The next is a transcript of an interview with Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland that aired Sunday, April 3, 2022, on "Face the Nation."
MARGARET BRENNAN: Final week, CBS Information and The Washington Submit revealed that inside White Home telephone data from January the sixth confirmed a seven hour hole in President Trump's name logs through the violence on the Capitol that day. Maryland Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin is on the Home committee investigating the assault on the Capitol and joins us right here now. Welcome.
REPRESENTATIVE JAMIE RASKIN: Thanks for having me.
MARGARET BRENNAN: The nation, this seven hour hole, you could have subpoenaed the president, the previous president's assistant, Molly Michael. I do know you have been attempting to determine from employees what occurred. Do you could have any perception?
REP. RASKIN: Effectively, it is a very uncommon factor for us to search out that immediately every part goes darkish for a seven hour interval by way of monitoring the actions and the conversations of the president. And a few issues we have been in a position to piece collectively from different folks's interviews and depositions that we all know happened throughout that point. We're conscious of different telephone calls that happened throughout that point that included the president. However we have now no complete, high quality grained portrait of what was occurring throughout that interval, and that is clearly of intense curiosity to us.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You continue to haven't got that after debriefing a few of these assistant- I imply, his workplace, the previous president's workplace was identified for being sloppy. He used cell telephones. She wasn't- the non-public assistant wasn't within the workplace that day. Is there an opportunity right here that this was simply type of massive scale incompetence slightly than conspiracy?
REP. RASKIN: Effectively, we're taking that chance into consideration. It does appear to be the gaps are suspiciously tailor-made to the center of the occasions. However we're checking that out. And, you recognize, our mandate beneath H.R. 503 is to get an entire image of every part that happened on January sixth, the causes main as much as it, after which what we have to do as a rustic to fortify democratic establishments and processes in opposition to future insurrections and coups and makes an attempt to destabilize and overthrow our elections.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I imply, it is simply an unbelievable phrase: "Potential future coups."
REP. RASKIN: Effectively-
MARGARET BRENNAN: It is breathtaking to listen to you say it, that.
REP. RASKIN: Congressman Mo Brooks stated only a week or two in the past that president- former President Trump continues to attempt to get him and different Republicans to rescind the election. In different phrases, he continues to search for a approach to nullify an election that he considers fraudulent. Final night time, you recognize, I used to be on the Gridiron Membership dinner, and I noticed the governor, the Republican Governor of New Hampshire, Chris Sununu, who I assumed was an enormous breath of recent air. He stated publicly he broke custom, apparently within the Gridiron Membership. He stated Donald Trump is f-ing loopy and he did not say f-ing. So I do not wish to make any historical past in your present. However he additionally appeared to announce that he was going to run for president in 2024. Laying down the gauntlet basically in opposition to the Trump-Putin axis inside the Republican Celebration.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Sorry, your earpiece simply popped on the market.
REP. RASKIN: Although I did not say the phrase.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Effectively, you'll be able to hear me. I imply, are you involved that on the finish of this investigation, you are not going to search out what it sounds such as you're on the lookout for, which is substantiation of a- of a hyperlink between a strain marketing campaign to alter the election outcomes and the occasions of January sixth itself. Are you assured you may get that and it is possible for you to to make a prison referral to the Justice Division?
REP. RASKIN: Effectively, no, I believe you set your finger on it. I imply, we all know there have been two issues occurring and one was a violent revolt that included a mob riot which injured 150 of our officers with damaged jaws and damaged necks and damaged vertebrae and so forth. After which that was led by home violent extremist teams like The Proud Boys, who, you recognize, then President Trump had informed to face again and stand by the Oath Keepers, the three percenters, individuals who have been charged with seditious conspiracy, which suggests conspiracy to overthrow the federal government. They shut down the counting of Electoral Faculty votes for the primary time in American historical past. Did not even occur when Lincoln took-took the presidency, 1861. Okay. So there was that violent revolt, however then there was an try at an inside coup, what the political scientists name a self-coup, not a coup in opposition to a president, however a coup that is orchestrated by the president in opposition to the constitutional system. And what we're on the lookout for is the connections between the within political coup and the violent revolt. And I do really feel assured we're going to have the ability to inform that story.
MARGARET BRENNAN: However inform that story is totally different within the political context from making a prison suggestion or a authorized continuing on the Justice Division. Are you assured that can occur?
REP. RASKIN: Effectively, we are going to lay out the proof that we see. Now perceive, the function of the January six choose committee is to ship a report back to the American folks within the Congress.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Precisely.
REP. RASKIN: And so particular person prison accountability is one thing that comes within the area of the Division of Justice.
MARGARET BRENNAN: That is why I needed to make that clear.
REP. RASKIN: Yeah. And one of many traditions we wish to rebuild that was torn down over the past administration was of not having members of Congress and the president attempting to dictate coverage to the Division of Justice. And that is what the final president did. And I am glad this president's not doing it, and we do not wish to be a part of that.
MARGARET BRENNAN: How lengthy is just too lengthy? As a result of we preserve listening to that the general public hearings are getting pushed off. Is it Could? Is it June? When do you narrow this--
REP. RASKIN: I--
MARGARET BRENNAN: off?
REP. RASKIN: --think we're- I believe that the hearings must be in early Could. That is what I am hoping for. Clearly, we're up in opposition to loads of obstruction now. This week--
MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-Hmm.
REP. RASKIN: --we voted to deliver contempt citations against--
MARGARET BRENNAN: Proper.
REP. RASKIN: --Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro--
MARGARET BRENNAN: Proper.
REP. RASKIN: --the social media man for him, and Peter Navarro was the- the commerce adviser who for some purpose was off involving himself--
MARGARET BRENNAN: Proper.
REP. RASKIN: --in insurrectionary coup plotting activities--
MARGARET BRENNAN: And that--
REP RASKIN: These guys are claiming government privilege, which is absurd.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And that vote goes to be taking place this week?
REP RASKIN: We--
MARGARET BRENNAN: As we perceive that--
REP. RASKIN: --hope so, sure.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We will probably be again with extra Face the Nation in a second.