was struggling. i always thought i was pretty empathetic, emphatic. i think i was very, excuse me, empathetic. you know, that s an example of the stroke, empathetic. before having a stroke. but now after having that stroke is, i really understand, you know, much more kind of the challenges that americans have day in and day out. what you saw and heard there, the auditory processing challenges, the speech challenges howard: the nbc correspondent also shared this observation with her viewers we did find that in small talk before the interview without captioning it seemed it was difficult for fetterman to understand our conversation. howard: this prompted a fierce backlash. podcaster kara swisher called burns account just nonsense. maybe this reporter was just bad at small talk. new york magazine offered up a cover story on fetterman saying
issues and add health issues to it. going to pennsylvania, you ve got john fetterman. he had a stroke right when primary was happening. this is fetterman on msnbc last week. i always thought i was pretty empathetic emphatic. i think i was very, excuse me, empathetic. you know, that s an example of the stroke. what you saw and heard there, the auditory processing challenges, the speech challenges rich: so, kevin, there s a debate in nine days. do you think this becomes how much of an issue will this be in the event as i believe they re already voting in pennsylvania? they are early voting, rich. and, of course, all eyes will be on that debate. i think it s on the 25th in harrisburg. but this is a critical race, obviously. the lieutenant governor has been a up a few points heading into the fall with those hits on oz whether it be the new jersey connection, the flimflam stuff he s been doing as a medical there can over the past couple of decades, but all eyes will be