All right, thank you very much. Can't wait for tomorrow night, Anderson.

Happy to switch it up. It'll be really an event to watch.

See you then. Right now, I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.

We need to be real about where things stand.

So let's get after it and today is perfect timing, especially for President's day.

As you know, this holiday started as a memorial of President Washington's birthday.

Let us remember his warning right now together because it has clearly been forgotten in DC.

Washington warned us about letting parties get to partisan because cunning, ambitious,

and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people.

Could he describe our current state of political rest any more directly?

He was talking about Senator Mitch McConnell, a guy who may resemble the bearing of the Washington era,

but he is the poster boy for the partisan poisoning our very first president warned about.

McConnell is everything when it comes to what ails us.

He says after January 6th, as most of his party is saying little or nothing, okay?

Remember, after a summer of raging about every act of political violence they could find and some

they made up. But he steps up and says, Trump fed people's eyes. Yes, McConnell suggesting Trump

had a role in the insurrection of January 6th. Then he begs to move the trial. Not to rethink it,

not to question it. He never suggests that, but to move it to give it the time it warranted.

Then comes the bait and switch. The trial he apparently Mitch McConnell saw as legitimate when he

asked to move it was now not constitutional. And there is then suddenly no need to hold Trump to

account. Then McConnell says this should be a vote of conscience and is not sure which way he'll go.

Then he acquits Trump despite the obvious and obnoxious role in seeding, sensationalizing and

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