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Posted: 2021-02-09T21:32:23Z | Updated: 2021-02-09T22:42:05Z

In an emotional speech before the Senate on Tuesday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) recalled becoming separated from his family during last months deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and them fearing they were going to die as he made a case for taking the second impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump seriously.

Raskin, who is serving as a House impeachment manager during the trial, said his daughter and son-in-law had accompanied him to the Capitol that Wednesday as an act of comfort after they buried his son, Tommy, one day earlier. Instead of finding comfort together, they became separated in the chaos and left fearing they may never see one another again.

By the time we learned about it, about what was going on, it was too late, he said of his inability to rejoin his family amid the violence.

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