Sen. Mitch McConnell’s three-week absence has led many to wonder if he’s even alive, but CNN’s Scott Jennings put that question to rest with a totally believable claim that he chatted with the senator for an oddly specific 17 minutes. @MichaelKosta went to the hospital where McConnell is staying to get the truth from the man himself, and defends the perfectly not-dead senator against a skeptical @RonnyChieng.