It's Diane. On my mind, Jamie Raskin and the road to accountability.

I think it's very important that our justice system be respected and that the rule of law works.

Representative Raskin came to national attention during a second impeachment trial of Donald Trump for incitement of insurrection.

The Maryland Congressman also served on a House Select Committee investigating January 6th,

whose work ended in a recommendation of criminal charges.

Now, a year later, that's exactly what Donald Trump faces or accounts related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Congressman Jamie Raskin joined me to weigh in on the charges.

Congressman Raskin, it's great to see you again. Tell me how you are.

Well, you're very kind to ask me, Diane. I'm doing great. You know, I finished my chemo treatments and I've been three months out.

I just had a PET scan and everything looks clear and my neuropathy's gone. My nausea's gone and my eyebrows came back.

My hair's coming back and so I'm feeling good and I'm getting some rest and relaxation.

I'm so glad I was disappointed to hear you were not going to run for the Senate.

Tell me about that decision. Well, yeah, I mean, it's been a tough choice and people are still definitely lobbying me about that one.

You know, I am the ranking Democrat on the oversight committee. If we win the House back, I'll be the chair of the oversight committee.

And so I'm in a position where I can really make important progress, both on all of the corruption questions we've been dealing with and the insurrection and so on, but also on other things that are really important to our society, like gun violence and gun safety and climate change and so on.

So the campaign was and remains very intriguing to me for the Senate because I love our state so much and I love the idea, you know, campaigning across the state and talking to people throughout Maryland.

But I'm just still not quite convinced that it's that I'd be I'd have more influence and more opportunity to affect things in a positive way in the Senate.

And but I've promised a bunch of people that I would to keep my mind open and my mind is remains open about it.

Well, I'm glad to hear that and I do understand your thinking it makes good sense to me, but I leave it to you and we'll hear about that.

Tell me about what you believe the differences are between the criminal referrals that your committee made regarding Donald Trump and the choices that Jack Smith has charged you agree with his choices.

Well, I certainly agree with everything that's in there. I also agree with some things that are not in there that we had in the referral that we made.

I would say the big difference is that we incorporated charges that were much more directly focused on the violence in addition to the political coup dimension.

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