Al Franken: “Right now we are really using our criminal justice system as a substitute for a fully functioning mental health system…”

I think that`s kind of exactly the right idea. I think that we should put -- the elements of the bill are extremely popular. And what we should do is just put them out one by one, and have, you know, have Americans see for themselves what…

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.

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.

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.