. >>> congressman jamie raskin is going to be joining us tonight. he is an accomplished constitutional lawyer and law professor in his own right. he is also, as a member of congress, on the judiciary committee. and tonight, with things getting slightly nutty in the republican effort to somehow try to u

. >>> congressman jamie raskin is going to be joining us tonight. he is an accomplished constitutional lawyer and law professor in his own right. he is also, as a member of congress, on the judiciary committee. and tonight, with things getting slightly nutty in the republican effort to somehow try to use the courts to overturn the presidential election and install the loser, instead of the winner of that election as the next president, we called congressman raskin tonight on short notice to help us with some of these latest developments here. i will tell you, we're going to get into this in detail, but those latest developments involve, among other things, the fbi turning up at the office of the texas attorney general to serve a federal subpoena on him. the texas attorney general is the guy who has brought this case to the u.s. supreme court to try to overthrow the election on the president's behalf. turns out, dude has his own very serious legal problems back home, and his personal legal problems and this supreme court case he's waging on behalf of

joining us now is congressman jamie raskin from maryland. he sits on the all-important judiciary committee. congressman raskin, it's really nice of you to take time to be here tonight. i know you're celebrating the holidays with your family. i really appreciate you taking the time. >> i'm delighted to be with you, rachel. >> let me ask you about what i sort of loosey-goosey described there as a spring in the step on the republican side about this supreme court case. when texas attorney general ken paxton filed this suit, it was greeted with a round of laughter coast to coast in terms of the actual claims in this case. but the republican sort of partisan show of force behind it would seem to give lie to that initial, i think, rejection that this was even a serious thing. >> well, that's all theater just to keep the fund-raising going. they're making tens of millions of dollars a week shaking down the political apparatus for this. but as a matter of law, after dozens of cases have been rejected in every federal and state court to look at all of

. >> jamie raskin is with us, the congressman sitting on the committee. congressman, welcome to journal this morning. >> good morning. >> we started the program asking viewers about the president's remarks last night on facebook. i don't know if you've had a chance to see any of that. any reaction to that? >> you're talking about the 45-minute diatribe rant about the election? >> yes. >> well, look, the president has painted himself into a corner here. there's been a complete divorce from reality. every election official involved in administration of this election, infer counting the ballots, has rejected the president's outlandish claims about there being some kind of systemic or massive fraud. even attorney general barr yesterday disassociated himself finally from the president's claims. the scary thing is how many people, within the republican party, are unwilling to distance themselves from these fanciful allegations. but they've been rejected in court in nearly 40 cases now. essentially the litigation strategy has done nothing other than prove that t

joining me now is congressman jamie raskin of maryland, a member of the judiciary committee and a formernal law professor. congressman raskin, you are the perfect guy literally to talk about this tonight. how close can donald trump get to himself with these pardons? >> well, let's start with why all of this is such a corruption of the pardon power. the president has the power to pardon in order to correct manifest injustices with an exercise of justice or to balance the operation of justice with mercy. now, we're dealing with a president who has no concept of what justice means or injustice or mercy, so he doles out pardons like a mob boss would, to reward his political friends and conversely he uses his power over the department of justice to punish his enemies. so all of this, of course, leads to the question of, well, is he going to end up granting a pardon to himself? and the constitution talks about granting a pardon. that would be an odd grammar, to grant a pardon to yourself, to give something to yourself. it also defies the structure of the pardon power and the whole nature of it

joining us now, congressman jamie raskin of maryland. he's a member of the judiciary committee and maybe, more importantly for this conversation, he's a former constitutional law professor. congressman raskin, good to see you. thank you for your time this evening. i'm not a constitutional lawyer. i'm no lawyer at all. everything i've ever learned comes from "law & order" and guests like you. is this even a thing? can this possibly happen? >> well, let's see, are you talking about the inside strategy or the outside strategy for trump? >> yeah, good question. >> i mean, you know, on the inside, it is absolutely outlandish and whimsical. you know, we've had the electoral count act of 1887 in place for more than a century, and what they want to do, suddenly, is to deafy the senate president -- here, mike pence -- essentially, to turn over all sensetive decision-making to him, when the vice president has auld acted in a minute material and administrative capacity, think of it as the chief justice in an impeachment tribunal. he's basically the

basically like a 9.11 attacks every single day by covid-19 maryland congressman jamie raskin says reaching a compromise on covid relief took far too long it's late. but we may absolutely needed republicans and democrats are finally come together on the 900 billion dollar package the bill includes another round of direct checks to americans enhanced unemployment benefits funds to help struggling small businesses billions for vaccine distribution and testing democrats say they hope for more, it's cold comfort given what we've been through pride. >>it is better than nothing we need more carry many americans through early spring, rhode island senator jack reed praised the bill for helping americans who face eviction from their homes just days before the christmas holiday eid you're putting people on the street or in cars around the houses. it's just going to exacerbate the covid crisis not of us think any of this legislation is perfect but senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says it was critical to pass the bill before the end of the year a big bipartisan majority of us recognize the incred

>>i got it in my left arm on friday, maryland congressman jamie raskin says the minute the capitol physician offered the covid-19 vaccine to lawmakers, he jumped at the opportunity it's necessary for continuity of government raskin joint house speaker nancy pelosi and other congressional leaders in receiving the pfizer vaccine. my job has been the gobi there are often when speaker pelosi couldn't be in town. it's unclear if all 535 members of congress will take the vaccine and some lawmakers have criticized her colleagues for getting the shot ahead of the nation's most at-risk populations should we online know but new york congressman tom reed says lawmakers have important work to do on covid relief and other issues. >>but she would be in the line so that we can continue to do the job reid says the vaccine ensures lawmakers can do their essential work safely. maryland senator ben cardin says it's critical for political leaders to convince americans. >>that the vaccine is safe and effective we want the vaccine to be taken there's nothing to worry about president elect joe biden and vice presi

then maryland democratic congressman jamie raskin joins us to discuss campaign 2020 legal challenges in the white house transition. later republican congressman john rose of tennessee talks about the federal response to the coronavirus. it has been -- >> it has been one month since election day and last night president trump spent 45 minutes laying out claims of widespread election fraud, most all of which have been disproved and shot down by state officials , state and federal courts, and the president stone attorney general. welcome to "washington journal" for this thursday, december 3. we will spend some of this hour showing some of the president's facebook remarks. get responses from fact checkers and others, and also hear your reaction to what the president has to say. republicans, the line is (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. you can send us a text message 3. (202) 748-800 @cspanwj. since novemberth 3 election and 11 days before electors meet to cast their votes. so far 306 electoral votes for joe biden, 232 for president trump. the popula

discussion on next year's 741 billion defense spending bill and then maryland democratic congressman jamie raskinill talk about election legal challenges and white house transition. and tennessee republican congressman john rose on congress and the trump administration's pandemic response. watch c-span's "washington journal" live at season eastern thursday morning. and -- seven eastern. and be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets. ♪ ♪ >> coming up tonight on c-span2, treasury secretary steve mnuchin and federal reserve chair jerome powell testify on the coronavirus response. then, a discussion about republican legislative priorities for the 117th congress. and lauter, the supreme court -- lauter, the supreme court oral arguments in edwards v. vanoy. >> a peaceful presidential transition of power in question, sunday night on "q&a," historian susan shulton and eric rauschway talk about two of the most contentious presidential transitions in u.s. history. in 1861 between james buy cannon and abraham lincoln, and in 1933 between herbert hoover and fra

. >> jamie raskin is with us, the congressman sitting on the committee. congressman, welcome to journal this morning. >> good morning. >> we started the program asking viewers about the president's remarks last night on facebook. i don't know if you've had a chance to see any of that. any reaction to that? >> you're talking about the 45-minute diatribe rant about the election? >> yes. >> well, look, the president has painted himself into a corner here. there's

. >>> joining me now is democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland. thank you for joining us. we'll get to that relief bill in just a second. i do have to ask you first about this extraordinary reporting that we have about a heat oval office meeting friday during which the president discussed declaring martial law, to force new elections in states biden had one, an executive order to seize voting machines and appointing sidney powell to investigate his baseless claims of election fraud. what is your reaction to all of that? >> well, let's start with some objective reality. joe biden won by more than 7 million votes. 81 million to 74 million. he trounced the president in the electoral college, 306 to 332. and so none of this has any correspondence to reality. joe biden is going to be our new president. it does reflect the president's growing extreme isolation from events. he has nothing to say about the covid-19 pandemic, which has now cost more than 300,000 lives and we, of course, are the world's leader in pandemic deaths and cases and propaganda and disinformation, which the

congressman jamie raskin is going to be joining us tonight. he is an accomplished

>>i got it in my left arm on friday, maryland congressman jamie raskin says the minute the capitol physician offered the covid-19 vaccine to lawmakers, he jumped at the opportunity it's necessary for continuity of government raskin joint house speaker nancy pelosi and other congressional leaders in receiving the pfizer vaccine. my job has been the gobi there are often when speaker pelosi couldn't be in town. it's unclear if all 535 members of congress will take the vaccine and some lawmakers have criticized her colleagues for getting the shot ahead of the nation's most at-risk populations should we online not but new york congressman tom reed says lawmakers have important work to do on covid relief and other issues. >>but she would be in the line so that we can continue to do the job breed says the vaccine ensures lawmakers can do their essential work safely. maryland senator ben cardin says it's critical for political leaders to convince americans. >>that the vaccine is safe and effective we want the vaccine to be taken there's nothing to worry about president elect joe biden and vice presi

. >>> with me now, i want to bring in democratic congressman jamie raskin from maryland. thanks for joining me on this. the big question i started reigh ann with is what is your sense here when it comes to this $2,000 direct payment. if you are a family of four, that's a huge jump and could be a major boost to your household, right, for two adults, you'll get $2,000 a piece. that's $4,000. if you have two children essentially you'd get $1200 extra. that could help a lot. >> it would help a lot of people hugely, and beyond that, we had the new legislation apply to all family dependents, whether or not you're under 18. so that includes, you know, millions of young people who are off in college and struggling under their college loans and so on. so this is, you know, the $2,000 is meaningful legislation that would mabke a vast difference fr tens of millions of people in the country. so the senate republicans are now caught between their rhetoric of right wing austerity for the wealthiest people in the country to rule over everybody else and then their cultish impulse to foll

and then maryland democratic congressman jamie raskin will talk about election legal challenges and whiteouse transition. tennessee republican congressman john rose on congress and the trump administration's coronavirus pandemic response. live "washington journal" at 7:00 eastern this morning and join the discussion with phone calls, facebook comments, text, and tweets. >> house of human services secretary alex azar led a briefing with officials on operation warp speed to give an update on the status of a coronavirus vexing. they discussed how a vaccine would be distributed across the authorizede one is for emergency use. this is one hour. >>> hello, everyone, and thank you so much for joining our weekly operation of warp speed briefing. while we continue to face concerning epidemiological trends across much of the country, we also continue receiving good news through operation warp speed. with moderna's announcement on monday, two companies have now filed eua applications with the fda. out of the three companies that have showed promising data for efficacy in phase 3 trials. on top of th

>>i got it in my left arm on friday, maryland congressman jamie raskin says the minute the capitol physicianccine to lawmakers, he jumped at the opportunity it's necessary for continuity of government raskin joint house speaker nancy pelosi and other congressional leaders and receiving the pfizer vaccine. my job has been the gobi there are often when speaker pelosi couldn't be in town. it's unclear if all 535 members of congress will take the vaccine and some lawmakers have criticized her colleagues for getting the shot ahead of the nation's most at-risk populations should we online know but new york congressman tom reed says lawmakers have important work to do on covid relief and other issues. >>but she would be in the line so that we can continue to do the job reid says the vaccine ensures lawmakers can do their essential work safely. maryland senator ben cardin says it's critical for political leaders to convince americans. >>that the vaccine is safe and effective we want the vaccine to be taken there's nothing to worry about president elect joe biden and vice president mike pence were am

a maryland democratic congressman jamie raskin will talk about election legal challenges and white house transition. and a tennessee republican congressman on the pandemic response. watch c-span's washington journal live at sea -- live at 7:00 a.m. eastern sunday morning. >> thursday on c-span, the house is back at 10:00 a.m. eastern for general speeches followed by general legislative business at noon. on --s begin legislation on c-span two, the senate returns a 10:00 a.m. eastern to consider judicial and executive nomination. on c-span3, the

and then maryland democratic congressman jamie raskin will talk about election legal challenges and whitese transition. tennessee republican congressman john rose on congress and the trump administration's coronavirus pandemic response. live "washington journal" at 7:00 eastern this morning and join the discussion with phone calls, facebook comments, text, and tweets. >> house of human services secretary alex

this defies the plain language and history of the operation, says jamie raskin.inner take all is nowhere to be found in the constitution. it was used by three of the first 13 states when the first election took place. ofre have been a lot of ways awarding popular votes. there is no reason to require winner take all. is an 1840 two statute that requires single-member districts for congress. you could have different ways of assigning congressional districts. that is the beginning of an answer to your question about whether or not it is a good idea to have the national popular vote. jamie raskin does not mention an argument against the national , which vote initiative is that you would need congressional consent for any interstate compact. there is a question about whether this could go into effect without congressional consent. is an uphill battle. it is not clear to current congress with the senate in hands of republicans would be thely to not ratify compact. host: to sykesville, maryland. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have a couple comments. you have th

of defense news and jamie raskin will talk about election legal challenges and white house transitions. republicanee congressman, john rose come on congress and the trump administration's coronavirus pandemic response. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning. be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. ♪ thursday morning, a hearing on congressional oversight of the f the's crossfire hurricane and -- the crossfire her can investigation between the chimp campaign and russian officials. watch live starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. at c-span.org, or listen live on the free c-span radio app. with a peaceful presidential transition of power and question following the 2020 election, sunday night, on q&a, historian susan shoulders and erik rush we talk about two of the most contentious presidential transitions and you and history in 1861 -- in u.s. history in 1861 between james buchanan and a blinken and then between herbert hoover and frank lynn was about. >> some states did not recognize the elec