Florida GOP Sen. Rick Scott on his relationship with Mitch McConnell after a failed challenge to lead Senate Republicans: 'Well, he just kicked me off a committee. So that was pretty petty.'

• Sen. Rick Scott said it was "petty" of Sen. Mitch McConnell to take him off the Commerce Committee.
• "I was the governor of the third-biggest state in the country. And I got kicked off Commerce?" Scott said on Fox News.
• McConnell in a separate Fox News interview denied retaliation and said he had "no animus toward Rick Scott at all."

When Florida Sen. Rick Scott challenged Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to lead the Senate Republican Conference after the party failed to win back control of the upper chamber last November, the former Sunshine State governor and businessman pitched himself as a change agent who'd take the caucus in a new direction.