The media has hurried to get to the question of subpoenas, and contempt of Congress and how to coerce compliance. Could you explain how strong of a case the committee would have in enforcing a subpoena if a member of Congress refused to comply? You were a constitutional law professor earlier in your career. But for some reason, that was the thing that struck me hard. I know I saw a lot more bloody things that day, far more extreme situations. And now I was getting the message from my daughter that my workplace was a danger. You know, I had always wanted to involve my kids in my political career and have them get to know my colleagues, and I've always just wanted them to be excited about government. She was essentially telling me that my chosen career path and engagement in politics had become a negative thing in our lives. When Tabitha said that, it was shocking and dismaying to me. What was going through your mind at that point, and how do you make sense of it now after writing the book? It often indicates a user profile.Ĭould take me back to the first moments you had to yourself on the night of the insurrection, particularly after your daughter told you she never wanted to come back to the Capitol again after witnessing that day first-hand. We’ve got to put that chapter of American history behind us definitively.”ĬNN’s Chandelis Duster contributed to this report.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. “Because this is our government, this is our country, and our parents and our grandparents and prior generations have fought too hard to throw it all away for Donald Trump and Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows and Dinesh D’Souza and all of the pardoned political criminals like Roger Stone. “We’ve got to respond like democracy-loving Americans who want to make this work,” he said. Now a member of the House select panel investigating the attack on the Capitol, Raskin said in the “Axe Files” podcast, “I hope that our committee is able to tell a painstaking story of how we got to this dark moment in American history, and we are able to record in granular detail exactly who did what.” They pushed the furniture up against the door, and they hid under the desk.” I established that they were back in (House Majority Leader) Steny Hoyer’s little Capitol Hill office,” he told Axelrod, adding that the experience was scary for his family. “I was terrified to be separated from them. Raskin’s daughter Tabitha and his son-in-law Hank were also at the Capitol that day to support him, but they became separated as the insurrection unfolded, the lawmaker also said.
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Lawmakers and aides who worked closely with Raskin during the impeachment trial told CNN that his son’s memory had provided a kind of fuel for the congressman to keep going through hours-long prep sessions, votes and floor debates. Raskin – who reflects on the twin tragedies in his new book, “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy” – told CNN’s Don Lemon on Tuesday that he had been “drowning in agony and grief” at the time. Raskin had announced the death by suicide of his 25-year-old son, Tommy, on New Year’s Eve 2020, just days before Trump supporters violently attacked the Capitol in an effort to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s rightful win. (Photo by Scott Cunningham/Getty Images) Scott Cunningham/Getty Images/FILEĬarter warns America 'teeters on the brink of a widening abyss' in stark op-ed ahead of January 6 So she threw me a lifeline because she said, ‘We need you.’ “ĪTLANTA, GA - SEPTEMBER 30: Former president Jimmy Carter prior to the game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Cincinnati Bengals at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Septemin Atlanta, Georgia. I mean, when the day we lost Tommy, I was essentially catatonic, sitting in a chair, just repeating over and over again, ‘I’ve lost my son. “And then she said, ‘And I’d like you to be the lead impeachment manager,’ and I also agreed to that immediately, but I realized soon thereafter, she had thrown me a lifeline, because I wasn’t sure if I could ever do anything again. Of course I will do that,” the Maryland Democrat told David Axelrod on “ The Axe Files” podcast. And the speaker called me and said, ‘I’d like you to be on the team of impeachment managers.’ And I said, of course I will. Everybody was telling me I was, you know, losing all of this weight. “I was completely shocked when Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi asked me to do it, because I was really a wreck. Jamie Raskin said that becoming the lead House impeachment manager in former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial last year served as a “lifeline” in the aftermath of his son’s death and the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.
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