Chuck Schumer Apologizes After Calling Republicans ‘Bastards’ on MSNBC [Video]

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) apologized on Thursday after he referred to Republicans as “bastards” live on MSNBC.

During a heated discussion about the controversial government spending bill – which Schumer has stated he will vote for, despite criticism from fellow Democrats – MSNBC host Chris Hayes argued:

The only thing they understand is meeting conflict with conflict. So if you look at Doug Ford in Ontario, who banged the table and said, “You’re gonna tariff us? I’m gonna tariff you, we’re gonna put a surcharge on electricity,” that’s the only thing that gets their attention, the only thing that gets them to back down, is meeting conflict with conflict. If you meet conflict with essentially managed retreat or strategic non-engagement, then they roll all over you.

Schumer responded, “No, Chris. We are going to conflict with them on everything, on the tax cuts for the billionaires. They’ve become a plutocracy, an oligarchy. On Medicaid, we …