Al Franken: “These cuts would threaten the expertise found at our national labs, a resource that is the envy of the world.”

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.

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.

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

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