Chris Hayes Makes Schumer Watch Montage of Democrats Ripping Decision To Help GOP: ‘Take a Listen’

Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sat through an awkward moment of television on Tuesday’s All In, as host Chris Hayes played snippets of Democrats criticizing him.

Schumer has faced intense blowback from all wings of his party after he helped advance a Republican spending bill in the Senate last week. Democrats were outraged by the move after congressional Republicans did not consult any Democrats when crafting their six-month continuing resolution to avert a shutdown and keep the government funded until September. The reaction has been so fierce, that Schumer postponed a scheduled book tour.

Hours after taking a verbal beating from the hosts of The View on ABC, Schumer appeared in-studio at MSNBC, where Hayes was more measured, though the host mostly let the montage make the case against the minority leader.

“[T]here was something that happened here that doesn’t normally happen, which is they knew they needed Democratic votes and they cut you out entirely,” Hayes noted. “Now, when that has happened before, Republicans have filibustered successfully and forced Democrats to the table. And so, just purely at the level of how the tactics brought us to this point, I want to play some of the criticism – again, not from like, backseat drivers or not from me on cable news, but people like [House Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries or [Speaker Emerita] Nancy Pelosi. Take a listen.”

As the montage played, Schumer shared a split screen with it:

JEFFRIES: Look, Chuck and I disagreed as it related to the approach and outcome.

[…]

REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: I think there is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal. And this is not just about progressive Democrats. This is across the board, the entire party.

[…]

SEN. CHRIS MURPHY: I still support Senator Schumer as leader, but I think the only way that we are going to be effective as a caucus is if we change our tactics.

[…]

PENNSYLVANIA GOV. JOSH SHAPIRO: I would have liked to see when, Chuck Schumer had leverage here, to say, “We need A, B, C, and D for the Democratic Party,” and force the Republicans to meet him halfway on those issues.

PELOSI: I, myself, don’t give away anything for nothing. And I think that’s what happened the other day.

Not surprisingly, Schumer objected to the critiques.

“They weren’t gonna negotiate with us,” he said. “So, there were two choices, only. It would be nice if we had a third choice.”

He went on to say that a government shutdown would have been too detrimental.

Watch above via MSNBC.

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