raskin: yes. -- rep. raskin: yes. margaret: ok. rep.kin: i want to get back to the original design because we have this imperial presidency which now is off of the rails and out of control. the president declared under article two he can do what he wants. they are making the argument in court not subject to criminal investigation or prosecution because congress has the power of impeachment. when congress is engaging in impeachment, investigation because of high crimes and misdemeanors, he says i can't he impeached. that is unconstitutional. he wants to be a king. that is what we had a revolution about. margaret: this might come up in a campaign context. you think there is not a role for the supreme court but if the president does, doesn't it mean -- does think there is a supreme role, does it not mean that it is going to the supreme court? rep. raskin: anybody can sue anybody and they will. i don't doubt there will be cases but the courts have started to repudiate the president's arguments. you look at the court in new york, which just

raskin: sorry? no, looks like the same hotel, same trump hotel stationery. >> do you feel like you are being dragged down a rabbit hole here? raskin: i believe this is an irrelevant distraction from where we need to go. we thought it was about something else. this is why we are reporting something else is at stake but we got this packet of information. >> is there something they would have liked the i.g. to address, as we are hearing about ukraine and pressure put on congress, trump administration officials not to comply? rep. raskin: this was all we talked about. forgive me, because i have to go now. i have to go. >> [indiscernible] rep. raskin: i am being beckoned by my staff. thank you. [indiscernible] >> live thursday on c-span, a discussion about the diversity of federal judges hosted by the center for american progress at 11:30 a.m. eastern. then at 4:00, remarks by samantha power, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, followed by a town hall meeting with congresswoman alexandria ocasi

in that package raskin says there was disinformation about .n the package, raskin said, is information on a foreign service career official who the democrats want to hear from late next week. it's not clear, in fact, raskin says that this package that was sent to the state department, he says it's completely irrelevant and has nothing to do with the ongoing impeachment inquiry that house democrats are carrying out here. so this will have nothing to do with the investigation work that house democrats are currently undertaking. >> i want to ask you a -- can i ask -- >> reporter: huge dud in terms of a news value. >> is there any sense that the inspector general was trying to get the committee to believe some of the propaganda in the trump hotel stamped crinkly manila folders, or was there a sense that the state department inspector general was trying to sound an alarm about the trump hotel manila folders crammed with conspiracy theories? why, do you know the why the folders were shared with congress? >> reporter: yes. according to raskin's accoun

raskin: this wasn't fun?laughter] margaret: you were telling me recently that you are reading a book that has helped instructor thinking on these times. what have you been reading? blumenthal's volume three of his series about lincoln. it is a brilliant series. it is called "all the powers of the earth." people have set it has never been this bad, this partisan. check out this book, about 120 pages on congressman preston brooks from south carolina. his beating of senator charles sumner from massachusetts. basically beat him nearly to his death on the floor of the senate while stephen douglas stood by and shuffled some papers and watched the whole thing happened. people were coming to work armed. it has not gotten that bad yet. one of my colleagues has been arguing that people should be allowed to exercise their second amendment right on the floor of the house. but, so far, it has been nonviolent. we will make it through this period. the constitution is going to prevail and democracy will survive. margaret: an

congressman jamie raskin was invited to the meeting. he will join us in a moment with his reaction to the news tonight that the very strange package of documents that he saw today, that the inspector general brought to the congress today originated with rudy giuliani. the inspector general revealed that the counsel to the secretary of state had passed along to him a strange package addressed to the secretary of state in calligraphy with a return address of the white house, but it was in an envelope that did not look like an official white house envelope. tonight three chairs of the committees involved, adam schiff, elliott ingles, elijah cummings released a statement. today the state department inspector general provided an unclassified briefing and documents to the house and senate. it is regarding the whistle-blower of the president's call in which he pressed the ukrainian president to smear president trump's domestic political rival. and briefing and documents raise troubling questions about apparent answers inside and outside the tr

leading off our discussion tonight is democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland, member of the house judiciary committee, house oversight committee, and he was in that meeting today with the state department's inspector general to discuss that very strange package which remained a mystery as of the end of that meeting. congressman rasqin joining us by phone, thank you very much for joining us tonight. what is your reaction to rudy giuliani's confession after all you went through today, that that very strange package came from him? >> well, thanks for having me, lawrence. delighted to be with you. i can say it was a total surprise to me. when they passed it out, everybody looked through it and then everybody looked up kind of puzzled and baffled like, why did inspector general of state convene this emergency meeting to pass out a pile of propaganda and disinformation and conspiracy theory that you can get for free from rudy giuliani every night on the news? and it read almost like a transcript of his mind and what he's been spreading over the last several weeks. and then he expl

we're going to speak with congressman raskin in fact for clarity. folks, this this one of a number of developments in washington. president trump clearly is under siege and lashing out in dramatic and alarming fashion amid a deluge of developments. today democrats moved to subpoena the white house if it doesn't hand over documents on ukraine. key white house officials are lining up for depositions and testimony. there's new reporting suggesting the whistleblower was worried his explosive claims might be swept under the rug by the administration. mr. trump's secretary of state has now admitted he was on the president's call with ukraine. there's a cascade of damaging and embarrassing leaks about the president's behavior in other aspects of his governing style. cabinet secretaries like his acting homeland security chief are publicly now airing grievances. folks, all of that is the backdrop for the president's performance today which was at times unhinged, angry, profanity laced and for many alarming. he wants adam schiff investigated for treason, a po

congressman raskin, what can you tell us you learned from mr. kent today? >> i cannot give you any particulars, unfortunately, about his testimony but let me tell you what i've learned from multiple witnesses who have come forward now from the state department and the official american bureaucracy. there was basically an unofficial, illegitimate shadow foreign policy conducted by donald trump and rudy giuliani and his henchmen where they were engaged in a shakedown of the ukrainian government in order to obtain their agreement to conduct a political hit against the bidens. and then they covered all of that up and buried it in the secret server, basically selling out our constitution and our election. but the telephone call, which made all of this infamous, the july 25th call between president trump and president zelensky is really just the tip of the iceberg because this was an ongoing campaign of sabotage in europe where they targeted a number of people. one of those people was the ambassador, the u.s. ambassador to ukraine who got sacked after a systemati

we'll talk about all of the breaking news with two key lawmakers, jamie raskin in the briefing with the state department inspector general and congressman andre carson of the intelligence committee and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. first to the white house at the scene of the off the rails news conference by president trump a little while ago. our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is on the scene. jim, the president is clearlyin fury ated by this impeachment probe. >> reporter: it looks like a meltdown in realtime as president trump denied any wrongdoing during his phone call with the ukraine president and went after the house intelligence chairman adam schiff accusing him without evidence of helping write the whistle-blower complaint. kk but the press conference went off the rails when the president was asked why he was talking about joe biden with the president of ukraine. sounding like a man backed into the corner, the president railed against the whistle-blower's complaint about the phone call with the leader of ukraine sparked the impeachment inquiry. >>

jamie raskin said the law is on the democrats' side, but it's not clear whether this will impede them from getting this done quickly. >> thank you, jeremy. >>> democrats are not slowing down. charles kupperman is expected to testify on monday. also on tap next week the director for european affairs on the national security council lieutenant colonel alexander and on thursday a key witness in the inquiry the national security director tim morrison will testify. he was on the now infamous july 25th phone call between trump and president zelensky and called offer critical details. with me now is a former adviser to national security council under president obama, a former federal prosecutor and a cnn analyst. renata, what is the significance of the judge's ruling ordering all redacted grand jury information from the mueller report to be released and how might that impact this inquiry? >> fred, it tells me time is running out for the trump administration. you know, these arguments that have been advanced by trump, by the trump justice department, i think they're best understood as a stall

welcome congressman raskin. (applause) thank you for joining us. >> i didn't know you are on the outskirts of the eighth district. when it is where you and last time next time. >> thank you for your service. (laughs) so why don't we start with constitutional law. were all thinking about it and that's what you do. it's been a crazy couple of weeks it's, safe to say. do you think that the current impeachment inquiry is ultimately headed to the supreme court? if not, why or why not? >> there is no go for the supreme court when you look at the constitution and the house of representatives that is so powerful of impeachment because of the senate as he sold power to try an impeachment with the president or not and the founders explicitly rejected the idea of having the supreme court involvement. what president trump thinks all these problems will be solved by his friends in the supreme court is one at a supreme court is not going to be able to be solved. it is an important statement by the founders of the governance h

congressman raskin, appreciate your time, thank you. >> thank you for having me. >>> breaking news just cnn and it's significant. a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by trump in an effort to block a subpoena issued by the manhattan district attorney's office for eight years of the president's tax returns. and we are just learning an attorney for president trump has already quickly filed an emergency appeal. the judge in this case, his language is scathing here. he calls trump's argument a koer categoricle and limitless assertion of the presidential immunity. >> let's go back to give context. remember what happened is this is a back and forth between the manhattan d.a.'s office and the trump org for quite a while. they want eight years of tax returns because they believe there was some business practices that were not legal during those hush money payments prior to the campaign. right. we've been going back and forth with these two sides. >> the stormy daniels payments. >> essentially what happened here is the president argued while he was -- they were trying to get the tax r

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democraticos congressman debbie wasserman schultz of florida, andhu jamie raskin, both member of the house oversight committee. congressman, i begin with you. i understand the normal rules of engagement here you wills not talk about public testimony but it is a matter of record. your reaction of what you heard today from mr. taylor? >> ambassador taylor's testimony was absolutely damning. itab was the most significant testimony we've heard to date, in my opinion. it was like watching someone use one of those connect the dots workhe books and go from point to point b to point c. essentially, really filling in so manyy of the blanks, many o those blanks being completely, you know, forgotten by ambassador sondland in his testimony last week, a very noncredible set of testimony, very noncredible deposition in which it wason extremely hard t believe he had as many lapses in memory over events that were significant in the last few months. when ambassador taylor had really in excruciating detail the ability to layout exactly the parallel and shadow of foreign policy that clearly was taking

welcome," been raskin. [applause] >> thank you for joining us.idn't realize you were on the outskirts of the eighth district, we have -- we will have to gerrymander you in. let's -- why don't we start with constitutional law because we are all thinking about it and that's what you do. crazy couple of weeks i think it's safe to say. do you think the current impeachment inquiry is ultimately headed to the supreme court? >> no. there is no role for the supreme court in impeachment you look in the constitution. article once of the house of representatives set the sole power of peach meant, the senate has the sole power to try and impeachment and either convict the president or not. the founders expressly rejected the constitutional convention of having the idea of the supreme court involved. president trump things all of his problems can be solved by his friends on the supreme court but this is one the supreme court is not going to be able to solve for him. it's an important statement by the founders about who governs. they considered the idea of mak

they wanted to ensure -- >> harris: that's why i asked congressman raskin. do republicans get a public bite at the apple again with these witnesses? let us all see what democrats have heard. >> capri: they want to end up like a situation like they did with mueller or comfort civil, corey lewandowski. they want to know that whatever they present, they know the answers are before they go. >> katie: are republicans going to be re-interview the people have been behind closed doors? >> harris: publicly. >> katie: adam schiff has the ability to reach these transcripts when don asked we can see what this looks like. he has a choice and he's not doing it. we keep calling this an impeachment resolution. this is not real impeachment. nothing has changed outside of democrats putting things on paper in terms of what the rules on how they continue their investigation. they are not impeaching the president. that is not what this days. the congressman mentioned bill clinton and rick don't nag nixon. they were impeached. this is not an impeachment proceeding officially. dem

raskin. >> i rise in strong opposition to this amendment and it gives us the opportunity to clear up a misperception that somehow the minority in the clinton and nixon cases had subpoena power and it was in either of those cases to prevent a witness from being called or subpoenaed to be issued. so we're actually offering precisely the same powers to the minority that have been extended in prior impeachments and in fact, in some way, the president gets more powers under our resolution than the president had in prior impeachments. in our case, the president will receive a cope of the statement of information and related documents and evidence and that took place in nixon and actually, it didn't take place in clinton and it did not have the evidence, because at that point it took the ken starr report and turned that into the evidence in the case. he didn't have the opportunity to cross examine theness withes. they were invited to attend the presentation of evidence and we did that, as well. in t

house oversight committee member jamie raskin. good to have you on the show. >> thank you, chris. >> you and i lost a friend today and america lost a legend. elijah cummings meant a lot of things to a lot of people, and i hope that now his passing is a reminder to people about what passion of purpose is and what brave leadership is. he was gone too soon, no question about it, jamie, but hopefully his legacy will be a lesson to all of us. >> well, thank you for that. i mean, it's hard times and they just got a little bit harder with the loss of our beloved elijah cummings, but he has been a role model to everybody in maryland and everybody on the oversight committee, and, really, everyone in congress who listened to him because he's shown how you fight with every fiber of your being for democracy and for the constitution without losing your humanity, without losing your decency, and without giving up on anybody. and he really showed us that as extreme and as partisan as the republicans get to keep our hearts and our minds open, tha

joining us now is congressman jamie raskin. sits on the rules and committee and oversight committee. thanks very much for your time tonight. nice to see you. >> nice to see you, rachel. >> i want to mention before i ask you about this just how sad, how devastated we are about the loss of your chairman in the oversight committee, congressman cummings passing feels like a landmark moment in american politics, in u.s. history. i imagine you on the committee under his leadership, you guys must be just gutted. >> i mean, it's been a very tough week for us for that reason and a very tough week in married name. he was, of course, our favorite son in every way. but elijah showed us how you fight with every fiber of your being to defend democracy but maintain your decency and civility and sense of humor at the same time. he leaves a remarkable example for us and his memorandum will always be a blessing for us who knew him. >> let me ask in the way that i set up this discussion talking about this plan for a resolution of disapproval for

marty and jane raskin, a husband and wife legal team now assists the president again with this. been in the picture all along and we've learned now they will also help the president deal with these impeachment issues especially since rudy giuliani, his personal lawyer and to some extent personal diplomat has been tied up in all this. >> the president said all along they didn't necessarily need a war room but seems as if the white house is starting to staff up there. kelly o'donnell at the white house. thank you. >>> today is a milestone in the road to the white house. 100 days from today the first true measure of who is ahead in the democrats' race for president. iowa voters begin caucuses february 3rd. three weeks later, south carolina will hold its primary. it will be the first in the south and today several candidates, you can see on the right, are at the same event in the capital city of columbia, south carolina. senator amy klobuchar expected to take the stage at this presidential criminal justice forum. a live picture there from columbia. candidates introducing plans to re

nbc news reporting, from some cnn reporting that broke tonight, from comments made by congressman raskin, the best we can piece this together, and i reserve the right for this story to evolve, what we can best piece together tonight is that the inspector general from the state department went it congress today to hand over a packet of information which had apparently arrived at the state department in this weird envelope with calligraphy on it. it is material which purports to have originated at the white house. the stuff was apparently sent over from the white house to secretary of state mike pompeo's office in may of this year via his secretary, ruth. congressman raskin today described it as a packet of propaganda, disinformation, and conspiracy theories, indicating he does not think highly of the content of this pact of information. nbc news has published some of the images. these pages appear to bolster that description of this being conspiracy theory stuff involving ukraine. but based on the timing and conse content of this material and the weird way it was delivered from the white

present raskin says he thinks it's a distraction and is nod ng pattention to it. it was odd. >> woodruff: covering all of the developments today at the capitol. lislisa desjardins, thank you, yache alcindor, thk yo. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, a sell-off hit wall street for thsecond straight day, amid worries over trade and the economy. the trump adnistrationti announced tariffs, targeting $7.5 billion in goods from europe. and a private survey found u.s hiring slowed in september. the dow jones industrial average lost nearly 500 points to close at 26,078. the nasdaq fell 123 points, and the s&p 500 gave up 52. former dallas police officer amber guyger was senteed to 10 years behind bars, for the murder of a black neighbor, a year ago. guyger said she entered the wrong apartmt and shot a man she thought was an intruder. she could have gotten life in prison, and a crowd outside the court booed when the sentence was announced. democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders has called off campaigning, for now, after a heart procedure. the vermont senator

raskin said the i.g. did not say and did not know where the papers came from, but according to raskin he said they are very similar to things that we have heard from the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. >> if you read the packet of information, it's a series of somewhat ha llucinatory suggestions that are very consistent with the things rudolph giuliani has been saying. >> do you believe he was behind it? >> if i had to guess who was behind it and it did not come from the white house, i would guess it was giuliani. giuliani's name is all over it. there are a series of memos in there where giuliani was present. so somebody should ask giuliani whether he knows anything about this. maybe he doesn't and it's just one of his acolytes. >> reporter: and the state department i.g. told congress that the state department's office of legal counsel provided these documents to the i.g. back in may. certainly still a puzzling moment as one lawmaker described it, but as to the complexity of this moment on cap

congressman raskin described this material today as a material that appeared to have been designed to sabotage the u.s. ambassador in her job in ukraine. nbc news says the inspector general characterized this material he handed over to congress today as quote what he knows about the circumstances surrounding the abrupt recall of the former ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. this packet was 50 pages, including lots of wild right wing conspiracy theories about the ambassador that are all debunked but have been circulating in right wing media. and if this is in fact what mike pompeo was circulating at the top levels of the state department, if this is, in fact, what was delivered to him from the white house and then circulated within the state department ahead of marie yovanovitch being fired, if this was, in fact, the basis for the recall of that u.s. ambassador, while the president and the vice president were simultaneously trying to press-gang the government of that country into helping out president trump in his potential campaign against joe biden in 2020, i mean, the fact th

raskin says that was damning. republicans know it. and that is why they have tried to throw a wrench into this entire process and upend today's position. >> kelly, i was looking at a conversation or an exchange that senator cornyn had with one of our -- one of my colleagues here at nbc news. and he was asked about bill taylor's testimony and said that bill taylor is a credible and respected diplomat. and cornyn said, well, i don't know him from adam. i know you better, speaking to one of our producers. you know bill taylor, kelly. can you tell us about who he is and what his credibility is? >> yeah. actually, i used to work with ambassador taylor when he was the state department foreign assistance coordinator after the arab spring. at the time i was the national security council director, leading the response efforts to the arab spring. and i have to tell you he's pretty much a straight shooter. he's very much a capable diplomat. he's one of the best we have. and he's a man who understands the importance of security and foreign assist

raskin said himself he did not wrongdoing wasof in all of this, more that the i.g. was covering his ba saying to congress here's a pact ofria sent to secretary of state mike peo.no we'rsure if he spread it around or not, but somebody is putting out these ar theories te ambassador. here's a picture of the documents. it's in cay lig iti. it looks like it could be from 1780. it really is stran t. i wantmention it because we have been reporting on it and it shows some of these thing are very substantive, some oe vf these things, it's not clear what they mean. >> woodruff: and it's not clear where these came from to secretary pompeo. >> it's a mange question mark. did it come from the white house? there were folders involved that ca from the trump hotel. i don't know. represent raskin says he thinks it's a distraction and is not paying attention to it. it was odd.dr >> woof: covering all of t theevelopments today capitol. lislisa desjardins, thank you, yamiche alcindor, thank u. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, a sell-off hit wall street for the second straight day,

pursuant to clause 4 of rule 1, the following enrolled bill was signed by speaker pro tempore raskin on friday, october 18, 2019. the clerk: senate 1196. an act to designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 1715 leonard drive in sun prairie, wisconsin, as the fire captain cory barr post office building. the speaker pro tempore: the chair now lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. madam, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on october 21, 2019, at 10:19 a.m. that the senate passed senate 2258. and senate 2635. that the senate passed, without amendment, h.r. 1396. signed, sirn sincerely, cheryl l. johnson. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. madam, pursuant to section 1-k of house resolution 895, 110th congress, and section 104-c of house resolution 6,

let's bring in house oversight and judiciary member jamie raskin. thank you for coming on "primetime." >> thanks for having me, chris. >> what do you want us to know about the value of the testimony today? >> there was extraordinary value. she was poised, in control, had a remarkable memory and recall. unfortunately i cannot relate to you right now the details of her testimony. but let's just say that she was a very powerful and effective witness and the intelligence and oversight and foreign affairs committees are gathering a far more detailed and fine grain portrait of everything that was taking place in ukraine with giuliani and with, you know, his henchmen. >> okay. i was anticipating that kind of answer. so let's stay away from the specifics, but let us find out how today informed your state of mind, which is allowable federal budget at trial, congressman. when you're looking at potential abuse of office by this president, where are you now in terms of your concerns after today? >> well, again, apart from what we heard today, all of the testimo

i'm joined now by a member of one of the committees running the impeachment process jamie raskin. let's start, congressman, what does today's resolution introduce and the vote on the committee, what does it mean? >> it gives us the procedure for closing out the investigation by the intelligence committee by moving into the open hearing phase. so going from the closed door sessions and the depositions that have been taken to calling witnesses to come forward to speak in open session for everyone to see. and then it lays out the rules for that and we needed to make a change so we could have questioning by the professional counsel, by the staff and thereby to replace the five minute rule which is familiar to people which works in a lot of contexts but doesn't really work here. it also sets forth the procedures that will govern the judiciary committee's completion of its investigation. so essentially the intelligence committee, oversight, foreign affairs, ways and means, anybody else who believes their fact investigation has produced evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors will turn

joining me now congressman jamie raskin of maryland. i think it was not classified, if i'm not mistaken. you can tell us what happened? >> well, essentially he distributed this packet of information which looked immediately to me like a punch of propaganda and disinformation, the kind giuliani has been passing around recently. but the most curious thing is the packaging it was in because it was in -- it came in a manila envelope addressed to secretary pompeo if they knew who his staff was, and then it was written, the white house up in the left-hand corner but it didn't look like official white house stationary, and there were a series of subdividers which were trump hotel folders on the inside. this package was then given by secretary pompeo to his counsel who then gave it to the inspector general and apparently the counsel said something to the affect of that the secretary reported this, quote, came over. presumably that it came over from the white house. >> so do you -- what's in there, and i know you don't sort of want to talk about

. >>> we're joined by democratic congressman from maryland, jamie raskin. he served alongside cummings on the oversight and government reform committee. he also from the state of maryland. thanks for taking the time this morning. and let me just begin with your thoughts on the passing of congressman cummings. it strikes me he was a personification of the american dream. son of share croppers who rose to become chairman of one of the most powerful committees. >> it's hard to measure the enormity of our loss, jim. you know, elijah was the favorite son of maryland. he's been the moral center of the democratic caucus, and he is someone who always calls us back to thinking about the next generations, about future generations and the kids who are around us. i think about how in our oversight committee, almost every day he would break up a partisan food fight and say, now listen up. here's what we're going to do. listen up. here's what we're going to do. and he would refocus everyone on the task at hand. and that always had a moral premise and a moral core to it.

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raskin, is recognized. mr. raskin: thank you, mr. speaker. madam chair, for your exceptional work on the shield overdue.h is long for two years, our colleagues across the aisle had control committee, diciary the rules committee, the administration committee. they had no hearings about the systematic campaign by the russians to subvert and undermine our election. democrats have brought forth the shield act. there's not a single partisan word in this act. we hear our colleagues declaring it's partisan. name me one provision in this that's partisan. there's nothing partisan about it except your response to it is partisan. of our colleagues said this is unconstitutional. a federal takeover, i think we just heard the words our distinguished colleague from georgia. you know who engineered the elections, over of the framers of our constitution in article 4. who said thatones ongress may make or alter of lations the time, place the elections. it was the framers of the constitution who put in article 4 that congress must guarantee of every state a rep

. >> congressman raskin, i know it is your position the call notes would show the president saying after the request of military assistance i would like you to do -- that said, do you think there's sufficient evidence now that demonstrates there was a quid pro quo? >> well, the cumulative effect of all the evidence we've seen is overwhelming and decisive. and we haven't seen anything that contradicts any of it. one my my republican colleagues said there was no quid pro quo because they never actually got the information they were looking for. put you know the is just proclusive. it seems like that there was this extraordinary effort for a shakedown of a foreign government for corroboration for a discredited conspiracy theory about the 2016 race and also for the dirt that they wanted on the pieden pi bidens. and if you think about what's happened, if the president takes an perception from congress that we send to a besieged ally resisting russian aggression and then he pins all these restrictions to it, that is thwarting the will of congress. he's trying to usurp the legislative power and

this jamie raskin here, democrat from maryland.that includes the ability to attend hearings, question witnesses and submit evidence. as recently as friday, the federal courts reaffirmed the house is the sole judge of imp people t eachment. we will defend the constitution of the unitedstates. >> early on we heard representative raskin say that the president placed his political interests over the country's interests with regard to pressure applied to ukraine. prior to that, republican devin nunes accused democrats of being in a cult. his words there. let's get reaction from the white house on today's developments. cnn senior washington -- oh, let's listen to jim jordan who has just taken the chair. hold on, john. let's listen to republican jim jordan. >> -- who has a bias against the president who worked with vice president biden the day after the now famous phone call between president trump and president zelensky. the so-called whistle-blower gets a readout from somebody on that call, writes a memo. he uses terms like this call wa

. >> jamie raskin was the only lawmaker in the room as the ig was telling staffers what the nature of his surgent complaint was. and i said did it have anything to do with retaliating against career officials. and he said no. he said flatly no. what it had to do with was this packet of disinformation and propaganda that had a return address from the white house that was addressed to mike pompeo specifically his assistant and that you would find folder upon folder that had trump hotel branding in it and when you opened the folders, you would find propaganda that spoke to all these conspiracy theories about the bidens, about the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, an attempt to smear her. that was a bit of a head scratcher. but i think that what we learned overnight was that rudy giuliani played a role in this because he told our friend and colleague kristen welker that he provided some of the documentation that was in that packet of prop gavin tod -- propaganda that was alarming enough for them to flag it. so raskin says that that package was not material to the ongoing mooech impeachme

to putting the government of the united states to personal uses. >> all right, congressman jamie raskin, thank you for being with me. >> thanks so much for having me, chris. >>> for perspective how lawmakers are dealing with this in the senate i want to turn now to former senator claire mccaskill of missouri and msnbc political analyst. first, what's interesting today to me after trump tv and a few credibility of vindman suggesting he had dual loyalties, mitch mcconnell and other senate republicans were unwilling to go there. which shows me in some ways the incentives for senators some who are sitting in states up for re-election are quite different. what do you make of it? >> there are two things going on here. i think there are some republicans beginning to see the writing on the wall. chris, you have corroboration after corroboration of a set of facts that are pretty damning. and you've got some people's whose conduct that i describe as lower than a snake's belly. and then you have some republicans who are beginning to realize that this could go badly. if you can't really make a legi

congressman jamie raskin, i appreciate you making some news with us there. i will let you get into the deposition. we would love to hear back from you afterwards. >> thanks so much. >> we have a lot to talk about, including the stunning shift in syria as kurdish partners call on a shocking source for help. that's after the u.s. pulled nearly all of its troops out of the country. we're taking you live to the region where the violence is getting worse. we're also talking to the retired four-star general who used to lead the fight against isis with a report on what some terrorists may be doing now. and just a day after his son hunter announced he's stepping down from a chinese investment company, our team has the scoop on why joe biden is rolling out an interesting new plan now. joint replacing, and depression relieving company. from the day you're born we never stop taking care of you. are you paying too much and getting too little with your current medicare plan? as a person with medicare, you have an important choice to make. you can purchase a separate drug

congressman raskin of maryland talking about the inspector general of the state department.et's listen in. >> he wanted to give us a packet of information which is unclassified which originally arrived at the department of state addressed to secretary pompeo and it looks like this. so it is in calligraphy and so secretary pompeo attention and it said the white house. so it may have come from the white house, it may not. we don't know. and there is a series of folders which all come from trump hotels so folder after folder that say trump hotel. now i haven't had time to thoroughly scrutinize but it is a packet of propaganda and disinformation spreading conspiracy theories. those conspiracy theories have been widely debunked and discredited. apparently the material came in may of this year. and so it coincided with the moment in which ambassador yuvanovithc was recalled and so it is targeting her and other people. the inspector general turned it over to the fbi and then has not done anything else internally with it at the department of state, as far as we understand. when the

raskin? >> clerk with report the total. >> four yeas, nine nays. >> i anticipated that might've been the outcome. i have another amendment at the desk. to houseent number 8 resolution 600 offered by mr. cole. >> ask that the reading be suspended without objection. >> mr. cole. rep. cole: the theory is what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, requires that witness being called, the chair submit a ranking member are detailed written justification of the relevance of the testimony the witnesses of the investigation. all you're asking is exactly the same thing for it we would be either get rid of this but to require from the ranking member to not require it from the chairman just seems again both unfair and burdensome almost a calculated slight. just operating on the same set of rules under something like this. >> is there any discussion? mr. woodall. >> i thought that mr. cole's first amendment was going to pass because there is a degree of collegiality and every committee. some time

general briefed senior members of congress in a closed door meeting, democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland told reporters about a packet of articles and memos pertaining to ukraine and other matters that the inspector general turned over to congress.

congressman jamie raskin was the loan lawmaker to attend the briefing. this essentially. >>and this information spreading conspiracy those conspiracy theories have been widely debunked and discredited. >>the documents attempt to smear joe biden and former us ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch president trump's attorney rudy giuliani told cnn some of the documents originated with him and he then gave them to the white house. a source telling cnn the white house then passed them to secretary of state mike pompeo. >>tonight 5.30 kron four's always tracking local stories, here's a look at what's going on in your neighborhood right now in the east bay tonight, the police community review commission has approved a statement indicating that officer wallace jensen initiate violent encounter thaled to the death of richard petty perez back in 2014 and the jensen statements were inconsistent with evidence gathered at the scene that shooting happened outside uncle sam's liquors in richmond in 2016 the country custody. district attorney issued a report deeming the shooting justif

raskin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. raskin: thank you. madam speaker, the house impeachment inquiry discovered a substantial body of evidence that the president of the united states has violated the constitution by placing his political interests above the interests of the country, thereby putting both our democracy and the nation's security in jeopardy. in light of this evidence, the house of representatives must fully investigate. we have sworn a sacred oath to uphold and defend the constitution of thence against all enemies foreign and domestic. we'll honor or oath by countering all high crimes and misdemeanors committed against the american people and our constitution. today's resolution sets the table for the next phase of the inquiry. this phase includes open hearings led by the intelligence committee to allow the american people to hear from witness who is have personal knowledge of the president's actions. relevant materials will then be transferred to the judiciary committee so we may fulfill our solemn and time honored duty to d

. >> brennan: that was democrat jamie raskin. taylor's testimony was explosive, implicating president trump as being part of an effort to withhold a meeting and military aid to ukraine until president zelensky would announce an investigation into former vice president biden's son and his business dealings in ukraine. president trump urged republicans to get tougher and praise democrats, saying: >> they stick together and they're vicious. they don't have a mitt romney in their midst. >> brennan: we go now to former republican congressman trey gowdy, he used to lead the main investigative committee in the house of representatives, and he joins us this morning from greenville, south carolina. good to have you back on "face the nation." >> yes, ma'am. thank you. >> brennan: you told me earlier that you had agreed to work for the white house earlier this month as outside counsel to the president on the impeachment proceeding, but you didn't, and that's because, as you describe it, a restriction on former members of congress in firms o