Amy Klobuchar: “So when you look at how this all started, I think about all of these people who have stood up--and you are standing up…”

“So when you look at how this all started, I think about all of these people who have stood up--and you are standing up today. I think about career prosecutors in the Justice Department who have basically said: No, I am not going to do the bidding of the President, whether I was appointed during a Republican Presidency or a Democratic Presidency, whether I personally vote Republican or vote Democrat. I have a job to do, and that is to follow the laws of the United States. And I think the real first indication of this, where people realize just how off the cliff this was going, was when, in fact, there was pressure put on career prosecutors in New York to dismiss these charges that had been the result of a long investigation involving Mayor Eric Adams. And what I remember from that time was that Danielle Sassoon, who was a very, very well-respected, conservative prosecutor, someone that came up through the Federalist Society, who had clerked for conservative Justices, she decided to resign rather than do their bidding, because she felt that it wasn't consistent with the law, that it was against the law. And then, another career prosecutor named Hagan Scotten, who was a decorated veteran, who had clerked for then-Judge Kavanaugh and Justice Roberts, he said when asked to file a motion in that case: You may find a fool or a coward to file that motion, but it won't be me. And those words always echo in my mind.…”