What Motivates Mitch McConnell?

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Over the past decade, the Senate Republican leader has emerged as a skilled legislative warrior, obstructing President Barack Obama’s agenda and enabling President Trump’s. But what does Mitch McConnell himself actually believe in? Guest: Charles Homans, the politics editor for The New York Times Magazine. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:02.1	This is the Daily.
0:03.8	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:09.6	Today.
0:10.6	Over the past decade, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell
0:15.3	has emerged as a skilled legislative warrior,
0:18.7	obstructing President Obama's agenda,
0:21.3	and enabling President Trump's.
0:23.9	But what does McConnell himself actually believe?
0:28.5	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:33.0	It's Tuesday, February 5th.
0:35.6	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:38.4	It's February 2016.
0:40.2	Mitch McConnell is on vacation.
0:42.2	He's just arrived at the airport in St. Thomas
0:44.6	with his wife Elaine Chao.
0:46.7	The Senate is on recess, Valentine's Day, or thereabouts.
0:50.4	They get off the plane and he gets the news on his phone
0:52.8	that Judge Shantanine Scalia has died on this quail hunting trip in Texas.
0:57.2	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:58.6	So we went though, they'll check in.
1:00.8	And I began to think about our interaction with each other over the years.
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