Chris Murphy

The President of the United States is retweeting articles, for example, entitled, 'Mandatory Masks Aren't About Safety, They're About Social Control.' He retweets people that are criticizing how folks look when they wear masks.

The president, you know, views this as a political problem. He doesn't view this as a public health problem that he's got to solve.

I think this is ultimately about the president wanting to be able to have clean hands.

What's the point of the CDC if it doesn't offer expertise to states when they are opening up after the worst pandemic to hit this country in a century?

Soon isn't terribly helpful.

My specific question is why didn't this plan get released?

You work for a President who is frankly undermining our efforts to comply with the guidance that you've given us.

My sense right now is that the president does the press conferences and other people are trying to manage the virus.

The president talks in these press conferences, but all of the response has been left to governors.

Absolutely. Absolutely. The fact that we didn't start buying up medical supplies, masks, gowns, face shields early on, when we were begging for that funding in early February. The fact that the president didn't put in place an effective…

Well, pulling money out of the WHO has nothing to do with keeping America safe. It's all about the president's attempt to try to find scapegoats.

It'd be better if the president didn't make statements about the coronavirus. It would be better if he remained silent and he let medical experts carry the message.

It would be better if the president didn't make statements about the coronavirus.

Well, I think the administration was very, very late to understand the significance of this epidemic.

Let the experts talk. That's my hope for what happens moving forward.

Well, I mean, listen, this is a sliver of good news. We were able to get a few Republicans to join us with to make clear that he can't go to war with Iran without congressional authorization.

I think that there are all sorts of different versions of democratic governments out there, and I don't know that in the next 10 to 20 years, America transitions into a Saudi Arabian-style autocracy, but we certainly could all lose our…

It's a fragile, delicate, creature. It's only been around for 240 years, and I don't think anybody should assume it's going to be around for another 240 if you don't take steps to protect it from people like this.

He essentially has a get out of jail free card from Republicans in the Senate.

Well, I mean, he definitely learned a lesson. He learned that he could get away with corrupting his office with absolutely no consequences.

I don't think the proper forum for his story coming out is his book release. So, one way or the other, at least the House has to get him back before the body.

I think it's a really, really sad day for the country that the Senate has, you know, turned into basically an instrument of the president's cover-up, and that's, I think, real damaging to us in the long run.

The Senate Republicans have decided to speed this trial to a conclusion without any witnesses.

What I've said to my Republican friends from the beginning, is that today you might secretly celebrate that the dirt is being dug up on Democratic presidential candidates, but it's going to be you some day.

Our responsibility is to get to the bottom of this corruption.