Steve Schmidt reacts to Mitch McConnell's mid-press conference freeze

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Steve Schmidt reacts to Mitch McConnell's health scare during a press conference. Steve explains how older senators like McConnell and Dianne Feinstein have led to an apathetic country, which has left fertile ground for an authoritarian like Donald Trump.

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0:00.0	Yesterday, 81-year-old Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stepped before the podium,
0:10.1	and this is what happened.
0:11.9	We're on a path to finishing the NDA this week.
0:18.0	It's been good by partisan cooperation and a string of... Okay, Mitch.
0:40.3	Are you good?
0:44.3	Okay, Mitch?
0:46.3	Anything else you want to say?
0:48.3	I'm sure to go back to you.
0:50.3	Do you want to say anything else to the press?
0:53.3	Okay. I'll take my hand. Do you want to say anything else to the press?
0:56.0	Go ahead, John. Let's go back to you.
0:58.7	Go ahead, John.
1:00.4	What is it that we see here?
1:04.0	What's happening?
1:06.2	Well, at the most basic level, Mitch McConnell is a very frail, very elderly, 81-year-old man.
1:17.7	He was born in February of 1942 before the Allies landed in North Africa, before the Battle of the Coral Sea and Midway, at the height of
1:32.3	Nazi domination and Japanese imperialist expansion. Those were dark days in America.
1:41.9	Mitch McConnell, like many of America's leaders, is in his 80s. Like Senator
1:49.4	Diane Feinstein, he is clearly incapacitated for his duties. Yet, he refuses to retire, to resign.
2:02.8	He refuses to tend to his dignity.
2:07.5	We see Mitch McConnell like this because he forces us to.
2:14.7	Mitch McConnell ran in 1984 for the United States Senate against an incumbent named D. Huddleston.
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