Jamie Raskin

all over the country we of course have our great lawyer mark elias with a team of i don't know it's 80 or 90 lawyers now but there's aclu there's naacp legal defense fund these things are being fought out but remember the best way to steal an election is to run an election and that's what the republicans are trying to do like in texas they try to take over all of the uh outposts of management of the election to prevent people from voting and stop people from voting but

When people say to me, you know, he's going to cancel the election, Trump's got no power to cancel the election.

We had midterm congressional elections in the middle of the Civil War.

We had midterm elections in the middle of World War II.

We've gone through major wars and cataclysms and had midterm elections.

Why would we cancel it for Donald Trump?

Because it's going to hurt his feelings to see his party go down into humiliating defeat?

I'm sorry, that's not a reason to cancel American democracy.

Well, I think the

Fear is that he's going to somehow enlist the military into stopping it.

Well, and we've had a lot of our colleagues in Congress speak out very strongly to people in the military about how not only can they, but how they must refuse unlawful orders.

Now they're retaliating against Alyssa Slotkin and Jason Crow and our colleagues.

And so we've got to defend them.

You can let her filibuster all day long, but not on our watch.

Not on our time.

No way.

And I told you about that, Attorney General, before you started.

It was surreal.

She was spectacularly disrespectful to the members of the committee, to the victim survivors of the Epstein human trafficking conspiracy who were in the room.

She wouldn't apologize to them.