we are about to adjourn this day without passing election security legislation. we have bipartisan election security legislation. we ve had that for years. and yet it has been stopped every step of the way. last week my bill was offered by senator schumer on the floor. it could have gone to the president s desk that day. instead leader mcconnell objected. during his objection he said that election legislation must drachted with great care and on a bipartisan basis. we did that. senator warner is here. he worked on it. we did that with senator langford, but we were blocked at the rules committee. we were blocked. that s a documented fact. the markup had been scheduled ready to go. senator blunt had been willing to mold a markup on the bill. and it was stopped. i am going to tell that story every day until we advance this. i have an opportunity to do that. and i m going to do it because
people can t wait. i ve got my friend nicole out there whose son was actually died trying to ration his insulin as a restaurant manager and died because he didn t have enough money to pay for it. senatoren. a bernie and i worked on pharmaceutical together. thank you senator. what s missing if the right pirn in the white house donald trump wants to use the people as political pawns. i was just in flint. and they are still drinking bottled water in that town. that is outrageous. but i don t think anyone can justify what this president is doing. little kids literally woke up this weekend turned on the tv appear saw their president calling their city the town of baltimore, nothing more than a home for rats. and i can tell you as your president that will stop. when he was just with vladimir putin at the g-20, asked about invading our democracy, he made a joke. we need someone that has people s back. we also need someone that can win. and i have won in these red
conclusion. and i have come to the conclusion that this needs an impeachment inquiry. i mean it s not something i relish. it s very railroad kief. but if we do nothing then we encourage this kind of behavior not only now but for all future presidents as well. mueller also said that he could not impeach the president. indict the president. indict the president. i m sorry. he could not indict the president because the sitting president could not be indicted. he said it would be possible after he leaves office. so it falls to us, to the house. we re dually elected. i was sworn to uphold the constitution and i don t take it lightly. i agonize over it it which is why i didn t do it months ago. the clinton impeachment process you were there in the
oath that the russians are doing it as we speak. trump s own fbi director christopher wray under my questioning and others just last week said the same thing. his own intelligence director dan coates who is now sadly resigning said that they are getting bolder. so it is undeniable that this is happening. they ve done it through hacking and done it through dirty propaganda online. and both of these things we could take steps to decrease the possibility of in happening. as i said today, this is about our democracy. hundreds of thousands of people lost lives on battlefields to protect our right to vote in our democracy. four little girls lost life in a church in birmimgham at the height of the civil rights movement because we stood up for our democracy. for this guy to make jokes about it all the time it s unpatriotic and unamerican. and this can t wait for a new president, lawrence. there are 11 states that don t
two of our committees of course had mr. mueller there. and we have had the opportunity to read mueller s report and conclusion. and i have come to the conclusion that this needs an impeachment inquiry. i mean it s not something i relish. it s very railroad kief. but if we do nothing then we encourage this kind of behavior not only now but for all future presidents as well. mueller also said that he could not impeach the president. indict the president. indict the president. i m sorry. he could not indict the president because the sitting president could not be indicted. he said it would be possible after he leaves office. so it falls to us, to the house. we re dually elected. i was sworn to uphold the constitution and i don t take it