White House denies President Biden has Parkinson’s disease
White House denies President Biden has Parkinson’s diseaseReuters
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00:00Has the President — you mentioned Parkinson's,
00:02multiple sclerosis, all of these things.
00:04One diagnosis that we have heard,
00:06a potential diagnosis is hydrocephalus,
00:08which is fluid buildup in the brain.
00:10It's something we've never heard in any of the medical reports.
00:13Is that something that the President has been evaluating?
00:15If it's not in the medical report,
00:17obviously it's not something that the President
00:21is dealing with.
00:22It has been evaluated.
00:23Well, I can tell you this.
00:25Just going back to Parkinson's for a little bit,
00:27so to give you some answers here,
00:29has the President been treated for Parkinson's?
00:31No. Is he being treated for Parkinson's?
00:33No, he's not. Is he taking medication for Parkinson's?
00:36No. So those are the things
00:37that I can give you full-blown answers on.
00:41You've noted that there are thousands
00:42within the Walter Reed system
00:44who may be treated by a specialist
00:45who visits here at the White House.
00:47But this neurologist had a meeting
00:49with the President's physician, with his doctor.
00:51You're refusing to say he was here to evaluate the President
00:54or if he was consulting on the President's health.
00:56So what then was that meeting about?
00:58And I will say that Dr. O'Connor leads the medical unit.
01:02He's literally the medical unit.
01:06No, because we will not confirm or speak to names
01:12that you're providing to me.
01:13It is out of security reason.
01:15It is out of protecting someone's privacy.
01:17We're just not going to do that.
01:20But they are. The reason that I mention that
01:22is because there are 1,000 military members
01:24that do indeed use the White House medical unit.
01:29They get care from them.
01:32Guys, I'm trying to answer the question
01:34so you can connect the dot,
01:35that there are multiple specialists
01:39that come through here
01:41because there are more than 1,000
01:45medical military personnel here.
01:48I certainly could clear this all up
01:49just by saying what he was doing here
01:51and if it was connected to the President, yes or no.
01:53I am not going to confirm a particular neurologist, anybody.
02:00It doesn't matter if they're a dermatologist or a neurologist.
02:03I'm just not going to do that.