Chris Hayes Visibly Exasperated by Chuck Schumer’s Insistence Trump Hasn’t Threatened Democracy ‘Yet’: ‘My God’ | Video

Still doing damage control after decision to thgrow support to the GOP budget last week over the objections of the majority of his party, Chuck Schumer returned to “All In With Chris Hayes” Tuesday night to yet again try to explain himself.

But Schumer might have made things worse for himself, as Hayes at one point became so frustrated with the New York Democrat’s rhetoric that he let out an uncharacteristically emotive response: “My god.”

You can watch the interview below:

During the wide-ranging interview, Schumer justiftified his heavily criticized opposition strategy by explaining Democratic leaders haven’t yet encountered the right “moments” to use their leverage, while simultaneously insisting he is “fighting relentlessly.”

He also fell back again and again on talking points he’s used in other recent interviews, and suggested more than once that he views current events as functionally identical to previous political eras. And Schumer repeatedly insisted that despite a range of issues Hayes brought up during the interview, democracy in America isn’t threatened “yet.”

That conversational direction is what really started to get to Hayes who, though maintaining his professional demeanor also clearly displayed a look of disbelief.

At one point, Hayes asked, “what is the strategic plan?

Schumer responded in party by listing several economic issues he said “unites the Democratic Party,” followed by talking points he’s deployed elsewhere. Then, he continued, “we have started doing this day in, day out, every day, fighting relentlessly. His numbers have started to go down from 51 to 47, if we keep at it and keep at it and keep at it, his numbers will be much lower. He will not only be less popular, but less effective. Second, we will find the moments where we shouldn’t give them votes, where Hakeem [Jeffries, House Democratic Leader] and I met yesterday. We’re exploring that right now, and there will be times just like this instance, where people will say, ‘don’t give them the votes, because you have the leverage. It will be, there will be instances not like this, where a shutdown would ensue, but we will have the higher ground and we’re going to do it. Watch us.”

“All of those things you enumerated, which all sound like good politics to me, yeah, are the kinds of things that you’d be doing if Mitt Romney were president,” Hayes responded. “Like there’s this weird asymmetry right now, which is that they are acting in this totally new way, yes, in which they are ambitiously trying to seize all power and create a presidential dictatorship in the United States of America, and the Democratic opposition is acting like, ‘well, if we can get the report rate down a few points.’ Then what happens?”

More to come…

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