You know, tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me, my illness won today. Look after each other, the animals and the global poor for me. All my love, tommy. So he didnt have anything in there about take some time off. And why usa usa . Usa why is america such an extraordinary country . We are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity or one ideology or one religion. We are unified by one constitution and one rule of law and in the values under our constitution. [applause] it is an aspiration, its a challenge to us. The constitution shouldnt be some kind of fetish document. It should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in the service of the common good. That is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. That is the constitution that we have been fighting for since then. And weve got to keep fighting for it. [crowd chanting] trump trump trump [applause] please raise your right hand and repeat after me, i donald john trump, do solemnly swear i, donald john trump, do solemnly swear to preserve, protect and defend the constitutional United States, so help me. God congratulations. [sound of gunfire] [sound of artillery] mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered light tombstones across the landscape, and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much on realized potential. This American Carnage stops right here and stops right now. [applause] we dont trump talked about American Carnage in his first inaugural address, it was a pivotal moment, because American Carnage of course was not a description of everything anything, it was a promise on his part. When i saw the violence on the january 6th, i thought about the American Carnage speech. He had foreshadowed the whole thing. American carnage what was not what he was running against, it was what he was running for. [applause] we can now efficiently project that the democrats will take control of the house now for the first time don trump will have an effective Opposition Party that will be able to thwart his agenda. [applause] all right, our next speaker is a very special people. If you guys would listen up for a second and Pay Attention for one second, i am bringing on two of my three kids, who are going to introduce me so i can make my speech. Please welcome tommy raskin and tabatha raskin tonight. Come on up. Good evening, everybody. Im tommy raskin. I am tabatha raskin. So, if the best representative is the one who works the hardest and then you are representative, my dad, is the best. I [laughter] [applause] my father started running for office when i was ten and since that time i have kept an informal tally of all questions that have gotten on the and when i get the most is, do you think your dad is going to win . And i suppose my familial hubris is showing, because i never doubt that hes going to win. Its not because your and so there is none not because of his so he has that, as well. Deep moral convictions. And his appreciation of Democratic Values i represent i will give it my all. I will give it. All [applause] it was an amazing feeling to be in the majority. We were going to have the chance to investigate a lot of the corruption and missed reasons 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. Come on, man. All right thats doable. Backup, backup. Its better. Lacombe of the tie . No, no no. So the new shouldnt its route to this is the third Government Shutdown on President Trumps watch. As they failed to Reach Agreement a Border Wall Funding the prisons banning roughly employees will not be getting paid during the shutdown. More than half of them will still have to report to work. The rest are being furloughed, i mean they wont go to work but they still wont get paid. Nice to meet, you good to see. You this is wonderful. Very very exciting. I love these guys. I have to make my contribution. Im giving my entire january salary away since the government shut down. So im really give it all the groups. Thats you guys. We really appreciate being a part of that. We appreciate where youre trying to do when youre on the hill. Thank you. Hello. Nice to see you. What a pleasure. Im here with and recollecting food just helped give away to people who are affected by the Government Shutdown. Okay. Thank you so much. What dont give them the viking law. For over charlottesville. Never get a device on the. Gus we have a system of checks and balances and you dont hold the federal workforce of the people of the country hostage in order to get air away in a policy debate. Were able to get the mexico he wasnt able to get the Mexican Government papers wiley, was unable to get congress to do it even though we control that was in the senate with republican coal, now suddenly the democrats took over the house, we won 40 seats and he decides to shut the government down. Its just an unacceptable way to do business in a democracy. I never thought the trump could turn out to be a good guy. I thought maybe all of this rightwing authoritarian populist stuff, all this mussolini stuff, which is fade away quickly when he got into office, that cooler heads would prevail, the conservative republican establishment would kind of take over and run things like a standard runofthemill rightwing presidency. As opposed to an existential threat to constitutional democracy. [applause] donald trump today due to the rose garden to wave a white flag, a Green Two O Reopen the government without funding for his border wall. Im proud to announce that we have reached a deal to end the shut down and reopen the federal government. I think he thought that he was going to practice extortion, political extortion, and that we would give again and we stood strong. Now for the first time donald trump will have an effective Opposition Party that will be able to thwart his agenda and have that power to investigate and the power to subpoena and most importantly the end of one party rule in washing ten win. Congressional oversight of the president United States finally begins in earnest today. Trumps former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, will be give public testimony between House Oversight committee, and i will be televised live. In the statement we got last night he said the president was a Racist Con Man and a cheat. My reaction was, tell us something we dont know. [laughter] so, you know, im basically looking at him like, renegade refugee from Organized Crime family and hes going to tell us the internal dynamics of the trump Operation Wow the big story, in my mind, is that we have a president who has turned the government to vote states of america into a moneymaking operation for himself, for his family, for his business, and for his friends, and so we want to try to get the best and most fine grained portrait we can get of what is taking place within the Trump Corporation then we have to ask a question about whether this is a president who was an actual threat to the character of our public. Oh my god, look at those people. What mr. Cohen, if you would please rise and i will begin to swear you in. Raise your right hand. My loyalty to mr. Trump has cost me everything. My familys 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, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power, and this is why i agreed to appear before you today. We [applause] Michael Cohen did issue a stark warning to the country that if donald trump lost there would be no peaceful transition. Theres 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. People have said from the beginning, there is no way he would do that. Theres no way anybody would do that. That community. I offer what i can when i can. I started noticing my memory was slipping. I saw a prevagen commercial and i did some research on it. I started taking prevagen about three years ago. I feel clearer in my thoughts, my memory has improved and generally just more on point. 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When Attorney General william barr releases a redacted version of the nearly 400page mueller report. Was there a conspiracy in the election between russians and americans trying to help donald trump . Was there obstruction or other crimes arising under that investigation . Mueller never concluded either way whether the president obstructed justice. So william barr made a determination himself. You know, there is an attempt, i think here, to preempt congresss role. We are the Law Making Branch of government. We have 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 Master Bashful Job Propagandize in the public about it, basically pulling the wool over everybodys job eyes about what was in the report. He took a complicated set of facts, which showed lots of wrongdoing, condensed it to no collusion no construction. There was no evidence of the Trump Campaign collusion with the russian governments hacking. There was no collusion. There was no obstruction. There was no nothing. Either of those things was in there but that was the mantra. You could hear it 500 times a day. I mean, its just a classic Propaganda Tactics of authoritarian regimes. I feel like pulling in all i pulled an all nighter. I didnt, but its just that feeling. Being back in college in cramming for three hours straight. Going up. Do you think that impeachment is more on the table now . I dont think its any more or any less than it ever wise. You know, my attitude from the beginning has been that impeachment should not be a fetish for anybody, but it should not be taboo for anybody either. Its not a panacea for everything that ails us in america. Its not going to get Health Insurance to people. And its not gonna lower Prescription Drug prices. But it is the peoples last line of selfdefense against a president who insist 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. Its government of the people by the people for the people. And if somebody decides to disrupt the basic fabric of our public and to violate the law, weve got to take that seriously, even if this is a system of lies in the president is not above the law. Hes bound by the law like everybody else. We are charging through agreed that we have three coequal branches. We are not coequal branch of government. Where the preeminent branch of government. Theres a reason why we are in article one. All legislative power is vested in the congress of the United States. So the constitution all sovereign power of the people to create the country, to raid the constitution, flawed into congress. And one is the core job of the president . To take care that the laws are faithfully executed. Thats it. If the president doesnt take care that the laws are faithfully executed, get rid of him. I overslept. Can i use your phone to call . Julie of course. He found me in a one and 1000 days when i was really angry. Because my phone doesnt work. It doesnt belong with his schedule. Taking the dog for a walk because my phone died. I need new phone. Good morning good morning. Be quiet. Here, what if you take this. Potter, you stop that attitude. I am so upset right now. The president was engaged in all kinds of corruption and he just gave the finger to the separation of powers and congresss oversight role. So there was great frustration building up. There was a very strong sense in the country and in the caucus that we need to formalize it into an Impeachment Inquiry or investigation. But i think that democratic leadership was nervous about the politics of it. Some of our members started to say trumps not worth it. 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I didnt think donald trump was going to be in the white house when i ran for office. Iran is a Constitutional Law professor. I know one thing really well, which is about the constitution in the rule of law in american democracy. And it became clear to me that trump was actually attacking the constitutional underpinnings of american government. What a pleasure. Thank. You thank you poverty. So most of the history of humanity, of our species, people have lived under Kings And Queens and dictators and despots and belize and authoritarian system. Democracy is very much the exception and the whole point of the constitution is to keep people in office from just doing whatever they want. It was the idea of Lawless Discretion in Government Officials that motivated the american revolutionaries to write a constitution that woodbine people in power. So weve got to make democracy work, and it is something that we do together. We need every buddy out organizing to get everyone out to vote in 2020. And we have to capture all these facts cystic style tactics coming from donald trump. As hard as we were fighting trump, we are going to stop him from his rampage in america, we were also working to turn out a landslide for the democrats in 2020. Hi, good morning. Good to see you. What everybody likes to hear soy and stand. You dont wanna see spend rest your live looking at my poor head. Really. We like it. Going up. Down by the riverside, down by the riverside. Im going to study war no more. [applause] [applause] hello Democracy Summer in the house we brought some organizers today. One of them is sitting behind me. [bell ringing] [applause] Thomas Jefferson said, we are by blood and tradition the heirs of rebels and revolutionaries who overthrew kings and tyrants, and we must never forget who we are. [applause] i i studied congress and saw the kind of member that i had in mind, who a member of congress is, what they are like. Its pretty much exactly who j. D. Raskin is. [applause] graciously intellectual, relentlessly principled, eminently compassionate, and able to Quote Jefferson as