Mitch McConnell, a menace to the nation.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell finally stood in front of cameras Tuesday, ostensibly to answer questions from reporters about stuff. Like how he blew off the Obama administration's efforts to inform states about the right-then happening Russian interference in the 2016 election. Except, of course, McConnell didn't really answer the question. He said he answered that question already. He hasn't.

McConnell laughed off the accusation Tuesday. "This is the same old thing they've been saying for weeks," he told reporters at a weekly media availability. "I've issued a statement on that a couple of weeks ago and I'd be happy to send it to you again." There is no specific statement from a couple of weeks ago, according to McConnell's top spokesman, Don Stewart. Instead, his office provides responses whenever reporters inquire about accusations like McDonough's, he said. Asked whether he wished he'd handled the accusations about Russian interference differently ahead of the 2016 elections, McConnell said, "No, I'm perfectly comfortable with the steps that were taken back then."

McConnell is perfectly fine with it because it helped get the result he wanted: Donald Trump is president. He's perfectly comfortable with the fact that he knew months before the election happened that Russia was interfering and that he chose to do the barest minimum.

You can infer from this statement that he'll be perfectly comfortable with the nothing that the administration is doing now to prevent Russia from interfering in the 2018 election.