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in order to promote his own political campaign in 2020. this scheme subordinated the democratic sovereignty of the people to the private political ambitions of one man, the president himself. the way i thought of it was that this would be an attempt to state the case against the president before the country because the tv cameras would be there. so i was trying to bring it back to the question of elections. if we just let this misconduct go and authorize and license presidents to coerce, cajole, pressure, and entice foreign powers to enter our election campaigns, we can only ask what the 2020 election will be like, or indeed what any future election in america will be like. the president's continuing course of conduct constitutes a clear and present danger to democracy in america. we cannot allow this misconduct to pass. it would be a sellout of our constitution,
arising out of that investigation? reporter: mueller never concluded either way whether the president obstructed justice, so william barr made a determination himself. jamie raskin: you know there's an attempt, i think, here to preempt congress's role. we are the lawmaking branch of government. we are the primary and dominant branch of government. and we are the ones who will decide whether there were high crimes and misdemeanors committed by this president. barr had done a masterful job of propagandizing the public about it, basically pulling the wool over everybody's eyes about what was really in the report. he took a complicated set of facts which showed lots of wrongdoing and condensed it to no collusion, no obstruction. barr: there was no evidence of the trump campaign collusion with the russian government's hacking. president trump: there was no collusion, there was no obstruction, there was no nothing. jamie raskin: neither of those things was in there, but that was the mantra. you could hear it 500 times a day.
reporter: president trump is now the fourth president in u.s. history to have articles of impeachment drawn up against him. ♪ jamie raskin: good morning. it is my solemn responsibility this morning to present for your consideration house resolution 755, concerning the impeachment of donald john trump, president of the united states. the investigating committees conducted 100 hours of deposition testimony with 17 sworn witnesses, and the judiciary committee is now in possession of overwhelming evidence that the president of the united states has committed high crimes and misdemeanors. impeachment is like an indictment. when the house votes to impeach, it's acting like a grand jury, and it's essentially saying we believe that there have been these crimes. president trump has abused the awesome powers of the presidency by using his office to corruptly demand that a foreign government interfere in our american presidential election
that there will never be a peaceful transition of power, and this is why i agreed to appear before you today. (people applauding) jamie raskin: michael cohen did issue a stark warning to the country that if donald trump lost, there would be no peaceful transition, there's no way he would accept it. that is a frightening and startling thing for the president's own lawyer to say about him. but it seemed far off at that point to a lot of people. and people have said from the beginning, there's no way he would do that. there's no way anybody would do that. we really had our hands full with our two-year-old. so naturally, we doubled down with a new puppy. thankfully, we also have tide ultra-oxi with odor eliminators. between stains and odors, it can handle double trouble. for the #1 stain fighter and odor remover, it's got to be tide. (upbeat music)
clerk: here ye, hear ye, hear ye. all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment, while the house of representatives is exhibiting to the senate of the united states, an article of impeachment against donald john trump, former president of the united states. ♪ hayes: the second impeachment of donald trump is now formally in the hands of the u.s. senate. the first president to be impeached twice also becomes the first ex-president to face an impeachment trial. ♪ reporter: good morning. all eyes on washington today and the start of former president trump's second impeachment trial. ♪ reporter: the lead impeachment manager, congressman jamie raskin, has been holding daily meetings
oh my god, look at all those people! woman: they all want to get a seat. (people chattering) (cameras snapping) (gavel bangs) chairman cummings: mr. cohen, if you would, please rise, and i will begin to swear you in. raise your right hand. cohen: my loyalty to mr. trump has cost me everything, my family's happiness, friendships, my law license, my company, my livelihood, my honor, my reputation, and soon my freedom. and i will not sit back, say nothing and allow him to do the same to the country. indeed, given my experience working for mr. trump, i fear that if he loses the election in 2020
jamie raskin: it's a big deal when you see a peaceful transfer of power. we've come to take it for granted. but if you don't have a peaceful transfer of power, you don't have democracy. president biden: here we stand in the shadow of the capitol dome jamie raskin: who's that from? sarah bloom raskin: tommy's teacher, mrs. webb. jamie raskin: oh, i read that one. president biden: we've endured. we prevailed. here we stand looking out at a great mall, jamie raskin: after we lost tommy, we got thousands and thousands of letters. a lot of them were coming from people who knew tommy or people who were moved by tommy's poetry. it was just an overwhelming and affecting thing. (jamie sighs) president biden: in my first act as president, i'd like to ask you to join me in a moment of silent prayer to remember all those who we lost in this past year to the pandemic. we will honor them by becoming the people and the nation
jamie raskin: why is america such an extraordinary country? we are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. we're unified by one constitution and one rule of law, and then the values under our constitution. it is an aspiration. it's a challenge to us. the constitution shouldn't be some kind of fetish document. it should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in service of the common good. that is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. that is the constitution that we've been fighting for since then. and we've got to keep fighting for it. crowd: trump! trump! trump! trump! trump! trump! trump! trump! trump! trump!
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