Hey, I'm Kelly McAvers.

And I'm Eric Mennel.

And this is Embedded.

Alchemy Gillis is a journalist.

He works for ProPublica.

And he usually has a nose for really, really compelling stories.

Which is why, when talking with him about a book he wrote a few years back,

I had to ask, what were people's reactions when he told them he were working on this?

Uh, um, concern.

Um, that's a puzzle meant really.

He's doing, wow, he's doing a book on, on Mitch McConnell.

Mitch McConnell.

If you know anything about him, it is probably one of these three things.

One, he's the majority leader of the United States Senate, which is a really powerful job.

Two, he blocked President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court.

And three, he isn't not the most dynamic guy in politics.

Is that over-satinged?

No, not at all.

Okay.

He's almost notorious in Washington for his opaqueness, his drabness, his one demeanor.

When Simon and Schuster approached me about doing the book, I kind of questioned their

belief that there was a market.

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