opposes smashing the senate, smashing the senate and letting democrats rewrite election law is a domestic enemy and listen to this, a traitor like jefferson davis. one week ago president biden gave a january 6th lecture about not stoking political violence. one week ago. yesterday with the world s largest megaphone he invoked the literal civil war and said we are on the doorstep of autocracy? talk about domestic enemies? rhetoric unbecoming of a president of the united states. in less than a year, restoring the soul of america has become
votes in order to get this on joe biden s desk. manchin and sinema continue to resist. what got mcconnell upset was the comment from biden yesterday was do you want to be on the side of dr. king or george wallace or do you want to be on the side of john lewis or bull connor, do you want to be on the side of abraham lincoln, and jefferson davis, and mcconnell fired back. but yesterday he poured a giant can of gasoline on the fire. months ago, the president said every disagreement doesn t have to be a cause for total war, but yesterday he said anyone who opposes smashing of the senate, smashing the senate and letting democrats rewrite election law is a domestic enemy, and listen to this, a traitor like jefferson davis. reporter: now sinema has not commented yet on joe biden s speech. manchin told me multiple times, he called it a good speech but
is a domestic enemy. and listen to this, a traitor like jefferson davis. one week ago president biden gave a january 6th lecture about not stoking political violence. one week ago. yesterday, with the world s largest megaphone, he invoked the literal civil war and said we re on the doorstep of autocracy? talking about domestic enemies? rhetoric unbecoming of a president of the united states. let s get some more on all of this. with senator chris murphy, democrat of connecticut. senator, thanks for joining us. what s your reaction to that scathing speech from the republican leader in the senate? well, first, it s important to note that joe biden didn t say the things that mitch mcconnell said. he didn t call every senator that opposes his policies
like he has to come out and speak as strongly as he did today must suggest he feels threatened in some way, that perhaps manchin or sinema are going to change their mind. i think he felt attacked personally by the remarks yesterday, as did many other republicans, and i think he felt the need to come out and say, look he talked about delaware, he talked about the president saying the disagreement doesn t have to be a cause for total war, but here we are, and, you know, he said yesterday he said anyone who opposes smashing the senate and letting democrats rewrite election law is a domestic enemy and a traitor like jefferson davis. obvi obviously, he said, look, this language was too strong and i m going to point it out.
and let democrats rewrite law is an enemy and a traitor like jefferson davis. president biden is scheduled to have lunch with is that the democrats tomorrow to discuss the way forward an voting rights. joining us now is democratic senator from illinois, tammy duckworth. senator, thanks so much. i know you didn t get to hear all of the speech. i ll try to paraphrase. he said if president biden thinks that democracy is on death s door, as mcconnell characterized it, then why did it take him nine months to get around to making it the top of his agenda? is that fair? no, again, you know, mitch mcconnell s doing everything he can to continue to help republicans across this country try to change voting right law, restrict people s abilities to vote and frankly, mcconnell himself on the night on january 6 condemned president trump.