Chris Murphy actually said...

"We're using every lever that we have to try to shame our Republican colleagues into doing something on an issue that is frankly not controversial anywhere but inside the United States Congress."

"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."

"It would be a disaster for the United States to pretend as if we have a defense treaty with Saudi Arabia and start firing missiles into Iran, causing a new regional war."

"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."