'Jamie, I'm calling to tell you that you're a helluva lawyer but you're an even better father,' Biden told Raskin in a Feb.

6, present at several key turns in the efforts to ensure that such an attack does not happen again.ĭuring his rendering of the Senate impeachment trial, Raskin takes readers into private conversations with Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as he led his arguments. In some ways, Raskin became one of Democrats' congressional first responders to the events of Jan.

The siege propelled Raskin to a new mission as the lead House manager of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment and now as a member of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 'So as a congressman and a father of a lost son and two living daughters, I would take a stand, with everything I had left, against that violent catastrophe in the memory and spirit of Tommy Raskin, a person I have, alas, not even begun to properly render in words,' Jamie Raskin writes. Raskin writes that 'stomach-churning, violent insurrection that desecration of American democracy' would have wrecked Tommy Raskin. Raskin was ushered away from the chamber, while his daughter and son-in-law went into hiding under a desk in House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's office. Raskin and his relatives were trapped during the attack.

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