Friendly. Backslapper. That is not his style. He is direct and he will tell you what he feels and what he thinks but he is going to do it on his terms about what he wants to say and how he wants to say it. It is very important, he is a very precise man. This was a precision race that he ran. You guys wrote an article back in november. One of the things you have any is that he could have spent as much as 50 million . He was preparing for that and by the end of it, with the outside groups, and probably exceeded that on the republican side. There was a republican outside group, kentuckians for strong leadership, which ended up pummeling the airwaves with attack ads against Alison Grimes, the democrat, and matt bevin, the republican. What that allowed mcconnell to do was run a very a series of very focused ads that highlighted the Positive Side of Mitch Mcconnell. This is a guy who had a lousy Approval Rating back home, low 40s to high 30s for much of the campaign, and you realize you need
Congress. We will go tumor real to mur iel. Caller happy new year to you both. I just want to say this. I think the president , president obama, i will use his title president , he will be in command in spite of the majorities of the republicans, ok . Because i think the republicans are on the same train to nowhere. If they bring up the repeal of the Health Care Law and also if they dont deal with immigration. When we talk about immigration we should think about people because it involves millions of latinos, asians, from everywhere in the world. It is as though the republicans are saying we dont have to deal with that at the moment in the same manner that they are saying, we are going to repeal the health care act. If you have ever been sick, if you have ever had a chronic illness, cancer diabetes something that the doctors cannot and do not know about you need health care. I think this country needs to look to people like Angela Merkel in germany, who provides a decent minimum wage f
It is time to go in a new direction. [applause] it is time to turn this country around. [cheering applause] manu raju, when you interviewed Mitch Mcconnell, what was he like . It was the most complex race of a 30 year career. He was attacked right off the bat, he had his first primary challenge. He had democrats that made him the top target. He knew that going in. Mcconnell is a guy who looks around corners, and he had planned for four years this campaign. That started in 2010, right after he saw what happened at the republican primary at rand paul. Rand paul beat mcconnells handpicked guy in that primary. At that point, mcconnell realized, i have to recalibrate everything i know about republican primary politics in my home state. He started to make changes and hired key staff and started to build a very sophisticated infrastructure, knowing this would be the most difficult race in his campaign. He said to me, this is the most complex challenge ive ever had to deal with. And he won big
Manu raju, when you interviewed Mitch Mcconnell, what was he like . It was the most complex race of a 30 year career. He was attacked right off the bat, he had his first primary challenge. He had democrats that made him the top target. He knew that going in. Mcconnell is a guy who looks around corners, and he had planned for four years this campaign. That started in 2010, right after he saw what happened at the republican primary at rand paul. Rand paul beat mcconnells handpicked guy in that primary. Mcconnell realized, i have to recalibrate everything i know about republican primary politics in my home state. He started to make changes and hired key staff and started to build a very sophisticated infrastructure, knowing this would be the most difficult race in his campaign. He said to me, this is the most complex challenge ive ever had to deal with. And he won big. Were going to talk about Mitch Mcconnell for the hour and what he is like as a leader. When you see him up close, what is
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling that move unconstitutional. Some lawmakers praising the president for trying to end the ongoing stalemate. Negotiations end without a deal, white house is willing to continue talks. Chad pergram tracking from the hill and joins us to lead this hour. Chad. Charles good afternoon, bill. No new talks scheduled here. There was thoughts maybe the executive action would jumpstart talks. In hamilton, the room where it happened, this is the room it never happened, they never got a deal. Both sides of the aisle think they will get a bill in form, maybe not right away. Here is Senate Minority leader schumer. Unworkable, narrow and weak. What is more important than what is in the executive orders is what is not in the executive orders. Money to open up schools safely, money to help state and local governments, money for adequate testing regime. Drove up the cost of the bill. Democrats said they were willing to meet in the middle around 2 million. The cheaper pri