Al Franken: “Because infinitesimal was good.”

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…

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.

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