President Trump joins Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel for an exclusive interview on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Our own,
Dr Marc Siegel, took a break
from his medical practice in
New York and went to Washington
this morning to interview the
White House. The president,
rather at the White House
here, is part of their
conversation.
Mr President, great news
today on vaccines
by his or her with a vaccine,
one hundred million doses purchased by
the federal government for
two dollars billion.
It seems like therapeutics and
vaccines are really proceeding
at a major speed to
they have done really well.
I want you all the time
you are my guide to this because,
frankly, you have a good take, and
you know how important it is.
The vaccines are doing well and
therapeutics.
You tell me, but I would almost
prefer therapeutics. First,
you go into the hospital and you
make people better.
We are doing very well with
remdesivir and other things.
The steroids are turning out to
be good
plasmas. Turning out to be good,
we have a tremendous progress,
and that is where you see the
death numbers a horrible thing
to save, but that is where you
see the death numbers really
looking much better
more on vaccines.
Im concerned about faxing
complaints from the country,
thirty percent said they would not take the
vaccine
as commander in chief end of the
free world. Would you consider
one of the first to take the
vaccine to send a message to the
american public?
You know how it works if im the
first one he so selfish. He
wanted to get the vaccine first.
Other people would say hey.
That is a brave thing to do.
I would absolutely if they want
to meet you and if they thought
it was right, I would take it
first or last mark
you know if I take it first from
either way I lose on that one
right.
If I take it first,
if I dont take it from he
doesnt believe in the program,
but whatever I think is best in
whatever we agree is best. I
will certainly do that.
I will make a deal
I will take it
we can to get together
talked about lockdowns.
I am disturbed that you more
than me disturbed about the
economic, physical, medical
lockdowns.
The democratic governors are
talking about lockdowns.
What is your view?
You can almost see it on
television.
I watch these guys welcome, I
wont say because its not
somebody, you have a liking, but a
certain comedian locked in his h
time
and hes like withered away,
hes lost the whole deal.
Hes lost the with so much.
I almost would like to use him
as an example, but you can use
more than him.
It is hurting people.
These lockdowns are hurting
people.
We did the right thing.
I dont know if you agree, but I
think you do
we closed it down.
We understand the disease and we
didnt know anything about this.
It came in and was new.
We banned China from coming and
which is a big move.
Dr Fauci actually said. I saved
tens of thousands of lives.
If you remember, I was only one
that wanted to do it.
Nobody, we had an office of twenty one
people and they said no, but
ive got to do it
and then we banned Europe from
coming in which is good with
ITALY and all of the problems,
but we did it right.
We closed it. Up now we are
opening.
We have learned, for instance,
we learned the elderly,
especially, and you can say this
better than anybody. The elderly
who have diabetes or heart
problems have a problem. They
are really so acceptable
when people like to compare it
to the flu. It is interesting
because I see the flu numbers
and they are very bad, but when
I look at flu numbers,
I never lost anybody to the flu.
I have never all of my life
ive heard many people have the
flu, the flu,
but nobody died.
I never remember anybody saying
yet the flu and died.
I have lost five people,
probably six actually, as of
this moment, I think pretty
soon,
but I have lost five friends
that went in about one of them
tested come a great guy Stanley,
one of the top real estate
people in New York,
a good man too,
never into politics. Until I ran
he became a political wild man,
he loved it
a great guy with a great spirit
set. I tested positive
and I said well that is too
bad and you will be okay.
He went to the hospital and two
days later in a coma.
How was he doing
hes in a coma and two days
later he died.
You know that has happened on a
numerous occasions,
probably happen with people. You
know too.
I never remember anything like
that.
It didnt.
I never remembered this
happening with the flu.
This is a serious thing,
but we learned people. Stanley
was an older guy.
He perhaps could have lost a
couple of pounds
actually im, not as healthy,
but other people are healthy
age of such a big factor.
When you look in new jersey- and
I happen to like- but I get along
with him. Well the governor of
New Jersey,
Governor Murphy,
he said with the thousands of
deaths they had one death under
the age of eighteen
and I believe that young person
had diabetes,
but one death out of thousands
of people,
one death
and statistics. We would not
have known that at the
beginning.
In all fairness, you didnt know
the elderly would be so badly
hurt,
so we are really taking care of
the elderly population right
now
at a level that has never
happened before.
Are we going to beat this
virus?
We are going to beat it and
we are timely going to be there
over time. It will disappear
appear. That is terrible.
It is true,
it will disappear
before it disappears. My think we
can knock it out before it
disappears.
That is what I want
if I had my choice of
therapeutics, give me
therapeutics every time, because
I would love to walk into a
hospital and give everybody
something and they start walking
out in two days.
That is what I like.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-31.