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-Mr President?
-Mr Raskin.

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-Senators, my daughter Hannah
said something to me last night

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that stopped me cold
and brought me up short.

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Our kids have been very moved

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by all the victims
of the violence,

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the officers
and their families.

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But Hannah told me last night
she felt really sorry

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for the kid of a man
who said goodbye to his children

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before he left home to come
and join Trump's actions.

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Their father had told them
that their dad

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might not be coming home again,

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and they might
never see him again.

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In other words,
he was expecting violence.

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He might die,
as insurrectionists did.

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And that shook me.

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Hannah said, "How can
the president put children

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and people's families
in that situation

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and then just run away
from the whole thing?"

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That shook me.

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And I was filled
with self-reproach

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because when I first
saw the line

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about "your father
going to Washington,

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and you might not
see him again,"

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I just thought about it,

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well, like a prosecutor,
like a manager.

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I thought,
"What damning evidence

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that is that people
are expecting lethal violence

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at a protest called by the
president of the United States

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and saying their final
goodbyes to their kids."

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But Hannah --

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my dear Hannah thought
of it like a human being.

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She thought of it --
if you'll forgive me --

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like a patriot, someone
who just lost her brother

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and doesn't want to see
any other kids in America

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go through
that kind of agony and grief.

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Senators, when I say all three
of my kids are better than me,

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you know that I am not
engaged in idol flattery.

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Maybe some of you feel
the same way about your kids.

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They're literally better people
than me.

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They've got a lot of their mom,
Sarah Bloom Raskin, in them.

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And they're better than me.

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And Hannah saw through
the legality of the situation.

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She saw through the politics
of the situation,

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all the way to the humanity
of the situation,

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the morality of the situation.

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That was one of the most
patriotic things

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I ever heard anybody say.

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The children
of the insurrectionists,

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even the violent
and dangerous ones,

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they're our children, too.

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They are Americans,
and we must take care of them

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and their future.

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We must recognize and exercise
these crimes against our nation,

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and then we must take care
of our people

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and our children,
their hearts and their minds.

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As Tommy Raskin used to say,
"It's hard to be human."