Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett defends Sen. Mitch McConnell obstructing election security bills

Jarrett: “Mitch McConnell opposed a federal takeover of all elections because he's always done that. He knows that states are better equipped to manage their own elections”

From the July 30 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

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BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): You don't see this every day -- an op-ed in The Washington Post claiming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset. 

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MITCH MCCONNELL (SENATE MAJORITY LEADER): These people have worn out the volume knob so badly that they have nothing left but the most unhinged smears. ... Welcome to modern-day McCarthyism.

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KILMEADE: Gregg, Mitch McConnell took this for a weekend, absorbed it, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and he was ripping yesterday. What's he talking about? 

GREGG JARRETT (FOX NEWS LEGAL ANALYST): Well, it's offensive and reckless to accuse Mitch McConnell, of all people, of being a Russian asset. You're essentially claiming he's committing treason, which is a death penalty offense. The article that prompted it all by Dana Milbank and The Washington Post was bereft of relevant facts. Mitch McConnell opposed a federal takeover of all elections because he's always done that. He knows that states are better equipped to manage their own elections. And he had already allocated to the states, $380 million to secure it. The other bill that he opposed was clearly unconstitutional, that campaigns would have to report every conversation with any Canadian or French individual, or a Russian, that's a violation of the First Amendment. 

Related:

Wash. Post: Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset

NY Times: New Election Security Bills Face a One-Man Roadblock: Mitch McConnell

Previously:

Tucker Carlson on Russia's 2016 election interference: “I don't think it really hurt the country, actually. I really don't. I think it's a total lie.”

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