Mitch McConnell Asked Point Blank About JD Vance's Opposition To Funding Ukraine Against Russia
At a Senate Republican press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) spoke about Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and his stance on Ukraine.
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00:00Given your staunch support for aid to Ukraine, does the selection of Danny Vance give you
00:07any pause since he's a leading opponent of aid to Ukraine?
00:12SECRETARY TILLERSON Well, look, I support the ticket.
00:16I also support Ukraine.
00:18And I'm going to be arguing, no matter who gets elected president, as Shelley was just
00:24pointing out, it's not just Ukraine.
00:27We've got worldwide organized authoritarian regimes talking to each other – China, North
00:36Korea, Russia, Iran, and Iran-Iraq.
00:41This is a serious challenge.
00:45The current administration made two big mistakes.
00:48One was withdrawing from Afghanistan, where we were not losing any personnel.
00:54And number two, they haven't submitted a single budget that even teeps over the closure.
01:01This is the single largest problem facing the democratic world, no matter who wins the election.
01:09And that's what I'm going to be working on for the next couple of years.