was part of the problem with mitch mcconnell over the pastth coupleat years, he's playing far too much soft ball with a person o has brought a gun to a knife fight. >>ngreements with mitch mcconnell for the 12 yearsad i've been in the senate, you played a snippet of that at then outset of tht e segment. myou views havtse not been subtr difficult to ascertain. b i think today with this announcement it's a time tod respect his car i haves. there -- his service. there is no couldn't theserv t doubt the senateconference willo should be the next leader. that will be a vigorous discussion. t many of my colleagues will put their name forward. what i would like to see is the next leader be someone who is strong, who has courage, who will actually stand up and fight ane d lead and i'd like to see e republican conference for us to. do what we said we would do, toc actually fight for theon promiss we said we would fight for andgh deliver on our promises and i think whoever the next leader is, i think that's really fronte and center most critical. david: nexi want to switch tor home state of texas because wect have a big day tomorrow with a former president and

n sh not again! every single republican shouldc' be absolutely, positively unequivocally say no because you can't read something you don't have. >> laura: mitch mcconnellsaying he wants to separate ukraine anatd the e border. basically he said that today. we have a sound bite.>> let's play it. >> i had a lot of discussion on this about the border around's i here, but it is to focus on other rationale. hopefully, we can work this border issue out in a way that is with bipartisan support in the senate for both israel and,s ukraine. >> laura: that is what it's really about, is t it not? >> we have a majority in thehing house. why ars whe we passing things w> know that house won't pass? >> laura: because it is a shamw' and they'd know it won't pass.ul >> why would we be more secure with securing ukraine's borderl than america's border?di if there is no america, the city on a hill dies on the whole world suffers. we havn e to secure our owne wo border, protect our own people and created an economy that the world marvels at. >> laura: president biden is going to east palestine, ohio, t year after that train derailment. he's looking at the polls i discussed o

mcconnell's body and the. tech could reportedly be implanted into their brainsit in secret, allowing senile senatorshe to regain their mobility and speech. >> after years of cognitive n mobilie. ork on now it won't work on everyone. first, you have to haveu a brain,ha but it gets wilder.bg the report also examines the possible oddity of thoseer very brain chips malfunctioning or even being hacked by foreign adversaries, which eliminates the need to bribe hunter biden. but the report paints a picture of our elderly leaders alternating between confused, incoherent and artificiall oy ci clarity, which got us totygot us wondering could this already be happening. roday, we're here to answe the most important of questions. is. emocracy stilltions. >> america's sacred caste used to make beer brewed here. >> it is used to make the who defines who authorized nature great lakes. >> i believe that america is big enougi believe g h, strong enough, blessed enough for all of us is exceed the group included groundbreaking asian like beer, wine and and the shanghai. i'm sure changa koala. >> we just have to remember jus who we we're the united states of america. >> putin's kleptocra

with speaker johnson, with leader mcconnell and leader jeffreys, speaker jeffreys, and we all agreed agree a shutdown -- agreed a shutdown is a loser for the american people n. a shutdown costs would go up, safety would go down, and the american people would pay the price. i'm hopeful that the four leaders can reach this agreement very soon so we cannot only avoid a shutdown, but get closer to finishing the appropriations process altogether. if our house republican colleagues of goodwill want to avert a shutdown, if they want to govern responsibly as they say they do, they must resist the centrifugal pull of the extreme hard right who want to bufferin everything down -- burn everything down, openly use the threat of a shutdown to push their extreme agenda. they're brazen about it, they are brazen. we know what the hard right has been pushing. they want to restrict women's reproductive freedoms. we saw the case in alabama. they want to rip apart gun safety laws and reward corporate polluters or else they say they want a shutdown. this is no way to govern. if our house republican colleagues of goodwill want to do the right thing, they must accept a fundamenta

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