Jake Tapper unloads on the “sedition caucus”:

“We invited each of the 12 Senators involved in plotting this disgraceful effort to come on the show this morning to try to defend and explain their position. Each of them either declined or failed to respond.”

Tapper, immediately after that remark:

“It all recalls what Ulysses S. Grant once wrote, 1861: ‘There are but two parties now, traitors and patriots.’”

After a montage dedicated to how the radical Senate wing’s stunt emboldens despots and dictators around the globe, Tapper delivers a blistering closing line:

“If it’s not technically sedition, it is the work of the enemies of American democracy.”