Al Franken

If you think about what the Republican House has done, they've got -- they took 15 ballots to elect the speaker, then they got rid of that speaker when he voted for cr.

I think this autocracy issue will be an enormous issue for Americans.

Well, when he said I will seek revenge against my people who -- convicted -- already convicted, who charged me, that's the end of rule of law, right?

I think that requires disciplinary action. There are a lot of people in this country, Palestinians and Jews, who are afraid.

Now, Trump keeps saying that he quote, got more votes by far than any sitting president in the history of our country. I know that sounds good. But it doesn`t mean much when you lose by 7,052,770 vote.

I don`t want my grandchildren, children saying to be Grandpa, you are in the Senate, why didn`t you do anything in 50 years, I want to say why didn`t you do anything about climate.

I just say I totally agree with that. And I also think the January 6 Committee is speaking to this issue of democracy.

No one who is a Trumpy will want Pence because he didn’t have the courage to not certify.

This is an extremely dangerous court. And we saw that and this that needs to be an issue in this campaign, not just abortion.

Democrats should stop complaining and get to work. That`s how you win elections. You know, stop working against ourselves, and instead, get out the vote.

Senator Al Franken highlighted the importance of addressing the needs of tribal schools, especially Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig.

The only thing worse than prosecuting him is not prosecuting him.

He led a conspiracy to try to overturn a legitimate democratic election.

Absolutely, I said after the 6th very publicly that there should be an ethics investigation of Cruz and of Hawley and those who were going to deny certification.

I don`t think you can overstate it. I think Judge Luttig said that still presents a clear and present danger.

Yes, it`s kind of crazy. During the last hearing, they had vice president, former Vice President Gore, and he did very quickly, he said, well, if you`re choosing between your own ambition and the Constitution and democracy, it`s not really…

You`re right, we started getting these tea party types, including Rand, and it was -- it was very upsetting, of course. Now, they did very quickly shift to opposing the Affordable Care Act and, of course, when they finally saw what the…

He`s like encouraging this thing in Canada, but it`s hurting our economy.

The Republican Party has become something almost unrecognizable. When I started there, it was tough then but it just got worse and worse and worse and worse.

And, yes, this party, all he has to do is see what the RNC did, by calling it legitimate political discourse, you know, gouging cops` eyes out and breaking their vertebrae.

I think they`re showing what the Republican Party is now which is in the thrall of Donald Trump.

I mean, they basically just announced that they`re kind of crazy. I mean, no one can look at that and go that was legitimate political discourse gouging out the eyes of police which Capitol police they did, police lost their fingers. They…

I think this is incredibly dumb. And I do think that --

Joe Biden’s got to go. And he said something about doing that. And go around the country. And we’ll introduce this legislation and say what we’re for. And that’ll be a great contrast to -- so they have nothing, they are for nothing except…