The system is not right. The system needs to be changed. And we need to bring about the structural changes that will put us back to being with a democracy that we talked about in our funding documents.
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Indicting a former president brings into bear a whole bunch of things. It`s going to be unbelievably divisive.
I don`t think there`s any question that, as I`ve said, by the end of this investigative process, you`re going to find the Donald Trump has done the necessary things to meet all of the elements, variety of statutes, and also we have showed…
But if nothing else Donald Trump was a norm breaker, and he has taken us to a place where a consideration of a prosecution of a former president, and his closest allies.
I am an institutionalist. My initial thought was not to indict the former president out of concern of what how divisive it would be. But given what we have learned, I think that he probably has to be held accountable.
I am grateful to the House for passing the Ukraine supplemental request on May 10, 2022.
There should just be an indictment, that that might be what needs to happen.
If Trump wins re-election, which is entirely possible, there`s no more guardrail.
I think that there`s going to be significant factual information and I think that there`s going to be sufficient proof of intent. And then the question becomes, what`s the impact of such an indictment?
At some point, people at the Justice Department, perhaps that prosecutor in Atlanta, are going to have to make a determination about whether or not they want to indict Donald Trump.
You can't preach the language of democracy on Monday and then on the other six days of the week try and take it away from the American people.
This draft decision says they're going to overrule Roe v. Wade, overrule Planned Parenthood v. Casey. It's as extreme an opinion, Chuck, as you could imagine.
I think they will. And the idea that this draft is going to return things to the people I think is just ludicrous.
The goal of the United States is to weaken Russia so that they can't do something like this again.
The goal now is to weaken Russia, so that it cannot do this kind of thing again.
The Justice Department has steadfastly been committed to defending the right to abortion. If the law changes, we will address appropriate next steps at that time. But what will not change is our commitment to defending the rights of women…
I wanted to weaken the Russian result that is weaken their ability to replace military assets.