Oct 9, 2026 · 35 min · 10 segments
In this episode, Danielle Coffey of the News Media Alliance sits down with Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin for a fireside chat on press freedom, recorded in the wake of a week that saw reporters…
Jamie RaskinGuest
Rebecca SnyderHostBy the people, for the people was always the intent.
Would you recommend to us, because like I said, we had 140 meetings yesterday on Capitol Hill until some of them were canceled because of the evacuation in favor.
Yes,
indeed.
And would you recommend to us, though, no matter what happens in the midterms, and we all have our hopes.
about what may or may not happen.
Would you recommend we continue to appeal to both sides of the aisle so as you move forward with some common sense regulation that helps protect the voters who are so desperately asking for it? Do you recommend we continue to have discussions on both sides of the aisle?
Well, first of all, on the Senate side, you've got to do it because of the filibuster rules there and the fact that one senator can really throw a monkey wrench into the whole thing.
It didn't end up working because on things like the Epstein file and the war powers resolutions, we were able to pull over enough Republicans to join us.
in, you know, different kinds of resolutions to overcome the power of the speaker.
So, but I would say, no, I think that you should stay involved with everybody and try to educate everybody.
And the only way we're really going to get through, like, the The major crises of our time, like artificial intelligence, like climate change, I think is on some kind of bipartisan basis, even if it's not everybody.
And then it would also, of course, have to be passed by the president.
And, you know, and that's why I think the presidential election is probably going to come into focus very early on in this term if everything that we do gets vetoed by the president.
True.
Exactly.
By the people, for the people was always the intent.
Would you recommend to us, because like I said, we had 140 meetings yesterday on Capitol Hill until some of them were canceled because of the evacuation in favor.
Yes,
indeed.
And would you recommend to us, though, no matter what happens in the midterms, and we all have our hopes.
about what may or may not happen.
Would you recommend we continue to appeal to both sides of the aisle so as you move forward with some common sense regulation that helps protect the voters who are so desperately asking for it? Do you recommend we continue to have discussions on both sides of the aisle?
Well, first of all, on the Senate side, you've got to do it because of the filibuster rules there and the fact that one senator can really throw a monkey wrench into the whole thing.
It didn't end up working because on things like the Epstein file and the war powers resolutions, we were able to pull over enough Republicans to join us.
in, you know, different kinds of resolutions to overcome the power of the speaker.
So, but I would say, no, I think that you should stay involved with everybody and try to educate everybody.
And the only way we're really going to get through, like, the The major crises of our time, like artificial intelligence, like climate change, I think is on some kind of bipartisan basis, even if it's not everybody.
And then it would also, of course, have to be passed by the president.
And, you know, and that's why I think the presidential election is probably going to come into focus very early on in this term if everything that we do gets vetoed by the president.
True.
Exactly.
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