"I think Mitch was afraid they would be forced into doing that. They feel forced to do it. This though gives us time to pass build back better."
"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."
"It would be insane to default. Absolutely insane. We can`t do it. The dollar is the default currency of the world. We can`t let it not be."
"We have to pass this bill and you can carve out and say for, you know, elections, this is our democracy."
"We`re going to get there. And Sinema was very helpful on the bipartisan infrastructure package. She`s going to get there."
"This is an existential threat to our democracy. If we lose our democracy, it`s - we lose everything."
"He’s going to send it out. He’s, as he said, you know, before the commercial, he said he’s destroyed the Senate. He did that by -- he did more filibusters of executive nominees during Obama than been ..."
"The child tax credit, reduce poverty by childhood poverty by half, biggest middle class, working class, tax cut, low income tax cut in the history of the country."
"This immediately brings to question the filibuster and I was encouraged that Joe Manchin in this audio that was released the other day by the intercept, has said that he is open to a modification of t..."
"Mitch McConnell is cynical. Mitch McConnell is in this, and the Republican Party right now doesn`t stand for anything, I think, other than maybe for low tax cuts for their donors."
"Mitch McConnell filibustered more executive nominees when Barack Obama was president than had been filibustered in the entire previous history of the United States."