one of the two parties is radicalizing against democracy in front of our eyes

This is our chance, right? We've been given a mandate.

I think in the Senate Republican caucus, I think that they are sort of nearing meltdown, right? I think they know that the direction of their party is unsustainable.

These are all really important announcements because one, it removes the United States from our current status of complicity in these war crimes.

we're fighting over whether we all believe in democracy any longer.

It is unworkable, I think, on its present terms.

I think everybody who knows anything about this conflict understands that there will have to be some transition away from President Hadi in order to gain a peace deal.

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

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

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.

I think many of them are considering voting to convict the president.

If we just skip the accountability phase for what Donald Trump did, then I`m not sure why future presidents wouldn`t engage in the same of action.

When a party decides to make winning more important than the preservation of fair elections, that's when the whole democratic experiment starts to, you know, go down the toilet.

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.

But just like was the case a year ago, that doesn't obviate the United States Senate of its responsibility to have a trial.

Republicans have decided -- not all Republicans, but far too many have decided that if democracy can't keep Trump in power, then democracy ceases to have any real purpose.

The threat is still very real to American democracy.

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.

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.

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.