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Jamie Raskin

Jamin Ben "Jamie" Raskin (born December 13, 1962) is the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district.

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People are going to hear the story of that tweet, and then the explosive effects it had in Trump world and specifically among the domestic violent extremist groups -- the most dangerous political extremists in the country at that point.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 29 days ago Politics

That's the real project.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

I think that he knows, his staff knows, the U.S. attorneys know, what’s at stake here, they know the importance of it, but I think they are rightfully paying close attention to precedent in history as well, as the facts of this case.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Latest Headlines

Unthinkable : Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

We don't want it to read like a clunky committee effort, we want it to have an authorial voice that tells the story of what happened.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

I think The House select committee is quite serious that everybody needs to participate. So yeah, I don't think we give anybody a free pass, you know, what, one possibility is ? That we draft a report, and we wait until the end to see if we get everybody's participation.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

They are essentially in a political religious cult.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

It is a tremendous sense of responsibility, everywhere we go, people tell us that this is the most important investigation they can remember at least since the Watergate investigation. So there's a high burden of hope being placed upon us.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

We're very serious about trying to get Meadows to testify to us. And we're very serious about trying to get Jeffrey Clark to testify, but the closer you get to Donald Trump, the more afraid they are of both Donald Trump and also of being criminally prosecuted, so they're turning to the Fifth Amendment.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

We want Meadows to come in and testify on everything of interest to us, if he thinks there are some questions that are covered by either executive privilege or the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, he can invoke it and a court can settle it later.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

Eastman's activities are perfectly clear at this point. John Eastman was the architect of the legal strategy to claim for the first time in American history that the Vice President had the unilateral authority to reject electoral college votes that were the result of popular elections.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

We need to determine to what extent there was an organized effort against Vice President Pence and we believe that, you know, some of the actors' names have become known, including John Eastman, who laid it out in a memo.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

Jeffrey Clark had a lot to do with this plan for January 6.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

Jeffery Clark had a lot to do with this plan for January 6.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 9 months ago US News

What she said to me was,' When are you going to do your investigation of the violence surrounding Black Lives Matter ?' And I said,' Like with Kyle Rittenhouse who went and killed two Black Lives Matter protesters ? I'm sure there will be an opportunity for us to get to that,' and then, you know, it degenerated it from there as you can imagine.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

An important part of the work of the January 6 select committee is to figure out how to deal with this huge security threat of domestic violent extremism, we've already made huge investments in trying to fortify The Capitol and protect ourselves. But fundamentally, we've got to deal with this pervasive threat.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

We've got to have a SALT march, like Gandhi did, let's have a SALT march in America to restore some common sense to our tax policy.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

Let's make a deal, ... Let's make democracy grow. Let's admit both Washington D.C., as the Democrats have asked for and Puerto Ricoas the Republicans have asked for.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

The impeachment manager Mr. Ciccilinecorrectly and accurately quoted a newspaper account which the distinguished senator has taken objection to. So we're happy to withdraw it on the grounds that it is not true and we are going to withdraw it this evening without any prejudice to the ability to resubmit if possible and then we could debate it if we need it.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

It's a solemn, awesome ability.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I was carrying Tommy in my heart the entire time.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Tommy left us a note, he didn't have anything in there about take some time off.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I picked a helluva time for take your daughter to work day, after an extremely long and dreadful day I was able to send Tabitha and Hank home after 9:30 or 10 p.m. I hugged them and said to Tabitha,' I promise it wouldn't be like this the next time you come to the Capitol.' And she said,' Dad there isn't gon na be a next time.'.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I haven’t spoken to [House Speaker Nancy Pelosi]today about this. Look, I know that everybody wants to focus on trial tactics and strategy and so on. I want people to focus on the solemnity and the gravity of these events.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

I don't think anybody would seriously argue that we should establish a precedent where every president on the way out the door has two weeks or three weeks or four weeks to try to incite an armed insurrection against the union, this was the most serious presidential crime in the history of the United States of America.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

We're putting together a trial plan, which is designed to get the truth of all of these events out, obviously, we're not going to be able to tell everyone's story, but we are going to be able to tell the story of this attack on United States and all of the events that led up to it.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Today we’re looking at Section 4, which we are asking the Vice President to invoke by activating and mobilizing the Cabinet to declare what is patently obvious to a horrified and anxious nation : the President is not even minimally discharging the basic duties of his office, i do n’t think there is a reasonable person in the country with his or her eyes open who does n’t understand that the President was hell-bent on trying to challenge, undermine, and overturn the result of the election in all of the events leading up to January 6th, and on January 6th.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

This is a technical part of our investigation, we want to know exactly how the president translated his political objective to shake down the Ukrainian government for the favors he wanted (into) the budget process.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Top News

We're going to move to the public phase of the investigation because America needs to hear from these witnesses themselves, the president is actively obstructing our investigation by trying to blockade the witnesses. That in itself becomes evidence of obstruction.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Politics

People understand what it means for The President to be spending millions of dollars in federal government tax dollars at The President own business properties.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

It's essentially a packet of propaganda and disinformation spreading conspiracy theories.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Dealing with the Trump administration is like a video game where all of the monsters are flying at you 60 miles an hour. And so people have to deal with them as they come, and we have to do our best to sort it out and prioritize our fact-finding investigations.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

We're in the middle of looking at a whole set of unprecedented lawless activities by the White House. And it's not that this is disconnected from it, it's relevant to it. I mean, judicial corruption contaminates everything. So this is relevant and we should get the information that we can, but we also have limited resources.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

This is a great victory for the truth and for the possibility of justice in the country, because America finally got to see what Special Counsel Mueller was talking about.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

Having somebody talking about what happened from a personal perspective will be a dramatic debut for the committee.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

I am very satisfied that things are moving in the right direction, and I think the American people are getting increasingly educated and engaged about the lawlessness of the president.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

I am very satisfied that things are moving in the right direction.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

The rationale for empowering the committees to hold people in contempt is we will be able to save floor time for prescription drug reform and health care and the Equality Act and the Dream Act, so we will be able to both play offense on public policy while we're defending the Constitution.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

There are these dramatic episodes of presidential attempts to interfere with the Mueller investigation, and I think people would like to hear from a number of officials involved. White House counsel McGahn jumps out as an important witness.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

The Constitution calls for impeachment in cases of bribery, treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors, so the legal case should indeed be compelling, the evidence should be overwhelming and the politics should be bipartisan. He may not be worth it but of course that's not the standard. The country is certainly worth it if The Constitution and the public interest demand it.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I think it's been a wonderful transition to see someone go from being a full-time activist to being a legislator and an activist.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

It says that no elected official, either member of Congress or the President of the United States, can accept a gift, an emolument or any payment at all from a foreign government.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

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