the breaking of the windows stuff had already started before his speech was over. if he got if he got down there, then all of that would have been blamed on him. i mean they re still blaming him but they would have had more basis for it. so i but he was planning on coming down, though. yeah, i know. i know. congressman jamie raskin is a democrat from maryland who serves on the select committee investigating january 6th. he s also a member of the judiciary committee and he joins me now. well, congressman raskin, that memo has attracted a lot of attention. it s incredibly controversial. it s been disowned by its author seemingly. what is your understanding of its status and eastman s relationship to it? i think it was the driving political and legislative and constitutional strategy of the political coup on january the 6th. and if you look at eastman s interview with steve bannon on
breaking of the windows stuff had already started before his speech was over. if he got down there, all of that would have been blamed on him. they re still blaming it on him. they would have had more basis for it. so, you know but he had been planning on coming down, though. i know. it goes on kind of like that. earlier on this network, two january 6th committee members said the video bolstered the case for a subpoena to eastman. clearly, he was trying to get the vice president to overturn the election. as you say, a coup. these are insurrectionists wearing suits and ties. and they re not done. eastman performed, he delivered by saying this is something we can do. a lot of what i m looking for in the january 6th committee, what were the nexus points between
only reason he didn t is because the violence had already begun and appears to speak in solidarity with the right wing militia claiming that the fbi set them up. what do you think if trump came down on the 6th, it would change things a little bit? if he came down? yeah, he said he was coming down. oh, down to the capitol? i don t know. because the breaking of the windows stuff had already started before his speech was over. if he got down there, then all of that would have been blamed on him. i mean, they re still blaming him but they would have had more basis for him. but he had been planning oncoming down, though. i know, i know. the whole thing is a setup. the oath keepers and the proud boys had not just kind of wall flowers sitting on the side of the organization but people instigating within the