Dr. Sean Conley, physician to President Donald Trump, center, and other doctors, walk to talk with reporters at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, in Bethesda, Md.

Presidential Illness

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Oct 9, 2020

President Trump's coronavirus diagnosis has added layers of confusion, mistrust, and risk to his leadership during this pandemic. However, his administration is not the first to have to contend with issues related to a presidential illness. David Priess, chief operating officer at the Lawfare Institute and a former CIA intelligence officer, joins us to discuss this history, which he wrote about in a recent article for the Washington Post.

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