At a Senate Democratic press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) spoke about what she said to Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) about his tweets on a shooting in Minnesota.
00:00In that vein, taking the temperature down, Senator Lee took down his tweets related to the shooting.
00:06He said he had a conversation with you about that.
00:08Is there any insight you can provide?
00:10Do you feel better about the direction this is headed after that conversation?
00:13Other than Senator Schumer is going to have me talk to Senator Lee about things in the future.
00:18Senator Lee, I told him what I've said publicly, that this isn't one bit funny for my state.
00:24They spent the weekend, many of them, locked in their homes in certain areas, depending on where they thought that the murderer went.
00:33For many, Melissa Hortman and her husband were beloved.
00:38Republicans in our state have come out very strong against this violence.
00:43And, in fact, Congressman Emmer and I led a bipartisan statement of every single member of our delegation decrying this violence, calling it politically motivated.
00:53And saying there's no place for this in our politics.
00:56So, Senator Lee and I had a good discussion, and I'm very glad he took it down.
01:00And I also thank my colleague, Senator Smith, for also speaking out on this.
01:06Did he seem remorseful or contrite?
01:08Okay, I'm not going to go into our discussion, or I wouldn't be able to get things done.
01:12But I will just say he took it down.
01:14And let me just say one final thing in augmentation of what Amy said.
01:19The increase in violence, the threats of violence against members, didn't happen by accident.
01:26It happened because of the coarseness of the debate, but beyond that, the kind of rhetoric that we hear some in the hard right use,
01:35which at least some people think gives them a permission structure to do very evil things.
01:40Mr. Mayor Bradley, is there any time on Bradley?
