Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell requested for CBS to travel to his office in DC so that he could visibly show support for the Biden administration spending effort on behalf of Ukraine, Israel and Gaza. McConnell noted in the interview on the policy agenda for these priorities, he and Joe Biden are in direct agreement.
At the 08:32 moment, Mitch McConnell is questioned about his health and says he is healthy, “in good shape and completely recovered.” WATCH:
[Transcript] – MARGARET BRENNAN: Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has not done many interviews this year, but he invited us to Capitol Hill Friday to talk about President Biden’s request to Congress for $100 billion in aid for Ukraine, Israel and US border security. And that’s where our conversation began.
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL: We have big power competition from China, and Russia and we still have terrorism problems, as the Israelis have certainly experienced in a brutal way in the last week. So I think that requires a worldwide approach rather than trying to take parts of it out. It’s all connected. The Chinese and the Russians said they’re now friends forever. Iranian drones are being used in Ukraine and against the Israelis.
MARGARET BRENNAN: There’s resistance among some Republicans, including here in the Senate, about bundling things together. Is it possible to pass Ukraine aid if it’s not tied to Israel?
SEN. MCCONNELL: I just think that’s a mistake. I mean, I know there are some Republicans in the Senate, and maybe more in the House, saying Ukraine is somehow different. I view it as all interconnected.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And you’ve said that you believe there is enough oversight of aid to Ukraine. Why hasn’t that persuaded some members of the- of the Republican caucus?
SEN. MCCONNELL: If you look at the Ukraine assistance, let’s- let’s talk about where the money is really going. A significant portion of its being spent in the United States in 38 different states, replacing the weapons that we sent to Ukraine with more modern weapons. So we’re rebuilding our industrial base.
MARGARET BRENNAN: That’s what President Biden is seeking to do.
SEN. MCCONNELL: It’s- it’s correct. No Americans are getting killed in Ukraine. We’re rebuilding our industrial base. The Ukrainians are destroying the army of one of our biggest rivals. I have a hard time finding anything wrong with that. I think it’s wonderful that they’re defending themselves- and also the notion that the Europeans are not doing enough. They’ve done almost 90 billion dollars, they’re housing a bunch of refugees who escaped. I think that our NATO allies in Europe have done quite a lot.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You sound like you have a lot in common with President Biden, and his worldview, based on what you just laid out.
SEN. MCCONNELL: Well, not on the domestic side, but on this issue that we- we’re discussing today, we’re generally in the same place.
MARGARET BRENNAN: On the issue of Israel, that does seem to be a unifying issue for many Republicans, and I want to ask you about this 10 billion dollar request the President is making. Do you think there needs to be any provisions in there that would account for the risk of human rights- human rights violations in Gaza?
SEN. MCCONNELL: Well, we want to make sure we’re not sending money to Hamas. I can tell you that. But there are genuine humanitarian needs of the people of Gaza who are not Hamas, who’ve been thrown under the bus by what Hamas did. Innocent people. But we want to be careful about how the money is spent, be sure it actually gets where it’s supposed to get.
MARGARET BRENNAN: For any military aid that’s going to Israel right now, do you think there needs to be- need to be strings attached?
SEN. MCCONNELL: Israel is our strongest ally in the world. We trust them, and we have a very tight relationship with them both on the intelligence side and the military side. So I don’t think the kind of oversight we’re talking about for Ukraine, for example, would be necessary for Israel.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You know, to do all of these things you need a partner in Congress. Senator Welch said, you are the only Republican negotiator right now, because of all the disarray in the House. How can you deliver on this at a time when you’re saying it’s essential?
SEN. MCCONNELL: Well, I hope we’re going to have a speaker sometime soon and we–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Before November 17th, when government funding-
SEN. MCCONNELL: We need one. We need one because the House can’t do anything without a speaker. And it’s a- it’s a problem, but I hope it’s gonna get solved pretty quickly.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Is there anyone in the House who can lead the Republicans?
SEN. MCCONNELL: Look, I’m not an expert on the House. I have my hands full here in the Senate, and we’re gonna do our job and hope the House can get functional here sometime soon.
MARGARET BRENNAN: There is no current U.S. ambassador to Israel right now. And some of your Republican colleagues have voiced concerns about President Biden’s nominee. Do you have concerns about Jack Lew?
SEN. MCCONNELL: He is a very controversial nominee because of his relationship with the Iran nuclear deal, which was opposed by everybody in my party. And by the way, I hope that flirtation with Iran is finally over with regard to the nuclear deal. And Senator Cotton and I also have a bill to freeze the 6 billion dollars that was on the way to the Iranians in relation to the hostage release, so-
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, it’s in Qatar, the White House says Iran hasn’t been able to make any withdrawals from it.
SEN. MCCONNELL: Yeah, but we’d like to make it law so that it can’t be undone. Look, I think we need to get tougher with Iran. And I do think the weakness of both the Obama administration and the Biden administration, is the thought that somehow we could do business with Iran on something. And I think it’s pretty clear we can’t. I mean, they’re funding Hezbollah, Hamas, creating problems all over the Middle East, and we shouldn’t be doing any business with them.
MARGARET BRENNAN: President Biden said that he’s going to hold Iran accountable. What do you think that means?
SEN. MCCONNELL: Yeah well, I think the proof will be – what are we going to do to hold them accountable? And that’s- it’s got to be credible. You- you can’t on the one hand, be negotiating with Iran on some kind of nuclear deal that you know they won’t keep, and then turn around and declare that you’re going to get tougher with Iran. I think, number one, quit talking to the Iranians about any kind of nuclear deal. Number two, don’t give them the $6 billion. Number three, back up the Israelis in every conceivable way, after this attack by Iran-sponsored Hamas.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You-you oppose all diplomacy with Iran?
SEN. MCCONNELL: It’s not a question of whether you ever talk to them or not. But it’s a question- what do you do? What do you do? And clearly, the nuclear deal that the Obama administration agreed to and the Biden administration tried to reconnect is- is not the way to go. There’s an axis of evil in the world: China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. And we need to stand up to the axis of evil, not try to do business with them.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you as well about the moment here in Washington that we are in. A number of members of Congress, including Representatives Miller-Meeks, Ferguson, Bacon, Ken Buck, have said just this week that they have had death threats against them. How concerned are you about violence against lawmakers working here?
SEN. MCCONNELL: Well, I think there have been more threats lately, and I am concerned about it.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Are you concerned about more political violence? Going into an election year here?
SEN. MCCONNELL: Look, I think since 9/11, and January 6th, we’ve had heightened security here at the Capitol. I’m sure we’re a target for all kinds of evil doers both in the United States and abroad.
MARGARET BRENNAN: People wonder about your health, how are you feeling? How are you doing?
SEN. MCCONNELL: I’m fine. I’m completely recovered, and I’m just fine.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You and your office felt the need to share and disclose some of the details about your health because of some of these public incidents. And the doctor here said there was no evidence of Parkinson’s disease or a stroke or- or a seizure. And I wonder, is there anything the public should know that wasn’t disclosed?
SEN. MCCONNELL: I’m in good shape, completely recovered and back on the job.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So does that mean that you think you are able to continue serving, and you want to continue serving here at a time when we are talking about incredible dysfunction in Washington?
SEN. MCCONNELL: I think we ought to be talking about what we were talking about earlier, rather than my health.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You’ve made clear you have a lot of policy disagreements with the former president, Donald Trump. Doesn’t it trouble you that he is the front runner for the Republican nomination, given the questions he has raised about aid for Ukraine, for example?
SEN. MCCONNELL: I’m not going to comment on the various candidates for president on either side. I’ve got my hands full here in the Senate.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Former Secretary of Defense Gates told us this is one of the most dangerous moments that he has ever seen for our country. And we’re talking about the basic functioning of our democracy being a problem right now. I’ll ask you, again, who can lead the Republican Party, not just in the House, but to deliver on the vision that you are laying out here?
SEN. MCCONNELL: Typically, it’s the candidate for president, when you have a presidential election, who becomes obviously the most visible person in your party. And we don’t know who that’s going to be. In the meantime, we have divided government, we have a job to do, the election is not until next year. Dabbling in the presidential election is something I’m just not going to do. I don’t think it’s productive.
I only have one thought for Mitch:
“Seize the day”
Wish something would seize him, preferably by the throat.
Hemp rope?
I thought he was dead already.
ICWYDT!
…rather than my wallet.
But all spending bills must originate in the House which has no speaker. The pressure builds…
The Fed will just print more.
Quick, 4 more years for the turtle!!
And another round for Ukraine!
From these evil people, Libera nos, Domine!
McConnell delenda est.
Another one with dead eyes whose forehead doesn’t move.
Seems to be going around.
Maybe for Halloween Balls on Chin Biden will complete the look and dress up as Hellboy.
McConnell can go as a Zombie.
Now that B!tch McConnell is just fine, a la Biden, when will he sport the ball-sack-for-a-chin look ???
Wait, you mean be himself?
Is anyone really surprised?
Heh
As all good CTH readers know, Mitch is an original 0’Bama architect.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You sound like you have a lot in common with President Biden, and his worldview, based on what you just laid out.
SEN. MCCONNELL: Well, not on the domestic side, but on this issue that we- we’re discussing today, we’re generally in the same place.
Translation: on the ‘domestic side’ we’re still obliged to pay lip service to conservatives pinned down on the right side of the political spectrum.
Sounds like they had to fund and start a war in Israel… complete with destroying more children… to continue to have a cover to fund Ukraine. They had to make it as horrific as possible to raise the ire of decent people everywhere.
They installed a cross-dressing comedian as leader of Ukraine and a clown in the White House. The problem is not Biden and Zelensky… it is above their pathetic heads.
What’s hiding in those Ukranian biological weapons labs? The keys to world domination that they must be protected at EVERYONE’S cost?
Question is, how much of our money is going into their offshore bank accounts?
They’re not stupid enough to take our money… the devalued American dollars… that is driven to the point of meaningless.
They’re taking our LAND in exchange for maybe other lands elsewhere.
They’re monetizing in things that will be useful… not the American dollar.
Biden stopped all the oil leases for someone else’s gain. Saving the fields for others
They’re going to steal every penny they can. GOP voters oppose the Ukraine debacle by wide margins. It’s so bad that the losers running for President are the only people stupid enough to talk about it. And they’re getting their asses kicked.
They know they’re hated, and they know they’re wrong.
It really makes you not want to pay your taxes.
The uniparty right there in a nut shell
Why else the need to hire 89k armed and capable of deadly force IRS agents?
Seriously, 89 thousand. And do we know who they are? It should be public record.
Can we get the list and deduce the characteristics they were hired for? Such as undocumented middle eastern immigrants posing as hispanic and waiting for their citizenship after they complete the “training program”?
Or what is the political profile of these hired IRS agents?
👉 Good question CountryDoc🤔👈
👉I remember a battalion of unidentified crowd bashers (could’ve been imports from Ukraine 🇺🇦 Nazis) bashing Canadian 🇨🇦 citizens protesting the lockdowns restrictions enacted by Truedope during the truckers 🚚 support protests.👈
Black ⚫️ motorcycle 🏍 style helmets with hidden faces and no identification. Real anti-citizen type of Stasi style bashing.
👉America 🇺🇸 open borders policies are probably supplying similar battalions as enforcers.👈
The usual suspects were used in the crackdowns Down Under and on J6.
Admin, please delete.
Change your name, get a new SS number and don’t re-enter the system. That’s a lot of sand in their gears. Change your name to Muhammad and you’ll be left alone for sure
Face it, they’re Psychopaths, just like Adolf Hitler (they started out greedy sons-a-bitches).
I want to thank all the wonderful voters of Kentucky for giving us all these great years of McConnell.
Elected or selected???
Trump endorsed him. The people of Kentucky gave him what he asked for.
McConnell has been in office long before Trump came along.
If I had to bet, I’d put my money on – McConnell probably lied through his teeth to Trump and dangled carrots to get PDJT to endorse him.
There wasn’t anyone strong enough – at that time – to primary the old political crook so you know PDJT goes with the odds – at that time – and realized Mitch McSwamp was the safest way – at that time – to keep Senate in Republican hands. I’d bet PDJT has figured out how to deal with MM in the future if MM is still around.
Wars, wars, wars. Always forever wars. Always our blood. Always our poverty. Always the military industrial complex and Congress reaps the treasure.
Yes, and some psychotic satisfaction.
So Mitch McCorporatist most likely had some input to get Mike Lindell banned from using a Wi-Fi connection detector at polling places in Kentucky to detect ballot machines that illegally connect to the internet.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12658147/Mike-Lindell-Wi-Fi-monitoring-devices-BANNED.html
PS – it’s no secret that Daily Mail hates President Trump and everyone who has worked to support him, including Mike Lindell.
Newsflash : Ukraine already lost the war . Not a dime should go to Ukraine under any circumstances.
I know, I know, they’re just throwing money into a furnace, then looking around to make another furnace to throw more million $ bills into.
Truly: greedy, stupid, Psychopaths.
I know it’s not our fault but we’re responsible for these idiots. Please Lord do what you have to and show us how to help you.
one thing Joey PoopPants and Glitch McConnell have in common
they both have been in DC for almost every penny of the National Debt
that is treasonous
“SEN. MCCONNELL: Typically, it’s the candidate for president, when you have a presidential election, who becomes obviously the most visible person in your party. And we don’t know who that’s going to be.“
Did Mitch just comment on a court case?
Because we’ve seen the polling numbers, and that sure wasn’t a comment on polling or mathematical prognostication.
Lol what an idiot
Go away mitch
SEN. MCCONNELL: Typically, it’s the candidate for president, when you have a presidential election, who becomes obviously the most visible person in your party. And we don’t know who that’s going to be.
says the complete idiot
everyone knows who it will be
He doesn’t know who the nominee will be? And he is fully recovered?
There is no money you damn fools.
They’ll print it, just like they’ll print the interest payments on the debt.
Party’s over.
MB: …I’ll ask you, again, who can lead the Republican Party, not just in the House, but to deliver on the vision that you are laying out here?
DIRTY TURTLE: Typically, it’s the candidate for president, when you have a presidential election, who becomes obviously the most visible person in your party. And we don’t know who that’s going to be. In the meantime, we have divided government, we have a job to do, the election is not until next year. Dabbling in the presidential election is something I’m just not going to do. I don’t think it’s productive.
The entire world knows who that candidate is and will be, Trumpzilla is looming behind him and he goes on in his typical Screwtape fashion, going as far as to claim he wouldn’t dabble in a Presidential Election despite being one of the instigators in striving to negate 2016 and executing the 2020 steal and now pretending he has nothing to do with the ongoing schemes to deny us our PDJT second term come 2024.
Furthermore, I consider that the Derp State must be destroyed.
He is one of the chief architects of “the Insurance policy” as mansplained to Page, by Stroxz.
He doesn’t “dabble”, thats for sure. He gets involved in manipulating Presidential elections, up to his eyeballs,..no ‘dabbling’ for him.
if the Ukraine aid was just, it could stand on its own
but it can’t, so they strap it to the other issues
Glitch is an old man who demands he get his way damn the cost and logic
Mitch must have a hard time at home how do you explain to the wifey she’s part of the axis of evil just think if he had a couple of mistresses Iranian Russian Mitch got some splaining to do
Wifey’s family are Chi Coms.
Disgusting demonic.
It’s a hard thing to realize we’ve become the bad guys
It is! I am now in the acceptance/anger phase of grief about it. These ugly disgusting people are just gross at this point including the news media and in particular this nutjob depressed Margaret. She traveled there because he can’t travel. I am done pretending. She is definitely a pretender.
Mcturtlte = enemy
It is quite something to witness the sheer and utter contempt that puke turtle has for decent Americans and the disdain he has for your countries greatest President Trump ( in my lifetime)
Cheers!
“It requires a World War III approach”, excuse me, “…a World Wide III approach”, dang it! “A world wide approach”. What ever…
Glitch’s raison d etre for the 1st 2 years of Trump’s 3 rd term will be to obstruct Trump on everything
he will not care about the optics
he has no intention of ever returning to KY
thin Dick Lugar
Time isn’t on his side
Uniparty in action. It must be stopped in the house.
Mitch is corrupt as they come……
Take all the $$$$$ out of McConnell/elitist’s pay and insider trading accounts.
Take it out of their bribes and payoffs.
Pay no attention to their sniveling.
What an evil man
F*c* The Nation – Starring Margarett Brennan
Deface The Nation.
Amazing how all these decrepit old farts with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel don’t care about the amount of debt they want to leave OUR kids and grandchildren. They have scammed the system for decades to the tune on millions and will not be alive to see the debt come due. Sorry bastards should have everything they own taken and put toward the debt. Let them live hand to mouth like they’ve made others to live.
Mitch, is a corrupt poc, who’s been in office way too long. He is of absolutely no use to Kentucky or to this country. He’s quick to spend taxpayer money, because it’s not his.
Whoa!!!!
-“39 states are making money” from Ukraine’s war .
Okay, if they are using the old US weapons and the US is making new and better weapons, WHERE is the US money sent Ukraine and WHAT is it being spent on???
-Bitch McConnel got gleefully giddy about “KILLING”.
What an evil man
It is a lie.
The money is to fund the Ukrainian government.
We are paying the salaries of everyone in Ukraine from the politicians to the postal workers and street sweepers. Everyone.
Zelensky has already said…we are not sending enough.🥴😡 Yup….he is already whining 60 Billion is not enough.
If Biden gets a 10% kickback, how much does rich Mitch get in kickbacks? Somehow these people have piles and piles of money that cannot be explained by their salaries. Aren’t the folks that are only getting thousands of dollar in kickbacks getting a bit envious? For example, biden paid almost 3 million in cash for his beach house; meanwhile, bernies beachhouse was only a few hundred thousand.
Mitch’s FiL gifted him around $7 million back in 2008. To make up for “losses” Mitch had in the bank meltdown.
Plus that woman he’s married to is probably a “plant” to keep Chy-na informed.
Boi – nie’s dacha is New England lakefront, much cheaper.
If Mitch the bitch hasn’t figured out that the candidate is Trump, he’s already senile.
Mitch has mold in his brain.
All of the politicians are in agreement that we need to keep funding all the sides in all the wars. We are going to win all of the wars if it takes every last cent you own!
” The Ukrainians are destroying the army of one of our biggest rivals. I have a hard time finding anything wrong with that. I think it’s wonderful.” You’re killing all the young white Christian men in two countries so you can rebuild an industrial base? You f****** dirtbag.
Sickening
He is one of the best examples of why term limits should have been enacted 40 years ago.
Well…
its a deep one ole Mitch wants us to go into 😛
I read the transcript only. Isn’t is “grate” (intentional misspell) that when he says he is “Fine, Just Fine.” Then offers nothing from an objective party who would say so besides himself? For all I know Jill and McConnell’s wives are best friends. When we say our husbands are JUST FINE believe us. A bridge so far I can’t see the end of it.
He says something like, no money is going to Ukraine. Uh huh. We’re just sending them our old weapons and all the money is staying at home in 38 states in the US who are rebuilding our arsenal. Another UH HUH.
The lunatics are running the asylum thev are captured in. I’m starting to wonder where is Nurse Ratchet from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
She is vacationing in Ukraine, an undisclosed location, of course.
Millions and billions spent outside Our Country.
East Palestine receives scorn and contempt.
The people of Hawaii are collateral damage.
“You will own nothing and be happy.”
Makes me wonder if Mitch McConnell is mentioned in the Pandora Papers.
You know he is!
Mitch Mc-CON-nell. Bunch of con men in DC.
I will admit, though, that Mitch would look really
cute in a granny dress.
What a phony twosome…!
I will contribute heavily to the legal defense of anyone who brings that cowardly, treasonous piece of shit’s existence to an abrupt and preferably agonizing end…
What miracle drug did they pump into him.
LSD🤔😉
Actually, LSD IS a miracle drug, which is why it was made illegal, and even any research on possible medical uses was prohibited, for 30+ years.
Timothy Leary is dead.
No just no Mitch. You are a warmonger! This is not looking good. Lord please bring President Trump back stat. We need him so badly.
The Senate has been running roughshod over the house for decades, especially with regard to appropriations matters.
They replaced his embalming fluid and he was good to go.
I see a glib scumbag with no mandate. He’s talking about the vast majority of Republican voters as if they are a small troublesome minority…
Mentioning 9/11 and Jan 6th as if it’s somehow comparable, but omitting the catastrophic BLM/Antifa assaults on America…
Will never vote for the lesser of two evils again, and if the whole ss needs to crash for it to be rebuilt, then so be it.