constitution was perfect when we got started. far from it. i mean we were not a democracy. we were a slave republic of white male property owners over the age of 21. but it has been through these successive movements for democratic enlargement that the constitution has become a better, and we have become a more perfect union. a great leader frederick douglass said if there's no struggle there's no progress. power concedes nothing without a demand. it never has, and it never will. thank you for organizing.

black lives matter. [applause] not only may this be the most important election in our lifetime, it may be the most unusual. >> states across the country are turning to mail-in voting in this election an effort to allow americans to vote safely during the pandemic. >> amongst americans support the option of mail-in balloting, president trump launched a new attack on it today as he trails joe biden in the polls. >> they're going to be sending out 80 million ballots. where are they going? who are they sending them to? they're trying to rig this election. >> the president's failure to address the pandemic continues to hurt him in poll after poll. asked if he would accept the election results the president said, quote, i'll have to see. >> the only way we're gonna lose this election is if an election is rigged. remember that. it's the only way we're gonna lose this election.

so we have to be very careful. >> my friends, we've got some hard days ahead of us, don't we? we really do. we've got her days ahead of us. but we are battle tested and we are ready. we are preparing for an outbreak landslide victory for democracy in 45 days. get ready for it. >> we don't have, believe it or, not a constitutional right to vote in america. it's just a power state legislatures to appoint electors. and the republican party, a minority party, a shrinking minority party, is using every lever of political power they have to try to thwart the majority. this is why the struggle for voting rights is so essential. we need everybody's vote. we need everybody's voice to count. >> and historic election night in america. that's where a year of tragedy

and unrest americans have turned out in force to make their voices heard. >> 100 million people have already voted in this country. we may see a turnout today the smashes records. >> three states day after day after day. wisconsin, where they're ahead -- >> oh, good. government first cover. love the haiku. >> let's hear it. >> okay. my haiku's, don't ever again see that it can't happen here. say we won't let it. we were obviously still in covid-19, so there were no election night parties going on. everybody was at home. tommy was with me and we were just watching and waiting. >> dallas county here, biden is leading these by 33 points. >> wow. a big league in taxes?

what? >> because remember we saw all the -- historic early vote totals. >> we're watching those texas results as they come in. but there has been so much help. the democrats have -- in there we are still watching final votes in the albertans tinge of georgia, north carolina, virginia. >> tom, are you gonna stay up or go to sleep? >> -- >> i don't think. so i'd be willing to put money on it. yeah, i'll bet you. >> if tom trump wins -- >> okay. all right, love you to death. . my kids are so freaked out, everyone is so freaked out. it's gonna be a long night. trump is going to be suing, we're going to win this

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(audience cheering) >> this is a fraud on the president trump: this is a fraud on the american public. american public. this is an embarrassment to our country. we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. [applause] we won all voting we want all voting to stop. we don't want them to find any ballots at 4:00 in the morning and add them to the list. okay? [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> millions of votes still being counted, but the legal battle already underway. >> president trump another publicans have filed more than 30 election lawsuits, and i

just keep throwing them out for lack of evidence. >> the president and his allies are casting doubt on the integrity of the election. >> unfounded cheating in fraud he's trying to -- tens of millions of -- obviously a -- it's self-by the -- popular vote we must stand the -- as it translates -- complicated electoral college. these are overtures that overturned -- and -- at every turn -- all of the courts claim that there had been corruption -- >> what the entire country has had to joe biden has won the

pennsylvania electoral vote. >> former vice president joe biden, president -- >> it was an emotional thing when biden was declared the winner. there are huge crowds all over the country, out celebrating. huge crowds. millions of people took to the streets to celebrate and sing and dance. it was wild. it was just an amazing feeling. it was the fall of an authoritarian for the time being. and it felt like the redemption of democracy. i'm in a great mood. i am in a great mood.

this -- >> stop the steal! stop the steal! >> don trump is still saying he they stole the election, which it was not. >> residents have the latest in a nearly unbroken string of legal defeat. >> president trump's supporters undeterred, with time, including members of far-right extremist group group the proud boys, rallying to support him in watching turn. >> for candy fire! >> there are two major matches. >> america first! >> most members of congress, paid no attention on to them to the cause election was over. and it turned out that those

marches were very important because trump was able to attract to washington that hard-core element that was willing to engage in violence. >> we're gonna stop the steal. stop the steal! >> we didn't take seriously enough and organize attack on the u.s. government and on our constitution and on our election. >> we love trump! we love trump! we love trump! >> dan? >> yes? >> do you care if i jump up shortly thereafter? >> i think everybody is gonna want to do that. get out of town. >> thank you all so much for joining us. i will look without further ado i will give it over to congressman raskin. >> thank you guys all for indulging me in my birthday fantasy for this year. we came up with it on thursday.

you've known how much i love parties and i was missing everybody, and so i thought, okay, we can try to have a little contest here and see if i can answer 58 questions in 58 minutes. one minute per question. and it begins with tommy raskin. >> who's your favorite tv villain? >> my favorite tv villain, villains, are the joker, the riddle are, and william barr, the reported attorney general. thank you. next question comes from mark meadows. how would your favorite french philosopher muntean analyze the voices of donald trump? are, clearly cruelty is the heart of donald trump's vicious system and all the other vices flow right out of cruelty. i don't know if they're gonna wake up except those election results. i hope that it doesn't lead to violence in the country. i really hope that people, that

they don't start doing really crazy things. i love the fact that we survive this nightmare. it was really, really hard and difficult, and it continues with covid-19, to be so difficult for people. but we have survived through it all, through the neo-nazis marching, we have survived through the corruption, we have survived through the ukraine shake down, and we are still here. i'm all out of questions. is that right, paul? you guys maybe more than $10,000. [laughter]

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though, right. tommy? >> this thing that you've been going through this week. >> well, our family suffered a terrible catastrophe on the last day of 2020. but my my dear boy is very close to our hearts and on our minds, and we have been deluged with emails and food and love and messages from around the world. and in truth i haven't been sleeping a lot. not since we have been without tommy. >> yeah.

>> tommy had been fighting depression for several years. normally he was just the happiest, most ambulant, energetic person you could ever hope to meet. but he was suffering from depression. it was serious. the last night i got to spend with him, we had dinner together. we played some -- which was his big game, and we watch some stuff on tv. and we talked about going for a hike the next day. i gave him a hug goodnight. told him i loved him. he told me he loved me. and that was the last time i saw him alive. >> how are you coping? >> well, tommy left us a

farewell note, where he said, please, forgive me, my illness won today. look after each other. the animals, and the global poorer. all my love, tommy. and i'll spend the rest of my life trying to live up to that. >> i assume you forgave him. >> of course. i don't want to reveal the contents but i left a note for him as well. when we buried him. and of course i, i mean, what else could i do? he's my son. he was enduring unimaginable suffering and we miss him every minute of every day and we

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[crowd chanting] >> i want to thank you very much, hello, by the way. there is no way we lost georgia. [applause] that was a rigged election. they're not taken this white house, we're gonna fight like hell, i'll tell you right now. [applause] we will never given, we will never give or give up. we will never back down. we will never, ever surrender. [applause] [crowd chanting] i hope mike pence comes through for us after tonight. great guy. of course, if he doesn't come through, i won't like uncut quite as much. no, mike is a smart man. if you watch what happens over the next couple of weeks, watch what's going to come out, watch

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in just a few hours, congress will be convening to certify the result of the electoral college, and confirmed president elect, joe biden,'s victory. >> crowds already gathering for a pro trump rally, the president says he will speak at. as many as 30,000 people expected. >> this is the day that happens every four years. usually, no one pays attention to. this year, all eyes are on -- dozens of house and senate republicans are going to object to the certification of millions of legally cast votes. still, the president is ramping up pressure on vice president pence to flip the outcome, even as pence himself reportedly told the president, he does not have that power. trump allies tell nbc news, they believe he will keep disputing the results when allies say the president is increasingly desperate. ♪ ♪ ♪ madam speaker! the vice president of the united states senate.

[applause] >> it was the day after we had tommy's funeral, a very tender, raw time. our youngest daughter, tabatha, said daddy, don't go. i want to stay home. >> i said, i have to go home. it's a constitutional responsibility. so, i invited tabatha instead to come with me. >> madam speaker, i want to thank you first and all my dear, beloved colleagues for your love and tenderness which my family and i will never forget. [applause] >> i felt very disoriented. i was overwhelmed by the love of my colleagues.

i entertained this completely fantastical thought, that sympathy about tommy would somehow prevent any further division or polarization on that day. of course, that was just a pipe dream. >> we are not here, madam speaker, to vote for the candidate we want. we are here to recognize the candidate the people actually voted for in the states. >> after i spoke, tabatha went to an office nearby. i started getting text from constituents and people all over the country, and family members saying, are you okay? at that point, i thought everything was still outside. >> the house will be in order. >> we began to hear a terrible raucous. speaker pelosi was quickly hustled off the floor.

the new chaplain gave the prayer, and we started hearing people trying to barrel into the door. maybe 30 feet away from where i sat. we were told to get out our gas masks, which most of us didn't even know existed. everyone was terrified. everybody stay down, get down. you can hear people shouting and yelling, hang mike pence. you can hear people screaming, where is nancy? then capitol police officers came running in with their guns drawn. it was very frightening to be away from tabatha. i kept calling my chief of staff, julie, begging them to keep the door locked. and barricaded.

they ended up hiding under a desk, as people pounded on the door. as we were evacuated out, we could see complete mayhem. i was really terrified. i had no idea that the capitol could actually be overrun like that. >> where are they? >> finally, we were escorted to safety, by one of the committee rooms. >> every single member that i've spoken to was determined to have us complete counting the electoral college votes. the american people have spoken. the election is over. american constitutional democracy will prevail.

we have no choice. >> we were absolutely resolved, we would not allow this to be permanent break. if we actually let the day go by, or two days go by, who knows what could've taken place? the president might have declared martial law. everything could've been lost at that point. >> get him out of here, talk -- >> we are going to go forward, we're gonna go forward, all here tomorrow, we're gonna go forward. and the next day. we are going to complete the counting of electoral college votes, as called for by the constitution of the united states.

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(members clapping) the whole point of trump trying jamie raskin: the whole point of trump trying to stop the steal to stop the steal was obstructing the counting of electoral college votes. >> the joint session of congress to top electoral vote will resume. >> our quick creaky, antiquated, electoral college system, this

step is really the essential step. it is what we call the peaceful transfer of power. when congress formally declares who the winner is. the votes for president that states are as follows. joseph r. biden, jr., of the state of delaware has received 306 votes. donald j. trump, of the state of florida, has received 232 votes. >> as the fog of mayhem dissipates, the full picture ♪ ♪ ♪ of the terror, the crisis that took place in the nation's

capital on wednesday comes into focus. there is a death toll which now stands at five. >> the fbi has identified at least 200 suspects, and is looking for hundreds more. >> for the second time in 13 months, the house of representatives has voted to impeach president donald trump. >> a single article of impeachment accusing the president of inciting insurrection before in his remarks before last week's riot gear began. >> house speaker nancy pelosi just -- nine house impeachment functionaries who will prosecute donald trump in that trial. the lead prosecutor will be former constitutional law professo jamie raskin. >> i was drowning in agony and grief at the time. i did not know whether i'd be

able to do anything again of meaning or substance in my life after losing tommy. that's why i say pelosi threw me a lifeline, in a way, because she basically said, "we need you." >> washington is ramping up an almost unprecedented security operation involving the biggest national guard deployment in the capital's history. >> police and the fbi continue to warn of violent, right-wing extremist plots.

>> there are now three plots we are briefed on, to attack lawmakers and assassinate them potentially. so we are taking those threats as extremely seriously. >> the threats are crazy now. not just against democrats, but against republicans. especially against republicans who defected from trump. i wasn't afraid of anything at that point. my state of mind was essentially that that the very worst thing that ever could happen, just happened. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president elect of the united states. >> but tabitha said we just lost tommy, and we can't lose you. and it's a dangerous environment out there. and so, we were actually up in pennsylvania, we watched the inauguration of course, and i was so proud. to me, that was just a great

moment in our history, to see that happen. after everything we'd been through. this is so exciting. yeah. >> my distinguished guests, my fellow americans, this is america's day. this is democracy's day. today, we celebrate the triumph, not of a candidate, but of a cause. the cause of democracy. the will of the people has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded. we've learned again that democracy is precious. democracy is fragile. at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed. >> it's a big deal when you see a peaceful transfer of power. we've come to take it for granted, but if you don't have

a peaceful transfer of power, you don't have democracy. >> who is that from? >> tommy's fifth grade teacher. >> all right, i'll read it. >> we prevail, here we stand. looking out at a great wall. >> after we lost tommy, we got thousands and thousands of letters. a lot of them were coming from people who knew tommy, or people who were moved by tommy 's poetry. it was just an overwhelming and affecting thing. >> my first act as president, i would ask you to join me in a moment of silent prayer to remember all those who we lost this past year, during the pandemic. we will honor them, come together as a people or nation. we know you can and should be. >> we were not the only family in that god-awful year to lose

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imprisonment, while the house of is exhibiting to the senate of the united states, an article of impeachment, against donald john trump, former president of the united states. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the second impeachment of donald trump is now formally in the hands of the u.s. senate. the first president to be impeached twice, also becomes the first ex president to face an impeachment trial. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good morning. all eyes on washington today, and the start of former president trump's second impeachment trial. >> the lead impeachment manager, congressman jamie raskin, has been holding daily meetings with the rest of the managers. and they want to incorporate

visual elements as much as they can. >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you so much. have a great day, you guys. >> i just want to make sure that everybody's together, when -- [inaudible] so i don't want anybody watching alone. >> oh, gosh! that's ominous. >> well, americans should know. >> i woke up with henry v on my mind. all things are ready for my speech.

we're gonna pass lincoln's cottage on the way down, too. >> what's the best piece of advice you've been given in the last 24 hours? >> a senator sent me a note, reminding me that abraham lincoln is the son of kentucky. and i felt that was a really deep point, you know. [laughs] so -- i'm gonna maybe slip that in. you know, the difficult part is we have to try to condense this huge volume of facts, telling the story of the incitement to the attack, the attack, the harm, the injury, everything we learned. they're just gonna get up and say, the senate can't get with the trial. i mean, it's a totally funny

argument. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the constitutionality of trying a former president, the house managers are gonna argue that, yes, there is jurisdiction. and that's going to cite lots of constitutional scholarship. no jurisdiction -- [inaudible] >> my name is jamie raskin. i've been a professor of constitutional law for decades. i know that there are a lot of people who are dredging about

the state of our democracy here. i remember the lines that a professor is someone who speaks while other people are sitting. you will not be hearing extended lecturesfrom me, because our case -- >> it is based on cold, hard facts. it's all about the facts. >> okay, there you go. >> we will stop the steal. we want this election, and we want violent slide. this was not a close election, and after this, we're gonna walk down, and i'll be there with you. we're gonna walk down. we're gonna walk down to the capitol -- >> let's take the capital! >> take the capital! >> we are going to the capitol! where our problems are. it's that direction.

>> usa! [noise] [noise] >> we fight. we fight like hell. and if you don't fight like hell, you're not gonna have a country anymore. >> fight for trump! [noise] >> go, go! >> stop the steal! >> there's 1 million of us out there, and we are listening to trump, your boss. >> treason!

treason! [noise] >> stop the steal! >> remember, the senators and members of congress didn't see what was happening outside the building. i think everybody was walking around with the assumption that if people tried to overpower capitol officers, who were protecting the congress of the united states, those people would be shot on sight. we didn't realize that there were multiple breaches and a constant stream of people entering the building. >> that's what we need, have 30,000 guns. >> no trump, no peace!

>> usa! [noise] >> people died that day. officers ended up with head damage and brain damage. people's eyes were gouged. an officer had a heart attack, an officer lost three fingers that day. two officers have taken their own lives. senators, this cannot be our future. this cannot be the future of america. we cannot have presidents inciting and mobilizing mob violence against our government, and our institutions, because they refused to accept the will of the people under the constitution of the united states.

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jamie raskin: let's see what we're doing in the times today. in the times today. [inaudible] the first senate trial seemed to obstruct the second as a visceral reckoning. i think people are into it. i think -- i think today is gonna spell bonding, when we start to tell them the story. schiff treated out, that representative raskin, i probably should have reached at least maybe half of the senate now. >> hello?

i'm sitting right next to him. he wants to talk to. >> hello? mister president -- ♪ ♪ ♪ >> voltaire said, anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. president trump declared his conduct totally appropriate. conduct totally appropriate. so, it gets back into office we'll have no one to blame but ourselves. (papers rattling) i was glad i was able to get voltaire in there yesterday.

you know, anybody who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. tabitha raskin: oh, yeah. jamie raskin: and i believe that. well, if you had to pick one aphorism to characterize the trump administration, it would probably be that one, you know, because it was just inevitable where it was gonna go. tabitha raskin: yeah. jamie raskin: and the guy had his inauguration and started talking about american carnage. it was just a projection of his career, his destiny. it looks good. you want some cinnamon? tabitha raskin: yeah, i need cinnamon. i need- jamie raskin: i'll find you some cinnamon. jamie raskin: when officer hodges was, you know, caught in the door and he was just howling, it was like torture, i did see mitch crying and kind of wiping away tears. tabitha raskin: here's the cinnamon jamie raskin: but the republicans, man, they're a tough nut to crack, let me tell ya. you know, people were saying to me, "how are you going to get 67 votes?" i said, i'm not looking for 67 votes, i'm looking for 100 votes. like i'm looking for just like a major breakthrough

in public opinion in the senate, where people say this cannot be america, we cannot have a violence-inciting, pro-insurrection demagogue constantly threatening our democracy. i mean, there's 100s of millions of people in the country. anybody could be president. why do we have to go back to him after he's committed high crimes and misdemeanors against the country? so, we'll see. schumer: the senate is now ready to vote on the article of impeachment. clerk: mr. mcconnell? mcconnell: not guilty. clerk: mr. mcconnell, not guilty. ♪ reporter: it's over. twice tried, twice acquitted. reporter: a majority of senators, including seven republicans, voted to convict former president trump. but it was not enough. leahy: the senate, having tried donald john trump, former president of the united states,

by one article of impeachment... jamie raskin: i've had every possible emotion about it. i think i was crestfallen at the moment i first heard it. leahy: the acting sergeant at arms will escort the house managers out of the senate chamber. jamie raskin: i really thought we might have a 100 to zero verdict. i really thought that we had created such an overwhelming cascade of facts that the wiser republicans might say, this is our chance to save our party, this is our chance to get out from under the thumb of donald trump. and seven of them did the right thing. we needed 10 more. and so we might see a replay in 2024 of the 2020 election. (crowd chattering) i think we convicted him in the court of public opinion, and i think we convicted him in the eyes of history. so he's been turned into a pariah, i think, in national politics, and yet trump has tightened his control

over the republican party. right now you've got majorities of republicans in both houses who are saying that essentially they're willing to go along with whatever donald trump says. that wouldn't be a problem for us if we just had majority rule in america. but in the gop, they're manipulating every anti-democratic lever of power there is in order to entrench minority rule against the majority. that's the struggle in the country today. ♪ we have our work cut out for us. we have to organize the majority to be politically engaged and active and to register to vote and to vote and not to allow republicans to steal elections. ♪ the future of democracy has not been written yet,

and it's up to us. ♪ i want to thank all of you for coming and sharing our grief and sharing our joy about the life of tommy bloom raskin. ♪ hi phoebes. hi graeme. women: how are you. jamie raskin: so good to see you guys. ♪ how are you guys. how are you guys. woman: hi. jamie raskin: hi beautiful. ♪ woman: hi (woman moans) ♪ jamie raskin: i have lost my son, i've lost something so fundamental, so elemental in my life, i'm not sure at times that i even recognize the world.

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that's why there's 85% more tide in every power pod. [light music] ♪ [dramatic music] - i can hold a quarter right here, in this room, and ask this side of the room to tell me what they see