pretty happy about that. that is all in on this thursday night good evening, alex chris, i m all in favor of robust transparency in terms of health and everything as it regards our public officials and especially our president it s painful t oh, it s the worst. and in public. it s such a vulnerable moment for anyone that trips. and then the recovery and then it s on stage anyway, it s just it s funny. he gots back air force one ande said i was sandbagged. literally, it was a big sandbag. thank you, my friend, as always. in july of 2021 joe biden had been president for half a year, but the last days of the trump administration were still very much being reported on. the ways in which trump had tried to overturn the 2020 election in an series of escalating maneuvers which ultimately resulted, of course, in thed, attack on the u.s. capitol. so it was during that summer, july of 2021, when the new yorker published this exclusive story. you re going to have a
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It is not an assignment anybody complains about. we re all incredibly lucky. he pointed out it wasn t his first rodeo. it was his eighth. he absolutely loved it but admitted it was taking a toll on his health. he said he usually gets sick. he had gone to see a doctor four days previously. we know he had been complaining of a tightness in his chest. we know he thought he might have bronchitis. the excitement of going to the games and keeping your readers and viewers up to date led him to this situation where he was still covering the games and he was still very much burning the candle at both ends. it does seem as though that has played likely a major factor in his untimely demise. the other thing we re of course hearing is, as you say, the outpouring of emotion, tributes