Senator Chris Murphy

We can understand how our really good ideas that just sort of toy with the margins of the existing marketplace don't inspire people. I like the fact that we are through Medicare prescription drug prices, but that really falls cold with a lot of folks. We should just cap prescription drug prices. We should just say that nobody should pay more than X for these drugs.

We can understand how our really good ideas that just sort of toy with the margins of the existing marketplace don't inspire people. I like the fact that we are through Medicare prescription drug prices, but that really falls cold with a lot of folks. We should just cap prescription drug prices. We should just say that nobody should pay more than X for these drugs.

25 super important drugs, we should just say that your rent can't increase by more than X percentage a year, that credit card fees can't go higher than this number. I think we just need to be engaged in sort of more broadside frontal assaults on the existing marketplace, have bolder economic reform ideas, and maybe think about having a better diversity of candidate backgrounds.

25 super important drugs, we should just say that your rent can't increase by more than X percentage a year, that credit card fees can't go higher than this number. I think we just need to be engaged in sort of more broadside frontal assaults on the existing marketplace, have bolder economic reform ideas, and maybe think about having a better diversity of candidate backgrounds.

I didn't know that you did the Oxford program.

I didn't know that you did the Oxford program.

Yeah, I mean, listen, Oxford is known as breeding populist revolts, right? That's where it all starts.

Yeah, I mean, listen, Oxford is known as breeding populist revolts, right? That's where it all starts.

Just walking over to my office for this interview, I was having that exact conversation with Elizabeth Warren as we were talking about the fact that they are two different messages, right? There is a billionaire cabinet being assembled right now, right? Greater wealth in 169 countries. This is the kleptocracy being constructed right in front of our eyes.

Just walking over to my office for this interview, I was having that exact conversation with Elizabeth Warren as we were talking about the fact that they are two different messages, right? There is a billionaire cabinet being assembled right now, right? Greater wealth in 169 countries. This is the kleptocracy being constructed right in front of our eyes.

People who are going into these agencies to steal. steal for their friends. But that's a little different argument than the argument against Kash Patel, right? Kash Patel is being put into the FBI in order to destroy our democracy, in order to make people bear a punishment for political dissent. Neither of those things is super popular.

People who are going into these agencies to steal. steal for their friends. But that's a little different argument than the argument against Kash Patel, right? Kash Patel is being put into the FBI in order to destroy our democracy, in order to make people bear a punishment for political dissent. Neither of those things is super popular.

If I had to pick, I think it's more important to sort of make people understand that this oligarchy that is being constructed is real and that this fake populism that Trump ran on is indeed illusory. So I think it's probably more important to spend time

If I had to pick, I think it's more important to sort of make people understand that this oligarchy that is being constructed is real and that this fake populism that Trump ran on is indeed illusory. So I think it's probably more important to spend time

Talking about the billionaire takeover of government because that is real that is happening But I I think you've got to be able to walk and chew gum I also think that we should raise as loud as we can what is happening at DOJ and the FBI and this is where I I I'm a little worried about where our party is.

Talking about the billionaire takeover of government because that is real that is happening But I I think you've got to be able to walk and chew gum I also think that we should raise as loud as we can what is happening at DOJ and the FBI and this is where I I I'm a little worried about where our party is.

I think we are still giving them more credit than they deserve I think Democrats don't really believe that Some of our colleagues are going to be in jail six months from now I don't think they understand how the media is as we speak starting to fold Under Trump's pressure and so I would love us to kind of raise the temperature on the threats to democracy I don't think we're over stating the case.

I think we are still giving them more credit than they deserve I think Democrats don't really believe that Some of our colleagues are going to be in jail six months from now I don't think they understand how the media is as we speak starting to fold Under Trump's pressure and so I would love us to kind of raise the temperature on the threats to democracy I don't think we're over stating the case.

But I think if we're kind of mild and milquetoast in the way that we talk about why Kash Patel is nominated or why Pam Bondi is nominated, then that argument falls pretty flat.

But I think if we're kind of mild and milquetoast in the way that we talk about why Kash Patel is nominated or why Pam Bondi is nominated, then that argument falls pretty flat.