Elijah Cummings: “Finally, let me just say this: I cannot help but be moved by your words with regard to Senator Kerry. And I understand…”

“Finally, let me just say this: I cannot help but be moved by your words with regard to Senator Kerry. And I understand you were with him yesterday. It pains me tremendously, as I said a little earlier, that our military can go and fight for this Constitution and can fight for America to maintain its strength, can fight for our freedoms, can fight for the conventions and opportunities that we have, but then to hear people slam him because he comes back after doing all the things my colleague said, and I am glad he made it clear, all the things he said, he could come back and express his views, and thank God we have a country that says you have freedom of speech; but then he gets slammed for the very freedoms that he placed his life on the line for. Something is wrong with the picture.”