Mitch McConnell Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights

Called President Obama’s foreign policy “mind-boggling” and it has caused “a genuine meltdown of American foreign policy across the board … You name the country. Where are we in better shape now than we were when he came to office? Nowhere.”

On President Obama’s veto threat of a defense authorization bill: “The mere threat to veto a defense bill with all we’ve seen going on in the world is truly astonishing and underscores what a left-wing president we have who continues to be hostile to the military as he reduces our influence around the world.”

“Even the likely Democratic standard-bearer (Hillary Clinton) coming out against one of the principal accomplishments (Trans-Pacific Partnership) of a Democratic president tells you where the energy is in the Democratic Party today — it’s on the far left, and of course, the far left of the Democratic Party, these are people who are even to the left of Barack Obama, which is hard to imagine, hate trade agreements of any kind.”

About Mitch McConnell

Mitch McConnell is the Senate Majority Leader. Elected to that position unanimously by his Republican colleagues in 2014, he is the second Kentuckian to ever serve as Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate. Senator McConnell previously served, again by the unanimous vote of his colleagues, as the Republican Leader in the 110th, 111th, 112th and 113th Congresses and as the Majority Whip in the 108th and 109th Congresses. McConnell also served in leadership as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee during the 1998 and 2000 election cycles. First elected to the Senate in 1984, McConnell is Kentucky’s longest-serving senator. On November 4, 2014, he was elected to a record sixth term by receiving broad support across Kentucky, winning 110 of the Commonwealth’s 120 counties. Senator McConnell is married to Elaine L. Chao, who served for eight years as President George W. Bush’s U.S. Secretary of Labor.