but required almost a ten-day hospitalization in new jersey because of the severity of his illness. and then the trump team went ahead and depbated former vice president biden two days later, three days later, exposing mr. biden and his whole team to covid. despite assurances that everyone associated with that team would test negative. then one more thing. the entire trump team came in sort of defiantly unmasked, then declined masks offered to them by the cleveland clinic staff which was hosting the event. incredibly reckless, all of this. dr. reiner, appreciate your perspective. thank you so much. berman? other big news. congressman devin nunes is leaving congress in the coming weeks and going to work for donald trump. nunes, one of trump s most loyal
do these things, basically, because the liberal media might say worse things about him, say he is in worse shape. it is a hard to process argument. you said trump blblurbed. he was in a t-shirt, hair messed up, and red eyes. he endorsed this book. he was not happy about the positive test, when it was taken. he told the aides he felt meadows was quote, unquote, dumb. i m not sure if he had broader thoughts than that. the reaction among former trump aides on reading the physical description that meadows went ahead with was stunned. there is no way trump is going to be happy with this. there is no way trump knew it was in the book. stand by for one moment. i think brianna is going to dive more into the medical news that came out of this. let s get the clinical perfspective on what this means with dr. jonathan reiner, a doctor and professor at george washington university.
earlier, knew that the president had tested positive for covid. he had tested positive for covid with a sensitive pcr test. now, whether a subsequent, less accurate, rapid antigen test showed that he was negative, that would not have been sufficient to prove that the president was negative. so the president, who was already symptomatic, tested positive for covid with a pcr test. the white house medical unit knew the president was positive for covid. the chief of staff knew that he was positive for covid. yet, they hid that from the public. the washington post estimates that the president exposed at least 500 people to the virus. we know that at least seven people tested positive from the amy comey koeconey barrett, the president tested positive on the 26th. we know chris christie, who prepped the president the next day, not only tested positive
consequences of launching a military operation into ukraine. joining us is retired lieutenant colonel vinman, expert in his role at the national council as european affairs director there. he reported trump s phone call with the ukrainian president which ultimately led to donald trump s first impeachment. alex, thank you so much for being with us here. i just want to ask you, first off, as you are looking at this situation with the russian troops along the border, and maybe more to come here with ukraine, what are president biden s options when it comes to dealing with russia? well, this may be the most important foreign policy day he s had thus far in his administration. this week in particular is a pretty heady week. he has a democracy summit at the end of the week. he has this looming crisis in europe, which a lot of our allies that are participating in the democracy summit are very concerned about. then, of course, this high stakes call in which he is trying to avoid war in the s
ox oxygenation level of 86%, which is dangerously low, those should have triggered an immediate admission to walter reed, without hesitation. the president was in danger of dying. all of the lies here, how infuriating is that, knowing that you had white house officials, skpand even the doct involved in all of this, pushing back on the real picture that reporters were inquiring about? well, that is infuriating. you know, if you look at the press conferences that happened on saturday, the day after the president was admitted to the hospital, they all downplayed his illness. they made it sound like he was busy, you know, managing the levers of government when, indeed, he was on oxygen in the hospital fighting for his life. what s much more infuriating to me, and what really angers me, is that the white house physician and the white house chief of staff, five days