On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, President Trump has been diagnosed with coronavirus and gave a thumbs-up as he waved and boarded Marine-1 helicopter to head over to the presidential offices at the Walter Read Naval medical Center as he recovers. Data for recovery is very strong. Despite this virus, Trump has worked 20 hours every day, dealing with challenges most presidents never have to confront, as well as running an election in which he travels to the states to earn the public’s vote, all while dealing with an extremely hostile press, Democrat Party, and federal bureaucracy — and it is truly remarkable he did not get this virus earlier. Despite his critics, those who work with Trump know that he follows the science and the advice of doctors, he social distances and wears a mask whenever appropriate. Then, Dr. Marc Siegel calls in to discuss the progress that’s been made with different drug combinations that are being used to treat the virus. Siegel added that the president’s use of these medications is a good way to prevent any potential negative reactions to the treatment. Later, loathsome radical leftists within the media are more vicious than usual. Jim Acosta criticized the President for not stopping for questions on his way to the hospital. While Rep. Chris Murphy told his Democrat allies in the press that Trump’s top campaign surrogate Vladimir Putin would campaign for Trump while he is in quarantine. Afterward, Congressional candidate Amanda Adkins calls in to discuss her campaign for Kansas’ 3rd congressional district.
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Rough transcript of Hour 1
Hour 1 Segment 1
You know, when I was on with HANNITY last night on the Fox News Network and I spoke, I seem to recall off the top of my head is between nine 25 and nine thirty five p.m. Eastern Time. I was followed by the president. And I remained in the chair with the air and your piece and rather and I was listening to him. And I said to myself, he sounds a little tired to me. He sounds a little tired. Now he was. Stark and he certainly had the energy to. To conduct the interview, but he sounded a little tired of me. In fact, I went upstairs and said that to my wife, she remembers. And then at about 1 130 in the morning, I can’t remember exactly. Sure. Oh, no. It woke me up. I said, what are you talking about? She said, the president has the virus. Now, I immediately worry about something like this because he’s 74 years old and I’ve looked at the data and I’ve looked at the statistics, and I don’t want you to be nervous because that said, the data is very strong for recovery. But everybody reacts differently to this virus. She’s me. Now. You know, there’s a lot going on out there. The president, as I speak, his presidential helicopters are on the South Lawn. He’s going to be going to Walter Reed medical facility. I spoke to some day very high up in the chain in the White House, and they told methat. I said, is he OK? He said, yes, it’s as a precaution. I also see reports that he had has fatigue and a slight fever and a cough, which early, obviously early characteristics of this virus. For many people. He’s not going to Walter Reed to get on a ventilator, anything of the sort. As I understand it, they have a suite of presidential offices there for the president to do his business. But they also had the cutting edge. Equipment in the top doctors there. In case something should begin to take place and they can monitor him constantly and very, very closely. So that’s all a very good thing. You know, despite this virus. Despite this virus, really since the end of January, as best as we can tell. This president has been remarkable. This president has worked20 hours every day. Dealing with challenges many presidents never have to confront, certainly a pandemic. And economic collapse. Meeting of the period of the last six or eight months with thousands of people. To get a vaccine, to get therapeutics, to make sure ventilators are built dry and get PPD in the right hands to open medical beds and medical facilities in areas where they thought they would need them to try and get funding. Focused on health care and so forth, rather than so much of the rest of it. So. He’s met with foreign leaders. He’s had peace plans. He’s so worried about the economy and focused on the economy. He’s accomplished an enormous amount since his pandemic, really revealed itself in this country, really has. Nominated for three Nobel Peace Prize. And in the course of this period of time. I think I’ve met with the president three or four times. Including my interview. Fifteen days ago for the Fox show, Life, Liberty and Levin, where we did a full hour. And I want to assure you of something, because I’m hearing something that is very troubling to me. This president took the science and does very, very seriously. The social distancing, anybody came to close to him. He would ask them to step back. The masks, I’ve seen him wear a mask in situations where you need to wear a mask. You don’t need to wear a mask all the time. I’m trying to remember last summer. My wife and I were invited to join him. Excuse me, in Florida. We were already down there at his country club. It was a great honor. And whenever I’m there, he says, Mark said next to me might sit next to me and and those who know the president far better than I. In the middle of the table, whenever he eats and wherever eats is a bowl of. Commercial grade. Hand sanitizers. Wet ones, you can smell them across the table. Across the table. And he would always tell us, go ahead and use it when he would shake a lot of hands, he would always wash his hands. He was he had one called a fetish, but he was really quite aware of all this well ahead of his time. He even mentioned he even told us a joke. He said, you know, once. When Bill Clinton was president, and I forget all the details, I guess he was in New York and. Clinton had been shaking a lot of hands and Trump had been shaking hands, like you said. And we went to McDonald’s, as you know, they both like McDonald’s, as do I. Although I need to like it less and less. And he said, you know, I had my. He didn’t come wet ones, whatever they are. What do we call them? That’s a brand name in my pocket. And I you know, I cleaned my hands hand sanitizer and he said and Bill did and bills, you know, challenged down on whatever it is. A Big Mac. Yes, I gotta believe it. You know, you get something from doing that. There’s before the virus. But the idea that I hear that this might change the president. He might be more empathetic and so forth. This president is empathetic. What do you think Operation Warp Speed is all about? While he was being accused of. Trying to move this vaccine too fast, he couldn’t be trusted. He was trying to get it done before the election. He kept telling everybody, I’m trying to save lives. Why wouldn’t I? I got a lot of the useless red tape out of the way. We’ve got major the best pharmaceutical corporations in the world, in the United States working on it. I’m not in charge of the vaccine. I’m in charge of making sure people are working as hard as they can to get this thing done. And he’s been proud of his effort. Same with the therapeutics. The bureaucracy is resistant. His opposition. Is exploitive. Kennedy keeps pressing and keeps pressing. He wants to get it done. He wants to get the vaccines done to save lives. He would tell me that, in fact, when I interviewed him. You remember. And it aired, what, two Sundays ago, 20 said, I want to get this thing done. I want to get it up and working. And so the president was very mindful of the science. The president was very mindful of social distancing and wearing masks and everything. But the other thing he was mindful. Liberte. The Constitution. Other health and mental illnesses, the result? If he moved too far in one direction and you don’t balance things out properly. And it’s very easy for people to say he should have done this and he should have done then, of course. In this hyperpolitical period, you hear this endlessly, you should have acted earlier and so forth and done what exactly? They didn’t even understand this virus that at top science in the country didn’t do what exactly? He’s a very compassionate man. He’s an incredibly smart man. He’s a workaholic. And during the outbreak of this virus. Meeting with hundreds, if not thousands of industry and science leaders, medicine and pharmaceutical experts, foreign leaders, members of Congress, on and on and on. Even when it comes to the election. He’s a man of the people. He’s trying to earn the vote of the people. He cannot rely on the press because the press is unreliable. The press hate him. So he’s trying to go over the heads, he’s trying to go to the people the way Reagan did in his own way. Trump’s trying to do in his own way. He loves being with the people. But even more than that. He’s been one of the most active and successful presidents ever. And even since this pandemic, he doesn’t waste the day of his presidency. Not a day. Another day. And so he was willing to put his health on the line. With all the precautions. His own personal health on the line. To do everything he could as president, the United States. Ticket treatments to deal with this virus as quickly as possible, push the bureaucracy to get moving. To try and get the economy open, as you know, he doesn’t shut the economy trying to persuade governors. OK, follow the social. Requirements, but we’ve got to get people to work. There are other health issues that we must pay attention to here. There’s suicide, there’s depression, there’s family abuse. People are putting off going to the doctor, putting off procedures. And so some of them are dying from. Maladies that they wouldn’t otherwise die from. You have to weigh those things when you’re president of the United States. And he did and he does. The idea that after this, God willing, he comes through as a changed man is absurd. Change from what? From the narrative and the character trait that they put out there. Not at all. So I’m told that he’s going to Walter Reed. Quote, abundance of caution is everybody saying that there’s a whole suite there that he can work as president from we’ll be there few days, this virus can take a bad turn. It can take it very quickly, you know. The president has also said to me, as he said to the public and he said other people, I’ve had several friends who have died from this virus. And it bothered him a lot, a lot. One of them was apparently a real estate buddy of his extremely wealthy. He was overweight. He told me. He said he called me one day and he said, Mr. President. And the president jokes. He says, you know, they used to call me. Hey, Donald. But now it’s Mr. President, I would tell you not to call me, Mr. Presley said. No, no, no. I do. Mr. President. I’m in the hospital, you know, the symptoms are like a flu, but. I should be out of here in a few days and that man died in 72 hours. And he said to me, what do you said the other B C, you know, Mark. This isn’t the flu. The flu kills a lot of people. But one is not like the other. This is the flu. He has always taken this very, very seriously. Very, very seriously. All right. Looks like. The presidential helicopter now is leaving the South Lawn. Mr. Buddhist, I didn’t see the president get in, did you? Looks like it was blocking the entry level. And I think they he get into the hospital excuse me, into the helicopter and they’re off to the hospital. I didn’t see any. I didn’t see the president. I didn’t see thumbs up. People were making predictions. I don’t like all the speculation beforehand. And off, he goes to Walter Reed. We’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 2
I want to correct myself because the images of the president coming out of the White House for taped and delayed, he did walk out of the White House, he gave a thumbs up. He didn’t comment. Let us not forget, the first lady also has this virus. She did not. Head off to. Walter Reed. And it is quite dramatic. And we’re going to try and stick with the facts. We’re not going to get into speculation. Our goal here is not is not to move this one way or another. Our goal is to try and fail what’s going on as best as we can. I’m not interested in getting ahead of the curve. I’m just interested in as the information the factual information comes in relaying it to you. I’m also interested in what your feelings are, what your thoughts are. I mean, we are really a month before. An election which we select, the president, the United States. We can also talk about what you think the impact of that will be. Because it crosses our minds. We all know that. We already have Democrats saying that we should not go forward with the Supreme Court hearings, a nomination because of the president’s illness. President already nominated Amy Coney Barrett. I do not appreciate it when the Democrats are looking for opportunities to exploit. They should proceed with governance. That’s the job of the Senate. That’s why they’re there. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 3
You know, throughout this pandemic, any before Dr. Mark Siegel’s kind of been America’s doctor. And I wanted to go to Marc SIEGEL, who have come to know and I consider a friend. And Mark, I’d like you to tell us what is going on right now. Well, one thing that’s going on is I wish I was a little more sure that we were going to come together as a people and say the leader of the free world is sick, his heart. And we need to rally around him and wish him well. How dare anybody be not doing that would be a sign of our times if we can’t wish the president well. That’s for starters. Secondly, I just covered in the mark. Mark, I just covered with that the whole idea of blaming him for his illness or any of that nonsense that’s going on. But on top of that, we have to understand that what’s happening is he’s going into Walter Reed as a precaution because he’s over 70 so that we can monitor him closely so that we can check his oxygen levels. We can monitor make sure that, God forbid, no blood clots occur. This is precautionary medicine in someone who is a who has comedown with COBRA dated. It’s not a sign of anything other than caution. What people turn on a cocktail of medicines they gave him. What’s that all about? Well, I like that. So. So they put him on aspirin because aspirin is something that is somewhat effective against blood clots and blood clotting. Is this stuff there’s a side effect of Covid 19. That’s very devastating. If he had a blood clot, they’d do something stronger, like a blood thinner. But to put the aspirin is a good starting place. We don’t know for sure, but we believe it helps. They’re putting him on perhaps it which is a stomach medication, because studies have shown that when you’re on, perhaps it you’re less likely to get a severe case, probably because acid help scope with banking get into the body. They’re putting him on antibodies, monoclonal antibodies, a cocktail of two of them. Those are synthetic antibodies that help protect us against the amount of very of COBRA. They said that the SA is Covid to virus starts to replicate. And we’re starting to see studies just this past week that these antibodies may decrease that. That’s a that’s a very, very good idea. They’re also giving him melatonin to help him sleep because it doesn’t suppress breathing. That’s a good idea. Zinc is an antiviral that’s been known for centuries to be an antidote. Viral probably has some effect against Covid 19. That’s a good idea. Vitamin D we have found that vitamin D deficiency is more common in people that have severe outcomes. We’ve covered 98, all of that. This is why he’s on that cocktail since Madeleine. And it’s not like an emergency cocktail or emergency level right now. These are all intended intended to manage it and try and keep the virus under control in the early stages, right? Exactly. It’s the president saying to the country, here’s where we are. I got the courage to be out front on these things. I’m trying things that are being scientifically tested, that are looking promising. And I’m going to tell you how it works for me. I know this president is going to come out with courage, you know? You know, I like to say, as a practicing physician, you know, when you learn about a person more, when they’re ill, you know, when a person is ill and how they affect how they approach their illness, that’s when you’ll learn about a person. I don’t know if we’re going to learn about him. He has some fatigue. We’ve been told. And a slight fever. I’m not going to speculate. And when we deal with the facts, again, that is pretty typical early on with this virus. Correct. Very common with this virus early on. And fatigue and some cough and some fever. Very, very, very classic symptoms of this virus. They don’t predict that, by the way, that he’s going to have a severe case at all. It’s just characteristic. It shows that the diagnosis is correct. And in fact, even at this age, when you look at the data put out by the CDC, meaning 95 percent of people who go through this could be a little ugly or maybe not and come through the other end. Correct. And that’s the vast majority of people for people over the age of 70. We’re finding that about 95 percent of them make with recovery. So, you know, that’s the age we worry about, but 95 percent recovery. So the chances are extremely high that he’s gonna make a full recovery here. I just want people understand, you know, you interviewed the president. I interviewed him. Actually, I consider him a friend of my wife. And I’ve seen him several times. He is very conscious of social distance, seeing are wearing masks and keeping your hands clean. I mean, it’s people people are talking like he just doesn’t believe in any of that. That’s simply not true. What is your experience? He certainly believes the social distancing. He’s certainly, if anything, is a germ warfare. He’s very careful about one. Yes. Keeping his hands clean. And I think the point he’s trying to make and has been trying to make is that masks have a place. Man, is there something you would use if you happen to be in close confines with someone where you don’t have any other way to protect yourself? I think that maps are extremely useful. But have you noticed how many people walk around thinking God was hanging off? My John Kerry neck has no helping anybody. Can’t get sick. That dirty mass can get off your chest. Can’t get sick as they come off right close to you. So mass have a purpose. And I think the president knows that. And what should we be watching for here? Obviously, various reports. But we need to be careful about all the speculation, don’t we? Right. And I like that we’re getting message and coming out of the White House. That’s very straightforward from the president’s position, who I also know well, I’ve spoken to him several times, about nine not not the president about other cases, about other people. You know, that’s how you really learn about a doctor. He’s a very caring, thoroughly secular doctor. We’re getting information coming from him. I’m watching things like sedation. I want to know how this oxygenation levels are doing. I want to know how his, you know, overall fever is doing. Fatigue is doing things like that. And again, I’m always watching out for blood clots. They could actually do a simple blood test, by the way. They can do a simple blood test to make sure that he’s not performing blood clots. They’re going to be doing that at Walter Reed. And people need to understand he’s not going to be bedridden. I mean, he’s got desks there. They have a whole presidential operation going on there. They’re all setup for this. Well, he’s got a sleep there. I mean, people shouldn’t shouldn’t think he’s in an extremist or anything. I mean, he’s a Swede. He’s got his own office. There is probably going to continue to work away for Wall Street, but it will allow the kind of monitoring that I’m mentioning to go on monitoring oxygen, monitoring blood tests to be done. Every organ of the body could be monitored while he continues to run the country. Absolutely. Well, you do a fantastic job. Dr. Marc SIEGEL. And we’re going to have you back very, very shortly to talk about other things as well. Keep up the good work. God bless you, my friend. Thank you, Mark. And you’re very good to me. You’re a great guy. Thanks for having. Good man. Take care of yourself. So just just keep your emotions under control. You know. The two people in our family here who were the earliest Trump supporters, Mr. Producer, I think you know this. My daughter and my late father. My daughter is here and she’s pretty upset and I’m trying to explain to her. Right now, just, you know, just just stay focused. Stick with the facts. She was a. She is a big fan of The Apprentice. I told the president that once on the air when I interviewed him. So he loves my daughter. But my father, who also liked Ted Cruz. But. He really like Trump. And you know, my father. He’d sign up for World War Two and everything and during that bruising primary. Bruising primary. He would listen to me on the radio every night, as with my mother. And one night he calls me, he says, Hey, Mark. I said, Yeah, perhaps. Why don’t you get off Trump’s back? He didn’t use the word back. Actually. Hey, so what’s going on perhaps? Okay, I understand it’s tough. Regular rough on him. From that night forward, I pulled back. I didn’t change my views. I I always tell you exactly what I’m thinking. Exactly what I’m saying. And again, I’ve told the president that story. So my daughter. And my father and they loved Ted Cruz, too. Don’t get me wrong. But there was something about Trump they really liked. And you see it now. See it now. So what we’re going to do here? I have a little bit of. Lose here and there. That relates to this. I may not want to cover, but I also want to take your calls. If you want to talk about this, if you have any thoughts about this and don’t be afraid to talk about the election, we have the election staring us in the face. And it’s just as the president says, it’s the most important election, one of them in history and certainly in our lifetime. And there’s a little bit of good news. The most recent poll. By IBD slash TPP. This isn’t some backbencher poll of likely voters, and that’s the key. Not just registered voters after the debate. After Tuesday night’s debate. The president of the United States picked up three points against Biden. The National Post debate poll has Biden at 49 and Trump at 46. So for all the criticism. All the attacks from the media and Democrats, even some within the Republican Party. Trump did not lose ground. He gained ground 49 to 46 percent. And I think in part that’s due to Biden. No, I told you that little anecdote about my neighbor down the street who was not really involved in politics. He could have voted for a Democrat and he wanted to see what Biden had to say in that debate and where he stood when it was over. He wasn’t focused on Trump. He already knew all about the president, he already knew how that how the president responds to people who attack him and interrupt. He wasn’t even interested in that. He said Biden never gave me a reason to vote for. Some not. I’m going to vote for Trump. You heard that from the B.T. billionaire Johnson, I believe his name is. Pretty much said the same thing. Biden doesn’t tell me why I should vote for him. He’s throw Molotov cocktails, but he doesn’t tell me why I should vote for him. So I’m not. Very, very interesting. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 4
Now, before the president left the White House to get on the helicopter for Walter Reed, he he taped a short video. We will play the audio of what he’s telling you. The American people go. I want to thank everybody for the tremendous support. I’m going to Walter Reed Hospital. I think I’m doing very well. But we’re going to make sure that things work out. The first lady is doing very well. So thank you very much. I appreciate it. I will never forget. Thank you. And his wife, of course, does have the Corona virus. The first lady. And of course, he brings her up because he’s a good husband. That’s what you do. I’ve got some things here. I’m going to play for you. They’re going to upset you. I’m not going to play them all. We have a long list of media personalities, politicians, guests. For a time like this, say the most horrific things about the president. Horrific certain things, put certain things in perspective. Nothing. We have a truly corrupt Mickey Mouse media in this country. And look what they were doing the past few days. Look what they were doing. With the white supremacist stuff about the president, the United States, which he’s answered over and over again, but they’re trying to paint him. Is a white supremacist. How awful. New York Times obtains. Documents that are leaked felonious Lee and tries to destroy the president personally and his businesses. People take that information and lie about what’s in their. He got Bob Woodward, who has made literally millions and millions of dollars. Hawking a book. Hawking a book that’s silver gossip and cheap shots, which his publisher releases close before the election for maximum impact. You have the Atlantic before anonymous source. Accusing this president of saying when he’s in France that a. Military cemetery where Marines are buried from World War 1. Calling them suckers and losers. Now, we know that never happened. And he had 27 people on the record with their names that said it never happened. We’ve been chasing down this stuff. For months. Russia collusion, which we now know. Hillary Clinton put in place. That the Obama administration instituted, that the media went along with every step of the way. If a man who decided to run to be president, the United States who didn’t need it. Extremely wealthy. Famous. Loved by 95 percent of the American people. Just I want to help my country. I want to help my country, there’s more things I want to do that need to be done. And he runs what’s considered a long shot campaign. They’re 17 or 18 Republican people, candidates running in the Republican primary, many very famous. And it beats every one of them. Then he’s up against Hillary Clinton, known to everybody. And she’s supposed to win, it’s supposed to be Obama’s third term and she loses. And she’s tried to destroy him every day since. And now we know she tried to destroy him even before the general election. With the Russian spy and that and the dossier. That we had bad cops in the FBI. We had spies in our intelligence agencies that obviously were working for the Obama administration, a Democrat party, and go on and on and on. We have people on TV, Joe Scarborough and his people and so many others calling this president Hitler. Hitler. Hitler. For weeks, if not months, we have people saying that he is a dictator and he’s going to institute martial law, that we’re gonna have to send in the 80 second airborne and 100 first man and drag him out of the White House. They impeached him and tried to remove him, they failed. They unleashed a. Defrauding the criminal investigation against him, I guess the purpose was, was to indict him and put him in prison and they failed. They blame him for the Corona virus. It’s the most outrageous thing you can imagine. It’s a manwho simply wants to serve his country and make things better for the American people. I’ll be right back.