00:00So I want to thank also Attorney General Pam Bondi, who's been fantastic.
00:06Is Pam here someplace? Oh, hello, Pam. Good. She's been great.
00:11And the Speaker has got the easiest job of anybody in government.
00:15He's got a majority of two. I don't like to say one because it varies, but between one, two and
00:22three.
00:23And I think you're the only man that's ever lived that's able to be very happy about it.
00:29In fact, when we get up to three, you know, every once in a while, we get up to three.
00:32Actually, for a period of time, we actually had we had it up to four and then we had a
00:36death.
00:38And death is very bad when you're the speaker and you have a majority of two or three.
00:44But we had a death and then we had another death and we had some things and it's but we're
00:50looking very strong.
00:52We had one man who was very ill. It looked like he wasn't going to make it.
00:55I don't know. I don't I won't mention his name. Should I? Do other people know his name?
01:01Do you want to mention it? He'll be proud. Go ahead. Tell him. Tell him the story.
01:06OK, well, thank you, Mr. President. Congressman Neal Dunn of Florida had had some real health challenges and it was
01:13very serious and had had a pretty grim diagnosis.
01:16And I mentioned it to the president. I said, Congressman Dunn is a real champion and a patriot because he's
01:21still coming to work.
01:22And if others got this diagnosis, they would be apt to go home and retire.
01:25What was the diagnosis? It was I mean, I think it was a terminal diagnosis.
01:29He would be dead by June. OK, that wasn't public. But yeah, OK, that's it was it was grim.
01:35That's what I was going to say. I don't think with a heart problem, by the way, this was a
01:39heart problem.
01:41So long story short, the president called him to encourage him and thank him.
01:45And they had a conversation and the president mentioned in the course of the conversation, you know how to get
01:49my doctors involved.
01:50And they did. And within a within a number of hours, they took him to Walter Reed, emergency surgery.
01:56The man has a new lease on life. He's acts like he's 30 years younger.
01:59And he walked into the conference meeting and we thought we'd seen a ghost.
02:02And I spoke with him over the weekend and he's encouraged and thankful.
02:05And he thanks the president for his leadership and intervention. And thank you. Thank you.
02:09He actually called Mike. Mike called me and he said, sir, we're up by three, but we're going to lose
02:15one by June.
02:17I said, who? Neil Dunn. He's a congressman. Great congressman. Incredible.
02:21He called to say that he was terminal, really bad heart. There's nothing they can do.
02:28I said, that's bad. Number one, it was bad because I liked him.
02:33Number two, it was bad because I needed his vote.
02:36But he really said, he said, Mike, I'm going to last this out for the president and you.
02:42And however long I live, I mean, it looks like June is the time.
02:46But however long I live, I'm going to I'm going to be voting for you.
02:51I mean, how many people are going to say that? Most of them are going to say, Mike, I'm retiring
02:54immediately.
02:55That's the end. He's an extraordinary. But he didn't do that.
02:57It was really impressive. And then I realized I have doctors in the White House.
03:01I said, White House doctors are incredible. And and they've helped me with other people.
03:06They're helping me with people right now. People that are very sick are like they're miracle workers.
03:11And I said, I have to call them. And I called the two doctors.
03:16They're both great. And they immediately went over to see the congressman.
03:21And he was on the operating table like two hours later. Yeah. And it was a long operation.
03:28They gave him more stents and more everything that you can have.
03:31I think he's got everything that you could possibly have. And they called up.
03:36They said, sir, I think you'll be fine. I said, you got to be kidding.
03:39He said, I think you'll be fine. And Mike was telling me the story that the other day he came
03:45into a meeting for the first time in a long while.
03:47Go ahead. Well, it was incredible. I mean, just he has a new lease on life.
03:52He has more energy than a man half his age and very encouraged and encouraged all of us.
03:57So, again, a testament to great leadership. And he's my hats off to Neil Dunn and his beautiful wife and
04:03family.
04:03He's an extraordinary individual. And just, you know, because I don't want to have a terrible story about this.
04:09I did it for him first and for the vote second. But it was a close second, actually.
04:15But I did it for the vote second. All right.
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