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 report. why did you do that in.
i m wondering, you re someone who has studied, written about, looked at the ways in which people and institutions in power can get away with a lot and not be held accountable. we saw it happened with finance institutions. it is something on your work. i wonder if you see a connection between that and what we re faced with now as a country. absolutely. because this really is about accountability. the constitution of the united states provided for separation of powers so that congress, just to use the words. could hold the president accountable. if he did something like, that obstructed justice. more than 600 federal prosecutors, republicans and democrats, people from urban areas and rural areas, people from all across the country looked at this and that, if he were anyone other than president
r really have a conversation about the ideals and the goals and the values of who we are as a country. so part of how i think about what we have just witnessed, is that we have a lot to do to restore the importance of truth and justice in our country. it has taken a real beating. and when i think about what we need to do going forward. any of us, whether we re running for president of the united states or not. we ve got to acknowledge the truth that right now, there are a lot of americans other are extremely distrustful of our government, the institutions and leaders. and there is a lot of work to do to restore the trust. what we have seen in the last today, and then frankly, in the last two years and some months, has i think, done real harm to the importance of the american public and our allies around the world, trusting us, and that we will always defend concepts of justice and democracy. all right.
former vice president with that tweet? if you don t tell anybody else, chris. clearly you were. the point that i wanted to make, i happen to believe our trade policies over the years have been disasters for workers in this country. if you add the job losses as a result of nafta, which joe voted for. joe is a friend of mine and we ll have this policy discussion in a very civil way. but joe voted for nafta. he voted with china and the two trade policies together. you re probably talking about the loss of more than 4 million jobs. and a race to the bottom in this country where many employers lowered wages and threatened their workers. if they didn t like it, they would move to china or mexico. i happen to think that china, obviously, one of the fastest growing economies in the world over the last 20 years. and i think that we need a trade policy with china that is based
but i mean running the country, governing the country. i mean, this is the hardest job probably in the world. it is probably too hard for any single individual truth be told. i agree with that. why are you ready to do that? maybe that s why you d be good in the stump and obviously campaigned extremely well in texas but to actually be president of the united states particularly when we have a president now who had no real experience for the job in many ways and many people think that has been a huge part of the problem. i ll tell you, beyond the campaign we ran in texas, beyond my service in congress, on the city council, being a small business owner, creating jobs in a city that was desperate for them, i live on the u.s./mexico border at a time this president has trained the focus of the country on the u.s./mexico border. with other community leaders, led the march to bring attention and change policy though we were not in the white house, we were