Jamie Raskin

The philosophy is the same, which is rule or ruin. Either we`re going to rule everything or we`re going to ruin the possibility for democracy to work and for the government to make any progress.

It`ll be a mostly new playbook. Because they won`t for example have the vice president of the United States. So the whole play against Mike Pence to get him to declare and announce unilateral unprecedented extra constitutional powers to…

He has to suppress the fact that he had the exact same reaction that the vast majority of members of Congress and the vast majority of the public had. I mean, he was horrified and he knew that in this environment where six people had…

It’s really the greatest political crime in American history ever organized by a president in attempt to overthrow a presidential election.

All of these 1000s of texts make the argument for why we need Mark Meadows to come in and testify to explain precisely what his role was.

Because in a democracy, the people have the right to know about what`s taking place with our government. And we have to preserve our democratic institutions going forward against coos and insurrections, and suppression of the vote and…

They were hoping to sanitize the insurrection and the coup by having a contingent election where they could legitimately say, we`ve got 27 states although you subtract Wyoming because I doubt Liz Cheney would have voted.

I think there`s overwhelming evidence that there was a violent insurrection.

What was their attitude towards the violence on the streets, what was their plan, how far were they willing to take it in terms of trying to get Pence to reject Electoral College votes from Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, perhaps…

Well, Trump had tried multiple different efforts to overthrow Biden`s majority in the Electoral College. They tried to intimidate and browbeat election officials, like Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in Georgia. That was caught on…

The Secret Service agents who presumably are reporting to Trump`s Secret Service agents, were trying to spirit him off of the campus. And he said, I`m not getting in that car until we count the Electoral College votes. He knew exactly what…

Pence uttered what I think are the six most chilling words of this entire thing I've seen so far.

He uttered what I think are the six most chilling words of this entire thing I have seen so far.

They stormed their doors, they shattered our windows, they shut down the counting of Electoral College votes for the first time in American history.

It was really only Mike Pence refusing to play ball with the president that he had served in such obsequious way for four years, and the valor and the heroism of the officers who stood between members of Congress and the mob and the…

Had Mike Pence succumbed to the extraordinary pressure and coercion campaign being brought down upon him by Donald Trump and his lieutenants, what would have happened is that Pence would have returned to senator dozens of electoral college…

The president was deeply involved in this event. He was at the center of these events.

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

He wanted to continue all the way to complete whatever calling, the Green Bay sweep, which I am calling, a coup.

Donald Trump was trying to commit election fraud and being caught red-handed.

There a vivid reminder of what was clear to everybody who was caught up in the violent insurrection in the attempted coup against Congress and against the constitutional order, which is that the President was deeply involved in these…

Trump was prepared to seize the presidency and likely to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law.

This was a coup organized by the president against the Vice President and against the Congress in order to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Nobody loves paying taxes, but what hardworking taxpayers hate the most is rich corporations and people like Donald Trump getting away with paying little or no taxes.

Only 11 percent of the 282 million total calls made to the IRS were answered last year.