ebullience on steroids. the president s overall health is excellent. his cardiac performance during his physical exam was very good. he continues to enjoy the long-term benefit that come from a lifetime of abstinence from tobacco and alcohol. i feel very confident that he has a very strong and a very probable possibility of making it completely through his presidency with no serious medical issues. so bottom line, the president has gained a few pounds, they ve upped his statin dosage but it s very important for someone to say what the doctor said, the president is in very good health. that is our broadcast for this thursday night. thank you so much for being here with us and good night from nbc news headquarters in new york.
of 70 and a bp of 118/80, those are numbers a lot of people would love to have. and yet to go with all of the other firsts we ve been covering during the era of this presidency, the coverage of the president s results has been peppered by doubts, expressed publicly and openly, even by some experts questioning everything from his basic height and weight and beyond. and there is reason for this. first, there was the trump personal physician here in new york. remember this guy? dr. harold bornstein who famously declared trump, quote, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency. which, of course, was not only patently false, but the doctor later said that trump himself had dictated the statement. then there was the over-the-top assessment of the president s white house doctor, an active duty admiral, which was perhaps, to use a medical term,
this is basically amazon picking up their toys and leaving the sandbox. this was a revolution for queens economy. this could have been something outrageously awesome for us. reporter: amazon s cancelled order means a loss of 25,000 jobs and billions of dollars in economic impact. i think the protesters are going to realize long term that while they won the battle, they lost the war. reporter: tonight, new york mayor bill de blasio says you got to be tough to make it here in new york. he says amazon had an opportunity here but it chose to walk away, and throw that opportunity away. for its part, amazon says it is not restarting the discussions about where hq2 will go. northern virginia will still get the bulk of those 25,000 jobs. nashville will also get some. brian? tom costello reporting the story for us tonight. tom, thanks. and coming up, the results are in. what the president s doctor had to say about the president s health when the 11th hour continues.
that mr. mccabe s wife ran for office and in virginia ran for the state or maybe state senate as a democrat and received hundreds of thousands of dollars and campaign contribution from terry mccall who is the former governor for virginia. this is a biassed person. what mccabe is doing is having a chance to tell the story on his own term and people can judge him himself. they ll watch him on this network, take your own measure of him rather than just read what i said about him on the newspaper on twitter. i have to ask you of this other vignette that emerged from the book. this is jeff sessions at the fbi talking about the bureau. the fbi was better off when you all only hired irishmen. they were drunks but they can be trusted. not like all these new people with nose rings and tattoos. who knows what they are doing. peter, how do we process that
amazon has got to go. reporter: opposed to the potential impact on traffic, housing, schools and the financial agreement amazon struck with the city and state. now three months later, the company is pulling the plug on its new york plans. it shows that everyday americans still have the power to organize and fight for their communities and they can have more say in this country than the richest man in the world. reporter: amazon blames politicians who will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project. among locals, both regret and relief. this is basically amazon picking up their toys and leaving the sandbox. this was a revolution for queens economy. this could have been something outrageously awesome for us. reporter: amazon s cancelled order means a loss of 25,000 jobs and billions of dollars in economic impact. i think the protesters are going to realize long term that while they won the battle, they lost the wa