The following is a transcript of an interview with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that will air on April 28, 2024.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Thank you for making time for us today.SENATOR MITCH
It's not a question of whether I agree, I can speak for myself. And what I think is what I just said about how these college campuses ought to be controlled by the administrations.MARGARET BRENNAN: Understood. I want to move on to Ukraine. I understand you just hung up with Ukraine's President Zelenskyy. The US has shipped him capabilities, including these long range missiles as part of this new congressional aid package.
The slowness of it.MARGARET BRENNAN: But when- that wasn't in the Senate?SEN. Well, but I mean, in order to make a law- it's a Democratic president and a Democratic Senate, you couldn't do exactly what you wanted to do. Would I have liked to have had more? Absolutely. That was not possible if we were trying to make a law. And we were trying to negotiate. Senator Lankford did, in my view, an excellent job. But it wasn't good enough for a majority of our members, or apparently for the House either.
Many of them, yeah. We took too long. This issue was like a family reunion, if you will, with a lot of different points of view being expressed around the table. Chuck did a good job. But all the Democrats were for Ukraine. There is no question that the debate was in our family, on our side. And there was a lot of skepticism for a long time, but I think it got better. And I think we proved that earlier this week.MARGARET BRENNAN: What do you think changed minds?SEN.
Yeah. Let me finish. I think the single most important thing I can do is make sure my successor is the majority leader, no matter how the presidential election comes out. I haven't been entirely satisfied with this administration.
We- we- we've been there. We may not have time for a history lesson, but we've been there before. Before World War II and after World War II, the most prominent Republican of that era was Robert Taft. He opposed lend-lease. He opposed NATO. He opposed the Marshall Plan.
--And January the 6th of 2021. I stand by everything I said then. Obviously, it'll be up to the Supreme Court to decide whether I was correct.MARGARET BRENNAN: You got involved, though, and part of what you said is part of this case, in some ways. Because you argued for the Senate not to convict Mr. Trump, and central to his immunity argument is the claim that a former president who was impeached and convicted by the Senate can be criminally prosecuted. He was not.
You need to get better research. I was asked that question three years ago. If he were the nominee, would I support him?MARGARET BRENNAN: And you said you would support whoever the nominee was.SEN. Well, you and I--MARGARET BRENNAN: So it's hard to understand sometimes.SEN. --Well--MARGARET BRENNAN: --Then with Donald Trump--SEN.
--This is--MARGARET BRENNAN: --One of the most powerful in the country?SEN. I'm not gonna give him any advice. I- I am try--MARGARET BRENNAN: --Other Republican candidates who are racing against him and lost, they did that. You did that. You put your own life at risk. You went and saw--SEN.
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