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Trump has asked two companies working on Covid-19 therapies to see if they can help Boris.

“We’ve contacted all of Boris’s doctors”, he says. Offered help. “They are ready to go”.

Unclear who the firms are, what they produce, how they could help.

Trump says they’re “leading” companies + have offices in London.

(President a big supporter of using experimental drugs to tackle covid.)

Trump doesn’t name names when asked about this or go much further on what treatments offered

“It's a very complex treatment of things they've just recently developed” he says.

Trump also says the firms (whoever they are) are ready to go if needed.

“They’ve already had meetings with the doctors and we’ll see whether or not they want to go that route.

“But when you’re in intensive care it’s a big deal. So they’re there and they’re ready.”