Raskin says Trump "may destroy" the Republican Party

and I'm joined now in Studio by Maryland Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin who also serves in the house select committee investigating January 6 attack on the U.S Capitol welcome Democrat Silva shot here although Republicans have the edge in taking the house what do Americans need to be prepared for what the next two years looks like well first of all don't count us out the way we were counted out from the very beginning in this election they were saying the Republicans were going to pick up 40 50 60 seats but the party of democracy and freedom and progress for the people held and so we've had a very impressive election and we're going to continue to fight for social progress and we're going to fight for the political rights of the people which means against gerrymandering against voter suppression tactics against manipulative use of the filibuster and the Electoral College to thwart the will of the majority so we're going to continue to fight for a strong democracy program yeah it's going to be hard to legislate though any way we look at it I want to ask you about what you're working on with the January 6 committee former president Trump's basically is going to defy The subpoena you issued he's planning to announce he's running for the presidency on Tuesday is the prime achievement of the January 6 committee simply going to be this written report you're not appearing to stop him from running well in a democracy the people have the right to the truth and what we withstood was a systematic assault on Democratic institutions in an attempt to overthrow a presidential election so we have set forth the truth in a series of hearings and we're going to set forth the truth in our final report along with a set of legislative recommendations about what we need to do to fortify American democracy against coups insurrections electoral sabotage and political violence with domestic violent extremist groups involved so we're going to put all of that out there look uh when when I was over in the Senate with the impeachment team I told the Republicans there that this was our opportunity to deal with the problem of Donald Trump who had committed High crimes and misdemeanors against the people of the United States and they needed to act on behalf of the country and the Constitution but if they didn't he would become their problem and at this point Donald Trump is the problem of the Republican party and he may destroy their party can you get an electoral count Act passed in this lame duck session I think we can that's the bare minimum of what we need to do it's necessary it's not remotely sufficient to the task because what we saw in in 2021 and earlier in 2020 was a systematic assault on the right to vote in an attempt to steal a presidential election by Donald Trump an attempt to overthrow the Constitutional order so I think we can reform the Electoral count act passing the legislation that Zoe Lofgren and Liz Cheney have proposed but that's um just one small part of what needs to be done needs to be done to protect American constitutional democracy election deniers didn't Prevail in the key Battlegrounds but CBS tallied it and at least 155 House Republicans in the new Congress have raised unfounded doubts about the validity or Integrity of the 2020 election these are going to be your colleagues that you will be working with what change is that going to affect in in the work you do well that's a statement about the political contamination of the GOP by Donald Trump and again you know Kevin McCarthy and other leaders within the Republican Party are now required to make a decision about whether they're going to try to rid themselves of Donald Trump and his toxic influence on the party these 155 House Republicans are his constituency Kevin McCarthy if he wants to be leader will need to consider yes well it's a real problem for Kevin McCarthy now because um there are certain pro-trumpists within his house caucus who refuse to accept that he's really with Trump and they want to get rid of McCarthy and some of them they have names very early in the alphabet like bigs and they might just vote for Trump when they you know take the roll call for speakers so we know that the the hard right Freedom caucus people are in search of another candidate and one potential candidate whose name has been floated is Donald Trump self because the speaker of the house does not have to be a member of the house and they are talking about putting Trump right there that's not a real option now well they talk about it repeatedly and if Trump decided he wanted to do it it would pose a profound problem for their party because they refuse to do the right thing early on I mean today it seems like the spell has been broken it's begun to dissolve we don't have Republicans around the country claiming that they really won when it's been certified that they lost their elections and yet there is still this big lie Dogma which as you say has been embraced by 150 members within their caucus and so that is going to create profound cognitive and political dissonance within the GOP is it really Trump's party or does it stand for something else and Liz Cheney and Adam kinziger are going to force that question they're going to force the Republicans to choose would you urge President Biden and the White House to comply with all these house Republican investigations that have been promised well obviously everybody's got to comply with the law such as the law is um you know we would hope that they would feel chastened by the voters of America who dealt them an historic repudiation I mean they were talking about picking up 40 or 50 or 60 seats um we the Democrats May indeed win the house the way yesterday we won uh the Senate so it is a repudiation of that kind of right-wing big lie election denying character assassination politics that Donald Trump brought right to the heart of the Republican Party Congressman thank you for being here

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Length: 6min 15sec (375 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 13 2022