Did, and then set out to become the majority leader of the United States senate and did. But, mitch, i have a confession to make. When i was asked to do this here is what i thought. How can anyone get Mitch Mcconnell to talk for an hour . Because 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 billgates came in to see you and you just sat there and people were uncomfortable waiting for one of you to speak, someone on told president george w. Bush you were excited over a certain vote and he said, really . How can you tell. Why so few words. Guest well, im in the afraid of talking but i learn morally listen more by listening so astart out listening and 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 approach to commenting on public affairs. Host youre not the first one i remember the late bob mow vac used to novak idea to day the hardest inte
Constructive partisans who whatnot to get things dub are going to start to require a different approach to legislation. Congressman boehner now has a 244member majority. That changes his latitude some. I think if you look back to last year during the shutdown, when Speaker Boehner showed real leadership and said were not defaulting on the debt and im moving forward, that strengthened his hand. He did not fall through the ice, and the last thing ill say is that in my experience, the people who are absolutely the most frustrated with washington are members of congress. This is not what they signed up for. The vast majority crime here to actually get things done. And i think that constructive frustration, just like the con frocktive frustration of the general constructive frustration of the general public, is going to start to have an influence. I tried to in my book, which has not been held up, talk about what was the title. Talk about what our pragmatic but not naive ways to start steer