“Sometimes we’re standing in the midst of a defining historical moment, and we miss the magnitude of it all... We are in a renewed, 21st-century fight to defend our democracy so that we might pass on a future that’s worthy of all our children.” huffpost.com/entry/raphael-…
“It’s ironic that this would happen this weekend, because all of us will go back to our home districts, and we will celebrate great patriots who paid the ultimate price to defend our democracy... and we have politicians who are not even willing to stand up on the Senate floor...”
“What has made this country work, with all of those challenges, is that we have a general framework in which those arguments take place, and what we are witnessing in this moment is a historic abandonment of that basic democratic framework.” huffpost.com/entry/raphael-…
I went to the Capitol on Friday to renew my expired press pass, and ended up interviewing senators in person for the first time since... the first impeachment trial? Felt like a cub reporter again. A great reminder of what a privilege it is to do this job and have that access.
An obvious point, but it really was so strange to report on the blockade of the Jan. 6 commission from the literal scene of the crime. You just clock all these moments, like Joe Manchin holding a reporter gaggle steps away from where the mob chased Officer Goodman up the stairs.
Interviewed another senator on his way to his hideaway office in the sub-basement, and we cut through the rotunda. The whole time I was just mentally noting all of these locations of these various battles I’d watched on video over these past few months.
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