During a press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was asked about Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate selection and more.
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00:00Would Mark Kelly be a strong vice presidential running mate for Kamala Harris, and if he was elected vice president, would it affect their ability to hold the seat in 2026, 2020?
00:12I think I have total confidence that Vice President Harris will choose a great vice presidential candidate.
00:20Do you have any concerns that a potential Kelly selection could put a swing seat at risk of trying to hold the seat?
00:28I have complete faith in Vice President Harris's choice.
00:32On the NDAA, do you plan to put it up for a vote before the election?
00:36Look, we want to get the NDAA done. It's complicated by the fact that the House filled their NDAA bill with huge numbers of poison pills and other things designed to defeat it.
00:47There are certain provisions in that bill that put the whole thing down.
00:50And so we're looking at it very carefully, and we want to get it done for sure by the end of the year.
00:56If Vice President Harris were elected president, I'm sure he would argue that there could be a majority.
01:00Do you anticipate giving the Sinema-Murphy plan for a border bill another shot at voting?
01:05Well, look, that bill was a great bill.
01:07It showed that Democrats want to be tough on border.
01:10It also showed that Republicans really don't care about the border.
01:14They much prefer to make it a political issue.
01:17The bill that was supported by the Wall Street Journal editorial page, the border patrol guards, and lots of Republicans when they saw it before Donald Trump said he didn't want it to pass because he wanted chaos to win the election, we think that's a winning issue for us.
01:31So certainly we're going to have to deal with the border when Vice President Harris becomes President Harris, Schumer stays as Majority Leader, and Jeffries becomes the Speaker.
01:44If you are in fact Majority Leader and Harris is elected, will you renew your push to remove the legislative filibuster?
01:50Look, we're going to – there are lots of things we want to get done.
01:53I'm not going to speculate into the future, but we are going to have as productive, even a more productive two years should that happen than we had in the previous two.
02:03Thank you, everybody.
02:08We got the gold in gymnastics.
02:10Our Americans will be fine.