physical last week at walter reed medical center. and thank god, the president is in very good health overall. 118/80 blood pressure. very good. he s on a staten medication called crestor. last year, he was 243 pounldzs. the good news is, he is reportedly healthy despite a terrible diet. the bad news is, he and i are officially obese. and there s something weird going on with his height. i have a theory about it. here s the proof. i am barely 6 2 . i have a bit of a bouffant in that picture. i am barely 6 2 f . let me bring in d. lemon. you re not a particularly tall person.
the good cholesterol. that has also gone down. you don t want that to go down. you want that hdl number to go up. the way it goes up is due to exercise. the fact that it went down may suggest that exercise is not something that s impacted his lipids so far this past year. i think most of what you re seeing with his cholesterol numbers is probably due to that bottom line, which is the fact that his crestor dose went from 10 milligrams to 40 milligrams. they increased that significantly. significant increase from 10 milligrams of the statin he has been taken to 40 milligrams. that would explain why the cholesterol was going down. that s right. how often should someone check for potential cardiac disease get a calcium score? should they take that test every ye year, every three years, every five years? you know, i think it s not something that people typically take every year. there s not really a consensus as to how often people should
john. the president was at walter reed friday. doctors looked him over and pronounced he s in very good health. the one problem, he has a bmi of 30.4. that s not good. four pounds more than last year. his blood pressure is good and temperature is good. there no changes to the ears, nose, mouth on gastro system. all blood counts are good. the doctor increased his dose of crestor up to 40 milligram as
that s heart disease. his coronary calcium score last year was 133. according to the mayo clinic, 100 to 300 is associated with a relatively high risk of a heart attack in the next three to five years. president trump doesn t smoke or drink. as of last year he was taking five medications daily. ten milligrams of crestor for cholesterol. 80 milligrams of aspirin for heart health. propecia for hair loss, a daily multi vitamin and soolantra cream as needed for rosacea. we did a cognitive assessment because the president asked. he said is there a test or some type of screen we can do to assess my cognitive ability. reporter: this is what the montreal cognitive assessment looks like. jackson said the president got a 30 out of 30, a perfect score.
i don t see a ton of evidence inside the republican party that is really hungry in a big way for an alternative to donald trump in the election. thank you. this just in. a hearing on cnn s lawsuit against the white house has been delayed. cnn chief media correspondent joining us now from new york with details. when is this going to happen if not this afternoon? it was scheduled for today and the judge was going to bring everybody back into court and announce his decision about a temporary restraining order in this case. now he delayed that until friday. he is asking to reconvene at which time he will rule for the request for a restraining order. cnn filed an emergency call for jim acosta s press pass to be restor restored. it has been more than a week since it was suspended from the