1 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: This is the rotunda of the capital of the United States. 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 1: From my perspective, this is the most beautiful building in 3 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 1: our country. It is a staggering place to walk into, 4 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: a place that is the citadel of our democracy, built 5 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: by slaves, that tells the whole unfolding story of America's 6 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: civilization in the advancements of human dignity and human freedom. 7 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 1: This is as sacred a space as there is in 8 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: this country. It is a place that deserves to be 9 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: honored and deserves to be respected. It is a place 10 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: where any true patriot who walks into it is odd 11 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: awed by the achievements, humbled by the failures of our ancestors. 12 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 1: It's a place that inspires commitment, commitment to do better, 13 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: to build, to create, to strengthen, to make our democracy 14 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: stronger and more just as we hand it down to 15 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:37,039 Speaker 1: our children and their children and on down from that. 16 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: Within sacred spaces, we require elementary decorum, and decorum is 17 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: appropriate in places like the United States House of Representatives 18 00:01:55,640 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: and the floor of the United States Senate. Chuck Schumer, 19 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: in this climate, has made the decision when the institution 20 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: is under threat from attax on its dignity and its 21 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: decorum from insurrectionists who wait outside the gates, waiting to 22 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: storm the Capitol again to dismantle the United States government 23 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 1: in the service of our first dictator, Donald Trump. In 24 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: this environment when trust has collapsed between the American people 25 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: in very nearly every institution you can think to name, 26 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 1: it was Chuck Schumer who decided now was the moment 27 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,639 Speaker 1: to get rid of the Senate's dress code to allow 28 00:02:54,200 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: for this presiding over the United States Senate. Let me 29 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 1: be clear about something. This is a disgrace and it 30 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:18,679 Speaker 1: is terrible, terrible politics. Let's understand something, and I'll go 31 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 1: through this very slowly, so Chuck Schumer, should he see this, 32 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 1: can understand it. Who exactly is it within the Republican 33 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: Party who might be the people who are most vulnerable 34 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: to leaving the Republican Party in voting, maybe for the 35 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: first time in their lives for a Democrat. What might 36 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: drive those people over to the Democratic side. What issue 37 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: is it that could attract them? Is it? Is it 38 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's economic agenda? Is is it Hunter Biden's felony conviction? 39 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: The issue that would attract those people is that the 40 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: Democratic Party is seen as the institution defending America's democratic institutions. 41 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: That understands the dignity, the respect, this sacredness with which 42 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: millions of us hold these institutions. This has nothing to 43 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: do with Republican hypocrisy. This has to do with Chuck 44 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 1: Schumer's terrible political judgment and not understanding that for tens 45 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:57,160 Speaker 1: of millions of people, we look at this, we look 46 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: at John Fetterman, and we say, Senator, you are dressed 47 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:09,599 Speaker 1: like a pig. How dare you? You were elected? What 48 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: an honor? And particularly for you, who were shown such 49 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 1: great beneficence and empathy by so many millions of people 50 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 1: in this country, how dare you stand on the floor 51 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: of the United States Senate dressed like a child, dressed 52 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: like you have contempt for the American Constitution? Is that 53 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: how you would dress for a funeral? Is that how 54 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: you would dress for a meeting with the President of 55 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: the United States? If it is, please understand this. You're 56 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: a big part of the problem because you don't understand 57 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: a very simple concept respect. That's why you wear a 58 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: suit on the floor of the United States Senate. It's 59 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 1: why you wear a suit if you go to work 60 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: in the West wing of the White house. You know why, 61 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: because you owe it to the people you work for, 62 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: the American people. Chuck Schumer's decision is appalling, and it 63 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: fits in perfectly with the narrative of lawlessness and disorder. 64 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: And you know who becomes the remedy to the lawlessness, 65 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 1: to the disorder, the guy who never ever ever appears 66 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: in anything of than a suit. And that suit projects 67 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: authority to millions of people who want an end to 68 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: what they see as a rig system and chaos where 69 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: there's one set of rules for the people at the 70 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: top and a different set of rules for everyone else. 71 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: But over and over and over again, the leaders, the 72 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: leaders of the Democratic Party like Chuck Schumer, run full 73 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: steam into a wall and knock themselves out. In the 74 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: price that the American people will pay for the political 75 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: incompetence is the loss of our democracy in the next 76 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: election if this party doesn't get its shit together relatively soon. 77 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: The President has told Democratic activists to relax, don't bed 78 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: at well, here's the deal. Seven years have passed since 79 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: Donald Trump came down the escalator. How's it going. How's 80 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: the extremist movement doing? Is it shrinking? Is it growing? 81 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: Is it menacing? Is it growling. Should the political party 82 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: that stands opposed to it do things that make it 83 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: harder for the extremist party or easier for them. How 84 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: about trying making it harder for them for a change. 85 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: How about being the institution that defends our institutions, that 86 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: defends their dignity, that defends and respects what they stand for. 87 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: This isn't a small issue. It's a big one. And 88 00:08:54,040 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 1: anybody who thinks that this doesn't drive people crazy, they're crazy. 89 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: Senator Fatterman, put on a suit. You're a United States Senator.