Chris Murphy

I don't have girls, right? So I necessarily can't, right? I can't put myself in that position.

I mean, I've talked to lots of parents of girls in Connecticut who do not think it's unfair and who think that the benefits that those athletes get from being part of a team is important and they don't mind or feel threatened by the competition.

I mean, I've talked to lots of parents of girls in Connecticut who do not think it's unfair and who think that the benefits that those athletes get from being part of a team is important and they don't mind or feel threatened by the competition.

I mean, I've talked to lots of parents of girls in Connecticut who do not think it's unfair and who think that the benefits that those athletes get from being part of a team is important and they don't mind or feel threatened by the competition.

It's just you're saying you don't. Yes, my conclusion is that I would support those athletes being able to participate in my community, right, in my community. But I but I would not substitute my judgment and my community's judgment for another community's judgment.

It's just you're saying you don't. Yes, my conclusion is that I would support those athletes being able to participate in my community, right, in my community. But I but I would not substitute my judgment and my community's judgment for another community's judgment.

It's just you're saying you don't. Yes, my conclusion is that I would support those athletes being able to participate in my community, right, in my community. But I but I would not substitute my judgment and my community's judgment for another community's judgment.

Do you think that they were were they actively covering it up? Were they sort of in denial or was it or is it or was that just a bad debate? Like, what is your read on that?

Do you think that they were were they actively covering it up? Were they sort of in denial or was it or is it or was that just a bad debate? Like, what is your read on that?

Do you think that they were were they actively covering it up? Were they sort of in denial or was it or is it or was that just a bad debate? Like, what is your read on that?

Well, it means you knew that it was really bad and you're pretending otherwise versus you're deluding yourself, which I think is what people do a lot.

Well, it means you knew that it was really bad and you're pretending otherwise versus you're deluding yourself, which I think is what people do a lot.

Well, it means you knew that it was really bad and you're pretending otherwise versus you're deluding yourself, which I think is what people do a lot.

I'm in what they call my hideaway office. So I'm in the basement of the Capitol right now. You may hear some bells going off here during our conversation as the votes for the day get

I'm in what they call my hideaway office. So I'm in the basement of the Capitol right now. You may hear some bells going off here during our conversation as the votes for the day get

I don't know that anyone was ready for Trump in his second term. I think there was an assumption both in the public and within the Democratic Party that Trump 2 would look very much like Trump 1, that it'd be a lot of rhetoric and bluster, but it wouldn't be matched with actual action. Things have gone very different than the public imagined and that the party imagined.

I don't know that anyone was ready for Trump in his second term. I think there was an assumption both in the public and within the Democratic Party that Trump 2 would look very much like Trump 1, that it'd be a lot of rhetoric and bluster, but it wouldn't be matched with actual action. Things have gone very different than the public imagined and that the party imagined.

Trump, from day one, began to wage a very coordinated, thoughtful assault on the rule of law in order to enable the transfer of our government from democracy into some form of quasi-democracy to put his billionaire friends in charge. And I just don't know that the Democratic Party was ready.

Trump, from day one, began to wage a very coordinated, thoughtful assault on the rule of law in order to enable the transfer of our government from democracy into some form of quasi-democracy to put his billionaire friends in charge. And I just don't know that the Democratic Party was ready.

And I think even to this day, a lot of folks in the party still think this is politics as normal, still think that we're really not. at risk of losing our democracy, that we're going to have an election in 2026, and that if we just continue to push his approval ratings down bit by bit, that everything will turn out okay.