To force a raped 13-year-old girl, to force a raped 12-year-old girl to have a baby, to force a rave to child to give birth to a child, to force or to do that is barbaric. And every Republican senator knows that.
Lawrence O'Donnell
Pundit
American television presenter
Donald Trump did something that no one term president has ever done before. He appointed three Supreme Court justices.
There is one president in our history who was impeached twice and never won a majority vote in a presidential election.
A vote for George H.W. Bush for president in 1988 has turned out to be a vote to revoke a constitutional right.
A vote for Republicans at every level -- state legislature, governor, senator, president -- has produced this decision.
The notion that, well, in some states, you have certain rights and, in other states, you don’t have the same rights is the kind of thing that literally defines different countries.
The Senate is a disaster. It is a structural disaster. It was a disaster at birth.
You can’t be this dishonest about things this big. And hold a leadership job that’s about to become way bigger.
You cannot just flat out lie about stuff like this, particularly when you’re already in precarious position in these kinds of politics.
I will be surprised if there aren’t calls for his resignation -- for both for his resignation and for Senator McConnell’s resignation based on this new reporting.