WEBVTT - UPDATE: NJ Congressman Missing For 4 Months, Will FINALLY Explain Absence Today 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:05.840 Hey, the folks, it is Tuesday, June thirtieth. 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:12.240 And he's back. The mystery of the missing congressman is 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.760 supposed to be solved in a matter of hours. And 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.000 with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:18.720 What's the count. 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.280 He hasn't been seen since now, literally not been seen 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:23.720 since when. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.600 The public March fifth. 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.000 Nobody's laid eyes on him. Literally has not been seen. 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.760 Last week you had a New York Times reporter see 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.560 him through the window of his home for the first 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.720 time in a brightly lit room. Even that sounds crazy, 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:41.440 and they were able to report the had a suit 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:43.520 and tie on, which was even stranger. 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:44.480 This is where we are. 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.040 This guy has This is not just a matter of 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.400 not showing up to work robes. He hasn't seemingly stepped 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.639 foot out the house, even to grab a Starbucks. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.960 People have no idea not only what he's been doing, 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.920 what's been going on with him physically, medically, but they 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.280 don't know where he is or has been for all 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.840 of these months, nearly four months, not one reporter and 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.920 you know how nosy we are, have been trying to 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:15.240 track him down. They have gone to every place that 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:19.800 was possibly known that he's been to, that he owns, 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.319 that his family's associated with. They could not figure out 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:27.399 where this man has been. It has been a mystery 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.360 that no one has been able to solve. 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.520 But he is going to solve it himself today, Robes, 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:37.559 all questions will be answered, hopefully. But we're talking about 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.960 New Jersey Republican Congressman Tom Kane Junior. 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:41.360 Robes. 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.440 He has been a story for a long time, and 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.680 today is the day he says he is finally going 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.080 back to work and we are going to hear from him. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.160 His colleagues are going to be hear from him. He 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.040 apparently has a busy day, even though we don't exactly 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:56.720 know what the schedule is. But Robes, just the fact 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.279 that he's going to be in DC is a story today. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.480 I have to admit I've marked this day on my 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:06.640 calendars because I am fascinated with not just the fact that, yes, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.440 people have things come up, they've had medical issues. You 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:13.000 have to go away for a while and do what 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.680 needs to be done, whether it's treatment or but to 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:20.960 not explain yourself when you are a congressman, working for 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:26.320 a district and running for reelection is unprecedented. Why wouldn't 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:30.079 you be transparent If you're going through something, you tell 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.360 your voters, the people who you serve, what's happening so 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.160 that they can understand where you've been. 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.120 That adds to the mystery. 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:41.560 We have seen plenty of people, whether they're celebrities and yes, politicians, 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.600 they share their struggles, their medical struggles, struggles, sometimes their 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:50.519 mental health struggles. Yes, they share this thing to I 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.280 don't know's I won't say win favor, but Robe. That 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.200 makes them more relatable. They've overcome something and it makes 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:01.760 you a little more sympathetic. So if he Robes is 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.640 not sharing what's going on, that has added to the 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:05.600 mystery of oh my. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.520 God, what could it be? 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:08.960 Right? And it's not sure? 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.040 Rises to that level that I can't say anything. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.280 Yet. You can't even see him. We couldn't even see 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.400 what he looked like during this time. 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.800 We didn't hear anything from him, and not from his wife, 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.440 not from his staff, not from his famous father, who 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.760 is the most popular Republican New Jersey governor. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:28.320 Ever. They've all been. 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:32.600 Asked, and they've all been very vague, incredibly vague. So yes, 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.960 we know he has an unspecified or he had an 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:40.240 unspecified medical condition. He missed more than one hundred votes 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.800 in Congress, and he wants people to re elect him. 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:44.840 I mean, imagine, you don't show up for your job, 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.240 you don't explain why you don't show up for your job, 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.480 you don't participate in voting, which is kind of the 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.120 whole point of your job, and you want people to 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:55.560 put you back in office. 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.800 Well, today he is going to at least ropes. He 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.560 has to explain why. And people are forget when you're 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.720 going through things, but they're forgiving when they understand what 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.000 you're going through. Have some idea. There's mystery, you know, 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:10.320 there's so much mystery that it lends itself to secrecy. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:11.840 That's different. 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.040 You're right, that's a really good way to put it. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:18.120 It's different to be private versus secret, and it feels 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:19.240 more of the ladder of the two. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:20.760 Now Here is the latest. 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.120 I kind of referenced it at the top, but CNN 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.800 literally yesterday. I mean everyone's been trying to stalk out 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:28.840 to stalk him and where he is and trying to 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.440 figure out what's going on. But they actually saw him again, 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.120 they said the reporter said he was sitting on the 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:35.080 stoop of his home. 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:35.880 With his wife. 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.440 When he saw the reporter, he got up and walked inside, 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.760 but he waved walked inside his home and then sent 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.760 out a spokesperson to the reporter, and that spokesperson told 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.840 CNN that the congressman is planning to deliver a floor 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:56.280 speech today to members of Congress to address all of 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:56.920 the mystery. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:58.400 Okay, and so. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:03.320 That interaction via his spokesperson is only the second time 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.080 he's even been seen since March fifth, because yes, the 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.039 week before, a New York Times reporter, as I said, 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.160 saw him through the window. 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.920 Through the window of his home. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:15.839 It's funny. 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.719 The New York Times reporter said it was a brightly 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.080 lit room because he didn't want to seem extra creepy, 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:21.839 but he was kind of like, you know, when someone 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.960 turns the lights on and they're in a bright room, 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.120 you can obviously see from the outside. 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.480 But yeah, he was absolutely being kind of creepy. 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:30.200 Oh yeah, I got I could have seen more, but 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.280 I had a hard time seeing through the bush that 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.800 was covering the window that I was speaking through. 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.560 Did go up to the door, he rang the doorbell, 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.320 and the uh he said, the congressman said, he said, 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.600 it's good to see you. He said the congressman was 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.840 wearing a dark suit and a red tie because it 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.239 literally he is the first person to have laid eyes 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:49.200 on him since March. 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:50.159 And he said. 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.440 All the Congressman said was I'll talk to you next week, 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.159 Thank you, and shut the door again. 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.479 Even that rogues what is happened. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.719 Look, the answers are going to be there later, but 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:01.880 the speculation is run rampant. 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.440 Okay, and can you this is one of my most 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.800 This was the point where I was really intrigued. One 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.760 of the one of the statements from Cain's chief of 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.400 staff created even more mystery. He said, when people were 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.640 asking where is the congressman, where is Tom Kane? His explanation, 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.320 there are no cameras where Tom is. 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.160 Oh yeah. 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:30.000 That threw everybody off, so wild theories ensued. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.400 You could apply, i mean, insert anything there where cameras 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:33.880 aren't allowed. 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.880 The hospital, a botched plastic surgery job. 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.720 People even suspected he might show up in Congress as 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.160 a woman. He had a gender change operation. People thought 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.200 maybe he was in rehab. He had some sort of 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:49.320 either substance abuse or some sort of addiction of some kind. 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.599 They thought maybe there was a stroke and I actually 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:54.559 thought that too, because if he didn't want to be seen, 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.920 then it's it makes sense that people thought, well, there 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.920 must be something physically disfiguring about him, or something so 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.919 different or so jarring that he wouldn't want to be 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.719 in public. Yet people who the two reporters who have 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.760 seen him did not report that he looked any different, 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.920 so that all of those theories are pretty much done. 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.400 He was able to speak to reply to say hello 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.880 or I'll talk to you next week, Robes, why he 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.280 hasn't or maybe there is something Robes, That's all he 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.120 could muster as far as speaking. Maybe there's something going 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.080 on with this speech or there has because it doesn't 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.559 make sense if you look okay and your voice is working, 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:31.280 you get on social media and say hey, I'll check 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:31.920 in with you later. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:33.360 You don't have to give all the details. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:37.320 Why has he refused, Robes to refuse to. 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.400 Be seen exactly? 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.440 And a lot of members of Progress who thought that 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.200 they were friends of his, many of them during this 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.920 these months, have reported that he has not answered their emails, 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.920 he has not returned their calls or returned their messages. 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.360 There's been no contact, and that's really ruffled their feathers, 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.160 and I mentioned the reporters trying to find him. Look, 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.600 he has not been at his home and that he 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.840 was just seen at. He has not been there. He 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.080 has not been at his family's vacation home, which is 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.360 in Bayhead, New Jersey. Year round residents of Fisher's Island, 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.360 New York, where the Cane family owns a large estate, 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.440 says they have not seen him either. I mean they 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.440 went to every place that's known that he would frequent 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.920 or he would have a place to stay to recover 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:20.880 from whatever. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.120 He was not at any of those residences. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.400 Sure, I mean, surely we have to see him. As 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.200 we're recording this this morning. He has to be in 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.920 d C on his way to the Capitol. Surely we'll 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.800 get pictures or something ahead of time. He has to 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.360 walk into the Capitol building. He has to be seen. 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.400 He has to be around colleagues. So I guess we'll 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.880 start getting something. But just to lay eyes on him, 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.599 I mean, I hope he's okay. Robes with this, And 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.400 I'm gonna ask you this at a later point, But 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:51.079 there is a question and how much privacy are you're 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.679 entitled to when you are a public servant? When you're 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.320 a celebrity, when you're in the public eye in some way, 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:00.760 how much how much do you are you in titled too? 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.280 Is he entitled to this much? Or can you make 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.679 an argument that what he is doing is wrong? No 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.200 matter what's happening with him, you're in a different space 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:10.920 and you have to give more than you've given. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:12.920 Well, I think that that will be up to the 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.320 voters of his district in New Jersey, because they're the 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.360 ones who you could argue you have been underserved, have 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:22.040 been unrepresented by a man who has refused to give 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:23.760 a reason why up until today. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.880 It has to be a big reason. It's almost hate 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.640 to say it, like you, this better be good. Yeah, 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.440 it needs to rise to a level that we go 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.160 ooh god, goodness, my god, it's awful. What to He 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:39.880 needs explanation that lends to some kind of forgiveness robes 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:41.600 for how he has handled this. 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:42.360 Yeah, I'm trying to. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.800 I have racked my brain trying to figure out because 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.200 the stroke was the best thing I could come up with, 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:49.960 like a Bell's palsy situation. 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:51.760 Anyone who has. 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.360 Ever had a friend, I actually had a friend and 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:57.160 a colleague who went through this and it is temporarily 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.880 disfiguring half your faces. But I also feel like, look, 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.679 I understand to each his own in terms of how 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.760 comfortable you are being seen. But even something like that 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.200 would have been, like you said, not you're looking for 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.160 a pity vote, but it would have garnered sympathy, and 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.480 you would have been able to maybe even speak up 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:13.600 or speak for people. 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.560 Who are also suffering something similar. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.040 So I'm just curious if it was something like that 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.120 or some sort of illness, why there would have been 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.040 just a great benefit to have been communicative during that 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.679 time and just let people know where you are and 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.200 actually just let people root for you or support you. 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.760 So it just none of that makes any sense to 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.840 me politically or even personally. And we don't know what 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.440 people are going through, but this just I cannot come 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:42.040 up with a scenario that makes logical sense. 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.720 That's That's a good point, Robes. 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.520 It he's gonna say something or he has to say 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.960 something today that we all go, okay, I understand. I 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:54.720 don't know what that could be. I don't know what 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.959 I would understand. I don't know, Robes. And again the theory 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.640 about him showing up as a woman, I was like, Okay, 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.280 I'll listen to that one because he doesn't want to 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.640 be seen. But then they said he opened a damn 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.480 door with a suit and tie. Yep, looking like Tom. 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.400 Kin, looking like Tom Kaine Junior. All right, when we 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:11.880 come back. 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:17.360 Despite all of this, President Trump formerly endorsed Tom Kine 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.320 just last month, in. 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:20.200 The midst of all of this. 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:24.600 We'll tell you what's at stake if anything goes wrong 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:37.160 for Tom Kane Junior. Today, welcome back everyone to this 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:38.360 episode of Amy and TJ. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.920 It is a big day on Capitol Hill. Today. 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.040 All eyes and a lot of cameras will be pointed 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:48.280 at Capitol Hill waiting to get their first glimpse, maybe 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:53.200 even ask their first questions of missing Congressman Tom Kane 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:54.600 Junior from New Jersey. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:56.240 Voluntarily missing. 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:57.800 By the way, when we say missing, it's not like 0:11:57.800 --> 0:11:59.120 he disappeared off a hiking trail. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.199 He volunte terribly disappeared. That's actually a very good way 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.920 to put it. But yeah, we saw in May, Trump 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.400 went on to truth Social. This is my favorite part 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.280 as he endorsed him. He said the congress member was 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.480 working tirelessly. That was he actually put that in his 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.640 truth Social post. Not really sure what he was referencing, 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.559 because a lot of folks would say. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:25.760 All working when, where in what capacity? 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.480 But yeah, he won his Republican nomination officially on June second, 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:30.400 earlier this month. 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:31.760 Obviously, he ran. 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:33.600 On a pose that might be the only reason why 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:38.280 he felt so comfortable not making any appearances at all. 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.120 That's a good point, you know. I wonder how it 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:41.720 would have been different had he had an opponent. 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:43.920 It would have had to be different. 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:48.000 But Democrats elected Rebecca Bennett, She's a former Navy helicopter pilot, 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.600 to run against him, and they really think, especially given 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.120 Caine's unexplained absence, that this. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:57.040 Could be one of their best shots. 0:12:56.600 --> 0:13:00.000 At picking up another seat in the House. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.319 Which could tip the balance of power. 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.160 So yes, there is a lot at stake, and that 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.720 is why President Trump and certainly other Republicans are trying 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.760 to understand and support what could possibly be going on. 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.440 And I do think this is a note. 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.320 His opponents, there were several up until the primary, but 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.440 certainly Rebecca Bennett herself, they have shied away from going 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.120 after him because they are they are aware he could 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.800 have a really good reason why, And you don't want 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.160 to be seen as the person attacking a man who 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:36.800 is medically struggling. So everyone's been tiptoeing around him because 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:40.079 they don't know the why, and they're afraid of regretting 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:41.720 anything they might say prematurely. 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.880 I don't think it's a criticism, bro. I get that 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:51.040 it's not a criticism to point out just facts, and 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.319 you can still say that's a question, well how much 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.920 privacy are you afforded or entitled to? But I think 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.280 it's it's okay to say I really hope he's okay. Hey, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.040 I really want him to be okay, and look forward 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.840 to hearing it and hopefully we can have a vigorous 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:10.600 debate through this campaign season. But right now, this district 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.720 is not being represented. It hasn't since March. They haven't 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.679 had a representative vote on their behalf in one hundred 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:17.720 and fifty votes. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.560 And that is such a fair point to make. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.680 That's fair. That's just fair. 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.440 And look when I hope he's okay, and maybe he 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:28.400 can answer for why, but I think it's legit robes 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:30.920 for his opponent to do it in a tasteful way, 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:32.720 and to do it the same way the voters would 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.040 look at it. Look, we hope you're okay, but please 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:36.240 explain to us what the hell's going on? 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.000 Yeah, and certainly after today when we get that explanation, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.400 you know, this is going to be such a huge 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:45.120 part of this campaign going forward. I actually I'm so 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.320 happy that I don't have a television set in New 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.880 Jersey because can you imagine what those ads are going. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.120 To be like once they know what they're working for? 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:54.040 Oh my god, if. 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.160 They have any way, and like you said, you could 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.800 even do it delicately acknowledging that someone's going through something. 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.840 But look, for many people, we don't know what he's 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:03.280 gone through. 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.440 But so many people who have gone through medical battles 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.480 publicly or just through their they don't have the option 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.640 not to go to work. You know, you might have 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.920 a cancer diagnosis and have to go through chemo and 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.360 be like, you might have no hair and look sick, 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:17.560 and still you got to show up. 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:18.920 To work because you've got to pay your bills. 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.080 So I don't know how much sympathy he'll get because 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.280 so many people have walked that walk, and I don't know. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.880 Maybe he'll say something that will make it all make sense. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.200 But the last thing we heard from him was on 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:34.040 primary day, he released a statement and I thought maybe 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.560 we could just this is all we know from where 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:40.240 he is, He said, I am more energized than ever 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.160 to keep fighting for the people of New Jersey's seventh District. 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.880 Right now, I am focused on my recovery, and under 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:52.120 the advice of healthcare professionals, I will transition from virtual 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.760 work to in person work within a matter of weeks. 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.520 At that time, I will be completely transparent as to 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:02.200 the nature of my medical condition. Once again, I appreciate 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.160 all of the prayers and patients from my constituents and colleagues. 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:09.000 I understand the need for transparency on this matter, and 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.120 I look forward to sharing my experience with the public. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:16.440 Okay, transparency. When he chooses to be transparent, it is okay. 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:21.800 And again, robes he does, he has, Yes, he's entitled robes. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.120 Whatever he's going through, it's okay. 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:28.080 It's not he No matter what he's going through, he 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.720 can still be criticized for how he's handled his job exactly. 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.880 And you talked about robes. Everybody else having to show 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.040 up to work, and people go through things. No matter what, 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:37.960 we've seen all kinds of hell. Hell, you've gone through 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:39.520 all kinds of hell and still got to show up 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.360 to work, and still show up to work. It's not 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.840 showing up to work, Robes. It's not just that, it's 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:48.920 calling your employer and explaining why you're absent. For that 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:52.880 is such a good point since March. That's all that 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.720 I would argue, Robes, no matter what the condition is, 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.800 is worthy of critique. 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.000 And that's a really good way to put it, because 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.600 I think we all have big hearts. We understand life 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.400 happens and things get messy, and sometimes you do have. 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:08.480 To take a leave of absence. 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:10.520 But even if you're a kid going to school, you 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.840 have to have an excused absence, like there has to 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.840 be a reason given oh what. 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:16.800 Take call it, Robes accountability. 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:21.560 Even the sixth grader has it right, So that part 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.040 is confusing. And if there's a reason as to why, 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.600 he couldn't say more willing to listen to all that 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:28.960 willing to listen. But man, this is you're right, ro 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.000 This is a most people know his dad versus him, 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:33.760 but the name is a big deal up here at 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:35.600 least where we live, but a lot of people not 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.000 familiar with him all over the country. 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.040 This is the story of the day right now in DC. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.359 Oh, with all going out, with all going on in DC, 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:45.840 this is the story. 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:46.160 All right. 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.360 Well, we will be watching and we will hop back 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.840 on as soon as we get some sort of answer 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.800 from Tom Kane Junior. Until then, though, we always appreciate 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.560 you listening to us. I made me roback alongside TJ. Holmes. 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:58.280 We'll talk to you soon.