7 06 24 The Weekend Hour 2: A Neurologist And Cardiologist Visit The White House

News reports and White House logs indicate a neurologist and a cardiologist from Walter Reed Medical Center have visited the White House on numerous occasions.  Yet the White House Press Secretary says the President has not seen any specialists.  What were they doing there?

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I could spend I could spend theentire weekend talking about this entire situation surrounding
the president of the United States,because it is simultaneously as as obviously a
political scientist, as a lawyer,I find this. As a politician,

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I hate to admit that I findthis utterly fascinating at the same time that
I find it utterly frightening. Whenyou think about everything going on around in
the world, you want a commanderin chief who understands what day it is,
what time it is, And Idon't necessarily mean on the clock,

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I mean in terms of history,what time it is. Remember in that
SoundBite I played for you. Lasthour he talked about how the world and
the country was at an inflection point, and I think he's exactly right.
We are at an inflection point,and I think this election will determine.

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I mean, we're at the crossroads. We're at the why. As Joe
Ghibert said said, you know,when you come to the why, you
know, take it. Well,I don't really want to do that.
I want to take the road thatleads us to less government regulation, a
stronger economy, stronger national defense,a stronger position in the world to maintain

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the traditional American world order. Yeah. I'm just conceitful enough that I believe
that the American world order is howthe world ought to be governed. It
it's kept except for some of thestupid things we've done, it has kept
the world at peace. And themore the world is at peace, the
stronger the economies are, the morefreedom is able to kind of weasel its

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way into these entrenched socialist and tyrannicalcountries around the world, the better off
we all are. And after twohundred and forty eight years of this great
American experiment, look at what we'vebeen able to accomplish. Are we perfect.
No, the founder said, inorder to form a more perfect union,

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and that's what we're trying to do. Yeah we make mistakes, Yeah,
yeah, we really throw it upsometimes. Are you perfect? No?
Do you screw things up at workor at home? Yes, of
course you do. Well, thesame thing is true for this country.
And then I watched this presidential electionand it utterly frightens me, you know,

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on the text line, and Iwant to address this. This is
from Guber number fifty nine to nineteen, Michael. Did Biden know the questions
in advance? Did he have anear pierce earpiece for help? Why was
he so much more coherent than duringthe debate? Inquiring minds want to know.

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I talked about this on the weekdayprogram, and I had spoken,
I had sent some text messages backand forth with a neurologist about what's really
going on here? Why is itthat we do see these almost conflicting responses

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that one day he seems to becompletely fine, the next day he's not
so fine. He sometimes is yelling, other times he's not yelling. What's
really going on? Why is itthat we have such a strange, diverse

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reaction from him? I want torevisit that a little bit. For obvious
reasons. I'm not going to usethis doctor's name, but his email answers
to some of my questions speak forthemselves. I'd ask whether or not,

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for example, is there some neurologicalproblem with the President? Now, before
I tell you what his answers are, there is breaking news today, literally
today, that a Parkinson's expert bythe name of doctor Kevin Cannard, c
n n ar D. He's aParkinson's disease specialist, has visited the White

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House at least nine times in thelast year. That's according to the official
White House visitor logs. The logsshow that doctor Canard traveled to the White
House Residence medical clinic every single timehe came, which means he went to
East Wing. He went to theresidence. In the residence. In East

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Wing, away from public view,is a medical office. The President's personal
physician has regular office hours. There'sa naval nurse. They coordinate the care
for the President and other top officials, but they basically operate most generally they
operate out of the East Wing.Well. This particular doctor, this neural

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surgeon, His visits began on Julytwenty eighth last year, and continued at
least through March twenty eight of thisyear. The reason I don't know and
can't get any information about from Marchtwenty eighth through let's say July four,

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is that the most recent released logsend on April first, So I don't
know whether doctor Canard has been tothe White House more recently. Now,
the logs do not note, asmost of the logs don't note the purpose
of any individual's visit to the WhiteHouse. But if you look at a
physician profile page for him at WalterReed National Military Medical Center, he's a

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neurologist and a movement disorders specialist,and he researches treatments for early phase Parkinson's
disease. Really, so maybe theneurosurgeon that I was having text messages with
actually knows what he's talking about.He wrote this the neurosurgeon he undoubtedly has

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Parkinson's disease and is increasingly suffering fromParkinson's dementia. And he says the signs
are unmistakable. He listened to thesesigns. Now, I want you to
think about what you've witnessed, andthen I want to talk about last night,
his shuffling gait, the absence ofassociated movements, you know, just

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that kind of flat facial expression,arm swinging. Those are some of the
things that the neurosurgeon described. Iwant what you think about, as I
go through the rest of this list, how many times you've seen that?
Now, once you think about it, not just about Joe Biden, but

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maybe a family friend, maybe anuncle, maybe a parent, maybe someone
you know. Because this is nothingto be I mean, it's a horrific
thing tes to be going through,but it's just reality. I'll be right
back. Hey, you know whatyou're doing. You're listening to The Weekend

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with Michael Brown, and I appreciateyou doing that, and I appreciate you
telling your friends about it. We'retalking about although you know, another example
of history repeats itself. Woodrow Wilsonhad a stroke. Woodrow Wilson. They
hide him up in the residence ofthe White House. Edith Wilson actually takes

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puts a pen in Woodrow Wilson's hand, and then she moves his hand so
that she can claim technically, well, he signed the executive order. Why
he signed the law, and hesigned the law. He signed the bill
into law, I didn't do it. He did it. I was just
helping him move his hand. We'rekind of reliving those days today. That's

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kind of what's going on now.And so I was talking about this neurosurgeon,
and I want to go back tothe to the text conversation with a
neurosurgeon because it's actually kind of frightening. It is frightening because I personally know
people who are in a similar situation. The neurosurgeon says, as I told

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you before the break, that potusunmistakably has Parkinson's dementia, and he lists
these things as what he observes.Now I would make it. I want
to emphasize this. A neurological examto determine whether or not someone has Parkinson's

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is almost always, first and foremostan observational exam. It's not a cat
scan, it's not an MRI,although they may follow up with cat scans
and MRIs, but the initial observationin the initial diagnosis is based on observation.
Now, clearly this doctor cannot makea medical diagnosis that has any medical

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impact unless he actually physically observes thepresident. But he is making an observation
as you and I all are bywatching him on television or watching him at
events or wherever. And he liststhese things as signs of Parkinson's dimension.
The shuffling gait. Remember the staffhas said, we're going to surround him

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as he walks to Marine one.We're trying to hide that shuffling gate.
Also the absence of associated movements,facial expression, arm swinging when he does
swing his arms and appears stilted,probably because his handlers have told him that
he needs to swing his arms whenhe walks. That's something that you and
I do naturally. But if youhave Parkinson's disease, that natural swinging to

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the arms starts to disappear. Itgoes away gate instability. That's why they've
changed his shoes. That's why hewears special rubber Soul's shoes now. The
soft voice, and this is whereI want to answer the text message about
why was he so on last night? Well, if you really watch the

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debate, not the debate, ifyou really watched the interview closely last night,
he wasn't really on. Oh hisvoice, he had inflection in his
voice, but if you really look, there were times when he just stared
blankly at Stephanopoulos, there were timeswhen while he was talking about any mean,

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he would trail off. I've watchedpeople do that all the time when
they're talking about something and they justThe neurosurgeon describes those as on and off
periods, times when a medication mightbe working well and sometimes when the medication
doesn't work well. Arresting tremor,he says, is not prominent in Biden's

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case, but he says that's trueof many cases of Parkinson's. So we
see signs of that dementia that raisesthe national security concerns. You know,
we remember, at least I did. I laughed about the Hillary Clinton to

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AM phone call commercial, so Ithought it was kind of funny, but
it's all it was. It wasclever, but it's funny because oftentimes presidents
oftentimes I got phone calls. Asthe under Secretary, I would get phone
calls all the time at midnight ortwo am or three am. In fact,
my family used to grab about itbecause where I am at the end

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disclosed location right now, we hada secure phone located where I could have
a secure conversation with the White HouseSituation Room, and it wouldn't work.
Of course unless I put my specialcard in it. But the kids like
to pick it up and pretend like, Oh, I'm having a conversation with
the president. All of those thingsare serious things that actually happen behind the

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scenes. I would get a phonecall about I remember one time when the
Beslan when the Chechens in the Beslinconcert hall in Russia, when that terrorist
attack occurred, I got a callin the middle of the night. The
Russians rask for advice and helping certainthings. My how things have changed,

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haven't they. There would be wildfiresbreaking out and I would have to approve
a fire management grant to help,you know, California or Arizona or someplace
fight battle of wildfire. Or therewould be you know, a hurricane,
you know, a typhoon would hitGuam or something. There was always these
two three o'clock, four o'clock phonecalls for someone who in the middle of

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the afternoon might appear to be somewhatcoherent but also have a difficulty expressing themselves.
That's the on and off that theneurosurgeon was describing. I've seen it
in elderly people that I've seen itin relatives where they'll be quite quiet,

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and all of a sudden, they'revery very loud, and then they're very
very quiet. I've also seen theanger, the like where did that come
from? Where they You might bein a restaurant and suddenly they're angry at
the at at at the waiter whatlike, like uncle Bill, what,
what's going on? Well, it'sthat's an effect of Parkinson's. This is

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a serious problem. This is avery serious problem for the nation. So
while I may have spent the lasthour talking about the media believes that they
are the deciders and that may ormay not be true, I think that
it is true. I think themedia is driving is trying to drive Biden

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out of this campaign because they donot believe that he can beat Donald Trump.
The media doesn't care about Biden's health. The media doesn't care about national
security. They don't care about anything. All they care about is beating Donald
Trump. And that's why they're doingwhat they're doing. And that's why I
think this is a national security issue. It's a political issue, and it's

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it's just a it's a base humanissue. In that regard. I actually
feel sorry for Biden because if yougo back and you think about that SoundBite
that I played when George Stephanopoulos said, but mister President, I've never seen
anybody with a thirty six percent approvalrating win reelection, and Biden says,
well, I don't think that's whatit is. That's not what that's not

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what I've been told. My God, what are they telling you? What
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addition to this Parkings this neurologist visitingthe White House. According to White House

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visitor logs, there's also breaking newsthat a cardiologist, a heart specialist,
met with the President on January seventeen. So a cardiologist met with Biden and
also with his personal White House physicianat the White House for seven hours from

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let me pull up the log fromfive pm to According to the log,
appointments start one seventeen, twenty twentyfour seventeen hundred, appointment end one seventeen
twenty twenty four twenty three fifty nine, just before midnight. The person John

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E. Atwood, Doctor John Atwood, Colonel, United States Army, Department
of Primary Appointment, School of Medicine, Title Professor of Medicine, USU,
Director of Cardiology and Ambulatory sub internshipblah blah blah. Location Walter Reed Medical
National Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. Research Interest Exercise Testing Atrial Fibrillation,

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Clinical Cardiology ECGs. So Joe Bidenhad a seven hour visit until midnight with
this doctor Atwood, a cardiologist fromWalter Reid. At the same time that
Biden and his physician, doctor KevinO'Connor, were meeting with doctor Kevin Kinnard,

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the Partlkinson's disease specialists at the WhiteHouse. Why did Joe Biden need
to meet with a cardiologist and aParkinson's disease specialist at the White House for
seven hours? And then, ofcourse, the first thing I wondered when
I saw midnight, if a doctor'sstaying at the White House until midnight,
is that an emergency? Is arethey concerned about something? Because isn't that

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past Joe Biden's eight pm? We'renot going to do anything past eight pm.
These are the official White House logs. These are the kinds of documents
that you would think tomorrow on theSunday News shows that they would invite someone
from the White House. In fact, I would think Kareem Jean Pierre,
the White House Press Secretary, andask serious questions. And I want you

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to think about this theory. Andit's just a theory, but could this
be the start of the reason forBiden pulling out a new diagnosis of Parkinson's,
a new diagnosis of heart disease,a new diagnosis that says for my

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personal health and to be able tospend as much time as I can with
my family. That trite phrase thatevery politician uses. Couldn't that be the
reason that suddenly the president decides towithdraw from the race? Could be,

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and then the media would have accomplishedwhat they set out to do. Political
theorists, you know, have oftenreferred I dine it myself. I refer
to the media as the fourth estate. Political theoris have been doing that for

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centuries. In Europe, the phrasethe fourth estate actually stood in contract to
three centers of power, the people, the clergy, and nobility. And
now in this country the fourth estatestands in contrast to the three branches of
government, the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary. But today,

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when you think about the cabal,the media that portion of the cabal.
Yeah, in fact that you know, let's include the entire cabal. They've
really achieved new levels of power.The media is arguably more powerful than the
government itself. It acts that way, right, Well, why is that

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what has led the media to becomeso powerful that it represents an acts as
though they should decide who's allowed tobe president and who is not. And
what will it take to shrink itspower? Back to size. I'm not
really sure, but like a likea priest, George Stephanopolis and that interviewed

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last night, tried everything he couldto kind of shake Joe Biden out of
like, listen, man, wedon't know what you're being told, but
here's what we want you to know. Listen to us. It's kind of
ironic because I really believe that's whatStephanopoulos was trying to do. At the
same time that Biden said, oh, well those poll numbers, I don't

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believe those pole numbers, because Iread the same thing in the press.
So the press that he doesn't believe, here's the press in front of him
trying to convince him. You gotto step aside. So Stephanophoulis Stephanopoulos pleaded
with the president, he questioned him, he exhorted him. Nothing worked last

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night. Throughout the interview, ifif you want to call it an interview.
Throughout that interview, Biden rebuffed everyentreaty that Stephanopolis made, as though
they couldn't be more outlandish, likeI've never heard such stupidity before. When
when Stephanopolis told the President he wasdown in the polls, Biden's response was,

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well, no, not a bitDemocratic lawmakers. Specifically, they meant
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia preparing toask him to step down. Biden's response
never happened, That's never going tohappen. It just went on and on
like that. Biden clearly could notgrasp that his presidency is not in trouble,
that it's catering, it's it's justabsolutely cratery. You may have an

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open question about whether Biden's suffering fromcognitive issues. Not with me, not
with me at all. He's actuallyappeared to develop what I would describe as
a severe case of Ruth Bader Ginsburgsyndrome. Like her, He's clinging to
his post in the delusion that hecan outlast all of his enemies. The

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most he could say about Donald Trump, who right now is on course to
push him out in a crushing defeat, is that he's a big liar.
That Donald Trump's a big liar.Look in the mirror, mister president,
Look in the mirror, I wouldsay. If anything, Biden seems to

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regard the real obstacle to a secondterm as a nasty press scord, that
the nasty press corp is what's goingto keep him out. Of a second
term. That shows how insolated heis. He was about one second away,
I think, from announcing that themedia is the enemy of the people

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and to crying kind of like Agnewthe bunch of neightoring nabobs of negativism.
He has this cloistered inner circle,and he has a clear repugnance for the
media, as frankly most presidents do. In fact, as I watched that,

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one of the things I thought ishe's almost beginning to act like Richard
Nixon in the final days of theNixon presidency. When Stephanopoulos asked Biden whether
he wasn't as vain as Trump inpursuing another term at the age of eighty
one years old, Biden's reaction wasto scoff at that he couldn't even process

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the notion that he possessed anything incommon with Trump. Instead, he claimed
that that crowd in Wisconsin showed thathe could rally the nation against Trump.
I had to laugh at that.I would encourage you to go to get
on the interwebs and go look atthe videos. You'll find videos of the

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on some crowd. It's a halfpacked gymnasium. That's why Stephanopoulos said to
him. I don't think you wantto go there, mister president. I
don't think you want to do that. But then the arrogance, and I
think also not just arrogance, butI think it was it was this statement

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that Trump made that ought to bethe scariest of all you may bring down.
Mister president. I've never seen apresident thirty six percent approval get reelected.
Well, I don't revest my approvement, and that's not when our polls
started. And if you stay inand Trump is elected and everything you're warning
about comes to bass, how willyou feel in January? Almost as if

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talking to a child. You know, if you stay in in all these
little lego houses that you've built areall destroyed by this guy that we all
want to get rid of, DonaldTrump? How are you going to feel
about that? We'll stay tuned becauseif our enemies, as I know they

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were we're listening last night, thisnext answer got to cause you to drop
your head. I'll be right back, hey. So we begin with Michael
Brown, Thanks for tuning in.So we're going to finish up this hour
with the Biden debate, and thenbecause it's fourth of July weekend, there's

(28:33):
some other topics I want to getto and but but I really do want
to get as much about this debatein not debate. I'm sorry. I
interview in as possible because I reallydo believe I've told you at the very
beginning of the program. I lookat this situation with Biden from a pure
political point of view, and fromthat perspective, I wanted him to stay

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in the race because I think thetrue can beat him. And while Trump
has his faults front, Trump's policiesare more aligned with what I believe than
anything Joe Biden believes. So that'sa pure political point of view. From
a national security point of view,I think Biden not to be as far

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away from the White House right nowas humanly possible. And in the third
aspect, the third point of viewis as just as a human being.
It's like, my god, JoeBiden, My god, where's the family.
This guy is ill. He cannotstand the rigors of being the president

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of the United States of America.Take him home, let him enjoy the
rest of his days. But theywon't do it, and I find it
despicable. But one last point,and it occurs near the end of the
interview. I feel as long asI give it my all and I take
the goodest job as I know Ican do, That's what this is about.

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What's George take it to this way? Did you try me say this
before? I think the United Statesand the world has an inflection point.
If the things that happened in thenext seven years are going to turn out
the next six to seven decades,look quiet, Okay, who's going to
be able to hold NATO together likeme? Who's going to be able to

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be in a position where well,Trump held NATO together. But as long
as I gave it my all,I won't feel guilty if Trump wins the
second term as a result of mestaying in the race. That's what he
was saying. So our enemies lookat it and say, oh, he
just he's going to stay in regardlessof whether he's fit for office, regardless

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of whether he's capable of conducting acampaign, regardless of everything that is being
kept from him about his poll numbers, about whatever is medically being told that
we're not being told. There's oneperson in the entire world that Americans,

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citizens of this country deserve to knoweverything about their health, and that's the
president of the United States of America. You know, your health, whatever
your health condition is, is noneof my business. Whatever my health condition
is is none of your business,only what we may choose to share with

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each other. But you and ourprivate citizens don't. We don't have a
naval officer by our side all thetime with the launch codes for nuclear weapons.
We don't have the ability for theWhite House Situation Room to put us
in immediate contact with world leaders,enemies, allies alike, all over the

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world, and vice versa. Anyworld leader can pick up the phone and
in a matter of seconds be conversingwith the President of the United States of
America. So that person's health andtheir health condition is entirely different from you
and me. We elect someone expectingthat they will have them and the vigor,

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the vitality, the stamina, themental acuity that it takes to make
split second decisions that can affect literallywhether or not this planet, you know,
turns into a nuclear holocaust or not. That's what's at stake here.

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And his response is, well,you know what, Yeah, the world's
at an inflection point. As longas I gave it my all, as
long as I gave everything well,you know what, mister President, that's
what we're concerned about, that youdon't that whatever you're all is that all
is not enough. We need more. He needs to go. I'm not

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really sure now again, Yesterday wasyesterday, Tomorrow will be tomorrow. And
this Parkinson's dementia that I know manyof you because I've gotten the text messages.
I've read your text messages, manyof you who have family members who
you've witnessed the same kind of behavior, really good one day and really bad

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the next, really kind of emotionallystable one day and emotionally unstable the next.
That's Parkinson's dementia. Now the cardiologist, I have no clue why the
cardiologist was there, But isn't itinteresting that we were told by Karreem Jean
Pierre, the Press secretary, thatthe President did not see a physician,

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But yet now we have White Houselogs that show not only has he seen
physicians, he's he's seen neurologists andcardiologists. Where are those reports And if
he doesn't want to share those reports, if he doesn't want us to know
that he has Parkinson's, or hehas a heart disease or a heart problem,

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or whatever may be going on,then all you need to do is
come out and say I've been diagnosedwith a serious illness and I want to
go home. And I'm going todo that, and I'm turning the reins
over to Kamala Harris, and Iendorse her and I support her, and
I want all the delegates to toget behind her and go on to fight

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and beat Donald Trump. That's hethat's what he should be doing. As
I told you, from a purelypolitical point of view, I don't want
him to do that, but froma humanistic point of view, from a
national security point of view, Please, mister President, this is serious series

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stuff. And to say I justgave it my all, that's not good
enough, because we don't know whatyou're all is, and we're entitled to
know what you're all is. Twohundred and forty eight years of this country's
independence, and I honestly never believedthat I would be having this kind of

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conversation, having studied Woodrow Wilson,never thought I would be something something similar
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