jamie raskin: thank you, much. i m gonna lay down my sword and shield down by the riverside down by the riverside down by the riverside i ain t gonna study war no more (audience cheering) audience: aoc, aoc, aoc, aoc, aoc, aoc! (audience cheering) jamie raskin: hello, democracy summer in the house. (audience cheering) we brought some organizers to be with you tonight. one of them is sitting behind me. (audience cheering)
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speaker pelosi was quickly hustled off the floor. (members chattering) the new chaplain gave a prayer, and then we started hearing people trying to barrel into the door. (doors banging) (members chattering) maybe 30 feet away from where i sat. man: please be advised there are masks under your seats. jamie raskin: we were told to get out our gas masks, which most of us didn t even know existed. everyone was terrified. woman: they broke the glass. every body stay down, get down. (distant people shouting) you could hear people shouting, yelling, hang mike pence. you could hear people screaming, where s nancy? and then capitol police officers came running in with their guns drawn. (distant people shouting) i was very frightened to be away from my tabitha and i kept calling my chief of staff, julie,
gay stolberg: how are you coping? jamie raskin: well, tommy left us a farewell note where he said, please forgive me. my illness won today. look after each other, the animals, and the global poor, all my love tommy. and i ll spend the rest of my life trying to live up to that note. gay stolberg: well, i assume you forgave him. jamie raskin: oh, but of course, i mean, and i don t want to reveal the contents, but i left a note for him too when we buried him. and of course, i mean, what else could i do? he s my son, and he was enduring unimaginable suffering and we miss him every minute of every day.
(crowd shouting) crowd: usa, usa, usa! (crowd shouting) jamie raskin: people died that day. officers ended up with head damage and brain damage. people s eyes were gouged. an officer had a heart attack. an officer lost three fingers that day. two officers have taken their own lives. senators, this cannot be our future. this cannot be the future of america. we cannot have presidents inciting and mobilizing mob violence against our government and our institutions because they refuse to accept the will of the people