coverage is about fetterman. look at memhet oz and know that he and his wife lisa are be mote voted through a public service and don't need money or fame or power and giving it up to serve in the united states senate and pennsylvania, that shows you the stark contrast between the fettermans and ozs. >>sean: well said, kellyanne. your take huckabee. >> sean, i speak as a person that spent the better part of 30 years as a candidate or somebody holding office and something that people need to understand, it's one thing if you have a disability and you're impaired and trying to just make it. but you choose to step into the arena of politics and it's thrust upon you and make that decision and sign the papers to become a candidate and when you get in the arena, it is a full contact support play without pads. people ask me about running for office and first thing to be prepared if you can't stand the sight of your own blood, don't do it. it's brutal. there's a reason i don't try to get out on the field with the dallas c

so the primary continued as planned with fetterman's name on the ballot and fetterman won. he became the democratic nominee. that was the last that most voters heard about john fetterman's stroke. for months, fetterman remained in semiseclusion. as the campaign progressed, the polls tightened, he had to venture. he had no choice. videos surfaced of fetterman speaking at rallies in what seemed a bizarre and highly disjointed way. some wondered if he'd suffered, quote, no cognitive" damage. they rushed forward to bring science to bear on this question. in clifford chen's considered opinion as a respected medical professional, who works at a major research university, john fetterman was absolutely fine. fetterman was, quote, recovering well from his stroke. he had, quote, no work restrictions and can work full duty in public office. in other words, john fetterman was as sharp and as healthy as you or me, as anyone in america. in fact, more so, ready for the senate. fetterman's wife, who presumably would f know, seconded this assessment, and attacked anyone who disagreed. a str

it is said that people put fetterman in this position. i don't blame fetterman.lame his handlers. i blame the democratic party in pennsylvania. this is cruel to do to another human being. it's clear why they are hiding his medical records, it's because of exactly just that. >> carley: didn't answer the question if he was going to release his medical records but he said that being transparent to him is showing up to this debate at all. i am sure there's a lot of people saying that we'd actually love to see a little more about where you stand from a health standpoint, just some reaction from the media, "axios"'s headline, it is "fetterman's painful debate," showing "fetterman struggles after tv debate with oz." why the hell did fetterman agree to this question mike this will obviously raise more questions than answers about john's help, and senator pat toomey whe both running to replace said it's sad to see john fetterman struggling so much. you should take more time to allow him stuff to fully recover. >> todd: what's the impact on this? "the wall street journal"

"fetterman's painful debate." it was a word on a lot of people's minds as they watched what happened last night. josh kraushaar co wrote that piece. he's senior political correspondent at axios and a fox news contributor. good to have you here today, josh. overall, what was your debate take-away from last night? >> the big challenge for fetterman was to show he could pass the debate threshold. that he can show that he can have a conversation, can talk about the issues. there's a lot of voters concerned about that, the cbs news poll, 46% of voters have concerns about his health. the campaign tried to lower expectations. i don't think he hit that threshold. a lot of answers that were shaky. there was questions about whether he understood the questions. you know, his health is the big issue looming large in this very close senate campaign. democrats -- it wasn't republicans. it was democrats i talked to, members of congress, officials that are supporting john fetterman that said he should have not debated last night.

coming up this hour, i will speak to a top john fetterman

fetterman really struggled.s painful to watch. >> o'donnell: breaking news. the massive drug bust. hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills, more than 1,000 pounds of meth, plus cocaine and heroin, taken off the streets. tonight, how many lives may have been saved. children's hospitals, overwhelmed. pediatric beds at capacity, as the country sees a dramatic rise in r.s.v. we speak with an emergency room doctor. how concerned are you about a long winter of illness? >> i'm concerned. >> o'donnell: and, putin watches his troops' nuclear drills. cbs's holly williams gets reaction from inside ukraine. ♪ ♪ ♪ from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: go e to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this busy wednesday. tonight, there are major developments that could potentially shake up the midterm elections in two key political battlegrounds. the breaking news from georgia: republican senate candidate herschel walker is denying new accusations that he paid for another woman to have an abortion three dec

fetterman really struggled. it was painful to watch. >> as long as he feels that he is fit to run for office, then i will trust his word. >> i don't understand how his handlers allowed himage in that debate. >> just because he don't speak as fast as everyone else has nothing to do with what he can do in congress. >> fetterman was pressed by the moderators about why he has not released complete medical records. he has released a letter from his primary care doctor that says is he kanl of serving, oz refrained yesterday from directly addressing fetterman's health challenges but his allies like pennsylvania senator pat toomey have not. >> do you believe the question will linger in the final days here. >> i do, i certainly do. given his performance. also, let's be honest, he's not releasing all the records. we all saw just how badly affected he still is. >> fetterman's campaign claims that since the debate ended he has raised $2 million. but some top democrats remain concerned including former pennsylvania governor

fetterman is once again lying. mark my words in pennsylvania if he gets elected this country will be less safe and secure as a result. it's not just his desire to empty prisons. he is also a lifelong opponent of the fossil fuel industry, especially fracking literally $80 billion industry for this date. that's what he said a few days ago. >> i support fracking. i support the energy security that we should have in the united states. >> fracking? i don't support fracking at all. i never have. >> i don't support fracking. i think it's something that has to eventually go away. >> there is fetterman on tape lying through his teeth and there is nothing genuine that this trust fund brat in a hoodie , there is nothing genuine or sincere about the guy. he claims to be a man of the people and then you will release violent criminals into the people's neighborhoods? you pretend to be an ally of the african-american community and then vandalize their businesses or hold an innocent person at gunpoint? if you purport to be a big t

fetterman insisting he's fit to serve. addressing his stroke right at the beginning, there was concern it would impact his debate performance and it clearly did. used the closed caption device throughout it. but the two candidates were hitting each other on abortion and fracking both of which are major issues in pennsylvania. >>> and then in new york, governor kathy hochul and her republican challenger lee zeldin sparred on crime on their only debate. hochul once led zeldin by double digits in the polls and the race has tightened in the final weeks of the campaign. even before the debates millions of people across the country had already cast their ballots for the midterm elections. early voting now under way in 40 states. turnout set to be on pace for the record set in the 2018 midterms. and in georgia 1 million preelection ballots have been cast. let's bring in cnn's eva mckend live in a polling place in georgia. eva, what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, a common answer from voters when you ask them why they are turni

not fetterman. fetterman just lies. >> i've always supported fracking. i always believe that independence with you are energy is critical. >> but there is that 2018 interview that you said, quote: i don't support fracking at all. so how do you square the two? >> oh, i do support frackings and i don't -- i don't -- i support fracking and i stand -- and i do support fracking. >> jesse: fetterman is the worst type of politician. the kind that lying comes easy to. >> fracking, yeah, fracking, i don't support fracking at all and i never have. >> i don't support fracking. i think it's something that has to eventually go away. >> jesse: so last night was the worst debate performance in american political history, and it wasn't even close. a snap poll showed 83% of pennsylvania voters thought dr. oz won. it was so bad cnn called it a scandal. >> i mean, i thought somebody should have invoked the mercy rule about 20 minutes into the debate. >> what we saw today is someone who is not ready to be in office. like i found it edges extremely hard to watch. >> i though

i do feel very bad for fetterman.ut i am actually appalled at the people around fetterman. >> laura: that's a great point. >> that they did not protect or love him more. he has families members. if this had happened to me i would pray people around me would love me enough to not put me through this. this is very bad for them, for the democrat party, and it's an embarrassment to the people of pennsylvania. they deserve far better than this. >> laura: yeah. mollie great point. thank you. >> an escape now for new york. that is the focus of tonight's angle. now, during election season, failing political leaders put a lot of time and energy into changing public perception, believing that better pr is the answer they feverishly attempt a brand reboot. now, biden's done it more times than i can say mega maga but it's maddening to see elected officials try this in the city that never sleeps, or maybe we should call it the city that's never safe. >> ask me why does new york lead the entire population laws, because their wallet

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he said john fetterman. the debate after the debate, ads are already beginning to air including the abortion ad the fetterman campaign and democrats are trying to seize on dr. oz tying him to doug mastriano, the republican candidate here who does not favor any exceptions for abortion. of course, the oz campaign is focusing on fracking, a clear stumble from john fetterman trying to explain his evolving position on that so the bottom line is, john, we are going to need to take some time to see how voters digest all of this. we know from years past debates are not won in the moment but in the days after. as the conversations around dinner tables in workplaces, water coolers, et cetera, begin to settle in and also ran into several people here this morning who said they didn't watch the debate at all. one person said she taped it. she plans to watch it tonight. one person said she's weigh not interested so the reality is, again, there are 13 days and let's take all of those days to see how this settles in but no

and fetterman was attacking us . sof s ab i know. 92% of the coverage is about fetterman. look at memhet and know that he and his wife lisa are being motivated through publica pu service. they don't need the money. they don't neeicd the fame ser.e they don't neepod the power.wet they'rupe giving so much of that up to go and serve ipen the united states senate in pennsylvania you, that shows you the stark contrast between the fetterman and the aussiefete >> well said, kellyanne, your take. governor huckabee. you sure?n, i s let me juspet say, i speak as at person who's spent the betterane part of 30 years either as a candidate or somebody holding officeg offi and something that people need to understand. it's one thing if yoty andu have a disability and you're impaired and you're trying t o just make it, but you choose to step into the arena of politics, it is not somethingu that is thrust upon you. deci that decision. you sign the papers to become a candidate. and when you get the arena, it is a full contact sport playedfo without pads. offi people ask me about running for

john fetterman is not fit for office.ism would be a disaster in the senate for the great people of pennsylvania. the more people in pennsylvania learn about this guy, the less they like him. he is unelectable and would be a horrible senator. the doctor who cleared fetterman is said he is in good health is a campaign donor. he is not a doctor who treated him for a stroke. fetterman needs to be transparent and release the medical records. let's hear from the doctors that treated your stroke, john. a campaign donor doctor and joe biden saying you are capable doesn't cut it. speaking of joey, he thinks that fetterman's wife is running and not john. saying that in pittsburgh. >> john, thank you very much for running. i do appreciate it. you will be a great lady in the senate. >> sean: here with reaction the republican congressman from ohio jim jordan. it's 46-46 in pennsylvania. and blake masters is down by 1 in arizona. i like it for this reasonism hope it cretes urgency in terms of people knowing their vote will matter in 19

fetterman came out against fracking. pennsylvania is the second largest gas producing state in the country, and that is a major issue. i think the fetterman is going to have to walk back some of these extreme positions that he has taken. look, we're all sympathetic to him based on his health, but he's going to have to explain this. the question, is we're all watching how he comports himself. we'll see how he does tonight with this closed captioning, but i think that this is a really important event tonight for fetterman. he's going to prove that he has the capacity to serve. >> anderson, as you pointed out earlier as well, yesterday you had senator klobuchar on trying to downplay expectations. john fetterman, even when he was healthy, it was a terrible debater. if you go back and look at the primaries, the primary debates that he had with conor lamb and senator kenyatta, he got his clock cleaned. his debate performance tonight healthy or not healthy is going to be viewed by voters very closely. >> i want to bring in our

he is throwing his support behind john fetterman. that could help fetterman. the raemtd is his name is already on the ballot. that could create some confusion. people could still vote for him if they are turned off by both of these candidates. important to point out, a half-million pennsylvania voters, more than that, have already cast ballots and more will do so every single day here. so the strategists i have been speaking with do not think this has much of an effect. in a tight race, which pennsylvania always has, of course, anything can make a difference. >> thank you. perspective now from abby phillips. also pennsylvania republican congressman charlie dent and david urban with us as well as dr. tara narula. the fetterman campaign has been trying to lower expectations saying fetterman is recovering from a stroke. last night senator klobuchar told me he was never the best debater to begin with. it's not uncommon for campaigns to do this. do you think voters will hold fetterman to a different standard given his medical condition? >> i think that remains to b

fetterman is fine, his beliefs are mainstream.ut the problem is he's not fine and he's not in the center. but don't you dare point that out even if you are from a friendly network. >> walk me through why we need the closed captioning and hewitt works. >> sometimes i will hear things in a way that's not perfectly clear. so i use captioning. i'm able to see what you are saying in captioning. >> we did find in smalltalk before the interview without captioning, it seemed it was difficult for fetterman to understand our conversation. brian: what is wrong with that report. they decide to attack the reporter. >> lots of other journalists who have interviewed fetterman unleashed on her. >> i thought it was inappropriate when she said smalltalk. >> maybe it's her. >> other journalists who dealt with fetterman came forward and said they had a different experience. brian: blue check liberals on twitter wasted no time of slamming the reporter for her accurate account of what she experienced. one journalist said i talked to john fetterman for

oz and fetterman.ates to try to paint the other as the most extreme choice tonight. oz will likely do this with crime and fetterman with abortion rights. take a look at this. with likely voters in pennsylvania who care most about a candidate's character and integrity, fetterman blows dr. oz out of the water by 36 points. i bring this up, martha, because fetterman's whole campaign has been really based on attacking dr. oz as being an out of towner, a wealthy guy that is not relatable. it's interesting to see on the stage whether or not he will relay that exact same message or if he will be forced to talk about the issues. especially the economy, which republicans like dr. oz are favored on. martha? >> thank you, bryan. we'll see you tomorrow. bill hemmer watching all this as he always does very closely. >> how you doing? >> martha: good to see you. it's interesting. so basically they're going to have monitors over the moderators. so each side will be able to read what the question is while it's being sa

how the democrat fetterman on stage against republican dr.e did that during his career on his tv show. he has done that during his campaign about lying about our record here. and he is also lying probably during this debate. >> i'm running for the u.s. senate because washington keeps

fetterman really struggled.painful to watch. >> as long as he feels that he is fit to run for office, then i will trust his word. >> i don't understand how his handlers allowed him to engage in that debate. >> just because he don't speak as fast as everyone else has nothing to do with what he can do in congress. >> reporter: fetterman was pressed by the moderators about why he has not released complete medical records. he has released a letter from his primary care doctor that says he is capable of serving. oz refrained yesterday from directly addressing fetterman's health challenges, but his allies like pennsylvania senator pat toomey have not. >> you believe the question will linger in the final days here? >> i do. i certainly do, given his performance. also, let's be honest. he is not releasing all the records. we all saw just how badly affected he still is. >> reporter: fetterman's campaign claims that since the debate ended, he has raised $2 million. but some top democrats remain concerned, including former

john fetterman did not. it was hard to watch. he is far from being the candidate he was before his stroke. so he has got to own it, which he effectively did last night. i don't think that debate helped him. but it was transparent to the voters and that itself is important. there's no running away from this. you gotta lean into it and say, the man i was before my stroke, i will be again once i heal. trust the voters believe that and see that and understand that. >> i think that's right. he has done long-form in interviews -- if you look at the podcast -- she suffered from a stroke so she has views about it as well. this needs to be out there for pennsylvania voters to decide. there's no constitutional health requirement to be a u.s. senator. the only requirement is that the voters think that you are fit for office and enough of them vote for you. >> it's out there. people saw it. his performance was worse than it was in the interviews. some of the things that democrats are saying is, not that many people watched the debates live.

the new allegations that fetterman made against him. stay there. pas patch reported reductions in pain severity, using less or a lot less oral pain medicines. and improved quality of life. that's why we recommend salonpas. it's good medicine. >> laura: now if you want to watch the teamwork between the democrats and the big wash dogs in our media, look at the reaction nbc's interview with john fetterman. remarkably the reporter conducted an interview. she admitted that fetterman was using closed captions to help guide him through the actual interview. >> closed captioning technology to help with the auditory processing interviews. will this impact how you do your job? will you need accommodations on the senate floor? >> i feel like i'm going to get better and better every day. by january, i'm going to be much better and dr. oz is still going to be a fraud. >> laura: so congrats to fetterman's consultants for coming up with that line. we have a lot of serious questions here. how can a man struggling to process conversations in real time a

fetterman was reading.paign is not complaining about the fact there were errors in it but as griff just said, they offered two rehearsals and he did not go to both or either one. there it is right there. that is what he was actually looking at. apparently he had problems because the debate was a problem. >> we had big problems. as you pointed out he started saying good night but he ended shouting during dr. oz's closing statement the last time i seen wonders like that was the president with his own issues. but look, i don't know why the campaign put them in this position. a democratic operative over a axaxios asked why he was allowed to debate. this will raise more questions and answer. washington inside publication of the opening line, let's state the obvious, john fetterman struggled to communicate effectively. that was very clear. voter safety issues matter of the most from a crime but the polling suggested they were not as interested in john fetterman but you can't walk away thinking he is going to be a

we asked, where's fetterman's doctor? >> why are we hearing from you instead of fetterman's doctors and why hasn't he released any of his medical records? >> so first, i have to push back against your answer, because he has released a detailed report from his doctor saying that he's fit to serve. >> reporter: today, voters we spoke with were split on the debate. tom lawlor, an attorney and a democrat, still undecided. >> i'm not sure if mr. fetterman's people should have him in this race. i feel bad for him. if my decision had to be made today, i think i would lean for dr. oz. >> reporter: but richard ferro, a retiree from pittsburgh, says he's sticking with fete maern. >> okay, he has a little bit of trouble talking. his mind is okay. i mean, if he, if it affected his mind in some way, i could say okay, but he's still a smart guy. has nothing to do with his speech. >> reporter: you still have full confidence in fetterman? >> right, i do. in fact, already sent my vote in. >> rachel scott with us from pennsylvania tonight.

in a written statementtten purported written by john fetterman himself from the hospital, fetterman announced thatdly writ he was f absolutely fine.ai i'm feeling much better, the statement read . ing muchetter.doctors tell me ie any cognitive damage. okay, so the primary continued as playing with veterans name on the ballo w t, and fetterman won. ate the democratic was t nominee and thatos was the lasto that most voters heard about. >>kefo john fetterman stroker mn months. intterman remained in semi seclusion. ha that is , the campaign progressed and the polls tightened. he began to venture out. he had no choice. had n and video clips surfaced of fetterman speaking at rallies in what seemed to be a bizarre and highly disjointed way. some began to wonder if he'd really suffered, quote, no cognitive damage from his stroke. >> it was at this point that letterman's personal physician, a man called clifford chen, who also happened to be a campaign donor to him and other democrats, rushed forward toques bring science toti bear on this question in, clifford chen's considered opinion as a respected

some were honest about fetterman's very rough night.ers like lawrence o'donnell that night just refused to address it or praised his courage or deferred to their guests or describe it in the mildest possible terms or simply attacked dr. oz instead. i'm howard kurtz, and this is "mediabuzz." ♪ ♪ howard: nancy pelosi says she and her family are heart broken and traumatized by the vicious assault on her husband that's been drawing constant media coverage. an assailant broke into the speaker's san francisco home shouting where is nancy and violently attacked 82-year-old paul pelosi, grabbing a hammer from his hand and sending him to a hock -- hospital where he successfully underwent surgery. david depape has been charged with attempted homicide and other crimes, but the focus on msnbc was blaming donald trump. >> there is a very specific form of murderous rage coming from congress trump's most violent and militant devotees directed at nancy pelosi. >> it's as if the attacker in san francisco was seeking to finish the job of those who attack

wise for the fetterman campaign to put him up against oz? even before the stroke, oz was so much more polished on television because of his two decades on tv. but then particularly in the wake of the stroke, do you think it was the right move to have him debate oz? >> i think it was really to his credit that he debated. as we've seen in our commonwealth, with our for example, republican candidate for governor refusing to debate and any number of candidates, dem democratic and republican refusing to engage in debates. and voters should have access to more information, that includes debates. that goes to his credit that he participated. >> i want to ask you both the same question, you said he should get credit for this. he calls it the elephant in the room here. were you expecting his stroke symptoms to manifest the way they did, and do you think voters were and will they look past that? >> if you've ever seen anyone recover from a stroke, i think it seemed like he was recovering from a stroke. it didn't seem like he didn't have a policy -- he

that's exactly what they're doing with fetterman.is bedford is the executive director of common-sense society, which we badly need. chris bedford, thank you so much for coming on. >> good to be here. >> tucker: so you're a bigot if you want a senator who can use language? >> that's kind of wild to see one of those examples that you posted of tammy duckworth, somebody in a wheelchair, beat a sitting republican senator, senator mark kirk, because he had suffered from a stroke. because he had suffered from that stroke in office, he lost the endorsement from the "chicago tribune," got hard questions by reports about his ability to do the job. fetterman told us a few months ago, aside from missing a word, mushing one or two up, he was fine. now we see he's completely not fine. people want to call it ableism. the point of an election is whether or not you're able to do the job. you don't get a participation trophy just for showing up here. >> tucker: ha-ha-ha. >> we're at a point right now, they make you say a man is a woman, a woman is a

amy: that last answer, john fetterman. will bunch, have no subject on this subject, "after the ivory tower falls -- you have written a book on this whole subject, "after the ivory tower falls." put what they're saying in context. >> the bottom line is this, both of them could have and should have given a few mor specifics. fetterman supports student debt relief and emmett oz opposes student debt relief. again, if you want to focus on the issues, i think that is the important take away for voters. oz's answer was not good. you get the standard republican trope about -- not trope. college demonstrators are somewhat overpaid. even addressing that problem is only a drop in the bucket when you're talking about the debt crisis, which is $1.7 trillion, which is an astronomical figure. he also said a language should have got more attention, he thought solution to making college more affordable list of more electronic classes. if you are never the height of the covid era, that was the biggest complaint from students and administrat

>> no. >> reporter: he criticizes fetterman for not releasing his medical records while fetterman accuses dr. oz of not being transparent on abortion rights. this is what he told us this week. >> dr. oz likes to make fun of me that i might miss a word, but he's missed two words, and that is a yes or no on the national abortion ban. >> reporter: so, we asked him about republican senator lindsey graham's bill that would ban abortions after 15 weeks. if you win, you're going to be a colleague of his and have to vote on bills like this. can you tell us right now, yes or no on that bill? >> i'm giving you a bigger answer. i'm telling you, i don't want any federal rules limiting what states do with abortion. it should up to the states. >> reporter: lester, there was more we wanted to discuss. we had asked for the same amount of time fetterman gave us, about 30 minutes, but the campaign said they had time constraints so we only spoke for about half that time. . >>> now to the migrant crisis. the biden administration announcing this week it will start expelling more venezuelan migrants to mexico.

fetterman's campaign says fetterman is well on his way to recover and recovery, and fit to govern. it's not just fox news. it's former republicans newt greene grudge who keeps chiming up like tossing stuff out. he chimed up i would pennsylvania candidate fetterman have a tattoo saying i will make you hurt? it's true, veteran used to have a tattoo saying i will make you heard, he headed inked over years ago, of course gen x kids like myself will remember those lyrics from the classic nine inch nails song herd. if he had a tattoo from closer, that would also be weird. but it was also covered by the late country star johnny cash. not exactly the veiled threat gingrich was trying to make it out to be. but if that was not ridiculous enough, republicans have taken it further, trying to link fetterman to gang activity. oz tweeted out a breitbart aric or article saying john fetterman in braced spelling of braddock that shows fidelity to notorious crip gang. it goes without selling john fetterman does not show fidelity to the crips, obviously. or any game for that matter. but again, it demo

and i have to say that the bar was set very low by the fetterman campaign.nd you know, the bar wasn't set low enough. i mean, it was, that was really a, it was an awful thing to watch. you know, on a human level, i feel for john fetterman, but at the same time, this was a job audition and you know, it just struck me he's not ready as some of those voters described. i think this is going to have an enormous view on the race. he couldn't articulate his views on fracking, couldn't speak about crime or he's been questioned about his record on the board of pardons. yes, dr. oz made a gaffe, but that's going to be a much smaller issue than the issue of qualifications of john fetterman, which have been legitimately called into question. he didn't meet the moment. >> jeff, you're there. last night clearly marked the only time we'll see them face off. do you think the fetterman campaign made the right decision in participating in that debate last night and no others? >> wolf, the final answer to that question won't be known until election day or all the votes are cou

in fetterman's case, by any reasonable standard fetterman is not. only the modern democratic party could have carried him all the way to the senatorial nomination. when you look at his record of 25 times voting to release murderers who nobody else on the parole board would vote for. you look at philadelphia, which just passed its all-time record for carjackings. over 1000 carjackings. we still have three months to go. people have to stop and take a deep breath. my brother lives in pennsylvania said to me, we are a lot more scared of fetterman then we are of new jersey. he thinks doctor oz will win just because despite every attack on doctor oz in the end he's the candidate of lower prices. he's the candidate of affordable gasoline. he's the candidate of energy jobs in western pennsylvania. he's the candidate of locking up criminals and protecting the innocent. these issues are crushing the democrats and they are being to pivot as joe biden did in philadelphia in an astonishingly negative vicious speech. he has nothing to say that is positive. >> let

i've known the fetterman family since 2005. however, our job as journalists is to give the voters as much information as possible and then they do whatever they're going to do in the voting booth. there are people who have won -- that were incapacitated or have passed away, but that -- our job is to tell the voter what is going on. what dasha said is something that everyone that has gone to a fetterman event and has gone up to the rope line and has tried to have a conversation with him has experienced. it's not exploiting or what his health issues are, it's just changing the facts. >> so what has been -- you just referred to this, what has been your personal experience in covering him since the stroke occurred? >>. >> well, i haven't been able to talk to him, and you know, i think the campaign is trying to sort of find a way to me ander through this. they've been up front in saying that he has the auditory processing issue come means you can't comprehend. it's not a hearing -- it's not just a hearing thing. it's a cognitive thi

otherwise -- fetterman?se you just say nothing about the situation where, obviously, the man is struggling, and our sympathies are with him and his family to deal with the after effects of a stroke. >> again, it is perception versus reality. and when you have a race this tight, the perception is -- and republicans have run with it, which means the perception was accurate -- that it looked like this reporter was trying to throw this individual she interviewed as running for senate mt. state of pennsylvania, very close race, john fetterman, under the bus. look, we've had two senators in the past, one a democrat, one a republican. you alluded to it earlier, one from new mexico, one from illinois. mark kirk was not expected, he had a much more severe stroke than john fetterman, and he made a mying rack louse recovery. and the senator from new mexico, he is still in the senate, he suffered a stroke and, of course, the questions are larger than that, howie. are we saying if somebody's in - >> no, that's not a comp

in fact, fetterman's votes in fetterman's policies have led directly to an increase or an opposite ofd raising peace any kind. let's look at what's going on in philadelphia. this level of violence is constant and skyrocketing in the state and yet fetterman has insisted on continuing to vote. he says grandmothers and grandfathers are criminals and he's voting for the criminals. he's trying to make this campaign all about his rise up from the ashes. it isn't about that. it's about his votes that lead to things like this. >> harris: we are watching a street shoot-out. while paper that on the screen. when you talk about crime, it's a random and violent. that is a democrat led city and it is much like the one we are sitting in right now in new york city where things are just off the charts in terms of grasping for some safe and secure life for citizens. there were a couple things with fetterman and terms of crime where dr. oz was able to hit h him. i'm with kellyanne on this. our hearts break and we don't want anybody to be physically harmed, but don't look at what he's doing. reading a mo

that's on john fetterman. fetterman is taking a harsh position. he's undermined them at every level and taking away some of their fundings. >> oz says he would endorse president trump if he ran again and fetterman says he'll support biden. turning to new york with governor ka ka kathy hochul. zeldon hitting hochul of her cashless bail. >> i am going to suspend cashless bail because there is a crime emergency. my opponent thinks now there is a polio emergency going on but not a crime emergency. >> anyone committing laws, have consequences. >> governor hochul does not support vaccine mandate for kids at this time. senator zeldin says he does not support vaccine mandate in any way or form. >> matt, we'll see you coming up in the night cap. >>> dr. oz and john fetterman's debate lit up social media where a lot of people saying it is uncomfortable to watch. a lot of people already voting by mail, will this debate move the needle? let's bring in the author of the new book, "come on, man," joe conche, great to see you, always. i want to give people conte

john fetterman would literally ban their jobs. he would would put them out of k or think about the families who've been devastated by crimeb and by fentanyl here, the keystone state. i mean, when john fetterman wata asked if you had a magic wand, you could have one wish. >> what would it be ? he didn't say like, i would endd our inflation problem or i'dthe bring down the price of gas orpc i'd solve the opioid epidemic i that's killing so many pennsylvanians. i woul he said i would end long sentences for murderers. well, that's in addition to all the murders he's voted to let out of prison. so, yeahout of, there's an absoe sense of urgency here in urge pennsylvania and really across the country. penbecause most americans understand the stakes of this election. nd theif you want a future that is bright and prosperous and safeerous an, for our for f our country, for our children, then you have to vote republican and you have to. help these republicans get elected. you can do that by going to dr.m oz .com and pitching in to make sure

you mentioned fetterman/oz, 2.3% edge for fetterman. warnock in georgia, i think everyone expects this to be very, very close. now these are the three that i think are majority makers and by the way, this is a d.c. this is an r.c. this is a d.c. 50/50 in the senate right now. where is our second tier? these are other races that could come along. j.d. vance ahead of tim ryan, but not by a huge margin. this is a race i think -- we're not talking about it as much as we should. he's running into someone named sherry beasley. ron johnson, this surprises me. up 3.4%. why? because he was behind the lieutenant governor this summer. johnson has run an effective campaign. if we started at the beginning of the election cycle and said who is the most endangered? kelly and warnock would be the two, but kelly has maintained a solid lead here, and there are questions as to whether republicans are fully committed to the republican nominee, blake masters. if we add that up, that's three races here, four races here, seven. i think that's where the senate

bless john fetterman. ef got up there and i know the talk in d.c., he shouldn't have done it. i was proud of him. he has gone through a tough health challenge. he was out there fighting last night for pennsylvania voters and i think they appreciate that he stood up under very tough circumstances and laid his plans out. and i think for pennsylvania families, as i say, a lot of folks with health issues, they saw him and they were proud of what he did last night. >> but, i mean look, if he was a republican candidate you would not be saying that same message. i mean, clearly you have no concerns about hisable to do the job and even, frankly, the stress and difficulty of the job on his health? >> anderson, i disagree. if that had been a republican who had a stroke and got on stage, i don't care if you are a democrat or republican, you saw a human who last night. they could have said we are not going to done and done paid advertising. he decided not to do it. he stood above politics last night and is the right t

fetterman made it through last night.ere a couple of moments -- i think if you are sitting in the white house, this is what you are looking at -- that really popped out and may energize democrats in these final weeks, specifically dr. oz's answer on abortion where he talked about local politicians being brought in to the decision making. if you are in the white house, you are focused on what is going to get people out, what's going to energize them and less about whether we can look back in the rearview mirror. fetterman matches the state. he was picked through the primary. i think white house is rooting for him at this point, of course. >> one of the things that i was watching closely in terms of the format, the format for all the debates this cycle has been 15 second rebuttal, 30 second answer, 60 second answer on complicated questions. dr. oz was never forced to answer serious questions raised about the products he pushed, profits he made, his television doctoring, serious questions raised by the faculty at columbia un

he is making case for fetterman. opposite way. >> john fetterman as mayor, a small town outside of pittsburgh took on violent crime, he has tattoos on his arms dates when young men were killed before he became mayor, he spent years working to end violent crime in the town successfully, why this an issue. tens of million of dollars of dark money ads from anonymous donors created a mistaken impression. bill: interesting, we'll figure it out on november 9. but argument might be that the dark money was very strong on the blue team and significant way during the election, they had more money. >> there has been a lot of outside money. but i think message m means more and that pennsylvania race the fact that sha shapiro is running to center on crime, not agreeing with fetterman, he is like running to the right of fetterman on school choice. bill: have they didn't an event. >> a couple party evens. >> have they. >> awkward. bill: we'll see what they do. >> and oz used that wedge in his advertise, saying shapiro is normal dem

our exclusive with john fetterman. his first in-person sit-down interview since suffering a stroke on his battle with dr. mehmet oz, his recovery and his message to voters questioning his health. >>> another stunning twist in the case made famous by the podcast "serial." the new evidence that led prosecutors to drop murder charges against adnan syed. >>> the results of nasa's mission to intercept an asteroid. was it a success? >>> and remembering a beloved tv sleuth. the legendary angela lansbury. >> announcer: this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. it is really anybody's guess what the russian strategy is tonight after vladimir putin's military trained its missiles and lethal drones once more today on ukrainian cities, a follow-on to yesterday's long-range attacks that killed at least 20 people and knocked out power in several regions. russia says the strikes have been aimed at critical infrastructure. but new images of the attack appear to show missiles impacting in civilian areas. russia's lo

oz and fetterman? >> i'm really going to be watching to see how voters in the commonwealth respond to what they see with fetterman's performance. that's one side. as david was saying, this auditory processing issue that's on going and the fact he's going to be reading what the moderators are saying and his opponent is saying through closed captioning, if he shows he's in total command and this issue isn't a problem, he jump as huge threshold to try to demonstrate he's up for the job. the oz task, though, is do you belong in this arena? he's new to politics. people know him as a celebrity doctor on tv and i think he also has a moment here where he needs people to walk out of here thinking that they can see him not that he's on a lark of some sort with this campaign but actually see him as a united states senator. so i think each man really does have an important task here to get those final voters in pennsylvania over to their side in this critically close race. >> yeah, critically important, indeed. je

just months ago, fetterman was leading by five points.his health, the debate touched on other subjects that motivated voters, including abortion. >> i want leaders, political leaders to put the best ideas nord for states to decide them contrast with my opponent john fetterman who on this debate stage said he would demand federally mandated for all states that would allow abortion at 38 weeks. >> i want to look into the face of every women in pennsylvania. if you believe that the choice of your reproductive freedom belongs with dr. oz, then you have a choice. but if you believe that the choice for abortion belongs with you and your doctor, that's what i fight for, roe v. wade for me is -- should be the law. he celebrated when roe v. wade went down. and my campaign would fight for roe v. wade. and if given the opportunity to codify it into law. >> fetterman also struck back at dr. oz for using senator bernie sanders as a point of attack against fetterman during his campaign. >> he keeps talking about bernie, bernie sanders, you know, three