conley: no. reporter: any white house staffers? dr. conley: no. reporter: the president said, "do not be afraid of covid." should we agree with that? dr. conley: i'm not going to get into what the president says. reporter: heart and kidney function improving, does that mean there were effects and all is normal? what is up with that? dr. conley: it's all normal right now. he appeared to be a little dehydrated friday. he was able to just drink and recover from that. everything looks great. reporter: -- campaigning out in the country. what sort of things -- dr. conley: this big first thing we need to do, there is no evidence of live virus still present that he could possibly transmit to others. that is what the infectious disease experts and some of our partners, military civilian entities, doing advanced diagnostics, just to see -- as soon as we can identify that. routinely, we talk about a 10-day window, cdc guidelines, but we are checking him more routinely than just waiting 10 days. there is a possibility it is earlier than that. there's a possib

conley if there are any questions. dr. conley: thanks, brian. president has been fever-free for over 24 hours. we remain cautiously optimistic, but he is doing great. one other note, it should be clear that he has plenty of work to get done from the chief of staff. he is doing it. if there are questions about his health in the last couple of days? [inaudible] >> the last saturation he had, he was about 96%. >> he has not received any oxygen? dr. conley: he is not on oxygen, that is right. >> do you have an estimated date when he might be discharged? dr. conley: well, i do not want to put a hard date on that. he is doing well, but with the known course of the illness, from day seven to 10 we get really concerned about the inflammatory phase. given the fact that he has received the advanced therapies earlier, it is hard to tell where he is on that course. every day we are evaluating if he needs to be here and what does he need and where is he going. >> is there a probability that he will need supplemental oxygen going forward? dr. conley: i do not

conley: you are absolutely right. that is why we all remain cautiously optimistic and on guard, because we are in a bit of uncharted territory when it comes to a patient that has received the therapies he has so early in the course. so we are looking to this weekend. if we can get through to monday with him remaining the same, or improving, better yet, then we will all take that final deep sigh of relief. but as i said, 24/7, world class medical care surrounding him down there. we will not miss anything that we would have caught up here. reporter: -- what does that look like? how do you keep him safely quarantined? dr. conley: i wish i could go into that more, but i just can't. reporter: what about the treatment? dr. conley: yesterday, we talked about that, the several temporary drops in his oxygen. and we had discussed that as a team and elected to start it early, in case that persisted or worsened. the potential risks and side effects we all discussed, we looked at the data and decided that we would rather push ahea

sean conley, physician to the present. i would like to start by first showing that the president and first family, first lady, rightful for the support and prayers that the whole world and country have been providing. i would like to say thank you to the colonel and all of the medical support staff here for their efforts providing everything that we could need. this morning the president is doing very well. behind me are some of the members of his medical team whom i would like to introduce. dr. sean dooley, pulmonary critical care, dr. brian care baldy, pulmonary critical care, dr. jason blalock, dr. wes campbell, dr. john hutchins, major kirk klein, commander megan nazrathi, linden commander john shea, and not present our beth carter, maureen a, both navy nurses and art director of executive medicine program. as reported yesterday in consultation with this group, i recommended we bring the president up to walter reed as a precautionary measure to provide state-of-the-art monitoring and any care he may need. 72 hours into

conley: he did, actually. he has been briefed by the task force and all of the scientists for months and he brought that up. we were discussing his cough, and we came up here and discussed it with the team. we considered all options. but he has not needed any of that. >> why wasn't the first lady admitted as well? dr. conley: the first lady is doing great. thanks for asking. she has no indications for hospitalization or advanced therapy. she is convalescing at home. thank you. >> i have to try to ask you one more time -- [laughter] he is not on oxygen, but was the on any on thursday? dr. conley: what is today? saturday. thursday, no oxygen, not at this moment and yesterday, when we were all here, he was not on oxygen. >> sir, has the president been actually been admitted as a patient to this hospital? dr. conley: the president is a patient at walter reed national medical center. >> is see on any steroids? dr. conley: thank you. >> thank you. speakstor bernie sanders at a campaign rally for joe biden today in n

sean conley, physician to the present. firstd like to start by showing that the president and first family, first lady, rightful for the support and prayers that the whole world and country have been providing. i would like to say thank you to the colonel and all of the medical support staff here for their efforts providing everything that we could need. this morning the president is doing very well. behind me are some of the members of his medical team whom i would like to introduce. dooley, pulmonary critical care, dr. brian care care, pulmonary critical dr. jason blalock, dr. wes hutchins,dr. john major kirk klein, commander nazrathi, linden commander john shea, and not present our beth carter, maureen a, both navy nurses and art director of executive medicine program. inreported yesterday consultation with this group, i recommended we bring the president up to walter reed as a precautionary measure to provide state-of-the-art monitoring and any care he may need. now,urs into his diagnosis the first week of covid, and p

conley: i am not going into that. it is irrelevant as far as his care. >> or when he became infected? dr. conley: we are just treating him as best we can. >> [indiscernible] >> we have discussed that, and if he needs all five days that will likely be the course. again every day we are reviewing with the team his needs for being here, and as soon as he gets to the point where it is not required, he may still need some care, but if they can provide that downtown, then we will transition at that point as long as it is safe in the team agrees. >> in addition to his weight, does he have risk factors that makes him more at risk for a severe case? dr. conley: not particularly, he is 74 and he is slightly overweight that other than that he is healthy. his cholesterol is great, his blood pressure is great. he is not on medication for -- he is on medication for that. he is up and active. he has been able to handle it. >> can you provide his heart rate, blood pressure and temperature? dr. conley: his heart rate is in the 70's to

conley: good question. i was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team and the president has had over the course of illness. i did not want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction. in doing so, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which was not true. the fact of the matter is he is doing really well. he is responding and as the team said, if everything continues to go well, we will start discharge plans back to the white house. that is it. thank you. >> can you please explain what you found on your lung scan? >> that wasn't as fun as yesterday. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] u.s. senateening, republican kevin o'connor participates in a televised debate. orch live at 7:00 eastern listen on the free c-span radio app. monday night on the communicators. co-ceo jessica gonzales on tech

conley: good question. i was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team and the president has had over the course of illness. i did not want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction. in doing so, it came off that we ,ere trying to hide something which was not true the fact of the matter is he is doing really well. he is responding and as the team said, if everything continues him backwill discharge to the white house. that is it. thank you. >> can you please explain what you found on your lung scan? >> that wasn't as fun as yesterday. officials from walter reed medical center giving a briefing on the president's condition. we will show you this briefing later in our program schedule. you can also watch it online at c-span.org. we returned to the last part of the testimony from health and human services secretary alex azar. duplicitous and on august date -- this is designed to hurt this president for the reasons which i am not interested in. same e-mail the

conley's words, through at least next weekend. they said that he could continue working from the white house, but that they would continue to watch very closely and as you point out, and as the american people likely would expect, the president receiving these treatments earlier than most, because he is the president, he does have the access and it's important that he gets the health care that we need, given the fact that he's the leader of this country, being taken back to the white house tonight. but explain to us why it will be extremely important that the medical team continue to watch him very closely in these days ahead. >> yeah, so, what we've seen, david, in this disease, is that it often, people do well early on, look good and then day five, day seven, even out to day ten, take a sudden and dramatic turn for the worse. so, depending on the timeline of the president, we're really going to have to pay close attention all week into the weekend. for many other patients, he might have stayed at home, he might have stayed at th

conley. a brief clinical update on the president's condition, i want to reiterate my comments from yesterday regarding how proud i am to be part of this multi-disciplinary team of clinical professionals behind me and what an honor it it to care for the president here at walter reed national military medical center. the president continues to improve. he has remained without fever since friday morning. his vital signs are stable. from a pulmonary standpoint, he remains on room air this morning and a is not complaining of shortness of breath or other significant respiratory symptoms, is ambulating himself, walking around the white house medical unit without limitation or disability. our continued monitoring of his cardiac, liver and kidney function demonstrates continued normal findings or improving findings. i'll now turn it over to dr. garabaldi from johns hopkins to talk about therapeutics and our plan for today. >> thank you, dr. dooley. i wanted to reiterate what an honor and privilege it

conley himself. anything short of that just won't do it. >> also to underscore at least offer clarity. when was the last negative test of the president because the president has always boasted that he take cosvid tests every day. but dr. conley -- >> he sometimes takes it multiple times a day. >> right. only offering more questions than answers through that press conference. jeremy diamond, thank you so much. we'll have much more when we come back. the timeline. this underscores a whole lot of holes in when the president was diagnosed, when he exhibited symptoms and who he exposed possibly along the way. did you know that feeling sluggish or weighed down could be signs that your digestive system isn't working at its best? taking metamucil every day can help. metamucil supports your daily digestive health using a special plant-based fiber called psyllium. psyllium works by forming a gel in your digestive system to trap and remove the waste that weighs you down. metamucil's gelling action also helps to

sean conley. is he taking criticism for not being transparent with the question and some medical experts are questioning his aggressive treatment plan as well. erin mclaughlin has more on the president's physician. >> the doctor charged with keeping president trump healthy. on sunday, sean conley admitted he downplayed team, the president and this course of illness has had. >> and continued to evade reporters' question. >> you did this again yesterday. can you please explain what you found on his lung scan? >> this is a moment of great anxiety for a lot of americans. i'm worried we've not gotten off on a strong foot. >> who is dr. sean conley? appointed in may 2018, treating the body holistically. in the spring, two sources with direct knowledge told nbc news dr. conley had been hand picked by his predecessor, dr. ronnie jackson, adding many in the medical unit were concerned he was promoted without proper vetting. dr. conley accompanied the president on an unscheduled trip to walter reed medical

sean conley. but, of course, jake, we know that they haven't been sharing all the information with us, and we are still waiting on many details about the president's condition, including, for example, what his lung scans and chest x-rays showed over the weekend. we were told there were expected findings, but we haven't been told whether the president has pneumonia or some kind of lung scarring or anything else. a lot of the questions still to be answered, jake. hopefully, hopefully we'll get some of those answers in the next hour. >> jeremy diamond at walter reed, thanks very much. we'll come back to you. we are expecting dr. conley and other doctors on the president's medical team to speak to us. i want to talk right now to dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, i'm just a humble cave man. i have no idea about medicine. is there a medical reason for president trump to go home right now? it's everything you and i have been talking about since friday, which would seem to suggest he's on serious, serious drugs t

sean conley. today we heard dr. conley -- sorry, yesterday, we heard dr. sean conley dance around these questions about the president's oxygen, whether or not he had received supplemental oxygen. today we saw him admit after the press reported this that, yes, indeed, the president received supplemental oxygen on friday and more than likely yesterday, during the day on saturday as well. and while we heard more information from dr. conley today, he revealed that the president had a worryingly high fever on friday. his oxygen levels dipped below 94% twice now. dr. sean conley also defended this optimistic assessment he offered of the president's condition just yesterday. listen. >> i was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, the course of illness has had. i didn't want to give any -- any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction. and in doing so, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn't necessarily true. so here i have it. he is -- the effect of the matter is that he's doing re

conley. a brief clinical update on the president's condition, i want to reiterate my comments from yesterday regarding how proud i am to be part of this multi-disciplinary team of clinical professionals behind me and what an honor it it to care for the president here at walter reed national military medical center. the president continues to improve. he has remained without fever since friday morning. his vital signs are stable. from a pulmonary standpoint, he remains on room air this morning and a is not complaining of shortness of breath or other significant respiratory symptoms, is ambulating himself, walking around the white house medical unit without limitation or disability. our continued monitoring of his cardiac, liver and kidney function demonstrates continued normal findings or improving findings. i'll now turn it over to dr. garabaldi from johns hopkins to talk about therapeutics and our plan for today. >> thank you, dr. dooley. i wanted to reiterate what an honor and privilege it

conley. before i begin a brief clinical update on the president's condition i want to reiterate my comments from yesterday regarding how proud i am to be a part of this multidisciplinary multi-institutional team of clinical professionals behind me and what an honor to care for the president here at walter reed national military medical center. regarding his clinical status the patient continues to improve. he has remained without fever since friday morning. his vital signs are stable. from a pulmonary standpoint he remains on room air this morning and is not complaining of shortness of breath or other significant respiratory symptoms. he is ambulating himself, walking around the white house medical unit without limitation or disability. our continued monitoring of his cardiac, liver, and kidney function demonstrates continued normal findings or improving findings. i'll now turn it over to dr. garibaldi from johns hopkins to talk about our therapeutings and our plan for the day. . thank you. i

conley handed that? >> what i've learned in these moments is that accuracy is, in fact, more important than speed. we would rather get you the fully accurate, full-picture information rather than rush out the door when facts when we don't necessarily have all of that. well, of course, we would have like today be able to share that sooner -- >> trace: he had the facts, he just chose not to share them because he was kind of putting on a brave face, upbeat face as he said it. >> to my second point, though, what i would say it's a very common medical practice that you want to convey confidence and you want to raise the spirits of the person you're treating. i know the president. i don't know that he needs his spirits raised but i know it's common medical practice to do that. if anything, the doctor was giving a really strong and confident viewpoint. treys treys but isn't it a common medical practice to put proper information out there and let people make up their own minds? >> which is why we had chief of st

conley was asked about late today. he did confirm that the president received supplemental oxygen twice. he was pressed about the president's lungs, if there was any pneumonia or any inflammation in his lungs. what they might have seen in the imaging. he said, i'm not at liberty to discuss, but that, quite frankly, dr. jha, would have told us a lot more about the president's condition in this. >> absolutely. so, the main way people get very sick or even die from this disease is damage to the lungs. and we suspect that the president has had some damage to the lungs. but dr. conley has been very cagey about this. and it's odd that he won't share that information when he's been willing to share much more detailed information. and i think it raises certainly a lot more questions than answers about the health of the president. >> dr. ashish jha with us. thank you. i gather we'll be seeing you again very soon. >>> in the meantime, as the president does leave walter reed, we take note it's just 29 days now until election day.

conley. it seemed he was trying to avoid giving certain answers to questions, pretty pointed questions about the president's condition. whether it's a directive from the president because he does not want all of these details being out there so that people can properly analyze what his actual condition is right now and instead can be a little foggy, that's not clear. but it is important for the white house to be clear right now. more important than it's ever been in any briefing that we've ever had with anyone here at the white house. this is when it matters. this is when it's critical to let people know what's going on with the help of the president of the united states. not just for us at the white house but because people want to know what is going on and how concerning his condition really is. and it appears that it is quite concerning based on what we've heard from sources. >> jeremy diamond at walter reed. jeremy, if the doctor's intent was to clear things up or, you know, hope people w

sean conley in the first place? he's an osteopath. nothing against osteopaths, but you would expect this team to be led by an infectious disease doctor, no? at least an internist? somebody who does something other than os teopathy. for that matter, why is dr. conley still the one briefing the public on the president's condition after multiple misstatements, including on the timeline of when the president was first diagnosed and first started receiving treatment and when even dr. conley's written statement trying to clean up those mistakes was full of errors, including misspelling at least one of the drugs that the president is taking. is someone who's an experienced covid clinician making top-level decisions on the president's care? is it dr. conconley? is it possible this is a case of what they call vip syndrome, in which the patient insists on what he wants to be treated with even though that combination of treatments makes no sense from a clinical perspective but everybody goes along with it anyway because the patient is a vip? why

conley. before i begin, a brief clinical update on the president's condition. i do want to reiterate my comments from yesterday, regarding the-- how proud i am to be a part of this multidisciplinary, multiinstitutional team of clinical professionals behind me, and what an honor it is to care for the president here at walter reed national military medical center. regarding his clinical status, the patient continues to improve. he has remained without fever since friday morning. his vital signs are stable. from a pulmonary standpoint, he remains to rumair, this morning and not complaining of shortness of breath or other significant respiratory symptoms. he is ambelating himself, walking around the white house medical unit without limitation or disability. our continued monitoring of his cardiac, liver, and kidney function demstraights continued normal findings, or improving findings. i'll now turn it over to dr. garibaldi, from johns hopkins touc taabout ourthap anr thankou, dr. dooley. i want to again reiterate what an honor and privilege it is to take care of t

conley and dr. daol dooley, i call them colonel and commander because i believe they are in the armed forces, they are in the navy. they are reporting to their commander in chief. it is not just a doctor and a president. patient. it is a kpander and colonel and their commander and they can't disregard an or from their commander. that's another dynamic if, as you are speculating, they are being told not to give information. it's not they can't disobey that order. see what i'm saying? >> right, right. absolutely. no question. i mean, i think as a general rule, physicians are going to get consent from their patients on all things, including any information they would share with other people. you are absolutely right. there is a different dynamic at play here. i think dr. conley, again, who has an impeccable record, is falling prey to that. jake, i saw the same thing with ronny jackson. he came out to brief the reporters about the president's health a couple years ago and it was that same sort of thing

conley what he can and cannot say? >> reporter: well, we do know, wolf, that any time the white house physician comes out, he will only offer information that has been approved by the president. any time you see one of these memos, at the very top, it says, i am only releasing this information with the permission of the president and so it's very possible that the president, who we know is very conscious of the optics, doesn't like to appear weak, did not want that information out there but wolf, we have nonetheless independently verified that the president did indeed receive that supplemental oxygen yesterday. >> so what do medical experts think about the shifting timeline, the lack of clarity on the president's condition? dr. peter is a professor and the founding dean of the school of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine and dr. lena is a cnn medical analyst, former commissioner of health in battle n -- baltimore. you'd like to know when his last so-called negative test occurred. tell us about the signific

sean conley says mr. trump is no longer a transmission risk, and meets cdc criteria to stop isolating. but there are still so many things we don't know about the president's illness, like whether or not he's actually tested negative for the virus. dr. conley's memo doesn't say that. and mr. trump, certainly, wasn't waiting for that information to be made public before he started holding rallies, again. just hours ago, he gave a speech at the white house, in front of a packed audience, as you can see here. it was the president's first, public event since his coronavirus diagnosis, and he says the virus is starting to go away. >> through the power of the american -- the american spirit, i think more than anything else, science, medicine, we'll eradicate the china virus, once and for all. we'll get rid of it all over the world. you see big flare-ups in europe. big flare-ups in canada. very big flare-up in canada, you saw that today. a lot of flare-ups but it's going to disappear. it is disappearing and vacci

i will refer sean conley. it is important to note in the president has been fever free for 24—hour is. we remain cautiously optimistic but he is doing great. with that, one other note, it should be clear he has got plenty of work to get done from the chief of staff. he is doing it. if there's a couple of questions about there's a couple of questions about the president's help in the last couple of days. the last saturation that we have of walking around, he was about 96%. he has not received any supplemental oxygen? no, that's right. he has not needed any this morning today at all. do you have an estimated date when you might be discharged? i do not want to put a ha rd discharged? i do not want to put a hard data on it, he is doing so well, but with the course of the illness, days seven to ten we get concerned about the inflammatory phase, phase two, given that we provide some of these advanced therapy so early in the course, earlier than most of the patients we know and follow, it is hard to tell where he i

conley? is it possible that this is a case of what they call vip syndrome, in which the patient insists on what he wants to be treated with, even though that combination of treatments makes no sense from a clinical perspective, but everybody goes along with it anyway because the patient is a vip? why won't the white house release basic information on things like the president's vital signs and whether there were abnormalities in his lung scans, his blood oxygen levels, how much oxygen he received, how many times hehe received it, at whativ saturation and for what length of time? why is the white house specifically andis repeatedly insisting that we, the public, are not allowed to know when the last time was that the president tested negative? they really don't want us to know. they reallywa insist on us not knowing about the window of time in whichth the president was potentially infected, the window offe time between his last negative test and his first positive test.n right. now, you don't

sean conley saying that the president had tested positive for coronavirus. so they are putting the timeline back in place. dr. sean conley making as clear as he possibly can that he incorrectly used the term 72 hours when he actually meant to say that this is day three, meaning that on thursday was day one, yesterday was day two, and now we are on day three of the president having coronavirus. obviously, there were a number of questions that were raised in that press briefing, though, beyond this question of the timeline. there's also the question of the severity of the symptoms that the president has been experiencing and the reasons for which he was brought to the hospital yesterday at walter reed. we had heard from white house officials that this was mainly done out of an abundance of caution and then earlier today we heard a fairly optimistic assessment from the president's doctors that he was on a much better path to recovery. and then, whiplash once again, we got this statement from a person familiar with the president's health which was distributed to

sean conley and the discussion thereafter. first, even before all that, your reaction to the president being treated for coronavirus and all that you interpreted from what we heard from his doctors a short while ago? >> well, a few things. first of all, i hope that he and the first lady, and all of the administration personnel and my senate colleagues get well soon. i hope they make a rapid and complete recovery. i wouldn't wish this virus on anyone. and it's encouraging that the prg noesz looks good. i am concerned over a few things. first of all, that the white house may not have been candid about the president's condition when they knew that he had the virus or may very well have had the virus and the president may have exposed people in the white house, his own staff, his own security, people from the secret service, supporters of his in bedminster or other events, may have knowingly exposed them or a chance he was carrying the virus. obviously that would not have been a responsible thing for the president of the united st

we saw the military doctors behind commander sean conley yesterday. no doubt they are giving professional care. they also seem to be used as political props. >> reporter: they absolutely are, george. and these are medical doctors. they should not be spin doctors. navy officers, not political appointees. so you saw dr. conley and the others come out there and give that briefing with very little information. kind of cute in ways saying he wasn't on oxygen today. that should not be happening. this is a prestigious position. they may not have training for anything like this, this urgent care of the president of the united states, but they have to stick to the facts. they are not, again, spin doctors. i've traveled all over the world, i've been to north korea, remember last may when people thought kim jong-un might be dead, it's because people absolutely didn't believe the information they were getting. that happens in north korea. it should not happen here. >> so dr. jen ashton, let's cut through the spin and focus on what the doctors are doing for the pr

conley's press conference. but dr. conley had a chance to establish a new level of trust. he had an opportunity to establish transparency and he flubbed it. and it's very worrisome. not only did he confuse us with the timetable, but he then issued a retraction or restatement. but if you look carefully at the comments that were made by he and his team, he is not the only one who misspoke. so it's not just dr. conley, it was also one member of his team who misspoke about when the president started getting the experimental antibody treatment. so the very first instance, this team, which should have been establishing transparency and trust, bobbled the ball. this is a really bad moment. it has intensified the crisis. >> carrie, the white house does continue to say the president is in large, there's no transfer of power right now. what happens if the president gets too sick to govern? >> well, we potentially could be in a situation where the 25th amendment would need to be evoked, where the president, if he had the ability, could transfer, certify and transfer his powers to the

conley say any of that? his role is to tell the truth, period, not to create some kind of carefully crafted fiction. and we'll note when he said he misspoke, he read those words. that was in written statement that said 72 hours. and those written statements, certainly in this administration, are vetted by the administration. so, those words that said 72 hours into this were vetted by the administration. >> it was quite clear that there was an intentional point made to make sure that they provide as rosie an outlook as possible and to communicate that the president was strong. in fact, i recall dr. conley coming back to the microphone saying i'll take questions, wait, wait, before i do that, essentially, he interrupts himself and says, i have to say the president has a big stack of work that he received from the chief of staff, and he is really getting at it. it was a very awkward moment because it really clarified that he was trying to project a message that somebody told him to put out there. and then you h

conley since monday. he has not taken questions from reporters since then, and since the president returned to the white house has only issued these written statements instead to give us these updates. there are still a lot of things going left unsaid. for example, in this statement today, he talked about how the president has antibodies detected in his system, but he doesn't say whether or not that's because the president got an antibody cocktail in recent days. those are questions we could ask dr. conley if he was briefing reporters in person, just like what those lung scans showed, if the president is still contagious, in his opinion, all these questions that are critical to what's going on with the president, but we just are not getting those answers, jake, and the white house is not saying if dr. conley has a breachi briefing scheduled. instead we're relying on political aides, one of the deputy advisers at the white house, still working because of all the quarantines happening, and he tells us he do

conley said this himself, 7 to 10 days into someone's illness. we don't have a clear idea of where he is in his illness because we don't know about the last negative test but all those things would point to anybody else if it wasn't for the president saying, no, you should be in the hospital. part of the reason you came to the hospital in the first place. that's where you can get the kind of care. it was interesting to me, wolf, because you heard dr. conley said we're not out of the woods yet. we're in unchartered territory still. time to go home. it doesn't make a lot of sense, wolf. >> certainly doesn't. so many questions unanswered. gloria, it was amazing what the president posted on twitter as he announced the hospital discharge. i'll read it for our viewers. i will be leaving the great walter reed medical center at 6:30 p.m. feeling really good. don't be afraid of covid. don't let it dominate your life. we have developed under the trump administration, really great drugs and knowledge. i feel better than i did 20 years ago. gloria, more than

conley said the ct showed findings -- expected findings. well, if the answer is not the ct was normal, the expected findings in a patient who has just received triple therapy for covid-19 is pneumonia. this is a respiratory pathogen. by saying the ct showed expected findings in a patient who, again, the physician said has two drops in his pulse oxygenation. he's saying that the president had pneumonia. there's an important point to be made here. we actually don't know when the president contracted this virus. we only know when he tested positive. it's incredibly important for the white house to tell us when his last negative test was. they've said all along throughout this year that the president is tested daily. i doubt that. so now we need to know when the president tested negative. he is presenting like somebody a week into their course. a week into the course is when people tend to get sick and hospitalized, not a day after turning positive. particularly if he was tested negative on wednesday. so we need to know when he tested positive.

conley issued this statement. he writes the president's medical team met with him at the white house. he says the president had a restful first night and is reporting no problems. his vital signs are stable, ambulatory objecti ambulatory oxygen saturation is 95 to 97%. joining me, a doctor from baylor college of medicine. great to see you again. hope you can take us through the statement from the president's doctor because he starts by saying he releases information with permission of the president. what does that say to you? >> that says to me the president is being very tactful and very deliberate about the information he wants to give the american people. dr. conley had a press conference just a few days ago where he cited hippa rules that he couldn't give some information about the president. interesting to see how he is using hippa, not the purpose of the rule, not how the law should be applied. i think the president and his team are trying to paint the picture that they want the american people to see, but t

speaking outside the walter reed medical centre dr sean conley attempted to clear up any confusion why medical staff previously painted such a positive picture of his health. i was trying to reflect the attitude that the team, the president in his course of illness, has had, i didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction and in doing so, it came off that we were trying to hide something which wasn't necessarily true. today he feels well, he's been up and around, the plan is to have an eat and drink, to be up and out of bed as much as possible and be mobile and if you continues to look and feel as well as he does today, the hope is we can plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow to the white house where he can continue his treatment course. earlier i spoke with our north america correspondent david willis about the presidents surprise drive by. well, the secret service has signed up for this and they take a huge risk there. "they've got trump flags, they love our country, "i'm about to pay them a surprise visit," whereupon the presiden

conley, on the lung scans. >> you did this yesterday. can you please explain what you found on his lung scans? >> this is a moment of great anxiety for a lot of americans and i'm worried we have not gotten off on a strong foot. >> reporter: who is the doctor appointed in may, 2018 a decorated navy veteran and osteopath. focused on treating the body holistically from the beginning there were questions surrounding his appointment. in the spring two sources with direct knowledge said dr. conley had been hand picked by his predecessor, dr. ronnie jackson. they were concerned he was promoted without proper vetting. in november dr. conley promoted the president on an unscheduled test he called it an interim checkup but never provided details he protectively described the president the unproven drug trump had been taughting, hydroxychloroquine. >> i happen to be taking it. >> hydroxychloroquine? >> i'm taking it, hydro hydroxychloroqui hydroxychloroquine. >> reporter: the potential benefit outweighed the potential risks. the fda cited safety is

and the president's doctor, sean conley, was directly asked what mr. trump's x-rays and ct scans show in relation to his lungs. and dr. conley said they showed expected findings. they were his words. what does that mean to you? >> what that means to me is that typically other patient who is have this disease on their x-rays, on their ct, you'll see these little abnormalities in the air sacs. and he probably has the exact same findings because he's clearly infected with sars coronavirus 2 and has covid. >> and why are they not telling us when president trump received his last negative covid test and explain to explain to us why that is so important? >> rosemary, obviously i have no idea why his physicians would not disclose his last negative test. but the reason why his testing matters, and more so his symptoms matter, is because that defines b defines who his contacts were. so, two days two, and a half days before he became ill, those would have been his contacts who now need to be quarantined. so, that's really a critical piece of information. >> righ

conley and other white house officials. at one point he was asked about a comment made by the president's chief of staff yesterday to reporters saying that the president's health had been very concerning. conley effectively said that the comment was misconstrued and that's when he got into that sound bite you played with joe talking about wanting to paint a rosier picture. to be clear, the contradictions are out there. conley revealing the president had drops in his oxygen level revealing that president trump had a high fever, things he did not mention yesterday. he also revealed that the president did receive supplemental oxygen despite having trouble answering that question yesterday as well. notably, you know, the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, now under fire. the president, according to sources, furious at his chief of staff for having this conversation with reporters and making comments that reveal concern among the president's staff, among aides here at the white house about the president's health. we have

sean conley, he has become a household name in just a few days, holding regular briefings. as cnn's tom foreman reports, conley is becoming just as famous for what he doesn't say. >> when did the president last test negative for covid? >> i don't want to go backwards. >> how high was the president's fever? >> i'd rather not give any specific numbers. >> any sign of pneumonia? >> i'm just not at liberty to discuss. >> was he ever getting supplemental oxygen? >> he's not on oxygen right now. >> yesterday and today he was not on oxygen. he's not on oxygen right now. >> from the start of the 74-year-old president's battle with covid, white house physician sean conley has been giving vague and oddly optimistic assessments considering trump was hospitalized, being pumped full of powerful drugs, including an experimental treatment, and when conley was caught misleading, turns out the president had gotten extra oxygen, his explanation? >> i was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, that his course of illness has had. i don't want to give any informatio

john conley and the president's team came out. he painted a rosie picture. the president was if good spirits. he as you mentioned refused to answer questions about whether president trump had been on supplemental oxygen earlier before he came to walter reed or today. cnn is reporting that there was a point on friday when the president did have to receive some supplemental oxygen. but then just after dr. sean conley wrapped up that press conference, a source told reporters that the president's symptoms over the past 24 hours were very concerning and that's a part of what led the president to being here at the hospital so some really mixed messages out of the white house about where exactly the president has been over the past 24 hours. but the memo that dr. sean conley released this afternoon says the president is not yet out of the wood, a key take from that conference, the doctors say the seven-to-ten day mark after the president's diagnosis, after anyone's diagnosis can be a window of concern, so suggested the president could be here for a while, meanwhile

sean conley. one of the most concerning symptoms of covid is reduced lung function, and check out how cagey conley was about whether trump was given oxygen. >> he has not received any supplemental oxygen? >> he's not on oxygen right now. that's right. >> he has not received any at all? >> he's not needed any this morning today at all. that's right. >> can we just pin you down on one thing? has he ever been on supplemental oxygen? >> right now, he is not on oxygen. >> stephen: he's so bad at lying! it's like if your wife asked, "are you having an affair with janet?" "honey, i have not had supplemental janet sex this morning, that's right." ( laughter ) the next day, it came out that trump had been given oxygen, and conley explained why he was so evasive. >> i was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, that his course of illness has had. i didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction. >> stephen: you can't steer the cour

conley wouldn't answer. when he was asked about the president's fever, what was it at the highest, dr. conley wouldn't answer. well, last night on fox news mark meadows said the president is making unbelievable improvements from friday. he also said that the president had a fever and falling oxygen levels. what do we know about the state of the president's health? the truth is not much. and after we heard the recording of the president with bob woodward back in the earliest part of this year, the start of the pandemic, and the president said he likes to down play the pandemic. how much of what we're hearing can we believe? right now the white house seems more interested in spinning this story than providing objective medical facts about the leader of this country. >> and chris christie tells cnn he checked himself into a hospital yesterday after announcing that he's tested positive for coronavirus. >> he joins the growing list. you see them on your screen, of white house affiliated or related cases of corona

sean conley this evening. he said the president has made substantial progress since his diagnosis with covid-19 and that trump received his second dose of remdesivir this evening without complication, that he went into the night still having no temperature. that came, as you mentioned, after a day of confusion and mixed signals from this white house about the president's condition. that really started around 11:00 a.m. this morning when dr. conley and the president's other care providers came out and briefed reporters here at walter reed. dr. conley and the others painted a really rosy picture of how trump has been doing since he arrived at walter reed but also yesterday before he was hospitalized. but just moments after that rescon french had ended, a source familiar with the president's condition told reporters that trump had experienced quote, very concerning symptoms in the hours before he was hospitalized here at walter reed. so not a lot of clarity about what the president was experiencing while he was a

conley has since corrected himself on that in writing. and a source familiar with the president's health tells cnn that the next two days for the president will be critical and that president trump, who is 74 years old and sick with covid right now is, quote, still not on a clear path to a full recovery, closed quote. as for the president himself, these words today posted to his twitter account. praise for the men and women treating him at walter reed, calling them amazing and he says, quote, with their help, i am feeling well. joining us now, cnn's chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, cnn's chief political analyst, gloria borger, cnn's chief political correspondent, dana bash, and cnn's chief -- not chief yet, one of these days, maybe, our white house correspondent, kaitlan collins. kaitlan, you have some new reporting about white house advisers, what they've been saying, the last-minute push, for example, to get the president yesterday to leave the white house and head over to walter reed. >> reporter: yeah, wolf. it's been a

conley. before i begin a brief clinical update on the president's condition, i want to reiterate my comments from yesterday regarding how proud i am to be a part of this multi-institutional team of clinical professionals behind me and what an honor it is to care for the president here at walter reed national military medical center. regarding his clinical status, the patient continues to improve. he has remained without fever since friday morning. his vital signs are stable. from a pulmonary standpoint he is not complaining of shortness of breath or other significant respiratory symptoms. he is walking around the white house medical unit without limitation or disability. our continued monitoring of his cardiac, liver and kidney function demonstrates normal findings or improving findings. hopkins to talk about our tha therapeutics and our plan for the day. >> thank you. just want again to reiterate what an honor and privilege to take care of the president and to be such a part of a team here a