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internet bundle. comcast business, powering possibilities. ivanka trump in court and about to be under oath. donald trump's daughter is the final witness for the new york attorney general's civil fraud
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trial against the trump organization. one message from last night's election, the country is still deeply divided politically, of course, but voters did speak with one voice on one issue, at least. abortion rights. the votes, the data, the lessons for democrats and republicans as we charge into 2024. america's top diplomat escalates his opposition to a cease-fire in gaza and now secretary of state blinken says there may need to be, quote, a transition period in gaza at the end of the israeli-hamas conflict. i'm sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. this is "cnn news central." ♪ ♪ all right. just a few moments ago, ivanka trump arrived at the courthouse. very soon she'll be in the courtroom to testify in the $250 million civil fraud trial against her father and her
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brothers and the family business. she will face questions about her role in said business and the alleged scheme to inflate their net worth. there she is right now. ivanka trump walking through the hallway, heading into the courtroom. let's see if she says anything. >> all right. decidedly avoiding any comment, unlike her father, we should note, as she headed into the courtroom to testify. she will be under oath in just seconds. we do want to note ivanka trump is not a defendant in this case, but as the final witness for the state, clearly, someone that the state attorneys want to get information from. let's get right to cnn's paula reed. paula, this testimony about to sp
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speak. >> she is no longer a defendant in this case, she has tried many different times in many different ways to not have to make this appearance today. most recently she argued that it would be a hardship for her to testify during the week because her children are in school and not surprisingly the court rejected that and we just saw her arrive at court today. there will not be cameras inside the courtroom during her testimony, but we have our colleagues, reporters inside the court giving us updates and questioning has not gotten under way, but before the proceedings started today, the attorney general of new york, letitia james addressed the press. let's take a listen to what she said. >> she covered the scheme and she benefitted from it personally, and miss trump will do all that she can to try to separate herself from this corporation, but she's inextricably tied to the trump
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organization and to these properties that she helped secure financing for. so you cannot hide from the truth and the facts will belie the truth and the evidence. >> and don, we just got a live update. ivanka trump is now on the stand. i will note about letitia james' comments there. it is unusual for an attorney general, for some prosecutor overseeing a case to come out and preemptively comment on testimony from witnesses. she did that last week before former president trump testified, as well. she also live tweeted her reaction over the course of the day. that is unusual, but here we expect people from the attorney general's office and the prosecutors will be asking ivanka specific questions about her role in securing financing for certain properties as well as her role? valuation and reporting how much certain assets are worth. in her previous deposition in this case, she tried to distance
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herself from that process. her brothers and her father have all done the same thing. what i also think we'll see here today is a pretty disciplined witness. this is not someone that i expect will set the proceedings into chaos like we saw earlier this wreak with former president trump or her brothers who had testy exchanges while on the stand. the questioning just getting on the way. while there are no cameras there are live updates and we'll bring you developments as they occur. >> it was interesting to hear from the attorney general not just commenting, as you said, which was unusual, but also suggesting that ivanka trump had ties to, if not culpability to what happened inside the family business even though she's no longer a defendant. >> sure. she's no longer a defendant in this case. she was at one time, but she did work for the trump organization and that's the time period that they're really going to fo on. her role in securing financing for specific properties, and projects that she worked on as
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well as specifically, they're probably going to focus on the washington, d.c. project and the post office because she was heavily involved in that. even though she was a co-defendant, her brothers and her father and they were co-defendants in this case and they have been found liable by the judge for fraud. she is no longer a defendant, but she is a key witness. she is someone who can potentially have helpful information for the judge who is focussed on the penalty phase on this fraud. >> stand by for us. ivanka trump on the stand and we will get regular updates about the exact nature of the testimony and what she's saying so we'll be talking to you again very soon. sara? ? joining us for more on this, cnn analyst and former federal prosecutor elliott williams. good to see you, elliott. you say that claiming -- ivanka's on the stand and her claiming ignorance, to sum it up, claiming ignorance is not
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going to fly with her testimony today. why is that? >> i think, kate, she has a delicate needle to thread here. because paula has noted, she's not a defendant in the case and was not as involved in the trump organization as her two brothers were and still carries the name ivanka trump and would certainly have been familiar with the operations of the trump organization and in terms of financing and personal finances and so on. the question is how does she demonstrate that, number one, i wasn't there day to day, and i'm not familiar with the particulars, but credibly, i can still comment fairly about what i knew about the organization, and i think the judge who sort of doesn't really have patience with the defendants in this case isn't really going to stomach a witness who doesn't appear to be credible in that point. >> she's the fourth member of the trump family to have to testify in this case.
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what exactly are they looking for from her? is there something that they're trying to get that's very specific, to something she did or an overall look? >> so i don't think the case will rise and fall on the success of ivanka trump's testimony just because of the big and explosive testimony that came from donald trump and both of his sons. again, getting back to what paula had said earlier. there are a few properties that she would have been involve in the financing and number one, doral country club in miami and the post office which as many people know became the trump hotel in washington, d.c., and she may have information about those two things. the other question looming overhead, and this was muddy with her father and brothers' testimony is did accountants or members of the trump family or others ultimately sign off on the statements of financial conditions? the balance sheets there. the trump sons sort of said, no, no, no. this is all accountants and we didn't have much to do about this. their father was more ambiguous
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about it, so i would think the prosecutors would push her and ask questions about that. who actually made the calls as to what the financing was for any of these properties. >> elliott. she's not a co-defendant in this case, as we've said. so how could that, should that, will that change what she does on the stand or how the assistant state attorney approaches her in questioning. >> you know, i really don't think so solely on the fact that should a civil case and the rules are looser for what you can do and say to a defendant. if this was a criminal trial, prosecutors couldn't put her on the stand. the constitution says prosecutors can't force them to testify against themselves. in a civil case, the defendants can act as witnesses, too, as you saw with the trump brothers and the former president. i think it's largely the same type of questioning they'd send her way, and i think her answers
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ought to be the same as if she were a defendant, just answer the questions you're asked and don't veer off script. that can be very hard to do, but for any witness, the best thing to do is stick to the narrative and not get tripped up by prosecutors which could be very hard. >> good to see you, elliott. thank you. this morning democrats are celebrating. they're celebrating victories in kentucky where the incumbent democratic governor andy beshear won by a margin of five points in a state that donald trump won by an enormous margin in 2020. he won by nearly 26 points. democrats very happy about that. democrats also celebrating what happened in the state of ohio where an abortions rights measure, a measure to enshrine abortion rights into the constitution won by about 13 points. again, that's in a state that donald trump won by about eight points. so they look at that as a swing. democrats also very happy about what took place in virginia, and
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just like ohio, abortion rights played a major issue there. now every seat in the state legislature, the general assembly was up for grabs last night and in the state senate, democrats maintain control of the state senate and in the house of delegates, the lower chamber, delegates re-took it, they flipped it and now they control both chambers in the general assembly in the commonwealth of virginia which is the exact opposite of what republican governor glenn youngkin wanted and he wanted control of both chambers to push his agenda and he is getting abortion rights front and center. jessica dean is there. jessica, what are you hearing this morning? >> good morning to you, john. democrats in virginia are absolutely thrilled, over the moon with how it went for them last night. governor glenn youngkin had spent the last several weeks on
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a buice tour canvassing the state, convincing voters that while he may not be on the ballot if they would give him full republican control he could push further his agenda and part of that was a 15-week ban on abortion with the exceptions of rape, incest, and the life of the mother. he talked about a lot of other issues when he was up on the stump. democrats really made abortion a central issue in all of their elections across this commonwealth and that, as you mentioned was an issue that was a big winner for democrats both here in virginia and across the country last night and so now we will see -- the senate will stay democratic and the house flipping and governor youngkin will have a very hard time pushing forward any of his agenda. the democrats do not agree with or do not want to see turned into virginia state law. john, the question, too is what does this mean for governor glenn youngkin and there were so
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many eyes on him last night. could his particular brand of republican politics be where that party might be headed in a post-maga world. does a post-maga world exist that's conservative, but not full maga? last night voters rejecting that and siding with democrats in virginia. >> jessica, if i can ask one question about ohio. i'll pull that back up on the map here so people can see what happened in the contest. this is to enshrine abortion rights into the constitution. you can see it won by a large margin and the counties trump won in 2020. all of the green counties were what he won and also voted for abortion rights. what are you hearing about democrats about the signs they're taking from this? >> democrats still believe -- they believed this last night that abortion is still a big issue for them, that it will drive turnout that benefits them and you just laid out
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essentially why you think that. if you look at these counties that donald trump won, that are voting -- that were voting in favor of enshrining abortion rights and ohio is the latest example of a number of states that had put this on the ballot over the last year and a half, two years since roe v. wade was overturned and seeing success that abortion rights activists had seen success with this, so democrats believe that this is a good, solid message for them as they head into 2024, john? >> jessica dean, great to have you. thank you very much. >> john, you're getting really good with that wall. i'll start calling you the wall master. you've taken over. john king, watch out. thank you, jessica. very nice, john. very, very nice. all right, tonight five republican presidential hopefuls will try to make a dent in donald trump's huge primary lead. what we know about their strategies for tonight's debate as trump rallies supporters
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nearby. plus, thousands of people in northern gaza tried to walk to safety in the south after israel gave them a deadline to get out. that deadline now over. what happens now that that window has closed? also, when doctors needed to keep a man alive long enough to give him a life-saving double lung transplant they used breast implants to save his life. more on that innovative solution. that is ahead. all right.
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it happens tonight, five republican presidential hopefuls take the stage in miami for the third republican presidential debate.
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with us now is former governor of wisconsin republican scott walker, also a former presidential candidate himself. governor, it's good to have you. we had you on the first two debates, and it's great to have you on for the third. who needs it most tonight? >> i think it's between nikki haley and ron desantis. i think for all the rest it's largely over, and it may be for the two of them as well. one of them has to have a breakout moment saying those early states in the state like iowa where nikki haley has kreped up on desantis in the last des moines register poll you see a tie between the two of them still way behind president biden at 43%, but if she were to elevate herself more in tonight's debate, she can lay claim to being the alternative to president donald trump, but even saying that, it's still a long ways off not only in the national polls and particularly in key states like iowa. ? let's talk about nikki haley a little bit more because her
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campaign put out a video, and it was a little bit notable. it basically said it was going to go after ron desantis as a liar, and i think you can put this up on the screen right here at the next debate and expect governor ron desantis to lie after the dramatic record, it also said these boots are made for lying which is a dig to the boots ron desantis wears. what do you think about nikki haley's campaign? >> i think clearly she will be a bit of the alpha dog and that's her projection for tonight's debate is that she needs to rise above the rest and say all of these others don't matter. i'm the one alternative to president trump. that may be effective for tonight's debate and may continue to elevate her. i think beyond that, she's got to make the case to the primary caucus voters that the guy that they like, the guy they're familiar with former president
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donald trump that somehow she's a better alternative to that. up until now it would be electability, but in the poll we just saw a few days ago, we were in the head to head with president biden and former president trump is ahead in all, but one of the six key battleground states. i think that makes it even tougher for her or anybody else on the field to say we're the better alternative. i don't think it shows that -- it doesn't show that he can't be elected at least today. >> right. the poll is clear that she is more electable in that poll. she leads joe biden by more than donald trump. we'll get back to donald trump in just a minute and you said he's got a lot at stake. if you read the financial times like i do, so many mornings and there was a quote in the financial times from robert big l bigelow and was $20 million to the super pac and he's throwing his support to donald trump.
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i think trump has the momentum and the inner shah. you better be ready and willing to get in the gutter and you better be able to kill and that's not who ron is. if you're ron desantis waking up to the news that one of your biggest donors is considering forsaking you, how do you feel? >> it's a big blow. early on he was the presumed, presumptive alternate testify donald trump. he's putting all his stock into the state of iowa. certainly governor kim reynolds' endorsement will help, but in the end, in these early states, iowa and new hampshire these voters take the election very seriously. they like to hear from the candidates multiple times and they want to know about plausibility, and if you don't have the finances and that was one of the advantages early on is having the money and that was
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starting to dry up. i think you will see momentum if nikki haley has a big night. on the flipside, he could have a dramatic night and it might revive his effort, but it's still donald trump's to lose. >> let me leave you with this poll number and get your reaction because inside of the series of polls which were very bad for joe biden and trailing donald trump and all of the republican candidates by a significant margin, "the new york times" asked how would you feel differently if donald trump were convicted in the federal election trial which is the one that takes place in march. trump leads biden by three, but if convicted biden leads by nine. how much do you think that message will play into the debate tonight? >> well, that's again, one of the wedges. one of the things i hear across the country with the work they do at the young america's foundation is talk to students across the nation and one of the big warnings and one of the big red flags.
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they love what donald trump did. many of them overwhelmingly behind the former president. one, it fires him up because a lot of these are politically motivated and there is a growing concern as to what happened not just in the federal indictment and what might happen in georgia, and so to a certain extent there might be some of that with some of the other candidates waiting to see if there's an opportunity. assuming that doesn't change, though, i still think it's donald trump's to lose right now and in a head to head, particularly where people, unlike last night's results, money isn't a big factor and it was a factor in the races across the country. the money is not the factor and it's what do you think of each of them and right now there are a lot of people upset with joe biden and rightfully so. >> governor scott walker, look forward to speaking with you at the fourth if there is one. coming up for us, the idf opened an evacuation corridor to get out of gaza.
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people seen walking and waving white flags as they went. the secretary of state speaking out from tokyo about a transition period in gaza after hamas is gone. john kirby from the white house joins us next. plus, now that the voters have spoken in several states on several important issues, why one democrat says this election shows it's about the issues, not about the people carrying the message and what they hope what this means for 2024. we'll be back.
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earlier today thousands of people fled northern gaza through an evacuation corridor during a five-hour window set up by the israeli military to allow people to leave. that window is now closed. g7 foreign ministers met in japan. they voiced their support for humanitarian pauses in gaza to allow more critical aid and civilian movement and of course, the release of hostages at which time there are more than 200 people still being held in gaza. they stopped short, though, of calling for a cease fire. secretary of state antony blinken also maintained his objection to a cease-fire in gaza. salma abdelaziz joins me from london. there is such desperation there and such heartache there and you see these people literally on foot carrying what they can trying to get out of the line of fire. what more can you tell us about
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what is happening on the gaza strip? >> yes. so you had these short corridors. it was a five-hour window. yesterday there was a four-hour window opened up by the israeli military, and i say opened up. that doesn't mean the fighting stopped and you can hear booms and bangs behind those families as they flee, but those roads opened up so they can much southward. many of the civilians in videos that we obtained from the ground describing absolutely harrowing journey, sara, walking for miles and miles on foot. you have to remember they are only carrying what they can with them. that might be a baby, an elderly baby or the last bottle of water that they can bring and where they are fleeing to is not safe either, sara. there have been air strikes in the south and that's an area that's been overwhelmed with idps. i want to bring you just a little bit of sound and material from one person who was along this evacuation route. take a listen. >> translator: i am a cancer
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patient. i can't find no treatment. no food, no water. i left three daughters behind, and i am only with my son now. i am telling him rescue yourself and i try to pass so i can bring your sisters. last night we saw the death with my own eyes. the floor was exploding under us. i only have one son and two daughter, i can't walk. where do we go? no food, no water. they left us with nothing. >> that question, where do we go, sara? you can imagine every single parent is asking that question on the route. where do they spend the night tonight once they make it southward. it's clear from the united nations perspective. the u.n. says this is forcible displacement. meanwhile, the fighting in gaza city intensifies. the israeli military saying it is in the heart of the city and the defense minister calling the whole city a legitimate target saying it's all a base for hamas, sara? >> that's terrifying for those
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who live there, can't leave there. a lot of people don't realize palestinians can't just up and leave the area so the civilians are really suffering through this time there in gaza, as well. thank you, salma abdelaziz for your reporting from the gaza strip. over to you, kate. the g7 meeting in tokyo today, at the g7 meeting in tokyo today, secretary of state antony blinken reinforced the biden administration's position that israel should not re-occupy gaza, and he also added this, listen -- >> one, gaza cannot be continued to be run by hamas. it is also clear that israel cannot occupy gaza. now the reality is that there may be a need for some transition period at the end of the conflict, but it is imperative that the peoalestini
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people be central to the governance in gaza and the west bank, as well and we don't see a re-occupation. >> joining us now from the white house, a spokesman for the national security council, john kirby. john, thank you for the time. a transition period, do you believe that is the same as netanyahu was saying and meant when he said israel will have the overall security responsibility in gaza for an indefinite period of time? >> i won't speak for prime minister netanyahu, kate, but our view expressed by secretary of state blinken that the governance in gaza has to be something we think about carefully post-conflict. we can't let it be what it was on october 6th with hamas in control and as president biden said it would be a mistake for israel to try to re-occupy gaza, that there will have to be a different solution, a different set of governing principles and we'll have to work together with our partners to figure that out. >> but not trying to get in the
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mind of netanyahu, but from the perspective of the biden administration, a transition period in line with israel having security responsibility in gaza after this conflict? >> i think all of us can foresee a period of time after the conflict is over where israeli forces will likely still be in gaza and will have some initial security responsibilities, but for how long and where and to what size and scale and scope, i think it's too soon to know that that. what we want to stay focused on is post-gaza long-term governance and we don't want it to look like it did on october 6th. >> i want to ask you about that because i asked about post-gaza -- post-conflict gaza and governance to beth stanner, she is a former deputy director of national intelligence. i know you know her.
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her take on netanyahu's statement on gaza after hamas is that it's an admission of a lack of a plan that everyone is coming to the realization that there is no other alternative. let me play this for you, john. >> the palestinian authority can't do it, and they won't do it. the egyptians -- it is a pipe dream to think about the egyptians and others coming in and being this multinational force, and so i think that what we're seeing is kind of reality hitting everybody kind of straight in the face and this is where we are. >> is that where you think we are? >> i think where we are is -- is a lot of questions and not a lot of answers. we know what we don't want to see in gaza post-conflict. we don't want to see hamas in control and a re-occupation by israel and what we are going to see and what we want to see, we are still flushing that out and it will require a lot of significant conversations with
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partners in the region and some of the ones that she mentioned, there will be players in this process and they'll have voices and perspectives that we'll have to listen to, but we don't have it all figured out right now and i don't know that it would be reasonable for us to think that we could at this particular point one month into the conflict, but we know that it has to be something different than what it was under hamas, and we know that the united states can't solve this alone. we're going to have to have diplomatic conversations with folks in the region to figure this out. >> no question that these are very challenging questions to answer. i'm not trying to diminish that. >> you have said that the administration's been crystal clear with israel. they need to do more to minimize civilian -- civilian palestinian casualties. there was another five-hour window and an evacuation corridor this morning for people to get out of northern gaza. does that satisfy the president's call for doing more? >> well, we certainly welcome the safe passage out of northern gaza for people who want to get
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out, but that's a good thing. we want to get these folks out of harm's way. we think that this is an iterative process, kate. you heard secretary of state blinken talk about pauses, not in the singular sense. we believe that there has to be space and opportunity for multiple pauses in the fighting to allow for aid to get in, for people to get out and to do so safely and efficiently. again, both in and out. so this is what we're talking about with our israeli counterparts, as well. we are talking with partners on the ground and we'll keep pushing for that. >> john kirby from the white house. john, thank you so much. john berman, always great to have john kirby and clear that the leaf blowing crew at the white house hates us. >> they were there in force. democrats celebrating big wins for us this morning. democrats treading bad poll numbers this morning. how can both things be true?
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the results are in, as you know, democrats are celebrating. they scored key victories in virginia and kentucky and once again, the fight for abortion rights proved to be a big winner. this time in ohio where voters enshrined the right into the state constitution. democrats are hoping this key issue will help drive turnout in 2024. cnn political commentator and former obama administration official van jones is here with more insight on this. i want to start with the abortion issue because that seemed to play an outsized role in what the voters decided and
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let's look at this poll. the polling here shows that democrats -- they're significantly more likely to look at the abortion issue as a major issue. 51% to 33%. there are the numbers there. yes, sara. >> if you look at that, climate change, gun policy also very high with democrats not so much especially climate change with republicans. tell me how this issue might affect the 2024 presidential election. >> what we see is we have the cause which is you try to take a fundamental right away from half the population. you've got the cause and the capacity and the grassroots independent of any other poll. it turns out every single time, every single time it's on the ballot. so you've got the cause, and you've got the capacity. the question is do you have the candidate? and it's the polling data for
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biden that is giving people a queasy feeling about 2024 if people can begin to change their feeling about biden or at least biden in comparison to trump, you've got all three and 2024 will be fine, but if you have the cause issue the capacity and you don't have the candidate that's not going to work. >> the three "cs," cause capacity and candidate. i hadn't heard that. you're always bringing the heat. >> good morning! good morning! >> you talk about the three "cs" there, is there a takeaway from what we saw happen from the special elections that can be translated easily from republicans and democrats. can they take something away and say here's what we must do. republicans must stop attacking women's rights and must stop attacking the health care freedom of choice for women or they'll keep getting their butts kicked. the republicans are like the car that caught the car and now they're backing over the dog and backing over the dog. >> that's harsh at 10:30 in the morning or 10:45.
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>> the polls speak for themselves and so that's what's going on and the republicans have to deal with that. the democrats also need to recognize and it's not just the cause. organized labor is really strong now, and the other parts, black voters matter and there are other parts of this coalition that are often behind the scenes and they're pushing very, very hard. invest in your grassroots and talk about fundamental freedoms and democrats are going to be on that way. >> when you look at glenn youngkin, you can't help, but talk about him. >> meteoric. people were talking about him the -- >> it was ridiculous the whole time. i'm happy to be dunkin on youngkin because it was ridiculous the whole time. it was a fairytale and a fantasy that someone would come out of nowhere and de-throne trump and make everything better again and he decided that he had figured out how to talk about abortion and he'd figured out all of this stuff. he spent time and money and he actually lost ground, and as long as you jump on the pogo
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stick we will take rights away from women you are going to lose, period, point-blank. that's. with the fairytale and the fantasy that he was going to get all of the republican what they wanted to, it would be a nightmare to come true and likely it's just a fairytale. speaking of which there is a debate and followed by the special election they've got a view into what voters think, it may not be across the entire country, but it's a pretty good view. what do you think that will come out of the five people that are on stage now that may have shifted or changed since they saw what happened in kentucky and virginia in ohio. well, look, at the end of the day they can't get away from the abortion question and so that will be discussed, but i think what you're going to see is nikki haley in her element. she is a foreign policy champion. she's got a strong, clear view. she's got a track record and the world is on fire between ukraine and hamas and israel and all of
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these things that are going on. she has an opportunity to truly shine in a way that a weirdo governor from florida and these other people will not be able to match her. she should have the performance of her life tonight. >> you're just slapping everybody this morning. >> it's too early for this. >> you all had me up late. i'm punching. >> i'm punchy and grumpy. >> i appreciate you coming on anyway. thank you, van jones. >> any time. glad to be here. >> john? >> how breast implant, you heard that right, breast implants saved the life of someone who needed a double lung transplant.
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this morning a story of remarkable medical ingenuity. a man needed a double lung transplant after smoking and vaping for years and he was declining quickly and doctors needed to act before the transplant came through. so what did they do? breast implants. with us now cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. you heard it right and i read that right. what's going on here? >> the back story here, john. it is a pretty remarkable medical achievement here. so as you point out, this is davey bauer. he's 34 years old and pretty healthy guy, skate boarder, snow boarder and switched to vaping and earlier he got the flu and it was a bad flu and developed an infection in his lungs that were resistant to antibiotics so that's the back story. his lungs were failing and because of the infection he was
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not a candidate for a transplant. so what they decided to do was remove his lungs, okay, first of all, so he had no lungs. he was on an artificial lung machine so the blood is coming outside of the body and being oxygenated and going back in. the problem was that his heart was essentially sort of floppy because the lung was not there to hold it in place with the blood vessels, so to stabilize his heart they put in these breast implants and essentially, something that had never been done before. the image that you're looking at on the left side of the screen. that's normal lungs. the lungs and the air should look black. when it's filled with infected fluid as you see on the right side, that's the lungs that subsequently came out. after he had all of this done, john, he then qualified for a double transplant, had that transplant and is now recovering well. what i just described has never been done before, and as you said in the open, it's -- it was
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sort of the ingenuity, like, what are you going to do for this guy to try to bridge him from his real significant illness to the transplant. >> so let me get this straight, they macgyvered his chest cavity, it sounds like what they did, the only thing they didn't use was duct tape and breast implants to get the chest cavity to work. anyway, vaping. what role did vaping play in this? >> doctors think it played a role, but the vaping they believe really did cause this inflammation in his lungs and he got the flu in april. it's not that long ago and flu can be very bad for somebody, but a 34-year-old guy, and they believe the vaping inflamed his lungs to the point that when they got the infection it made it much worse and harder to treat and subsequently in need of a transplant. >> wow. this is just a wow. every step will be fascinating and it will be interesting to follow his progress, what i hope is his progress over many, many
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years. dr. sanjay gupta, thank you very much. that is amazing. thank you very much. former president trump's daughter ivanka on the stand in the courtroom. is she going to help her hurt her father's case in the future of the business empire? we'll be right back.
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