Jamie Raskin

Donald Trump figured out a way to keep the spigots of money flowing even after he lost the election, and that was by claiming he had won the election and it was being stolen from him.

When it's a rule of political fundraising that when the election is over, the winner can continue to raise money and will usually raise a lot of it, but the loser finds everything dry up immediately. It's just like a desert out there.

I think that, with Dr. King, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. And I think there will be justice for everyone who set these events into motion.

Just telling the truth about a president of the United States who is hell-bent on nullifying a presidential election and installing himself in the presidency for another four years doesn`t make you a hero.

Yes, these are crimes. What you need for crime is the fancy Latin word mens rea, which means intention. And given that Donald Trump and his whole entourage understood that the big lie was a big lie, they had a criminal state of mind. They…

If we're at a national crisis and we are allocating national benefits, we should have national programs with national safeguards and controls

I do hope we'll make some progress on that.

I also want to salute President Biden for making an investment and for asking for more funds to be invested in the anticorruption, antifraud efforts across the agencies.

I want to start just by thanking you for your resolute determination to ferret out the corruption and the fraud which undermined the programs that we voted for our people.

The greatest country on earth can do better than this in distributing a huge amount of money.

The failure to institute the most simple mechanisms of accuracy to check where the money is going is just indefensible.

We've got criminals waiting in the wings to rip off the program.

This mass crowd was influenced by domestic violent extremist groups that got to the head of it and right to the heart of it.

Nobody bought the big lie. Everybody knew the big lie was as the Attorney General of the United States put it, BS.

We need America to know that this is an ongoing assaults on the democracy, is this something that we ever want to allow to happen again? And if not, then they`re going to have to listen to the final act of our committee, which is we will…

The committee has found evidence of concerted planning and premeditated activity. I think that Donald Trump and the White House were at the center of these events.

It is eye-opening for me to see the story that we are about to tell America.

If not, then they`re going to have to listen to the final act of our committee, which is we will be issuing recommendations on what should be done in order -- in order to fortify ourselves against coups and insurrections in the future.

This is an ongoing assault on the democracy. And so, you know, this is deadly serious business for us. We`re in the middle of a process of fortifying democratic institutions and democratic values.

Our charge today in the Select Committee is far broader than that, because we’re not looking at one crime, we’re looking at multiple crimes. And we’re looking more generally at the assault on democracy.

Well, people will come to understand that this is an ongoing struggle that we’re in. I think it was Congressman Mo Brooks who said not long ago that former President Trump is still trying to get GOP politicians to rescind the election. And…

People died that day. Officers ended up with head damage and brain damage. People’s eyes were gouged. An officer had a heart attack. An officer lost three fingers that day. Two officers have taken their own lives. Senators, this cannot be…

The hearings will tell a story that will really blow the roof off the house.

On the morning of January 6th, President Donald Trump's intention was to remain President of the United States, despite the lawful outcome of the 2020 election and in violation of his Constitutional obligation to relinquish power.

It was not because of a rigged system. It was not because of voter fraud.