Good morning. Welcome to morning, Joe. It is a blessed Friday, October the 15th with us this morning.

We've got MSNBC contributor, Mike Barnacle, MSNBC contributor and bestselling author,

Caddy Kay and White House reporter for the Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire. Joe and Mika,

have the morning off.

Good morning to you all. We want to start with breaking news overnight. Former President Bill Clinton

has been hospitalized in California with a non-COVID related infection, a spokesperson for the former

president saying Clinton is, quote, on the mend in good spirits and incredibly thankful to the doctors, nurses, and staff

providing him with excellent care. A source close to Clinton tells NBC News, the former president

is in intensive care as a precautionary measure, and his original infection was diagnosed as

urologic, but then turned into a larger one. Hillary Clinton and her long time aide,

Uma Abidine, were seen leaving the hospital just after midnight, California time. Let's bring in

physician and fellow at the Brookings Institution, Dr. Kavita Patel. She is an MSNBC medical

contributor. Dr. Patel, I know you don't have any firsthand knowledge of the former president's case here, but when you hear urologic infection that turned into a broader one in the bloodstream,

what does that tell you? Yeah, Willie, first of all, it tells us that this could have been

incredibly serious, probably why initially they wanted to make sure he had very close monitoring

in an ICU type

setting started one in four cases actually of these kind of sepsis or blood infections that

overwhelm the body actually start in the urogenital track it could have started as a urinary

tract infection could have started as a prostate infection all all incredibly common in older men, presenting usually

with some symptoms of pain when you urinate. But in the president's case, this is someone

who's had a number of medical conditions, putting him also at higher risk of an infection

overwhelming the body. So this starts, spreads to the blood, get the entire body kind of

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