Biden to speak with Bill Clinton after former president's hospitalization
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President Joe Biden will speak with former President Bill Clinton on Friday after Clinton was hospitalized for an infection, the White House said Friday.
"The President sends his best wishes to President Clinton. President Biden will be speaking to the President later today. So they have not connected yet but we're hoping to connect them later today," White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One as Biden headed to events in Connecticut.
Clinton was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Center's intensive care unit Tuesday for a urinary tract infection that spread to his bloodstream, his doctors told CNN on Thursday. He is in good spirits, talking to family and staff, and has been up and walking, according to both his doctors and his staff.
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