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The Al Franken Podcast

Jamie Raskin

The Al Franken Podcast

The Al Franken Podcast

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) talks about his son Tommy; being lead manager in the impeachment trial & the Jan. 6th Select Committee 

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0:00.0

You're listening ad free on Wondery Plus.

0:03.6

Let's say you love sports, but are also, you know, a busy person.

0:07.4

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0:12.2

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0:16.2

Listen to the lead starting 5 on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcast.

0:26.4

Hey everybody, we have an amazing one.

0:29.4

For once.

0:31.4

Actually, that's not true.

0:33.4

We've had some amazingly bad ones in the past and you know, now that I think about it quite recently, actually.

0:39.4

But this one really great.

0:42.4

Representative Jamie Rask and joined me a few days ago.

0:47.4

The third term Democrat from Maryland.

0:50.4

Lead the nine member team of the House impeachment managers.

0:55.4

Of course, is the second impeachment the one after the January 6th insurrection.

1:03.4

We spoke about all that and his very personal journey following the tragic death of a

1:09.0

son Tommy Bryant kid, Harvard Law School graduate took his life after a long struggle with the

1:18.0

depression and that was just six days before the storming of the Capitol.

1:26.0

Jamie wrote an extraordinary memoir about this this period from Tommy's death through the impeachment trial.

1:35.0

Wrote it during a lot of sleepless nights.

1:37.0

The book is unthinkable, trauma, truth and the trials of democracy.

1:43.0

And MSNBC is premiering the documentary about Jamie this Sunday, the day that this podcast actually drops.

1:56.0

We talk about the book and the doc.

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