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joining me now, laurie garrett, author of the plague is coming. former senior to the white house, olivia troy and yami yamish elcindor. lori, i would like to start with you. you had a piece today on foreign policy headlines saying only state of the art medicine and luck can save trump now. can you talk a little bit about what you meant? >> well, i don't write the headlines so i did not write that headline, but my article says that we know now that trump has a lot more underlying medical conditions than he's ever really allowed the world to know about. he has tried his level best to appear very youthful, to have no trouble walking, no trouble lifting glasses of water to drink, no difficulty slurring words, all these things. he's gone out of his way to have medical assessments appear that, number one, he's in the fittest state of health and number two that he's considerably younger as joe biden who he likes to portray as old and see kneel. they're only three years apart. what we're finding is indeed the president has had a number of underlying condi

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