no jurisdiction -- [inaudible] >> my name is jamie raskin. sleeping. 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 won this election, and we won it by a landslide. 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 ass

tonight on the show, we're gonna have congressman jamie raskin, constitutional law professor, rememberhe january six investigation of course. we're gonna talk to him about the ongoing prosecutions and criminal investigations concerning the violent attempt to overthrow our government on january 6th 2021. with republicans now in control of the house of representatives. they say they believe they have the power to oversee ongoing criminal cases at the department justice, which is actually not something they're supposed to do from congress, but they are apparently going to try. that is sending out to be a huge fight. congressman raskin is the top democrat in the oversight committee, he will join us on that in just a moment. we also talk about this breaking news out of new mexico about a republican state legislative candidate being arrested tonight after a swat team raid, albuquerque police saying that they believe that he was the perpetrator of a series of shootings into homes and offices over the past few weeks. tonight, we are gonna be joined exclusively by doctor david kessler, doctor k

. >> tonight jamie raskin on -- what it means for the president. what it means for the special counsel investigating trump's coup. then -- >> what i find is voters have elected george santos. >> a freshman republican bucking leadership in calling for george santos to resign. he joins me live. >> it's a national joke, he's an international joke, but this jokes gotta go. >> another new candidate in senator elizabeth warren in adores isn't a senate race for the incumbent hasn't announced retirement. what's happening in the california senate. when all in starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ good evening from new york i'm chris hayes. there's two special councils for the second time in as many minds attorney general merrick garland appointed independent investigator. this one will review president biden's handling of classified documents. >> i'm here today to announce an appointment of robert kerr. as special counsel, -- department of justice regulation governing matters. this appointment underscores for the public the department's commitment to both independents an

joining us now is congressman jamie raskin of maryland. he's a former member of the january 6th investigation. he's now the top democrat on the oversight committee in the house. congressman raskin, it's great to see you. thanks very much for being with us. >> thank you, rachel. it's great to be with you too. >> i know that you're learning about this new mexico arrest just as we are tonight. this is breaking news that we've been covering. i have to ask if these allegations are proven out, this again is a republican candidate for office who's an election denier, who's an outspoken trump supporter. he said on social media trump just announced for 2024. i stand with him. i never conceded my race. now i'm researching my options. if these allegations are borne out, is this the kind of radicalization, violent radicalization that you and your colleagues on the january 6th investigation were so worried about? >> yes. we warned of this dangerous extremism that now has been embraced as part of the political system. we know that donald trump used dange

i know jamie raskin's will be what many in the media call and election denier.sh gore election so at the end of today, we've got our plane full with excessive spending and public corruption so i don't think that's something that h will ever be looked into. >> in regards to some of the looking into the waste and fraud and abuse, what is your thought as far as is there legislation congress needs to pass to bring back some of the funds? what actual actionsus house the committee taken? >> we are concerned about unemployment insurance fraud in all 50 states that's more ofe a state thing but the federal government was creating a situation where the states couldn't keep up. it was a bad deal when you have shutdowns, so as a normal unemployment rate for the normal state would be three to 7% and then all of a sudden it's 30% so the states were overwhelmed and then you had extended unemployment and it just was ripe for fraud and i think what we are going to see as it was is massive fraud with unemployment claims then you had the loan program which was a bipartisan bill pa

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joining us now is congressman jamie raskin, democrat of maryland. he is a member of the january six committee and will be the ranking member on the oversight committee. should the 118 congress ever get to work -- congressman, thank you for joining us tonight. i wonder how you look upon the events that have unfolded in the course of the last few days. and the fact that here we sit on january 6th, 2023. >> really, it's hard for me not to view it in the context of what happened two years ago today. kevin mccarthy, who originally cried about what was taking place, and rightfully so, attacking donald trump, quickly withdrew his criticism and then pandered to the pro insurrection as part of the republican party and helps to whitewash and cover up what he had taken place. and that was a signal to the extremist elements in the republican party that there was nothing that kevin mccarthy would not do in order to achieve power within the gop caucus. and so he has moved steadily to the right, and has capitulated at every turn to these extremist elements within

committee representative jamie raskin of maryland proposed one more recommendation. the electoral college now, which has given us five popular vote losers as presidents in our history, twice in this century alone, has become a danger. not just to democracy, but to the american people, it is a danger on january 6th, there are so many curving by ways, and nooks and crannies, in the electoral college that there are opportunities for a lot of strategic mischief. we should elect the president with the way that we elect governors, senators,, mayors representatives, everybody else. whoever gets the most votes wins. >> that's pretty straightforward, whoever gets the most votes wins. at risk of telling yourself something you probably already know, the electoral college, established by section two of the constitution is a group of intermediaries is ignored by the constitution to choose the president and vice president. each state is allocated a number of electors, equal to the net total number of senators and representatives. and in most cases whichever candidate wins that sta

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what is your sense from the conversations right now with jamie raskin about how the dynamic will work? the majority of republican votes in the house and senate. i was even at the bill signing at the white house fridge -- i was even at the bill signing at the white house with joe biden for that bill. i worked with gerry connolly on good government bill. i think a lot of ro khanna. they are working together on a lot of bipartisan bills pertaining to cybersecurity which is a huge issue in america. i think there'll be a lot of opportunities for good government bills. there are going to be bipartisan opportunities looking at government contracts. we were always getting tips and reports that this contract, especially with the pentagon, is a bad deal. the military is not satisfied with it. there will be opportunities. covid-19 origination should be bipartisan. more than anything, at the end of this saga with the archives and with the classified documents, hopefully we will have bipartisan legislation come out that deals with fixing the problem in the future to where there is a defined system

his own congressman, a true constitutional scholar, jamie raskin, couldn't be here today as he recoversatment. he wanted me to say the following. i wrote it down. officer harry dunne acted with courage to defend our institutions and our people. went on to say generations to come will think of him and these officers and thank them for their service. end of quote. officer carol edwards, 5 years on the force, us capitol police. on the front lines of a mob's first surge as he stood there, i hope i'm correctly quoting, you said it looked like a movie. looked like a movie. sometimes in crisis things look surreal. looked like a movie. knocked unconscious with traumatic brain injury, she got back up to hold the line. granddaughter of two proud military veterans, she says it was her job to, quote, protect america's symbol of democracy, that building. excuse me. acadinoglad you know your name. laughter and applause] >> president biden: he can calmly president bidden from now on. a proud immigrant from the dominican republic, 16 years on the force. like my son, and iraqi war veteran with the unite

his own congressman, a true constitutional scholar, jamie raskin, who couldn't be here today as he recoversed me to say the following. i wrote it down. “officer harry dunn acted with remarkable courage and valor to defend both our institutions and our people." he went on to say, “generations to come will think of him and these officers and thank them for their service.” end of -- service." officer carol edwards. five years on the force, u.s. capitol police. on the frontlines of the mob's first surge, as she stood there, she said -- i hope on correctly quoting you -- you said, "it looked like a movie." sometimes in crisis, things look surreal. “it looked like a movie.” knocked unconscious with traumatic brain injury, she got back up to help hold the line. the granddaughter of two proud military veterans, she says it was her job to, “protect america's symbol of democracy." that building. sergeant officer aqui -- excuse me. sergeant aquilino: aquilino. pres. biden: thank you, pal. i'm glad you know your name. [laughter] [applause] he can call me president bid-en from now on if he wants. [laugh

jamie raskin and adam shift, two of the most dishonest sleaze bags to be in congress. listen to them talk about this stuff, honest arbiters is astonishing. they are right about one thing. huge significant differences between the situation with donald trump and joe biden. the most important is, we know where the documents came from with donald trump. we have no idea where the documents came from, where they have been with joe biden. we know all of the business relationships with foreign countries and adversaries. their real question, the most alarming part of all of it. we know how deeply invested they are in our elections. they are willing to do anything to insert themselves into these elections. will they be able to carefully go after and get to the bottom of these questions. >> anything to prevent republicans from winning. let's take a listen to the incoming oversight chairman. let's take a listen. >> we want to know that this are logs to the residence. we want to know who had access to the biden center for diplomacy. this is the same type of investigation that the d

will give you a provocative question about that, which you cite in the book from representative jamie raskinerves throughout history we've had big demographic changes, that's never occurred without violence and upset i'm not saying or suggesting that's the main factor at play but is it a factor and why? why now? >> i will that major talk about that because he's been covering the phenomena that surrounded trump over t many years but i ao inc. we have an incentive structure out of whack right now. we are facing difficult times and there might be difficulties only that, along with that but unlike the original sin of slavery we had to get past during the civil war or ongoing vietnam war with real substantiveno issues, the elections at work, that's a lot. elections are more secure than they've ever been we talk about this in the book, with more paper ballots and we've ever had verified by the voters andin we can go back to recount an audit. 95% of voters voted on paper in 2020. they are gaining political power, it might be temporary but they are gaining little power. we have to do something about

. >> jamie raskin rose on behalf of house democrats. he received a standing ovation.as in the immediate aftermath of the tragic passing of his son, and that was a very touching moment because it was a bipartisan moment. >> our younger daughter, tabitha, had asked me not to go in on january 6th, and i said i had to. it was a constitutional duty. and i said why don't you come with me? and so she said, okay, she would come, and our son-in-law, hank, who is married to our older daughter hannah, he said he would come, too. >> we have seen escalating attacks on our election with unfounded claims of fraud and corruption. 60 lawsuits brought to date seeking to overturn the results. they have failed repeatedly and spectacularly. every objection here today maligning our officials has been litigated, adjudicated and obliterated in both federal and state court. my basic theme is that the people have spoken. the election is over. joe biden won by more than 7 million votes. >> we are here to count the votes. let us do our job. >> i start getting alerts on my phone of friends sendin

we are hearing today from jamie raskin, the top democrat on oversight. he is slamming comer for pursuing debunked and hyperpartisan conspiracy theories on the biden family. >>> let's start with this select committee designed to investigate what they call the weaponization of the justice department and the fbi. is this legitimate? >> i don't think it is. i reject the underlying premise that dojs has been weaponized. is doj investigating donald trump? you bet. has donald trump engaged in conduct that requires investigation? absolutely. by the way, you know who else doj is investigating? joe biden. you know who else? hunter biden. the attorney general is a political appointee of the president. when he gets vetted, the main thing he is vetted for is, will this person maintain the political independence? it's important to keep in mind, the vast majority of people who work at doj do not care about politics. i was there for a republican and democratic administration. it made zero difference to the way we went about our cases. i reject the basic premise that the

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. >> congressman jamie raskin is also weighing in on the biden documents.ten to what he has to say here. >> my understanding they did the right thing by immediately alerting the archives and turning them over that day but maybe there is a different proper procedure for dealing with them that we're unaware. that is meaningful think we can look at. obviously we don't want to turn it into a political football. it's a bit disturbing to me saying there was no problem with what donald trump did which was defiantly reject any cooperation. lauren: but it cobecome a political football. raskin said he was delighted to learn that president biden's team turned over the documents immediately. that's the way they're trying to differentiate the two cases between the two presidents. still ahead, health fir h officials are warning a new, a new covid variant may be more likely to infect people who have already been vaccinated. the cdc discuss identified a possible safety concern for some people who got pfizer's covid vaccine. dr. marc siegel is on the show. he is going to tr

. >> also jamie raskin officially requesting visitor logs from the secret service for the homes of former president trump and vice president pence. this is, of course, in response to the same exact request chairman comer made in records to president biden's wilmington address. the secret service said they will hand over the visitor logs. >> sandra: we'll see where they get with the questions. >> john: south carolina republican congresswoman nancy mace, you've been going into the interview with gary stern from the archives in a few minutes. james comer wants to know if it was malice or inept with the classified documents in president biden's locations. what do you want to know, congresswoman? >> we want the oversight committee to leave no stone unturned when it comes to the document investigation. and if and how any of our federal agencies have been weaponized, whether it's national archives, the fbi, or the doj, sometimes seems like there's one standard for the right and then a totally different standard for the left. the other thing we want to get to the bottom of, the president says he'

. >> democratic lawmaker jamie raskin responded to comer's remarks.re are key differences between these two cases. >> we were delighted to learn that the president's lawyers the moment they found out about the documents that day turned them over to the national archives. and ultimately to the department of justice. that is a very different posture than what we saw with donald trump where he was fighting for a period of more than eight months to not turn over hundreds of missing documents that the archives was asking about. when my friend mr. comber says we're looking for equal treatment, that's all we're looking for. it's good this is in the hands of special counsels on both sides and the special counsels are both trustworthy lawyers who i think will get to the bottom of it. >> president biden didn't address the scandal during a trip to atlanta on sunday. instead, he rallied supporters of a church where civil right's icon martin luther king jr. once preached. and he delivered a message about social justice and democracy. >> reporter: president joe bid

jamie raskin says there is a double standard but the opposite kind. listen. >> it's a bit disturbing to me. people are saying there was no problem with donald trump did which was to defiantly reject any cooperation in turning over hundreds of classified documents are upset about president biden's voluntary and rapid turnover of a handful of documents that they found. >> does he have a point, susan, in terms of what republicans are saying now versus several months ago? >> sure. i mean, you need to be consistent on these things. if republicans didn't think this was a big deal with trump, how do they argue a particular fight? democrats face the same standards. if they said this is the apocalypse for trump to have gotten the classified and secret documents and taken them with him when he left the white house, they have to also acknowledge a serious matter warranting investigation when it happens with president biden. >> susan page, great to see you both this morning. >> so california's looking forward to dry weather later this week. but this morning they

but i have a lot of faith and jamie raskin.hink is going to be an incredible leader for us, on the democratic side. and we are going to have to come to it with a clarity, a purpose. and a reason, and we are going to be combatting misinformation and disinformation at every turn. but we know that going in. >> i want to talk about this pull we head out from msnbc. 55% of americans saying congressional republicans will spend too much time investigating biden, and not enough time on other priorities. 63% have no to little confidence that congress will conduct a fair and impartial investigation into the -- let's remember in the lead up to the midterm elections, the number one priority seen amongst many republican voters was, of course, inflation and the economy. many democrats, it was abortion. talk to me about what you think priorities should be right now, with his new session. >> absolutely, we know that republicans are signaling that they would like a national ban on abortion. we are keenly focused on making sure that all american

. >> reporter: now, the house oversight committee's ranking member, jamie raskin, says the presidenthave taken immediate and proper action to notify the archives. he also have confidence the attorney general took the appropriate steps to make sure there was careful review. we're seeing some defense from the democrats about the president's actions. a lot of people learning about the situation, but it's not the last thing republicans will ask about it. >> thank you. perspective from chief political correspondent dana bash, cnn political commentator, scott jennings, also audi cornish, host of "the assignment" podcast. dana, from your sources, what are you hearing on capitol hill tonight? >> a lot of democrats keeping their patter dry, kind of like what you heard from congressman hines of connecticut, a member of the intelligence committee. not so much about the process that the biden white house, i guess it was, or his attorney, took in returning the documents. but the question of why they were there in the first place. because it is true that you're not supposed to take classified docu

obviously, that was not -- when he left office as vice present -- and we also heard from jamie raskin. he was smart offensive. he says that attorneys from president biden appear to have taken immediate and proper action to notify the national archives. >> what do some of these people say about donald trump and the mar-a-lago documents on that whole issue? >> i think a key sentiment we heard from republicans at the time was, don't look at all these classified documents that may have been squirrels away at mar-a-lago, don't worry about that, this is about the search at mar-a-lago and how the government has overstepped. that is really what a number of republicans focused on. frankly, that is what they are continuing to focus on, as we go into this new congress. as you point, out they have an opportunity now to investigate the biden administration and this now becomes part of it. >> one more question. what about the timing of this? if biden's lawyers discovered them on november 2nd, that was before the midterm election. why are we only hearing about this now? >> exactly. that is the quest

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his own congressman, a true constitutional scholar, jamie raskin, couldn't be here today as he recoversrom cancer treatments, but he called and want med he to say the following, i wrote it down, officer harry dunn acted with remarkable courage and valor to defend both our institutions and our people. he went on to say, generations to come will think of him and these officers and thank them for their service. end of quote. officer carol edwards, five years on the force, u.s. capitol police, on the front lines of the mob's first surge, she stood there and she said -- i hope i'm correctly quoting you -- said, it looked like a movie. looked like a movie. sometimes in crisis things look surreal. looked like a movie. knocked unconscious with traumatic brain injury, she got back up to help hold the line. granddaughter of two proud military veterans, she says, it was her job to, quote, protect america's symbol of democracy, end quote. that building. i'm glad to know your name. [ laughter ] you can call me president bidden from now on if you want. [ laughter ] a proud immigrant from the dominica

. >> reporter: we're hearing from jamie raskin. he's pursuing debunked and hyper partisan conspiracy theories. sara murray, cnn on capitol hill. >>> top republicans in george santos home district calling on the gop member to resign. he was joined by four republican house members. in washington santos himself is refusing and house speaker kevin mccarthy not only resisted calls to push santos out, he plans to put santos on house committees. >> i will not. in america today you're innocent until proven guilty. because someone doesn't like it, the voters are the power. the voters have made the decision and he has the right to serve. >> santos lied about his education, career, religious background, family history among other things. >>> at least 18 people died in a series of historic storms in southern california. they are not over yet. heavy rain has turned neighborhoods into lakes unleashing sewage and water and southern california gets a respite today. about 5 million people remain under flood threats in the northern part of the state

today the top house oversight democrat jamie raskin sent a letter to the secret service requesting visitor logs for the homes of former president trump and vice president mike pence and the senate intel committee still waiting for a briefing promised by the justice department as democrats and republicans there blast the agency for keeping them in limbo. >> i would think that there is a way in which the department -- the justice department could make those specific documents available in a classified setting to the senate committee and to the house committees as to exactly what was at risk here. >> and, bret, we're told this closed door meeting with the national archives could go well into the 7:00 hour tonight. bret? >> bret: we're tracking it. aishah hasnie live on the hill. thanks. >> bret: final day of january delivering a potent ice storm and brutal cold to the southern plains and mississippi valley. and it's only just the beginning, we're told. those conditions are causing some major travel headaches. fox weather marissa tores is in new york tonight tracking the storm. good evening, m

i know jamie raskin's for two different elections.he bush kerry election and the bush gore election. at the end of the day we have got our plateful with excessive spending and public corruption. i don't think that is something we will ever look into. >> in regards to some the covid-19 looking into that waste, the a fry the fraud, the abuse what is your thought is there legislation congress needs to pass? what action can the committee pick? >> we areio concerned about unemployment insurance fraud in all 50e p states. there created the situation the states could not keep up with. there is a bad deal when you have shutdowns. a normal unemployment rate forst normal states would be three -- 7%. then all of a sudden it's 30%. so the states were overwhelmed and you had extended unemployment. it was ripe for fraud. i think what we are going to see it was a massive fraud with unemployment then you had the ppp loan program which is a bipartisan deal pastoring the trump administration. i don't think history will be kind to the ppp loan program.

his own congressman, jamie raskin, couldn't be here today as he covers from cancer treatments. he called me, wanted me to say the following. i wrote it down. officer harry dunn acted with courage and valor to defend our institutions and our people. he went on to say generations to come will think of him and these officers and thank them for their service. officer carroll edwards, five years on the force. u.s. capitol police. on the front lines of the mop's first surge, she stood there. she said, and i hope i'm correctly quoting you, you said it looked like a movie. sometimes in crisis things like surreal. looked like a movie. knocked unconscious with traumatic brain injury. she got back up to help hold the line. the granddaughter of two proud military veterans. she said it was her job to protect america's symbol of democracy. that building. akino. thank you, pal. glad you know your name. [laughter] he can called me president biden from now on if he wants. a proud immigrant from the dominican republic. 16 years in the force. like my son, an iraqi war veteran with the united stat

. >> to that point, juliÁn, you have democratic jamie raskin saying we have not heard the details ofgave in order for the gavel. take a listen. >> america needs absolute transparency to everything that speaker mccarthy gave away to that rampaging right-wing faction from the freedom caucus on his way to assemble a majority after all those ballots we saw on the house floor. >> i have my questions about what he'll give away, yours, and how we will watch that play out this week. >> we would all like to know exactly what he promised to the freedom caucus, the holdouts. they held him hostage before he could get the speakership. and now we are just trying to read the clues along the way in terms of how far he's willing to go, and doing damage to the united states credit and other aspects of our democracy. it's another example, alicia, of a politician putting his own ambition ahead of the good of the public. he completely betrayed why he is there, why people put him in his position. he does not belong in that position. to the extent that he's not being transparent with what he promised, he's

which you cite in the book, from representative jamie raskin who observes that throughout our history, when we had big demographic changes, that has never occurred without violence and upset. i'm not saying or suggesting it is the main factor at play but is it a factor? and why now? >> we are talking about the phenomenon that surrounded trump for many years. i also think we have an incentive structure right now, we are facing difficult times and there might be difficulties that normally come along with that. but unlike the original sin of slavery we had to get passed during the civil war or the ongoing issues related to civil rights in the vietnam war where there were substantive divisions, the issues of whether our elections are secure is not an issue in the country. our elections are more secure than they have ever been. we talk about this in the book, more paper ballots than we ever had verified by the voters. we can go back to recounting the audit. 95% of voters voted on paper in 2020. 75% to 80% in 2016. the entire state of georgia had no paper ballots in 2016. all paper ballots

democratic congressman jamie raskin tweeted, democracies of the world must act fast to make larabee nosupport for right-wing insurrectionists storming the brazilian congress. these fascist modeling themselves after trump's january six rioters, must end up in the same place, prison. president da silva, by the way, also vowing here that those responsible will be found and punished. we'll have more on this breaking news story coming out of brazil. right here on msnbc. stick around, more american voices returns after this break. fter thi break. with olay hyaluronic body wash 95% of women had visibly-better skin from dry to moisturized in just 12 days. be fearless with olay hyaluronic body wash and body lotion. teeth sensitivity is so common. it immediately feels like somebody's poking directly on the nerve. i recommend sensodyne. sensodyne toothpaste goes inside the tooth and calms the nerve down. and my patents say: “you know doc, it really works." millions have made the switch from the big three to the best kept secret in wireless: xfinity mobile that means millions are saving hundreds a

democratic congressman jamie raskin made a comparison between what is happening in brazil and former trump supporters. a tweet he wrote, these facists modelling themselves after trump's rioters must end up in the same place, prison. he left brazil before his successor was inaugurated. he's in florida, not far from mar-a-lago. >>> kevin mccarthy is house speaker this morning. he won the gavel last week on the 15th try after finally reaching a dewith detractors from his own party which played out on live television. let's take you through it. heading into the 14th vote on friday night, mccarthy and his team expressed confidence that they wrangled up in votes to wrap up the proceedings and for a few moments it seemed like they had. after florida republican matt gaetz, the defactor leader of the so-called never kevin caucus changed his vote from opposing mccarthy to present, many on the republican side of the house cheered, seemingly thinking the results were sealed and mccarthy was finally speaker. but within moments, it baum clear that a present vote would not be enough to get mccarthy

so michael, the january six committee member jamie raskin, who told you that not only the footsoldiersalso the king pence, but they need to be prosecuted. are you seeing a fair balance and who is facing criminal charges? how can we measure accountability now two years on. >> clearly, the appointment of jack smith and the special counsel was a signal that the justice department, eric garland at the very top, is taking the investigation into donald trump seriously, and that ratcheted up the odds that we may see indictments forthcoming in, over the next 4 to 6 months. with that said, let's be clear. these cases were the king pens, they are not slam dance. when you're talking about trump, obviously a president who never before as a president been prosecuted by the justice department. the statute that is most likely seen that the justice department is focusing, on obstruction of an official proceeding, there is no established president for using it in a case such as this. this was a law that was passed after the financial crisis. locksley, it was the focus on destroying financial documents.

and i heard jamie raskin described best as the insurrection protection committee. that is the key point here. normally these committees are designed to investigate policy and make sure that the executive branch or in some cases the private sector companies, we've done investigations of the tobacco companies back in the day, for instance, are doing their job right. what the republicans want to do is they want to protect their far-right extreme's ability to violate the law without consequences. that is what they want to do. >> how do you get work done? what do you do. now you are a ranking member on a committee, of which you wear the chair, work has to be done. important work, which should just not all be partisan, right? they're lots of bipartisan things that can get done and should get done. but what do you do now? because you are going to be, you and others in congress, are going to be on committees with people who have the aim to politicize a number of things. >> yeah, well my committees going to be an interesting case study actually, because we are the most bipa

first of all, the ranking member, who will be the top democrat on the committee, is jamie raskin. the second impeachment case. he also voted against certifying the election for president trump in 2017. so it's always been a place for sort of the bomb throwers and the more aggressive members of congress. that is nothing new. it doesn't surprise me at all that scott perry, marjorie taylor green and lauren boebert are members of these committees. they're really interested in biden administration oversight, so this is actually the perfect mace for them, and it's exactly where democrats put three members of the squad on the oversight committee. so it's truly a double standard. howard: ameshia, i don't have a problem if you want to call this payback, but the biden white house spin is they're thrilled to have these high profile targets, handing the keys of oversight to the most extreme maga members of the republican caucus. >> agreed. i don't think there could be a stronger gimme for democratic strategists, pollsters, for those who are following the trajectory of what has happened to the

representative jamie raskin.o he sent along an incredibly eloquent, long, amazing statement to read. um, i have gotten permission to read. just an excerpt just the beginning, but i want a flag that will be released after this. and you can see his full remarks to my friends. i'm sorry, i can't be there with you and only doctor's orders would keep me away january six was the first time in american history that coup plotters and insurrectionists attacked the constitutional transfer of power in congress and almost over through a presidential election trump and his accomplishments made common cause with extremist groups steeped in racism and hell bent on insurrection assembled a massive followers into a giant surrounding crowd and mesmerized them with the big lie incited the mob into a blinding antidemocratic unleashed them on his own vice president and the joint session of congress as we counted electoral college votes at the capitol and continued to inflame his followers throughout the riot and praised him effusivel

that is something that jamie raskin, the top democrat on the house oversight committee also talked about. >> we were delighted to learn that the president's lawyers the moment they found out about the documents, that he day turned them over to the national archives and ultimately to the department of justice. that is a very different posture than what we saw with donald trump where he was fighting for a period of more than eight months to not turn over hundreds of missing documents. >> so this is a huge clash between republicans and democrats on the over site committee. republicans were vowing aggressive over site into the biden administration and now they have a new line of attack to go after biden. this is an investigation and there are going to be hearings. i asked chairman comer that last week and so this is a big battle in the coming weeks and months, john. >> melanie zanona, thank you for your reporting. >>> here now, john dean who served as white house counsel for former president nixon and laura lopez from pbs news hour. first to you, our paula reid said something that was intere

is very serious and this is something that my counterpart, the top democrat on the committee, jamie raskin, and i have both pledged on just about every major network that we're going to work together in a bipartisan way to come up with a solution because we have to reform the way documents leave the office of the president and vice president. and follow them into the private sector. i said when mar-a-lago was raided that this had been a problem in previous administrations. there had been accusations that presidents and vice presidents had mistakenly taken documents that were deemed classified with them. this has always been a problem. i don't understand why we can't have a system where someone, and if that someone is from the national archives, is there overseeing the boxing up of documents because every president and vice president has a right to take that -- take personal documents with them. they have a right to go in the private sector. they have a right to write a book and things like that. but we need to make sure that they're not accidentally taking classified information that could

when our network talks about this, you never seem the reflect on the fact that jamie raskin, jim mcgovern, and bennie thompson was offering their regenetics to trump -- the last republican president to be sworn in absent some democratic objection was george herbert walker bush. this was not trying to overturn an election. we want to have had a debate about election integrity. vice president pence agreed that would be helpful, and we were there on the 21st. >> when they stormed the capitol, your view was what of them? >> my view is that that was a terrible day. and i completely oppose political violence. i love politics, but i'm not much for violence, so if this thing becomes violent, i'm not going to be very good at it for very long. so i have no love for anyone who would strike another, harm another for the sake of politics. >> congressman, let's take what you just said seriously. you referred to the coverage of this, the network, and referred to what we might all the legislative history. the precedent, there have been certification challenges before, but you voted to do that after you a

we were kind of chasing behind them on the bad luck stuff. >> so what was -- what jamie raskin calledtical coup, the election stuff, we were ahead of them. i think we were getting to people first. we were developing a story before them. i think candidly, the reporting about who we were talking to and the issues on which we were focused, and then when we started pretending some of our findings in the hearings, i think that was eye opening for them and made them race to catch up. so they were really focused, i don't know if this is resources or the attorney general wanting to stay out of things political, which is an instinct i respect and understand, but they were really focused on the foot soldiers. they weren't focused enough early on the orchestraters. i think they are now. and i think our information now all turned over to them will help them catch up and those two parallel tracks will come together with some decisions from the department going forward. >> and mark meadows? >> you know, i don't know exactly what the principle difference was between mark meadows completely refusing

and jamie raskin's and i were both on cnn jake tapper showday, sunday. and i think that we woul d agree a that the both in a bipartisanipi way, that nationalsa archivesy needs to come at the very least brief the chairman and the nd theranking member of the houe oversight committee as to what type of documents were found ata both mar-a-lago and with both l places. with respect to the bidens and what national archivesit, an knew about it and what's going to go. t movingo go m forward? i mean, are therere a more documents? is there an inventory of whatha the bidens have that still missing? >> we have no answers to many questions. answers to and we have answers that the fbi actually raided joe biden's properties, but they seem to refuse that. tha f.t i reserve it for donald trump. i want to get your tak re on ths ,because john ratcliffe weighed on on this.. i want you >> take a listen. and i want you to respond.know i don't even know all the places, the documents when we we knowth thaatt they wer ter kept in secure locations or that they were guarded during