Denis McDonough: McConnell "WATERED DOWN" Russia warning in 2016
CHUCK TODD: Is -- Do you stand by what (former Vice President Joe Biden) said, that Mitch McConnell is the reason why everything was a lower grade, sort of everything that you did in '16, that you couldn't be as robust in a bipartisan sense because Mitch McConnell didn't sign on?
DENIS MCDONOUGH: What I know is that the intelligence community approached the, the entire leadership of the Congress [...] Several members of that group did not take the briefing until early September, 2016. Indication number one of a lack of urgency.
Number two, the president asked the four leaders in a bipartisan meeting in the Oval Office to join him in asking the states to work with us on this question. It took over three weeks to get that statement worked out. It was dramatically watered down. You can ask Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, even the speaker--
TODD: And it was watered down on the insistence of Mitch McConnell?
MCDONOUGH: Yes.
TODD: And nobody else?
MCDONOUGH: Yes.
TODD: Okay. Do you have any understanding as to why?
MCDONOUGH: I don't.
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if mcturtle knew the fix was in, refusing to all the supreme court vacancy to be filled until donnie was president makes a lot more sense.
