Emanuel Cleaver actually said...

"The Nation is facing a steady and dramatic decline in available and affordable housing, period, certainly multifamily housing is included."

"Do you think that these trade wars have ever worked? Discuss Smoot-Hawley, 1930. Did that work?"

"Do you also agree then that Smoot-Hawley, based on economist, your people that you would respect, agree that it was the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 that created less confidence in the markets?"

"OK, so if I hit Al Green with my fist, we are not really in a fight, we are in negotiations?"