Age limit for Congress, Walgreens opioid settlement, Florida book battle

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Senator Dianne Feinstein has been sicker than we thought. The 89-year-old had a brain inflammation, is suffering from a rare neurological disorder, and has been away from work for months. Our panel debate how old is too old to serve in Congress. Plus, Walgreens will pay San Francisco nearly $230 million for its role in the city's opioid epidemic. But can they use that money to fix what the mayor calls brazen open air drug dealing? And, the lawsuit by parents and authors against a Florida School District that's been removing books from shelves in a battle of freedom of speech versus parents' rights. Also tonight: Salman Rushdie makes his first public appearance since being stabbed, Disney scraps plans for a new $1 billion Florida campus, and SCOTUS protects Twitter and Google. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening everyone, I'm Allison Kamarata, welcome to CNN Tonight.
0:09.0	We're learning that Senator Diane Feinstein has been sicker than we thought.
0:12.8	We knew she had shingles, but we're learning that she also had encephalitis, meaning brain
0:17.8	inflammation.
0:18.8	The 89 year old senator has been away from work for months.
0:22.2	All this raises questions about how old is too old to serve in Congress.
0:26.6	Our panel will share their thoughts on that special number.
0:30.7	And battling book bans, the lawsuit by parents and authors against a Florida school district
0:36.0	has been removing books from shelves, freedom of speech versus parents' rights, which one
0:41.2	will win.
0:42.2	But let's begin with Diane Feinstein, and questions about her fitness for office.
0:46.3	The senator was out of work for a month fighting about of shingles, but today we learn she
0:51.5	also suffered from encephalitis, inflammation of the brain, something she denied.
0:56.5	To CNN earlier today.
0:58.9	She described it as a really bad flu.
1:01.8	Her staff also confirmed today that she's suffering from a rare neurological disorder
1:05.9	called Ramsey Hunt Syndrome, which causes facial paralysis.
1:10.4	The pictures of her back at work show a more frail senator than we're used to seeing.
1:16.2	And her senate colleagues are side stepping questions about her health, her age, and her
1:20.2	fitness to serve.
1:23.1	Do you have confidence that she can continue to do this rigorous job?
1:29.4	We're all human.
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