mueller report. if any other human being in this country had done what is documented in the mueller report, they would be arrested and put in jail. the majority leader doesn t want to us consider the mountain of evidence against the president. that is wrong. this is not a fight i wanted to take on but this is the fight in front of us now. this is not about politics. this is about the constitution of the united states of america. we took an oath not to try to protect donald trump. we took an oath to protect and serve the constitution of the united states of the america. the way we do that is we begin impeachment proceedings now. against this president. and senator elizabeth warren, democrat from massachusetts, and 2020 presidential candidate, joins me now. you spent about 40 minutes today on the floor of the senate reading portions of the mueller
thinking about donald trump. one is kind of an anomaly, this is not normal, this is some vast departure from the sort of main through line of what the american political system had been. the other is a kind of culmination, right, the symptom not the cause. and people i think come down in different parts on this. joe biden says he sort of sees him as an anomaly. elizabeth warren kind of a symptom. where do you come down on that? how do you understand this president in this moment? i ll tell you just from listening to people across texas and now across the country, more than 110 town hall meetings have answered more than 650 questions. people understand that their government no longer represents or reflects them. that members of congress are beholden to political action committees and corporations and special interests. that their voices are drowned out if they re ever heard at all coming from a state that ranked
this will affect the next generation of americans. and we ve lost something. we ve become a society where people mistake wealth for worth. celebrity for significance. folks are struggling for a sense of meaning and feel like they ve hossa the sense of dmut. so this is a great country. you know the history. there is an entire political party. bits anti-immigration called the no nothings. when we created larger rainbow coalition that s help our country to get back on track. to see each other. to see the vulnerable, the left behind. enough of the deep tribalism we need leadership that will bring the common pain and common purpose. i want to ask but a piece on today in the new york magazine.
not part of the administration, we got the administration to stop separating kids from their parents. along with the people of el paso helped shut down the tornado tent shelter. i can tell a profoundly positive story about immigrants and their contribution not just to our economy, not just to our culture and our way of life but to our safety and our security. el paso one of the safest cities in the united states of america 20 years running not despite the fact we are a city of immigrants but because we are a city of immigrants. we can go toe to toe and then some with donald trump on this issue based in the facts but telling a compelling, emotional story about who we are as a country. that s not based on fear or meanness or racism. it s based on our common identity, our ambitions, our aspirations, the work, the service, and sacrifice we will employ to get them done. you know, among democratic candidates and folks in the democratic party and broad to the center left there are sort of t
announce you re running for president. we ve talked before in your senate campaign and as a member of congress. i want to ask you a question i ve asked every candidate i have on the program which is of the tens of millions of adults constitutionally eligible to be president of the united states, over 35 and u.s. natural born citizens why should you, beto o rourke, be the president of the united states? i think the series of challenges we have before us, the gravest of our lifetimes, millions unable to get health care, millions living in the shadow of deportation including more than a million dreamers in this country who should be made u.s. citizens. an economy that works too well for too few and not well enough for the vast majority of our fellow americans. in this threat of climate change, if you think of how divided this country is we need someone who can unify people across the differences toward these common aspirations and goals. on the el paso city council not as a democrat or