what we need to do right now is generate maximum leverage against Vladimir Putin.

this bill fails spectacularly on all three counts.

the wealthiest of the Amer- of Americans to pay more taxes, and to give tax relief to the middle class and below.

that is the very definition, the very definition, of politicizing intelligence.

The Senate must not confirm Mr. Kent as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center without a full understanding of his actions.

I ask that you provide such evidence to the Committee no later than May 21.

Absent evidence to justify the firings, the workforce can only conclude that their jobs are contingent on producing analysis that is aligned with the president’s agenda, rather than truthful and apolitical.

In this Chamber, as early as today, we may be passing legislation that is explicitly designed to maintain historically low tax rates on the Nation's wealthiest people. The richest people in America will be served by this institution so…

Everyone here knows that the Russians or the Chinese could have gotten all of that information...

These individuals know the calamitous risks of transmitting classified information across unclassified systems, and they also know that if a lower ranking official under their command did what is described here, they would likely lose…

I am horrified by reports that our most senior national security officials... shared sensitive and almost certainly classified information via a commercial messaging application.

It is by the grace of God that one of those enemies didn't alert the Houthis in advance.

Let's assume that the people on the Signal chat were probably the top targets for some of our global enemies.

If the president of the United States decides to ignore the orders of a court... you have a full-blown constitutional crisis.

What people worry about is that this administration acts with an unbelievable kind of cocktail of incompetence and illegality.

You see him exploring the threshold of ignoring a court order, knowing because he said so before and because his people know this, that that is very serious business, that that is a constitutional crisis.

For a great long last, Anderson, I do. You know, we've been, as you pointed out, throwing that term around pretty sloppily in the last two months or so. But the definition of a constitutional crisis, of course, is when you have no way to…

If these courts don't stand up very quickly and say, we are going to hold individuals in contempt and start doing some of the things that courts can do when they hold individuals in contempt, you can bet that next week the encroachment…

Now is the time for the courts to push back and say, you better pay attention or we will start, you know, holding people in contempt and garnishing wages and that sort of thing.

No question. I mean, otherwise, why would they be making these films, these videos, including the one that you've been running in your show today?

But what is critical there, of course, is due process. Right. You know, get them out. But let's at least make sure that were deporting people who we know fall into that category.

I have no love for Donald Trump, but I do have reverence for the Office of the President.

At the end of the day, I think we need to stand up for the things that we believe regardless of which party benefits or loses

I don’t mind being one of 10 Democrats who said, no, there’s a deeper principle at stake here, which is reverence for this institution.

Many more Ukrainians will die because the Ukrainians will not have as much warning as they did previously of Russian attacks, and many fewer Russian military assets and people will be at risk.