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Jamie Raskin: “Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly…”

On the recordJuly 27, 2021
Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes, taking videos and pictures. You know, if you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from January 6, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland
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msnbc.com

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Raskin describes how the footage from January 6 could be misinterpreted as a normal tourist visit.

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