Chris Murphy

as the leader of a nation or a civilization forever.

I mean, I do think it starts with empathy and less judgment. Take the issue of transgender athletes in sports. I think that the folks who oppose biological boys participating in girls' sports have a very understandable position and concern. And I think we don't act like that often. We judge them as bigots from the outset, and that essentially creates no room for conversation.

I mean, I do think it starts with empathy and less judgment. Take the issue of transgender athletes in sports. I think that the folks who oppose biological boys participating in girls' sports have a very understandable position and concern. And I think we don't act like that often. We judge them as bigots from the outset, and that essentially creates no room for conversation.

My feeling on this is that we would probably be better off with each individual jurisdiction, state, or school board and municipality being able to make up their mind for themselves. And that would allow for a community like West Hartford, Connecticut, to come to a different conclusion that another community might. It doesn't change my position on the issue.

My feeling on this is that we would probably be better off with each individual jurisdiction, state, or school board and municipality being able to make up their mind for themselves. And that would allow for a community like West Hartford, Connecticut, to come to a different conclusion that another community might. It doesn't change my position on the issue.

I don't have any fear of transgender athletes participating in sports.

I don't have any fear of transgender athletes participating in sports.

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

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.

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, but I would not substitute my judgment and my community's judgment for another community's judgment on the issue of the border and immigration. For me, it's a little different in the sense that I do think because that's unquestionably an issue that.

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, but I would not substitute my judgment and my community's judgment for another community's judgment on the issue of the border and immigration. For me, it's a little different in the sense that I do think because that's unquestionably an issue that.

that arrives at a need for national consensus. You can't just let every community decide for themselves because the border is where the border is. And the process to become an American citizen is a national process. There, I haven't been shy about it. I think the Democratic Party needs to reform its position. I think we have become wildly out of step

that arrives at a need for national consensus. You can't just let every community decide for themselves because the border is where the border is. And the process to become an American citizen is a national process. There, I haven't been shy about it. I think the Democratic Party needs to reform its position. I think we have become wildly out of step

with where the broad American public is, and for good reason. In a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-racial society, I think you have to have a very certain process by which somebody becomes a member of the whole, a member of the club, a member of the nation. Because it is hard to sort of hold together a melting pot. There are natural retreats to tribalism.

with where the broad American public is, and for good reason. In a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-racial society, I think you have to have a very certain process by which somebody becomes a member of the whole, a member of the club, a member of the nation. Because it is hard to sort of hold together a melting pot. There are natural retreats to tribalism.

And so when the rules become pretty murky about how you become a member of this team, this club, in an official sense, I think it makes it hard to keep the tensions at bay. So that's why I would argue that you should have a much more firm, much quicker resolution of asylum that happens at the border, right?

And so when the rules become pretty murky about how you become a member of this team, this club, in an official sense, I think it makes it hard to keep the tensions at bay. So that's why I would argue that you should have a much more firm, much quicker resolution of asylum that happens at the border, right?

rather than what we have today, which is folks coming into the country and waiting 10 years before they get an adjudication. I tried to pass that bill. I ultimately got, you know, most Democrats, but not all, to support it and only a handful of Republicans.