The road to rebuilding for America is through honest reckoning with the trauma

as we've experienced and then building beyond that and we can do it. We can

rebuild and we can have a renewal of our country.

Hello and welcome to Wise. This is happening with me, your host Chris Hayes.

You have probably seen a lot of the January 6th one year anniversary coverage

and lots of places on our program along with Chris Hayes, which is week 9th

at MSMBC across all kinds of media platforms. There's an accelerating

investigation of course from the Select Committee. A lot of meditations on the

meaning of that day, which is as profoundly and proximate a threat to

American democracy and the way that we can see the fit in the modern era as

anything that I have experienced certainly in my lifetime and I think that's

true for most folks. One of the sort of clearest voices on the dangers of

what happened January 6th and we're probably one of the voices in politics I find

to best combine deep knowledge with human empathy and a historical

sensibility is Congressman Jamie Raskin. He represents Maryland's eighth

congressional district in the US House of Representatives. He was the lead

impeachment manager for the second impeachment of Donald Trump, the

impeachment for leading and inciting the insurrection. He drafted the

articles of impeachment along with with others who were part of that effort.

He now sits on the Select Committee. He's also just a I sort of knew of Jamie

Raskin even before he was a member of Congress and he was a state

legislator. His wife Sarah Bloomraskin worked at the Treasury Department. She

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