eric: thanks, arthel. a live picture, looks like they are fixing a lightbulb above the podium there in the press room. in about half hour from now. all this coming as we expect the republican national convention this week. thank you for choosing us for your news. greg: it was a week for the really weak. the 22nd recap anymore and you might die. >> we need numbers overwhelming so trump can't sneak or steal his way to victory. >> the vision dysfunction in irresponsibility and growing the drought between our citizens. >> donald trump hasn't grown to the job because he can't. >> nero fiddled while rome burned. trump golf's. greg: what's with all the deadwood behind bernie a metaphor for his party? again that was kasich literary

standing at a fork in the road. i hope he accept more clichés. he can kill two birds with one stone. what if he beat a dead horse? we are lucky he didn't say it's time to cut the. how did the media handle all of their anti-trump bio regurgitated by people more famous than they are? the but it was history shaping. the history making speech of kamala harris and history shaking speech by president obama and extraordinary speech. >> this may have been the most powerful address a presidential adjust to the nation. michelle obama started talking and it was like a moment passed and it was over. she is absolutely riveting. >> she delivered epics shade. greg: i think think i have to rinse myself off. that guys like old faithful like they were watching it on a drug

called stupidity because for normal people the convention carried out the joy of traffic school. i have witnessed more exciting flight skates free the only reason a true over obama is because he's repeated their script all petty emotion of full facts. complementing obama complements himself and then there is a stab at comedy. literally they killed comedy. >> what do you think about kamala harris' speech last night? >> it was tremendous. i was so happy for her. >> she's fabulous. i can't wait to see her debate occurred vice president micah pines. >> it's pronounced upon that belief. >> some kind of the foreign name? >> not very american something. >> that's what people are saying, strongly. greg: who said lets leftist can't be fun it? i can watch that version of abbott and costello or ever.

it's their parents brand of bridge night. everything. if only they gave speeches slightly more exciting. same of michelle obama and bernie sanders warned us if trump is reelected things will get even worse. that's why we need unity now more than ever. >> dysfunction irresponsibility and the trail. continuing to follow that path will have terrible consequences. >> donald trump's not grown into the job because he can't. >> nero fiddled while rome burned. greg: if i. >> at that's how would look. with the convention has three goals want to make a referendum on trump's personality. after all it's a thing that can be measured on michael moore casualties or the economy by focusing on and measured offers

no need for proof right captain curve? >> the oval office should be a place. instead of the storm center is chaos. wanting us to change his determination to shift the blame. greg: that was your go-to guy on conduct a guy who used the oval office the way s.b. uses plain. awesome but after weaponized in the #me too movement they welcome the hall-of-famer. how do we know he [speaking spanish] when he did that? his wife showed up wide-eyed and really wide-eyed. >> this can't be another would have, should have come a could have election. joan campbell can win by 3 million votes and still lose. take it from me. greg: we did take it from you fair and square. you always know when crazy faces talking. every dog in every house

retreats to every corner in revenge for its hard to take world lectures from people who coddle creek's for so long. >> i want to start by thanking harvey weinstein for organizing this amazing day. that this was possible because of harvey is a wonderful human being, good friend and just the powerhouse and the fact that he and his team took the time to make this happen for all of you should say something not about me or about this place but about you. greg: everyone knew harvey was lying but he was liberal slime and liberal slime can do anything it wants to anyone that wants. now they are second strategy pretending the violence in our city doesn't fit as they condemn trump for his conduct. you acknowledge the chaos would be to admit their guilt but after conflating criminality with minority they now falsely believe to fight crime is just

like fighting minorities what it's actually the reverse. the democrats urge her races. they think i nor is want less law and order and fewer cost? that's wrong so the wonder they -- the havoc in a meeting of the ongoing violence as is a reminder that voting for trump could pleer life in danger that it's the true make the george floyd riots look like a church social which brings us to joe. >> the third anniversary of the events in charlottesville to close your eyes and remember what he saw television and seeing those neo-nazis and klansman and white supremacists coming out of fields with lighted torches of veins bulging spewing the same anti-semitic heard across europe in the 30s. remember what the president said when asked if he said they were called back very fine people on both sides. greg: anyone with a pair of eyes and a transcript knows trump

actually said this. >> i'm not talking about the neo-nazis and the white nationalist because they should be condemned totally. greg: you as talking about o. sides of the monument debate but the media did that. it's more than wrong. its dangers to do that. we are living in unstable times with the pandemic of the season racial complex study think reviving a three open so they can push a lie up the pitch race against race is healthy for america? the biden's ollman america toward a race worth. he pushes the sick light the puts millions of harm's way while not lifting a finger to stop the national crime wave. it's a dark message that the media pretends is airy and light. media savior drew blood elise van jones was on it. >> we are prepared for to be -- you don't have to make anything up tonight.

joe biden did that thing tonight. unbelievable. greg: wow that's honest. we were grateful that joe didn't his pants and run it in his blood. "cnn" the parents of a hockey game clapping for the clumsy kids scoring against his own team. look joe can. they [blank] for dump trump as obvious data refutes it. blue states have twice the numbers with fewer cases than red states. our democrat governor allowed thousands of red zones to become infected and die. what did trump do? the shutdown travel got a zillion ventilators. he sent the hospital shift to a city ward in an incident which was then ignored by the governor because he'd rather not do anything lifesaving that makes trump looks good. he flowed kesha to get them through the pandemic and set the

table for america to ignore this disease by delivering the best economic numbers in u.s. history. but none of this matters because reality doesn't matter. we live in a fantasy world of denial accosted by complicit media that allows beatings by writing democrats and extremists who continue. shootings rising to the suburbs. it's going to get worse until the democrat society gets better meaning joe wins. it's extortion plot against you and me. the only thing you can do is prevent the worst which is the democrats very best. >> let's welcome bernard. greg: feeling blue than get a host of -- tom shillue is the chief chief of staff and making electric comedian and writer michael loftus as deep thoughts.

host of "fox nation" kat timpf. may be colossal but he is smart as jon -- host of an upset on "fox nation" tyrus.

>> there's nothing -- no one can tell you -- they talk about obama. that say he's such a great speech maker. that say what did he say? they say i don't know what he said. they can't tell us his act. greg: michael, what was this week like for you? >> first of all, i didn't think i was going to get attacked by tom shillue. it was horrible. i have to think they are still cleaning the diet coke off the

walls of the oval office just after the spitting that trump was doing when he was hearing the craziness. i wish i could have been there with him and say dude i know. that's what he needs. he needs someone to hang out with him and go dude, i know, i know. it was like watching a crazy ex girlfriend talk about you, like you only went out with this chick once, and now it is night after night, he's not nice. he's mean. >> now you are talking about me. [laughter] >> it was crazy. when barack -- here's the other thing, how many takes do you think that joe biden speech took? was it like seven, eight, nine takes? where he's like life, liberty and -- you know the thing. they are like cut. try it again. from the top, joe. greg: it was the shortest speech in recent history i read somewhere. kat, what was the highlight or low light for you? >> the low light for me was when kamala came out. there was a voiceover, calling

her a fighter for ending mass incarceration, when she has contributed to mass incarceration. how do you get a voiceover like that when you have fought to lock up non-violent people? but then i was thinking, i really wish that is how the guest intros on this show worked, where just lies to make me sound better than i really am. i have a few suggestions. greg: okay. >> she grows that hair on her own, and she's not addicted to her phone. she's far more beautiful than the waves of thailand, and she's not been dumped at coney island. my personal favorite, she's far too brave for any nerves and she makes jaws drop with her voluptuous curves. greg: wow. if i used any of those, i would have been fired, like that. >> i'm not addicted to my phone. she gets it, walk into a room, complete opposite of the

horrible thing you did, everybody lets that slide? i didn't know there was a thing. i would like to walk in a room like that. greg: me too. hashtag. tyrus? do you think this won over anybody or were they speaking to the choir? >> i'm going to keep it real. i just feel like i'm dr. evil in an austin powers movie when the democratic party does things. i always keep shaking my head going you just don't get it, do you? you had momentum. greg: uh-huh. >> you had all these things going in your favor, and then you go ahead and run a telethon with celebrities? greg: yes. >> how many times have we told you celebrities don't make people vote. well, actually they do. they make them vote for the other side. greg: yeah. >> you just don't get it. luckily for me, the nba play-offs was on. so i had to keep checking scores

because i just couldn't do it. and the next time you're going to do a convention, maybe don't make it the mtv music awards for artists who aren't getting a music award this year? greg: yes. >> you know, i didn't get any of the song. and literally one of them was like yo where my latinos at at the end? i was like is that what i was supposed to be watching tonight? my bad. he literally -- if you wanted to say before we started the show at the end of the monologue, yo, where all my white guys at? people would be like wow that's insensitive and rude, greg. the double standards are absolutely ridiculous. the other thing is i can't wait to find out any of their speeches because all the introductions are literally first of all you have to thank everybody so i apologize to the panel for not thanking you all for your caucasianness and your individual struggles, whenever

they are, though i did not participate in them, i do empathize with your issues caused by your caucasianism ie, shortness, loss of hair, glasses, short on rhythm. the list goes on and on. [laughter] >> i just want to say i'm proud of you all. greg: why thank you. >> for being here today despite your obvious inequities, so thank you. i applaud -- greg: i'm crying inside and out. on that note, we must move on. we have more, more, more. it is trump's convention. up next, how should he play it? we've got some advice. taway dri. they're going to be paying for this for a long time. they will, but with accident forgiveness allstate won't raise your rates just because of an accident, even if it's your fault. cut! sonny.

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>> we call it a super v. it is no longer a v. it is a super v. they didn't think that could happen. they're probably not happy about it. greg: and trump will probably talk about the wall, walls are one thing that doesn't change. am i forgetting anything else? >> two things don't change, right? walls and wheels. you can come back -- you can come back in 2,000 years from now, and two things will still be around, wheels and walls. [laughter] greg: he's right about that. and you know trump wants to hit back at every insult the dems hurled at him this week starting with biden and his real home. >> his real home is a place he never leaves [laughter] [cheers and applause] >> never leaves. greg: don't give away the store there. save some material for next week. now, what a contrast, dnc loves to show off their celebrity star power, but the rnc don't need pop stars. they have trump. he's way more interesting than an angry actress. he must remain on message and

hit the dems where it hurts, soft on crime, hard on cops, soft on economy, hard on hardworking americans, soft on radical leftism, hard on capitalism and soft on the border. there you go. all right. michael, any advice? >> i agree with you 110%. trump is best. it doesn't matter who he gets to be on stage at the convention. the media is going to hate it. he could introduce jesus himself and you would have people freaking over at msnbc, like what happened to jesus? it's sad to see politics and the church, and then joe biden is like i went to school with jesus. i don't think that was him. it's horrible. trump should just host the whole thing and just show clips from the dnc debate, like john madden talking about football, like look at barack. look at what barack is saying here.

that's crazy. greg: that's a great idea. >> it would be awesome. it would be awesome. all kinds of ideas. greg: that's a great idea. but tyrus, what michael is saying though requires that trump is on every night because people are going to tune in for him. he can't just have like other people on. he's going to have to be there. >> i don't know where the hell you have been, greg, for the last four years, but he is on tv every night. [laughter] greg: true. >> i think it should be about 15 minutes long. he should come out and say -- behind him have a huge board of his accomplishments and throw up the w and walk off. like literally, don't give them anything. if you got to say anything, say everything you just saw for the last three days, i'm not going to do that. greg: uh-huh. >> and walk off. you are not going to be able to compete with -- i don't even

know what you call it -- the pageantry of whining that was for what four years long? i mean, cnn had nothing else. greg: yeah. >> if you missed it, they really wanted to punch you in the mouth, they replayed it. you can't get away from it. they should keep it short and sweet, stick to the things. have trump come out and have mike drop the mic and walk off. it should be really easy. don't try nothing, no glitter or nothing. stick to what got you to the dance and move on. greg: one thing i just learned, kat is this means winning. i finally got it from tyrus. it means winning or a missing finger. kat, any advice? >> more reptiles. yeah, well i don't go to conventions unless i'm being paid except i did spend hours on a train once to go to a reptile expo. got to hold one, it was amazing. just call up sandman and say

sorry for what you went through. hope you are super rich, but we are replacing you. i think he would understand. one thing i wanted to mention. alice johnson is going to be there who trump commuted her sentence so she's now free because of him and only because of him. i think that just presents a very stark contrast to dnc side. we have a random voiceover saying someone's something they are not. and then at the rnc there's an actual example of somebody who is free and getting a second chance because of president trump. i think that's really powerful. greg: is it gila? is the g silent? >> no. you need any reptile knowledge, i'm your gal. greg: tom, what say you? >> i think he needs audience. we just saw that clip of him and he had people there kind of cheering and laughing. i think there will be a lot of consultants saying let's keep the crowds down to 10, 20

people. he should get a crowd in there, find a way to get them distanced or whatever he has to do. he should have a rally, have people out there applauding. we want to see this. i think he should say two things, i will never shut down the economy again. and i will never mandate masks. he should say both of those things. right now the democrats are all in -- i know they are going to give up on this mask thing. if democrats get in power, people are going to be wearing masks forever. i want it to end. he should say there's going to be an end to this mask thing. greg: he should talk about -- i think he should talk about the economy, law and order, definitely law and order but stay on, be focused and be on as much as possible and that's all i got. don't make it look like a teleth telethon. coming up, cycling and pizza are

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for more on the president's announcement, let's check in with kevin cork who is at the white house. kevin? >> jon, i'm inside the brady press briefing room. we see secretary azar there, dr. hahn, jim jordan there to my left and other senior officials both from the white house and capitol hill. i'm seated because when the secretary walked out, we were under the impression that we had already received the two-minute warning that the president would be right behind him. so i'm going to remain seated as have the rest of my colleagues here at the white house, as you mentioned, we're expecting the president to discuss the emergency use of authorization for convalescent plasma to treat covid-19 folks who have suffered from covid-19 and it is very interesting because apparently some 70,000 americans have already been treated. here now is the president of the united states. jon: once again, a big announcement from the president regarding convalescent plasma.

let's listen. >> -- great weekend at your convention, and we're going to have a great convention coming up, and i look forward to it. but before i discuss a very historic breakthrough in our fight against the china virus, i would like to provide an update on the recent wildfires in california and the storms in the gulf of mexico. yesterday i approved a major disaster declaration for california, spoke to governor newsom, as they battled two of the worse wildfires in the history of their state. that continues. the federal government has already deployed over 26,000 first responders and personnel to battle the wildfires. we're working very closely with the governor and very closely with a lot of great state representatives and local representatives, and we'll take care of the situation, but we have 26,000 first responders already. our hearts go out to the

thousands of families who have lost their homes as we grieve for the families of two first responders and five residents who have tragically lost their lives, been a very horrific fire, one of the biggest we've ever seen. my administration is also closely monitoring hurricane marco and tropical storm laura, which are coming in rapidly. hurricane marco is expected to make landfall in louisiana tomorrow, and tropical storm laura is expected to hit louisiana two days later. this is somewhat unprecedented. the scope of the storms and also the fact that they come so quickly after one another. both storms have the potential of gathering strength before they make landfall and could cause significant damage across the gulf coast and also in puerto rico. we have everybody stationed and ready to go in puerto rico and the gulf coast, and we have

tremendous, tremendous people. we have -- fema is lined up. we have the coast guard ready. the coast guard has done a fantastic job. they do so many -- they do such good work, and we want to thank our great coast guard. i'm asking all americans in the storm's path to follow the instructions of your state and local governments very closely. i have approved emergency declarations for puerto rico and for louisiana. fema is mobilized on the ground and is ready to help. they will be in there very quickly, very very quickly, and i spoke to governor john bell edwards also of louisiana, and i've informed him and at his request also, a major disaster declaration is signed and ready to go. we have everybody ready in puerto rico, the gulf coast, louisiana, and also on the forest fires in california, so we have a great team.

unfortunately we have some very very powerful natural disasters. on the therapeutics front, this is what i have been looking to do for a long time. this is a great thing. today i'm pleased to make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the china virus that will save countless lives. the fda has issued an emergency use authorization and that's such a powerful term, emergency use authorization for a treatment known as convalescent plasma. this is a powerful therapy that transfuses very very strong antibodies from the blood of recovered patients to help treat patients battling a current infection. it's had an incredible rate of success. today's action will dramatically expand access to this treatment. and i want to thank dr. hahn and

secretary azar. i want to thank the fda, all of the people that have been working very hard on this. it's shown tremendous potential. this is the only possible and it's only made possible because of operation warp speed. that is everybody working together. we are years ahead of approvals if we went by the speed levels of past administration, we would be two years, three years behind where we are today, and that includes vaccines that you will be hearing about very soon, very shortly, to deliver treatments and vaccines to save lives, we're removing unnecessary barriers and delays, not by cutting corners, but by marshalling the full power of the federal government. we provided 48 million dollars to fund the mayo clinic study that tested the efficacy of convalescent plasma for patients with the virus. through this study over 100,000 americans have already enrolled.

to receive this treatment and it's proven to reduce mortality by 35%. that's a tremendous number. the fda, mit, harvard and mount sinai hospital also found convalescent plasma to be a very effective method of fighting this horrible disease. based on the science and the data, the fda has made the independent determination that the treatment is safe and very effective. recently we provided up to 270 million dollars to the american red cross and america's blood centers to support the collection of up to 360,000 units of plasma. in late july we launched a nationwide campaign to ask patients to have -- who have recovered, and these are patients that have been incredible the way they have donated, but these are people recovered from the virus to

donate plasma. since then weekly plasma donations have doubled. today i once again urge all americans who have recovered from the virus to go to coronavirus.gov and sign up and donate plasma today, please. it's been really an incredible, just incredible people. the country has united so strongly behind this, and i will go over the numbers, but if you look at what's happened and the success that we've had, that people don't talk about, the united states has experienced the lowest case fatality rate of any major country in the world. you don't hear that. the european union's case fatality rate is estimated to be three times higher than that in the united states. europe has seen 33% more fatalities compared to a typical non-pandemic year than the united states. and i just want to ask two of our people that have done such a

fantastic job, alex azar and steven hahn to say a few words. steven, i want to thank you because the fda really stepped up and especially over the last few days in getting this done. the results have been incredible. i think you will see the results even go up very substantially. we appreciate it. maybe i will ask alex to go first and then steven. thank you very much, alex. >> well, thank you very much, mr. president. thanks for the bold leadership that allowed us to deliver this very happy news today. thanks to your all of america approach, america has done more than any other country to expand the arsenal that we have to battle covid-19. and thanks to early efforts by your administration, americans have broader access to these treatments including convalescent plasma than patients anywhere else in the world. in early april, early in our fight against covid-19, the fda, the mayo clinic and other partners sprang into action to

set up an expanded access protocol for this promising treatment. president trump is the right to try president, and he's fought hard to ensure that americans can have access to promising covid-19 treatments. convalescent plasma has been a tried and true therapeutic method in prior outbreaks, but the president wanted to ensure that we develop the data to support its use. and this fda authorization is one result of that effort. the data we gathered suggest that patients who were treated early in their disease course, within three days of being diagnosed, with plasma containing high levels of antibodies, benefitted the most from treatment. we saw about 35% better survival in the patients who benefitted most from the treatment, which were patients under 80, who were not on artificial respiration. i just want to emphasize this point because i don't want you to gloss over this number. we dream in drug development of something like a 35% mortality

reduction. this is a major advance in the treatment of patients. this is a major advance. convalescent plasma is one new tool that we've added to our arsenal against covid-19 alongside remdesivir, steroids, and a number of other promising options currently being studied. because of the president's operation warp speed, we expect to have other new results and new options reaching patients as soon as this fall. operation warp speed is supporting experimental therapeutics all the way through to manufacturing so if they meet fda's gold standard for safety and efficacy, they can begin reaching patients without a day wasted. americans who have tested positive for and recovered from covid-19 can go to coronavirus.gov to find out a quick, convenient way to play a potentially life-saving role in our fight. know if you donate plasma, you could save a life.

we have also provided guidance so healthcare providers can contact patients who have recovered from covid-19 and give them information on how they can donate. thank you, again, mr. president for supporting this remarkable progress against covid-19. i want to thank dr. hahn, dr. marks and the entire team at the fda for the speed with which they have approached this, the diligence to ensure that this meets the standards at fda and i will turn it over to dr. hahn, if it's okay, mr. president. >> thank you very much, please. doctor? >> thank you, mr. president, for your leadership. it's good to be here today to announce fda's recent decision. from the beginning of this pandemic, the president has asked fda to cut back red tape to try to speed medical products into the hands of providers, patients and american consumers. i just want to echo the president's thanks to the more than 17,000 men and women who work at fda. they have worked day and night to in fact do that. plasma is the liquid portion of the blood. that liquid portion contains the

natural immunity that someone develops in response to an infection, in this case covid-19. that liquid portion can be extracted and for many years, as the president and secretary azar said, it's been given to patients with infectious diseases, for more than hundred years. so there was a really good rationale for why this might work. and in fact, as was mentioned, in early april, an expanded access program was started at the mayo clinic, with the support of the federal government under president trump's leadership. that's gone on for the last four months. more than 90,000 -- close to 100,000 americans have enrolled in this program and over 70,000 have received treatment. this is one of the largest expanded access programs in the history of fda. so very successful approach to evaluating how convalescent plasma would work. so in the independent judgment of experts and expert scientists at fda, who have reviewed the totality of data, not just the

data from the expanded access program, but more than a dozen published studies, as well as the historical experience associated with this, those scientists have concluded that covid-19 convalescent plasma is safe and shows promising efficacy thereby meeting the criteria for an emergency use authorization. in the optimal patient as described by secretary azar, treated with convalescent plasma at the highest titers, there was a 35% improvement in survival which is a significant clinical benefit. we're waiting for more data. we will continue to gather data. but this clearly meets the criteria that we have established for emergency use authorization, and we're very pleased with these results. let me just put this in perspective. many of you know i was a cancer doctor before i became fda commissioner. 35% improvement in survival is a pretty substantial clinical benefit. what that means is -- and if the data continue to pan out, 100

people who are sick with covid-19, 35 would have been saved because of the administration of plasma. we've seen a great deal of demand for this from doctors around the country, and what this eua -- emergency use authorization today does, it allows us to continue that and meet the demand. again, i want to echo the president's and the secretary's ask of the american people if you have recovered from covid-19, please donate. it could save a life. mr. president, thank you again. >> thank you very much, stephen, i appreciate it. okay. any questions? >> thank you, mr. president. i want to first ask you about the covid-19 drug that are in phase three. are they going to be available to the american population? you and i have talked previously about this idea of right to try. >> right. >> can we assure the american people that if it's being studied and it is in phase three, you have that right? >> that's a great question.

i'm not sure a lot of people have been thinking about right to try. we're all waiting for the final answer. maybe i could ask stephen, but i would say that right to try is exactly -- if somebody is virtually terminal, in other words, they are not going to make it, and if we have these incredible therapies and drugs that are happening, alex, i think it is a very interesting question. i congratulate you for that question because i think we're all waiting for that exact final end point. what about that, stephen? we have all of these great, seemingly great answers that are ready to come out, but because of the process it takes can we use some of this fairly on right to try? >> that's a great question. it all depends on the clinical circumstances on what a doctor and a patient together decide with respect to the administration of any agent. but if you think about what happened with convalescent plasma and the expanded access program, this is exactly what happened. this program -- so we have ongoing clinical trials that are randomized between placebo or

inactive substance and the convalesce sent plasma. while that was going on, we knew there was great demand. expanded access program is a way to do that and fits perfectly with what president said about allowing people to use something that we have now determined to be safe. >> i think it is fantastic. you should get credit for that. >> thank you, mr. president. >> thank you, that's very good. >> thank you, mr. president. convalescent plasma as a treatment has been around for nearly hundred years. you mentioned operation warp speed which enabled this process to move along a lot faster, what went into the effort for this to be approved for covid-19? and was that hold up political in nature? >>i think there might have been a hold up, but we broke the logjam over the last week to be honest. i think there were people in the fda and actually in your larger department that can see things

being held up and wouldn't mind so much, it's my opinion, very strong opinion, and there's for political reasons. this has nothing to do with politics. this has to do with life and death. so we are being very strong, and we are being very forth right, and we have got some incredible answers, and we're not going to let them be held up because every day is lives. we're not going to let that happen. okay? very good, thank you. >> mr. president -- the fda has made the independent examination that the treatment is safe and very effective. yet dr. hahn just said it was showing promising efficacy. which of the true is correct? >> i think i will let dr. hahn answer that question. >> under our legal authority of emergency use authorization, this is not the same as approval but it is an authorization. it allows us to expand the access to this. we know we will continue to

collect data. we knew that for all our emergency use authorizations. for example remdesivir which was authorized on may 1st. we're still collecting data and will continue to do that with plasma as well. it is the nuances with the language around the authorization we use. >> it is a promising treatment. you couldn't say it is very effective just yet? >> i would say if you're one of those 35 out of 100 people who these data suggest or show survival as a result of it, this is pretty significant for that person and their family. >> this is a very big day. it is a day we've been looking forward to. thank you very much, great questions. >> was there pressure on you, dr. hahn -- jon: so the white house press conference which was originally scheduled for the rose garden, newly-renovated rose garden has concluded there, after oh, just about 20 minutes or so. president trump announcing along

with the health and human services secretary and the director of the fda that convalescent plasma is going to be used under an emergency authorization. it is going to be available to treat covid-19 patients. convalescent plasma, blood plasma taken from those who have already been afflicted with and overcome the coronavirus. those americans who have beaten the virus are being urged to actually phone the government and donate more plasma so that it can be made available to their fellow americans who are still suffering. we want to bring into the discussion dr. ahmed, a pulmonologist at new york university langone medical center. dr. ahmed, it is my understanding that you actually used plasma already in treats some of your patients? >> -- in treating some of your patients? >> that's right. in fact, i was very thrilled to see this press conference. i was able to give it to one of

my patients in the pandemic early this spring. when it was extremely difficult to get ahold of, and it was an experimental agent, it took me about 16 hours to get the infusion and then see the effects. so first of all, the president has to be commended for accelerating access, approvals, and the widespread availability of these agents. we've been using convalescent plasma for over a hundred years. for diseases like scarlet fever, diphtheria, one of the first, most recently when we faced the ebola pandemic here, this was one of our approaches, as a rich country with a prime really superlative healthcare system, we're not used to using very broad treatments like plasma. we're used to using targeted drugs. we are so early in this pandemic that we must make use of all strategies. this is giving somebody when they are in the eye of the storm of this disease a huge boost, and i absolutely agree with the words of the fda chairman, that

a 35% improvement in survival makes huge differences when at the beginning of the pandemic, we were seeing an overwhelmingly high rate of death. so this has to be commended. every patient that comes to see me now in the office, often they are outpatients. they have recovered. when they tell me they have antibodies. i tell them to go immediately and donate plasma. god forbid if i was sick, i would take this myself. jon: can you tell us what happened to the patient you first treated with this plasma? was it successful? >> so without breaching confidentiality, this patient was gravely ill, and within about 24 hours, showed a dramatic improvement in the lung injury. ultimately that patient was not able to survive the illness, but it certainly bought us time, and that was when we didn't have other therapeutics, even remdesivir was not available at that time. so now when we add in convalescent plasma with

remdesivir, with what we know about high dose steroids, with what we know about high caloric demand and electively cooling these patients, with what we know about the ventilation, this just gives us so much more help. very important that the convalescent plasma has to be given very early on in the illness. the fda is also wise in not yet giving an approval. an approval means that we have compared it to patients that did not get this and got over the other treatment in the same manner. with this pandemic being so vast and so fast moving, no patients or doctors would like to be denied convalescent plasma. remember, the first of medicine is first do no harm, and that is exactly what was just said about convalescent plasma, so everybody wants to receive this and wants to have access for it. for us to sift through the data and give official fda approval will be coming in the next months to years but that doesn't mean we should deny it or vilify

it. jon: all right. so what about dangers? are there dangers associated with using convalescent plasma? >> so plasma transfusions have been so commonly given. they are about the same risk as giving somebody a blood transfusion. so there can be risks of an allergic reaction. there can be risks of a lung injury which we can recognize and manage. the benefits far outweigh the risks. that's what has to be remembered. many icu doctors are familiar to this. i'm no longer in the icu at this stage. but this ruling today means that many icu doctors and many icus around the nation will have much more access to this than previous, and this is based on a huge study at the mayo clinic which initially aimed to enroll just a few thousand patients. now it's gotten to over 70,000. we just heard the president say 100,000 patients. the numbers are so big that the

study itself is more logistically difficult to manage. they will manage it. but it means we can't wait for that study to end to broaden the access for all americans. jon: this is not an immunization, it should be pointed out. it is a treatment. it is one tool that you and other doctors are now going to be able to use? >> exactly. immunizations means -- the implication is one gets a vaccine and then mounts one's own immune response. a transfusion of convalescent plasma, convalescent means someone has recovered from covid-19 and donated their antibodies, gives that patient time to fight the infection and arm a weaponry of antibodies to fight the virus at the very earliest part of their illnesses which they naturally would not have time to make. this is very important. it cannot be underestimated. one thing i would like to say is with this president unlike any

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jon: as the race for a vaccine continues, president trump announcing the fda will grant an emergency use authorization of convalescent plasma as a treatment for the coronavirus. good evening, i'm jon scott. this is "the fox report". ♪ moments ago at a news conference, president trump calling the use of convalescent plasma treatment a historic breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus. this as the u.s. surpasses 5.6 million reported cases. more than 176,000 americans have died thus far. the announcement comes just one