after this. two things, in some cases, he won t be able to answer all of the questions, to try to protect our patients privacy as much as possible, but we are going to share some additional information with you. he also has another meeting to go to right after this. our residents are graduating this evening, so he is heading to that. so we are trying to keep this somewhat tight. we do have a printed copy after this briefing is over. we have a printed copy of his remarks, so you ll have that for your records. before dr. sava joins us, i would like to introduce bret horton, who is the chief of staff for congressman steve scalise and he has something he would like to read on behalf of the family. thank you. good afternoon. my name is bret horton and i am whip scalise s chief of staff. i have a brief statement from jennifer scalise regarding wednesday s attack. on behalf of steve and our children, i want to thank everyone from the bottom of our hearts for the incredible amount
we ask you to continue the pray for steve, mike mika and all of those he hurt in the attack and keep them in your prayers during the recovery. thank you. harris: so you saw representative scalise s chief of staff reading a statement by jennifer scalise. real quickly before i let you go. i m curious to know based on what the doctor said, how close to imminent death the representative was. what you think is maybe remarkable or stands out. what do you think they need to do first or impresses you most? what impresses me, this is where a true trauma team works to their best. this is their job, to treat acute situations. you re talking about something that is bleeding out. they did a fantastic job. but they re not out of the woods yesterday. when you re in the hospital, you can get infections and blood
i m brett horton. have a brief statement from jennifer scalise regarding wednesday s attack. on behalf of steve and our children, i want to thank everyone from the bottom our hearts. the incredible amount of prayers that we ve received. we re appreciative of the strong outpouring of love and support from neighbors, friends, across louisiana and across the country as well as president trump, vice president pence and all of steve s colleagues that have reached out. we re forever grateful for crystal griner and david bailey that saved everybody s lives at the baseball field that morning, including steve s. crystal and david have been family to us for years. we ask you to continue to pray for their full recovery. i would like to pray and thank the first responders and all those at medstar.
all this trouble to go up to the hospital and see them on his birthday, of all days, that that would have been something that the hospital would have tried to do but the fact that he was not able to do that i think does tell us that his condition is quite severe. and they did deliver those flowers to both jennifer scalise and to the police officer there at the hospital. don? krystal griner. let s put this tweet up, jim, since we re just getting it in. just left hospital, representative steve scalise, one of the truly great people is in very tough shape but he is a real fighter. pray for steve. now the president tweeting that out, jim a here. i just want to make sure we clarify it and make this crystal clear. we are being given a report by the white house pool, he did go into congressman scalise s room. he sat next to the bed and spoke with the family. we don t have exact information as to how long that lasted and
doing okay or well enough to be greeted by the president of the united states, who went through all this trouble to go up to the hospital and see them on his birthday, of all days, that that would have been something that the hospital would have tried to do but the fact that he was not able to do that i think does tell us that his condition is quite severe. and they did deliver those flowers to both jennifer scalise and to the police officer there at the hospital. don? krystal griner. let s put this tweet up, jim, since we re just getting it in. just left hospital, representative steve scalise, one of the truly great people is in very tough shape but he is a real fighter. pray for steve. now the president tweeting that out, jim acosta. a little bit of confusion here. i just want to make sure we clarify it and make this crystal clear. we are being given a report by the white house pool, he did go