India, Aug. 6 -- Mitch McConnell's chief of staff evaded a reporter who was inquiring about the Kentucky senator's location. Independent journalist Nicholas Ballasy posted a video in which he confronts Terry Carmack, a long-time aide to the former Senate majority leader, who has been instrumental in maintaining the silence from McConnell's team during his extended absence.

In a video shared by Ballasy on Tuesday evening, the journalist trails Carmack through the Capitol corridors, relentlessly questioning him about the 84-year-old McConnell.

"Sir is Senator McConnell going to put out a video?" Ballasy inquires. "Why hasn't he done that yet?" Carmack, who earns an annual salary of $226,000 as per Daily Beast, gazes straight ahead.

"Did ...