Chris Hayes: Platner interview. Video and text.

[Nanjeanne]

18. It was a meeting with many senators which happened to include Warren and Sanders and came at Platners

team’s request and before the sexting info.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/us/politics/platner-senate-democrats-washington-meeting.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n1A.PsG8.vRU__N0KZPOt&smid=nytcore-ios-share]

As reporters pressed Mr. Schumer about his confidence in Mr. Platner, he repeated three more times that Democrats would defeat Ms. Collins — and noted once that he had endorsed Mr. Platner — before ending his news media availability.

Mr. Schumer’s clipped responses to questions about Mr. Platner were echoed by the few Senate Democrats who crossed Constitution Avenue from their offices to meet with Mr. Platner at the headquarters of the Senate Democratic campaign arm. The 90-minute session, which came after an invitation from Mr. Platner’s aides, was planned before last weekend’s reports about his texts to women.