CNN host Kasie Hunt told Scott Jennings that he should get Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the phone.
As speculation swirls around McConnell’s prolonged absence after being found unconscious in his home and taken to the hospital, Jennings joined The Arena to quell concerns about the senator’s health. This comes after he published a post on X, saying that he spoke to McConnell on the phone Tuesday morning.
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I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a…
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) July 7, 2026
“I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible,” Jennings wrote.
Hunt brought this up on her show, asking the contributor if McConnell might be willing to take a phone call from him live on air.
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“As we wrap up here, do you think he’d be willing to call into the show? Could we get him on the phone now?” she wondered.
“I wasn’t really expecting him to call this morning, to be honest, so when the phone rang and I was able to talk to him, I was frankly pretty grateful,” Jennings chuckled. “I mean, as I said, I’ve known him since I was a teenager. If it hadn’t been for Mitch McConnell and the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, you know, I would never have been able to go to college. He’s been my mentor, and he changed the trajectory of my life.”
“So, you know, when things happen to him and happen to people in your life that you really care about, you just sort of naturally feel extremely worried. So when I heard his voice today, and he was clearly keeping up with stuff, that made me happy to hear from him because, like everybody else, I’ve been, you know, somewhat in the dark about it, but to hear him talking and to know that he’s also talking to the Senate leadership, it made me pretty happy,” he added.
Hunt then asked if he thinks a picture of McConnell should be released to quell theories from the “MAGA media ecosphere.”
“I sometimes wonder, like, if I were lying in a hospital bed, would I want a bunch of people around photographing me? Probably not. Particularly if I were an 84-year-old person who’s normally private about his health. Probably not. But, look, I take the criticism. I think it’s a fair question about transparency. I think it’s a fair question about whether they’ve done enough. But ultimately, these office holders, you know, they’re in charge of their own operations, and it may be that somebody around him says, ‘Let’s put out a picture,’ and he doesn’t want to do it,” Jennings mused.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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