Claire McCaskill

I think I felt vulnerability, emotional vulnerability. And I think that was an overriding sense in this country in the days after the attack.

And that obviously, is a very dark mark against the American values that most of us, I think, would like to think that we still hold on to in this country.

But that`s something that this country was willing to embrace, because of the fear and vulnerability they felt as a result of those attacks.

I don`t think there`s any question that the fear and the desire to show dominance played into policy decisions that were made in the years, weeks, months following 9/11.

Now, this Republican Party only has two things it cares about. It wants to make sure that people who don’t agree with them can’t vote, and it wants to incite culture wars.

It was time for this to end, and Joe Biden had the courage to do it.

I think they have done a remarkable job. And we`ll continue to do that.

You know, Kevin McCarthy is so fricking hypocritical. While Donald Trump was moseying up to the Taliban and making a deal with the Taliban and signaling to the Afghan people that America was no longer going to stand behind the Afghan…

Exhibit A about how the policy in Afghanistan was a failure is how quickly the Taliban took over. I mean, keep in mind, we`ve spent over $2 trillion there and trained over 300,000 Afghans to fight for their country and to fight for the…

Yes, it`s kind of ironic people are saying, well, he should have quietly evacuated. You don`t quietly evacuate several 100,000 people without the Taliban and others on the ground knowing what`s going on.

I think it was selfish and wrong. And I think they knew it when they did it.

I just -- I read this letter a bunch yesterday when it came out, and I just kind of took my breath away.

I have one question to the lawyers of America. Are we going to let this guy continue practice law?

One is the Republican Party is shrinking. And there is a chunk of the Republican Party that agrees with was Cheney and agrees with Congressman Kinzinger.

There were so many ugly things that Donald Trump brought out of this country. Maybe today we saw the ugliest.

And I think this testimony today just absolutely augmented the visuals we`ve all seen but those visuals will continue to be the most powerful way American will remember what Donald Trump tried to do to America on that day.

I think Nancy Pelosi has a tough decision. She has six Republicans. Three of them did not vote to overturn the people’s will, and three of them did.

I think that would be a bigger danger if we didn’t have all the video.

I think the American people, maybe not the Trump voters, but keep in mind that is a -- not a huge percentage of America at this point.

Those images are permanent in people’s minds.

Speaker Pelosi has a choice now here of accepting Jim Jordan and Congressman Banks and all of these other insurrectionists on the commission, or saying absolutely no.

I think most independent voters, most voters that decide swing districts and swing states are going to come down on Liz Cheney’s side, not on Jim Jordan’s side.

And we cannot allow there to be someone in that office that abused power the way he did.

This was Trump’s vaccine until he left office.

I do think that we forget. And as somebody who was honored to work with both General McCaffrey and many other generals during my time in the United States Senate, I got to tell you that when they started cleaning out the professionals at…