mitch won t even let the senate take a vote on it! that is un-american! wow, that was my colleague joe scarborough, branding the senate majority leader moscow mitch after his effort to block the senate from voting on election security bills last month. today there s more. mitch mcconnell underony over a brand-new story. it details how an aluminum plant in kentucky was built with the financial backing of a russian company, the same company. coincidence, maybe. the post spoke with critics saying it is shocking how blatantly transactional this arrangement looks. mcconnell s spokesman said mcconnell is not aware of any potential russian investor before the sanctions vote. but it s just one more example of the senate majority leader s promoscow policy inclinations. the post adding this, quote, in
also know that mitch mcconnell faces a real scandal in kentucky. he has a situation in which as he was stopping russian sanctions bills, it turns out that a russian billionaire tied to the russian government was basically trying to spend money for an aluminum plant in kentucky. and it really seems, at least from the optics of it like a quid pro quo, like essentially he stopped the russian sanctions bill so this money could flow into kentucky, and it really, it does seem that he put his own political interests ahead of the country. so we have a far, wide ranging set of challenges to ensure the security of our elections both from hackers, as well as foreign influence or in what could be both. let s listen to more of what stacey abrams said today in a
mitch mcconnell s team argues they didn t know about this when they were talking about lifting these sanctions back in january. you know, as you pointed out, they were given a heads up about this announcement. you know, what democrats are asking for here is for them to take a look. there is an entity inside the treasury department that kind of reviews these deals and says, hey, is this something that s okay for u.s. national security? consider what this is. this is an aluminum plant. under this deal, the russians would invest in this plant, and also help provide the raw aluminum to then be, you know, turned into cars and airplanes. that s the kind of thing where, you know, democrats are kind of looking sideways and saying, hey, you know, that may not be considering, you know, the russian interference in our election, and many other concerns over many decades with russia, that may not be in the united states best interest. both mcconnell and rand paul are, again, claiming they had noth
of albany, new york, the capital of new york, because the concern was he was too influential in albany. considering a lawsuit against the former president of the united states. they had to move it to syracuse, new york. barns also had his own aspirations. for those history buffs, he was also the grandson of weed, one of the pioneers of the republican party. so barns ends up suing roosevelt, in part because he had his own hopes for running for office for the first time. everyone had a lot at stake in this case that lasted six weeks and was on the front page of every newspaper in america. dan abrams digging through history again to find these gems. the book is theodore roosevelt for the defense, the courtroom battle to save his legacy. great to see you. congrats. good to be here. up next on morning joe, democrats calling for a review of a russian company s investment in a kentucky aluminum plant. all eyes are on mitch mcconnell.
humiliatingly and embarrassingly and obviously unqualified for the job, whose confirmation hearing went so badly it went viral and got her nomination buried, turns out within five weeks of mitch mcconnell getting that call from david vitter saying hey, i got an aluminum plant we re going to put in your home state, thanks from oleg, within five weeks of that call wendy vitter s nomination got pulled off the trash heap by mitch mcconnell and mitch mcconnell expedited it, put it on the top of the list, and now she is a federal judge. for life. must be nice. we contacted david vitter s very fancy lobbying firm today. they dop not dispute that david vitter is the one who gave mcconnell that heads-up about rusal putting the plant in kentucky after mitch mcconnell did what he did for rusal and oleg deripaska. when we asked david vitter tonight whether there was any connection between that and his wife s subsequent surprise confirmation to a lifetime federal judgeship, he told us through a spo