can t we keep these? congress said, no. and he promptly turned them over. you recall, obama was given a peace prize, he was told, well it doesn t violate the text of the clause, because the nobel committee is not the sudanese government, but the spirit of it, he turned the money over. one point $3 million. john f. kennedy, ireland says we need to make you a citizen, we love you so much. that doesn t technically violate the text of the claws, but the spirit, certainly. he turned it down. donald trump has done something that has never been done before. he tried to turn the presidency into a moneymaking enterprise. he did. now, they re saying he did not take his federal salary. that is all your allowed to take. you re not supposed to be on the payroll for saudi monarchs and chinese communist project.
they won t fall exactly what trump tells them to do. it strikes me as, and the chairman points out, you all see more coordinated on the oversight committee. the democrats do. are you happy leads prior to these hearings? you can t give away all your secrets if you d like, we take them at the table. we have a top secret recipe. we have meetings, we have phone calls. we analyze what is going on. we go out, and we try to tell the truth. like my members, we are the truth squad, they are devoted to getting the truth out there, explaining it in terms that america can understand. i ve had republicans come over to talk to me from the oversight committee. we wish you had the types of meetings and colchicine that you do. we have a remarkable members. these members are totally different. they feel the stakes in this election. we are talking about
said that trump, or any other president, has agreed to order assassinations of people, and cannot be prosecuted for that unless first and peach or convicted. if they can run out the clock and say the senate doesn t have jurisdiction to hold a trial, then they act with complete impunity. in fact, if they want, they can kill members of the house or senate, for the majority who want to impeach him. the president could order killers in the supreme court. i think that might weaken the supreme court up. wait a second, do we want the blood on our hands, if this obvious insurrectionist is set back to office? we are not going to do our job, we will kick that away and come up with an off ramp excuse. then we ll be responsible for him being back in office? and the end of our system of constitutional government. i think they ll have to think hard about that, even the ones most and the take. those like thomas, or
does nothing wrong. jamie raskin of maryland joins us now. he is the ranking member of the house oversight committee. congressman, thank you so much for being here with us. you sent a letter to donald trump on friday to mandate that he returned about seven point $8 million. have you got a response from the former president? no response yet. i should point out quickly, that is a fraction of what he got. that represented two, years the first two years up the presidency. we did not get the second two years because this cut off discovery, at least according to trump lawyers. they told us they don t have to turn anything else over. we had two years for only four of donald trump s businesses, that is 500 businesses. that was 20 countries of 195 countries. so in case people are coming up to me and say, $8 million, we thought he was taking a lot
other thing that would be telling is to keep it short. to keep it to context, short, around this. i think, to your point about the presidential piece, that is what i don t understand about this. the republicans are half stepping that is. they think it won t be a good outcome. you still have to deal with what happens after march 8th. the fact is. super tuesday will be one thing, a lot happening. if you re running against the guy at the podium, at the state of the union, you think you d give him less to work with. especially because trump wants to have this wrapped up. there is the possibility that it is a binary race between movie between the general of donald trump and joe biden. if there is still a race that is competitive going into super tuesday. this race is competitive. but if what s and your coffee?