Good afternoon everyone thank you for coming im proud to be joined by senators wyden and murphy and we want to talk for millions of americans on the debate last night. We saw President Trump meltdown when confronted with facts many times that of seen performance, performance not a debate. With that right weighing file with lie after lie after lie he insulted the Vice President has a veteran and Public Servant and gave a fringe White Supremacist Group to rally cry stand back and stand by is immediately embraced it is on their website and it is appalling pico one. And then to cast out on the elections tarnishing our democracy. President trumps to be performance and a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury in shakespeare although he lived 500, 450 years earlier describe this it best the tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifies nothing. s is a disgrace and is unfathomably that the Senate Republicans would not announce the lies we heard last night and calling on Presiden
Regarding a democratic motion to begin work on a bill dropping the Justice Department from supporting lawsuits to strike the Affordable Care act. Live now to the floor of the u. S. Senate on cspan 2. Eternal god, our heavenly father, we cry to you, but sometimes you seem so far away. In our despair you sometimes seem distant, and we are tempted to surmise that we are all alone. When we shout, we seem to hear the echoes of our anguish. Nonetheless, we know that you are holy, mighty, and good. We have trusted you too long to let go. Empower our senators for these challenging times. Remove from their minds all bitterness and contempt for one another. Keep their hearts clean, their spirits courageous, and their minds clear, as they face these daunting times. We pray in your omnipotent name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. The pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation unde
Their Supreme Court nominee poses a dire threat to Americans Health care. Today the outrage from the republican leader was directed once again at the idea the democrats would attack the nominees religious beliefs. But, of course, in their zeal to uenufacture this issue, republican senators began telegraphing this line of attack even before a nominee had been named. One republican senator wrote me ar letter to warn against anticatholic attacks that happened yet against the nominee who hadnt been named. Thats how transparent this repalin conversion, ruse is. It appears that the republican majority will crank up the outrage machine to any level of absurdity the avoid talking about Americas Health care. The health care so many caericans desperately want and need. In fact, all week the republican leader has mocked the idea that a farright Supreme Court majority might strike down the Affordable Care act and that judge barrett might play a decisive role. Of course President Trump nominated, p
Announcer Senate Democrats also spoke to reporters about the Supreme Court vacancy, expressing their opposition to moving forward with the confirmation before the november elections. This is 20 minutes. Sen. Schumer okay, whoa [indiscernible] good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here. I am proud to be joined by my , dickgues in our caucus durbin and patty murray. There, thousands have come to the steps of the highest court to pay tribute to justice ginsburg. Is was an amazing lady and in a male dominated world of legal giants. She was smarter than they were, more persistent, and she accomplished much more than they did. I admire her. I come from her neighborhood. She did so much in our neighborhood. We both went to James Madison high school, brooklyn, new york. So many have paid tribute to come to the steps of the highest to justicey tribute ginsburg. My Senate Colleagues have paid tribute as well, but in words only. Empty words, because their actions havent. Republican major
Told me january, 2017, i would write a book on donald trump, i would have questioned their sanity. Indeed, a few months in, he wrote an oped in the New York Times entitled executive power run amok. However, upon reflection, he writes boy was i wrong, the campaign, like a populist but governs like a conservative. There are others like harvard law professor who said gays into the trump presidency, i would say that he is crashing through it. The president s detractors have not changed their mind or their rhetoric instead. Like yesterday on cnn representative clyburn compared donald trump to mussolini, puzzled constitutional scholars, but in terms of his actions, not his rhetoric had the president respected the constitution or trampled on it. We are very fortunate today to have with us analysts including john yoo to discuss the constitution has fared during the Trump Administration. They will give brief remarks followed by moderating and then there will be plenty of time for questions from