that he is fixated on this election denialism, as we saw last tuesday, something as a platform really fizzled out. anderson? kristin holmes, appreciate it. we ll check with you shortly. joining us someone who shares a long recent history jamie raskin, member of the select committee now investigating him. he was also the lead house manager in the former president s second impeachment. congressman raskin, we appreciate you being with us. given the poor performance of election deniers and insurrection deniers, does it make political sense to you that the chief election liar is announcing now? well, it makes political sense in the sense that he has exercised almost total control over the republican party up until now. in a constitutional sense, in an ethical sense, it s an absolute scandal and an outrage. and i think to the american people made themselves pretty clear in bucking all of the historic trends and denying the gop what they thought was going to be an additional 40 or 50
republican party, the actual violence of january six, and the dangerous insurrectionist theory of the second amendment that they are using to justify it. let me read you a little bit from it. many republicans in congress agree the second amendment is about maintaining within the citizenry, the ability to maintain an armed rebellion against the government if that becomes necessary. they romantic but entirely fraudulent insurrectionary three of our constitution allows mr. trump s followers to suggest that the mass destructive violence of january six was something other than criminal. and quote. the january six investigation congress is still ongoing. you are looking into that role, donald trump and those close to him that played on that fateful day, and the committee is likely to hold another public hearing sometime in the next few weeks. jordan is a congressman, jamie raskin, democrat of maryland, member of the house select committee on january six, and also lead, a lead house manager o
boost® high protein also has key nutrients for immune support. boost® high protein. tonight, we are unpacking the stunning news of the fbi searched of the residents of the ex president to investigate crimes in potential violation of the espionage act. they recovered several sets of highly sensitive, highly classified government documents. this comes at the end of a busy week, where both the january six committee investigating the insurrection and congress, which just passed a hugely consequential piece of legislation. congressman jamie raskin sits on the january six committee, and serves as the lead house manager of the second impeachment of donald trump. he joins me now. congressman, i want to get to this breaking news about the search warrant, can i get your top line reactions to the news that the documents seized from trump s florida home related to possible violations of the
epshteyn works to help overturn the last election which makes him the type of fighter trump needs to do it again. they are not hiding it. adam schiff serves on the committee investigating january 6th, a lead house manager for donald trump s first impeachment and he joins me now. congressman schiff, let s talk about rudy giuliani, who was a central figure in both of these in both plots that resulted in impeachments. why is it important the committee sit down and talk to him here? i think that you can see by the series of subpoenas we have issued over time, they are going to higher and higher people in and around the administration. and rudy giuliani was really at the center of things. he was one of the most aggressive promoters of that big lie about the election. he was involved in trying to get these state legislators to send alternate slates of electors or to delay sending slates of electors. to me the most shocking claims
it s an interesting discussion. what is the standard of proof? how do you determine what s nonsense? you and i spend a lot of time online and a lot is nonsense. what do you know at 2:00 in the afternoon on the day of january 6 that you should be passing over to police because you are seeing things that look like threats and somebody determines that to be credible and somebody doesn t? we will have to save that for another time. good to see you. thank you for joining us. joining me now is the democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland. he was the lead house manager in donald trump s second impeachment trial, which came about as a result of january 6. he is the author of the new book unthinkable, trauma, truth and the trials of american democracy. congressman, good to see you. thanks for being with us. i want to follow off of what betsy said. what we are learning in our reporting every day is that there are more things to be