Al Franken: “they would not use this to favor their own programming”

I think what McConnell was worried about is that this is a game of chicken and McConnell blinked because Democrats could have just changed the rules.

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.

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…

And that is an existential threat to our democracy.