Now that Donald Trump is a convicted felon. We
have many questions about what this actually means politically.
How do you think about the ramifications for him and
for President Biden of this verdict today? Who has
helped more? Well, thank you very much for
having me. I, I do believe that we
have a system in this country uh that all of
us have lived with for a long, long time
that has served this country tremendously well. And we
have always maintained that we are a country of laws
not of men and that was demonstrated here uh with
this jury, with this prosecution and with this result
, the jury uh listen, it rendered a unanimous
verdict and to that we should all be thankful and
move on. There will not be uh a conclusion
to this until July 11th and when that occurs,
uh hopefully, uh everybody uh will respond uh to
that the way they're responding today. And then we
let the politics take care of itself. Uh As
time moves on. Congressman, you were in the
Capitol on January 6th after the president, the former
president lost the 2020 election. Are you concerned about
political violence following this verdict. And what could be
the sentence coming up in weeks? Quite frankly,
I'm not, uh, I'm not concerned about this
. What happened on July 6th happened at the urging
of the gentleman, uh, who was just,
uh, uh, convicted, uh, on 34
counts. Uh, felon accounts. I might add
, uh, I don't think he'll pursue that again
. And I think those people who perpetrated, uh
, January 6th were misled misinformed and by someone who
is now a, a convicted felon. And I
don't think there's gonna be any violence. Uh It
would not have been on January 6th if, if
he had not called for it. Ok. So
we may not see a reappearance of history in terms
of what could happen at the Capitol in terms of
anything violent congressman. But there also is the question
, what could happen at the Capitol in terms of
legislating or messaging bills that could from this verdict,
knowing that your chamber is controlled by Republicans, many
of whom went to the courthouse in the defense of
Donald Trump throughout the course of this trial. What
are you bracing for when you and your colleagues return
to Washington in the aftermath of this verdict? Well
, I think that um when we get back to
Washington, uh cooler heads will prevail, I think
that um my Republican colleagues uh may have been hitting
their bets a little bit. You now have 12
independent American citizens who looked at the facts in this
case came to a unanimous decision. I did not
check to see what walks of life, all of
them came from, but two of them were attorneys
. Uh, and I do believe, uh,
that those attorneys, uh, spoke up for the
law. Uh, and I do believe, uh
, that, that cross section of 12 people ought
to be instructive uh for my Republican colleagues. And
hopefully, uh, this will be a significant uh
step uh toward our pursuit of a more perfect union
. And we will do the things that are necessary
legislatively uh as well as politically uh to maintain uh
this democracy uh to continue our pursuit towards a more
perfect union and hopefully uh prepare uh for a uh
definitive election. Uh come November 5th congresswoman just got
a minute left with all of that said, do
you want to hear Joe Biden start talking openly about
this? He's been largely just giving Donald Trump rope
for the course of this trial. And as the
others have emerged, the other indictments, is it
time for him to start speaking about this out loud
now that we have a verdict, I don't think
so. Uh you know, maintaining this democracy is
not a partisan issue. It's not Democrats or Republicans
. This country has served, had been served well
by this two party system. Sometimes to my liking
, sometimes not so much. But I think all
of us are responsible for this and I get a
little irritated when I hear people say Democrats in order
to keep this democracy, democrats need to do this
, but Democrats need to do the other Americans need
to work together to maintain this democracy and let the
judicial system take care of itself. We have three
branches of government, they uh act independent of each
other. All of us have responsibilities to maintain in 00:05:16.649 --> this.