This is a very healthy discussion. I hope we have a lot of listeners and viewers, because this is a conversation that we must have.

I was very, very disappointed last evening to see President Trump use the precious real estate of the White House as a political backdrop for his reelection.

I hope that I am here long enough to see the day that you will have full voting rights in the Congress of the United States.

I suggest today that Democrats are engaged in what I would like to call strategic planning.

We do not need 500 people on the floor at one time. We don't need 50 people on the floor at one time.

We are in the middle now of a societal reckoning right here in our country, something that is long overdue.

I share the views of all of you that we must pay more attention to the needs of Indian country and I will certainly do my part.

Competition is valuable.

The ability for virtually anyone to post thoughts and pictures and videos to social media has shed many of the systemic injustices and disparities that exist both in our country and around the world.

It is now well-established that in 2016 foreign actors targeted the African-American community by way of social media in efforts to keep African Americans from voting in the presidential election.

Further, in the midst of a pandemic that disproportionately impacts communities of color, falsehoods have been spread from all--from our own president about the virus's treatment and testing and origins, deepening already existing divides and putting the public's health at considerable risk.