New Video Raises Concerns About McConnell Days Before Hospitalization

Ten days before Mitch McConnell disappeared from public view, worrying signs of his declining health were captured on video. On June 4, a frail-looking McConnell, 84, spent a sizable portion of a 20-hour vote-a-rama session on the Senate floor frozen in place. As his fellow senators chatted animatedly around him in between voting on a $70 billion Republican reconciliation bill funding ICE and Border Patrol, C-SPAN captured the Kentucky senator remaining almost motionless, sitting beside an aide who appears to push McConnell frequently in a wheelchair. The former Senate majority leader almost never spoke throughout the voting marathon, and no one approached him. Outside of a few feeble hand raises, it's not clear how much of what was going on he comprehended, especially during his nearly motionless spell between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m., the video shows. An ambulance was called to the home of Mitch McConnell, 84, on the morning of June 14, just before 9 a.m. He was discharged from inpatient rehab on August 6, but has not been seen in public since his he was taken to the hospital. It's now been nearly 60 days since EMS was called to the senator's home.