I think this could be a turning point, frankly, to use Charlie's term, for the country, and I hope that's true.

Calling people Nazis and fascists is not helpful

I do believe that desperate times call for desperate measures, and I think appropriate sanctions on Russia are far overdue.

He would want us to go forward boldly. That was his message, and to do it in love.

I think appropriate sanctions on Russia are far overdue.

I think the best way we honor his memory is to continue to do that very thing and not shy away from debate, to keep the free marketplace of ideas going, but to work on the tone of those debates.

I'm doing okay, Major. Thanks for asking. No question, it was a difficult week for the country.

We have to defer to the commander in chief.

We should appeal, as Lincoln reminded us so many years ago, to the better angels among us all.

It does take a certain measure of courage to step out and to lead.

But what I do know, Major, is that my good friend Charlie would not want any of us to be consumed by despair. He would want us to go forward boldly.

We have to build consensus around all of it, but I think we will need a short-term funding measure, a clean C.R. that will allow more time to figure all this out.

Certainly, it was a difficult week for the country. There’s a mixture of anger and sadness and fear, frankly, on the part of a lot of people.

And I think everyone would do well to be reminded of that model

I mean, calling people Nazis and fascists is not helpful.

Everyone in America wants that bloodshed to end, and President Trump is forcing that.

I think, if we all adopt these practices together and we turn down the rhetoric, we cease with this idea that policy disputes are somehow an existential threat to democracy or the republic, we stop calling one another names – I mean…

And I think the best way we honor his memory is to continue to do that very thing and not shy away from debate.