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
not just democrats like speaker nancy pelosi and steny hoyer, but republicans like vice president pence, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, majority whip john thune and countless other appointees across the administration. all of them did what president trump was not doing, what he simply refused to do. take a listen. they re taking the north front, staff only. we re not going to be able to hold. the door has been breached. people are gaining access into the capitol. senator schumer is at a secure location. they re locked down in the senate. there has to be some way we can maintain the sense that people have, that there s some security, some confidence that government can function and that we can elect the president of the united states. did we go back into session? did go back into session. but now apparently everybody on the floor is putting on gas masks to prepare for a breach. they re putting on tear gas masks? we need an area for the house members. the
i am velshi, it is the last time hurt in the january six committee. the committee is set to resume the hearings this week, laying out more findings from its year long investigation of the insurrection at the capitol. donald trump is desperate and illegal attempt to cling to power. the next hearing assad for this coming wednesday september 28th. that s one of the afternoon. over the last few days, members of the committee a participated in something called the texas tribune festival in, austin texas. they make comments about their investigation, given hints of what might be to come. here s with the democratic congressman of maryland said during his appearance. bannon said the night before tomorrow, all hell is going to break loose. it s not going to go down the way that anyone thinks it s going to go down. there are clearly people who understood the preparations that were taking place. if you think you almost knock over the government of the united states spontaneously,
good evening, our countdown clock continues to kick away. 17 days, 19 hours, 59 minutes and 39 seconds and counting until the first polls close on election night. here we are back where we were last friday night and where we will be every friday night at this time, counting down to election day. early voting, election day is pretty much underway in a dozen states, where early voting has already begun, including georgia, north carolina, both starting up this week. each of those states home to a key senate race, both of which we will be talking about this hour and tomorrow. early voting beginning in nevada, and that is where democrats may face what is their toughest individual battle to hold the senate seat. we have reporters on the ground there and then does two other battleground states we mentioned, we ll be joined by them shortly. plus, we will hear from voters in michigan that is where the governor s race has heated things up a bit this week and where there is a refe
good evening, our countdown clock continues to kick away. 17 days, 19 hours, 59 minutes and 39 seconds and counting until the first polls close on election night. here we are back where we were last friday night and where we will be every friday night at this time, counting down to election day. early voting, election day is pretty much underway in a dozen states, where early voting has already begun, including georgia, north carolina, both starting up this week. each of those states home to a key senate race, both of which we will be talking about this hour and tomorrow. early voting beginning in nevada, and that is where democrats may face what is their toughest individual battle to hold the senate seat. we have reporters on the ground there and then does two other battleground states we mentioned, we ll be joined by them shortly. plus, we will hear from voters in michigan that is where the governor s race has heated things up a bit this week and where there is a referendum