Chris Murphy

In order to do that, they have to pledge allegiance. In order to do that, they have to act just like their leader. And President Trump has made it very clear that if you're wearing a mask, you aren't on my team.

We are going to leave no stone unturned to make sure that the voters decide this election, not Donald Trump, not lawyers, not AR-15-wielding protesters in the street.

You shouldn't. You shouldn't. You can't believe Lindsey Graham, you can't believe the president, you can't believe Mitch McConnell. They have made it 100 percent clear that there is only one motivation that drives them. And it is not…

It's just treachery, by the way for them to deny President Obama's nominee under the rule that you can't confirm anybody in an election year and then just four years later, admit that they were lying in 2016 when they set that rule.

I think that this ultimately will end the political career of some of my Republican colleagues.

Well, it's not over in part, because we don't even know who the nominee is. I mean, maybe you can come to the conclusion that the Republican Party has just become a big cult of personality, and so there's no drama as to whether or not…

I don't believe that those companies are going to back up the President's statement if they aren't grounded in empirical facts.

The President seems to place a different value on the lives of people who live in red states and blue states, which is so curious because the present is frankly endangering the lives of his own supporters every day that he models this kind…

I worry that he is trying to sort of -- sort of have his moral center justify him remaining, while still sort of being OK with an amount of influence from the White House that is perverting the science.

There are definitely White House hands on things the CDC is saying, and at some point he probably has to admit to that.

The truth being that masks work, that social distancing is important, and that the vaccine isn't coming in the next 60 days.

I do stand by that. I know that sounds harsh, but this is a president who knew exactly what he was doing.

America has this responsibility, I argue in the book, to be more careful about gun laws than any other place because it is access to weapons, especially really powerful weapons that turns, you know, just ordinary everyday argument into a…

Let's call a spade a spade. The President knows exactly what he is doing. He's refusing to model the right behavior for the American public and that is going to result in people dying.

What the President is doing is to frankly send a clear message to others that might bring guns to protests, that would drive their cars into very volatile places like the streets of Portland. He sending a message of encouragement.

This book is about America's natural predilection to violence. As humans, we have a natural predilection to violence, and the book tells that story.

Deliberately killing people.

I am very hopeful that this administration and our intelligence services will make that information public.

There are foreign governments that have active interference operations underway in this country.

This is a made up crisis that the President is creating.

Yes, there just aren't these sort of secret bands of vigilante absentee and mail-in voter fraudsters, they don't exist, so the President sort of making up a problem that isn't real.

Our president is now a proud vocal segregationist.

This will be the President's political undoing, because Americans are not going to be distracted from the issue that dominates their lives so long as the infection rate is so high.

All you have to do is copy what we did, right? You have to keep things closed until you get transmission rates under control.

The President seems to think that if he doesn't talk about coronavirus, then it will go away, and people will stop caring about it. And, you know, that's proof of his ignorance.