Brian Baird: “The reality is had 20 Members of the Republican conference been killed that day... the balance of power in the House of…”

If people in the congressional -- in Congress say that in some ways they are morally superior and they would never abuse something or that the laws should not apply to them, well, we've got a serious problem on our hand.

I feel compelled to be a part of the solution of an imminent threat to our democracy and really the future of our country and every American citizen.

If you don't provide some mechanism for that to happen in times of crisis... you are essentially potentially abdicating the Article I branch responsibilities.

I think it was willful, intentional, and part of a longer pattern that is quite troubling.