problems he laid out clearly on the senate floor. take a listen. >> it's time for our complicity and accommodation of the unacceptable to end. in this century a new phrase has entered the language to describe the accommodation of a new and un-desire bl order, that phrase about new normal. we must never adjust to the present courseness of our dialogue with a tone set at the top. >> he's made this point a lot but it's best known the senate republican senator would sit on the senate floor and make a speech like he did regarding a sitting president is unprecedented. a number of people i spoke with after the speech called it historic, there was also a somber mood as to how this came about and they were losing a colleague they liked.