republican senators. i just have to say, rachel, we can wait another week. we can negotiate with one different republican senator, or two different republican senators but the result is not going to be different. this republican party has no interest, these republican senators, have no interest in doing anything that the people desperately need or want. these jobs and family proposal from the president are wisely popular across democrats, independents and democrats just like the american rescue plan was. if we want to use history as an example, there was not a single republican vote for the rescue plan, there is not a single republican vote, there weren t enough republican votes for the january six commission. this is a party that is not interested in delivering for the people, so we should just move ahead of right now, get the budget resolutions going and do a budget reconciliation bill, big, bold and fast. but do you say to americans
nominate him, republicans under mitch mcconnell refused to consider merrick garland s nomination. they not only refused to vote on him, they refused even hold a confirmation hearing for him. they just pretended like president obama hadn t even nominated him. mitch mcconnell and republican senators held a seat on the united states supreme court open an empty for more than a year just so they could stop a democratic president, president obama, from nominating someone to the court. that s how they created the first vacancy for trump to fill in the supreme court. that s why judge gorsuch says she doesn t shave in front of a mirror. she looks herself every day saying that s how you got your job? he just doesn t want to look at himself. but when biden was elected, he remembered, right, what had happened to merrick garland. he didn t want that shameful on principle treatment be the last word in his career.
also what would have happened if the united states, if president obama hadn t stepped up and led a response to ebola in west africa, that was something that was spreading across the country, and inevitably we would have seen more cases here had he u.s. leadership seen at the security council what it was like when all the countries in the world would go around and deliver their statements, people would be on their blackberries or on their phones, doing whatever they do, other work, shopping, and as soon as the united states representative opened their mouth, then suddenly everybody would snap to attention wanting to know what is the united states going to do about climate. what is the united states going to do about isis. i would caution against so much disillusionment with america s engagement in the world that we pull back because a world without american leadership is extreme
blocks all action. i would bring war crimes front and center. you can t get a formal tribunal put together because russia will block it, you can t get a special tribunal together because they ll block it, but you can get a high court. i would do it publicly and aggressively to make the evidence clear with respect to assad s conduct and russia s conduct. as you know, president trump blames president obama for this current predicament. he tweeted this on sunday. if president obama hadn t crossed the stated red line in the sand, the syrian disaster would have ended long ago. animal assad would have been history. americans did act to eliminate most of the chemical weapons in syria. what would have have happened if
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