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Hey ladies and gentlemen this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America and Mitch McConnell just got some devastating career news
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Mitch McConnell is one of the senators behind this bipartisan border bill that is disgusting
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It is selling out our country and it should be voted down with furor and fire and because of that
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he's now facing calls for him to be removed as senate minority house leader of the Republican
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Party. Those calls have come from none other than Ted Cruz who laid out the case in front of
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reporters just yesterday which was followed by a terse yet unconvincing response from Mitch McConnell
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who looks like his best days are behind him. I want you to watch this video and then I want you
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to give me your comments. Should Mitch McConnell be done? Should he retire? Should he be removed
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helps us out. I'm Carmine Sabia for Explain America. We love you guys. God bless you
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Take care everybody. Is it time for Mitch McConnell to go? I think it is. Look everyone here also
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supported a leadership challenge to Mitch McConnell in November. I think a Republican
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leader should actually lead this conference and should advance the priorities of Republicans
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I can tell you what I said when we had that leadership election in November of 2022. It was
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right after a very disappointing election. 2022 the wind was at our back. It should have been a
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phenomenal Republican election year. Republicans should have won the Senate. We should have won a
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big majority in the House. Instead we lost a seat in the Senate and we barely got a majority in the
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House. And I stood up and said look in any ordinary organization when you are faced with failure
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if you're running a business and you lose 50 million dollars you don't just say hey everything's
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great let's keep doing it. No you sit down and say what are we doing wrong? And at that meeting I
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turned to Mitch McConnell then and I said look we spent the last two years with a group, a handful
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of Republicans joining with Democrats to pass the Democrat agenda. I said maybe that's a good idea
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I don't think it is but someone could make the argument that's a good idea. Senator Ted Cruz
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had a press conference around noon today said that you shouldn't have even tried to negotiate
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with Democrats. Said this bill was designed to fail and that it's time for you to step down as
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GOP leader. What's your response to that? I think we can all agree that Senator Cruz is not a fan
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The president came out and he pointedly put the blame on Donald Trump. He said it is Donald Trump's
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is to blame for the failure of this bill. Was Trump's opposition too much for you to overcome
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Well I've said repeatedly every month I'm not going to get into comments about the race for
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the presidency among Republicans. I think in the end even though the product is approved by the
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border council that adores President Trump most of our members feel that we're not going to be
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able to make a law here and if we're not going to be able to make a law they're reluctant to go
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forward. There are other parts of this supplemental that are extremely important as well. Ukraine
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Israel, Taiwan. We still in my view ought to tackle the rest of it because it's important
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Not that the border isn't important but we can't get an outcome. So that's where I think we ought
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to head up to Senator Schumer to decide how to repackage this if in fact we don't go on to it
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Senator Schumer says that he worked extensively with you on this package. What do you say to
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your colleagues who said that you misread your conference in helping to craft this border
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I followed the instructions of my conference who were insisting that we tackle this
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in October. I mean it's actually our side that wanted to tackle the border issue. We started it
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obviously with a democratic president and a democratic senate. Our negotiators had to deal with them and James Lankford under those situations did a remarkable
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job to pick off the border council which supported President Trump. Certainly underscores that it was
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a quality product that that particular union felt would make progress toward making things better
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But as I said earlier things have changed over the last four months and it's been made perfectly clear
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by the speaker that he wouldn't take it up even if we sent it to him. So I think that's probably
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why most of our members think we ought to have opposition tomorrow. We'll see and then move on
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with the rest of the supplement. All right so there are senate republicans talking about the
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chances of the border bill and supplemental spending bill including Ukraine and Israel
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passing and it seems to be slim to none and slim just left town Sandra. So you're saying there's
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not a chance. All right so we'll keep monitoring the hill. A lot of news to get to. We've also got
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this breaking news
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