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Economy, our health, our children, the kind of country we live in. Its all on the line. Good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. You hear the music. The Democratic National convention is getting under way today as the party tries to make a virtue of being virtual bringing in hollywood stars and emcees. Hoping for no technical glitches and injecting as much youth as they can to energize young voters to come out to the polls including joe biden doing an interview with rapper cardi b. Oh, snap. Is this real . How ya doing . Hi. How are you . How are you . The names joe. I love ya, joe the mass...

President medically that day that would lead to that kind of a rushed trip. The president leaving on an unannounced trip to Walter Reed Medical Center with his personal physician riding by his side. The white house insisting it was for portions of an annual physical, but the saturday vis was different from his two previous president ial physicals, raising concerns about his health. Those were on his official schedule, took more than four hours, and were not done in phases. That was late last year, midnovember. The white house later cooked up some sort of weird story about how that sudden, unan...

That would lead to that kind of a rushed trip. The president leaving on an unannounced trip to Walter Reed Medical Center with his personal physician right by his side. The white house insisting it was for portions of an annual physical, but the saturday visit was different from his two previous different president ial physicals raising concerns about his health. They were on his official schedule, took more than four hours, and were done in phases. That was late last year, midnovember. The white house later cooked up some weird story about how that sudden unannounced trip to walter reed had b...

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What good we do, inside the house of representatives. He is a familiar face around these parts having spent the early part of his career as one of the marquee writers. It is kind of like dean martin and jerry lewis. He is currently a contributing writer to the New York Times magazine and National Geographic and his previous books include a critically acclaimed biography of george bush and two novels. He is a native of houston and please join me in welcoming robert draper. Thank you. I thought we would start broad. Are we better off than we were two years ago . [laughter] do i really have to an...