00:00Senator Mitch McConnell is giving the public a fresh look at his recovery after a serious fall
00:05last month. The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican posed for a new photo with his wife, former
00:11Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, smiling as he continues an intensive rehabilitation program.
00:18McConnell has not yet been medically cleared to return to the Senate and will miss both the
00:23memorial service for his late friend Senator Lindsey Graham and Kentucky's annual Fancy Farm
00:29political picnic this weekend, the traditional start of campaign season in the bluegrass state.
00:36In a statement, McConnell said he is working hard to get back to his full schedule, adding,
00:40quote, there is no place I would rather be than with the people of Kentucky.
00:44The Capitol's attending physician says McConnell is undergoing multiple physical therapy sessions
00:49each day, noting that the effects of the childhood polio he survived continue to impact his mobility.
00:57McConnell is in the final months of his more than four-decade Senate career after deciding
01:02not to seek re-election this year.
