Ladies and gentlemen, we can’t be pro-insurrectionist and pro-American. They’re incompatible.

Too much of what`s happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represented extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.

I don't consider any Trump supporter a threat to the country. I do think anyone who calls for the use of violence, who fails to condemn violence when it's used, refuses to acknowledge when an election has been won, that is the threat to…

Equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise.

I will not stand by and watch the will of the American people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless, evidence-free claims of fraud.

He said there were millions of Americans -- we don`t have a number -- who are a profound threat to American democracy because they don`t abide by the rules of American democracy and want to see it overturned.

Now, it’s sickening to see the new attacks in the FBI, threatening life with law enforcement agents and their families for simply carrying out the law and doing their job. Look, I want to say it as clear as I can, there’s no place in this…

he is going to make that contrast very clear, an important one, with now less than 10 weeks before the midterm elections.

the threats facing our democracy and the importance of combating those threats today.

I will not -- the will the American people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless evidence, street claims and fraud, I will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refuse to accept that…

so many elected Republicans still are very clearly under the thumb of the former president.

Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology. I know, because I've been able to work with these mainstream Republicans.

You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection. You can’t be a party of law and order and call the people who attacked the police on January 6 patriots. You can’t do it.

Let me say this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress -- don’t tell me you support law enforcement if you won’t condemn what happened on the 6th. Don’t tell me. Can’t do it. For god’s sake, whose side are you on? Whose side are you on?

he will make this distinction, mainstream Republicans, with that fringe, with that minority, albeit a potent one, of MAGA extreme Republicans who he will say are determined to take this country backwards.

I am opposed to defunding the police. I`m also opposed to defunding the FBI.

This is a serious moment. This is a serious election coming up. There will be another one in 2024, one hopes. But the very process of our democracy and the peaceful transfer of power is threatened when one party, and a lot of one party…

I wrote at the time that we`re in the battle for the soul of this nation. Well, that`s even more true today. We are in the battle for the soul of this nation.

The scenes of chaos of the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are. What we’re seeing are a small number of extremists dedicated to lawlessness. This is not dissent. It’s disorder. It’s chaos. It borders on…

the battle for the soul of the nation and the threats to democracy that our country is facing, specifically those from MAGA extremists.

Politics doesn`t have to be a raging fire, destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn`t have to be a cause for total war. And we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.

Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.

For a long time, we have reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed, but it is not. We have to defend it, protect it, stand up for it, each and every one of us.

MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law, they do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election. And they're working right now, as I speak and…

Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the foundation of our republic.