Speaker 1: Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suffered an apparent medical
event yesterday during a press conference.
This is really this is not a partizan story.
This is really more a story of, quite frankly, the advanced stage of so many of those in
positions of power in the United States.
Mitch McConnell inexplicably froze.
He just stopped talking for about 30 seconds in the middle of answering a question, one
of his eyes sort of seemingly drifting up in what some are saying is potentially a stroke,
some kind of neurological event.
I have to tell you that the comments made by McConnell in the aftermath about how fine
he is actually raise even more concerns.
So let's take a look at this.
This is Mitch McConnell.
There's going to be a silence if you're just listening.
During that silence, McConnell is just motionless and then eventually other people around him
start to say, hey, did you want to say anything else?
Mitch?
Sort of realizing something is not right.
Speaker 3: And cooperation and string of.
Speaker 1: So at this point, Joni Ernst and Senator Barrasso start to approach.
They realize something's going on.
They say, You good?
Did you have anything you wanted to say that you want to go back to your office?
Speaker 3: Anything else you want to say, which was cool that you would say anything
else to the press.
Okay.
Let's go back.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, John.
Speaker 1: So McConnell visibly confused and is escorted away.
At a certain point, he came back and he just basically with no explanation, says, I'm fine,
I'm totally fine.
Speaker 3: Could you address what happened here at the start of the press conference?
And it was related to your injury from earlier this year where you suffered a concussion?
Is that.
No, I'm I'm fine.
I'm fine.
You're fully able to know.
Do your job.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Okay.
So not too much of an explanation.
And then a little later again, Manu Raju asking about I'm sorry, this is not Manu.
Roger that.
Previous Clippers money.
Roger, another reporter asking about what's going on.
And again, McConnell seems confused.
He seems not to hear or understand the questions that are being asked.
Speaker 3: Well, the president called a check on me.
I told him I got to sandbag.
Oh, man.
Radio announcer How are you feeling now?
Fine.
Have you seen a doctor or are you going to see what happened?
Speaker 2: Any idea what happened?
Speaker 1: I'm fine.
So he's asked what happened.
He says, Huh?
And then he says, I'm fine.
So a couple of different things here.
First of all, from from a political standpoint, imagine what right wing media would be doing
if this happened to Joe Biden.
Just imagine that.
I'm not even going to dwell on that because it's not the main thing.
This is genuinely scary stuff.
I feel terrible for Mitch McConnell.
Some of you know, I fainted on a plane, right?
That was 300 people.
300 people at the max saw that happen.
And really, it was probably the 15 people that were immediately around me.
It was horribly embarrassing, horribly embarrassing.
And this is on complete and total display.
And so I really feel terribly for Mitch McConnell.
Now, clearly, this was something Dr. Sanjay Gupta said, that it was clearly some kind
of a neurological event for which he should be checked out.
There's an NBC report which mentions that McConnell recently fell at an airport prior
to this freeze up and apparently suffered a concussion.
Is that related?
We just don't know at this point in time.
So, obviously, priority number one is Mitch McConnell's health.
Number two is sort of just understanding that there are a lot of elderly folks in positions
of significant power in the United States.
And there's just a sort of, you know, this this idea of the Jarron talk.
Chrissy, it's not about ageism, but I do think that there is a desire to have more younger
folks involved in some of these positions of power.
And then third, of course, is the hypocrisy where the coverage on right wing media of
this event, to the extent that it was even discussed by right wing media, was very different
than what we would expect if the same thing were to have happened to President Joe Biden.
And we can leave it at that