Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"This issue is not about me. It's far bigger than me, and far bigger than Judge Gorsuch's nomination. It's about the independence of the judiciary and Donald Trump's attacks on it."

"I was absolutely outraged by these attacks by the President of the United States."

"There is a special obligation for him to condemn publicly these attacks, because the independents of the judiciary core principle of our democracy is at stake here."

"I want to come back to undersea warfare that was raised by Senator Reed, because it is identified in the report as the area of our greatest asymmetric advantage right now, but only if we continue to i..."