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Dr. Oz hits Fetterman for requiring computer to understand reporter's questions, not being transparent on health
Pennsylvania Republican Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz reacted to the interview his opponent Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) gave to NBC News this week, which raised questions about Fetterman's health.
Fetterman, who suffered from a life-threatening stroke last May, struggled to speak and required a closed-captioning device to understand questions from NBC News reporter Dasha Burns in an interview that aired on Tuesday. Burns and NBC News observed that Fetterman had difficulty understanding her questions, which stoked outrage on social media from Fetterman's supporters, who accused the network of misrepresenting his health.
Oz, a celebrity doctor and television host, was asked about the computer device Fetterman used by Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Thursday.
"It's called closed-captioning, as you know, it's actually what he's requested in the only debate he's granted me, which would be in two weeks, so it's getting towards the end here. But finally I'm going to be able to talk to him," Oz said.
He expressed concern for Fetterman's health before criticizing him for refusing to be transparent with voters and release his medical records, a point that was brought up in the NBC interview.
"I've got tremendous compassion for John Fetterman," Oz said. "I'm a doctor who's actually specializing in heart failure, irregular heartbeats, strokes, these are things he's been suffering from. And I'm glad that he's getting back on the campaign trail. But this isn't about me, or the reporter, or anybody else but the voters. They deserve transparency, and John Fetterman's team has repeatedly refused to release his medical records."
"The question for the voters is: What's he hiding?" he added. " Be transparent about what you're up to. Either you've got a medical problem, which we can work through, or you're hiding a radical agenda, which is a bigger concern that I have."
Burns had pressed Fetterman on his refusal to disclose his medical records. The Democrat insisted that his doctors have cleared him to campaign and that voters can see for themselves that he's ready to serve if elected by witnessing him on the campaign trail.
But Bartiromo asked Oz, “How is he gonna make decisions about Pennsylvania and fight for the Pennsylvanian people if, in fact, he needs to have a device alongside him?
"So is this just all the time he needs that device, or is it just during an interview? I don’t understand,” she said.
"No one knows," Oz responded. "We’ve not been actually exposed to this before. It’s the first in-person interview, here we are, less than a month before the election. And I’ve been asking John Fetterman to answer questions on the campaign trail. Initially he wasn’t even on the campaign trail for the first couple months. But answer questions from voters, answer questions from reporters while you’re actually campaigning. That’s what we normally do in a democracy."
He continued, "The concern, of course, is if you don’t ever leave your home and answer questions, we don’t know the answers to the questions you’re asking. But I don’t think there’s closed captioning on the floor of the Senate, and maybe he doesn’t need closed-captioning when he’s actually moving around. But maybe he does. Again, lot of question marks, and voters deserve better."
Oz and Fetterman are scheduled to meet on the debate stage on Oct. 25, just two weeks before Election Day on Nov. 8. Fetterman has requested a closed-captioning device to understand the debate questions.
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Watch: John Fetterman reads reporter's questions off a computer to understand them, insists his stroke won't have 'impact' if elected to Senate
Pennsylvania lieutenant governor and Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman's health was the focus of a conversation he had with NBC News on Tuesday, during which he struggled to speak and understand the questions he was asked.
With Election Day just over three weeks away, Fetterman insisted that a near-fatal stroke he suffered in May wouldn't affect his ability to serve in the United States Senate should he defeat Republican Mehmet Oz.
“I don’t think it’s going to have an impact,” he told NBC News' Dasha Burns in his first in-person sit-down interview since the stroke. The Fetterman campaign required NBC to provide closed-captioning technology so that the lieutenant governor could read the questions as they were asked in order to understand and respond.
“I sometimes will hear things in a way that’s not perfectly clear. So I use captioning so I’m able to see what you’re saying on the captioning,” Fetterman explained.
NBC News noted that he occasionally stuttered and had trouble finding words during the interview. At one point he couldn't articulate the word "empathetic" and instead said something that sounded like "emphetic." But he denied that this was a difficulty.
\u201cJohn Fetterman struggles to say \u201cempathetic"\u201d— RNC Research (@RNC Research) 1665518916
"It was just about having to be thinking more, uh, sl, uh — slower — to just understand and that sometimes that’s kind of the processing that happens,” Fetterman said.
Fetterman suffered a stroke in May caused by a blood clot from his heart formed by atrial fibrillation. Doctors surgically implanted a pacemaking device with a defibrillator to monitor and regulate his heartbeat. At the time, Fetterman said doctors insisted there was "no cognitive damage," but in subsequent campaign appearances he's made several verbal slips that Republicans have called attention to while raising questions about his ability to serve.
\u201cHow can @JohnFetterman expect Pennsylvanians to send him to the Senate if he\u2019s not being honest about his health?\n \nWatch the NRSC\u2019s latest video:\u201d— Senate Republicans (@Senate Republicans) 1662990538
Fetterman admitted to NBC News that his recovery "changes everything."
“But it gets much, much better where I take in a lot. But to be precise, I use captioning, so that’s really the maijing — that’s the major challenge. And every now and then I’ll miss a word. Every now and then. Or sometimes I’ll maybe mush two words together. But as long as I have captioning, I’m able to understand exactly what’s being asked,” he said.
Pennsylvania's battleground Senate race could determine which party will control the Senate next year, with Democrats currently holding a 50-50 majority and Vice President Kamala Harris breaking tie votes. Both parties have poured millions of dollars into the contest
Republican candidate Dr. Oz has sought to make Fetterman's health a major issue in the race. Oz has consistently trailed Fetterman in polls, but he has cut what was a double-digit lead for Fetterman in some surveys after the Senate primary in May to just a 3.7-point average differential by the end of September. He has attacked Fetterman for refusing to share his medical records with reporters and for only agreeing to one debate.
Burns pressed Fetterman on his refusal to disclose his medical records.
"If my doctor teams already said I'm fine, I'm not really sure that's much more beyond transparent," he replied, but Burns pointed out that the Fetterman campaign hasn't provided any of his doctors for interviews with the press.
\u201cNBC: "Why not be transparent and [release medical records]?"\n\nFetterman: "If my doctor teams already said I'm fine, I'm not really sure that's much more beyond transparent."\n\nNBC: "We're taking your word for what your doctors are telling you. We haven't heard from them in months"\u201d— Greg Price (@Greg Price) 1665587190
"Well, I mean, if they believed that I was ready to do that, and I've been able to successfully do that kind of campaigning, I think that demonstrates what they said and their opinions were pretty accurate," Fetterman said. He insisted that he's been transparent by presenting himself on the campaign trail, where voters can see him and decide for themselves whether he is fit to serve.
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