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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

New letter: Pres. Biden has not seen a neurologist outside of his annual physical

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

Politics, Washington, Congress, News, Ms Now, President, Versant Media, Policy, Versant, Government, Senate

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: President Biden meets with the Congressional Black Caucus. Also, the stock market again closes at an all-time high under Biden. Plus, the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling impacts Donald Trump’s classified documents case. And left-wing and moderate candidates win in France, Iran, and the UK. Rep. Joyce Beatty, Quentin Fulks, Andrew Weissmann, and Roger Cohen join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:15.5

We just got this letter and if you saw any of the White House press briefing today, it was the White House press corps, many of them, at their absolute worst in the way they approached Press Secretary Corin Jean-Pierre, who was trying to be responsive to medical questions

0:20.9

where there were limitations on what she could say. The New York

0:24.8

Times reporting of the way the press secretary handled that was to say that she

0:29.7

dodged the questions. That is not true. The New York Times is wrong about that.

0:36.1

She responded to every one of the questions. She didn't answer the questions with

0:41.8

the name that they were asking for of a particular

0:45.4

doctor. She didn't give the answer the New York Times wanted or other reporters

0:50.0

wanted but she did in fact, answer every single time the reporters kept banging on

0:57.0

about a New York Times report today that indicated that a neurologist had visited the White House eight times in the last year.

1:07.0

Here is the full explanation of how that has nothing to do with President Biden and President Biden's health

1:16.0

and that the kind of out-of-control behavior by the White House, most of the White House

1:21.5

press court, not all, most of the White House Press Court today, was as bad a circus as it looked

1:27.4

like.

1:28.4

The President's physician, Kevin O'Connor, has publicly released a memo that is directed to Corinne Jean-Pierre,

1:38.0

basically in response to what she had to go through today in the White House press briefing.

1:43.8

And it explains in more detail something

1:47.4

that Karin Jan Pierre explained today,

1:49.3

which is that the White House Medical Unit does not treat just the president.

1:55.0

Many, many White House staffers are treated by the White House Medical Unit, some cabinet members,

2:00.0

and over a thousand members of the military are serviced in the White House

2:08.0

by the White House Medical Unit, over a thousand members of the military who served nearby and in the White House.

2:15.1

And so Dr O'Connor reveals today that in this in this memo many military personnel experience neurological issues

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