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sworn witnesses. 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. it's essentially saying, we believe there 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 elections. 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, this would be an attempt to state the case against the president before the country. the tv cameras would be there. i was trying to bring it back to the question of elections.
a system of checks and balances here and you don't hold the federal workforce in the people of the country hostage, in order to get your way in a policy debate. it wasn't able to get the mexican government to pay for his wall. he wasn't able to get congress to do it, even when you control the house and the senate, which republican controlled over the last two years. now, suddenly, the democrats take over. the house we won 40 seats, and he decides to shut the government down. it just an unacceptable way to do business in a democracy. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i never thought that trump could turn out to be a good guy. but i thought, maybe, you know, all of this right-wing authoritarian populist stuff, all this mussolini stuff, would just fade away quickly, when he got into office. that cooler heads will prevail
and queens, and dictators and bullies, and authoritarian systems. democracy is very much the exception. the whole point of the constitution is to keep people in office from just doing whatever they want. it was at the idea of lawless discretion and government officials, that motivated the american revolutionaries to write a constitution that would bind the people in power. so, we've gotta make democracy work. and that's something we do together. >> we need everybody out, organizing to get everybody registered to vote in 2020. we've got to counter all of
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 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
all right. (audience cheering) (audience cheering and whistling) thank you 8th congressional district! thank you for the honor of allowing me to represent you for another term. i will give it my all. i will give it my all. (audience cheering) it was an amazing feeling to be in the majority. we were gonna have the chance to investigate a lot of the corruption and misfeasance of the trump administration. but, of course, right when we got into the majority and the new term started, donald trump shut the government down. (air whooshing) tabitha raskin: take the tie off. let's see what it looks like without the tie. hannah raskin: that's better. tabitha raskin: much better. so, stand up. let's see. come on, man, we're trying to help you out! okay. all right. that's doable. here. back up, back up, back up. hannah?
you know my attitude from the beginning has been that impeachment should not be a fetish for anybody, but it should not be a taboo for anybody either. it's not a panacea for everything that ails us in america, it's not gonna get health insurance to people and it's not gonna lower prescription drug prices. but it is the people's last line of self-defense against a president who insists upon acting like a king and trampling the law. the great thing about america, what we love about america is that it is a constitutional democracy, it's government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and if somebody decides to disrupt the basic fabric of our republic, and to violate the law, we've got to take that seriously even... this is a system of laws, and the president is not above the law, the president is bound by the law, just like everybody else.
(people chattering) jamie raskin: the big story in my mind is that we have a president who has turned the government of the united states of america into a money-making operation for himself, for his family, for his business, and for his friends. and so, we wanna try to get the best, most fine-grained portrait we can of what's taking place within the trump operation. and then we've got to start to ask the question about whether this is a president who is an actual threat to the character of our republic. 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.
since the government shutdown and everything. and so i'm giving it to all the groups that are on the front lines. that's you guys. jackie: yeah, well, we really appreciate being part of that, and we appreciate what you're trying to do when you're on the hill. jamie raskin: well, thank you. hello. hi. nice to see you, what a pleasure! woman: nice to see you, too. i voted for you! jamie raskin: thank you so much. you know, i'm here with manna and we're collecting food just to help give away to the people who are affected by the government shutdown. woman: ok, i make sure i give something when i come back. jamie raskin: thank you so much. jamie raskin: hey. man: mr. raskin. jamie raskin: hey. man: don't give him the fucking wall. jamie raskin: all right. man: thank you for your work. woman: i haven't emailed your office lately, but i'm sure i will. (both laughing) woman: whenever i get angry, i just fire something off. jamie raskin: we have a system of checks and balances here, and you don't hold the federal workforce and the people of the country hostage in order to get your way in a policy debate. he wasn't able to get the mexican government to pay for his wall. he wasn't able to get congress to do it, even when he controlled the house and the senate with republican control over the last two years. now, suddenly, the democrats take over the house.
we won 40 seats and he decides to shut the government down. it's just an unacceptable way to do business in a democracy. ♪ ♪ (keyboard typing) ♪ ♪ i never thought that trump could turn out to be a good guy, but i thought maybe, all of this right wing authoritarian populist stuff, all this mussolini stuff, would just fade away quickly when he got in to office, that cooler heads would prevail, the conservative republican establishment would kind of take over and run things like a standard,
we're all taught in third grade that we have three co-equal branches, and we're not a co-equal branch of government, we're the pre-eminent branch of government. there's a reason we're in article one: all legislative power is vested in the congress of the united states. so the constitutional sovereign power of the people to create the country, to write the constitution, flowed into congress. and what's the core job of the president? to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. that's it. and if the president doesn't take care that the laws are faithfully executed, get rid of him. ♪ i overslept. ♪ (footsteps pattering) can i use your phone to call julie? carter: of course. jamie raskin: you're not going to want to film this. you've found me on the one in a thousand days when i'm really, really angry. because my phone doesn't work, i also don't know my schedule. so if there's anything on my schedule, i'm blowing people off.