Speaker 1: . Last week, we talked about Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader,
a Republican, apparently suffering either a small stroke or a seizure, live during a press
conference during he during which he inexplicably went silent, saying nothing for about 20 or 30
seconds. He seemed confused, later insisted he was fine. When asked whether he went to the doctor,
he didn't say that he did. Many doctors have now weighed in and said that's a medical emergency.
When that happens, particularly given the fact that he fell down not long ago, and given the fact
that he is a over 80 years old, that's a that's an immediate medical emergency, you should be going
to an ER. We don't know if that happened. We still don't know if that happened. But increasingly
there are calls for Mitch McConnell to resign. On the other side of this, we have another really sad
situation with democratic senator dianne feinstein now dunnit. Dianne feinstein has announced that
she's not running for reelection in 2024. This is the seat that now is a contested seat involving
multiple democratic members of Congress, a couple of whom we have interviewed. Adam Schiff is one
of them. Barbara Lee we've interviewed Katie Porter is another who has not agreed to come
on the program up until this time. So Dianne Feinstein will not be running for another term,
but there are real questions about her cognitive state. Many reports that she will meet the same
person, many, many, many, many times and every time has no memory of the fact that she met them.
Forgets all sorts of different things. Here is a moment where the vote on an appropriations bill,
the defense appropriations bill last week comes to Dianne Feinstein. All she needed to do was say,
I, she she the whole point was just vote yes. And she launches into a speech reading notes. You hear
her colleagues trying to stop it. You see staff members coming over saying, just say I just say I
she really doesn't seem to know what's going on. Speaker 3: Senator Feinstein says. Um.
Pardon me? Yeah. Uh. Speaker 1: So that's one of
her colleagues saying, Just say hi. Senator Patty Murray and Dianne Feinstein says, Yeah, and then
starts reading some stuff off a piece of paper. Speaker 3: I would like to support a yes vote on
this. It provides 823 billion. That's an increase of 26 billion for the Department of Defense,
and it funds priorities submitted for them. Speaker 1: Now, a staffer is saying,
just this is the vote now. Just say I. Speaker 3: Just saying okay, just
fine. Thank you. Speaker 1: All right. So some people kind of laugh
that this is funny, but this is really very sad. This really is sad. And I got some emails the
other day when I said as a general thing, it would be great to have more folks from
younger generations representing the people. And some people said, David, you're being a just and
all of this is terribly age. That is not at all what I'm talking about. We are talking about a
number of people in positions of power here who do seem cognitively compromised. That's not good for
anybody. I actually want older folks representing us in general. I want older generations
represented among the leadership of the country, because we do have we do have a society that in
some ways is a just and I don't want to remove voices from that generation from positions of
power, but we also have to be aware of situations where something just doesn't seem to be working
right. And with Dianne Feinstein, it clearly has gotten very, very bad. I'm not issuing any
kind of a diagnosis. We can just tell by looking at what's going on that this is very, very bad.
There are calls for her to resign if that were to happen. Gavin Newsom gets to appoint someone.
We've talked about the political implications,
but the Mitch McConnell situation, it's not good. The Dianne Feinstein situation, it's not good.
That is where I will leave it. You judge for yourself what should happen? What is going on?