congressman jamie raskin is a democrat of maryland. ves as the regular on the oversight committee, and he joins me now. congressman raskin, first, your impressions of how things went today? >> it was a meltdown for the republicans, obviously. they advertise to the world that they literally have no facts and no evidence that would justify impeaching president biden for, bribery or other high crime misdemeanors. and their own expert witnesses attested that fact, as well. i think that was the part that shocked them, that we were able to get their witnesses to say that there was not remotely significant evidence that would justify impeaching president biden. in the meantime, we are careening towards a terrible government shutdown that will spread massive pain and hardship and excited throughout the entire country. one of the things you might notice if you are watching the hearing, chris, is that all of the democrats were there for the vast majority of the hearing, and the republicans began to de-camp a very quickly, and it was empty on thei

. >> jamie raskin on his renewed push to investigate the grifting trump family. and, why new financial disclosures from supreme justice clarence thomas won't make the controversy over his billionaire patrons go away. >> dude, i'd like to keep that friendship. [laughter] >> when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. the front runner for the republican presidential nomination is facing an existential threat to his personal freedom and his explicit goal, and the goal of the party he commands, to keep him out of prison and to end american democracy as we know it. but today we saw another demonstration that there are limits to just how far he can bully republicans into doing his bidding. in the last 24 hours or so, trump posted video after video issuing orders for vengeance and authoritarian retribution. >> america is becoming a banana republic. in all my life i never got an indictment and now they're indicting me every chance they get. yeah, you're trying to steal the election by interfering with the campaign. and we are not going to

joining me now is congressman jamie raskin, democrat of maryland, member of the house oversight committeehank you so much for being here. i find that the more you dig into these republican claims, the more it is evidence that there is no there there. should democrats rebuto directly some of the arguments, the specific arguments, that republican are making as it comes to president biden? >> yeah, we need to rebut every single argument they're making, otherwise one of their claims will just get out of control. they will all rally around it and then repeat it 1 million times. but the bottom line is that we've been through seven months of hearings on this. and they essentially haven't laid a glove on joe biden. there is simply not a shred of evidence linking him to any criminal wrongdoing or any treason, bribery, or other high crime and misdemeanor. and all there is a bunch of rumors, innuendo, and of course, the country is about to get a complete seminar in evidence. and what is real evidence and what is not evidence. and all that they have is a bunch of idle rumor and speculation at this po

jamie raskins is going to speak now, the top democrat. >> and engaging in personalities towards president. >> at ease. >> well, considering this is an investigation of joe biden, i assume his name is going to be coming up. >> the house is not authorizing an impeachment inquiry, and with the rules, and saying that the president lied is engaging in personality, and in fact, section 370 says that accusations that the president has committed a crime or that the president has done something illegally is unparliamentary, and acting with the general rules of the house, and it is not authorized. >> the speaker of the house has authorized the impeachment, and it is authorized. >> point of parliamentary inquiry. >> does the ranking member. one moment when we are done, speaker ocasio cortez. >> the rules of the committee -- >> the chair overrules the point of order, while the impeachment rules are not before the committee, and given the rules, those words will not be ruled out of order. >> so, we have an obvious disagreement there. so we are 62 hours away from the shutting down of the government of

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congressman jamie raskin is a democrat of maryland.s the lead manager in the second impeachment trial of donald trump. he also served on the january 6th committee, and he joins me now. congressman, thanks for coming on the show. as you have pointed out, even the divided congress under president trump was more productive than this republican house. why do you think that is? >> well, as you were suggesting, we've got an agenda in the democratic party. and if the republicans are willing to go with us, we will work with them. i mean, you know, i sat there for four years under donald trump. we had an infrastructure day. we had an infrastructure week. infrastructure press conference. we just did not have an infrastructure bill. but when joe biden got a, we had an infrastructure bill in the first or second month. and we passed a 1. 2 trillion dollar investment in the roads, the highways, the ports, broadband, high-speed internet access for people in the rural areas, real changes in the country. we did the same thing with climate action, the b

joining me now is democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland. the ranking democrat on the house oversight committee. congressman, it's great to see you this afternoon. >> great to be with you, jen. >> before we get to impeachment, there is lots to discuss there. i do want to ask you about the gag order that jack smith is seeking on trump. trump's response was to say jack smith was, quote, wanting to take away the rights under the first amendment. you are an expert on such things explain to us what is wrong with that argument. >> what jack smith is asking for is, of course, standard and courtrooms across the country where there are various limitations put on what different parties to a case can say in order not to prejudice the jury pool or otherwise compromise the proceedings. it's not a first amendment question. >> now, moving on to impeachment, which, obviously, it was big news on the hill this past week. trump denies involvement in this impeachment effort. we heard him say that and meet the press interview. do you think this would really be h

let's take a listen to what jamie raskin told cnn earlier this week. we'll play that. >> do you think that kamala harris is the best running mate for president biden? yes or no? >> i don't know what else i can say other than she -- >> you could say yes. >> she is an excellent running, make an excellent vice presidents. i don't know whether president biden is named his running mate. we are going to a convention next summer, it is a year away from now. we are going to go through that process. >> so that felt rather inexplicable at the time. you gave him a second crack in an answer, what is he saying? >> he pretty much made clear that his intention was not to pour any water on the vice president as being a part of the ticket, and that he was a strong supporter of the biden harris agenda. you know, this is something that i think people are reading into a lot right now, but i would be completely shocked, pulled over, if anything changed on the checkup. the vice president is someone who the president wants to run, with is going to run with, so it's sort of a

the ips was co-founded by marcus raskin, father of democratic congress from maryland jamie raskin, whoessed the memorial ceremony saturday at the site of the 1976 assassination, in sheridan circle. the event took place a couple of days after independent senator bernie sanders joined democratic congressmembers alexandria ocasio-cortez and others to introduce a congressional resolution apologizing for the u.s. role in the 1973 coup, and calling for further declassification of u.s. records for related events. congressmember raskin spoke after he presented a copy of the resolution to president boric. >> i was 13 years old when orlando and ronni were killed right here. i had a message sent to school that i should come home right after school. i was on the bus and we were stuck for sever h on. it was before cell phones took place. i remember going to see ronni moffitt's family that night with my parents and michael reconstructed the details of what had taken place and describing the horror of the explosion of the car. i remember everybody weeping for days at the loss of orlando and ronni, wh

congresswoman cori bush, congresswoman jasmine crockett, ranking member jamie raskin . is that okay? is that better? >> just pulled all the way up. >> i am usually at a podium. thank you for having me here today. i'm a senior staff attorney at the center for reproductive rights. with my colleagues, it is my honor to represent some of the abortion providers in this country of patient seeking aborting in the u.s. sense roe v wade was overturned, the threats to abortion access, having achieved their decade- long pursuit, antiabortion extremists are pushing to destroy access in the states it remains. regardless of the protections and oversight in that state. today, i'll discuss the following of the dobbs decision and the knob all legal perversions are using to end abortion nationwide, including targeting the abortion pill through the case of hippocratic medicine versus fda, which is now reckoning towards the u.s. a year ago, the supreme court overruled roe v wade and unleashing an unpredictable health crisis that is used to cause ongoing harm. the court did this by without

congressman, your response to your colleague jamie raskin's criticism of the investigation? about his two failed attempts to impeach donald trump and we have a lot of evidence that is being collected in spite of the biden administration stonewalling and what we don't have our bank records, those will come but joe biden is clear and accepting money from his son and his son was accepting money from agents of foreign governments. we have a lot of advocates and were getting more and impeachment inquiry is warranted because we have to get to the bottom of what the biden collusion in his family was all about. cheryl: todd piro's onset, go ahead. >> there is a subtext that bothers me and it seems to come from the left, it's the following if you don't like a log you don't follow it we heard this from the governor there in new mexico and the subtext from jamie raskin you guys don't have any evidence, to your point there is a stonewalling going on from democrat to the president in the entire administrative state in washington, d.c. how can we have a system of laws when those people tha

or ranking member jamie raskin here leading the charge for democrats, but you've also got people like congressman dan goldman who, of course, was on the democratic side before being elected during one of the last impeachment inquiries. he certainly is someone who we're going to be listening closely to. many of these members on the democratic side attempting to not fall into the trap of defending hunter biden, but also consistently reminding that there is no direct evidence at this point that ties president joe biden to the allegations that republicans are talking about, and i know that in the last hour, one of the things we were discussing was the idea of this being centrally focused on hunter and other members of the biden family. i have to tell you, i've spoken to democratic congressmen, even just before they went into this room, and the point that one of them made to me was that to the extent that there is evidence about hunter, that's being dealt with through the department of justice right now. but this is centrally focused on president biden, and that evidence is lacking, even i

they don't have a jamie raskin. they don't have that. but also, more importantly, they don't have any facts. you're a strategist in the political world. why would they bother with this enterprise? >> my theory of the case is over the summer, their indictment of biden as president became much weaker. the economy continues to be strong, inflation is way down, his border plan is working. murder rates are way down, so the issues around crime, the border, inflation, the economy, which are the key things they have been attacking biden on, have sort of evaporated over the last few months. what do they have left to feed the right-wing noise machine beast every day? they had to go after biden as man, as father, as a person, not as president. and the problem is, that's a losing strategy for them. there's a feeling of, i think, desperation, something deeply pathetic about what's happening here. and it's a sign of weakness, not strength, for them. i think their main thing they have to do is indict biden as president. that's become very hard. so now

joining us now, congressman and house oversight ranking member, jamie raskin. congressman, it's good to have you back on the show. thank you for making time with us this evening. what was your reaction to this unprecedented joint warning from the 13 presidential libraries? >> well, i'm glad people who are concerned about american history are willing to intervene in the moment to say that the trump movement is threatening to either lead the range and the form of the american experiment. that's where we are. we are still in the thick of this struggle, so, it is good to have people speaking out about that. you know, they are laying out their plans to renew what steve bannon talked about at the very beginning of the trump administration, was to dismantle the deep state. by which he means, the federal government that implemented but loss of the people, adopted by congress. so, if they can't repeal the clean air act, if they can't repeal the social security act, if they can't repeal the clean water after the fair labor standards act, they will make it impossible for

then you have, and this is more political than legal, but you have the spectacle of jamie raskin, thepposite side of the aisle who started out yesterday in his speechifying talking, accusing republicans of using bad language are, bad references to the president which was spoken against protocol. [laughter] almost in the same breath, he then accused republicans, house republicans who were his partners on that committee, of being monkeys. literally, he used the word monkeys, of former president trump. i mean, it's just -- and not to mention the fact that this is the same guy who was supporting an impeachment trail against president trump based on evidence that turned out to be completely false. >> yeah. you know, look, democrats including jamie raskin were outraged that fact witnesses are not being called. well, they don't understand how an impeachment inquiry works. it's not uncommon, it's typical to begin by calling a law professor and other experts to explain the framework constitutionally of an impeachment inquiry. and jonathan thursday turley and two others agreed, there is more th

with that in mind, i want to bring in congressman jamie raskin of maryland.more about this. congressman, thanks for joining us on this. appreciate it. you voted in favor, i imagine, of this senior? today? >> i absolutely did. we saved the women and infants,, in children nutrition program. we saved had start. we saved the s.n.a.p. program, all the investment in the people of america that we've been fighting for. we got the vast majority of what we wanted. the only thing that was stripped out by mccarthy and again, in unsuccessful bid for the extreme right within his caucus. was 300 million in ukraine funding. that is money we're absolutely devoted to. the people of ukraine need that to defend themselves against putin's bloodthirsty invasion of their country. winter is coming there soon. we need to be on the side of the ukrainians, who are trying to reclaim territory, into thwart the expected russian winter offensive there. it's very important that we get that done. we know that a majority in the senate is totally on the side of ukraine funding. a big majority

hillary vaughn is on the hill, she heard from jamie raskin, says i have no reaction that i believe -- other than that i believe in the rule of law and the court system. he says we have to stand by the rule of law and what the courts do. we can applaud the fact the system and the courts are working. i don't think people should applaud when it works for hunter biden and not when it works for donald trump. we shouldn't take delight in other people's misfortunes. also, jacqui, we are hearing from eric swalwell, another democrat, sounds like prosecutor found no wrongdoing, if biden has credibility on gun control, allow the trump appointed prosecutor to stay on, we believe in the rule of law. just some reaction from the left right now. we have -- we are told james comer also just reacted quite a lengthy reaction, 2, 3 minutes long, we are turning the tape for the viewers and will have it in just a moment. jacqui, for now, seems like we should hear from and see the president a short time from now. >> jacqui: we do expect to hear him deliver this major economic speech. that's even fraught wit

. >> okay, as always jamie raskin's setting the stakes there. in part of the reason i found this interesting no doubt, is that just last, that we had eugene scott on -- when he had just been in pennsylvania, talking to swing voters in pennsylvania. so, voters who voted for trump in 2016, voted for biden in 2020, not sure who didn't vote for in this upcoming election. and when i talk to them about the, quote unquote, biden -- won these all political motivation. you know as well as i do. 15 people, not as necessarily a sense of where all swing voters are. but you think you have both that truth, that there are americans who are looking at this, until exactly -- politically motivated on behalf of the republicans prevented he's the most white -- part of the caucus. and then, there is what jamie raskin said, which is don't just wave this away. don't understand that the stakes of their shenanigans are incredibly high. and so to me, that is a message that is a little a complicated to deliver, which is there is no merit to this. and yet, what they are tr

are early reaction right now from congressman jamie raskin.don't think people should applaud the system when it works for hunter biden but then try to tear the system down when it works for donald trump. both of them have been indicted on different charges. the presumption of innocence operates for both of them, and you know, we shouldn't take delight in other people's misfortunes, but we have to have a rule of law. >> let me bring garrett haake back in on capitol hill. early line, part of at least what we'll hear on the democratic side, which is what they will say is the hypocrisy of the republicans for making the charges that they're making or drawing the conclusions that they're drawing. but also going back to what you were saying, how this all fits in to the impeachment and frankly, whether or not we end up with a government shut down. >>> yeah, chris, look, i think this is related. i think we're going to see the democratic strategy in response to all things hunter biden start to roll out here a little bit. you heard some of it from jamie

and you think at some point in time -- i wonder if jamie raskin has to go home at night saying why doe people every day. he says the most ridiculous stuff and yet, he does it day in and day out. he's the new adam schiff and comes out and says this stuff because that's his job i guess in congress. nobody knows. kamala harris is going to college campuses and trying to get some -- talking about climate change and abortion. that's it. that is all she is going to talk about. she thinks that will sway the people and i think it's a losing message. >> my niece sent a letter to the vice president saying hello and we're so excited for you and they got a form letter back and excited. is she marketing towards the young kids who like the box she puts herself into. what about the americans who actually vote. >> great points and marie had an interesting point. my curiosity on this and response from them, where we are at this point in the political system. there's not a lot of room to not get behind the ticket. both sides are running out of time but what i think is interesting, this narrative, the lu

jamie raskin had it exactly right.was an impeachment about nothing, and it's also such a stark juxtaposition of this meritless impeachment inquiry taking place, wasting time while we're just a couple days away from a shutdown of the federal government, which is what they should be focused on. and if i can, alex, i just want to respond to the question you asked earlier what should kevin mccarthy do. you know, he gave his word to joe biden when they reached that budget deal to avert a default on our debt. he should tell the republican conference i gave the president my word, i gave it to him on behalf of our conference, and i'm going to honor my word, and i'm putting up this bipartisan bill, and i want you to vote for it, i'm going to vote for it. and if you remove me, you remove me, but i'm going to keep my word. that does not appear to be the approach of kevin mccarthy, and its service members are going to go out without paychecks who are going to suffer, it's federal firefighters going to suffer. it's travelers at air

congressman jamie raskin. >> i don't even know what i said maybe too but i want to progress for americactively joining us here on capitol hill. coming up, president biden is warning us that democracy in general. he's invoking the late republican senator john mccain to make a statement today. i spoke to his wife sandy and son jack on the state of american politics as it is tonight. plus a surprise move by donald trump's legal team just in the state of georgia. that's next. >> within a matter of minutes, the house is scheduled to vote in an attempt to find some way to keep the government open and funded past saturday midnight. lawmakers have been scrambling to find a path out of this problem that they are making roughly 4 million americans are trying to wonder how long they can go without a paycheck. they're facing basic questions in how they can potentially pay rent, or credit card debt, or what bills they can skip if that happens. a shutdown means that if you are about to buy a home, get a more getting a mortgage is going to get tougher. if you have travel plans, it could be longer secu

seems like there is disarray i mean got congressman clyburn, joining democrats nancy pelosi and jamie rasking the question about kamala harris and just one day of each other and also dodging cnn's question, on the vice president harris question. david: well when is fairly obvious, new see these failures and you hedge your bets in this what you really see here, they can't flat out denial come that's not a good thing but the black community you know i talked about this before, so the monolithic community. their independent thing under thinkers of people on the right and people of the left people and affiliated inc., and for too many years, jim clyburn, just being able to say effectively, that all blacks think in photo like. in the generational change, the economic issues, and the effects of crime in the poor communities, and frankly the taxes on higher earners in the black community, and all of that is separating the buxom the democrats. liz: in the latest well it looks like the nbc poll, 70 percentage point drop in block support for joe biden, that's amazing and nothing that it a while this b

jamie raskin was interviewed about it this afternoon.rottled defense of the entirety of the biden-harris ticket that is something that certainly is a sending a bit of a smoke signal up, at least to me as an analyst saying what is going on? jamie raskin and nancy pelosi do know how to answer a straightforward question why did they not defend vice president harris in the way that you would expect? >> bret: that was striking. i agree with you. former house speaker pelosi was asked, i think, three times about kamala harris as vice president. it was weak. >> jessica: it was a dodge. >> bret: yeah are, saying it's the president's choice. jason, if you look at the g.o.p. field. and i mentioned it here about the polls, our latest poll has the former president well up in the polls. if he is not in the race, governor desantis leads -- there you see the 60%. over 13 ron desantis has gone down in this poll, if the former president is not had the race but is he in the race, desantis is at 33, vivek ramaswamy at 31%. here is another one. favorable opi

democratic member representative jamie raskin, thank you so much. and by the way, great to see your hair. for those who don't know you were fighting cancer, you've had chemo. you've been wearing your little stevie bandanna. >> i'll never be that cool again. >> but your hair looks great and great to see you. >>> a major development for donald trump in his case in fulton county, georgia. why a judge is delaying his trial past next month. stay with us. ♪ ("please don'ty casey, richard raymond finch )♪ (ping) ( ♪ ♪ ) ♪ please don't go ♪ ♪ please don't go ♪ ♪ please don't go ♪ ♪ please don't go ♪ ♪ don't goooooo! ♪ ( ♪ ♪ ) ♪ don't go away ♪ ( ♪ ♪ ) ♪ please don't go ♪ mara, are you sure you don't want -to go bowling with us tonight? -yeah. no. there's my little marzipan! [ laughs ] oh, my daughter gives the best hugs! we're just passing through on our way to the jazz jamboree. [ imitates trumpet playing ] and we wanted to thank america's number-one motorcycle insurer -for saving us money. -thank you. [ laughs ] mara, your parents are -- exactly like me?

a source directly familiar with the committee work tells nbc news that jamie raskin, the ranking memberlow democrats. including one just last night. where he told them to prepare for a bruising battle. that is back with me to discuss, symone sanders-townsend's chief spokesperson for vice president harris. host of symone on peacock. and like you, hosting this show last friday night. tim miller, contributor to the bulwark and former communications director for jeb bush. okay tim, i'm going to start with a question i am embarrassed to say. i was asked over the weekend, and i could not actually answer. what exactly what, specifically do republicans want to impeach president biden for? >> winning the 2020 election i think. >> exactly. >> but underneath that, i think that they would tell you that they are trying to, if they want to beat joe biden for some type of dealings. allowing his son to married on the family name. particularly with regards to clients overseas. i think they would put their finger particularly on chinese clients hunter biden had. i think that is the gist of this. that joe

in the words of congressman jamie raskin, if republicans had a smoking gun, or even a dripping water pistol, they would be presenting it today. but they didn't. which seems to buttress the criticism this entire inquiry is a fishing expedition. that republicans are desperate to find controversy where none, so far, exists. that alone would be a breach of the public trust, it would be a violation of why they are in office to begin with. but this saturday night, at one minute past midnight, our federal government is set to shut down. and not only are house republicans spending today putting on this impeachment circus, rather than trying to pass a budget to prevent that shut down, but nbc news confirmed today, the house oversight committee, the one in charge of this impeachment inquiry, that committee has deemed the staff of the chairman, james comer, that staff is comprised of essential workers. the house judiciary committee, which is by the way, also investigating president biden, has done the same. for the staff of its chairman, jim jordan. that means that even if the entire federal go

opening statements and then you've got the ranking member of the committee on the democratic side, jamie raskineverage his minority power to present the idea that they should subpoena rudy giuliani and lev parnas. now, raskin wants to do that because he believes that they can speak directly to counter the claim that republicans are making that -- >> ali, hold on just a second. >> bribed by burisma officials. >> let's play it quick. >> if this dysfunction caucus is going to insist on going forward, we must received testimony of rudy giuliani and lev parnas. i move that the committee subpoena rudy giuliani and lev parnas to come and testify in these hearings. okay. so now fill in the rest of the context there, which you were starting to do. that was one tactic democrats are using to sort of throw their weight when they don't have the majority. >> reporter: exactly. it causes chaos. it disrupts the narrative flow. we'll go to why raskin wants to subpoena them in a second, but the fallout from him saying he wants to subpoena them, was that chairman comer had to do a vote around the table to table r

congressman jamie raskin, always a pleasure, thank you for mining us what is important. and coming up after jack smith requests a gag order on donald trump, the former president basically dares the judge to impose one. andrew weissmann and we'll catch all join me, next. plus, republicans speak very articulately about abortion. trump's words, not mine, congressman joins me with reaction to that. and later, standing revelations and reflections on the republican party as mitt romney announces his retirement. we are just getting started today, and we'll be right back. today, and we'll be right back. now's the time to see what america's largest 5g network can do for your business. (dad) we got our subaru forester wilderness now's the time to see to discover all of the places that make us feel something more. (vo) subaru is the national park foundation's largest corporate donor, helping expand access for all. age is just a number, and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. boost® high protein

in the words of ranking member jamie raskin, not only is there no smoking gun, there's no gun and noke. that hasn't stopped house republicans from doing what they've been doing for months, stringing together a series of allegations and claiming it's evidence. one of their own witnesses, jonathan turley, wasn't having it. >> this is a question of an impeachment inquiry. it is not a vote on articles of impeachment. in fact, i do not believe that the current evidence would support articles of impeachment. that is something that an inquiry has to establish. but i also do believe that the house has passed the threshold for an impeachment inquiry into the conduct of president biden. >> i want to bring in nbc's ali vitali outside the hearing room, nbc's ken dilanian is in d.c., barbara mcquade is a former u.s. attorney and university of michigan law professor and msnbc legal analyst and matthew dowd is a former chief strategist for the bush cheney re-election campaign as well as senior msnbc political analyst. so ken, bring us up to speed. what stuck out to you here? >> chris, i think that

you may have caught congressman jamie raskin on this program last night.out that applying the 14th amendment, you do not even have to be convicted of it. citing an insurrection, you just need to have engaged in one. and congress already proof that, in trump's second impeachment trial. now, trump is calling this lawsuit, election interference. and, as you mentioned, he is trying to get it moved to a federal court. but, do you believe that you do not actually have to be convicted of participating in an insurrection, you just have to have engaged in one. and the evidence, currently, is overwhelmingly in support of that. >> i think the law is very clear on that. and if you look at the people who have been removed under section three of the 14th amendment. that is as you mentioned, coy griffin in new mexico last year. but also, a number of former confederates were removed in the 1860s. that is the context in which the tradition was originally enacted. not one of them was charged with, or convicted, of insurrection. mr. griffin was convicted of essentially a mis

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here's some of what jamie raskin had to say. >> do you think kamala harris is the best running mate force president. >> you could say yes. >> i don't know whether president biden is named his running, make going to a convention next summer. it's a year away from now. we're gonna go through that process. >> that was interesting, whether or not he named her. why do you think democrats are not giving vice president harris their full-throated vote of confidence that one would expect? could this be some sort of coordinated effort among top democrats? >> i doubt it. it's highly unlikely such an effort to depose kamala harris off the ticket would be successful. look, i can remember complaints about al gore. i can remember complaints, actually, about almost everybody who's not an inside the beltway. remember, the good old boys club. going back as far as conventions. people always complain. this is more of the silly season. we haven't really gotten going, there's a lot of hand wringing, a lot of complaining. we're just have to put up with it, eventually, the press will get something, find someth

the ranking democrat on the oversight committee, jamie raskin, spit out a memo calling republican investigations a complete and total bust, an epic flop in the history of congressional investigations. adding that impeachment is a transparent effort to boost former president trump's re-election prospects and distract from the overwhelming evidence of his criminal and corrupt conduct during his time in office. joining me now to discuss all of this is congressman jared moskowitz of florida, and former republican congressman david jolly, who is no longer affiliated with that party. so congressmen, i'm just going to start with this. you know, marjorie taylor greene, she leads kevin mccarthy around by the nose. we get that and understand it. just from a practical function matter, how hard is it to set up an impeachment hearing? like, this seems like a lot of legislative moving and shaking that would need to be done to even set this up. even though we know it's bogus to begin with. >> yeah, well, i mean look, marjorie taylor greene came out just the other day and said she's recommending some states sta

you have democrats like jamie raskin complain about not having a vote on an impeachment inquiry when it was jamie defending not having a vote. the hypocrisy, i am having none of it. >> what are you going to do to counter that. they are going to be performing and they are going to be doing cartwheels and somersaults distracting. they don't want to talk facts. they want to create a scene. do you counter that or stay focused on the numbers? >> we need to focus on facts and not fiction. we need to show the american people the evidence we have going forward and they can decide whether joe biden should be president or not. already, 63% of americans believe joe biden broke the law based on the evidence we have shown so far. >> thank you. fox news alert. police in southern california gave britney spears a welfare check. concerns sparked earlier this week. she was dancing and juggling knives around. ♪ ♪ police say she was not in any danger physically or emotionally. we are happy to hear she is o okay. i am sorry about the free britney movement. i apologize. another doomsday night in philly. ne

the irony here is that you had you had democrats likehave dem jamie raskin complain about not having a vote on an impeachment jamiir y when just four yearsn ago it was jamie raskin ing a vote not havin on an impeachment inquiry. so like the hypocrisy in the lies we saw todae.y. i >> i'm having none of it. what are you guys going to do to counter that? because as i said at the top, a they're going to be performingrg and they're going to be doingoi cartwheels and somersaultsng distracting. they don't want to talk facts.ct ing.they dthey want to create a. >> do you guys counter that any way or you just stay focused on the numbers? >> we need to be focused on the facts and notorfocuse fin and not performative political art like aoc and everybodnd y else on the squad today. we need to show the american people all of the evidence that we have going forward, and they can decide for themselves whetherg forwar joe n should be president or not. and in fact, jesse, so far in our investigation, nine months and already 63% of americans believe joe biden broke the law showd on the evidence we've s

and, jamie raskin is absolutely right.hat we are doing every single day as house democrats, on the committee, is focusing on the facts. and what we know, most importantly, is that if this inquiry is all about reelecting donald trump. it's been very clear, by folks like marjorie taylor greene, who basically runs the caucus now for the republicans. this is all about a political stunt, to help get donald trump elected. she has also made a very clear that if we do not inform, or have an inquiry, then she is, ready and others like matt gaetz and others, already to shut down the government. so this inquiry actually, it's not based on any sort of reality. there is nothing to actually go on. and so, we know they're going to throw this political stunt, and we're gonna come back with facts, and truth, every single time. and as we know right now, as you said with your guests earlier, there's just nothing to link the president with any sort of wrongdoing. this impeachment inquiry is a joke. >> all right so, there's two things that i w

sumi: congressman jamie raskin, a pleasure to have you on bbc news. you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. sumi: one of the 18 co-defendants in former president donald trump's's georgia election interference case pled guilty to multiple criminal charges on friday. scott hall, a bill barr eastman, pled guilty to five misdemeanor counts. he will serve five years of probation, pay $5,000, and do 200 hours of community service. he was originally charged with seven counts in the case for allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election results in georgia. the other codefendants in the case have pled not guilty. need of elements in a nearly three decades-year-old murder. 60-year-old duane "keffe d" davis was arrested on friday and is facing one murder charge for the death of rapper tupac shakur in 1996. davis previously claimed in several interviews and a book that he was in the car with the person who allegedly shot tupac. homicide -- homicide attacked of say he was behind the murder, even if he did not pull the trigger. tupac was gunned down

here is a very telling interview with jamie raskin. listen. >> do you think kamala harris is the best running mate for president biden? yes or no? >> i don't know what else i can say other than -- >> you could say yes. it's because she's an excellent running mate and an excellent vice president. i don't know whether president biden has named his running mate. i haven't seen any public opinion polling. you might be a stronger vice presidential running mate than her. [laughter] >> john: what? [laughs] >> where to begin? in poker we have tells. the tell is, "i don't know the answer to that question," and then at the end, "maybe you, jake tapper, would be a better running mate for joe biden." this is been going on for weeks for the biden team, and it isn't going to get better until they come up with better answers. think about it, you could have followed jamie raskin with footage of nancy pelosi having a slightly more compact and direct answer, but nonetheless refusing to say, "oh, yeah, that's the greatest vice presidential candidate we c

i was gauging reaction on capitol hill, and you had major players in the democratic party, jamie raskin, others, eric swalwell, all of them respecting the law. there was no screeching and crying about the weaponization of the judicial system. there was, "this is sad. we have to follow the law. we have to see what happens. if someone does something wrong, they have to be brought to account. this isn't the president." clear facts. >> you're saying they acted like people who respect american democracy? >> correct. here is jamie raskin. >> they weren't, like, fasfasci, who, when their leaders were charged with something, they tried to tear down the jury system, the fbi? >> facts. >> they weren't republicans playing fascists, like, we were going to tear down the fbi, the justice department, even tear down the system if they didn't like something. >> how can the republicans say everything they've been saying, which has been ridiculous every step of the way -- >> not just hypocrites, they're stupid. >> i gauged republican reaction and right-wing television, and they were acting -- well, the hy