Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"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."

"He has to make a commitment to follow the evidence where it leads. And that can be done only by a special prosecutor."