Jeff Flake's Anti-Trump Speech Attended By Only Two Senators

Two senators were present for Sen. Jeff Flake's (R-Ariz.) speech on the Senate floor Wednesday criticizing President Trump's attacks on the news media.

Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) listened to Flake's speech in the chamber and spoke in support of his comments after.

"I'm afraid once again that his actions will cast a shadow over our constitutional commitment to the basic freedoms we enjoy in America," Durbin said, referencing Trump's relationship with the news media.

Senators do not normally sit in and listen to other senator's speeches.

“2017 was a year which saw the truth… more battered and abused than at any time in the history of our country at the hands of the most powerful figure in our government. It was a year which saw the White House enshrine ‘alternative facts’ into the American lexicon as justification for what used to be simply called ‘old-fashioned falsehoods.’ It was a year in which an unrelenting daily assault on free speech was launched by the White House… ‘The enemy of the people’ was how the President of the United States called the free press in 2017. Mr. President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own President uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies.”