Theranos Trial: Scientist Testifies Elizabeth Holmes Knew of Blood Device Shortcomings — Transcript

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1. 0:00elizabeth holmes was put on notice that
2. 0:02her company's blood analyzer did not
3. 0:04stack up to competitors machines and
4. 0:06that's from the latest witness in the
5. 0:08theronos trial our len ramirez is at the
6. 0:11courthouse and landed the date when this
7. 0:13happened a key point here
8. 0:17that's right alan late testimony today
9. 0:20established that in 2011 2011 elizabeth
10. 0:23holmes was notified that her company's
11. 0:26devices weren't working very well in
12. 0:28fact a company a bay area biotech firm
13. 0:31wanted to make a deal with theranose but
14. 0:33had to pull out because the equipment
15. 0:35was faulty
16. 0:37dr victoria sung was a scientist with
17. 0:39celgene in 2011 when that company was
18. 0:41developing a new drug to treat anemia
19. 0:44and kidney disease celgene was
20. 0:45interested in theranose to test how its
21. 0:47medication was working on patients
22. 0:50because it promised to be faster easier
23. 0:52and required very little blood but in
24. 0:54head to head tests with other gold
25. 0:56standard devices celgene found theranos
26. 0:58results were off which made it unsafe to
27. 1:01use on patients sung said celgene
28. 1:03notified holmes in emails in a
29. 1:04powerpoint before canceling the deal law
30. 1:07professor ellen kreitzberg says the
31. 1:08prosecutor's case is building
32. 1:11so many witnesses provide small pieces
33. 1:14that get put together to create an
34. 1:17entire picture earlier defense attorney
35. 1:19lance wade cross-examined ex theranos
36. 1:21lab director dr adam rosendorf for the
37. 1:24second straight day getting rosendorf to
38. 1:26concede that in 2014 many validation
39. 1:29tests on the theranos device were
40. 1:31successful and rosendorf signed off on
41. 1:33the results and he again drove the point
42. 1:35that his lab director rosendorf was
43. 1:37responsible for fixing any problems with
44. 1:39the machine the defense is clearly
45. 1:42trying to show it every step that
46. 1:44elizabeth holmes either didn't know
47. 1:46about these problems or if she knew she
48. 1:49took whatever steps she could or
49. 1:50delegated it to another person to take
50. 1:53the steps
51. 1:54so lynn there are reports today about dr
52. 1:56rosendorffer you mentioned and his role
53. 1:58as the source for the wall street
54. 2:00journal can you explain what's going on
55. 2:01there
56. 2:04yeah earlier today john kerry the
57. 2:06reporter
58. 2:07who became famous
59. 2:09for breaking this case wide open of the
60. 2:11wall street journal reported that
61. 2:14the doctor was his original source and
62. 2:17allowed him
63. 2:18to move forward with the case otherwise
64. 2:20the reporting may have never happened
65. 2:22which led to the trial that we're having
66. 2:23right now they're lies all right len
67. 2:25ramirez thanks