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Medstar. they gave me a second chance at life and through many, many surgeries, where my life was truly in the balance a few of those, they did a wonderful job at making sure that i was well taken care of and ultimately made it through that point so i could get to dr. golden and his team who actually put me back together again which was quite a task, to the point where im actually able to relearn how to walk again. so dr. sava and dr. golden, thank you for being here and thanks for your teams wo...

Wheres jack? stand up, jack. come on. med stars director of trauma surgery and dr. robert golden, the director of orthopedic trauma. doctor? congratulations. they were a lot more worried that night at the hospital, werent they? great job. you have the gratitude of the entire nation. thank you for caring for the victims and for your dear friend, steve, and he is our dear friend. steve is a fighter. weve known that for a long time. this week, he was discharged from the hospital and is now beginnin...

>> steve, i know youre watching. let me say were inspired and relieved by your recovery. its an answer to prayer. were especially honored to be joined today by your remarkable and courageous wife, jennifer. [applause] jennifer, you will remain in our prayers until steve is back to work. jennifer wanted me to recognize two medical professionals that cared for congressman scalise from the very moment that he arrived at the hospital and the others that were wounded that day. dr. jack sava saved liv...

Wednesday. on friday, dr. jack sava the head of trauma at washington medstar hospital center gave reporters a the dealed detailed account of how serious the situation is. >> the round fragmented and did damage to bones, organs and blood vessels. i understand he was awake on scene but by the time he was transported by helicopter to the medstar trauma center he was in shock. >> reporter: the report on scalises health came on the same day we learned more about the state of mind of the shooter, jame...

Like this is called damage control surgery. what that means is that rather than trying to do everything in one operation on day one, we generally stage the operations. first operation is dedicated usually mainly to bleeding control. the other types of work you have to do are staged for later operations. >> [question inaudible] >> infection is a significant risk. >> dr. sava, you see congressman scalise returning to work in the future? >> i think thats a possibility. >> [question inaudible] >> ha...

Comey, although it doesnt say that he should be fired. but rosenstein has subsequently said that he and attorney general jeff sessions had both reached the conclusion before they were sworn in that there should be a new director of the fbi and mr. comey and the president have both said that -- or, im sorry, mr. sessions and the president have both said in that conversation they had at the white house before mr. comey was fired, they all agreed that he should go. but youre right, its robert muell...

Wednesday at that baseball field. he was shot in the hip and air lifted here to washington med star hospital. we got a detailed brief today by the head of trauma, dr. jack sava who described the situation. take a listen. >> the congressmans status remains critical. we are encouraged by improvement in his condition over the last 36 hours. we have controlled the internal bleeding and his vital signs have stabilized. he will require additional operations to manage abdominal injuries and other bone ...

>> thank you all very much. >> harris: the head of trauma at medstar washington trauma there, dr. jack sava taking questions from the media about the current condition of representative steve scalise. the headline had to be "i feel more optimistic than i did two days ago", that his risk of death has substantially been lowered. he talked about the fact that scalise was awake at the scene from the baseball practice, that gop baseball practice on wednesday. by the time he was transported to the hos...

Cuban policies. before he went into that, he referenced the congressman. take a listen. >> my dear friend, steve scalise, took a bullet for all of us. and because of him and because of the tremendous pain and suffering hes now enduring -- and hes having a hard time, far worse than anybody thought -- our country will perhaps become closer, more unified. so important. so we all oh steve a big, big thank you. >> lets go to washington and listen in. >> we have two speakers this afternoon for you. dr...

Sava, head of trauma at the washington medstar hospital center, and he described his condition as critical with ain imminent threat of death. he said the big problem was the immense amount of blood that congressman scalise had lost, and it was something that surgeons had to address right away. he said that they were able to do that, even though it was difficult at times. he said the fact that they have been able to keep the bleeding under control is one of the reasons he believes that his chance...