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LEAHY: “What we ought be doing is focusing on those Republican senators, especially the ones who are up for re-election who have not -- who are not keeping their words, who supported the hiring of Merrick Garland and do something about them. What we ought to be doing is focusing on that and focusing on the fact that Republicans have blocked any help for COVID victims, blocking any help for the people out of work now, who are blocking the kind of things we need to do this fall. Because they’re hell-bent on making a political statement with the Supreme Court, even though that’s going to damage the Supreme Court for generations to come. Whether you expand the court or not, what you’re saying is this is a political ploy. If you want to go to a federal court, you better —" [computer rings]
KORNACKI: "Yep, I think -- I think the senator got a phone call right there. This is what happens in the age of television and COVID. We will try to re-establish that. But looks like we may have lost that interview there. But Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat from Vermont, thank him for joining us."