is jamie raskin's work proving positive? this is playing with members with jamie raskin asking your members to stop all of this? >> i think it's pr pretty humors to hear him saying we need to be careful about this. so much credit goes to chairman comer that he's steadily laid out the facts in the case. we're now moving on to the next phase or what i think we should move on to the next phase which is formalize the impeachment inquiry, not impeachment, the inquiry, so we have the investigative tools to be able to find out for the american people where did all that money of come from that went to the biden family. maria: it's unbelievable. i mean, when they were impeaching trump it was all systems go and now they want to slow down, this could be a destruction for your career. talk to us about the evidence that you see here because i know you've had to convince certain members that, yeah, we do have evidence and this is what we're talking about. ken buck for example says he's not in on this at all. i don't know what he is thinki

alex, in talking about jamie raskin the ranking member. sounds like what he is doing to fox news digital story it. sounds like raskin is talking to some republicans who are leary about voting for an impeachment inquiry and he is showing him stuff turned over by the white house. a lot of republicans are going, you know, i never got that from james comer. i wonder why? >> yeah. i think there are republicans some of them who have been hesitant from the first place. they see trouble seeing how all of this fits together. we have seen bits and pieces come out from congressman comer. jamie raskin is hoping to enlighten them. saying a different kind of timeline. we will see if any minds have changed. there were several. we have heard from republicans before who said they were not confident that is enough evidence for impeachment. >> brian: right. thanks, alex. the thing is, too. there is inquiry and impeachment. to ho would ever stop an investigation now without trying to find out why he set up shell companies what eric schwerin had to say about t

maria: how disingenuous of jamie raskin that was mailing house over oversight jamie raskin yesterdayding the public telling fox the hunter is set to appear and fox news sources say he is expected to appear for testimony at 9:30 a.m. eastern oversight committee james comer is vowing to hold him in contempt of congress if the first son does not appear for that deposition, explain what that means on the program last week. >> he should be afraid you should be more afraid than anyone in america, he is in more trouble that it is what america probably anyone who's ever been subpoenaed in an investigation. this guy is under investigation for crimes ranging from money laundering to security fraud and everything in between. if he gets voted in contempt of congress that is more penalty settings going to have to pay a price for when his judgment day finally happens. maria: joining us south carolina congresswoman nancy mace member of the house oversight committee, congresswoman thank you for joining us. the reason is that jamie raskin appeared to be disingenuous is because if the ranking member o

now jamie raskin says you should give hunter biden public hearing.harges will be coming, will joe biden and doj enforce them? i will leave that to viewers. >> emily: do you feel hunter engaged in right strategy, making public commentary, refusing to comply with a closed-door testimony? do you feel this was the right move considering ultimately he will be sitting at one of the tables? now that we can dissect his words, do you feel good move on his part? >> leslie: chad pergram and jason chaffetz eluded to this, chad pergram, comer could have called on the sergeant of arms had he showed up. hunter biden appeared on the senate side, they could not take him into custody. supposedly david spunt reporting if things move forward and go into this inquiry, take into account that hunter had offered this written letter to congress he would come in and answer public questions, which is one word he used there when making his statement. a lot going on there. >> emily: talk about capital, not the capitol, but capital of biden abiding by the law. will that engender

before the vote took place on the house floor, jamie raskin, democrat of maryland who is the ranking member of the oversight committee had this to say about republicans' efforts. [video] >> the reason mysteries are called whodunits is they start with a crime and you have to figure out who did it. the biden investigation is a who did it. what is the crime? that gets very tedious very fast. after 11 months of this, no one can tell us what president biden's crime was. much less where it happened, when it happened, what the motive was, who the perpetrators were or who the victims were. maybe the funniest thing i saw yesterday in the rules committee when a congressman kept asking congressman russian dol -- -- he said he did not know it was but that is why we need an impeachment investigation to find out. negus kept asking what it would be looking for. finally, he set a hind crime -- high crime or misdemeanor. yes, but which one? negus was involved with the real impeachment investigation into the clinical insurrection against this congress, the vice president, against the constitution and

insurrection. >> joining me now is maryland congressman and member of the january 6th committee, jamie raskin. congressman raskin, does it feel like some version of vindication here to see the colorado state supreme court rule this way? >> it's definitely encouraging to see the rule of law working. the colorado supreme court justices in the majority did a really sensational job of answering every legal question and reconstituting what happened on january 6th to explain why donald trump did engage in insurrection within the meaning of section three of the 14th amendment. but it is very powerful and exhaustive opinion dealing with everything from, it is this just really a political question up to congress, to the question of whether the president is an officer under section three of the 14th amendment, to whether he in fact engaged in an insurrection and what an insurrection means. so, i was very pleased that the rule of law was vindicated by the colorado supreme court in this way, and i would think that any u.s. supreme court justice who looks at this case through either the prism of textualis

. >> former january 6th committee member jamie raskin is here, and closing in. two weeks until iowa and nikki haley is still cleaning up comments about the civil war. her allies say -- her opponents disagree. >> new hampshire is seeing the slippery, slick nikki haley. >> how will she fare in new hampshire? governor chris sununu joins me exclusively. plus, american epidemic. this holiday season, there's a new public health crisis, isolation. >> people are feeling more lonely. >> why and how can we fix it? senator chris murphy is here ahead. >>> hello, i'm dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is finishing a wild 2023, and looking ahead to a pivotal 2024. we are 15 days from the iowa caucuses, closing out a seismic week in an already extraordinary republican primary. in a new filing last night, special counsel jack smith argued that former president donald trump is not immune from prosecution over his actions leading up to january 6th. just two days after a second state moved to strike trump's name from the ballot, citing a 14th amendment claus tha

joining me now was congressman jamie raskin, democrat from maryland, former member of the january 6th committee and ranking member of the house oversight committee. congressman raskin, thank you so much for being here tonight. i wonder what you make of kevin mccarthy's closing words about his legacy when the stakes were the highest, we rose to the challenge, simply put we did the right thing. what do you think of those? go ahead. >> he clearly did the wrong thing, and when stakes were highest he completely fell apart. the only part i agree with is when he says he risked it all, which is true if all means our democracy, our constitution, and the american republic. i mean this is a guy who called donald trump from his office on january 6th, which was besieged by insurrectionists and begged trump to call off the dogs he'd unleashed on them. and trump true to form said those are not my people, that's antifa. and mccarthy knew they weren't. he said these are your people, mr. president. and trump said to him maybe they care a bit more about a fair election than you do, kevin. and unlike liz

but congressman jamie raskin, always a pleasure to be able to speak with you.nk you so much for your time. >> my pleasure. >> thank you. >>> let's bring in noah bookminder, president of crew, citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. and elle, justice correspondent for the nation. thank you all for being here. i do want to start with you. congratulations on a very important legal victory. it is not the first however for your organization. we did mention the founder of cowboys for trump who was also removed from office under these measures. and we know that prior to -- after the civil war, 14 united states senators, i have a list right in front of me, were expelled from the united states senate based on this. can you anticipate now that there have been two courts that found that donald trump did commit insurrection, colorado supreme court and the district court, can you envision how the supreme court could wriggle out of removing him from the ballot? >> well, look, i think it's really important that these two courts found that. and not just in a casu

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and even jamie raskin when he was trying to get steve bannon in for a deposition, ban nonoffered the we're not going to do a deposition, but we'll do a public hearing. jamie raskin said on crushes bs this week, i believe it was, or "meet the press," one of those shows, he said, oh, well, he might have a public hearing, but he's coming in for a deposition first because depositions are sub substantive. this is a credible, substancive investigation. we're going to have the deposition, and that's the difference in asking 35 questions versus asking 6-700 questions. maria: yeah, that's what i thought. and it's amazing to me that jimmy -- jamie raskin pushes back, even dan goldman seems to be the new adam schiff, trying to raise an issue oh the hunter biden laptop, trying to suggest it wasn't actually accurate again. i don't understand how your colleagues are not seeing the national threat and the national security issue that this influence peddling, potential corruption creates. >> you know, they've tried to mislead the american people with disinformation about everything in this investiga

you mentioned jamie raskin, the top democrat on the oversight committee there. he indicated yesterday he was going to do an off-camera gaggle with reporters just before this was supposed to start. and james comer never budged. he said we will have an open hearing with hunter biden at some point down the road but first we want to have this closed-door deposition. the other thing i was s struck in kind of the theatrics of all this is -- if you know the geography of capitol hill hunter biden was speaking on the senate side, not the house side. >> dana: jamie raskin is speaking. >> a repetition of everything we've seen over the last 11 months. we're in a remarkable juncture for the u.s. house of representatives. it is an impeachment inquiry where no one has been able to define what criminal or constitutional offense they are looking for. we don't know what the crime is. you know, the mysteries are called a who done it because it starts with a crime and you try to determine who committed it. this is more like a what is it, not a who done it. we don't know what the cr

that is the basic frame for this election going into 2024. >> congressman jamie raskin, as always, thankou for your time tonight. >>> and for more insight into trump's latest claims, what he is saying, i want to bring in "new york times" senior political correspondent, cnn's political analyst, maggie haberman, who is here and has been doing a lot of reporting on this. maggie, first of all, trump saying that biden is the antidemocratic candidate in this race. how much of that is this age-old habit we have seen of his of accusing his opponent of what he himself sustatands accused of, literally in this case? >> there's no question. we've seen him do it over and over. he did it in a debate with hillary clinton famously in 2016. no, puppet, you're the puppet. whatever he gets tagged with, he pushes back on. i think your question is the right one, which is why is he doing this now? i do think the congressman is correct that there are enough voters in the country who are concerned. this is not concern about the framing of stories. are concerned about trump's own actions. when people talk about

jamie raskin gave testimony about this moment that you talked about in your closed door testimony about kinds of people who were gathering inside of the oval and insuring that they left, these are the kind of people who would be. this is jamie raskin. >> here are text messages sent by cassidy hutchinson during and after the meeting. you can see, ms. hutchinson reported at the meeting in the west wing was unhinged. the meeting finally broke up after midnight. during the early morning of december 19. cassidy hutchinson captured the moment of mark meadows escorting rudy giuliani off the white house grounds to, quote, make sure he didn't wander back into the mansion. >> the very kinds of people who are being described as unhinged would be the administration. and i would anticipate that donald trump would probably release from prison people like enrique tarrio, people like members of the proud boys and oath keepers. they would be back on the streets. is that something that you think about? and that's probably what would happen, no? >> i do agree with that. i agree he would bring in people wh

discuss is a constitutional expert, top democrat on the house oversight committee congressman jamie raskinyou for coming in. again, happy new year to you. you heard chris sununu saying it's politics and it's not just republicans coming out against this and we've heard democrats and independents as well saying they're not comfortable with this. are you comfortable with one state official taking a candidate off the ballot? >> the constitution is the supreme law of the land so we are all governed under the rules of the constitution and it was two very conservative legal scholars who brwrote, the best most authoritative article who said donald trump is clearly disqualified from being on the ballot because he participated in an insurrection. so this becomes a test for the originalists and the texturalists on the supreme court, and i think all of the justices from left to right call themselves texturalists and originalists. if you swore an oath and violated the oath by engaging in insurrection or rebellion you can never hold public office again and the original purposes of it are equally clear b

stuart: jamie raskin is trying to persuade some republicans not to proceed with the inquiry.luck? >> i don't know that he is. if you lack at jamie raskin's statements, he has constantly moved the goalpost much like the biden administration if. he said all we would find in bank records are papa john's receipts and starbucks. he is acting more like the chief defense counsel for the biden family than as the ranking member of the committee. so i hope it doesn't stick, but we have a very narrow majority, and we just need to make sure that we do this right way. i'm told that -- [inaudible] was very eloquent and said months ago before we had even more evidence that now the time -- the time to launch an impeachment inquiry. stuart: i'm told republicans are likely the launch e it, and it's quite possible that articles of impeachment, that's the full charges, could be laid next spring which means that you've got a 3 or 4-month period here with all kinds of things coming out right as we're going into the caucuses and the primaries. that's to not good for the bidens. -- that's not good f

two things struck me as i watched jamie raskin make notes. first, i had sat in the bishop meetings with kevin mccarthy for more than two years, and not once had i seen him outline the substance of a press statement, or anything else, to anyone. in our republican meetings, it was the other way around, kevin relied on notes prepared by the staff and even the smaller gatherings. he called us to explain anything that required any level of detail. second, i could not shake the feeling of being a visitor from another planet. it's hard to overstate the extent to which democrats and republicans inhabit different worlds in congress. >> and joining our discussion now a speaker nancy pelosi, thank you very much for joining us tonight. you know, as i read this book, and i saw the invitation to history, that you extended to liz cheney. i have been wondering how heavy did that telephone feel in your hand during that important call to make that a bipartisan committee? >> it was very important for it to be bipartisan. part of the conversation at that table l

congressman jamie raskin of maryland served as a top democrat on the oversight committee. he led the second impeachment of donald trump. he joins me now. today, i suppose today was not a surprise, and yeah, i have to say that i still am a bit shocked. i am, a little bit, that they are going to do it apparently. what is your reaction? >> they got nothing else to do, chris. there is literally no legislative program. they just want to cut off the people of ukraine. they are not interested in humanitarian assistance to ukraine or to people in gaza or to helping people in israel, none of it. they are not interested in any of it it's all about getting that much from back into power. so, i agree with you, i am surprised to, because their investigation is so patently fraudulent and merit-less, but they don't care. the real things to keep it going into the next year into the campaign season. donald trump can say, yeah, i may have 91 federal and state felony charges against me. i may have been impeached twice for the last time for inciting a violent insurrection against my own gover

contempt of congress charges against him -- >> ryan, hold on just a second, i want to go right to jamie raskinking about all of this on capitol hill. >> pieces of evidence and distort and misrepresent what has taken place there. this is a pattern that hunter biden and his lawyer clearly observed that members of this committee have observed, has been taking place for many months now. there are 14 transcribed interviews that are out there, and only two have been released -- i'm sorry, there are a total of 16, and only two have been released to the public, so there's still 14 transcribed interviews that chairman comer has not released to the public. i called upon him today to release those transcribed interviews to the public so that the various witnesses are not subject to the distortion and mischaracterization of their statements. that process is interfering with the work of this committee. because witnesses don't want to come in only to have a closed-door deposition and then have their words mangled and misrepresented to the public through selective leaks and in orchestrated choreography of fa

before the vote took place on the house floor, jamie raskin, democrat of maryland who is the rankingember of the oversight committee had this to say about republicans' efforts. [video] >> the reason mysteries are called whodunits is they start with a crime and you have to figure out who did it. the biden investigation is a who did it. what is the crime? that gets very tedious very fast. after 11 months of this, no one can tell us what president biden's crime was. much less where it happened, when it happened, what the motive was, who the perpetrators were or who the victims were. maybe the funniest thing i saw yesterday in the rules committee when a congressman kept asking congressman russian dol -- -- he said he did not know it was but that is why we need an impeachment investigation to find out. negus kept asking what it would be looking for. finally, he set a hind crime -- high crime or misdemeanor. yes, but which one? negus was involved with the real impeachment investigation into the clinical insurrection against this congress, the vice president, against the constitution and ag

joining us to talk more about this, democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland, he's the rankingngressman, as always, it's a pleasure, sir, thank you for joining us on this. just last month you told santos it was not shameful to, in fact, resign. he is the sixth member of the house in u.s. history to, in fact, be ousted. he has said expulsion has been -- expulsion has been and quote, guilty of treason and those convicted of crimes, saying neither apply to him. he also claims that he was denied due process. what is your reaction, congressman, to that? >> thank you so much for having me. well, a month ago the same new york republicans who brought the motion of expulsion forward today had moved forward to expel santos, and i opposed it on the grounds that there had been no criminal conviction, nor had there been an ethics finding by our own internal house process that he had engaged in grave misconduct. but that finding did come with the reptf the ethics committee, which determined that he had engaged in just outrageous ripoffs of campaign donors' mon. the conversion of campaign mon

democrats like maryland congressman jamie raskin are trying to make after 11 months of this. no one can tell us what presidents president biden's crime was. raskin argues taxpayers deserve better. this stupid blundering investigation is keeping us from getting any real work done. but georgia republican congressman buddy carter says the inquiry is just the beginning. bank statements don't want. >> now, republicans, especially those from more moderate districts are continuing to stress that today's vote. >> does not mean a vote to actually impeach. president biden will happen. in washington. i'm jessi tenure. >> jessi thanks. former giants catcher fan favorite buster posey is getting backlash from some people after saying temperatures goes issues with drugs and crime. they've been a factor in why superstar shohei ohtani decided not to side with the giants. the la dodgers beat everyone in baseball by signing ohtani to a 10 year 700 million dollar contract. we've learned the giants say they offered the same deal. the team even says they included the stipulation that 680 million d

i asked jamie raskin about that very point a few weeks ago. >> the constitution is clear on this question. it would be like saying, should we have school desegregation or not? should it be equal production in the constitution? or allow the voters to decide? there's some things that we commit to the constitution and then we follow the constitution. >> that's one thing to address. one more, you will hear claims of election interference. we have been hearing them for quite some time. officials will find themselves trying to fend off accusations. including the colorado secretary of state. >> bringing a lawsuit to determine if a potential candidate is disqualified by very clear language of the constitution is not election interference. it's living in a society that believes in rule of law. having a proceeding where a judge decides if there's questions about a constitution or the law, the ultimate way things will go, is how american democracy should work. >> ladies and gentlemen of the electorate, think you have had enough? buckle up, buttercups. this might be the beginning. let's talk about th

can't have it only offends you when it is on the left or right, depending on where you stand, jamie raskin. thank you so much. the climate deal with arguably major discrepancies in the fine print, stay with us. >> >> just in, a very big day on wall street, as markets are reacting positively to the fed's decision. vanessa, the dow hit a significant milestone. >> reporter: at 2:00 p.m. when the fed announced it was going to pause rates, we saw the dow pop. you can see it right there at 2:00 p.m. that led the dow to close up 1.4%, setting a new all-time record high, beating its record that was set two years ago. and this was a great day for wall street overall. the nasdaq and the s&p also closing and gaining up. traders are liking the pause that the fed announced today, but also liking the fact that what they had baked into markets and what they were expecting next year, rate cuts, is exactly what the federal reserve has projected. we could see three rate cuts next year. that's encouraging also for the american people, who are dealing with high mortgage rates, high interest rates, rate pauses

this, even on the left saying that the supreme court will have to overturn this, i don't think jamie raskinhinks this will go colorado's way. ruth marcus from the "washington post" agrees and thinks the decision to be unanimous to overturn it. she can't buy into clarence thomas having a vote on any matter relating to donald trump, but it is in the country's best interest to shove this back down colorado's throats. you just had a handful of people on there, what is disheartening to me in final analysis, more common serns among a handful of people than displayed by a lot of courts and liberal activists who are going to be embolden by this decision to continue this effort in any number of more states beyond the 17 the graph showed to try to use legal process to remove trump from the ballot not withstanding and ignoring the will of the voters that is orwellian to me and amazing people are not shouting this down. that is the disheartening part. if you ask the average voter to exercise sense, they are with the people consistent with lincoln, ultimate justice of the people. we have lost that in th

thank you, kaitlan collins, kaitlan's back at 9 with the source, joining us is maryland democrat jamie raskinght national attention to their role in ruthy giuliani's countless lies. what is your reaction to this verdict? >> well i like the fact that a lot of these people are finally getting their comeuppance. it i s a glorious thing to see fox news pay out $787 million to dominion voting system to see shay months and rudy freeman who were defamed by rudy giuliani get an award of $147 million. it is no shame to have your reputation intact and for having safety in your home but at least it puts the justice system on the side of the people defending democracy. and shay moss and ruby freeman should be proud that they will be role models for everyone going into the 2024 election, the election workers the poll workers the election judges, everybody standing up for the actual infrastructure of political democracy which the republicans have declared warr on. >> that's interesting. you think it sends an inspiring message for people who volunteer, who work for not very much money in these essential job

jamie raskin fired back at them for that. >> hunter biden said i will take whatever format you want.come and testify in public but what i won't do is do it behind closed doors so you can leak out snippets and claim i said something i didn't which is what they've been doing for the last we 10 months. >> reporter: hunter biden's attorney was given until monday to confirm his client's attendance. griff: thank you. >> it was a regrettable day. prior to yesterday only five people had ever been expelled from congress, three were confederates, two were convicted of federal charges and george santos has not been convicted in court. >> the great battles of liberty all through the dark ages, people able to have adjudicated what they are accused of, in open court's. griff: quite a week on capitol hill. aishah: george santos is out. he has been expelled. a lot going on on the hill. let's bring in our political panel. fox news contributor richard fowler. thank you for joining us. i will get your reaction. george santos is out which means republicans are in quite the bind. what happens next? >> re

we are seeing them holding them in contempt, this is a real showdown, democrat responding, jamie raskine top republican saying this is a joke and also reminding people that jim jordan, a republican member had a subpoena last year to testify. we will see whether they follow up with this move, it's unclear what legal standing may have as republicans have said, they are worried about their legal standing because they have not yet voted to formally authorize their impeachment inquiry. republican leaders try to push ahead with the bow potentially as early as next week to try to formally authorize this impeachment inquiry. it is unclear if it would have the votes at this point, they can only refuse republicans. that majority gets slimmer with kevin mccarthy at the end of this year. just another sign that house republicans are really wrapping up efforts to impeach president joe biden. >> melanie with the latest from capitol hill, thank you. stomach debate night with republican front runner not joining in again, how will these four candidates on state handled the contest? will they address form

democrats like maryland congressman jamie raskin are trying to make after 11 months of this. no one can tell us what presidents president biden's crime was. raskin argues taxpayers deserve better. this stupid blundering investigation is keeping us from getting any real work done. but georgia republican congressman buddy carter says the inquiry is just the beginning. they statements don't want. >> now, republicans, especially those from more moderate districts are continuing to stress that today's vote. >> does not mean a vote to actually impeach. president biden will happen. in washington. i'm jessi tenure. >> the supreme court has announced it will hear an appeal that could overturn hundreds of charges from the capitol riot, including charges against former president donald trump. the justices will review a charge of obstruction of an official proceeding that's been brought against more than 300 people that charger. first of the disruption of congress's certification of joe biden's 2020 presidential election victory over trump. that's among the 4 counts brought against the f

jamie raskin of maryland. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. know you lived through january 6th and led the congressional effort to hold trump accountable. do you expect the u.s. supreme court will now take on the question of trump's immunity? >> they've got to take it on. it is a ridiculous claim that the president can commit any crime that he or she wants while in office and can't be prosecuted. whether it's murder or rape or conspiracy to overthrow the government. and in fact, article i section three clause seven says even if you've got through an impeachment, that does not absolve you from criminal liability or protect you later. you may remember at the end of the senate impeachment trial, even those who voted to acquit donald trump like mitch mcconnell were saying he of course stands for criminal prosecution and is liable later for the things that he's done. so, the supreme court must decide this question as quickly as possible if justice is to be served and it's got to reject the extravagant and baseless claim of presidential immunity. >>

he was a private citizen and actually jamie raskin kin, the ranking member on the oversight and leadingon that panel is saying that there's reporting that suggests the $1,380 that hunter was transferring to his father was actually for a car payment, but what republicans are pointing to is the fact that whether hunter is using this money for a car payment to the president or what, he is sending money from his business account where he is receiving funds from china. so joe can -- president biden -- larry: joe should have never said what he said about no involvement with his son's finances. the republican haves more dots to connect. >> they definitely do and they're conning this investigation so we'll find out. larry: right off the press, brooke singman, nobody does it better. appreciate it very much. switching gears now, back to this whole iran business if you will. this is causing nothing but trouble and mischief in the middle east and hamas, yes, but spreading to the houthis and lord knows where. we welcome back to the show, iowa senator joni ernst, member of the senate arms committee.

jamie raskin, a top democrat on the oversight committee who is very involved in the democratic impeachments, he had this warning, he said once you get on the train at the first stop, you are pretty much going to take the whole ride. what do you make of this? >> yeah, this is something that we've been asking the moderate republicans and quite frankly all republicans, the idea that thunde taking this vote, if they don't vote on impeachment articles, it is kind of saying hey, we did this investigation, we didn't find anything, he is off the hook. let's move on. and republicans have been insisting that there is some wrongdoing, they are just looking to find it. essentially these moderate republicans have said this is not a vote on impeaching the president. they have really been trying to differentiate between voting to authorize the inquiry which is bolstering the legal weight behind the probe, expanding their investigative powers saying this is by no means a vote on impeaching the president, this is a step that comes far before voting on impeachment articles. they are really trying to draw a l

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we are hearing from a ranking house member right now, jamie raskin hearing and i think we'll go to him to see if we have reaction. >> -- their own republican witness are, from what he has seen there are not grounds for an impeachment inquiry or rather, impeachment in general of president biden, but that has not deterred the republican side from continuing to try to force through a completely groundless and unsubstantiated and i won't even call it an investigation. i just call it an exercise in futility. when we've seen from this deposition, chairman comer himself told hunter biden, you choose, whichever you choose, come in public and come in private. hunter biden in an attempt to clear his name from what has been happening publicly has stated that he is willing to testify to the public. but because it's been debunked, exposed and consistently covered and exposed as having falsehoods they decided that they will take back and rescind their offer of a public investigation and will only allow it to happen in private and they will not even commit to making any of these transcripts or have h

congressman jamie raskin will be here after this quick break. ♪♪ >>> mr.eseborough wrote that when the joint session of congress got to arizona in the al bettical list of states the vice president should not count the biden votes, quote, because there are two slates of votes. his justification was that a group of trump supporters in arizona and other swing states decide to proclaim themselves the true electors for the state, creating two sets of electorele. the official electors selected by the state and a group of fake elects. >>> hi again, everyone, i'm jen psaki in for nicolle wallace. and one of the architects of this illegal plan kenneth cheeseborough has been facing the consequences. in october, he pleaded guilty in the fulton county racketeering case. while he wasn't charged by the special counsel, he's part of jack smith's case against the ex-president. and he's been identified as co-conspirator number 5 in the indictment. and we recently learned that he's cooperating with the over dozen fake elects there. now, nbc news can confirm after speaking w

. >> reporter: congressman jamie raskin, as always, thank you for your time tonight.ore insight into trump's latest claims, what he is saying, i want to bring in cnn 's -- new york times senior political correspondent, cnn's political analyst, maggie hein. who's been doing a lot of reporting on. this, maggie first of all what you heard the congressman talking about there, trump saying that biden is the anti-democratic candidate in this race. how much of that is an age old habit of his of accusing his opponents of what he himself stands accused of? literally in this case. >>> there's no question -- we've seen him do that over and over. he did that with hillary clinton in a famous debate in 2016 where she called him a putin of putin and he said i'm milkovich, your puppet. that's something that he pushes back on. but i think a question is the right one which is why he's doing this now. and i think the congressman is correct, that there are enough voters in the country who are concerned about -- this is not concern about the framing of stories are concerned about trump's

congressman jamie raskin looking down at his phone said, liz, there's a confederate monuments flag flying that hadn't happened even during the civil war. my god, jamie, what have they done? the unmistakable sound of rioters pounding on doors outside the chamber was getting louder and louder. inside capitol police were slamming doors shut and locking them, we were being locked in. people were saying our chairs were bulletproof, that we could take cover behind them. jim jordan approached me, quote, we need to get the ladies off the aisle, he said, and put out his hand. let me help you. i couldn't believe what i was hearing. really? he and his co-conspirators in the white house and congress had provoked this attack on the heart of american democracy and now he thought i needed or wanted his help? i swatted his hand away, "get away from me you effing did this." as jim scurried off there was another announcement from the capitol police, we have tear gas in the rotunda, please be a surprised there are masks under your seats, please be prepared to don your gas masks. there was an awful din in th

here's a jamie raskin sound bite, this is 14, i'll give you 15 toens a. watch. >> they wanted to conduct the deposition in a closed-door interview so the public couldn't see it, and so they could continue to cherry pick little pieces of evidence and distort and misrepresent what had taken place. >> trace: james comer said he would release the transcripten then let hunter biden testify in public. >> first, this is normal procedure. i was a senate investigator. you also have a deposition first. second, i didn't hear congressman raskin complaining when this was done are the two trump impeachment trials. >> trace: he didn't. john yoo great to have you as always thank you they are not calling it damage control, at least not yet, but the bidden campaign is reportedly scrambling to deal with the double trouble of an impeachment inquiry and the first son dodging a subpoena. jeff paul is live with us on set with the latest on this jeff good epaing. >> reporter: good evening trace the white house tonight leaving a statement calling the inquiry a baseless republican

joining me now is congressman and house oversight ranking member jamie raskin.essman, it's great to have you back on the show. thank you so much for making time for us this evening. what was your reaction to this unprecedented joint warning from the 13th presidential libraries? >> well, i'm glad that the people were concerned about american history, and are willing to intervene in the moment to say that the trump movement is threatening to utterly deranged and the form of the american experiment. and that's where we are. we are still in the thick of this struggle. and so, it's good to have people speaking out about that. you know, they are having plans to renew what's been banned, talking about at the very beginning of the trump administration, which was to dismantle the deep state by which he means the federal government that implements the laws of the people adopted by congress. so, if they can't repeal the clean era act, if they can't repeal the social security act, if they can't repeal the clean water act or the free labor standards act, they will make it im

before the vote, maryland congressman jamie raskin explained the republicans' evidence-free impeachment this way. >> mr. speaker, the reason mysteries are called whodunits is because they start with a crime and then you have to figure out who did it. the biden impeachment investigation isn't a whodunit. it's a "what is it"? it's like an agatha christie novel where the mystery is what's the crime? >> stephen: mmm. i don't know, jamie. there are a lot of mysteries without a crime. america loved the cbs hit series "murder, she don't." some republicans fired back, like south carolina representative ralph norman, seen here single-handedly ending the bucket hat craze. rep. norman insisted if we just give them infinite time, they'll find something. >> the evidence, i think as things come out, will finally show what the trail is. >> stephen: "once we show what the trail is, it'll lead us to a series of breadcrumbs, and that will then the hintht to a hint, will then suggest a map, which will finally bring us to a riddle inside a conundrum and smothered in an enigma sauce. the point is, the point

well i asked congressman jamie raskin who said on the january six committee, about that very point a few weeks ago. >> the constitution is very clear on this question. and so, it would be like saying, should we have school desegregation or not? should it be based on equal production of what's in the constitution, or should we just allow the voters to decide? and, there are some things that we commit to the constitution, and then we follow the constitution. >> that's one thing to address. one more, you're going to hear a lot of claims of election interference. in fact we're already hearing them tonight. we have been hearing them for quite some time. officials are going to find themselves trying to fend off those very accusations, including colorado secretary of state janet griswold. >> bringing a lawsuit to determine whether a potential candidate is disqualified by very clear language of the u.s. constitution, it is not election interference. it is living in a society that believes in the rule of law. having a proceeding where a judge decides if there are questions about a constitutio