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..."

"Well, I wake up every day optimistic. Optimistic, because I know eventually democracy catches up to the Senators who oppose 90 percent of their constituents who want things like universal background c..."

"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."