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Chris Murphy: “Mitch McConnell, right before we left for the break, we were…”

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

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Katie's One-on-One with Senator Chris Murphy

Published | Video Starts at 41:33

Right. Gone too far. Right. So there's. Republicans seem to have. A few seem to be getting a spinal transplant. Yeah, a few. A few. Mitch McConnell, right before we left for the break, we were going to offer an amendment to a pending bill that would stop [the weaponization] fund from going forward. And Republicans sent us all home because they did not want to vote on that amendment. They did not want to put their votes behind Trump's fund. (41:33–41:42)

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Asserts that an amendment was planned to stop the DOJ's weaponization fund, but Republicans avoided voting on it.

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