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Any other cognitive testing. it's a screening tool. if you do well on it. anything above 26 is normal. if you do -- certainly if you get a 30 out of 30, you can confidently assume that you're done on the cognitive workup for now. >> do you have any concerns that the president is on twitter? >> i don't have any concern on that. >> thank you drshgs jackson. >> the president is the first nonsmoker to sit in the oval office since jimmy carter. can you say that that has extended his life in any way? makes him unusually healthy for his age? >> in my opinion, it's had a big impact, especially the smo...

Decision-making process on handing over power to the vice president while he's sedated? >> i will make recommendations with the chief of staff and the national security council. i won't make that decision but i will be a part of that discussion. >> dr. jackson, you say the president is the one that requested the cognitive test. that it wasn't necessarily needed for someone of his age. did he tell you why he wanted it done? there's been a lot of speculation out there about his cognitive state. what were the discussions that you had from when he told you this is why i want to do it? why did he s...

His ldl is problematic at 143. but everything else that dr. jackson wept into to me, neil, was a big finger in the eye by the president to everybody who has said that he could be out of shape, that he doesn't have the physical stamina to do this job, that he doesn't have the mental stability to do this job. dr. jackson said administered the montreal cognitive assessment. this is something that he said that is good at detecting early signs of alzheimers disease. after listening to the statistics, i wish i had the president's cardiac health. >> neil: tell me about it. >> i'm more than ten years ...

Could do to make himself healthier? absolutely. he's tracking that and i am, too. overall, he has very good health. excellent health. dr. gupta. >> dr. jackson, he's taking cholesterol medications. he's borderline obese. can you characterize that as excellent health? >> based on his current cardiac study, his heart is very healthy. those are all things we're looking at with regards -- you're a neurosurgeon. there's stroke issues there, too. we're focused on his cardiac health. you know, as an indicator of what the rest of his vascular health might be like. he has no evidence of peripheral vasc...