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This is The Takeaway. I'm Melissa Harris-Perry, and we're happy to spend some time with you today.

As we let you know yesterday, the takeaway is ending on June 2nd.

But until we get to the end, we're going to keep doing our very best to serve you.

And serving right up to the end is the subject of much conversation these days

in Washington, D.C. Democratic Senator from California, Diane Feinstein, has spent more than

three decades in the U.S. Senate. In recent weeks, she's been absent from the Senate while

managing a case of shingles. And reporting from multiple news outlets suggests that the senator's mental acuity and

capacity are compromised.

Still, some political allies continue to praise her tenure and defend her right to continue

to serving until her planned retirement next year.

Here's former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown

and former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.

Senator Feinstein's been elected.

She's entitled to the job.

And believe me, when you are elected to something,

you are expected to serve.

I just, it's interesting to me.

I don't know what political agendas are at work that are going after Senator Feinstein in

that way.

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