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 didnt 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. Were unified by one constitution and one rule of law, and then the values under our constitution. It is an aspiration. Its a challenge to us. The constitution shouldnt 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 weve been fighting for since then. And weve got to keep fighting for it. Crowd trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump Cr
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
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! trump! trump! trump! trump! trump! trump! (crowd applauding) chief justice roberts: please raise your right hand and repeat after me, i, donald john trump, do solemnly swear. president trump: i, donald
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
but, of course, right when we got into the majority and the new term started, donald trump shut the government down. (air whooshing) tabitha raskin: take the tie off. let s see what it looks like without the tie. hannah raskin: that s better. tabitha raskin: much better. so, stand up. let s see. come on, man, we re trying to help you out! okay. all right. that s doable. here. back up, back up, back up. hannah? hannah raskin: it s better. tabitha raskin: dad, that s good. that s fine. jamie raskin: what s wrong with the tie? tabitha raskin: you re too fancy on the top and too casual on the bottom. jamie raskin: and now, i feel like i m just too casual. tabitha raskin: no, no, no. no, dad, it s a food drive, right? jamie raskin: right, right. tabitha raskin: so then, you should be casual. reporter: this is the third government shutdown on president trump s watch as lawmakers failed to reach an agreement over border wall funding the president is demanding. reporter: roughly 800,000 fede