Chris Coons

I certainly hope not, but there's nothing to suggest that he will feel constrained, in fact, as I'm sure you well remember it was in the middle of the 2016 campaign that he publicly invited Russia to interfere by searching for his…

There is precedent if the chief justice should choose to rely on it.

My concern, the concern of many of my colleagues, is that President Trump will stand before us next Tuesday night in his state of the union, declare himself fully exonerated and promptly begin engaging in more inappropriate actions…

Impeachment is the ultimate constitutionally directed remedy for the Senate.

We could do more to make sure our next election is free and fair.

Because what the House charged President Trump with was inappropriately using the powers of his office for his own partisan political advantage to try and coerce another country, Ukraine, into ginning up a fake investigation into his chief…

The burden is on them to take action, to be responsible, to act like senators to show that they have the best interest of our country at heart and to push back on an unrestrained and unconventional president.

If the conclusion he's reached is that what the president did was inappropriate, but that the people should decide in the upcoming election, the very least we should do is to make sure that the next election is a free and fair election…

That's a stunning position to take, a suggestion that it really is OK for the President of the United States to seek foreign interference in an election for his partisan political benefit.

Senator Graham and I worked with a number of Members on this subcommittee to pass the Global Fragility Act in December 2019.

The Office of the President deserve respect, even when the actions of our President don't.

All of us are urging President Trump to reverse course and to take forceful action. Sanctions will not make enough of a difference soon enough.

This destabilizes the region. The winners here, frankly as you put it, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Bashar al Assad, the murderer of Baghdad -- excuse me, of Damascus, the dictator of Syria who has massacred huge numbers of his own civilians…

I am gravely concerned, Anderson, about what this means, not just for the Kurds who fought bravely alongside us in the efforts against ISIS but for the extent to which our allies in the region and the world view us as reliable.

But frankly in terms of Russia and Syria and Iran, gaining a critical foothold, and the Kurds losing all faith in us, that damage maybe irretrievable.

I don't buy that at all. Frankly, this is what happens when an untested, unconventional president who doesn't rely on the advice of his diplomats and military advisors wanders into a very complex region and engages in erratic and…

We took up both bills today in the Senate. First, we considered the House bill, which they had passed, and sent to us. I voted for it. Most of my colleagues voted for it. But many Republicans voted against it, and it did not pass.

We have signed laws and international treaties in this country that say when people are fleeing violence and persecution, they have to have a chance to present themselves in our country and seek asylum here.

We have seen two things change. You know, first is that this administration has frozen or cut back on funding that the previous administration had invested in stabilizing the three Northern Triangle countries.

I hope folks to reflect on that desperation will also recognize that these officers are making a claim that is rooted in the best traditions of our country.

I think those asylum officers are advocating for what are the real core values of our country.

I think it's important to remember that President Obama entrusted his vice president, Joe Biden, with the so-called cancer moonshot.

Every Democratic senator who's running for president is a cosponsor of this bill.

This is a bill I think is more prophetic.

I thought that was an extraordinary answer. I think that was -- an obvious answer would have been he supported the Mueller investigation, thought that it was necessary to the rule of law, and that transparency was important.