Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"If he doesn't, I will oppose him."

"He should know better than anyone how important it is to have an independent, credible special prosecutor in this role."

"These statements are really surreal and strange and scary. They are scary because we're dealing here with wiretapping and surveillance, which goes to the core privacy rights of all of us as citizens."

"The president must understand the political consequences of what he's doing. Anybody who's campaigned for president and won is no longer a neophyte."