Boy who grew up in alabama, overokay. Polio, overcame polio, inspired by henry clay to become a senator, did, and then set out to become the majority leader of the United States senate, and did. Mitch, i have a confession to make. When i was asked to do this, heres what i thought. How can anyone get Mitch Mcconnell to talk for an hour . In your own book you point out that you only speak to the press when its to your advantage. You talk about a time when bill gates came in to see you and you just sat there and people were uncomfortable waiting for one of you to speak, and someone also told president george w. Bush you were excited over a certain vote, and he said, really . How can you tell . Why so few words . Well, im not afraid of talking but i found i learn a lot more by listening, and so frequently i start out listening, and i think about what i want to say before i do it. I think its fair to say that im in the era of trump, probably very different in my approach to commenting on pu
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More here in washington, d. C. More of our tour next week. Cspans washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you and coming up tuesday morning, jacob hacker, institutional for social and policy studies, director at Yale University will join us to discuss the Economic Performance of the state and how historically blue and red states stack up over medium income, taxation and education level. And National Association of corporate director peter glees n will be on talking about wall street is continuing to wane in the wake of the 2008 melt down. And talk about efforts to overhaul corporate governance. Washington journal begins live at 7 a. M. Eastern tuesday morning. Join the discussion. Tonight on cspan2, it is booktv in prime time with booktvs by politicians. Prosenate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell and John Hickenlooper talking about the opposite of whoa. And then we hear from california senator Barbara Boxer who writes the art of tough. And darrell issa