Chris Murphy actually said...

"If President Trump were to come out in the next several days for expanded background checks, I think you'd have a lot of Republicans eager to rally around him."

"Mitch McConnell clearly has a different copy of the constitution than all the rest of us, because this isn't the first issue in which he throws his arms up in the air and says I can't do anything abou..."

"What we should be doing right now is engaging in diplomacy to ramp down these tensions and any alternative is ultimately going to be much worse off in the long run for us and our Saudi partners."

"We'd like to get the President, who has made a bunch of noise about supporting a background checks deal, we'd like to get his imprimatur on a specific proposal."