Claire McCaskill

I think if the commission is turned down, it is a political mistake for the Republican Party.

It takes away her powers as secretary of state. And then they magically reappear with the next secretary of state. That is, on its face, outrageous.

It is a brazen political exercise being done in the most partisan way possible.

What they`re doing in Arizona is -- thank you for not saying the A-U-D-I-T word, because it isn`t one. It isn`t an audit. It is a brazen political exercise being done in the most partisan way possible.

This is all about clinging to Donald Trump, because Donald Trump remains popular with enough voters in the Republican Party that you can win primaries.

Tomorrow will be one of the darkest days for the Republican Party in this country, because what they’re going to do, Lawrence, is they’re going to oust a leader for the grievous sin of telling the truth.

This speech is not about who`s in the chamber. This speech is a speech to the American public.

I mean, it is just unbelievable. And how did Nikki Haley today. I mean, here`s Nikki Haley, who came out and did a little bit of what Liz Cheney did. And Kinzinger did and Mitt Romney did. And even Mitch McConnell did right after January…

I think it remains to be seen how influential they`ll be. But make no mistake about it, Brian, there is some shaking of the foundations in terms of party affiliation of businesses.

But now, the First Amendment, the word is turned. And the First Amendment is freeing these corporations up to say what they think about protecting democracy.

We have the ability to force votes now which we did not have. We have the ability of forcing the Republicans to vote against bills that 90 percent of Americans wants. That`s what we should be doing repeatedly to drive the message home…

Politics is not checkers. Politics is chess. And what people have to remember, there has to be a plan here.

Joe Manchin is never going to be beat by a progressor candidate. He`s in a state that Donald Trump won by 40 points.

he kind of broke the Senate. He’s the one that has used the rules in a way they were never intended to be used.

we need to reform a process so that if somebody wants to obstruct they own it, and that the American people can see who’s doing it.

Yeah, I was thinking about it when I was reading the report today that there was a time not too long ago that this would have been an earthquake. This would have been seismic. It would have been so big.

It is the exact 180 opposite of what she should be saying.

They couldn’t trust him. They couldn’t rely that he would do the on the fact that he would do the right thing and allow their promotions to go through. They were protective of these women’s careers, because they knew they had a commander…

You know, here`s the thing, I think they need to worry less about fighting the Republicans and worry about internal fighting and really stay focused on fighting for the policies. Because the policies are wildly popular.

But I`m not sure about Ron Johnson. I mean, he spent most of the last four years wanted to talk about Hillary Clinton`s e-mails. I mean, how dumb was that?

I think that is the tender underbelly of the Trump defense.

I think this impeachment feels different. It is more emotional because of what happened in the Capitol on January 6th.

I have no doubt in my mind he would be convicted if the impeachment vote in the Senate was secret.

Even very, very conservative lawyers have come out saying that this process argument that they`re going to try to hide behind is not a really valid legal argument under the constitution.

It got this way for, I can say two words that explain why we are at this point. And those two words are Donald Trump.