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Struggle. the questions that democrats are asking right now is whether or not dr. oz should serve in the united states senate. okay, a fair question. the questions about dr. -- about john fetterman that republicans are asking, i think a lots of voters as they see the footage of fetterman is whether or not he can serve. these are legitimate questions about whether or not hes able to do so. and fetterman could put some of this to rest by being on "meet the press" this sunday and used the closed ca...

And not the right format and trying to blamed the closed captioning and the media host of the debate for his poor performance but hes not healthy enough to go to the senate. look, a lot of the -- then look at the fact the media hid all this from the republic and the one reporter that told the truth was secured by her own colleagues and john fettermans wife tried to get her fired. >>kayle>>kayleigh: she was and, harry, i have empathy and they only went to one opportunities with closed captioning ...

Performance fettermans campaign says the live closed captioning system used at the debate was delayed and full of errors. next start, tv, shot back writing this. >> it is notable the press was not able to see live captioning more were the viewers watching that debate. >> brian on that for us and thank you. john. >> sandra to new york kerr democratic incumbent hochul and

That nearly killed him five months ago. >> i had a stroke. hes never let me forget that. and i might miss some words during this debate, mush two words together, but it knocked me down, but im going to keep coming back up. >> fetterman using closed captioning to assist with auditory processing says hes fit to serve, citing a letter from his doctor, but would not commit to releasing his full medical records. >> will you pledge tonight to release those records in the interest of transparency. >> t...

The communications director for Fettermans campaign said that during the debate, he "was working off of delayed captions filled with errors."

And we begin with our top story. in 13 days voters will head to the polls for the pivotal midterm elections. candidates made high-stake pitches in four intense debates last night. pennsylvania, new york, michigan, and colorado. the most closely watched taking place between the two candidates vying for pennsylvanias open senate seat, john fetterman and mehmet oz. fetterman taking the stage five months after suffering a stroke and using closed captioning. joining us now is nbc news correspondent d...

-- >> but the early voting numbers are arriving in some of those presidential elections already. i mean -- >> but it seeps into the headlines of local news. it seeps into the headlines of the papers for a few days, and it cant be a national thing. when youre talking about prices that can be decided by fewer than 10,000 votes, which you guys know, they cant -- >> a lot of them today that can -- >> there are still an impactful number of swing voters out there. there arent as many as used to be, bu...

Much of the focus of course has been on fetterman who suffered a stroke in may and has struggled at times to speak clearly at public events. in a memo sent out yesterday, fettermans campaign acknowledge the disadvantage heading into tonights debate. his campaign wrote this, well admit, this is not johns format. oz comes into tuesday night with a huge built in advantage. we are prepared for right wing media to circulate malicious videos that try to paint john in a negative light because of awkwar...

Potentially they may turn the heat down tonight to try and appeal to those voters. christine? >> jeff zeleny, thank you. theyre going to see them using closed captioning in real time. how is this going to play out? if dr. oz calls out fettermans physical weakness after his stroke, that could go either way for mehmet oz. >> for sure. we have seen john fetterman talk about how there are a number of people around the country, especially the state of pennsylvania, that have family members, that have...

Debate where one side has gone into it effectively, yes, we could lose this debate, but were still going to win the election and lowered expectations to the degree they have done, specifically talking about those awkward pauses, what he does maybe mushing two words together. its clearly an attempt to set expectations low in the hope that any performance that john fetterman gives is better than what the public might have been led to expect. we have seen him in interview performances like this. th...