WILMINGTON, Del. – In case you missed it, Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Fox News Sunday with Bret Baier yesterday shortly before the announcement of a landmark framework on gun violence prevention legislation, where he praised the hearings into the January 6 insurrection and discussed President Biden’s record in the White House. You can see the whole interview here.
SENATOR CHRIS COONS: Look, I think what impressed me about those January 6th hearings, about the first hearing that I watched, was how clear and nonpartisan and thoughtful and directed it was… I think the point here has been to take a hard and clear-eyed look at what happened on January 6th and new evidence that they've uncovered about the role of the former president’s close advisors in how they shaped the events that led to that really critical moment in our modern American history. We've never had our Capitol stormed by Americans. We've never had an attempt through an insurrection, through a riot, to try and interrupt the peaceful transfer of power, and, Bret, right now I'm working with a bipartisan group of senators to try to make reforms to the Electoral Count Act to make it clear that Vice President Pence did the right thing on the night of January 6th—that no Vice President has the power, nor should they, to unilaterally overturn the will of the American people.
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SENATOR CHRIS COONS: As of now, it's my understanding that the president intends to seek a second term, and I understand why. His leadership on the world stage has been impressive. He's just returned from a successful Summit of the Americas. He's pulled together four critical partners in the Indo-Pacific in a new organization called the Quad…. and in the face of Russia's brutal invasion, their aggression against Ukraine, President Biden has shown a masterful skill at pulling together the EU and NATO in order to push back, in order to support Ukraine's brave resistance to Russian aggression. Here at home, his predecessor talked about infrastructure over and over, was never able to get a bill on infrastructure to the floor and to his desk. President Biden signed into law one of the biggest investments in infrastructure in American history, and President Biden and Democrats in the Senate have a plan for how to reduce prescription drug prices, [and] how to tackle health care costs that I remain optimistic we will get done. The deficit is coming down. He's got clear plans for how to tackle inflation, and he's helping lead the United States to a position of strength on the world stage. I can understand why he might think running for reelection is a good idea.
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