auditory processing. sometimes i may not be able to hear things or miss a word and now i just want to make sure that i m able to know exactly the question that s being put to me. fetterman s campaign told the new york times said he took cognitive tests with scores in the normal for his range. fetterman s campaigns did not make his doctors available for interview. oz says if fetterman can speak in front of thousands of supporters he should be ready to debate now. he is dodging all questions but those from the press and voters, which is insulting in a democracy. i think he is doing it to avoid this radical left ideology he has and he doesn t want to defend it. voters in pennsylvania will start receiving absentee ballots as early as monday. bill: speaking of absentee ballots, a big fight over those in north carolina. what s happening there? there is. republican lawsuit against the state board of elections for
there is no precedent for debates in early september. he goes on to say, quote, we re absolutely going to debate dr. oz and always our intent to do that. it has simply only ever been about addressing some of the lingering issues of my stroke. the auditory processing and we re going to be able to work that out. fetterman says they are looking into possibly using a closed captioning monitor at the debate so he does not miss any words. the 53-year-old is recovering from a stroke he suffered four months ago and has been struggling at events. if you say you think the word of steelworker, what words come to your mind? in the valley, we make steel. the oz campaign is skeptical a debate will happen responding
republican mehmet oz, not a specific debate, but he says he intends to debate. fetterman said in a statement he always intended to debate oz and that the delay was about addressing lingering issues after a stroke he suffered such as auditory processing. cnn s senior political analyst john avalon joins us now. what do you think? i think this is the big deal and the right thing to do for john fetterman, not necessarily for his self interest but the people of his state. he s got to be able to show that he can fan and deliver. auditory issues that s ominous, there are details to be worked out but politico has an interesting article out today about how few senate candidates this cycle are actually willing to debate. yeah. it s pathetic. one of the things i do want to say, give context to this debate controversy. i ve covered a lot of campaigns in my day and every campaign i ve covered there is one candidate who wants to debate less than the others other, usually the candidate who
that image is recovering from a showcase effort in maine this dealing with side effects, in a statement saying, we are absolutely going to debate doctor oz and it was always our intent to do that. it has simply only ever been about addressing some of the lingering issues of my stroke, the auditory processing, and we are going to be able to work that out. the statement says, a debate will likely take place in mid to late october. the odds campaign has been criticized for seeming to mock fetterman s health issues. but fetterman is also getting pressure from the editorial board of the pittsburgh post-gazette in an op-ed saying that if he s not well enough to debate, that raises questions about his ability to serve in the u.s. senate. so, stay tuned, we will continue to follow. up next, he thinks the doj is getting close to having the evidence to indict trump. we will tell you what trump s own attorney bill barr thinks about those mar-a-lago documents. ing to take for the world to reach ne
the ability to make lives better, it is your duty to do so. and i have seen john make lives better, so many times. and i think that s what he s supposed to do. so i support him. and yes i did save his life. and i will never let him forget that. she did save my life. and i that s the truth. she recognized that i was in the middle of the stroke. and even at the time, i was still committing to wanting to go to a campaign event. but i am just so grateful, not only that i survived, because i was close to a top stroke facility, i was able to get there quickly. and that has allowed me to survive, and to be, not running a very successful campaign as a result. and, the only lingering issue as every now and then i will have auditory processing. i might miss work every now and then. or i might mush two words together. but that is really the effect