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Down, but i got back up. >> that's pennsylvania democratic u.s. senate candidate lieutenant governor john fetterman addressing the fallout and concerns about his performance during the first and only debate in his u.s. senate race against republican candidate dr. mehmet oz. you'll recall that lieutenant governor fetterman suffered a stroke on may 13th, just a few days before the primary. since then some of his health struggles have been on full display on the campaign trail. he's avoided taking questions from reporters sometimes. last night's debate, fetterman stressed he is on the road to rec...

Call but whatever happened, he accepted the line of communication from the u.s. the two have not spoken since may 13th and before that they only spoke a few days before the russian invasion back in february. so, what is not being said may be the post interesting here. because you could bet, guaranteed that vladimir putin knew this call was going to happen and accepted the notion of whatever discussion happened with the u.s. side. now these calls with the russians are very formalized. we've been told for months now they have happened in previous administrations. they are essentially scripted. e...

A work mashup as he calls it. the stroke, which was on may 13th, so about five months ago, seemed to affect his ability to sort of comprehend or understand spoken speech, so what he seems to be doing, then, is sort of relying on his visual part of his brain, which is back here, to read the words. then he's responding pretty quickly. we don't -- as you heard there, we don't know what his medical records show. we don't know how much this affected him immediately after the stroke, and what his recovery has looked like so far, but that's what we're seeing here. that's not that unusual some someone...

Receive speech and that's typically done on the left side of the brain over here. what is interesting about fetterman is his ability to understand speech seems to be affected. his processing of those sounds, he's relying on what's back here, which is your visual areas of brain, instead, to basically read the words and then be able to respond. i watched a lot of that interview that he did, and you know, he responds pretty quickly once he reads the words. sometimes he has difficulty saying the words, which, again, would be a part of the brain up here that's likely affected. it was may 13th when ...

Know someone who has a stroke. i think that's all part of their calculus. but pennsylvania is a very close state. i think this race is closer than maybe some of the polls might imply, and the more that oz kind of pressures fetterman on this, the more that oz is out there on the trail, it could be a tough thing to run away from for fetterman. >> yeah, and in fact, i was wondering about that. is fetterman rejecting the debate because he thinks that oz has been nasty about his health, or because he is having word-finding difficulties and auditory processing difficulties after his stroke? >> the c...