The white house to the biden campaign. But we begin with mike emmanuel, live at Walter Reed Medical Center in bethesda, maryland. Mike. Reporter good evening. President trumps medical team sounds hopeful that hes improving and that he could be discharged potentially as soon as tomorrow. The president s being treated by doctors from the white house medical unit, from walter reed Military Hospital. And also a specialist from Johns Hopkins. I spoke with reporters earlier today. The president s physician addressed the issue of drops in his oxygen level. Over the course of his illness, the president has experienced two episodes of transient drops in his oxygen saturation. We debated the reasons for this and whether we would even intervene. It was the determination of the team based on the timeline from the initial diagnosis that we initiate dexamethasone. Reporter dexamethasone is a steroid designed to help a patients breathing, frequently used with covid patients, some with severe illness.
Potential defections. Rich edson is standing by at the white house. First, lets go to chad pergram live from capitol hill. The house is voting on the speakership. Give us a walkthrough. Reporter the house, full house votes for speaker and the house as it was constituted this morning is 427 members. The winning candidate here, nancy pelosi, and Kevin Mccarthy, the House Minority leader, has to have an outright majority of that entire house of representatives. If you have 427 people who of reported in today, the magic number is 214, as we look at the tally right now and this is just indicative as to where they are in the alphabet, Kevin Mccarthy has a little over 100 votes and nancy pelosi is at 84. Now, keep in mind, the breakdown as it is right now in the house of representatives is 220 of democrats and 207 republicans so nancy pelosi will probably make up some distance there. The problem though is she can only lose six votes. She lost 15 votes in the race for speaker two years ago. Yo