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jamie raskin: i think he thought that he was going to practice extortion, political extortion and that we would give in. and we stood strong. (crowd shouting) (car engine revving) ♪ reporter: now, for the first time, donald trump will have an effective opposition party that will be able to thwart his agenda. reporter: they have the power to investigate, they have the power to subpoena, and most importantly, the end of one party rule in washington. reporter: congressional oversight of the president of the united states finally begins in earnest today. williams: trump's former personal lawyer, michael cohen, will give public testimony before the house oversight committee, and that'll be televised live.
♪ reporter: in just a few hours congress will be convening to certify the results of the electoral college and confirm president-elect joe biden's victory. reporter: crowds are already gathering for a pro-trump rally that the president says he will speak at. as many as 30,000 people expected- reporter: this is a day that happens every 4 years that usually no one pays attention to, but this year all eyes are on capitol hill. reporter: dozens of house and senate republicans are going to object to the certification of millions of legally cast votes. reporter: still the president is ramping up pressure on vice president pence to flip the outcome, even as pence himself reportedly told the president that he does not have that power. trump allies tell nbc news, they believe he will keep disputing the results, what allies say the president is increasingly desperate. ♪
voted to convict former president trump. but it was not enough. leahy: the senate, having tried donald john trump, former president of the united states, by one article of impeachment... jamie raskin: i've had every possible emotion about it. i think i was crestfallen at the moment i first heard it. leahy: the acting sergeant at arms will escort the house managers out of the senate chamber. jamie raskin: i really thought we might have a 100 to zero verdict. i really thought that we had created such an overwhelming cascade of facts that the wiser republicans might say, this is our chance to save our party, this is our chance to get out from under the thumb of donald trump. and seven of them did the right thing. we needed 10 more. and so we might see a replay in 2024 of the 2020 election. (crowd chattering) i think we convicted him in the court of public opinion, and i think we convicted him in the eyes of history.
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.
with those who were concerned about what donald trump was doing to america's image and reputation in the world. and i think that's why the impeachment pressure built up in such a large way. people understood that he was trying to wage war against not just our political party, but the whole constitutional order. it was an extraordinary abuse of power. oh, wait, i forgot to tie my tie. don't look at my collar with a scowl. (both laughing) reporter: i'll make it quick and easy. not all the elaborate setup like last time. jamie raskin: all right. reporter: so, a crazy couple of days, huh? jamie raskin: yeah. really a wonderful couple of days. reporter: can you hold this for a second? jamie raskin: the times have found us. the moment that the ukraine episode came to light, you could tell everything was gonna change. at the same time that i was shocked and startled
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? hannah raskin: it's better. tabitha raskin: dad, that's good. that's fine. jamie raskin: what's wrong with the tie? tabitha raskin: you're too fancy on the top and too casual on the bottom. jamie raskin: and now, i feel like i'm just too casual. tabitha raskin: no, no, no. no, dad, it's a food drive, right? jamie raskin: right, right. tabitha raskin: so then, you should be casual. ♪ reporter: this is the third government shutdown on president trump's watch as lawmakers failed to reach an agreement over border wall funding the president is demanding.
(crowd cheering) thank you for organizing. black lives matter! man: black lives matter! woman: black lives! crowd: matter! woman: thank you so much. ♪ reporter: not only may this actually be the most important election in our lifetime, it certainly will be the most unusual. ♪ reporter: states across the country are turning to mail-in voting in this election in an effort to allow americans to vote safely during the pandemic. holt: while most americans support the option of mail-in balloting, president trump launched a new attack on it today as he trails joe biden in the polls. president trump: they're gonna be sending out 80 million ballots. where are they going? who are they sending them to? they're trying to rig this election. reporter: the president's failure to address the pandemic continues to hurt him in poll after poll. asked if he would accept the election results, the president said, "i'll have to see." president trump: the only way we're gonna lose this election
at least maybe half the senate, you know. (both laughing) julie: hello? i'm sitting right next to him. biden wants to talk to you. ♪ jamie raskin: hello? oh, mr. president. ♪ voltaire said, "anyone who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." president trump declared his conduct totally appropriate, so if he gets back into office and it happens again, we'll have no one to blame but ourselves.
it would be a sellout of our constitution, our foreign policy, our national security and our democracy. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. ♪ pelosi: on this vote, the yays are 229, the nays are 198, present is 1, article 2 is adopted. reporter: it is official. president trump impeached. putting a bitterly divided america on display. virtually every democrat voting for impeachment. every republican voting against it. nadler: today we took action to hold president trump accountable for the serious and undisputed risk he poses to our free and fair elections and to the separation of powers that safeguards our liberty. pelosi: we passed the 2 articles of impeachment, the president is impeached. reporter: once the house speaker sends the articles of impeachment over to the senate,
and congress's oversight role. so, there was great frustration building up. (footsteps pattering) there was a very strong sense in the country and in our caucus that we needed to formalize it into an impeachment inquiry or investigation. but i think that the democratic leadership was nervous about the politics of it. (footsteps pattering) some of our members started to say, trump's not worth it. the president's not worth it. the question is whether the constitution is worth it and whether the country is worth it. nicorette knows, quitting smoking is freaking hard. you get advice like: the question is whether the constitution is worth it just stop. go for a run. go for 10 runs! run a marathon. instead, start small. with nicorette. which can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette. living with metastatic breast cancer means being relentless. start stopping with nicorette. because every day matters. and having more of them is possible with verzenio.