Mitch Part 4: 'Not A Happy Choice'

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🗓️ 21 June 2019

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Mitch McConnell says he never expected Donald Trump to become president. And during the campaign, he was openly critical of Trump's rhetoric. So how are these two very different men working together now? And how are they changing the country?

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers.
0:01.4	And I'm Eric Mendel.
0:02.7	And this is Embedded from NPR.
0:05.8	In the summer of 2016, it was pretty clear that Donald Trump was going to be the Republican
0:11.2	nominee for president.
0:13.2	By June, he had upset or insulted so many different people, though.
0:17.4	There was a lot of doubt that he could actually win a general election.
0:21.9	He'd insulted Mexicans, Megan Kelly, the Pope.
0:25.8	He said John McCain wasn't a war hero, mocked a reporter with a disability, failed to
0:30.1	denounce a former KKK Grand Wizard, proposed banning all Muslims from entering the US,
0:35.9	and said a federal judge whose parents came from Mexico could not be impartial in a lawsuit
0:41.4	against Trump University, because Trump was promising to build a wall to keep immigrants
0:46.4	out.
0:48.3	At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell happened to be on tour for his
0:54.2	memoir The Long Game.
0:56.1	He heard us quote from the book in this series.
0:59.0	To promote the book, McConnell was doing a lot of interviews and interviewers wanted to
1:03.6	know what Mitch McConnell thought of Donald Trump.
1:07.4	And it was clear McConnell was not happy with Trump's behavior.
1:11.5	What he said was outrageous and inappropriate, and I couldn't more strongly condemn that.
1:17.1	This is Mitch McConnell with Judy Woodruff on PBS after Trump insulted the judge whose
1:21.6	parents immigrated from Mexico.
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