Al Franken: “I think that Americans have the right to know to the extent that it is not harmful, obviously, what surveillance is…”

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

Harry was very encouraging. In fact, Chuck Schumer was less so. And Harry was really the one who got behind me and I won that first one, I clobbered Norm Coleman by 312 votes, as you may recall.

This is an existential threat to our democracy. If we lose our democracy, it`s - we lose everything.

We have to pass this bill and you can carve out and say for, you know, elections, this is our democracy.