He spoke fast, hammering through the Trump administration’s efforts to lower prescription drug prices, combat health care fraud, and curb the spread of Ebola overseas.
Asked on the same topic again, he said, “Ma’am, you’re asking me a question that’s out of my lane.”
When a reporter said that the White House had given so little information on Pulte’s nomination that there was no choice but to seek answers from Oz during the briefing — despite it not being his area of expertise — Oz acknowledged, “I appreciate you want an answer. I’m not not going to be the one giving it to you.”
Still another attempt finally prompted him to exclaim, “I don’t know anything more about Bill Pulte than you do. I did not think that the questions would even come up here. I hadn’t even heard the news when I walked out.”
“I did watch them all, by the way,” Oz said, explaining it helped him prepare for the experience. “I’m a doctor. I try and do my homework. I prepped for the case.”
“Dr. Oz authoritatively and articulately discussed the latest updates on several key Trump administration priorities, from lowering prescription drug prices to rooting out pervasive fraud in federal programs,” White House spokesman Kush Desai, said in a statement that also chided reporters for asking about “topics that President Trump himself has already weighed in on.”
“That amount of energy, and that amount of mental acuity does not exist in a vacuum,” Oz said. “You have to have a vessel to carry it.”
