Im katy tur. It is 11 00 a. M. Out west and 2 00 p. M. In the east, where the two major stories of the day have just collided. A few minutes ago, donald trump was renominated for a second term in office. And the first thing he did in front of republican delegates and the American Voters he hopes will reelect him to that office was to repeat his baseless claim that the effort to allow voters to safely vote from home during a pandemic is nothing more than a democratic conspiracy to steal the election using fraudulent mailin votes. Theyre trying it again with this whole 80 million mailin ballots that theyre working on. Sending them out to people that didnt ask for them. They didnt ask. They just get them. And its not fair. Its not right. This time, theyre trying to do it with a whole post office scam. Theyll blame it on the post office. You can see them setting it up. Be very careful and watch it very carefully. Because we have to win. This is the most important election in the history of
And i have to just say mr. Dejoy we sent our letter two days after you received this briefing and this document. The it must have been fresh on your mind. Theres absolutely no excuse for concealing it and withholding this information from the committee or from your testimony before the senate when you were expressly asked questions about the information in the document, and, unfortunately, this Committee Received it from someone else, so mr. Dejoy, youre withholding information from us, concealing documents and downplaying the damage that youre causing, so let me close with this. This committee expects a full and complete production of all the documents we requested no later than this coming wednesday, and if you continue to withhold information or otherwise fail to comply, you can expect a subpoena. Now i know many of our members plan to ask about how you intend to fix the problems, the problems you created and reverse those horrible trend lines so we will get to those questions next.
Discharged as early as tomorrow. And they discuss some other details for the first time. Like the president s condition when he was still in the white house and what led to their decision to bring him to walter reed. Thursday night into friday morning when i left the bedside, the president was doing well with only mild symptoms and his oxygen was in the high 90s. Late friday morning, when i returned to the bedside, the president had a high fever and his oxygen saturation was transiently dipping below 94 . The president s personal physician also mentioned for the first time a medication they prescribed, a steroid. 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 a determination of the team, based predominantly on the basis of the timeline of the initial diagnosis, that we would give an initial dose of dexamethasone. Thats on top of remdesivir
Saturation level over the weekend. Meantime Top Democrats are blasting what they say are mixed messages on President Trumps health. Chuck schumer accusing the president of not being truthful about his condition. The president says he has learned a lot. President trump it has been a very interesting journey. I learned a lot about covid. I learned it by really going to school. This is the real school. Those statements about the the chief and i work sidebyside and i think his statement was misconstrued. It came off that we were trying to hide something. That wasnt necessarily true. And so he is the fact of the matter is he is doing really well. We have to have confidence in the judgment of the doctors who are treating him. When they give a presentation to the press it has to be approved by the president. Thats not very scientific. When you dont have full transparency, when there is coverups, contradictory statements, even lying about something as vital to the nations security as the presi
Chief is waking up at home for the First Time Since last week at risk of spreading both the coronavirus and bad information. And today, doing at least one of those things. Down playing the danger from the disease he himself is fighting. Comparing it to the flu, and despite his access to world class care available to almost no other meamerican, telling people live your lives. Dont let it dominate you. Dont be afraid of it. Overnight at the white house work space, a deep disinfection by custodians wearing protection suits with the number of infections in the west wing rise and the questions intensifying about how the white house is handling the outbreak. Its rejecting cdc help and new guidelines from the agency about how covid travels as Public Health experts brace for a scary spike in cases. Im Hallie Jackson along with our team. Wee joined by two medical experts, one served for the coordinator of emerging pandemic threats in the obama administration, and a field epidemiologist at the u