'You can't defend the indefensible': Ben Sasse and Democratic senator clash over anti-infanticide bill

Sens. Ben Sasse and Dick Durbin got into a 20-minute argument on the Senate floor after Durbin objected to an anti-infanticide bill that Sasse proposed.

The clash began Tuesday with Durbin referring to Sasse's legislation, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, as an "abortion" bill. The Illinois Democrat's speech triggered a series of back-and-forth objections between him and Sasse, including the Nebraska Republican accusing him of ignoring infanticide.

"These are about babies that are born that are outside their mother," Sasse said. "And what's actually happening is the senior senator from Illinois is wanting to obscure the debate because he wants to use euphemisms about choice."

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