"there is no incentive for the President to want accountability by having a fully seated, fully functioning FEC because he might be held accountable"
"I represent El Paso, Texas, which has been on the front line of many of the Trump administration's policies, like MPP, like family separation."
"It's this idea that certain people don't deserve justice. We just want to kind of get rid of the cases and move along."
"the idea that the President has cooperated, that is the claim that is actually absurd."
"If a governor... conditions giving the aid to the community on the police chief smearing his political opponent, has there been a crime? The answer is yes, and that governor would go to jail."
"It is clear as day. We have seen it with our own eyes. We have heard it with our own ears. Facts matter."
"I want to break this down in simple terms for the American public because our Republicans colleagues are working overtime to try to convince us that we didn't see what we saw with our own eyes, and we..."
"In moments of great tragedy Americans have always found a way to come together and to be unified, not as Republicans, not as Democrats, but as Americans."
"That is distressing to me as an American."
"I think what is equally distressing to me is to hear that a NATO ally was about to run roughshod over American troops."
"I think this is an important point to me. Not even as a Member of Congress, but as an American, to know that we have troops that have been working side by side with allies."