Steve Israel: “What could have united Congress and those middle class and working families was progress on infrastructure.”

Well, look in an election where every single battleground state is virtually tied to the last voter, every single one, you, my party cant afford to leave a single vote on that razors edge. So we've got to go after every single voter.

If you don't pass both of these bills, the midterm is over, you're back in the minority.

Ronald Reagan has to be spinning in his grave at the prospect of the conservative movement that used to be the bulwark against tyranny in the world, giving the stage to a tyrant who endorses and supports Vladimir Putin.

The reality is out there that we all need to guard against this authoritarian effort, that is yes, born out of the Republican Party, unfortunately, but it is.