Mitch McConnell

Mitch McConnell’s health status has become such a big mystery that even Republican elected officials and MAGA influencers are asking for proof that the Kentucky senator is alive and (relatively) well.

Instead, the only update we got today is new video of McConnell being loaded into an ambulance on a stretcher nearly a month ago.

We first learned that the former Senate Majority Leader was unwell on Sunday, June 14, when his spokesman David Popp said in a brief statement, “Senator McConnell was admitted to the hospital this morning. He is receiving excellent care.”

McConnell’s office has still not said why the 84-year-old senator was hospitalized. But audio from a dispatch call that surfaced earlier this month revealed that emergency medical personnel were called to McConnell’s Washington, D.C., home at 8:36 a.m. on June 14 because an “unconscious person” was in possible “cardiac arrest.” A medic on the call said, “CPR in progress.”

Now CNN has obtained footage filmed by McConnell’s neighbors of the EMS response. The brief video shows someone being loaded into the back of an ambulance on a stretcher. Only their motionless foot is visible.

A neighbor told CNN they opened their door on the morning of June 14 to find their street was blocked off by two ambulances, a fire truck, and Capitol Police officers. The officers said there had been a “medical emergency” but did not confirm McConnell was being treated, saying they would block the street for anybody.

Other eyewitnesses told the neighbor it was McConnell on the stretcher and he was not wearing an oxygen mask:

“He’s in a stretcher, and he’s in some sort like orange foam looking blanket type thing,” the neighbor said. The neighbor said they looked at McConnell’s feet, which were uncovered and — in a brief glimpse — were “not moving.”

The neighbor said while they did not see McConnell’s face, others on the block did.

“One of my neighbors is like, ‘Oh yeah, it’s Mitch, I saw his face,’” the neighbor recounted to CNN.

The neighbor also noted that emergency responders were working quickly but didn’t seem panicked:

“In a situation where perhaps time is of the essence, there seems to be a little bit more urgency, but there was no urgency here,” the neighbor told CNN.

When the emergency vehicles left the street, the neighbor said their sirens were not on.

McConnell’s office has said he “continues to improve,” but it has not offered any detailed updates on his health. Three of McConnell’s friends and colleagues — Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senator John Barrasso, and CNN pundit Scott Jennings — have claimed that they had lengthy phone conversations with the senator during his hospitalization and he’s eager to return to work. Earlier this week a spokesperson for Elaine Chao, McConnell’s wife of 33 years, said she was on a trip to China on June 14 and “the Senator’s health did not warrant an immediate return to the U.S.”