00:00story of five the u.s senate goes back to work in washington on monday with questions still
00:04swirling about kentucky's mitch mcconnell will this be a session without him it's been three
00:09weeks since he was hospitalized from washington dc damn bro oh my god today there have been more
00:16calls for the senator to speak up we told you yesterday about the kentucky governor andy
00:20bashear's letter to mcconnell requesting a health update political reporter isaiah kim martinez is
00:25joining us now all right let's watch this let's watch this okay another kentucky democrat calling
00:31for answers yeah doug the list keeps on growing now we're talking about congressman morgan mcgarvey
00:36the democrat from louisville he didn't go as far as governor bashear who wrote directly to mcconnell's
00:41office but he did have quite the pointed two-sentence statement mcgarvey said quote in any other job in
00:48america oh my god u.s representative morgan mcgarvey they operate it's kentucky if you miss work for a
00:56month you have to tell your bosses why and whether you'll be back kentuckians deserve the same transparency
01:02and quote boom man quoted quoted double quoted meanwhile speaking aboard air force one yesterday
01:10president donald trump said he doesn't know how mcconnell's doing oh my god
01:18how's he doing i have no idea oh my god he got no idea man you the president of u
01:24.s
01:25i have no idea how he's doing it comes as we it comes as we've heard kentucky republicans argue
01:32mcconnell deserves at least some privacy but they wouldn't say at what point constituents deserve
01:38assurance the 84 year old can perform the duties of the job whatever your thoughts guys coming down we
01:44really need your thoughts you paid taxes you move votes and all connell is set to retire at the end
01:49of his term in january again if he were to vacate the seat early for any reason kentucky law requires
01:56a special election to be called by the governor each party's nominees in this case republican congressman
02:02andy bar and democrats oh my god this is going to be a hard ball carls booker would go head
02:09to head
02:09theoretically to decide who would temporarily fill that seat until january 3rd well then damn
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