Mitch McConnell pushed back at concerns over his health during a Sunday interview telling CBS News’s Margaret Brennan telling the host he is “completely recovered.
McConnell, 81, made the remarks during an interview on “Face The Nation,” which primarily focused on foreign policy issues involving wars overseas.
“People wonder about your health, how are you feeling?” Brennan asked. “How are you doing?”
“People wonder about your health, how are you feeling?” Brennan asked. “How are you doing?”
The questions came after McConnell fell a couple of times earlier this year, hitting his head during one fall. In other eyebrow-raising incidents, McConnell froze up while speaking to the media after becoming dehydrated and lightheaded. (RELATED: Mitch McConnell Suffers Second Medical Incident This Summer)
“I’m fine. I’m completely recovered, and I’m just fine,” he answered.
“You and your office felt the need to share and disclose some of the details about your health because of some of these public incidents,” Brennan responded. “And the doctor here said there was no evidence of Parkinson’s disease or a stroke or a seizure.”
“And I wonder, is there anything the public should know that wasn’t disclosed?” she asked.
McConnell answered, “I’m in good shape, completely recovered and back on the job.”
Brennan continued to press on the matter, asking, “Does that mean that you think you are able to continue serving, and you want to continue serving here at a time when we are talking about incredible dysfunction in Washington?” (RELATED: Rand Paul Doubts Capitol Physician’s Diagnosis Of Mitch McConnell)
“I think we ought to be talking about what we were talking about earlier, rather than my health,” McConnell said.
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