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Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin has raised fresh questions about Donald Trump’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein, claiming there is enough evidence to warrant scrutiny. Speaking after the midterm elections, Raskin has reignited the political debate surrounding the Epstein files, Trump’s association with Epstein and demands for greater transparency.

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00:00You oversee Todd Blanche, so how quickly will you have him up testifying before your committee?
00:06Well, he has to testify as a matter of just duty to come before the Judiciary Committee.
00:11But look how they started.
00:13Well, what are, like, two of the first things they did when they got in?
00:16One, they sacked every lawyer, every prosecutor at the Department of Justice,
00:21and hundreds of other staff, simply because they had done their jobs
00:25and worked on the January 6th investigation where Donald Trump incited a violent mob
00:31of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Klansmen, insurrectionists to attack our police officers
00:36and give them heart attacks, strokes, traumatic brain injuries, broken jaws, arms, legs.
00:42A number of them are disabled and are no longer in police work
00:46because they can't meet the physical qualifications for it
00:49in order to block the peaceful transfer of power.
00:52And the first thing they did was they got rid of anybody who had worked on the case,
00:56the largest criminal investigation in American history.
00:59Well, what a scandal and an outrage that is.
01:02You want to look into that?
01:03Well, of course we've got to look into that.
01:04Another thing they did was they transferred the files on the Epstein case
01:09from the Southern District of New York to D.C.
01:12Then they buried them for six and a half months.
01:15And then on July 7th of July 7th of 2025, they they issued a letter saying that there was
01:26no evidence anywhere in these millions of documents that would be a predicate
01:32even for an investigation into potential co-conspirators or accomplices.
01:37Right.
01:38Couldn't find it anywhere.
01:39We issued a report three weeks ago, absolutely devastating to that claim,
01:46refuting every part of it and showing, in fact, how Donald there was enough evidence
01:49on Donald Trump alone in his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein to justify further investigation
01:55with witnesses who we had coming forward.
01:58So, look, the Department of Justice.
02:00And I don't even think that Todd Blanche will disagree with this works right now for Donald Trump.
02:06That's it.
02:06Todd Blanche was Donald Trump's personal attorney.
02:10He became his personal attorney general.
02:13Look at the fraudulent prosecutions that they brought, both under him and under Pam Bondi,
02:18against James Comey, the former FBI director, against Letitia James, against Senator Adam Schiff,
02:24against Senator Mark Kelly, against Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander,
02:29against Congressman Jason Grell, against my constituent Davey Hearn.
02:32You guys heard about this one?
02:34This is not far from here.
02:35How many of you guys have been over to the Reflecting Pool?
02:37You ever been there?
02:38I call it the Strait of Warm Ooze.
02:43So my constituent, Davey, who's a great guy, he's taught generations of people,
02:47of young people in Montgomery County.
02:49By the way, anyone here from Montgomery County, Maryland?
02:51Any in the district?
02:51Well, welcome, you guys.
02:53A special greeting to you guys.
02:54So anyway, Davey goes on a bike ride.
02:58He's 67 years old.
02:59He stops at the Reflecting Pool.
03:01He dips his hand in the water, okay?
03:04Multiple federal agents pounce on him, arrest him, take him in, hold him for five hours.
03:10They charge him with felony destruction of federal government property.
03:15So be very careful what you're doing on your picnics, you guys.
03:19And then, so Trump wants him thrown away for 10 years.
03:23They want to put him in prison.
03:25We mount a whole campaign.
03:27There are lawyers who work with the different anti-Trump resistance opposition solidarity groups
03:36who get involved.
03:37And the judge in the case, Judge Edelman, throws out the charges with prejudice, saying he's not a criminal,
03:45he committed no crime, and they can never bring charges against him again
03:48because he was convinced that Donald Trump was going to continue to set him up
03:52because Trump resisted when they first dismissed the charges.
03:57So we got him freed.
03:59I wrote a letter to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia,
04:02whom you probably know, Janine Pirro.
04:04She was a Fox News hostess before she...
04:07You want her to come testify before your committee?
04:08Perhaps, indeed.
04:09We have a lot of things we'd like to talk to her about.
04:12Janine Pirro, I wrote her a letter, and it was very simple.
04:14I said, number one, you should pay for Davey Hearn's legal fees.
04:18Number two, get your hands off my constituents.
04:21And number three, if you're still looking for a scofflaw criminal vandal
04:27who also happens to be a convicted felon at large
04:30who's been damaging federal property in amounts of more than $1,000,
04:34I've got a great lead on the guy who bulldozed the East Wing of the White House illegally
04:40and has been desecrating the Kennedy Center.
04:42I haven't heard back from her yet.
04:44I'm sure you have that.
04:45But I was in the minority then.
04:47Before we open it up to audience questions,
04:48I want to ask you about your committee is in charge of impeachment.
04:52You've been involved.
04:53You voted to impeach the president twice.
04:55I know how you've answered this question in the past,
04:58but if you were just to look through your crystal ball right now,
05:01how likely is it that you launch an impeachment inquiry against President Trump?
05:08Well, let me tell you what I've said about it
05:10and what I believe really strongly about it.
05:12First of all, we're not afraid to impeach Donald Trump.
05:14We've impeached him twice already.
05:16He's got half of all the presidential impeachments in American history.
05:19It was Andrew Johnson during Reconstruction,
05:22Bill Clinton for doing you-know-what.
05:24I don't know if you guys were alive then.
05:26And then Donald Trump, the Ukraine shakedown,
05:28and the diversion of federally appropriated dollars,
05:31and then the incitement of a violent mob to storm the Capitol
05:34and to try to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power
05:37in an election that Joe Biden had beat him in by more than 7 million votes.
05:41The chances of it being happening a third time.
05:44No, that's four.
05:45We've had four.
05:46He has 50%.
05:46No, I'm saying the chances of him being impeached.
05:48So he'd have 60%.
05:49What are the chances he would have 60% of all the impeachments?
05:52I mean, I don't, you know, I'm not in the prognostication business.
05:56I'm not a pundit.
05:57I'm in the mobilization business.
06:00But you have the power to do this sort of thing.
06:02No, I understand.
06:03But, you know, okay.
06:05Then I'll give you my thinking about it.
06:07All right?
06:07Because you asked me a serious question, I'll give you a serious answer.
06:10It is, we are absolutely willing to do it because it's part of our constitutional oath
06:15to defend American democracy against all enemies, foreign and domestic, the framers wrote.
06:21You can't turn a blind's eye just because it's uncomfortable impeaching someone, you know,
06:27who, you know, who breathes the same air you do in the same city.
06:32But, you know, I'll say this.
06:33It's not a panacea, as we've seen, because of the two-thirds requirement in the Senate.
06:39There were seven Republicans who voted with 50 Democrats to convict him of that crime.
06:45Remember, we were not just at that point either voting to impeach like a prosecutor
06:50or voting to convict or acquit like jurors, as the senators were.
06:55We were witnesses, and in fact, we were victims of the crime.
06:59So these Republicans would not even vote to convict when the mob was coming for them.
07:05One, you saw that picture of speedy Josh Hawley running down the hallway, right?
07:09He voted to acquit.
07:11But seven of them, I think, lived up to their constitutional oath and did the right thing.
07:17But Donald Trump has only tightened his stranglehold over the Republican Party.
07:21So it's a fruitless endeavor.
07:22They got rid of Liz Cheney.
07:24They got rid of Adam Lester.
07:25Well, your point is that going down this road would be a fruitless endeavor.
07:27No, I disagree.
07:28It's not fruitless, okay?
07:30It's not fruitless.
07:31And you never know what's going to happen.
07:32But we understand the constitutional arithmetic here.
07:35He beat the constitutional odds, even though the whole world was convinced of his guilt.
07:41And that became even deeper when we had the January 6th Select Committee.
07:45Everybody knows he did it.
07:47I mean, it's not exactly like Agatha Christie novel.
07:50If it wasn't him, who was it?
07:52I mean, come on.
07:53Are you telling me that if Donald Trump had not been fighting for them to storm the Capitol,
07:59deny the results of the election, stop the steal, and chase his own vice president out of the Capitol,
08:05it would have happened?
08:06If he had never cooked up that idea?
08:08I mean, come on.
08:09I mean, if you believe that, you're too innocent to be let out of the House by yourself.
08:13You know, I mean, it was all Donald Trump all the way.
08:16It's got him written all over it, right?
08:19So, but here's what I want to say.
08:20But there's no political risk of going that far.
08:22There are obviously political risks, but let me just say a few other things about it.
08:25One, impeachment applies not just to the president, but to every member of his cabinet.
08:30The first impeachment resolution against somebody in the Trump administration comes from a Republican.
08:34Thomas Massey, as you know, introduced it right before we left to go on another...
08:39That actually may pass next week.
08:41Yes, it's coming up.
08:42But they cut us loose two days early from their prolonged two-month vacation to see if
08:48they could go back and salvage their seats, which fortunately they couldn't.
08:53But in that time, they also were saying, we don't want to vote on Pete Hegseth engaging
08:59in war crimes as alleged by a fellow Republican who said, you can't just go and blow up people's
09:04boats and say those people are narcotics dealers without giving them due process.
09:09One of the Republicans said to me, well, wait, you're not saying you're for due process for
09:13guilty people, are you?
09:15And I'm like, that's the whole point.
09:17Like, we don't know if they're guilty unless there's been due process.
09:20Right?
09:21And somebody who believes in due process is Donald Trump, the convicted felon out of New York
09:25who used every aspect of due process, the privilege against self-incrimination, the right not to
09:31testify, all the lawyers in the world.
09:33They understand due process when it comes to their crimes, but then they want to just blow
09:37up boats in the middle of the ocean without a declaration of war saying those people are
09:42drug criminals.
09:43Right.
09:43Right?
09:43And a Republican called them on it.
09:45So impeachment can apply to other people.
09:48You think it'll happen to other people?
09:49Well, again, you're asking me to predict.
09:52Yes.
09:53Well, what is the obsession with the media with predictions?
09:55Don't you want to analyze these issues?
09:57We want to know what you're going to do.
09:59Well, anyway, we don't know until we really thoroughly analyze it, and then we see where
10:04events take us.
10:05I mean, that's what investigations are about.
10:07I mean, how egregious are their crimes?
10:09There are some crimes that are so egregious the public will demand an immediate impeachment.
10:14But what I want to tell you about, though, is that the framers believed that they wanted
10:20impeachment to be a mixed question of law and politics and public policy.
10:25They talked about whether they should locate an impeachment trial in the Supreme Court.
10:30That would make it, at least theoretically, just a mechanical application of the law to
10:34the facts.
10:35But they didn't.
10:36They said, we want to keep it in the political processes so that we can adjudicate the relative
10:42merits, as you're saying, the urgency of it and its importance related to other things.
10:48For example, if somebody said to me, and I believe he's already committed impeachable
10:52offenses, I believe that this illegal unconstitutional war, I think impounding money, the bribery, the
10:59kickbacks, the violation of the Monuments Clauses, I think all those things can be brought.
11:03But is it more important for us to start this politically convoluted and torturous process
11:10that you're aware of with the Senate?
11:12Or is it more important to get millions of people their health care back that was stripped
11:17from them by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans in the wretched, hideous bill?
11:22I would tell you tonight it's much more important for us to get their health care back now than
11:27to launch into that process.
11:29And that's the kind of that's the kind of judgment we've got to make.
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