McConnell tags Clinton as part of 'far-left mob' after she says you can't be civil to GOP

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hit back at Hillary Clinton after the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee said that Democrats "cannot be civil" with Republicans until they retake control.

"The far-left mob is not letting up. Earlier today, former Secretary of State Clinton sent this signal as clear as (day)," the Kentucky Republican said from the Senate floor Tuesday. "She told CNN exactly how she views millions of Americans who hold different political views from her own."

McConnell read from Clinton's Tuesday CNN interview, in which she said that "you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about. That's why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that's when civility can start again." 

"No peace until they get their way?" McConnell asked. "More of these unhinged tactics? Apparently, this is the left's rallying cry. But fortunately, the American people know that the fact-free politics of hate, fear and intimidation are not how we actually govern in our democratic republic." 

"The Senate and the nation will not be intimidated," McConnell defiantly declared. 

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Earlier in the speech, McConnell assailed the tactics of some protesters against the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. He accused the protesters of trying to sway the Senate's vote with the use of "mob tactics." 

"I wish this was an exaggeration, but it isn't," McConnell said. "While many came to Washington peacefully to share their stories, the loudest voices proved to be those of the politically motivated far-left." 

He said activists "harassed and intimidated" senators "wherever they might be: in a restaurant, with family, getting out of their own cars or in their own homes. Anything went."

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and his wife were driven from an upscale Washington restaurant by activists opposed to Kavanaugh's nomination. McConnell himself was confronted by anti-Kavanaugh protesters at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport. And immigration activists got in his face on more than one occasion this summer over the White House's family separation policy. 

Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La. – who was shot after a politically-motivated gunman opened fire on congressional Republicans practicing for a baseball game – took to Twitter to express his own disbelief at Clinton's CNN interview.

"Seriously, Hillary?" Scalise tweeted.