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Any minute, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell is set to speak on the floor of the senate for the First Time Since his latest Freezing Episode as questions swirl about the future of his leadership. Were monitoring those remarks. The man hunt for a dangerous escaped murderer is now expanding. Pennsylvania Authorities Say the convicted killer was spotted outside of the original search area. Two School Districts closed their doors as hundreds of Law Enforcement officers deployed to help with the search. And more than 50 years after his heroic actions in vietnam, retired Army Captain Larry Taylor will be honored at the white house. Captain taylor will receive the nations highest Military Award. We are following these latest developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. This hour on capitol hill, the senate is back in session after its august break, and many eyes and ears are going to be trained on the minority leader. Any moment now were expecting to hear directly from Mitch Mcconnell amid questions over his health. It comes after two incidents this summer where he froze up in front of cameras while answering questions for reporters. Today A Capitol Doctor released an update on that. Cnns manu raju is on capitol hill, and what can you tell us about the capitol physicians view of mcconnells health and whether we expect to hear mcconnell talk about his health today. It is unclear what he will say on the senate floor when they open in a matter of moments. We do expect mcconnell to address the senate business. He typically does that. It is unlikely that he will talk about his health. He has been very reticent to provide any details about what has happened amid these health scares. Twice this summer that he froze for roughly 30 seconds when cameras were upon him including last week. In last weeks episode in kentucky, after ward, we have not seen him publicly. These remarks were the first public remarks he has made. He has met with members privately including one Senate Candidate jim banks late last week after that incident and the immediate aftermath, spoke at that event and banks told me mcconnell seemed perfectly fine and mcconnell has spoken to other senators as well in the recent days and tried to reassure them about his health and today a letter to ease concerns about the 81yearold republican leader and whether he can continue to hold on to his powerful Leadership Post that hes held for the past 16 years. Brian moynihan had consulted with several of mcconnells neurologists. Four of them that the leader spoke with as well as conducted mri imaging and eeg study to monitor electrical activity in the brain and the result according to the doctor, quote, no evidence that hes had a seizure. No evidence that he experienced a stroke or tia or a Movement Disorder such as parkinsons disease. That is where some of the concerns that could have been there, but here youre hearing the capitol physician ruling it out. It is still uncertain exactly what caused mcconnell to freeze. His office said he was light headed at the time and both instances and the capitol physician said it is not uncommon for know is who has suffered a concussion to experience Light Headedness and mcconnell suffered a concussion late in March Whafter Falling Aa Capitol Hotel including when he meets with his colleagues for the first time Behind Closed Doors since he returned from recess and that will happen tomorrow. Manu, please keep us updated on his remarks from the floor. Thanks very much. Lets discuss the politics of this with david chalian, cnns political director. Mcconnell has been the leader of republican senators for 16 years now. What does he need to do to ease their concerns about his ability to lead . Well, you just heard manu describe for us. Hes working overtime as is his team to do exactly that, to assuage any concerns. Hes also going to be able to take the temperature of his conference when they meet Behind Closed Doors to see how sort of much this concern is permeating through the conference or is it not . You know, you dont become the leader for 16 years and the longestserving leader in Senate History if you dont have a pulse of where your members are on this, and so hell work to do that, as well and youll see by putting out two medical letters within days of each other to try and provide an update. Theyre clearly trying to isolate this to something that is just about sort of normal recovery from a significant concussion back in march and ruling out all other things or a lot of other things that it could potentially be. David, it struck me that the second time he froze it was following a question from a reporter about his decision to run for reelection in 2026. His Singular Focus now is trying to get republicans back in the white house and back in control of both chambers of congress. Yes. Most significantly, first and foremost from Mitch Mcconnell is trying to get republicans back in control of the United States senate, and i think you are right. He was being asked about his own reelection, prospects in 2026 and hes not up for lech this cycle, and i think his immediate challenge about his own Leadership Post, boris is in these days and weeks ahead to put on any attempt for any conversation that maybe he shouldnt be the leader of the conference through the rest of this congress. I think whether or not Mitch Mcconnell is around to actually serve as leader of the republican conference beyond the 24 elections i think that is a much more robust conversation that Senate Republicans will be having in the month ahead. Again, we look forward to hearing from senator mcconnell at any moment from the senate floor. David chalian, thank you very much for that perspective. Brianna . Happening now, Sentencing Hearing for former proud boys chairman Enrique Tarrio. He was arrconvict of Seditious Conspiracy at the u. S. Capitol. Evan perez is live outside of the courthouse. What more are you learning . Rid now, brianna, the judge is considering whether to add a Terrorism Enhancement which would up the sentence that he is able to give or that he would give to Enrique Tarrio. Its something that he has declined to do in the previous four of these sentencings for four members of the proud boys that we saw in the last few days. Just as a reminder, weve had four of them already sentenced. Ethan nordian got 18year sentence, and zachary reel 18 years and dominic pizzola, four of these men were convicted of Seditious Conspiracy. Enrique tarrio is of course, the leader. He was not here that day and thats something his lawyer and his attorney is emphasizing to the judge saying, look, he wasnt here that day. He wasnt in touch with them, with the members of the proud boys. He wasnt even able to control them in some of the previous rallies and some of the previous altercations that they had with police, but the judge said that is something you argued to the jury, and they didnt believe it. Rid now the judge is saying that the judge is saying that he is looking to add that Terrorism Enhancement which again would increase the level of sentence and the prosecutors have asked for 33 years and so were waiting to see what the judge decides. His lawyer right now is saying Enrique Tarrio is not a terrorist. Hes a misguided patriot. Something the judge is not really buying at this moment. Not really buying. Well see you. Thank you so much. The legal fallout of january 6th does not stop there. Donald trump and his 18 codefendants in georgia have now pleaded not guilty to charges tied to racketeering and election interference. Former trump Chief Of Staff, mark meadows is one of the defend defendants who entered that plea today. He was hoping to move it before this step. Cnns Nick Valencia has the latest from fulton county. Nick, none of these defendants have to appear in front of a judge and for cameras, at least for the arraignment tomorrow. Is that how prosecutors expected that to play out and of course, it will be different for the trials. Well, jim, we have anticipated that this could be a possibility under georgia law, these codefendants have the right to waive their arraignment and have the right to plead guilty or not guilty prior to appearing in court and thats what the 19 codefendants did and what was going to be a very busy day in Court Wednesday on no longer and Mark Meadows One of the last of these codefendants to enter a not guilty plea and to waive his arraignment and meadows has been charged with two straight crime and the rico, and trying to get an official to violate their oath and it was recently that he was mapging his case in federal court, arguing under oath that the akds for which hes charged were done while he was operating under his official role as the Chief Of Staff or the former president. The federal judge still has not made a decision on that so were waiting there. Look, there has been a flurry of legal activity and today that continued. Not only did meadows enter a not guilty plea and there was Jeffrey Clark and john eastman, the pro trump attorney and kathy latham, and David Schaefer among the many that entered these pleas and there were several of these codefendants that tried to sever their cases and some wanting speedy cases and others like the former president wanting to delay their case until after this proposed trial date. Theyre even traying to sever the cases to one another, were, they are charging these 19 codefendants. Former trump lawyer, john eastman someone of those who filed to separate his case from others for a speedy trial. When the folks are making the case not for a speedy trial, what is the argument theyre making . Well, you know, its probably a Scheduling Conflict when it comes down to the former president. Four indictments in the past five months and all of that takes time to try to figure out and coordinate among his many legal teams that are represent iing him in the trials. For those that want a speedy trial it was announceded by a legal analyst that fani willis was calling the bluff of ken chesebro, and we saw fani willis for an october trial date and its interesting to see the information surrounding this case. Thanks. You bet. We are follow regular election interference case against donald trump. The cnn has learned the Special Counsel is widening his net. Prosecutors are anyexamining ho trump allies tried to access Voting Systems in key battl battleground states. Cnns zach cohen and paula reid. Jack smith has expanded this probe and it does include some of those folks who were references, unindicted coconspirators in his indictment of donald trump which came out a couple of weeks ago. One in particular has come into focus and multiple witnesses and thats sydney powell, the former trump lawyer and prosecutors want to know about money raised by powells nonprofit defending in the republic and they want to know if that money was found to find evidence of voter fraught he gets increases that show their defending republic, to show thing things like michigan and places, and its after donald trump is fating chris nal charges, prosecutors are asking questions about the people around him and how the money was spent and house it was raised. Zach, there is a grand jury deadline. How does that speak to this . We are bumping up to september 15th, next week . That can be extended if prosecutors want to. So really not a hard deadline there, but if it is extended that might be a sign theres more to uncover and more to investigate from the prosecutors side. Really interesting how the federal case overlaps with the georgia case. A lot of threads to keep up with. Zach cohen, thank you so much. Brianna . Still to come, police in pennsylvania are expanding the search for an escaped serial killer. So far the only thing that has caught him is a security camera. Plus, this hour, a veteran is set to receive the nations highest Military Award more than 50 years after his heroism in vietnam. Later, a possible deal between the u. S. Kria and russia on cnn news central. Stay off the freeways only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. My brain. So i choose new neuriva ultra. Unlike some others, it supports 7 brain alth indicators, including Mental Alertss fr one serving. To help keep me sharp. Try new neuriva ula. Thk bigger. Being middle class right now, its tough making ends meet for sure. Republicans in congress say if we just cut taxes even more for the biggest corporations the money will eventually someday trickle trickle down to you. Right. Joe biden would rather just stop those corporations from charging so damn much. 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These are from the long wood Botanical Gardens a few miles from the prison he escaped from just last thursday. Two School Districts are closed today as police scour the wooded areas about 30 miles west of philadelphia. Helicopters and patrol cars are blasting an Audio Message from the escapees mother urging him to surrender. Cnns Danny Freeman is live in Chester County. I wonder, whats the latest update from police . Jim, the latest update from police is exactly what you said, that this search is intensifying and this search is expanding. Remember, it was just six days ago when Danelo Cavalcante broke out of the prison behind me, the Chester County prison and six days ago is when he broke out and now we have six confirmed sightings of him since and five of those sightings were actually in a pretty confined, twomile radius south of where we are here at the prison, but It Wasa Sighting Last Night at Longwood Gardens outside of the perimeter that escalated the man hunt and the search today. Youve been looking at this picture that was, as you described, a trail camera Surveillance Video basically that was taken at Longwood Gardens and you can see in the photo right there, cavalcante, he