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**Jill Wagner** (0:00)
We're recording today out of our Industrious office in New York City, which is perfect for a team like ours because Industrious takes care of everything, so we can focus on bringing you the news.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (0:12)
Yes, we recently moved to the co-working space Industrious. They have locations around New York and around the world. We have an office in Manhattan. We've also turned one of the offices into a podcast studio where Jill and I record the podcast.

**Jill Wagner** (0:23)
And while we're working on putting it together, I love the snacks. They're complimentary, you've got all-day coffee.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (0:30)
They have special treats on a day-to-day basis every morning and every afternoon. Sometimes it basically serves as your breakfast. I've obviously used the office in New York, but whenever I'm on the road, I make sure to look up if there's an Industrious there. So I've used it in DC. I've used it in Indianapolis. It is a great co-working space and we have a special deal for all of you to check it out and see if it's a place where you just want to work out of individually if you need a break, or if you want to move your office there. Right now, we have a special deal going with Industrious. We're offering 50% off for first-time Daypass users if you need a meeting room, if you need office space, or again, just a desk in the open space. Head over to mo.news slash Industrious. When you see these beautiful spaces in person, you'll see what we mean. Again, mo.news slash Industrious. Book a tour or use it for the day, 50% off.

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**Mosheh Oinounou** (2:19)
Hey, everybody. It is Wednesday, July 8th. You're listening to the Mo News podcast. It's Mosheh Oinounou here.

**Jill Wagner** (2:25)
And I'm Jill Wagner. This is the place where we bring you just the facts.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (2:29)
And where we read all the news and read between the lines. So you don't have to on this National Blueberry Day and National Ice Cream Sunday Day.

**Jill Wagner** (2:38)
Which I feel like in your house, Mosheh, is it probably a real holiday?

**Mosheh Oinounou** (2:42)
This is a big deal.

**Jill Wagner** (2:43)
You can definitely get behind this.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (2:44)
It's like up here with Thanksgiving, National Ice Cream Sunday Day. Not that we need an excuse, Jill, to be eating ice cream, but the ice cream guys have given us a good one.

**Jill Wagner** (2:54)
And Mosheh, we shall take it by your presence here on this podcast this morning, that's Baby O part two has not arrived.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (3:03)
Yeah, if you're watching us on our YouTube, the Mo News YouTube channel, you see this is not, this is our normal home office.
I'm not doing this from a hospital waiting room. So no, we're still in stand by mode here. When we have news, Jill, you will know about it first.

**Jill Wagner** (3:19)
Speaking of news, Mosheh, yesterday we mentioned that Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has not been heard from since mid-June. There have been serious concerns about his health, but yesterday on Tuesday, three prominent Republicans said that they have spoken to him.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (3:37)
Yeah, it's the latest Capitol Hill mystery, right? We are following the saga of the New Jersey Congressman, Tom Kane, for several months with his office not telling us what he was up to, and then finally revealing after four months away that he was actually in treatment for depression. Now, Mitch McConnell, where we know there was a 911 call to his home, with somebody in his home had a cardiac arrest, and Mitch McConnell has happened to be in the hospital for the last three weeks. So there's been a lot of rumors, people claiming he's brain dead in a vegetative state, whole variety of things out there from people who call themselves independent journalists, but have a mixed track record, you could say. That said, clearly with all these rumors, it led some top Republican advisors, top Republican officials to say, no, I've had a conversation with him. They won't reveal what he has or when he'll be back, but trying to pour some water on the situation. Nonetheless, Jill, it led us to have a discussion in the newsroom, just on the need for more transparency on Capitol Hill. Now, obviously, they have to pass a law for themselves, but the fact that we now have had multiple examples in recent years, where hundreds of thousands or millions of Americans, in the case of Kentucky, they have two senators, one of them, we don't know what their condition is right now, not knowing what's going on with their elected representatives, and it basically being up to their elected representatives to share with them about their own health at their own whim or disposal.