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One of life's most under-appreciated talents is to know when it's time to move on to life's next chapter.

So I stand before you today, Mr. President,

and my colleagues to say this will be my last term

as Republican leader in the Senate.

Oh man, don't you hate it, when someone leaves the stage at the very prime of life,

still young, still so much to keep. and give is only 82 for goodness sake only

82 rich McConnell leader of Republicans in the Senate and I say that kind of

semi hilariously because of course only last summer I think we were talking about him being quite ill and

And wondering how much longer he'd last and he has actually lasted quite a bit and he's intending Anthony isn't he to go on and on when it comes to being a senator and

well he has a legacy I mean a real legacy and a real kind of just something about him isn't there the name will go down in American

senatorial history. Right he's the the longest serving Republican leader in the

Senate which is quite an accomplishment given how much turmoil there has been in Republican politics,

but I think the age was a factor, his health was a factor, but I think he also has his finger on the political

sentiment in the Senate and I think he saw the writing on the wall that it was

going to be a very hard fight if he wanted to get reelected as Senate minority, possibly majority leader next year.

And it was a battle that he just didn't think he could win or it would have cost him too much.

It's so weird, isn't it?

Because on the one hand, the Trump fights hated.

One of the potential people is going to take over from them.

And I was seeing, I think hours before he announced he was retiring

said of Mitch McConnell he's the most unpopular politician in America and that's one of

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