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Below is a copy of the interview with Senator Minnesota Amy Klopochar, which was broadcast on “Facing the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on September 28, 2025.

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Margaret Brennan: We returned to Senator Minnesota Amy Klopochar. She is a member of the democratic leadership, and she joins us this morning from Minneapolis. Good morning to you, Senator.

Sen. Klobuchar: Thank you, Margaret, great to be again.

Margaret Brennan: Well, we have just heard from my colleague, Robert Costa, that the president indicated to him the possibility of closing, and thus, there may be mass release. Do you think this is the situation, or do you worry about your democratic colleagues walk in a trap?

Sen. Klobuchar: I am happy because the president has finally agreed to the leadership interview in Congress. The meeting canceled last week, which I think was a big mistake, because this is an opportunity for the country due to one big problem. This is that the Republicans created the health care crisis. Voterist, Americans stand on Jarraf now with the increase in this insurance premium that falls on them. So Democrats unite pressure on this and say, look, let’s do something about this crisis before it is too late. An increase of seventy -five percent in insurance premiums that start on November 1, on people who are small business owners, and people who are farmers there, twice in rural areas. This is what this proposes to us, and the president is proud of the art of the deal, this is the moment when he meets with the Democrats and reach an agreement.

Margaret Brennan: So these installments rise on November 1. You are talking about extending health care benefits, but insurance companies are planning that year, so these installments are already the price of these installments here. Why don’t you agree on-

Sen. Klobuchar:-Margaret, what we know is that these taxes-

Margaret Brennan:-Government-

Sen. Klobuchar: -If only, well, well, proceeding, the tax credits are really what can make a difference here for people, given the fact that we know that these premiums reach November 1. Getting this now is something now. It is not something in December. It is not something in January. It is not a slope outside. It is something we have to do now. As one of the farmers I met in the Minnesota countryside said when looking at the president’s tariff and looking at what happened in the country of the farm, the highest level of bankruptcy on the small farm, he said it is an ideal storm. This is where we are with the economy now. This is why we press what is one of the largest cost drivers of Americans, as well as grocery stores and electricity prices, it is health care.

Margaret Brennan: But to be clear, you could not take seven weeks financing and then negotiate that, you say that it must be agreed upon now.

Sen. Klobuchar: We believe this is a problem now, and while we are keen to talk to Senator Thun, I know that Senator Schumer is to move, in the end, we know that they are rubber dispensed by what the president wants. Not everyone is like Rand Paul, who goes in his direction and talks about debts from the “Beautiful Grand Law”. I do not agree with much of what he says, but he is right in this religion. It is right to what happened with this bill, most of them will only stamp rubber what President Trump says. For this reason it was extremely important to obtain this meeting, and I hope he would see this, not as president, not as a political theater, but as real people facing a crisis at the present time, whether in cities, suburbs, or rural areas in America.

Margaret Brennan: You are sitting in the judicial committee. So I want to ask you about what is happening now. Earlier this month, the United States’ lawyer in the eastern province of Virginia, Eric Separte, resigned after his failure to file a case against the New York Prosecutor Littia James. We talked about it with Robert Costa. On Monday, Lindsay Halligan has the constitutional oath as a temporary lawyer for the United States for the Eastern Region in Virginia. The case has not been tried before. Three days after this new job, she moved forward with the indictment from former FBI director James Komei on two charges. Have you spoken to your Republican colleagues in the judiciary? Do they have concerns about what is happening in Virginia?

Sen. Klobuchar: Well, I plan to do this this week. What I see, as this as a former prosecutor, and this is the arming of the Ministry of Justice, and he made a professional prosecutor recommended by the Republican Governor of the State of Virginia, clearly made a Republican decision, who made a decision based on evidence for months, made a decision. Then he was expelled, or forced to go out, so that the president can install his help in the job. When Prosecutor Bondi interrogated during her confirmation session, she assured me that politics would not play a role in making independent decisions. This is not this. This is the trial of revenge. It is not a matter of law.

Margaret Brennan: I also worked to investigate January 6, 2021, and the Capitol attack in the United States. FBI director, Cash Pateel. He said yesterday that 274 FBI agents were quoting, “they were controlled by the crowd on that day against the FBI standards.” President Trump has also publicly said that the FBI agents are acting as incitement secretly against all rules, regulations, protocols and standards in the crowd before and during the attack. This contradicts what the Inspector General said in a published report that there is no evidence of secret employees in the crowd, and that there are hundreds of agents and employees who came after the request of the Capitol Hill Police. This is now in a newly focused, because the president put the focus there, what is the role of the FBI on that day?

Sen. Klopochar: He presided over security problems, along the two -party investigation with Senator Peters, then Senator Blant and Senator Portman. Continue this. We had a number of open listening sessions, and we made major recommendations for the changes in the Capitol and there was no place that it was found that the FBI was working as instigators. In fact, they were called when there was this delay in bringing the army to insist on helping in the basis for a rebellion, with more than 100 police officers or confusion due to this criminal activity in the Capitol. So I find it like that the president says that the FBI was part of this. Cash Patel explained that in reality, they were brought after the truth, but they were brought because we needed help. The members of the Senate, the Republicans and Democrats were calling on military leaders. They were calling the public prosecutor. They were asking for help because this assistance was not coming to the Capitol. Everyone saw these facts.

Margaret Brennan: Senator, thank you for seeing you there. We will monitor what is happening here, as the president tweeted these things, and referred to former director Chris Ray, we will return with a lot of confrontation with the nation. Stay with us.