We have to control the virus.

They do not intend to control the virus.

This is a very sad day for our country.

The president is afraid of the American people. He wants to put obstacles on participation.

The antidote to all their poison is just to vote. We have got to heal our country.

But the fact is -- you described it very well -- from the start, the president has never taken this seriously. And neither has Mitch McConnell.

from the start, the president has never taken this seriously. And neither has Mitch McConnell.

We believe, and we are told by economists and the rest that it is the right thing to -- not only the right thing to do, but the best thing to do for our economy is for us to help the neediest first.

If you go to work and your employer has not taken precautions and you get the virus, you have no recourse.

The virus is the cause of it all and yet they don't want to treat the cause.

Well, just to remind you, last night, the president said go big or go home.

We want to crush the virus, but we also want to protect our workers as they go to work.

We want it safer. We want it bigger, we want it better and it will be retroactive. We have to come to agreement.

It's remarkable. Hearing him laugh there, it was so heartbreaking because it reminded me when we passed the bill when he said, let's take a pause. Let's take a pause. Let the states go bankrupt.

It's a value in our country. And they just do not respect that.

This is about a pandemic where we are trying to compensate the states for the money that they spent on the pandemic and the revenue that they lost.

I don't know why you're always an apologist, and many of your colleagues, apologists for the Republican position.

There is no standalone bill without a bigger bill.

The president is, shall we say, in an altered state right now. So I don't know how to answer for his behavior. His disassociation from reality would be funny, if it weren't so deadly.

He is in an altered state right now, I don't know how else to answer for that behavior.

Believe me, there are people who thought -- who think that steroids have an impact on your thinking. So I don't know. Maybe we do know.

putting himself first at the expense of the country with the full complicity of the Republican Members of Congress.

Well, it's hard to see any clear, sane path on anything that he's doing, but the fact is is that he saw the political downside of his statement of walking away from the negotiations. All he has ever wanted in the negotiation was to send…

there's something about the president's COVID medications, specifically the steroid that he's been taking that might have affected his ability to clearly think this through.

I wouldn't go anywhere near the White House. It's one of the most dangerous places in the country, both in terms of the assault it makes on truth, as well as health.