Mazie Hirono

The bottom line is, these two members participated in trying to overturn free and fair elections. And they had to have known for well, that they were perpetrating a big lie.

There needs to be accountability for these two senators. It's really an investigation.

After all, you know, what these two senators, they were part and parcel of trying to overturn fair and free elections. And they both participated in perpetuating the big lie that this election was stolen, and that Trump actually won.

Neither one of these senators have expressed any contrition for what happened. And in spite of the fact that newspapers and people have been calling on them to resign, including myself, they're not going to resign.

This is unprecedented, of course, historic that a president gets impeached twice for -- and this time for inciting an insurrection, which all of us experienced right in front of our eyes.

Four years of lying, chaos, mindless cruelty does not get wiped up away because of one staged video, no.

This time for inciting an insurrection, which all of us experienced right in front of our eyes.

But I hope they're not going to just start off by being obstructionists and being really, in my view, sour grapes.

She understands the role of government to actually help people and help families as supposed to one of her predecessors, Mulvaney, whose goal in life was cut back on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.

Oh, I only hope that it's the end stage. And as he continues to flail around and file more lawsuits, every single one of which except for one minor, he calls it a victory. He's going to keep ongoing, but 51 days, Joy.

The president is going to select someone who will not only side with him if he should bring a court challenge to the election results but who will also vote to overturn the Affordable Care Act and pushing millions and millions of people…

The next Supreme Court justice will be expected to not expand any of those rights, not to protect any of those rights. That is what is at stake in this election.

The president keeps talking about it because he's the one who 's trying to set the stage for a rigged election.

The second thing would be to cut back Roe v. Wade, either to totally undo Roe v. Wade or restrict it to the point where it's basically no protection at all for a woman's right to choose.

A proportionate response only gets to be discussed when the Democrats take back the Senate. And this is why -- this is really important for the American people, not only to keep seeing those tapes of all the senators, seeing what they did…

The first thing that's going to happen, for whoever this person that Trump is going to nominate will do two things. One, she or he will strike down the Affordable Care Act when already 55 million people are without health care, and all the…

We only get to do a proportional response if the Democrats take back the Senate. And that's why -- I don't hold that much hope that we're going to have two more Republicans to actually follow their conscience because that is actually…

Mitch McConnell feels a sense of urgency to fill every single judicial vacancy. He has said so and he is living up to it.

A woman's right to choose is very much imperiled, as well as individual rights, worker's right, union rights, you name it.

The lasting legacy of the Trump presidency will be all of the ideological total right-wing judges that he has placed on our federal courts for life.

I think it mattered to my Republican friend and colleague, Lisa Murkowski, as she has already put out a message that to fill this vacancy now, and not wait until 2021 would be a double standard.

I know what her last fervent wish was, that she should not be replaced until a new president is installed.

First of all, I think we should hold their feet to the fire and expect them to live up to the words they said. But beyond that, we Democrats are going to do everything we can. We haven't determined what all of that might be, but we will…

It is certainly up to the rest of us. and I'm glad that my friend and Republican colleague Lisa Murkowski came on and said it would be a double standard to try and push somebody through in only 46 days.

And that would be very bad for women's right to choose, bad for unions, bad for working people, LGBTQ rights, bad for the Affordable Care Act -- you name it, the voting rights act.