And I want to take this sequentially, how this went. You’re a member of the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection, which is where I want to start - actually, even before January 6, because you were right there in the House when the attack took place. You were the lead impeachment manager in President Trump’s second impeachment trial. JAMIE RASKIN: It’s great to be with you, Amy, and thank you for having me.ĪMY GOODMAN: So, the name of your book is Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy. He’s also married to Sarah Bloom Raskin, who has been nominated by President Biden to become the top banking regulator at the Federal Reserve and underwent serious grilling yesterday.Ĭongressmember Jamie Raskin, welcome to Democracy Now! It’s great to have you with us. He’s represented Maryland’s 8th Congressional District since 2017. We can’t have healing before we have an honest reckoning, and this president must be held accountable for the role he has played.ĪMY GOODMAN: We’ll be joined by the film’s director, Madeleine Carter, later in the program, but first we go to Takoma Park, Maryland, to speak with Congressmember Jamie Raskin. JAMIE RASKIN: The country is still just trying to absorb the emotional impact of events that brought us right up to the edge of a real coup in America. In the documentary, Raskin goes on to talk about Trump’s efforts to overturn the election. Trump’s efforts to overturn the election would soon begin. We’ll be fighting about it until January 6th.ĪMY GOODMAN: Congressmember Jamie Raskin, speaking on election night 2020 in a clip from Love & the Constitution. I mean, it’s going to - we’ll be fighting about this until we get into the new Congress. We’re going to win this narrowly, and then Trump is going to be fighting it every step along the way. It’s going to be - I mean, Trump is going to be suing.
My kids are so freaked out that Trump might win. TOMMY RASKIN: If Trump loses, I get Biden. TOMMY RASKIN: It’s a win-win for me, because if Trump wins, I get money. JAMIE RASKIN: Are you staying up, or are you going to sleep? Carter was filming inside Congressmember Jamie Raskin’s home on election night 2020 and captured this moment when he spoke with his son Tommy as results came in. I feel like I honor him by doing the work that he’d be proud of.ĪMY GOODMAN: The trailer to Love & the Constitution, directed by Madeleine Carter, who began work on the documentary in 2018. JAMIE RASKIN: Tommy was a person who loved the world, and he loved democracy. And at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Democracy is fragile. Voltaire said, “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” I did not know whether I would be able to do anything again of meaning or substance in my life. It’s like everybody knows one thing, and my turn came up. I know one thing really well, which is about the Constitution and the rule of law and American democracy.
The president’s not worth it.” The question is whether the Constitution is worth it.
JAMIE RASKIN: Some of our members started to say, “Trump’s not worth it. There’s also a new documentary about Congressmember Jamie Raskin titled Love & the Constitution, airing Sunday night on MSNBC. Raskin writes about these events in his new memoir titled Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy. Just days earlier, Jamie Raskin’s 25-year-old son Tommy died by suicide. The January 6th insurrection came at a tragic moment for the Raskin family.
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He was the lead manager in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump following the insurrection.Ĭongressmember Raskin was inside the House January 6th, as were his daughter and son-in-law, when Trump supporters attacked the Capitol. Raskin serves on the House select committee investigating the January 6th attack. I’m Amy Goodman.Īs more details emerge about the deadly January 6th insurrection and how Donald Trump and his allies plotted to overturn the 2020 election, we begin today’s show with Congressmember Jamie Raskin, Democrat from Maryland. Copy may not be in its final form.ĪMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report.
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