Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) momentarily froze on Wednesday while speaking to the press with other Republican Senate leaders.

“Good afternoon, everyone. We’re on a path to finishing the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) this week, there’s been good bipartisan cooperation and a string of…” McConnell said, before going silent for about 20 seconds before some of his colleagues intervened to check on him.

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), who is a physician, grabbed onto McConnell’s arm and asked, “You okay, Mitch?”

“Is there anything else you want to say or should we just go back to your office?” Barrasso asked. “Do you want to say anything else to the press?”

Barrasso and McConnell then stepped away for a brief period of time before returning.

In the meantime, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) took over the press conference and addressed the media.

Odd moment: McConnell freezes at start of Senate GOP leadership press conference and is escorted to the side by his colleagues pic.twitter.com/hT5bLnstOS

— Raquel Martin (@RaquelMartinTV) July 26, 2023

An aide for McConnell said that the senator “felt light-headed and stepped away for a moment. He came back to handle Q and A, which as everyone observed was sharp.”

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Barrasso later told reporters that he was “concerned when he fell and hit his head a number of months ago and was hospitalized.”

“And I think he’s made a remarkable recovery,” Barrasso said. “He’s doing a great job leading our conference, and he was able to answer every question that the press asked him today. And you may note he answered more questions than he normally does.”

McConnell later returned to the press conference, said he was fine, and took a shot at President Joe Biden over the president falling on the stage earlier this year at an Air Force commencement ceremony in Colorado Springs.

“The president called to check on me,” McConnell said. “I told him I got sandbagged. … Gotta watch those sandbags!”

BREAKING: Biden takes a big fall on stage just now at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation pic.twitter.com/GxkMbpyoNo

— Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) June 1, 2023

Florida Governor and GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis shot down the idea of choosing Democrat contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his vice president if he wins the 2024 Republican nomination.

DeSantis, who entered the race earlier this year, rejected the idea of a DeSantis/Kennedy Jr. ticket to Outkick’s Clay Travis despite the Democrat candidate gaining popularity in some conservative circles.

Kennedy Jr., the nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy, formally launched his 2024 Democratic presidential campaign in April, vowing to end the merger of state and corporate power. The environmental lawyer and best-selling author garnered attention in recent years for his stance against vaccines and became a vocal critic of the government’s handling of the COVID pandemic.

But despite the two presidential hopefuls coming from different political camps, DeSantis said he “100%” agrees with Kennedy’s position on Dr. Anthony Fauci and health bureaucracy corruption — issues both candidates speak openly about in their respective campaigns.

“Here’s the issue: I’m aligned with him on [former presidential medical adviser Dr. Anthony] Fauci, the corruption, and the health bureaucracy — 100 percent,” DeSantis said. “But, at the end of the day, he’s more liberal, very liberal on some. I mean, he used to say, I don’t know if he still believes this, that if you deny climate change, you should go to jail, things like that. So, it’s like conservative voters, they would want those positions flushed out. He opposed the affirmative action ruling [that said] you can’t racially discriminate … he would have wanted that to remain. So I just think at the end of the day, you need somebody that’s going to reflect the values of the broad coalition.”

“Yes, the medical stuff — I’m very good on that. So that does appeal to me, but there’s a whole host of other things that he’d probably be out of step with.”

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis shoots down the idea of having Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. be his vice-presidential pick.

There also seems to be the notion that he suggested RFK Jr. could lead the CDC or FDA but that's not what the transcript suggests:

CLAY… pic.twitter.com/Huu8m96XsB

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 26, 2023

DeSantis, however, floated the idea of siccing Kennedy Jr. on one of the top federal health agencies in the nation.

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“If you’re president, sic him on the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] if he’d be willing to serve. Or sic him on CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention],” DeSantis said. “But in terms of being veep, there’s 70% of the issues that he may be averse to our base on, you know, that just creates an issue.”

In recent months, DeSantis has expressed ongoing criticism of federal agencies, specifically hitting the CDC during the height of the pandemic for imposing mandates on U.S. citizens.

DeSantis reportedly met with Kennedy Jr. during the COVID pandemic and slammed the federal government’s response as “catastrophic” while making it clear that complete destruction of certain institutions might be going too easy on them.

“There was a report that — I had spoken with Bobby Kennedy Jr., and he had said that ‘the governor said that you know, that we need to burn to the ground the CDC’ and all these things,” DeSantis began.

“And I just want to be very clear, full disclosure,” DeSantis continued. “I was not that kind to CDC and NIH and any of those [agencies]. Just for the record, just so your viewers don’t think I’m going soft, but I can’t think of a more catastrophic response than how this country responded to COVID, particularly at the federal level.”