amy: we will be joined by the from's madeleine carter later in the program.first, we go to congressmember jamie raskin of maryland who has the eighth congressional district since 2017. he is married to sarah bloom raskin, who has been nominated are president biden to become the top banking regulator at the federal reserve and underwent serious grilling yesterday. congressmember jamie raskin, welcome to democracy now! it is great to have you with us. >> thank you for having me. amy: the name of your book is "unthinkable: trauma, truth, and the trials of american democracy." you were the lead impeachment manager in president trump's second impeachment trial. you are a member of the house select committee investigating the january 6 capitol insurrection, which is where i want to start come even before january 6 because you are right there in the house when the attack took place. i what to take this sequentially, how this went. you were already reeling because your son tommy -- and i want to offer my condolences to your whole family because i have not had a chanc

madeleine carter joins us now.remiers this sunday at 10 pm eastern on msnbc. the film is a powerful portrait of finding purpose in grief. but it is not the story you expected to be telling, covering congressman raskin. tell us how you came to be there with your camera when this happened. >> well, originally, when jamie and donald trump actually both started their first terms in office in january 2017, and that is when jamie became my congressman, and pretty much from day one, jamie started being a trump god fly and i thought i would really like to make a film about jamie and trump. and it took him many months to agree to do it. and then, i started filming, july 4th of 2018. and i thought it would be about a one-year project. >> until july 2018 -- not a one-year project. and madeleine, what was it like as a filmmaker and a friend to be there for something so intimate and tragic? >> yeah, i mean, of course none of us saw this coming with tommy and when i heard that tommy had died, i stayed away because as a documenta