The suburbs are already moving away from Trump electorally because of his behavior, because of his actions, because of his incompetence.

I think their power is diminished because of their internal and external problems. But the - the anti-groups are so much stronger than they were when I started Congress 17 years ago, and even five years ago.

Inaction is not acceptable. And so, the President could ignore this at his peril, Republicans can ignore it at their peril.

I actually think economics is going to be a huge issue, and I think Trump's making a big mistake. Vast majority of the people in the country are still living paycheck to paycheck, about 75 percent.

I think parents, kids are afraid to go to school. I'm - I'm hearing that from a lot of people I know. They're afraid to go out.

It's the President of the United States.

No - no question. This has been the strategy for the 17 years I've been in Congress, and long before that. Slow-walk it, Potomac two-step, hey let's have a conversation about it, hey let's have a conversation about something else…

I think it started to accumulate. And then what happened last week when people went to bed on Saturday night, heartbroken about El Paso and went to sleep and woke up and their phone alerts were telling them about Dayton, Ohio, I think that…

Yes, I think we have to be skeptical, which is why we're here. We think we need to put the political pressure not only on Mitch McConnell and his home state, but also other Republican senators around the country.

We've got to keep the focus on it. So, if you want to have an honest conversation about red flags, I think that's an important step that we can all take in a bipartisan way, but we've got to go further than that.

To my knowledge, this promise has not yet been fulfilled either. And so now is the time for the Department to make good on its commitments.

There is no doubt the missile defense--that missile threats are increasing quantitatively and qualitatively.