The Political Scene Live with Jamie Raskin: January 6th and Accountability for Donald Trump
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 12 October 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Tomorrow marks the last expected public hearing of the Congressional January 6th Committee. The eight previous hearings have already revealed extraordinary information about just how close American democracy came to being overturned during the insurrection. But what has yet to be revealed? Will we learn what Trump was doing while the Capitol was stormed? Will action be taken? The New Yorker’s Washington bureau—Evan Osnos, Jane Mayer, and Susan B. Glasser—are joined at the New Yorker Festival by Representative Jamie Raskin, who is both a congressman and a constitutional scholar, to discuss the legal theory of the many possible cases against Donald Trump. “Trump is a one-man crime wave,” Raskin says. “Like, he personally affects the crime rate.”
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| 1:11.9 | Welcome to the political scene. I'm Evan Osnose, a staff writer at The New Yorker. |
| 1:16.4 | This past weekend at the New Yorker Festival, I appeared with my colleagues, Jane Mayer, |
| 1:21.2 | and Susan Glasser, to interview Representative Jamie Raskin in front of a live audience. |
| 1:27.7 | Raskin has been a force in Congress in the effort to hold Donald Trump accountable, |
| 1:32.3 | first as the lead manager of the second impeachment trial of the former president, |
| 1:36.2 | and now as a member of the House Select Committee investigating January 6th. |
| 1:40.8 | This Thursday, that committee is holding what is expected to be its ninth and final hearing. |
| 1:46.4 | Susan and Jane and I have followed these hearings closely, and before Congressman Raskin joined us on stage, |
| 1:52.0 | we chatted a bit about what we've learned so far and where we think the hearings might be headed. |
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