We were literally under assault. These demonstrators, I'm sure some of them were well-meaning citizens, but many of them are obviously trained to get in our faces, to go to our homes up there, to basically almost attack us in the halls of the Capitol.
Mitch McConnell: “We were literally under assault. These demonstrators, I'm sure some of them were well-meaning citizens, but many of them…”
On the recordOctober 7, 2018
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McConnell describes the protests against Kavanaugh's nomination as a physical threat to lawmakers.
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