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The antiquities act to remove antiquities from united states lands without the permission of the united states. >> the federal government doesnt show up with the national guard and an assistant, or pardon me, an acting united states attorney in pancake make-up with the intention of working things out somewhere down the road. >> after we got over the initial shock, those of us who were packing the dinosaur kind of went into our packing mode, but towards the end of the day, it became obvious that ...

>> the protest developed very quickly, so there were a lot of people on the street. >> i was working for "national geographic," and we were gonna take the skull of sue and put it into a cat scan of what they use for the space shuttles to see if we could see inside the skull of sue. and terry wentz answered the phone, and he said, "well, i dont think so," so i got on the next plane i could, and the place was surrounded by cops. i mean, you thought that there was, like, a real t. rex loose on the ...

>> people around town noticed. they noticed all the cop cars. they noticed the police tape. >> all a sudden, there were people with signs out in front of our building it was clear that people were not happy with what was going on. >> the protest developed very quickly, so there were a lot of people on the street. >> i was working for "national geographic," and we were gonna take the skull of sue and put it into a cat scan of what they use for the space shuttles to see if we could see inside the ...

Smoking is a risk factor, current and past smoking. we are told, we asked that question, he has stopped smoking. is he chewing gum a lot. nicorette gum, clearly, if he is smoking in anyway, ocasually, it is a specter for acid reflux. the cat scan the ct scan done, that is probably not typical. this is the president of the united states we are talking about. so an abundance of caution again is something that comes into play here him typically, what happens if someone has acid reflux, you give the...

Them, lets double check. >> yeah, i think thats a fair assessment. these situations, we can go by what the white house is telling us, what the exams they tell us showed. why did they get a cat scan at this point? you can say, look, hes the president. he is being very cautious. he has this, as you point out, this remote history of smoking. we are told he stopped. someone who is a smoker who has changes in the back of their throat, i think you tend to be more aggressive. make sure nothing else is ...

You have this history of symptoms, and ct scan makes sure theres no cancer or swelling of the lymph nodes. no one is saying that occurred here. the ct scan was read as normal. thats the abundance of caution. you want to look at that area very thoroughly. what would typically happen, you have acid reflux and get put on medications for a while to reduce the amount of acid in the stomach, reduce the likelihood that acid would gurgle up into the esophagus and your symptoms would likely go away. if t...

Come up with the diagnosis of acid reflux. he didnt go to the doctor saying, i have acid reflux. what he had first was a sore throat. so he started with the sore throat. what i want people to know is that sometimes when acid actually finds its way all the way up to the esophagus, it can irritate the vocal cords and the throat and cause sore throats. so one of the symptoms of acid reflux is sore throat. the other one can be chest pain. you can have similar symptoms as having a heart attack and th...

>> well, you know, first of all, 28 minutes is really fast, right? i guess maybe things move quickly if youre a president of the united states. but i wouldnt say that its typical. to do the camera exam is not that -- is pretty common. what would normally happen is you think its acid reflux, someone would be given medications or given treatments for that acid reflux. and if it didnt go away after a few weeks, maybe then they would get a cat scan. but to get it done, as you point out, in the same ...

Inflammation related to acid reflux and will be treated accordingly. so the president apparently for a couple weeks or several days had been suffering from a sore throat. if i was suffering from a sore throat for a couple of days, would i be getting a ct scan? >> no, unlikely. you know, obviously this is the president of the united states. we think of you almost in the same regard, candy, but this is -- >> of course. >> -- but theres an abundance of caution, no question. what sounds like what ha...

Current symptoms of acid reflux. smoking definitely makes acid reflux more likely and worse. based on his past history, and, again, this is an abundance of caution. we hear the c.t. scan was normal, but you got the sort of history of smoking. you got the symptoms of acid reflux. a cat scan could be being performed to make sure theres no other mass or something that may represent cancer or swelling of the lymph nodes. the c.t. scan is read as being normal, but that is an abundance of caution. you...