Chris Murphy

So long as Donald Trump is the head of the Republican Party, they are going to find themselves in the minority.

Donald Trump isn't going away and that he has developed such a cult of personality inside the Republican Party, that he is going to be the person who decides who wins Senate Republican primaries, at least for the next four years.

I think it's a very convenient position for Senate Republicans to occupy. They can say it's an unconstitutional proceeding as a way to avoid talking about the President's conduct.

He incited a crowd to violence. He violated his Oath of Office and there's got to be a consequence for that or it sends a message to future Presidents that they can get away with it.

This idea that we can't hold somebody accountable because it's divisive is completely foreign to the American rule of law.

Well, first of all, it's plainly constitutional. In fact, the Senate in the past has tried a former Cabinet official after he had resigned office in order to try to avoid accountability, so there's precedent for this.

Today's vote is not a pure proxy vote for conviction.

I do think there has to be a consequence.

The American rule of law is built on a series of rules and a series of consequences if you violate those rules.

What they are providing is an invitation for this to happen again.

If you don’t impeach him for using... the Oval Office to try to get a foreign country to interfere in an election, then he’s going to do something else, perhaps more grave.

This is a president who knew exactly what was going to happen as he turned thousands of angry supporters, a mob on the United States Capitol.

This is perhaps the most serious, I would dare say the most serious impeachment charge we`ve ever seen against an American president.

I would like to see the nominations and the COVID-relief bill come first. But I, also, think that time may allow us to do some inquiry here that might build the case for conviction.

Every day that we learn more about what happened inside the Capitol on January 6th, the angrier members of Congress get.

I think there is two sides of this. Listen. I do think there are a lot of Republicans who were holding their judgment to see how Trump behaved in the final days.

By operationalizing the Defense Production Act, Joe Biden is going to change that because we are going to make enough vaccine.

What the new administration has announced is that they are going to start using the full powers of the federal government to make sure that we have enough PPE, enough testing kits, and enough vaccine, in order to beat this virus.

I have been so happy for Joe Biden over the past 24 hours. I think I`m happier for Dr. Fauci. Glad that he finally gets to actually speak truth to the American people, without any consequences.

They`re out of power in the White House. They are out of power in the House. They are out of power in the Senate.

Democrats, of course, have now taken control of the United States Senate.

The outgoing administration was so incompetent, and so indifferent to the very basic responsibilities of governance, including the defense of the United States.

You will recall that President Trump never raised that issue. Never objected to that, at all, with Russia. Never seemed bothered by it. Never seemed to care.

If the previous administration had not been so bizarrely, and insistently, supplicant to Russia, we would had the director of national intelligence doing assessment, for example, for the administration, on the huge cyberattack on the U.S…

We need to support the Venezuelan people, both at the political level in the form of opposition leaders and interim President Guaido, as well as pushing for humanitarian assistance and ensuring that the people of Venezuela do have access…