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Claire McCaskill

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Claire McCaskill is an American politician and attorney who served as the United States Senator from Missouri from 2007 to 2019. She was the first woman elected to the Senate from Missouri. A member of the Democratic Party, McCaskill focused on issues such as healthcare, military support, and government accountability during her tenure in the Senate. She played a significant role in various legislative efforts and was known for her outspoken views on military contracting and defense spending.

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Jan 18, 2022

If Joe Biden had cognitive issues, they never would have let him call on Newsmax or FOX News.

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Jan 18, 2022

If he can, checkmate to Putin. But know what Putin is doing here. Putin's goal here is to try to reelect Donald Trump.

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Jan 16, 2022

I think Chuck is going to put the bill on the floor and he’s going to put extreme pressure on Joe and Kyrsten.

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Jan 5, 2022

I believe there is still enough people, if you take the folks out of the Republican Party that aren`t blindly loyal to him and you put them with the rest of the country, that`s still a majority.

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Jan 5, 2022

Well, you’re not going to get me to say it’s too late ever for America to come through this on the other side. I am just firmly rooted in the belief that there are enough people that rejected Donald Trump.

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Jan 5, 2022

He is the most dangerous leader our country has had in our lifetime, for sure, and maybe ever, because he doesn’t respect facts or truth.

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Jan 4, 2022

He knew what Donald Trump had on his mind. And that was overthrowing the will of the American people to try to stay in power.

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Jan 4, 2022

I think what the committee is doing is that they are strategically releasing the quiet part out loud.

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Jan 3, 2022

It is frightening when you really read the Constitution and realize that their plan could have worked if the Republicans had been in control of the House of Representatives.

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Jan 3, 2022

How can it be fair that Republican legislatures all over the country are trying to suppress voters with a simple majority. But yet, the Congress is not allowed to address those suppression efforts with the same simple majority.

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Dec 27, 2021

The failure of America to have free available rapid tests is really being shown right now. What happened, who dropped the ball on rapid cheap tests for America. I need the Biden administration to step up and fix that today.

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Dec 13, 2021

a lot of these Republican senators have hung their spines on the wall. And they have -- or they’re not showing the courage that, frankly, I thought many of them had to stand up to Donald Trump and what he did.

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Dec 13, 2021

I think they`re being very systematic about this. I`m impressed at the discipline of this committee.

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Dec 13, 2021

I think it will. But, honestly, Joy, is it a shock? I mean, these guys are all hiding under their desks. They’re all afraid of Donald Trump in a primary.

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Dec 7, 2021

What Joe Biden is trying to do, Ari, is win the voters that control general elections in states that are going to matter in terms of holding the Senate and in the suburbs that are going to matter in terms of whether or not the Republicans…

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Dec 7, 2021

Putin wants Trump back in there. He loves Donald Trump as president United States. Putin has his way with Donald Trump and all those Republican senators that are gnashing their teeth about this know that.

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Dec 7, 2021

I guarantee you this. Kevin McCarthy, when he lays his head down in the middle of the night, you know what he`s praying for? He`s not just praying that he can take over the House. He`s praying that he does it by a big enough margin that he…

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Dec 7, 2021

The other guy, the former guy, had trouble with where the Kansas City Chiefs were. He thought they were in Kansas, but Biden understood he was in Missouri today.

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Dec 7, 2021

If they don’t get it through. Mitch McConnell and maybe Donald Trump as speaker of the House are in charge.

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Dec 7, 2021

I agree with the view that Dan Crenshaw is pot calling kettle black, because he has not exactly been a guy standing up to the big lie and other extreme nonsense that has got the Republican Party in its grip.

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Dec 7, 2021

It`s pretty damn high. You know, here`s the thing, the federal government -- to use a phrase, Brian, that you might recall from your earliest time in television in Joplin, Missouri. The Feds move like molasses in January, they are so slow.

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Dec 1, 2021

Move it. My message to the Department of Justice is get on it. Do not act like feds here. Act like state prosecutors. Go fast. Do not take the time.

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Dec 1, 2021

A former Justice Department official that was not only very high. He was plotting a coup to take over the Justice Department, to take over the government, to basically wipe out the will of the American people in a free and fair election.

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Dec 1, 2021

I was a pro-choice senator that won statewide elections time after time in this state. They are not going to accept the in vitro fertilization is illegal in Missouri, or the morning after pill or exceptions for rape and incest, which they…

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Nov 30, 2021

I think there needs to be a rule. It’s a pretty basic rule. You can’t trash the vaccine if you’ve taken it. End of discussion.

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