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it was entirely positive and exciting. >> after seeing that photograph from macconnell shaking handsitch mcconnell knows. knows that trump provoked the violent attack on the capital and watched television happily as the mob beat police officers and hunted the vice president. he knows trump refused for hours to tell the mob to leave. and then with police officers bleeding, he kept repeating his election lies and praising criminals. he knows trump committed a disgraceful dereliction of duty and is a danger to the country. many will number the shame of leader like macconnell who enabled him. >> liz cheney after seeing that on capitol hill? >> 100% correct. >> and said mitch mcconnell basically said, when he was talking about what happened on january 6, you talked to people, liberals and conservatives. you talked to people who were there january 6th and no one was more angered by what happened then mitch mcconnell. and mitch mcconnell talked about it. when he was on the senate floor, he talked about all those things that liz cheney said right there and now again, it is just a collective

. >> and yet, here was macconnell today. the old man supplicant, submissive. bending over to kiss the ring, giving a breezy endorsement of trump's capitol hill -- >> how was it seeing the former president? >> we had a good meeting. yeah, we shook hands a few times. he took questions from the audience. it was a positive setting. >> despite that, plenty of those adoring republican lawmakers were focalin up to trip the details of his back room talk to sherman and other reporters because, you can never underestimate just how cowardly they out. went wrong told house republicans at milwaukee where we are having the convention is a horrible city. another republican source said trump was rambling to the crowd and said it was like i quote talking to your drunk uncle at the family reunion. of course, in public those anonymous sources will get in line and kiss the ring and give him whatever he wants. maybe you think it's too literal on my part. hyperbolic. crime boss. accomplices. surely he doesn't embrace actual criminal gangs and violence but this is part of this campa

he and macconnell were face to face for the first time since december of 2020.re's how it was described in axios' trump and mcconnell finally meet again with a fist bump. it was warm and cordial one source in the room told axios', "trump commended mcconnell on efforts to grow the senate majority over the years" mcconnell had been kylie demeka tyler critical after january 6 and went so far to say that trump was practically and morally responsible for provoking the event, so does that still, charlie come hang over the relationship? or is over but he move on? >> i think two things they have kind of allowed people like mcconnell and trump to gloss over these things. the most important thing is the agreement on issues. and both donald trump and mitch mcconnell are focused on the most important issues that matter to conservatives and matter to republicans and that allows him to sort of put aside a lot of those differences. the second thing, of course, is the notion they are sort of going in the direction of winning. winning solves a lot of problems a little bit like m