Rep. Jamie Raskin: ‘We Came Very Close to Losing Our Democracy on January 6th’

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RASKIN: "Well, first of all, I think the big reveal has arrived. Trump has repeatedly confirmed it. Some people seem to think that if you talk about crime in public, it can’t be a crime. If you rob a bank in broad daylight, you’re still robbing a bank, and this president clearly tried to overthrow a presidential election. He’s the first president in American history to do it. So, our committee is charged with telling America the truth. We will get that truth out  there in very vivid and fine-grained detail so America understands exactly what happened. The truth is going to be the basis for us moving forward to institute, we hope, a whole set of legislative recommendations to guarantee that we will not have either a political coup in the future or a violent insurrection that overthrows state legislatures or overthrows the Congress of the United States. That’s what we need to do. But we need to get the message out, and we appreciate the role that media or at least some media are playing in terms of telling the story to America about the fact that we came very close to losing our democracy on January 6th in 2021."