Russ Feingold: “is there a speaker designated to go next? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa is previously designated to…”

You may apply a legal standard to whether or not you should recuse yourself, but it's her decision. There's no appeal from it. She's not mandated to do it or not do it.

What I fear is, what they see is a what looks like a perfectly normal hearing. It looks like one, but it's not. It's based on a completely illicit a power grab to jam through a nominee right in the middle of an election at a time that has…

I recommend Sarah Margon as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.

I don't think there's any question. They were egging each other on. It would have taken very little for somebody to try to up the ante and actually hang Mike Pence or kill somebody who they could get their hands on.