00:00So my son was a really world-class athlete and January 17th of 2020, which
00:07mind you was an election year, he had a really serious brain injury. The
00:11president found out about it and he gave me a call immediately, didn't
00:13understand the severity of it, but he heard it in my voice and immediately he
00:16went to work. He called almost every day for two weeks checking on Jim and then
00:20he says I'm gonna come see him. The center told us that the the short-term
00:23memory loss would something would trigger it, some big event would
00:26eventually trigger where he'd start retaining stuff until then he was still
00:28having issues. And the president arrived for the next 15 minutes he did nothing
00:35but love on my son. That one incident jogged his memory and from then on he
00:51started retaining things and Jim's attitude went from from this you know we're
00:56gonna get through it to this I'm gonna get through it.
00:58When we got released a little bit the president said come to Mar-a-Lago and see
01:01me. We go down there and it was is amazing and when we're leaving
01:10Dang it I hate getting emotional. See if I talk about my kids I get emotional.
01:14Other than that you can't make me cry. Anyways he grabbed my son and he said he
01:17said do you know why I love your dad? Do you know why I love your dad? Chrissy tells
01:21the story better than I do and he goes no sir. He goes because he loves you.
01:25Because of you. Because of you. Man that's that's he didn't do it for any other
01:32reason. I mean here's the president United States and he did it just because he
01:35cared. We've been friends ever since. The American people need to hear that thank
01:39you. Thank you. Senator Blumenthal.
01:42Thanks Mr. Chairman.
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