especially hunter Biden that way
to protect himself.
>> Elie Honig, and judge shylan,
appreciate you both this
morning.
>>> More on senator Mitch
Mcconnell, we've learned he's
fallen more times this year than
previously known, this reporting
comes after a scary moment on
camera at a news conference
yesterday.
The 81-year-old Republican just
suddenly froze midsentence for
23 seconds.
Here is that moment.
>> We're on a path of finishing
the nda this week, been good
bipartisan cooperation, and a
string of --
>> Are you good, Mitch?
>> You okay, Mitch?
>> Mcconnell's fellow senators
there asking if he's all right,
event cruelly pulling him to the
side before he returned to the
podium.
>> Could you address what
happened at the start of the
press conference, and was it
related to your injury from
earlier this year where you
suffered a concussion?
>> I'm fine.
>> You're fine, you're fully
able to do your job?
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> So this latest incident
raising understandable concerns
but we've also around learned
that it is not the first time
there has been concern.
Sources telling CNN in February
Mcconnell tripped and fell in
Helsinki while getting out of
the car on a snowy day, days
before he fell in March, that
incident happened in D.C. At a
hotel when he slammed his head,
suffering a concussion and
breaking ribs.
At a news conference in June he
had trouble hearing questions
from reporters despite the fact
that those next to him could
hear clearly.
Take a look.
>> What are your concerns as it
relates to A.I.?
>> Repeat that again.
>> On A.I., are you concerned at
all about artificial
intelligence and what are your
concerns related to that?
How should congress address it?
>> What is my concern about --
>> Artificial intelligence.
>> About what?
I'm having a hard time hearing
your voice, sorry.
>> On artificial intelligence.
>> A.I.?
>> Yeah, on A.I.
>> Well, I think everybody's
concerned about A.I.
>> Earlier this month Mcconnell
tripped and fell at Reagan
national airport while he was
getting off a plane.
And yesterday, as you saw, he
abruptly stopped speaking
midsentence at the podium.
Let's get to Lauren fox.
Good morning to you, this is the
latest issue for Mcconnell as
we've outlined.
Do we have an update how he's
doing this morning?
>> Yeah, poppy, yesterday we
asked repeatedly how he was
doing and you heard from him
directly saying he was fine, he
did tell reporters yesterday
evening that he got a call from
president Joe Biden who just
wanted to check in on him, make
sure he was okay, and then he
sort of made a quick joke about
being sandbagged.
Of course, alluding to the fact
that the president himself
tripped a couple of months ago
over a sandbag on stage.
Here's what Mcconnell said to
reporters leaving his office
last night.
>> The president called to check
on me.
I told him I got sandbagged.
>> And one of the most obvious
questions after the incident
yesterday was whether or not he
was seen by a physician.
Right here on capitol hill we
have the attending physician who
is available to lawmakers.
His office did not answer
repeated questions about whether
or not he had an opportunity to
see a doctor after that incident
yesterday.
What we know is that he got
lightheaded, that he stepped
away for a few moments, and then
came back to the podium to
answer a series of questions on
a plethora of topics, including
about impeachment and his own
health.
But as you saw there in the clip
from our colleague Manu Raju who
pressed him on what had happened
at the beginning of the press
conference he just said he was
fine.
So that's all the information we
have right now.
But like you noted, there is
just concern about whether or
not this incident is an isolated
one given the fact that we now
know there have been other
incidents of him tripping and
falling, more than what we had
previously known that he had
fallen at that event back in
March at the Waldorf astoria
where he suffered a concussion
and fractured rib, getting a