Jamie Raskin

It's not in those things.

It's people being willing to physically show up to embody the truth.

Yes.

More of our special recap to come.

Quick break.

We'll be right back.

Welcome back to our primetime recap of Jack Smith's historic testimony on Capitol Hill today.

For anybody wondering why House Republicans wanted to do this, why they wanted to allow Jack Smith to explain the strength of his evidence, why they wanted to re-litigate live for the American people for hours, the very strong, very damning criminal indictments of the sitting Republican president,

Well, Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu offered a potent theory about that today.

Republicans would rather talk about the criminality of Donald Trump than about Trump's associations with Jeffrey Epstein and his pedophilia ring.

When Congressman Lew said that today, I felt like you could feel all over the country people going, yeah!

Yes, exactly.

Congressman Ted Lieu calling out his Republican colleagues on the panel for being so desperate to talk about anything other than convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his longstanding deep ties with Donald Trump that they were willing to literally hold a televised live public congressional hearing today all about Trump's alleged crimes and the evidence that supports the idea that maybe the word alleged shouldn't be there.

Under Donald Trump, the Justice Department has now blown past a congressionally mandated deadline of December 19th to release all investigative files related to Epstein.

Only a small fraction of the records have been made public so far.

Steph, you were just talking about this.

You just brought this up.

I mean, there is...

I feel like there is reasonable analysis that everything Trump is doing is about distracting from the Epstein files.

I also feel like, well, it doesn't matter if it's a distraction.