Richard Blumenthal

If the president called the acting attorney general of the United States about an ongoing investigation of him in the Southern District of New York, where he was named as an unindicted co-conspirator, any conversation would be wildly…

The transcript should be released, just like I've insisted that the entire Mueller report should be released.

What it says to me is that the president was attempting to influence potentially that investigation in New York where he was an unindicted co-conspirator and, in fact, he was called individual number one but clearly he was that person in a…

The president's comments are plainly ludicrous. They are deeply wrong and regrettable. And what he's doing is essentially trying to again divide us, seeking to distract from his own problems, resorting to demagoguery about a resolution…

The president is trying to politicize and weaponize this issue on a very partisan basis.

Does the Senator believe climate change is real, and will he stand with the scientific community, which believes unanimously or almost completely unanimously that climate change is real and that human activity caused it?

Most people lie because they want to conceal something, because they feel they have something to hide.

What Donald Trump did was put those secrets and those individuals in the gravest of jeopardy by overruling the intelligence community about who should have access to those secrets.

Legally he can do it now, which raises the question, by the way, whether Congress should impose more restraints.

Never standard operating procedure for a nominee to talk about a pending investigation. So, I'm a bit surprised that he is talking about the outlines and plans as the CNN report suggested.

There's the distinct possibility, Anderson, that there will be no indictment here because William Barr has concluded a sitting president cannot be indicted. So, if there's no indictment and no findings and evidence, what we have in effect…

Nor should it be acceptable to the American people. In fact, a recent poll -- a couple polls showed that more than 80 percent of the American people think that Barr -- the Mueller report should be released in full by Barr, and in fact, 79…

And the question is, why do you lie about it? Was it just that he was a congenital liar or because he was engaged in a cover-up that potentially was encouraged by others involved whether it was Roger Stone or others who are Trump…

Well, what it tells me is that the lies were about connections between the Trump campaign and the Russians, or between Manafort and Kilimnik and the Russians, which were not involved in the initial charges.

All of these contacts apparently are instigated misleading or untruthful comments, giving rise to the clear impression they lied because they thought maybe they were breaking the law.

If everything's on the up-and-up, why not just tell the truth?

The question for the country and for William Barr, the attorney general is will he do the president's bidding, or will he put the American people first.

What is he hiding? What is Whitaker hiding? What is he seeking to conceal?

I think generally, executive privilege has been overused, excessively abused by witnesses.

For him to resist would be as one constitutional scholar has said anti-constitutional, because the Congress, remember, is a source for oversight.

No doubt he'll resist the request or even the subpoena for that kind of material, but he has no real defense or recourse under the law because, clearly, the chairman of the committee has the power to obtain it from the Internal Revenue…

The American people paid for this investigation and for the report. They deserve to know what's in it.

I think he seems to be equally concerned. He certainly has called both a witch hunt, and he has denounced both. But both are absolutely necessary, and particularly the claim about harassment. Congress is simply doing its job.

The American public paid for this report. They deserve to know what it found.

Every time he comments or anyone else in the administration comments in a disparaging way about the investigation they undermine its credibility.