Chuck Schumer: “When I even sat with the president yesterday and explained…”

“You have a good number of Senate Republicans and House Republicans, as was mentioned, when they talk to us privately, they say this is untenable. When I even sat with the president yesterday and explained to him about this, he said, oh, that's bad. That'll hurt me. So the bottom line is the American people are making their voices known to the Republicans, and that's what we know is going to happen.” (15:40–15:46)

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