Mitch McConnell Is Stepping Down
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🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday that he plans to step down as the Republican Senate leader in November. He has been the longest-serving Senate leader in American history, and is responsible for extensive damage to American politics and life. Congressional reporter Todd Zwillich explains why McConnell is leaving and why now.
Both President Biden and former President Trump head to the southern border Wednesday as they jockey on the issue of immigration. Uriel García, immigration reporter for the Texas Tribune, talks about the humanitarian cost of the U.S. government trying to secure the border, and how Texas residents and migrants feel about the plans proposed by the two leading presidential candidates.
And in headlines: the Supreme Court will weigh in on the question of presidential immunity for Trump, Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would've established federal protectors for IVF, and France will likely add the right to abortion to its constitution.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, February 29th. I'm Priyanka Arbindi. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Juanita Tulliver and this is what a day, reminding you that day is a bonus day so you can use it |
| 0:14.8 | however you want. We decided to do our very favorite thing which is to release |
| 0:19.6 | another daily news podcast so lucky us and lucky all of you. I mean if it |
| 0:24.6 | ain't broke don't fix it right? Right. On today's show we tell you what to watch for when both President Biden and |
| 0:35.0 | Donald Trump make competing visits to the Texas-Mexico border. Plus, |
| 0:38.8 | scientists say they documented for the first time ever Humpback Wells having sex. The plot twist is |
| 0:44.9 | that Republicans won't like who is doing the humping. Okay y'all made me say a pun. |
| 0:49.7 | Absolutely not. They will not like it and Juanita will not like the pun. |
| 0:54.0 | But first, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell |
| 0:57.0 | announced yesterday that he plans to step down |
| 1:00.0 | from his role as the Republican Senate leader in November. |
| 1:03.2 | Take a listen to him speaking from the Senate floor. |
| 1:05.6 | I always imagined a moment when I had total clarity and peace about the sunset of my work. A moment when I'm certain I have helped |
| 1:19.8 | preserve the ideals I so strongly believe that day arrived today. |
| 1:27.0 | Okay bye don't let the door hit you on the way out. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.0 | McConnell said that he plans to stay in the Senate through the end of his term in |
| 1:35.8 | 2027. He just will no longer be leading his Senate colleagues. So, you know, for |
| 1:40.4 | everyone getting ready to celebrate, he's not going so far quite yet right he has |
| 1:45.6 | been the longest serving Senate leader in American history and has been known as a |
| 1:49.2 | ruthlessly strategic politician and leader he's also responsible for so much damage to |
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