comcast business. powering possibilities.™ (door closes) (footsteps pattering) jamie raskin: the problem with these tv interviews, i can t get anything done. i have no time to work. the problem with these tv interviews is i can t get anything done. i have no time to work. cava, hello. this is cava. he is my friend, my constituent, and he s going to change my life so people can t describe me as disheveled anymore. that s the plan. i need to try one on. which one do you want? let s go with this one.
i m blowing people off. and i m taking the dogs for a walk because i got up late, because my alarm didn t work, because my phone died, because we didn t get me a new phone. hey john. john: this is quiet. jamie raskin: how s it going? john: good morning. (dog growls) (dog barking) jamie raskin: oh, potter. john: there goes the quiet. (woman laughing) jamie raskin: here, will you take this? potter, you stop that attitude. good to see you. i am so upset right now. the president was engaged in all kinds of corruption, and he just gave the finger to the separation of powers and congress s oversight role. so, there was great frustration building up. (footsteps pattering) there was a very strong sense in the country and in our caucus that we needed to formalize it into an impeachment inquiry or investigation. but i think that the democratic leadership was nervous about the politics of it. (footsteps pattering) some of our members started to say, trump s not worth it.
barr had done a masterful job of propagandizing the public about it, basically pulling the wool over everybody s eyes about what was really in the report. he took a complicated set of facts which showed lots of wrongdoing and condensed it to no collusion, no obstruction. barr: there was no evidence of the trump campaign collusion with the russian government s hacking. president trump: there was no collusion, there was no obstruction, there was no nothing. jamie raskin: neither of those things was in there, but that was the mantra. you could hear it 500 times a day. i mean it s just the classic propaganda tactics of authoritarian regimes. jamie raskin: i feel like i pulled an all-nighter. but i didn t pull all-nighter, but i think it s just that feeling like being back in college, just like, cramming for like, three hours straight. woman: going up. (footsteps pattering) abramson: do you think that impeachment is more on the table now? jamie raskin: i don t think it s any more or any les
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 are faithfully executed, get rid of him. i overslept. (footsteps pattering) can i use your phone to call julie? carter: of course. jamie raskin: you re not going to want to film this. you ve found me on the one in a thousand days when i m really, really angry. because my phone doesn t work, i also don t know my schedule. so if there s anything on my schedule, i m blowing people off. and i m taking the dogs for a walk
(door closes) (footsteps pattering) jamie raskin: the problem with these tv interviews, i can t get anything done. i have no time to work. kabba, hello. oh, wow. coulibaly: i come bearing gifts. jamie raskin: now, let me explain this. so this is kabba. kabba is my friend. he s my constituent. and he s gonna change my life so people, so the newspapers don t describe as disheveled anymore. that s the plan. that s fantastic! shall i try one of them on? coulibaly: i would like you to. jamie raskin: all right, why don t i try one of them on. coulibaly: which one do you want? jamie raskin: i ll try this one. coulibaly: and we have jamie here, twinning with me in our custom pinstripe suits. jamie raskin: very nice. i like mine. (all laughing)