The scenes of chaos of the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are. What we’re seeing are a small number of extremists dedicated to lawlessness. This is not dissent. It’s disorder. It’s chaos. It borders on…

Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.

Politics doesn`t have to be a raging fire, destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn`t have to be a cause for total war. And we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.

I am opposed to defunding the police. I`m also opposed to defunding the FBI.

he will make this distinction, mainstream Republicans, with that fringe, with that minority, albeit a potent one, of MAGA extreme Republicans who he will say are determined to take this country backwards.

This is a serious moment. This is a serious election coming up. There will be another one in 2024, one hopes. But the very process of our democracy and the peaceful transfer of power is threatened when one party, and a lot of one party…

so many elected Republicans still are very clearly under the thumb of the former president.

MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.

this is a president, though, who will try to express an optimistic tone, as I said, the White House saying that he really does still remain that congenital optimist who believes America`s best days are ahead of us.

You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection. You can’t be a party of law and order and call the people who attacked the police on January 6 patriots. You can’t do it.

Let me say this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress -- don’t tell me you support law enforcement if you won’t condemn what happened on the 6th. Don’t tell me. Can’t do it. For god’s sake, whose side are you on? Whose side are you on?

DOJ is guiding principle here is that it`s not supposed to take any action in its criminal cases or even in civil cases that could influence the outcome of an election.

You can`t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection.

The idea you turn on a television and see senior senators and congressman saying if such and such happens, they`ll be blood in the street. Where the hell are we?

There`s nothing that says that they can`t continue with a very aggressive -- aggressive investigation.

When I signed in the law, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the most significant gun safety law we passed in 30 years took 30 years. And the NRA and the vast majority of Congressional Republicans voted against it, saving lives and…

Let me say to this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress, don`t tell me you support law enforcement if you won`t condemn what happened on the 6th. Don`t tell me!

There`s no place in this country, no place for endangering the lives of law enforcement. No place! None, never, period.