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Mitch McConnell: “Why are they holding it because if they think that by holding it it's going to make me negotiate and give something away…”

On the recordDecember 22, 2019
Why are they holding it because if they think that by holding it it's going to make me negotiate and give something away that I don't want to give away or maybe agree to witnesses that I don't want to agree to, that's not going to happen because no skin off my back.
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Mitch McConnell
Republican · Kentucky

Editor's note · Context

Mitch McConnell argues that delaying the Senate trial will not pressure him into negotiations.

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