(both laughing) julie: hello? i m sitting right next to him. biden wants to talk to you. jamie raskin: hello? oh, mr. president. voltaire said, anyone who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. president trump declared his conduct totally appropriate, so if he gets back into office and it happens again, we ll have no one to blame but ourselves.
but it was not enough. leahy: the senate, having tried donald john trump, former president of the united states, by one article of impeachment. jamie raskin: i ve had every possible emotion about it. i think i was crestfallen at the moment i first heard it. leahy: the acting sergeant at arms will escort the house managers out of the senate chamber. jamie raskin: i really thought we might have a 100 to zero verdict. i really thought that we had created such an overwhelming cascade of facts that the wiser republicans might say, this is our chance to save our party, this is our chance to get out from under the thumb of donald trump. and seven of them did the right thing. we needed 10 more. and so we might see a replay in 2024 of the 2020 election. (crowd chattering) i think we convicted him in the court of public opinion, and i think we convicted him in the eyes of history. so he s been turned into a pariah,
it s not because of his smashing good looks, though he has that to recommend him as well. it s because he has deep and abiding moral convictions and he is fighting the trump administration every step along the way, ensuring that our democratic values remain safe. (audience applauding) jamie raskin: thank you, tommy. thank you. (audience cheering) all right. (audience cheering) (audience cheering and whistling) thank you 8th congressional district! thank you for the honor of allowing me to represent you for another term. i will give it my all. i will give it my all. (audience cheering) it was an amazing feeling to be in the majority. we were gonna have the chance to investigate a lot of the corruption and misfeasance of the trump administration.
and it s something we do together we need everybody out organizing to get everybody registered to vote in 2020. and we ve got to counter all of these fascistic style tactics that are coming from donald trump. as hard as we were fighting trump and trying to stop him from his rampage in america we were also working to turn out a landslide for the democrats in 2020. fudge: hey, jamie. jamie raskin: hi, good morning. how are you? fudge: how are you jamie raskin: good to see you. fudge: everybody likes the hairdo. it s a plus. jamie raskin: so, i understand. (woman laughs) yeah, yeah. you guys want to spend the rest of your lives looking at my forehead, that s all right. (jamie laughs) fudge: no, so much younger. jamie raskin: really? oh, i appreciate it. fudge: we like it.
and trampling the law. the great thing about america, what we love about america is that it is a constitutional democracy, it s government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and if somebody decides to disrupt the basic fabric of our republic, and to violate the law, we ve got to take that seriously even. this is a system of laws, and the president is not above the law, the president is bound by the law, just like everybody else. we re all taught in third grade that we have three co-equal branches, and we re not a co-equal branch of government, we re the pre-eminent branch of government. there s a reason we re in article one: all legislative power is vested in the congress of the united states. so the constitutional sovereign power of the people to create the country, to write the constitution, flowed into congress. and what s the core job of the president? to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. that s it. and if the president doesn t take care that the laws