Chuck Schumer discusses party unity and leadership (Part 3)

Because I want a durable majority. We're going to get to the policy. But I just want to be clear on this. For example, there's a tall Rico and then there's Abdul El Sayed. People perceive those two as being pretty different. Are you saying. Actually, they're not very different. When it comes to ideology, strategies, chaos and corruption, they're quite the same. And elsewhere they may have differences. Yeah, but on the core. Yeah. I was doing the morning joke. Am I allowed to mention a competitor? Of course you are. Thank you. I was on the Morning Joe show in the waiting room, and right before me were two Democrats who had just won. Cory Booker, progressive New Jersey, and Hamilton, a moderate from Kansas. And when you heard them answer the question sitting next to each other, they were remarkably similar answers. When it came to cause chaos and corruption, there's not that great a divide on that wing in the party. And we ought to spend our time working with each other, not shooting at each other. That's the way to beat Trump, beat the Republicans and expand our majority. We'll be right back. Let's bring ourselves to the present moment. Democratic Senate majority now exists. It needs a leader has to make a lot of decisions about how to use its power in Congress. And let me put this very simply to you. Do you expect to face any kind of challenge in the election for Senate Majority Leader? No. You do not? No. I mean, look, our caucus is focused on now moving forward. Everyone's very happy with what we all did, unified in the last two years. But the focus has to be, as I said before, and I'll say it again and again, to my caucus, to the country, to everybody. If we don't deliver, all this will go away. This is just the first step, but I think we're united together to do that. Do you think it's good that there's no one running against you? And let me just put this in perspective. I've covered you for a long time. You have been in the Congress, in the Senate for 27 years. I say this with lots of respect. You're 75 years old. You're about to be 76. Later, a little younger than that, later in the month. Happy almost birthday. What responsibility do you feel to make way for younger leaders in the party? When I say I'm the leader, I'm sort of the conductor.