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Chris Murphy: “I saw that list of all these billionaires and companies that…”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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… to the bully, the bully just gets hungrier, and they're putting the rest of our rights at risk. And so this is a moment where everybody's got to stand up. I saw that list of all these billionaires and companies that were going to finance the new Trump Ballroom at the White House. Right. So. But this is an example of what the problem is. And we need all of those organizations, those businesses, to say, our democracy. That's right, means more to us than. (30:48–30:54)

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Asserts that billionaires and companies are financing a new Trump Ballroom at the White House.

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