Senator Chuck Schumer

The New Washington

The New York Times

News, Politics

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Democratic leader of the Senate is riding a political high, days after striking a deal with President Trump in the Oval Office on government funding and the debt limit, much to the chagrin of his Republican counterparts. He spoke with Carl Hulse about how the whole thing went down and what it might mean for the future of bipartisan governing.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, this is the new Washington.
0:03.4	I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:05.1	Today, Senator Chuck Schuhler.
0:08.2	Once you lose an election like that, you look at straight in the eye, you don't flinch, you don't blink. I am not afraid of Donald
0:15.8	Trump. I am not afraid of the Republicans. 52% of Americans don't know what we stand for.
0:21.8	That changes today.
0:23.6	This executive order was mean spirited.
0:27.8	It's morally wrong to play a political game
0:31.2	with the health care of this country.
0:33.0	For the two parties to work together to do the country's business
0:37.0	rather than engage in needless spring ship.
0:40.0	Yesterday's agreement is a ray of hope.
0:44.0	So one of my favorites with pictures,
0:49.0	they found an original portrait of Henry Clay in Leroy, New York in a schoolhouse.
0:57.0	And I agreed to send it here.
1:00.0	As Tom Carper walks by and I say, you know, Tom Carper, you look like Henry Clay.
1:05.0	Picture.
1:07.0	He's related.
1:08.0	Oh my God, you could really see it, huh?
1:10.0	Carl Hall's, who did you talk to this week?
1:12.0	Chuck Schumer, the senior Democratic Senator from New York,
1:17.0	and the Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate.
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