JUST IN: Chuck Schumer Reacts To GOP Outrage After Trump Guilty Verdict In Hush Money Case

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At a Senate Democratic press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer was asked about the conviction of former President Donald Trump.

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00:00Yes, Manu.

00:01Are you supporting Senator Menendez's independent bid to run for a Senate seat in New Jersey?

00:09Look, the primary is today, and I'm not even going to comment at this point.

00:12Leader Schumer, do you think that Democrats have a problem with the southern border and

00:15messaging ahead of 2024?

00:16I mean, Republicans have said that this is basically a charade by the Biden administration,

00:21this executive action.

00:22Look, the bottom line is that we all know what happened.

00:27Democrats supported a strong bipartisan bill.

00:31Republicans initially said this is a very strong, good bill.

00:34And then they turned around 180 degrees when Donald Trump was very explicit.

00:39He wanted the bill to fail to create chaos at the borders.

00:42Our preference is to have the Republicans join with us and support a strong bipartisan

00:51piece of legislation.

00:52Yes.

00:53After the Trump guilty verdict in Manhattan, some of your Republican colleagues are throwing

00:58around terms like kangaroo court, weaponization of justice.

01:02Do you have any concerns about what things will look like after the election and whether

01:07people will accept the results of the election?

01:09Look, it was — the jury has spoken in a process that jurors use throughout America,

01:15and Donald Trump has proven to be a felon, a convicted felon.

01:19Yes.

01:20Is there any update on when the Senate might vote on Senator Whitehouse's Supreme Court

01:25ethics bill?

01:26I'm talking to — look, first, Justice Roberts has been, in my opinion, not lived up to his

01:32responsibilities as chief justice.

01:34On issue after issue, he's supposed to be the guardian of the court's fairness and opinion,

01:39but on something near and dear to me, which is forum shopping, on ethics, on recusal.

01:45So, Senator Durbin and I and the Judiciary Committee are discussing the best ways to

01:50move forward.

01:51Yes.

01:52Are you going to try to meet with Speaker Johnson to try to negotiate some type of deal

01:56on border legislation?

01:58Look, as I said, the Republicans turned down bipartisan border legislation that they had

02:04already agreed to.

02:05They ought to change their minds and support our bill.

02:08If not, President Biden has moved forward because he prefers legislation, we prefer

02:15legislation.

02:16The Republicans are blocking it, and so Biden is moving forward.

02:19Yes.

02:20So, the House passed their tax cut bill.

02:23Senator Whitehouse supports it.

02:25Are you going to force a vote on that before the end of the summer to put people on record

02:29income?

02:30Look, I support the tax cut bill.

02:31It has a lot of good things in it.

02:33But we — right now, Senator Crapo and a lot of the Republicans are opposing it.

02:37We hope they'll change their minds.

02:39Thank you, everybody.

02:40Thank you, everybody.

02:41Thank you, everybody.

02:42Thank you, everybody.

02:43Thank you, everybody.

02:44Thank you, everybody.

02:45Thank you, everybody.

JUST IN: Chuck Schumer Reacts To GOP Outrage After Trump Guilty Verdict In Hush Money Case

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