Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell condemned the decrease in journalistic standards following a New York Times story that claimed to have evidence proving Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh engaged in sexual misconduct decades ago.

“I’m distressed about the declining journalistic principles so much on display across all of the world of journalism, up to and including of all publications, the New York Times,” McConnell said Tuesday in a briefing with reporters. “It’s a very distressing development.”