Tammy Duckworth

It tells me that he stands with someone who basically incited insurrection as opposed to standing with our Constitution.

I will support general Austin, but I would not support the waiver. I suspect that he will -- that the waiver will pass. I will not vote for the waiver. I believe very strongly that there needs to be civilian control, civilian oversight of…

I think it's very significant because he can be the one to say, listen, we will welcome people who seek refuge. We will stand firm against those people who seek to do harm to the United States, but we will not turn away people who are…

He can be the one to say listen we will welcome people who seek refuge. We will stand firm against those people who seek to do harm to the United States. But we will not turn away people who are seeking refuge into the United States. And…

I'm not worried those things will be hard to undo, but frankly, my greatest is America's national security, and that includes the national security of Israel, and when you have serious people come to the table who want to negotiate, who…

Well, this is a very serious cabinet. That is a message that President-elect Biden is sending with this message, and he could not have picked better names in each and every one of these spots. He's basically telling the rest of the world…

I think that any role that we can elevate our members of our first nation is a great one. I think she would be fantastic at Interior, but I also think there are any number of members of the first nations who could hold any number of roles.

I've been talking about this and the threat to our national security posed by President Trump actually firing Secretary Esper and hollowing out the top levels of the Pentagon. And now we know why he did it. He did it so that he can make…

This really rash decision which will want to put our troops in harm's way. You know, President Trump just literally wants to blow everything up as he goes out the door.

He is putting his own personal vendettas, his own personal fragile ego ahead of the well-being and the security of our nation.

The president of the United States firing the defense secretary this soon after the election, this soon after a major transition destabilizes our national security. There's no way to get around it, and it's really what is a foolish move on…

And that silence is deafening. That silence is not good for our national security. That silence on the part of my colleagues is not good for a small 'D' democracy.

Exactly. The oath that you swear when you join the military is to support and defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. So, it's not to carry out the president's orders, it's to defend the Constitution.

We need to fight this COVID-19 pandemic. We've got to get this thing under control. That's why this was the very first thing that President-elect Biden has put out on the agenda because that's what the American people said when they voted…

This is what he's doing. He has let down our military. He's let down our military families. And for him to continue to insult our gold star families is -- shameful is not even the word for it. I mean, the man is not fit to be commander in…

Well, I mean, the real danger here is Donald Trump, it's not on gold star families. And, of course, he would disparage him. Of course, he would blame them for spreading a virus. This is what he has always done.

The man is not fit to be commander in chief for another minute.

He's blaming everyone else.

He has now put our country in real national security danger because of his utter lack of respect for science.

Imagine if a foreign adversary were to decide that they were going to infiltrate the White House by sending in an agent who would then spread a deadly virus around and infect the commander in chief.

The only person that is dangerous in this is Donald Trump.

For the first time, the majority of the troops if they are asked today to vote would not vote For Donald Trump.

This is the President who picked a lobbyist for a defense company, Raytheon to be his Secretary of Defense.

He has not been better for the troops than any other President.

He is not fit to be Commander-in-Chief of our nation's military for yet for another minute.