Chuck Schumer: ‘I Feel Perfectly Safe’ in D.C.; ‘They’re Full of It’

PARNAS: “And I want to pivot and talk a little bit about what’s in the news today, and that is D.C. and Donald Trump’s mobilization of the National Guard, the federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department. I want to get your reaction to everything that’s happening in D.C. But, first, a lot of folks on the Republican side, your Republican colleagues, say that they are very scared to walk outside in D.C., that they think this is completely the right thing to do. Senator, are you scared walking around Washington, D.C., these days?”

Schumer: “No. I walk around all the time. I wake up early in the morning sometimes and take a nice walk as the sun is rising around some of the Capitol and the other monuments and things. And I feel perfectly safe. They’re full of it. Look, here’s what they’ve done, Aaron, plain and simple. Donald Trump wants to distract. That’s his game plan. It’s been his MO for his first term in the presidency and now, so he trying to make this a distraction. What’s he trying to distract from? Well, a lot of things. But above all, Epstein. We’ve been confronting him on Epstein very successfully left and right, so much so that Johnson had to dismiss, you know, had to send his House home early and we called it the Epstein recess. We have found an arcane rule that if five members of our Homeland Security Committee demand documents, we should get them. When I really — you know, when I attacked them for sending the Deputy Attorney General, Trump’s lawyer, down to interview Ghislaine, they went crazy. They’re feeling it and we’re not letting go. When we come back, we are going to have many more things in terms of going after them on the Epstein files. So that’s what it is. It’s a distraction, plain and simple.”