Chris Murphy: “We should give them a place in our party.”

In the end, this bill, if it passes and becomes law, is actually going to be a long-term threat to college athletics.

I mean, that's an extraordinary story: an $8 million donation; two days later, a meeting of those donors with the president; an immediate phone call to the FDA to change the rules; four days later, the rules are changed; and four days…

The facts don't back up that characterization of college sports…I know that there's more people than ever showing up to these games and watching the games.

Students are not dumb. They're not going to sit in college sports with a cap on their earnings.