There were 14 days to go and we didn't know what direction anything was going in. I mean,

the vast majority of insurrectionists left unarrested, right? They just walked out,

which was quite a stunning thing to observe. There were all kinds of calls on the violent,

right-wing, extremist websites to finish the job, to go back to your hotel in the hotel

rooms and close and get the guns. And some were saying, do that the next day. Some were

saying, do it on an auguration day, but don't let Biden get sworn in on the 20th.

If you followed the second impeachment trial, you probably recognize this voice.

I'm Congressman Janie Raskin from Maryland's beautiful, eighth congressional districts, and

I serve on the Judiciary Committee, I serve on the Oversight Committee, I serve on the

Rules Committee, and I'm on the January 6th Select Committee.

In the days after the January 6th insurrection, for Raskin and his colleagues, it wasn't

entirely clear that the insurrection was over. So there was a lot of fear and anxiety

and trepidation, and Donald Trump had essentially fulfilled the worst of people's expectation.

I mean, Michael Cohen testified to us in the Oversight Committee that there was no way

that Donald Trump would leave the office non-violently. So people were expecting different things.

One of the questions was, well, what do you do with these final two weeks? How do we

make sure that there's a peaceful transfer of power?

And for at least a brief moment, there seemed to be some kind of consensus.

By partisan at that point, very few Republicans were lying about it. Even Jim Jordan said

that was as wrong as wrong could be, and Mitch McConnell was really outraged, and they

were putting it right at Donald Trump's doorstep at that point.

The moment turned out to be brief indeed, at least with respect to accountability for

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