jamie raskin: umm, you know tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me. my illness won today. look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me, all my love, tommy. umm, so, he didn t have anything in there about take some time off. (laughs) and, uh. crowd: usa! usa! usa! usa! jamie raskin: why is america such an extraordinary country? we are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. we re unified by one constitution and one rule of law, and then the values under our constitution. it is an aspiration. it s a challenge to us. the constitution shouldn t be some kind of fetish document. it should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in service of the common good. that is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. that is the constitution that we ve been fighting for since then. and we ve got to keep fighting for it. crowd: trump! trump! trump! trump! trum
the attack happened at the campaign rally in upstate new york. the suspect climbed onto the stage where the congressman was speaking to supporters about bail reform. he was holding a sharp object and told zeldin you re done. the whole thing caught on camera. you can watch the man approach zeldin in the video. see the thing in his hand. it has two points, actually. it holds on through finger holes so it is hard to get away from that man as he continues to go at zeldin. zeldin managed to grab his wrist. stopped him for a few moments energy others as you saw had to tackle the man to the ground. a state assembly candidate and witness described the scene. i stepped onto the stage, saw the attacker try to get into zeldin s face and swing. i could see what looked like a razor, knife of some sort at the congressman. i tackled the attacker from the back and slammed him to the ground where several of us were able to restrain him and get the weapon away from him and eventually turn hi
comments about she had inclusivity. a speech to progressive hispanic voters in san antonio called latinx event. watch. role helped build this organization with the understanding that the diversity of this community as distinct as the bodega lewis of the bronx and the beautiful blossom of miami and unique as the breakfast tacos here in san antonio. [applause] is your strength. harris: kayleigh, she didn t practice. i m afraid if she did. [laughter] and hispanic journalist fired back with this. nha encourages the first lady and communications team to take time to better understand the complexity of our people and communities. we are not tacos. our heritage as latinos is shaped by various historic cultures and food traditions. do not reduce us to stereotypes. the first lady s team has since apologized and said this, her words were pure admiration and love for the latino community not to mention what she likes to eat. president biden s popularity among latino voters is plumm
we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. we did win this election. (audience cheering) we want all voting to stop. we don t want them to find any ballots at four o clock in the morning and add them to the list, okay? (crowd cheering) reporter: millions of votes still being counted, but the legal battle already under way. reporter: president trump and other republicans have filed more than thirty election fraud lawsuits, and judges keep throwing them out for lack of evidence. reporter: the president and his allies are casting doubt on the integrity of the election itself, fueling unfounded conspiracy theories of cheating and fraud- jamie raskin: the president is trying to stop the counting of tens of millions of ballots, and that obviously is an outrageous assault on democracy itself. we must stand by the popular vote and we must stand by the popular vote as it translates through our complicated electoral college system. there were all