and also, I thank my colleague, the senior Senator from Illinois, for being here. I would like to just talk today about a dear, dear friend of ours, Ed Smith, who recently passed away. I am going to try not to say too much about what Ed…

He wants an aroused base going into these caucuses, and he may believe that showing up at the courthouse today and emphasizing the things he's emphasized will help light that fire under that base to come out at the caucuses.

It is frightening to hear a president's lawyers make the argument that he can do virtually anything, including murder and then have immunity for it.

I announce that the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Cantwell), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan) are necessarily absent.

I also ask unanimous consent for the scheduled vote to begin immediately. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

He thinks there's political value in showing up for the court because for his base, his aroused base, they believe that he's being persecuted and targeted for political reasons.

you know as well as I do what is happening in our home State of Illinois when it comes to the migrants that are being bussed from Texas, primarily, into our State--the impact it has had in the State and in the city of Chicago, in…

If we do not do well in Iowa, and New Hampshire, and South Carolina – the race is over.

Oh, well, look, there is no doubt that we have to do well in Iowa.

It's outrageous. There's a couple of things going on there. One of them is to believe January 6th was, you know, FBI-led or whatever, which is insane, by the way.

It is very important for Biden to be on the attack continually in this campaign and not just about democracy, but he should hold a clear lens up against what Trump's actual record was and remind people what those years were like.

I actually thought it was pretty good. I mean, I think he is doing now what he needs to be doing, which is taking this right to Donald Trump, calling out his flaws.

I think it's interesting that he's chosen to spend the day before the Iowa caucuses in the hearing in Washington over whether he has immunity or not.

I think this is a reflection of Trump's power within the party right now, because there is a cost they feel to going frontally after him.

I think that -- I don't think he's going to beat Donald Trump. I don't think anybody is going to beat Donald Trump.

This is clearly an international and federal crisis that local governments are being asked to subsidize.

This is unsustainable. None of our local economies are positioned to be able to carry on such a mission.

I do think it would rip the country apart if he were actually prevented from running because tens of millions of people want to vote for him.