Mitch McConnell

"I just got elected to a six-year term."

"It's been trying to jam through everything on the hard left."

"So this is not about anything other than trying to help the Democrats win elections in perpetuity."

"So while Yarmuth calls the filibuster a 'minority veto,' it’s really 'Kentucky’s veto.'"

Former President Donald Trump said in a new interview that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is "hanging by a thread." "If you look at what had happened with the election, ...

"If they get rid of the filibuster, if they knock it out, it will be catastrophic for the Republican Party."

Biden backs reforming, rather than scrapping, the filibuster.

"We will try to get them to work with us."

"It's not broken, and it doesn't need to be fixed."

It would lead to a "completely scorched earth" Senate, he says.

McConnell is questioned on if he would run for the position again.

"I think we're way overreacting."

"This is not a partisan bill."

"Frankly, the president and his team must be thrilled."

He was re-elected to a seventh term last November, with a victory margin of nearly 20 percentage points.

"Even more stupidly, the National Republican Senatorial Committee spent millions of dollars on ineffective TV ads starring Mitch McConnell."

"The nominee of the party?"

"What we need is the truth."

"It's one of the key ways of how we come together as a country."

"We cannot have artificial cherry-picking of which terrible behavior does and does not deserve scrutiny."