SENATE MAJORITY MEMBER MITCH MCCONNELL HAS ANNOUNCED
THAT THE SENATE WILL SKIP MUCH OF ITS AUGUST RECESS.
HE ANNOUNCED IT BY SAYING THE FOLLOWING.
AS YOU CAN SEE FROM HIS STATEMENT, HE IS DOING THIS
BECAUSE OF THE OBSTRUCTION BY THE DEMOCRATS IN RESPONSE TO
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NOMINEE, BUT THERE ARE OTHER THEORIES AND MY
FAVORITE ONE AND THE ONE THAT I PERSONALLY BELIEVE IS REALLY AT
PLAY HERE HAS TO DO WITH HOW THERE ARE WAY MORE DEMOCRATS,
INCUMBENT DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE WHO ARE SEEKING
REELECTION AND A LOT OF THE LAWMAKERS RELY ON THAT AUGUST
RECESS TO RAISE MONEY AND FOCUS ON THEIR CAMPAIGN SO THIS
COULD POTENTIALLY HURT THEM IN THEIR EFFORTS TO GET
REELECTED AND KEEP IN MIND, THERE ARE WAY MORE DEMOCRATS
WHO ARE UPPER REELECTION AS OPPOSED TO REPUBLICANS.
A COUPLE OF POINTS TO THE STORY.
1ST OF ALL, IS IT BECAUSE OF SEVERAL DIFFERENT REASONS?
YES.
ARE ANY OF THEM LEGITIMATE?
ALMOST 9.
LET ME CLAIM ONE BY ONE.
ARE THEY DOING IT BECAUSE THERE ARE 10
DEMOCRATS THAT ARE UP FOR REELECTION IN TRUMP STATES
THAT ONLY ONE REPUBLICAN UPPER REELECTION IN A HILLARY TAKE
WHAT ABSOLUTELY, THAT IS THAT REALLY WHY THEY ARE DOING AND IN
FACT TRUMP IS INSISTING ON THAT WHICH LEADS TO REASON NUMBER 2.
HE IS LIKE I DON'T GET IT, WHY WOULDN'T YOU PLAY POLITICS,
WHAT YOU GUYS?
DUMB?
THAT IS KIND OF A FAIR POINT, I WISH OBAMA AND THE
DEMOCRATS PLAY POLITICS LIKE THAT BUT THEY DON'T.
TRUMP THREATENED TO CRITICIZE THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS
THEY WENT ON A BREAK AND DID NOT PLAY THIS POLITICAL TRICK
AND SO THEY GOT SO SCARED OF TRUMP BECAUSE THEY ARE
AFRAID OF THEIR OWN SHUTTLE, THEY'RE NOT LEADERS, THEY
ARE FOLLOWERS.
IT WOULD'VE BEEN A DOUBLE FOR ME, THE
DEMOCRATS WHO RUN THE CAMPAIGN AND THE REPORTERS DRIVE ME CRAZY.
KEEP TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY WANT TO GO BACK TO THEIR DISTRICTS.
HE WAS RAISE MONEY.
THEY HAD TO SPEND ALL DAY RAISING MONEY AND GOING TO
FUNDRAISERS WITH CORPORATE DONORS SO JUST CALL IT LIKE
IT IS.
IT IS NOT LIKE THEY ARE DOING A LOT OF TOWN HALLS.
THEY ARE NOT DOING THEM.
PLEASE FOR A SECOND BE A REPORTER.
ANYWAY, BECAUSE OF THAT THEY ARE LIKE OKAY, WE HAD THE DEMOCRATS,
WE MAKE SURE DONALD TRUMP IS AHEAD US AND THIRD OF ALL, YES,
LET'S PASS ALL, JIM THESE NOMINEES THROUGH, THE TRUMP ONCE
AND MAYBE WE CAN PASS A BILL OR TWO, BUT WE ALREADY GAVE THE TAX
CUTS TO THE RICH SO WE'RE KIND OF DONE HERE ON THAT FRONT.
ON THAT NOTE, CNN, TO BE HONEST REALLY PISSED ME OFF ON
THIS ONE BECAUSE LIKE ALL OF THEIR ARTICLES, THEY
MENTION HOW MITCH MCCONNELL SAID THAT THE SENATE DEMOCRATS
HAVE DONE HISTORIC OBSTRUCTION.
THERE QUOTING MCCONNELL, I GET WHEN THEY SAID THAT BUT IF
YOU WANTED TO BE A REPORTER YOU WOULD GIVE THAT CONTEXT.
YOU WOULD NOT SAY I DON'T LIKE MITCH MCCONNELL OR I DON'T
LIKE HIS POLICIES, YOU WOULD GIVE IT PROPER FACTUAL
CONTEXT WHICH I WILL DO FOR YOU.
WE'RE GOING TO GRAPHIC 50 A.M.
WHAT THAT IS GOING TO SHOW YOU IS HISTORIC OBSTRUCTION AND
YOU WILL SEE WHERE BEGAN.
MAYBE YOU WILL BUILD TO SEE WHERE IT BEGAN.
CAN YOU TELL WHERE BEGAN?
THE RECORD NUMBER OF FILIBUSTERS?
0 TO 2 THROUGHOUT MOST OF MODERN HISTORY.
UNDER CLINTON THE REPUBLICAN START AND THEY GO TO 9.
THE DEMOCRATS OF COURSE TALLY BUT LESS BUT SEVEN FOR BUSH
AND THAT IS OVER EIGHT YEARS, BOTH OF THEM AND THEN OBAMA
COMES INTO OFFICE.
27 IN THE FIRST FOUR,
45 AND THE SECOND FOR INCLUDING THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE.
THAT IS HISTORIC OBSTRUCTION.
THAT IS THE CONTEXT YOU NEED.
YOU HAVE TO GET UPSET ABOUT IT I HAVE THE OPINIONS I HAVE
YOU SHOULD POINTED OUT, OTHERWISE YOU HAVE MISLED
YOUR AUDIENCE INTO THINKING THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE ONES WHO
DO OBSTRUCTION BUT IT GOT WORSE.
AT THE END OF THE CNN ARTICLE ON THIS, THEY SAID THAT
MITCH MCCONNELL BOLDLY BLOCKED MERRICK GARLAND, PRESIDENT
OBAMA'S CHOICE FOR THE SUPREME COURT.
THE BOTTOM HALF OF
THIS ARTICLE ON CNN WAS JUST A LAUNDRY LIST OF GREAT
THINGS THAT THEY LOVE ABOUT MITCH MCCONNELL.
IT WAS INCREDIBLE, I ACTUALLY STOPPED READING IT BECAUSE
I COULD NOT.
FROM TIME TO TIME CNN HAS GOOD ARTICLES AND WE QUOTE
THOSE AND USE THEM AND WE'RE HAPPY TO GIVE THEM CREDIT.
I THINK THEY HAVE AN ESTABLISHED ADVICE OVERALL.
RIGHT NOW A LOT OF TIMES THEY WILL HAVE PEOPLE SPEAKING
OUT AGAINST TRUMP AND THEN OF COURSE THE RIGHT WING
ALWAYS CALLS IN LIBERAL BUT IT IS NOT TRUE.
IF YOU PUT TRUMP ASIDE, THEY LOVE GIVING CREDIT TO
REPUBLICANS AND SO THIS ARTICLE IS TOTALLY BIASED IN FAVOR
OF REPUBLICANS, NOT DEMOCRATS.
WHEN FRAMING THE DEMOCRATIC ACTION THEY GO HISTORIC
OBSTRUCTION.
MITCH MCCONNELL SAID IT, I DIDN'T.
HISTORIC OBSTRUCTION.
I DID LOOK INTO IT.
BLOCKING A SUPREME COURT NOMINEE FOR A WHOLE YEAR IS
UNPRECEDENTED AND LITERALLY HAS STORY.
HAS NEVER BEEN DONE IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
IT WAS HISTORIC OBSTRUCTION.
CNN FRAMES IT AS HE BOLDLY BLOCKED THAT NOMINEE.
WHICH ONE IS A QUEST OF IS OBSTRUCTION BAD OR GOOD.
WHEN IT COMES THE DEMOCRATS IT IS BAD, BUT THE
REPUBLICANS, IT'S BOLD AND BRILLIANT.
THAT IS THE BIAS YOU GET IN THE ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA.