The lingering questions have developed into several lines of investigative inquiries now being chased by the House select committee investigating the Jan 6 attack.īut despite the committee's aggressive work so far, grave danger remains for the country, Raskin warns in the book's epilogue. 6 panel showcasing front-line witness accounts from officers. The plans helped fuel a first hearing for the Jan. This includes connecting more of the dots between Trump's role and the insurrection, along with the roles his closest allies, right-wing extremist groups, and rioters played in attempting to overturn the election's results. Throughout the book, Raskin notes much of the Jan. Trump was acquitted in a historic bipartisan vote that still fell short of the two-thirds needed for conviction.
Ultimately, the trial ended Saturday, Feb. Herrera Beutler shared details of the call publicly, which were submitted to the trial record, rather than testifying. Pelosi, rather, was more interested in Washington GOP Rep. McCarthy has not publicly discussed the call or confirmed its details. President, no one has been carrying your water in this election business more than me, who the eff do you think you're talking to?" "When McCarthy was saying, 'Who the eff do you think you're talking to?' he wasn't acting like a tough guy, like a mobster," Pelosi told Raskin. 6 call when the latter questioned the Republican leader's loyalty. Pelosi was not impressed with reports that McCarthy had a profanity-laced response to Trump during a heated Jan.
"McCarthy?! I wouldn't trust him any more than I would trust the guy with ram's horns," Raskin recounts Pelosi having said, referring to the " QAnon Shaman" who took part in the Capitol riot. Raskin also talked strategy with Pelosi during a last-minute scramble to potentially call witnesses, including House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy. I saw you up there and I saw myself in it and I'm so proud of you," Raskin recounts Biden, who lost his own son Beau to brain cancer, adding. 10 phone call as the congressman headed to the Capitol for the trial's second day of arguments. "Jamie, I'm calling to tell you that you're a helluva lawyer but you're an even better father," Biden told Raskin in a Feb. 6, present at several key turns in the efforts to ensure that such an attack does not happen again.ĭuring his rendering of the Senate impeachment trial, Raskin takes readers into private conversations with Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as he led his arguments. In some ways, Raskin became one of Democrats' congressional first responders to the events of Jan. The siege propelled Raskin to a new mission as the lead House manager of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment and now as a member of the House select committee investigating the Jan. "So as a congressman and a father of a lost son and two living daughters, I would take a stand, with everything I had left, against that violent catastrophe in the memory and spirit of Tommy Raskin, a person I have, alas, not even begun to properly render in words," Jamie Raskin writes. Raskin writes that "stomach-churning, violent insurrection that desecration of American democracy" would have wrecked Tommy Raskin. Raskin was ushered away from the chamber, while his daughter and son-in-law went into hiding under a desk in House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's office. Raskin and his relatives were trapped during the attack.
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