I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.

Adam's right, this is what our politics has become. And I do think that there are a lot of Americans who are hungry for something different.

It is absolutely outrageous that at a moment -- I couldn't imagine being governor of any state, having a tragedy like that, and then turning around and thinking about how this could affect my election.

There's a 1 percent to 2 percent chance it's logistics. There's a 98 percent to 99 percent chance it's the optics. Look, politics has become, you know, from even 10 years ago when there were moments you could put politics aside and do what…

this isn't the plot that he -- but he is running in Trump's tracks here, and Trump has laid these tracks and he's been very effective.

Why is he gaining so much? Because nobody that is running for president with the exception of Chris Christie, Asa Hutchison and Will Hurd are speaking out and saying that what Donald Trump did was wrong.

I couldn't imagine being the former president, to be Donald Trump, but if I had to pretend to be him, I mean, I'd be a little nervous because he's entirely banking on winning so that he can pardon himself, or so that he can at least stop…

But if you want to have policy differences in the future, you've got to actually vote to defend democracy.

These people running for president that are too cowardly to speak out. I mean, like, I've said this a few times now, just drop out and endorse Donald Trump then.

I think it's an attempt to intimidate. I mean, Geoff is not going to be intimidated, thankfully. But, you know, that doesn't mean that everybody is not going to be intimidated and people watching, potential witnesses are going to see --

Nobody is. And that's -- and, you know, Chris Christie did a fantastic job. Again, Asa, Will Hurd. But everybody else is, like, in this magical land where somehow Donald Trump will just simply disappear from the political scene.

Yes, I don't mean this negatively. It kind of is a two- tiered system, whereas, Donald Trump is getting away with a lot.

I don't think it's just protected political speech when you make a threat, because, look, there are people out there that are going to take that seriously and they can go to take action.

Donald Trump is really good, and he's practiced this over decades of saying something, but in a way that you could somehow conceivably, at least with a straight face, argue that you mean something else.

Don't be in leadership if you're unwilling to say the hard truth to people.

It is okay to ask electors to switch their vote, it is not okay to create fake electors and attack the Capitol to get your way.

He's mad, not at the people who are asking the question. He's frankly mad that he has to come up with that lie and stand there and say that.

I think they're still hoping just like in 2016, that somehow this magic pony is going to come out of the sky and Donald Trump is going to be taken out of this race.