John Thune
speaker
66 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jul
John Thune’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm Sam Greenglass.
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we know really, really little about what's going on with Senator Mitch McConnell right now.
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We've had some statements occasionally from his office saying things along the lines of the senator continues to improve, he's working closely with his staff, he's keeping tabs on what's happening in the Senate.
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But beyond that, we really don't know why he's in the hospital or how long he's expected to be there.
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There were a couple calls supposedly earlier this week between top Republicans in Congress with Senator McConnell.
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But we haven't seen video of him.
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We haven't heard tape of him.
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And so that has sparked a lot of questions about what is going on with the senator.
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Right.
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That's why this McConnell episode has really stood out, because it comes just a couple of weeks after a Republican member of the House, Congressman Tom Kaine of New Jersey, he'd been absent for almost four months with no explanation.
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He came back and in a speech on the House floor said that he had been hospitalized.
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for depression.
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But many people were still really critical, not of the fact that he was dealing with depression, but the fact that his office didn't say really anything about where he was for such a long period of time.
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And you can point to all kinds of examples where you've had people in high public office kind of obfuscating about their health, from former Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, to questions that were raised both about
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President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump in terms of their acuity for office.
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And so this all kind of plays into pre-existing notions that a lot of voters have about whether lawmakers, presidents, justices are being fully transparent about their ability to do the job when it comes to their health.
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Yeah, there's a former attending physician to Congress named Dr. Robert Krasner, who has told this story about two former Supreme Court justices who were under his care in this position, William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall.
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And he said that they asked him to tell them when it was time to step aside, when they could no longer do the job.
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And he says that when that time came, he did tell them that and helped them write their retirement letters.
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