00:02The demands for more transparency surrounding Senator Mitch McConnell's health are growing.
00:08Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is now publicly calling on the 84-year-old Republican to prove he's still able to
00:14serve or step down.
00:17McConnell has been hospitalized and in rehabilitation since a fall in June that left him briefly unconscious.
00:24On Monday, his office released a new photo of the senator with his wife, Elaine Chao,
00:28along with a statement from the attending physician saying he continues to undergo intensive physical therapy.
00:34But the governor says that's not enough.
00:36In a letter, Beshear wrote,
00:38As governor of the state you serve, I am calling on you to directly and verbally address the people of
00:44Kentucky
00:45and provide proof of your capacity to serve or resign.
00:49Beshear told Bloomberg TV that Senate Majority Leader John Thune should look into McConnell's condition if the senator does not
00:56respond.
00:58Mitch McConnell owes the people of Kentucky, who are his boss, who have elected him repeatedly, a lot more transparency
01:06than this.
01:07All we've gotten are two photos and statements that virtually anybody could put out there.
01:14If Mitch McConnell won't level with the people of Kentucky in the United States, Senator Thune has a duty to
01:20do so.
01:21Thune said Tuesday he had seen Beshear's letter, but called it a matter between McConnell and the people of Kentucky.
01:28McConnell's office so far has not commented.
01:30The former Senate Majority Leader is not running for re-election in November.
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