it's been a busy and heartbreaking year for raskin.ita braver has his story. >> reporter: americans watched congressman jamie raskin manage the impeachment trial of former-president trump last february. >> this trial is about who we are, who we are. >> reporter: and they now see him on the committee investigating the january 6th capitol assault. >> we have a duty to collect all of the evidence we need to report back to congress, and to the american people. >> reporter: but many viewers may not know that raskin has carried out these duties under circumstances most of us could not even imagine. after all, jamie raskin seems to have lived a charmed life. since 2017, representing a maryland congressional district that shares his pragmatic progressive ideals. >> this is a community of activists and dreamers and visionaries. it always has been. >> reporter: he met his wife, law professor sarah bloom raskin, a former-deputy treasury secretary and federal reserve board member, when they were both students at harvard law school. jamie raskin's

in jamie raskin's new, book out today. we learned, among other things, that he had a little initially proposed a motion that senators should vote on senators impeachment by secret ballot. they should not stand up and vote, but they shouldn't conduct their vote in secret. i think a lot of americans believe that had been a secret ballot, the conviction of trump would not have just been a shirt, it might have been unanimous. raskin also proposes senators should sit alphabetically rather than by party, breaking senators apart from their partisan bonds, at least in that physical sense, so that could more easily vote,. we learned then raskin's book that he has come to see the attack on january six is three coincided and brinks, the first ring, the outer ring, the rioters. screaming and smashing things. up the second ring, the middle ring, the insurrectionists, who came to actually stop the congressional vote counting process, including the paramilitaries among them, who are trained, and who in some cases brought arms to the capi

joining us now is congressman jamie raskin. democrat of maryland. the author of the new book "unthinkable:trauma, truth and the trials of american democracy." congressman, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me, rachel. >> so i have to ask you, reading the book and knowing you a little bit and having talked to you over the course of the last few years. you are incredibly articulate. unimaginably articulate about your choice to stay public and to keep working and indeed write this book in the middle of the grief and challenge. now that you are putting it out to the world, and able to talk about it, does it still feel like the right thing to do? does it feel like you had to do it? >> well, tommy was a young man. indeed, he was a boy who was filled with extraordinary moral and political passions. and i think if feels right because of who he was and what he wanted for the world. tommy was in his second year at harvard law school. when we lost him. and he was deeply engaged in movements for human rights against war, or animal rights and wel

after all, jamie raskin seems to have lived a charmed life.maryland congressional district that shares his pragmatic progressive ideals. >> this is a community of activists and dreamers. it always has been. >> reporter: he met his wife, law professor, sarah bloom rskin, a former deputy treasury secretary when they were both students at harvard law school. so why did you marry him? >> i knew life would be really, really deep and beautiful with jamie. >> reporter: jamie raskin's mom, barbara, was a best-selling novelist, his dad an anti-vietnam war activist who ended up on president richard nixon's enemy list. >> it gave me a sensitivity for people who get into the highest office of the presidency and then abuse it for their own political purposes. >> reporter: when raskin, a long time professor of constitutional law at american university, decided to enter politics, his family was all in. sarah, daughters hannah and tabitha, and especially son tommy. >> tommy was pure magic. he just was. he was always writing plays. he was always writing poems.

congressman raskin, i appreciate you talking time on this busy night. thank you for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> i have tried to sum up a number of developments today. it's one of the days that feels like a whirlwind. can you tell us -- correct me if i got any that was wrong. can you put in your own words what the importance is of the four new subpoenas. mr. epstein is complaining about the fact that these subpoenas are -- we have eric trump complaining this is a partisan investigation and he has nothing to hide. can you tell us about the importance of the subpoenas from your perspective? >> well, let's see. lawyers first of all are not exempt from having to obey the law.

raskin has impeccable qualifications.he was the chief regulator for the state of maryland and then on the reserve board, and then the treasury secretary. now she is a professor at duke. you can't think of someone more qualified than raskin to serve in this position. caroline: raskin is someone focused very much on the environment among dutch environmental side -- on the environmental side, in terms of climate change, the impact and what we need from the u.s. economy to ensure it can st and that movement. how does the central bank deliver that as a message as well, the need for diversity of thought and the need for an inclusive labor force? it has done a good job of signaling so far by chair powell but it is a tight rope you have to walk, we are looking at inflation but also the environment and an inclusive labor force. andrew: i just want to say that lisa cook and phil jefferson are phenomenal. i guess we will see again what the white house finally decides, but those would be to great choices of people to bring onto the f

what drew you to congressman raskin in the first place?n office in january 2017. that is when jamie became my congressman. i had first met jamie during our freshman year at harvard when he was dating my roommate. he spent a lot of time in my suite of rooms freshman year. when jamie became my congressman, i felt that i was in, finally in really good hands in terms of being represented by somebody who shared my values. >> i love that back story. you start filming with raskin in 2018 when the big headlines were about the mueller report. you ended up with a very different story. what was it like to have the film shift so dramatically? >> what happened is we just, i kept not having an ending. originally i had thought, well mueller is already been -- mueller and his team had been working for about a year my first day of filming was july 4th, 2018. i thought that mueller report was going to come out any day that summer. it had been over a year. what i thought was going to happen is that trump would be quickly impeached and that jamie would be on

i believe you'll be talking with raskin. >> yes, i will be talking with congressman raskin.d his book on saturday. and it is truly -- it's a remarkable book. it is very transparent, very raw. poignant memoir of his life and his relationship with his son which the pain of losing him, but the love he has, still for his son, is woven through every page of that book. but also, ali, we're going to be talking about the theme of today is about saving our democracy. senators debbie stabenow and tim kaine will be here and maxine waters will be here to talk about a strategy for getting voting rights and build back better legislation pass chd is an uphill battle with senate rules. the filibuster and, of course, republicans standing in the way. and finally, you'll not want to miss this. a painting depicting jesus as george floyd is stirring up controversy at one university. i'll be talking to the artist about his painting and the pushback which is coming from the students. all that and more coming up just minutes away on "the sunday show." >> i'm looking forward to seeing it, jonathan.

joining me now is congressman jamie raskin of maryland.n democracy." i should point out you were on the january 6th select committee. congressman raskin, thank you very much for coming to "the sunday show." >> thank you very much for having me, jonathan. i'm delighted to be here. >> all right. so let's talk about part one as i've been calling it throughout the week. the trump takeover plan. it was in three -- it was in three parts here. the first one was to persuade and coerce state election officials to overturn the results under the guise of fraud and the second was to convince republican-led state legislators to vote and get pence to reject electors in swing states. you talked about this as early as may of 2020. why were you so prescient? >> well, i wasn't particularly prescient, jonathan, it's just clear where the polls were going. it's clear where the people were going, but we also knew donald trump's nature by that point. he refuses to accept defeat. he refuses to accept a loss and he would much prefer to tell lies. he of course had

we are back with congressman jamie raskin.of having let people down is something that one of your former impeachment managers shared with me. that after presenting all of the evidence, that you had some disbelief that people ostensibly doing their jobe could look at that and not vote to convict. do you still feel that way? >> well, i thought we could end up with a 100-0 verdict. the evidence was so overwhelming it was irrefutable. at the very least, it was totally unrefuted. they didn't even try to lay a glove on the evidence we presented, which was so overwhelming of the president's guilt. and i really thought that at a certain point that within the republican caucus they would say now is the time for us to disengage from this madness and we can put this chapter behind us. they didn't do it. not enough of them did. we did have brave republican senators who institute up. of course in the first impeachment only myth romney cast a vote on one count to convict. it was a dramatic improvement over that. it was a crushing disappoint

author jamie raskin, whose new book is titled unthinkable. thank you very much for joining us. it's always an honor to have. you >> thank you so much for having me, lawrence. >> coming up, here's a live look at the house floor where lawmakers are preparing to vote to send the freedom to vote act to the senate. more on that coming up. next, ezra klein has written the new must read peace for anybody who is worried about the midterms, voting access and state of democracy, the messages stop worrying, and start working. mesereau klein will join us next. when you're born and raised in san francisco, you grow up wanting to make a difference. that's why, at recology, we're proud to be 100% employee owned with local workers as diverse as san francisco. we built the city's recycling system from the ground up, helping to make san francisco the greenest big city in america but we couldn't do it without you. thank you, san francisco. gracias, san francisco. -thank you. -[ speaks native language ] let's keep making a difference together. new year, new star

joining us now is jamie raskin of maryland.member of the january six committee and serves the lead impeachment manager and the second impeachment trial of donald trump. he is the author of the new book, unthinkable. and importantly for our purposes tonight he is a professor of constitutional law. i don't know whether i should call you congressman or professor raskin tonight. but i am eager to get your reaction to where things stand tonight with justice breyer and formal announcement today, the presidents promise to make a decision within the month of february and possibly on to senate confirmation hearings at some point in march. >> good evening, lawrence. thanks for having me. it's definitely an exciting moment. it always is when we can put someone new on the supreme court. i would hope this process moves as quickly as the process did for amy coney barrett when she was added to the supreme court. that was a matter of weeks for the whole thing to happen. i'm hoping that we're not going to run into a whole sequence of roadblocks

member jamie raskin next. tomorrow, the house is back in session. and all eyes will be on the january six committee. so far, congress members jim jordan and scott perry say they will not cooperate with the committee. and last week, their leaders in the house, republican kevin mccarthy says he will not testify either. which begs the question, are subpoenas on the way? while the committee zeroes in on the peripheral figures around the insurrection, what about donald trump? the man who incited the riot. well, that man is still out stalking the flames of the bigger. listen to what he had to say while endorsing a republican candidate in pennsylvania. >> we won the state. it's something that i contests, and i will continue to contests. we are up a massive amount at 10:00 in the evening. and then all of a sudden, things closed, and it reopened, and voila, look what happened. so we have to be a lot sharper the next time when it comes to counting the votes. sometimes, the vote counter it is more important than the candidate. and we can't let that ever happen

congressman raskin new book out today called unthinkable. trama, truth and the trials of american democracy. the book is in some sense it's a biography of his son. a love letter to his son. it's also an astonishing very difficult loving account of losing his son. it is also a memoir about his life. his own leap in particular from being a constitutional law professor to being a very high profile member of congress. it's also a sering and original and at times very surprising account of the attack on january 6. and the impeachment that followed. a lot of insider information about the impeachment effort we never had before. it's also a call about the ongoing threat from trump and from the authoritarian antidemocratic forces that he unleashed in this country. that are more dangerous now than they've ever been. in his new book out today, we learn among other things he had initially proposed a motion that senators should vote on trumps impeachment by secret ballot. they shouldn't stand up and vote in their own name ts. but conduct the vote in secr

, now best-selling author jamie raskin, whose new book is titled "unthinkable." thank you very much for joining us again tonight, it's an honor to have you. >> thanks so much for having me, lawrence. >>> coming up, here's a live look at the house floor where lawmakers are preparing to vote to send the freedom to vote john r. lewis act to the senate. more on that coming up. >>> next, ezra klein has written the new must-read piece for anyone who is worried about the midterms, voting access, state of democracy, and the message is, stop worrying and start working. ezra klein will join us next. working. ezra klein will join us next ♪ baby got back by sir mix-a-lot ♪ unlimited cashback match... only from discover. [ sneeze ] are you ok? oh, it's just a cold. if you have high blood pressure, a cold is not just a cold. unlike other cold medicines, coricidin provides powerful cold relief without raising your blood pressure be there for life's best moments with coricidin. now in sugar free liquid. i'm always up for what's next, even with higher stroke risk due to afib not

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congress man jamie raskin, a member of the january 6th select committee hasn't personally seen this draft executive order but this is what he said about that ton tonight. >> it indicates there was one more line of possible attack which was something like a military coup planned before january 6th, the military seizure of ballot boxes and military takeover of the process. it seems to me that president trump tried to let 11,000 flowers bloom in terms of para military and extra constitutional attacks on the election result and all of it come c came together january 6th. >> mark, seizing voting machines because you lost is the kind of thing that really stops you right in your tracks. this is crazy. >> it is, don, and shows the

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joining me now is congressman jamie raskin. he's the author of the new book "unthinkable."had a chance to read it yet. next time i would have read your book, thank you for writing it and thank you for doing this. >> i appreciate you are having me on tonight, don. >> let's start with these bomb shell texts, what does the committee think hannity knows about the effort and why does the committee believe he must cooperate? >> he clear lly knows something because he was on the course trying to dissuade him from executing the coup against joe biden. they were trying to overthrow and just repudiated by the electoral college. he seems to know a lot more. those texts are kind of pregnant with possibilities when he says i am disturbed this could happen the next 48 hours or i am nervous the next 48 hours so we want to know. not because he's a news commentator anywhere than sound engineer, he knows and he was a fact witness and his name has come up. everybody owes congress his or her truthful testimonies. the supreme court have said as much. we are operated under commands from the hous

raskin on this point? dr.inard: i honestly have not studied her positions, and i would simply say i can speak to what we do in our supervisory guidance, and it is pretty meat and potatoes. it is very well known to the large institutions, and really not that different from what they are doing today. the one thing i would also want to clarify, i don't think that is appropriate for small institutions. i think small institutions don't have as big a footprint. i think they will decide what their risks are, but i'm really more focused on the large institutions that come into tell us they would like to have more consistent expectations in this area across jurisdictions. sen. brown: thank you, senator toomey. senator menendez of new jersey is working as. sen. menendez: let me first thank you for your leadership on reforming the community reinvestment act rule of the past several years. in the middle of 2020, when the trump administration was ramming a flawed rule to the fcc, civil rights advocates, banks, and other ad

congressman raskin?t, about books, i have written four other books, three i have co-authored about constitutional law. it is not new to me to be writing books. we have created a fund in honor of our son where most of the proceeds, if i see any, will go to. i think it is a good thing that people in public life right -- in public life write books. like mark meadows who recently wrote a book but recently denied it as fake news. i serve on the judiciary committee and i have been part of seven or eight, if not more than a dozen hearings about immigration since i have served on that under democrats and republicans who are paying close attention to what is happening there. i don't think anybody could make the argument that there is a violent assault on the u.s. congress interrupting the transfer of power and us not create a committee to determine what happened. i know that the republican leadership originally supported an outside independent commission of five republicans and five democrats. we agreed to that.

i think representative raskin made the perfect example. if you witness a crime on the way to work you are a witness. no one is going to ask you about your sources or reporting or personal opinions. the committee goes out of its way in the letter and they are cognizant and they say mr. hannity we're not asking about your reporting methodology, your sources, your personal beliefs. you are just a witness. you saw this. you are like somebody who witnessed a robbery or car crash. we need to speak to you. they will try to cloak themselves in the first amendment but i think it is misdirection. >> the committee wants to speak with the former vice president mike pence. we know the top aides on pence's team are already cooperating. how should the committee approach this, elie? >> well, you know, you want to get your base of information from the advisers from the people who were around mike pence. if i'm on the committee and i can get mike pence to talk you bet i want that opportunity. again, yes, he was the vice president of the united states but in

jamie raskin seems to be behind that as well. jonathan, let's talk about another topic that you and i were discussing yesterday. that is, extremism in general in the threat it poses to democracy. it is part of the larger conversation that we are having. when we saw yesterday, was one small thing, and it didn't end up being the worst result. but we are in an environment where extremism thrives in america. >> there is no doubt. i think we kid ourselves when we believe that some natural law that dictates that democracy will persist forever. unless we fight for. we have got to fight to work and protect the liberties that our shrine in the constitution. when we have an environment where people think it is normal for an armed militia to literally overtake the capitol, to assault police officers, and keep in mind that will happen on january the 6th was not a surprise to us at adl. we track extremists. and we have seen, for example, their efforts to take the capitol in michigan. their efforts to attack the capital building in oregon. we

>> the most important lesson -- actually, as i listened to jamie raskin -- is truth.have self-governance we have to have a basic compact between the furthest left and the furthest right, which is you go and vote, your vote will count and the election results will be the election results and if you lose you go out and try to convince more people of your side. when conspiracy infects truth and when identity becomes built not around the community you live in, not around your faith, your identity becomes built by your political affiliation, you know, nobody wants to lose their identity, and now all of a sudden you have these lies that have to exist, particularly as republicans, to stay republican, self-governance can't survive in that. it's a disappointing day for me, it's a day where i'm a little pessimistic, optimistic in the long term, but i'm doubling down my efforts to get to the truth because that's what's going to save everything. >> how close do you think we came to having the democracy collapse? >> i think we came pretty close, honestly. i mean, you can think abo

. >> the latest on what's next in congress with democrat jamie raskin. republican mike rounds. martha raddatz reports on the rise of extremism among the nation's veterans. and our powerhouse roundtable debates all the week's politics. >> announcer: from abc news, it's "this week." here now is george stephanopoulos. >> good morning and welcome to "this week." we begin with the pandemic that just won't quit. as omicron sweeps across the country sending cases to new highs, president biden is edging toward a new strategy focused on learning to live with covid. that's where we pick it up with dr. ashish jha. dean of the brown university school of public health. thanks for joining us again. there is so much confusion and fatigue out there. what is your best assessment of where things stand with omicron right now? >> good morning, george. thank you for having me back. we're obviously in the middle of a really bad surge right now. we're seeing two sets of things happening, a lot of vaccinated people are getting infected. we're doing fine. avoiding the hospital. a lot of unvaccinated pe

nice job with representative raskin.ns you likely know about how critical this artery is right on the east coast. 50 miles of it yesterday were really shut down. 36 hours shut down. we had people in their cars 24, 28, some people even more more hours. they finally got i-95 open. it is moving this morning. finally got i-95 open late last night. then all those people got stuck on the feeder roads, on the side roads. some people didn't get home for 36 hours. a lot of people simply had to abandon their cars and walk away. how could this happen? thousands of drivers in virginia trapped for 20 plus hours in frigid temps along a nearly 50-mile stretch of the east coast's busiest highway, i-95. state officials blame a perfect storm of conditions, including rapidly decreasing temperatures and an enormous amount of snow in a short period of time. >> the snowfall rates were 2 to 3 and even 4 inches per-mile-per-hour. >> reporter: all of it coupled with several inches of ice kept tow trucks from being able to move the multiple jackk

i talk to congressman jamie raskin on the house side today. and i'm curious about your reaction to the day and whether there are a lot of republican senators around. >> republican senators are not around now. my good old friend and colleague, johnny isakson, his funeral is today. so 30 of the republican senators are in atlanta georgia for that purpose. and i just think that it's noteworthy that there was not a single republican in the united states in the building. >> i thought as i was watching that speech that there was a chance to do something right afterwards. which that the president was impeached for the second time in the first time in american history. he was the largest bipartisan vote of impeachment. and the largest vote for conviction but not the threshold. and what would the punishments that you could've dealt out had he could've been convicted in the senate was just barred from future office. i wonder if you think about that at all and how different things might look in america had republicans understood that that was their opport

>> well, jamie raskin is a close friend, of course.served together during the course of the second impeachment trial. he's one of my closest friends in the united states congress. i started reading his book, the unthinkable. i texted him last night that i was riveted in particular after the loss he was feeling after the loss of his treasured son coupled with the role he was playing in protecting our democracy at that time. look, nicolle, there are a lot of members of congress and a lot of the staff here at the capitol for whom the trauma of january 6th will ultimately last a lifetime. i credit people like dan killede who has been very public about some of the trauma that he experienced and sharing that with the american public and encouraging folks to utilize the services available to address his own personal trauma. and then, of course, the capitol police officers. as senator mccaskill said, it astound me that republicans here in the congress are unwilling to be able to recognize all that these officers sacrificed to protect them and

congressman raskin, thank you for being with us. look, i think many people in america know this is not just a difficult anniversary for you, because of the attack on the u.s. capitol, but also about a year since you lost your son tommy. we're very sorry. >> thank you for that. i appreciate that very much. >> and just what is it like for you to be here one year later with this majestic building behind us, knowing what happened then, but knowing what happened since? >> i think a lot of us are experiencing, there is a melancholy day, we're remembering the violence in the streets with the riots, the organized insurrection with the proud boys, the oath keepers, the militia groups, the qanon networks and then we learned so much more about the inside coup, the attempt to overthrow joe biden's majority in the electoral college and to deny him the presidency. but we did survive it. and so our democracy, as ugly as that day was, did survive it and we're in the process of fortifying our institutions and that's really the purpose of the january

congressman jamie raskin's book on the list, unthinkable, about what's happened here in washington.hen the other one is carl bernstein's chasing history. now, mr. bernstein of watergate fame, of course. is he somebody that you would try to get in store or at least on a zoom author event? >> most definitely. we're trying right now. in fact, i think we're working on a date, and we're leaving it kind of in person until we can't have it many person. i'm also going to have carl on my bod cast -- podcast. and the book looks, i'm waiting for one to come to me soon, and it looks really, really great because he talks about, you know, the making of a journalist, the early days, you know? even sort of pre-watergate days as well, which i'm looking forward to. i mean, someone who thought one time in my life that maybe i would go that route, i've always been fascinated by what makes someone do that. you know, it's, i expect really good things from that book. and in terms of -- jamie raskin, he's somebody i didn't know very well, the horrible, tragic story of his son who seemed like a remarkable k

in the united states of america. >> you know, ron, i want to bring you in now because congressman raskin also says that the committee expects to get the out takes of trump's rose garden video from the 6th and according to the committee, the committee's letter to ivanka trump, the out takes didn't ask rioters to leave the capitol. look, you have the voting machine and this. this is astounding. i mean, trump believed this insure recollection would work? >> i didn't use the crazy but calculate. as this goes forward what we see from the incredible work of the committee is the extent to which this is not just a rag tag, you know, last minute kind of loose screws in the drawer that he is sending towards capitol hill. as congressman raskin said 1,000 flowers bloom meaning there are multiple pathways he was using to overturn the will of the voters and was much more serious and focused on it than seeing from the outside chaos of january 6th and i do think that's why this committee is so important and potential public hearings are important because right now, there is not, i think, a clear awarene

sarah bloom raskin being nominated today by the white house.eadwind is she likely to be for the sector? gerard: it is a really good question because the regulatory world has changed. this administration is not as supportive of the big banks as the trump administration was, and with her nomination today, i think she is practical. we are a little concerned about her emphasis on stress testing the banks for climate change. we heard yesterday from the vice chair nomination brainerd. she was saying really clearly, i thought, that the fed would not tell the banks not to lend to the energy industry, so it will be interesting to see how it plays out. but we need a new head of the comptroller of the currency, any ahead of the fbi see. generally speaking, they are going to be a little more challenging for the industry. the industry will manage it, but it is not as supportive as what we had in the prior administration. kriti: it sounds like there's a lot of headwinds when it comes to the banks broadly. at what point do you start to see some of these bank

sarah bloom raskin and how she will be difficult to confirm.as been really vocal about banks and crimping down on some of their lending. we are getting bank earnings right now. how much does the message of banks are bad for making so much money actually resonating versus banks successfully marketing themselves as part of the solution during the pandemic? annmarie: i think that is a difficult tea there was a lot of appreciation for what the banks were doing, given the fact that a number of people were having to leave work, working from home, and the banks really stepped in. but it is very difficult for politicians to really get behind wall street, especially when you see numbers like $1 trillion attached to some of their management of money. when it comes to sarah bloom raskin and her thoughts on regulation, renumber the progressives were really unhappy with randal quarles. they thought he was way too lenient on banks. schieffer sure is going to rule a little more with an iron fist, and that is certainly going to get the nod from the likes of el

let's see, marx mckinnon, congressman james may raskin, a member of the january 6th select committee,personally seen this draft executive order, but this is what he said about that tonight. >> it indicates that there was one more line of possible attack, which was something like a military coup that was being planned before january 6th, a military seizure of ballot boxes and essentially a military takeover of the election process. it seems to me that, you know, president trump was trying to, you know, let a thousand flowers bloom in terms of, you know, paramilitary and extra-constitutional attacks on the election result, and all of it of course culminated on january 6th. >> okay. so, mark, seizing voting machines because you lost? this is the kind of thing that really stops you right in your tracks. this is -- this is crazy. >> it is, don, and it shows the extent to which they are willing to go, and they were willing to go to the sort of things that we see in third-world countries. as i heard you and laura talking about in the last segment, i just -- i thought about reading those sort

congressman raskin, i appreciate you talking time on this busy night. thank you for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> i have tried to sum up a number of developments today. it's one of the days that feels like a whirlwind. can you tell us -- correct me if i got any that was wrong. can you put in your own words what the importance is of the four new subpoenas. mr. epstein is complaining about the fact that these subpoenas are -- we have eric trump complaining this is a partisan investigation and he has nothing to hide. can you tell us about the importance of the subpoenas from your perspective? >> lawyers are not exempt from having to obey the law. neither are family members of presidents or former presidents. we don't have royal families here or former royal families that occupy any privileged constitutional position. everybody is subject to the law and congressional subpoenas and orders to turn over information. about a relevant investigation. would what could be more relevant than figuring out how to prevent it in the future? what these four subpoe

jamie raskin a member of the select committee is here live with us one on one in a couple minutes. i'm hallie jackson in washington along with other nbc news team to start us off. peter alexander at the white house, courtney at the pentagon, garrett haake at capitol hill and matt bradley in kiev. let me slew blanket apology in case i have to interrupt any of you. we want to hear from that end of washington on the latest. we heard from president biden who was clear about the potential consequences for vladimir putin if russia invades. talk us through this. this was not an expected news conference from president biden. these were off-the-cuff remarks to a group of reporters traveling with him today. >> that's exactly right. there was nothing on his public schedule but they added this unannounced stop at a small business and when the president was doing some shopping he turned to reporters and said you may have some questions. it was clear he had a message he wanted to communicate on ukraine, and it sounded like it was focused on the idea he would be willing to move some of the 8500 f

thank you for your patience. >> thank you so much, chair raskin.i believe that there are two things to understand for our witness testimony today, and i want to thank our witnesses who are here in person as well as those joining us digitally for sharing their experiences and expertise today. i think this is just simply an issue that americans, so many people in this country, cannot believe is real. civil forfeiture, mr. alban, means that the government law enforcement, etc, is allowed to take away your property. often your car, or even your home. without an arrest, without criminal charges, and without ever going to court, correct? >> that is correct. >> and as long as the police can claim that they believe this property is and somewhat connected to a crime, they can, you know, this seizure of one's property can just happen without any sort of recourse in the immediate term, correct? >> that's absolutely true, under the federal process. >> and then the police can sell your home, or sell this property and use it, the proceeds, as revenue, correct? >

we're still waiting to find out what, if anything, the january six committee that congressman raskin sits on is going to do about it. that raskin another members say they are now looking at the fixer difficulties and that's not at all, just last week the former trump campaign advisor epshteyn admitted to this plot. telling my colleague that he was involved in another familiar name was in charge. >> yes, i was part of the process to make sure there were alternate electors for women as we hope the challenges to the city electors would be heard and successful, part of the constitution and electoral counteract. everything that was done was done illegally by the trump legal team according to the rules and hard on that -- of rudy giuliani. >> well, it was done by the trump legal team, but whether it was illegal or not, that's a real open question. because it doesn't work like this. it's not supposed to work like this. nothing ever really happened before. that's facially false! that's not true! the thing the attested to in signatures and since international archives was a lie! potential for

. >>> joining me now is the democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland. he was the lead house manager in donald trump's second impeachment trial, which came about as a result of january 6. he is the author of the new book "unthinkable, trauma, truth and the trials of american democracy." congressman, good to see you. thanks for being with us. i want to follow off of what betsy said. what we are learning in our reporting every day is that there are more things to be learned about january 6, despite the fact that when you were a house manager for the impeachment, you had such detail and so much information and yet there's so much more. my question for you is, where does it lead and when do we find out that someone will be held accountable? we saw the oath keepers charged this week. is that as good as it gets? >> thank you for having me. the senate impeachment trial dealt with one guy and one crime. incitement to violent insurrection. the select committee on january 6 has undertaken a more sweeping investigation into every level of activity taking place. i t