Barbara Boxer: “Let us not paint Gina McCarthy with this brush or anybody else. It is a disgrace to do it. It is awful to do it. It is…”

The way the Senate works, as you know, it`s a supermajority to get anything done. It has nothing to do with age.

This is a sad moment, we always had two parties, one was to the right of center, one was to the left of center, and we never had a party, so extreme and so willing to become the party of grievance and anger and division.

We Democrats, we do have a very good and diverse coalition. It truly is diverse, everywhere you look at it. But in terms of leadership in Congress, it is true, they’re getting older.

Good on Gavin Newsom for being the bigger person to show up and say, Mr. President, I'm glad you're here.