-I have made this sort of my first question
to every senator who's running for President
because you are now -- you're still a senator.
And you're working with a lot of colleagues
who also want to be President.
-Yes. -Is it awkward?
-But you don't want to be President?
-No. So it must be nice for you
to finally sit and talk to somebody.
-Yes. But, you know, we are all friends,
as opposed to who is in the White House right now.
-Yes.
-And so actually when you look at it, I have got -- let's see.
Elizabeth and Bernie and I are in leadership.
Michael Bennet -- I have been to his house a lot.
Friends.
I'm emceeing this softball game
that Kirsten is pitching next week.
And then Kamala and Cory and I served together on Judiciary
and after that, Kavanaugh hearing.
That is a bond that we will never break.
-Yeah, there you go. You've been through something.
And then it will be interesting, certainly.
The debates are coming up in about two weeks.
It must be an interesting moment to actually get out there
and be able to talk about your position
with some of your other competition.
-It is, because this is a moment, especially for someone
like me from a state that's a little smaller
in the middle of the country,
for me to tell people what I'm all about,
that I think that we need to bring the heart back
to American politics.
We need to bring people together
and not wake up every day to a mean tweet, right?
-Yeah.
-That we need to start talking about
things that matter to people --
bringing down the cost of prescription drugs,
doing something about the cost of college,
finally moving ahead on climate change and immigration reform.
And it gives me that moment to talk about what I stand for
and how we can have a better America right now.
-That would be exciting to watch.
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You don't have to say.
There is a Wednesday and Thursday,
and it's sort of a random draw.
Do you have a preference?
Would you rather be -- -I don't know.
I think I -- We'll just see what happens.
-Yeah, we'll see what happens.
You don't want to say Wednesday and then all of a sudden,
you're a Thursday.
-Right. And then it's already a loss.
-Yeah, exactly.
-I just know I'm ahead of 18 people right now.
That's pretty good. -You're ahead of 18 people?
-Yeah, that's right. -That's really exciting.
-Yeah, glass half full. -Yeah, glass half full.
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I do want to talk about sort of some of the broader issues
that affect everyday Americans, but there's this other,
and many people say maybe this is a distraction from that.
But you haven't spoken out as far as where --
how you feel about impeachment.
I don't want to put words in your mouth.
But you were a former prosecutor.
So having looked at this evidence,
what is your take on it so far?
-Well, I think that there could be impeachment.
And I personally -- if the impeachment --
when I look at this evidence, I see impeachment.
However, I think the House right now has to be able
to finish their investigation, right?
They're starting to call witnesses.
They have one coming before them.
That's really important.
But the other piece of this that we have to be doing
at the same time is to look at that Mueller report
and all of the allegations about what Russia did.
And right now, as you pointed out earlier in the show,
you got a guy in the White House who is basically saying,
"Come on, foreign agents, give me some dirt on my opponent."
That is what he said in that interview.
And that is what we most fear.
And I know this personally.
I've been trying to pass this bill to at least
get some backup paper ballots and audits.
And it's a bipartisan bill.
And the White House stopped it its tracks.
And now I know why.
I mean, he doesn't care what happens in this election
except he wants to win, and he'll do anything to do it.
And I think Americans
have got to understand exactly what went on
so that we can stop it from happening again.
-The other thing is -- [ Cheers and applause ]
There's a lot of distractions.
And I know you have made --
infrastructure was one of the first things
you announced on your platform.
The President -- I feel terrible for him --
10 times he's had an infrastructure week.
And it's gotten derailed and something's happened.
And they've ended up being very empty infrastructure weeks.
-As in no infrastructure.
-There's literally no infrastructure.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
Can you explain to people, like, the importance of this
and sort of also how the current administration
is just using it as a word that means nothing?
-Exactly.
I think he says it because it sounds good.
He said it on election night. I remember that.
And now nothing has happened.
The latest is he had the leaders over.
And then he blew up when they said,
"Well, how are you gonna pay for it?"
And that was the end of it. We never heard about it again.
-That is a famous sore spot him.
"How are you gonna pay for something?"
-Exactly.
-So they should have known better, yeah.
-Because he just keeps adding debt.
-And he has also personal money trouble.
-Okay, then. There you go.
Okay, so why is it important?
Well, first of all, you hear about this rural/urban divide.
Well, how are we gonna bridge it if you can't e-mail your mom
in a small rural town
because the broadband doesn't work, right?
So the idea is that we put -- I proposed a trillion dollars.
And I have exactly how I'm gonna pay for it,
like bringing back some of those corporate tax cuts.
Every point it goes down is $100 billion.
And it can go for things like our crumbling schools.
They didn't have heat in some of the schools in Baltimore.
Transit, green infrastructure,
making sure our bridges and our roads are working.
Putting this money into infrastructure
to bring America together.
This has always been a bipartisan issue.
So I think it's a good way to start.
And I have had the experience.
I think I've had now 100 bills
that have passed where I am the lead Democrat.
I think experience does matter. -Yeah.
-You can actually get something done
because we got a guy in the White House right now
who had no experience coming in there.
And we can get things like this done.
And it is, to me, one of the biggest hypocrisies
that he started his term
by saying this was something he wanted to do.
And he has not done anything.
-Well, I'm certainly looking forward to hearing more from you
in a couple of weeks, be it on a Wednesday or Thursday.
And thanks so much for being here.
-Okay, thank you. Thank you for having me.
-Senator Amy Klobuchar.