David, I mean, what do you make of these visits to the White House from a Parkinson's specialist? Well, I don't know what to make of it. I will say this, Anderson, I, I have I don't believe the president has Parkinson's disease. They say he doesn't that he's not being treated for that. I think it would be irresponsible to run if he were being treated for that. I don't I, I, I have no question in my mind about that. But questions that are going to be raised if you're not simple and direct and about these kinds of issues, it was predictable that people would have curiosity about why this doctor was there, given the issues that were raised by the president's debate performance and the fact that the press secretary didn't have direct answers to those questions, only intensifies the hunt for answers. The media is going to not take her non-answers at face value at this point. Members of Congress who are trying to decide what to do here and whether they should take a position on the president's candidacy are probably going to want to know before they do what is this all about? And I think you can be very sure that the House Republicans are going to treat this like a ball of wool. And I think at this point, they need to be very, very direct on all these questions or they're going to continue to get more questions and it's going to propagate more trouble for the president. They need to jump on this issue and they need to be clear and direct about it. Kate, I mean, if there was no issue with President Biden's cognition and his ability to speak without a teleprompter and answer questions, why wouldn't the White House to David's point, have a press conference and just let the president answer questions from reporters? Well, he's going to do that this week. We know he's going to do that on Thursday. So we will see him. We'll see him doing that there. And I would also say, you know, in listening to Karin today, which by the way, the White House press secretary has an incredibly difficult job and anybody who's worked in White House communications can tell you that there's a there are a lot of factors that go into what you make public. There's often it's often the role of the White House press secretary, the White House communications director, to advocate to others internally in the building to make information public. And sometimes you get pushback based on, you know, what the lawyers think or, you know, what the legislative team thinks. So, you know, I have to imagine there was a robust conversation about this inside the White House today. And I think if you look at what Karin said, she answered a number of these questions directly. She said he's not being treated for Parkinson's. He's not he doesn't have he's not taking medicine for Parkinson's. And the White House has put out a video there and never talked about about dementia or I mean, where the more obvious things, which is what the subtext of all of this is, isn't it? Well, but she put out a detailed they put out a detailed a detailed medical analysis of the president every year in which the neurologist says there's no evidence of any of these of these these issues. But I would also say, well, he actually just said Parkinson's or M.S. He actually didn't specifically say anything about dementia or any kind of form of dementia. But in the section of the report, he says no reason to be concerned about neurological. I think it was uses the word deficiencies. But but, you know, they have put this out annually every single year. It is dramatically more detailed. And as the doctor was mentioning, that Donald Trump has. Right. But the other thing I would say is the White House medical unit and again, anybody who's worked at the White House knows this, you know, acts, Ashleigh, Paul could all speak to this, to the medical unit is a doctor's office that treats all of the staff. If you have a cold when you're at the White House and you're a staffer, you go to the medical unit, There are rotating a rotation of doctors who come in, who are there to be available to staff. They don't just treat the president. And so, you know, I think the desire to jump to conclusions here when the press secretary was clearer, but he's not being treated for Parkinson's. You know, I think it's problematic. I would also note if you overlay the president's schedule and I haven't had a chance to to do all of this, but if you overlay the president's schedule, you'll see there were times in those visitor's logs where the doctor was there, the president was out of the country. So I think, you know, look, I understand that people have these questions. I certainly agree with acts that the White House needs to be clearer. I think that the press secretary did the best job she could do today with the information that she was allowed to share. But I don't think there's any reason to believe that the president's being treated for Parkinson's. Okay. Paul, I mean, nobody can explain or has offered any explanation for the debate, for performance other than a bad night. And the president has said, you know, I was tired from international trips, even though it was, you know, more than ten days or so after his his last international trip. I mean, nobody can really has spoken to wise sentences. Some sentences are totally fine and make total sense. And others like you on Morning Joe Trail off into just kind of a word salad. Do they need to answer that question? Well, they do. The question was best posed by Nancy Pelosi. Not exactly a MAGA Trumper. Speaker Emeritus Pelosi said that I'm paraphrasing. I wrote that quote, but she said, We want to know if this was just a bad night or if there's a condition. Now, this Nancy Pelosi, she's not exactly a Biden hater and she spent more time with President Biden than most people have. My own advice to these folks, and they're my friends and I love them. I love this president. He's really a wonderful man. He's done great things for the country. But they've got to be more transparent. They need to listen to Dr. Reiner. You know, nobody wants their medical records released in public. But you know what? He's got his finger on the button. He's got 5000 nuclear weapons. He's got a million troops underarms under his command. And Mr. Jefferson said this. Our third president, when a person assumes a public office, they become public property. So I think both candidates, both Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden, should and should waive doctor patient confidentiality and send their their personal physicians out to say Sanjay Gupta. Right. Because political reporters are not going to know the right questions. But we should have more transparency about both of these guys, because I think there are really important questions about each of them, Ashleigh. I mean, a number of senators are voicing concerns about the president's candidacy tonight. What more would you like to see to him to do to try to address these issues? Well, you know, I've been on the phone all day with ranking file members as well as members of leadership in the House. And essentially what I'm hearing, Anderson, is the message is that stopping the bleeding doesn't solve the problem. You know, what they've said to me is that if we accept the president's word that it's episodic and not a condition, then we should all anticipate that there's going to be another episode. And so the fear is that, you know, that the episode is much more profound, comes at a much more consequential time and also comes at a point in which we've run out the clock and there's no no options left to solve the problem. So that's what I'm hearing from members. I'm also hearing that they were not satisfied with the president's explanation because many of them have seen them in his in their districts and they've seen him perform. They weren't satisfied by this letter that he sent over today. They feel like they need to touch and feel the president. So, I mean, the overwhelming message I'm hearing from members is that, you know, is that they're they're feeling like sitting ducks waiting for the next shoe to drop, but they're holding out some level of patience and giving the president some time. David, I mean, let's talk about time. You know, obviously, he seems determined and defiant and thinks he can can do this as long as he feels that. How does anything change? Well, I mean, this has always been the case. It has always been his decision. You know, what he said in that interview was that he didn't expect the leaders of the House and Senate to come to him and say, you're jeopardizing us and and our members. And, you know, you don't want this to be your legacy set. And that's not going to happen. They're all with me. And if they don't, I don't know what else would intervene. I don't think God Almighty is going to play a role here. It really has to be the leaders of the Congress. That letter he sent over this morning was pretty dismissive. I mean, there was no real acknowledgment of the concerns or addressing of the concerns that people had. He basically said, I'm done talking about it. I'm running live with it. And here's my case against Donald Trump. And you know that, as Ashleigh said, that didn't really resolve the fundamental question. So I do think he's trying to run out the clock. I think he very much wants expects to be the nominee. He has naito this week. The Republican convention is next week. And then time gets very short. If you were to make change, the only thing I would say that he should consider is and I've said this from the beginning, can he can he make a straight face case to the American people as to why they shouldn't be concerned about this and why he is the best candidate for the next four years? We can honor the president's achievements for the last four years, in the last 50 years of his public service, which is distinguished, important. I think what he's done as president in many ways has been historic. But that doesn't address his his ability to do this for another four years, and he seems unable to address that. Everyone, thank you.
