Claire McCaskill

We have more people in ICU units in the hospital now in Missouri that we had a year ago. And that is primarily because of the failure of the Republicans in this state to take it seriously.

Our governor has really been a problem. We never had any kind of mask mandate that was real. He continues to not even encourage people to get the vaccine.

I will give Roy Blunt credit. He was out today and said the vaccine is safe. I took it the first day I could.

Kyrsten Sinema is more popular in Arizona than Joe Biden right now. And that should tell you that there is a middle still in America.

The fact that this guy is proud of doing a fundraiser, a sitting Congressman, is proud of doing a fundraiser with a Nazi sympathizer shows you how far they have fallen.

If somebody would have told me when I came to the United States Senate in 2007 that in a mere short 13 years, the Republican Party's Big Tent would be catering to Holocaust deniers, Nazi sympathizers, and white supremacists, I would say…

But just keep in mind, if Chuck Schumer does this over and over again and he adds in gun safety, and he adds in some things like help with day care and elder care and he adds in infrastructure and things like that, if he does that and the…

The fig leaf they`re going to try it out, is we don`t want the federal government taking over our elections. Meanwhile, Republicans all over the country are removing local control of elections.

They are hiding behind Mitch McConnell and the important now -- the all important, the all incumbency policy position of the Republican Party, we can only win if we keep you from voting.

if Chuck Schumer does this over and over again and he adds in gun safety, and he adds in some things like help with day care and elder care and he adds in infrastructure and things like that, if he does that and the Republicans continue to…

Well, never say never. I think there is some reform that they would consider.

Repetition is the best friend of political success. And what you’re going to see the Democrats do over and over again is continue to emphasize that the Republicans will not work with them on the things that America wants.

Well, it was no Helsinki. And Americans, I think, who are paying attention are relieved tonight, that we have a president on the world stage both at the G7 and in today`s meetings with Putin that firmly put his foot down on behalf of them…

I thought it was managed very well. As you know, Brian, a lot of this is how they manage the images, how the images are portrayed, and whoever figured out that they needed to get Putin by himself in front of a free press. That was good.

If they`re telling the truth, which, hopefully, the congressional investigation will find out, then we have people in the Department of Justice that did this without the sign-off of the top levels of the Department of Justice.

This is about the fundamentals of our Constitution, in terms of protecting the equal branches of government.

Well, I certainly am really concerned that these laws are being passed at breakneck speed in states across the country.

What is really astounding about this moment in the Republican Party is their complete attack on the rule of law.

Even if the filibuster was gone, there are not the votes to pass it.

I am not optimistic for the Republican Party long term, because I just don’t believe you end up with long-term political success if your most important principle of your party, more important than any policy, is like, we got to make sure…

They don`t think they can win on the merits. They`ve got to figure out a way keep other people from voting that, no, they don`t have any merit.

Well, I think that what is going on at the state level, I mean, one of the dirty little secrets about our democracy is that so many of us don`t pay enough attention to what goes on in state legislative races.

What these state legislatures are doing is they’re trying to strip the secretaries of state in their respective jurisdictions of their power to administer elections, that oath to wake up Joe Manchin, that this is very serious, this is a…

Oh, yeah. You know, I mean, frankly, when he started lying about the election months before the election occurred, when he started conditioning his followers to believe and getting the cable news networks that parrot his propaganda to…

Well, first, I would say it’s probably not early, typically, a grand jury is not called until most of the investigation is completed. This is about presenting evidence to the grand jury and taking some testimony in all likelihood. But…