meetings not only at the national level, he ll often say when you look at the president and the four top leaders in congress, all of them are from new york or california except me. so i m not just representing kentucky, i m representing middle america. it s a different type of rural politics. so most of us here in kentucky still have mitch mcconnell as the favorite. the kentucky democratic party has noted they have raised about $135,000 off those nyet t shirts. they are seeing a lot of engagement from their party base which could be an early indicator of the importance of the race for the kentucky democrats. i think if anything mcconnell may be worried about that being the early narrative which may explain why he is going up against radio attack ads. anita, republicans just aren t going to like this. tonight i note linen grad lindsay has started up towards
the count is up now to over 140 in some areas of the federal bench president trump has appointed a record number during his time in office. that in mind, philip, when democrats dream about beating this guy in bright red kentucky, what do you tell them? well, i would tell them that senator mcconnell has been u.s. senator since i was born. they put their money against senator mcconnell don t work out. senator mcconnell has always been unpopular. the only poll that matters is the one on election day. retired marine fighter pilot had stumbles. you re seeing different democrats, kentucky farmer who has enters the race, kentucky sports radio host is thinking about it. they re all sort of thinking about it. at the end of the day, senator mcconnell has an argument. when he is at the different meetings not only at the national level, he ll often say when you look at the president
is this something they want to push on? and what these republicans think this will do for them next year. will it hurt them in their elections, both senator mcconnell and the rest of the elections. we re talking about his own election. rerp, he s looking at all sorts of other elections around the country. so is president trump. those are things that they want to look at and the presidential election matters. so do their fellow republicans elections. to our viewers, both of these journalists do a great job but have great jobs. anita gets to cover politics in washington these days. philip gets to cover politics in the home of the senate majority leader. to both of you, good luck in your work. thanks for making our broadcast. trump weighs in on what we
moscow mitch, that being mitch mcconnell. moscow mitch blocks two bills. moscow mitch keeps killing any bill that will protect american democracy. moscow mitch is aiding and abetting vladimir putin s ongoing attempts to subvert american democracy. moscow mitch won t even let the senate take a vote on it. that is unamerican. that just this past friday left such a mark that it s now possible to say this, if indeed the u.s. senate passes bipartisan legislation to protect and harden our defenses against the russians, it may be thanks to former florida
i think this issue has gotten to senator mcconnell in a way that previous criticisms have not. this is from greg miller s book in which he describes a briefing that then cia director john brennan gave to mcconnell about russian interference before the 2016 election. as brennan moves through his talking points, the kentucky senator expressed no alarm about what russia might be doing in the u.s. election and instead accused the cia director of playing politics. you re trying to screw the republican candidate, mcconnell said. what could be a motive here of being the plauk blocker between us and a piece of legislation designed to help. well, people who have reported on this a little bit more have said that it could be a couple different things. one of the things is that he