MAJOR GARRETT: What's his relevant evidence and testimony? REPRESENTATIVE JAMIE RASKIN: Well, we're inviting in only people who have relevant evidence and testimony. How do you respond to that remark - those remarks? And what would be the value of him coming in talking to the committee? Earlier this year, he said, under a Republican-led Congress, members of this committee might be arrested. He has described this committee as a Stalinist show trial. There is conversation about having Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, come in. MAJOR GARRETT: Let's talk about the January 6 committee. And I think that's why President Biden was right to sound the alarm this week about these continuing attacks on our constitutional order from the outside by Donald Trump and his movement. Two of the hallmarks of a fascist political party are, one, they don't accept the results of elections that don't go their way, and, two, they embrace political violence. He's had the benefit of more than 60 courts, including eight courts where he appointed the judges to office, look at all those claims, and they were all rejected. There is no procedure for the military just to seize the election machinery and run a new election, which is one of the things that his disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was pushing and we know was part of the January 6 plot.Īnd, look, more than 60 courts rejected every claim of electoral fraud and corruption which Donald Trump advanced. REPRESENTATIVE JAMIE RASKIN: Well, first, if he's saying that the election should be rerun, which is something he's been asserting from the beginning, that's totally outside of the Constitution.
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