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  • 6/18/2025
At today's Senate Democratic leadership press briefing, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was asked about tomorrow's Senate hearing on former President Biden's cognitive abilities.
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00:00Thank you, Leader.
00:01Thank you, Ron.
00:02We'll take questions for any of us.
00:04Okay?
00:05Whoa!
00:06Go ahead, Sahil.
00:07Do you support Senator Kaine's resolution to require congressional approval for any U.S.
00:12involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict?
00:14I believe Congress and the Senate, Senate Democrats, if necessary, will not hesitate
00:21to exercise our authority.
00:23Yes?
00:24What do you make of the Republicans holding this hearing on President Biden's cognitive
00:28abilities tomorrow and talking about the 25th night?
00:31This is the kind of coarseness that America doesn't like.
00:35And they're just unrelenting in diversionary actions.
00:41This has nothing to do with cutting Medicaid costs, cutting Medicaid help, helping clean
00:51energy, keeping hungry kids fed.
00:54It's one of their many circus-like diversions that is a lot of sound and fury signifying
00:59nothing.
01:00Who wrote that?
01:01Who wrote that?
01:02Shakespeare.
01:03No.
01:04Sound and fury is from Shakespeare.
01:07Yeah, that's Shakespeare.
01:09I think it's William Faulkner.
01:11Shakespeare.
01:12He copied Shakespeare.
01:14So you get the question.
01:16Because I was thinking Faulkner.
01:18It's a trivia question.
01:19Faulkner is one of the great writers of all time.
01:22One of the greatest.
01:23Yoka Pataka.
01:24I can never say the county.
01:27He has a fictional county.
01:28Yoka Pataka.
01:29Yoka Pataka.
01:30Oh, she gets two.
01:31What?
01:32Go ahead.
01:33My question is about security.
01:34Yes.
01:35Yes.
01:36You spoke a little bit earlier to the reporter.
01:38But can you talk about the resources you think are needed?
01:41Yes.
01:42And how soon they can...
01:43Okay.
01:44First, we need...

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