missed the vote last night. he of course was in the hospital a week ago after feeling lightheaded after a democratic retreat. everyone of course is cautious about his health months after he suffered a near death stroke. of course that could lead to more episodes of seizures and other things that require urgent medical attention, but here it is his mind, his emotional state. here he is saying that he s been feeling depressed. he suffered from bouts of this during his life, his chief says. he met with the capitol physician on monday who urged him to go and check himself in and do some routine tests. at the end of the statement, it says after examining john, the doctors at walter reed told us john is getting the care he needs and will soon be back to himself. obviously a rocky start for the senator, freshman from pennsylvania who came off the heated victory in november, just in the senate for a little over a month now, but already having missed days of votes in the hospital, in
without college degrees, while desantis has republican leaders and whites with college deed of release. after the two of them, the person who polls best is nicky haley. best is relative. haley is trying to plant an early stake in new hampshire, fielding questions from voters at a number of town halls today, while also trying to dodge fresh attacks from her former boss donald trump. here she is in an exclusive with an nbc s craig melvin. when i first said i wouldn t run against him, afghanistan hadn t fallen, we didn t see the rise in inflation. we didn t see what was happening in our schools the way it was, and we didn t see the results of the midterms that we just had. it is time for a new generation of leaders. you shouldn t have to be 80 years old to get to washington, and we ve got to start righting the ship. we need new blood. joining me now is nbc news senior political editor, mark murray, thanks for being with