lang, you know th white house setup. thhow well-equipped i white house to handle a patient who is contagis, and especially the president of thewnited states is infected with covid-19, and all of the treatmt he is going to need? >> doctor: well, as you can imagine, the white house is a place he can be monitored during these critical days, a was just said, ven tough 10 can be critical days, for a patient who is in the at-risk groups. but monitoring today is pretty small. you canring tsmall equipment into the white house. he has a team. the team is at the whi house. he can be monitored very closely at the white house, just s he would be in the hospital. and he can be moved back to the hl spi -- very quickly. as we saw last friday, when he was moved to the hospital quickly. that can happen, if it was needed. but all of the monitoring that can be done, all f the expertise that can be done to monitor, that is all available very eas within the white house compound. >> woodruff: and -- but i guess what i'm askg is, here is someo

he recently attended a white house event. also tonight, abc news now confirming a military aide responsible for carrying the so-called nuclear football has tested positive. a presidential valet testing positive, too. more than 20 connected to the president and the white house now testing positive. and the surreal images inside the press briefing room. workers cleaning in full hazmat gear. president trump at the white house, recovering. his doctors giving very little information. and tonight, the president tweeting, no stimulus, no deal to help americans until after i win. jon karl and martha raddatz standing by live tonight. and after the president told americans don't be afraid of covid, american families whose loved ones battled the virus react tonight. >>> 28 days until election day. millions voting already and what will the debates now look like? president trump tonight saying he'll be at the next debate. what joe biden is now saying tonight. and tomorrow evening, vice president mike pence and senator kamala harris on the

back at the white house mr. trump is throwing his weight around announcing he is ending talks with house democrats over a new coronavirus relief bill tweeting the following. sources tell cnn there are lingering concerns inside the white house about the president's health after he appeared to be having trouble breathing as he stood on the balancony following a return fr water reed medical center. >> i know a risk, a danger but that is okay. now i'm better and maybe i'm immune. i don't know. but don't let it dominate your lives. get out there and be careful. >> reporter: the president is still super spreading misinformation about the virus tweeting flu season is coming up. many people every year sometimes over 100,000 and despite the vaccine die from the flu. are we going to close down our country? no. we have learned to live it with like covid and most populations far less lethal. twitter slapped a warning on the release saying it violates the rules of spreading harmful information relating to covid-19. the fact

through the white house. this news, though, we heard from the president himself. he's the one who tweeted this out this morning at 12:54 a.m., sending shock waves throughout the country. >> as you see, the president's closest advisers, hope hicks, stephen miller, jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and husband to his daughter, ivanka trump, all getting on marine one, a very tight space, before getting onto air force one and traveling with the president. so again, we will continue to monitor this breaking news on "world news now" and "america this morning." >> announcer: it's "live with kelly and ryan!" today, from the new series, "emily in paris," lily collins. and a performance from country star, tim mcgraw. plus, how to be to the quarantine blues as we continue "live @home: house calls week." also, details on how your cardboard creations could earn you a $5,000 prize. all next on "live!" ♪ and now, here are kelly ripa and ryan seacrest! [cheers and applause] ♪ >> kelly: hi. >> ryan: you're early.

he was also at the white house on saturday. there are photos of him wearing a mask, but he met with judge barrett, mike lee, who is also quarantining. the soon-to-be justice barrett on tuesday. what you see as republican officials testing positive and also being in close proximity to the republican nominee for the supreme court. stephanie: so much to keep track of. the vice president testing negative, but senator tom tillis of carolina testing positive and he is also a member of the judiciary committee, which is key as we all know. yamiche alcindor with the latest, thank you. yamiche: thanks so much. ♪ judy: there are many other questions about the president's personal health, the duration of qurantine and whom else might have been exposed in recent days. dr. ashish jha is the dean of the brown university school of public health and joins me now. given what we have seen now, the president is about to leave white house to go to walter reed for several days you have heard i think what we have about the president's symptoms. wha

if they have to come into the white house, this will really reverberate through the entire white house. >> and this news spreading across the world this morning. reaction coming in from other world leaders. uk prime minister boris johnson tweeting out my best wishes to president trump and the first lady. hope they both have a speedy recovery from the coronavirus, of course, boris johnson himself contracted the coronavirus. spent weeks in the hospital. three days in the icu recovering from the coronavirus and his symptom. >> we're hearing from another close ally, bepg men men men netanyahu. we are thinking of donald trump and first lady melania trump and wish our friends a full and speedy recovery. that coming in as the world reacts to the president and first lady testing positive for covid-19. >>> coming up, some of the other news of the morning including new questions about security for the november election. >>> plus, we'll talk to our dr. jen ashton about the president's health. make sure to stay with us. here's to the duers. to all the people who realize they can du more with less

i am taken back to the white house. i am taken back to the white house. i am taken back to four days ago when the president boarded marine one to fly to walter reed and of course at that point, we really didn't know what the president's prognosis was. we understood that we are being told at the time he was suffering, mild conditions, he was fatigued, he had a slight fever, it has since emerged that his condition on friday was more worrying than that and he did have to have oxygen and there had been some misinformation perhaps about how serious the presidents condition was. but i think if we had all known back on friday that the president would be flying back to white house on monday, that everybody around the president would have reached a sigh of relief because we know with this illness it is not clear where it is going to go. you can get the illness and get worse very quickly you can get the illness and have it for a few days and then get worse or get the illness and have mild symptoms and recover. on friday of course come as the president was being lif

the white house is functioning in chaos. the press secretary is not abl to give briefings because she is at home quarantining and the president is walking around restless and going into the ova fice and people have put hazmat suits to interact with him. they are trying to say things are as usual, but it is anything but business as usual. robert: dr. fauci sd on cbs radio that amy coney barrett last week was probably the superspreader event for these white house officials. you are not only a debate moderator and writing a book about speaker pelosi and has raised stakes about e 25th amendment and whether ngss should talk about the fitness of the president to serve. what is she up to before the 2020 campaign ends? susan: it's not unreasonable to lookt a questions of suck ceaseon butt looks -- successon. speaker pelosion p --elosi said it wasn't directed at trump but indicated it wa motivated by trump and has long expressed concerns about the fitness of his office and whether the drugs he is taking to treat covid-19 might be aff

the white house press association. do we know anything more about that staffer >> we don't know anything about the staffer. what they are describing is three individuals and as we listen to marine one take off. the helicopter will be removed from the grounds of walter reed. marine one is in the air presumably of course without the president of the united states now we're told there are three individuals, individual one, two and three and where they were inside the white house on given dates. that's all the information we have as you can hear marine one taking to the skies here above walter reed as the sun is setting and the president has entered the complex. >> thanks. we just got word from the house speaker nancy pelosi she has tested negative. so the vast majority of the tests we've been hearing about today have been negative the word of these three reporters who tested positive we wish them our best as we of course, do, the president of the united states and a speedy recovery all americans wishing that no doubt toda

the white house has a surgery, house does. the white house has a surgery, it has a sick pay, it has the facilities to deal with quite serious situations, and that hasn't been deemed good enough for this occasion. so we got donald trump going off to hospital. with boris johnson, there was a longer lead in, but it was all that stuff about precaution, precaution, percussion. then next thing we know, intensive care. that was an absolute shock when you heard that particular news. the white house is doing what is expected, seeking to reassure the american people, and there are trying to do their best but i think still, there is an awful lot we don't know. i know exactly where you're standing. the pract secretary office is ten guards from where you're standing. —— press secretary. is there a sense of... 7 you're standing. —— press secretary. is there a sense of... ? i would give a slightly different answer to it. the white house feel different today than it did yesterday or last week or last month or for the last seven or eig

white house right now? >> not well, brian. it's a scary place to work. and there are a lot of journalists for nbc and the "washington post" and so many other news organizations who put their lives in danger in pursuit of the truth and of the story. and they usually do so in war zones or, you know, reporting in north korea. or reporting in some of the world's deadliest hot spots. but the white house at this moment is one of those hot spots. reporters going to the white house and swiping in their press badges are putting their lives at risk to tell this story. that's not how it should be but that's how it is, because of the recklessness of some of the white house officials. it was just last week when kayleigh mcenany, the press secretary, held a press briefing without a mask. she never wears a mask in front of a press briefing. over the weekend she briefed reporters. outdoors. but again, without her mask. she today tested positive for the coronavirus. and so they're just not taking the best health practices a

that's consistent with the white house pattern. we remember a few weeks ago hope hicks tested positive and later that evening donald trump tested positive. that did not come out from the white house, it came out because of the reporting in the early evening that forced their hand. mark meadows acknowledged to jake tapper that he had not wanted to disclose the tests of the multiple people around vice president pence. he made the argument that was about their privacy and wasn't public import or other people at that level. obviously marc short, his chief of staff, one of the most senior white house officials and his body man also tested positive, which is an indication that the vice president may have had serious, serious exposure to covid-19 and yet the vice president is out on the campaign trail. no indication he's going to get off the trail. >> how do you know or do you know how they are handling it internally, john? are people in the white house kept in the dark or are they being more forthcoming with those people? >> well, it is

house as soon as monday and if that did happen if he did return to the white house tomorrow would be a good sign certainly from for the president and and also something that presumably the president would enjoy in the sense of the ticks obit that you know he's. pretty much you know the version he's good enough to get back to the white house but because it was. well there's a couple of narratives here nic the president didn't set himself late last night in a video message that he didn't really want to sit around the white house and the stairs of the residence wondering around he preferred it would appear from what he said in his video message last night that he'd rather be seen to be working even if it's from the ward at the walter reed hospital so once again we've got a slight conflict of off message in this particular point but certainly the optics of it the president returning to the white house would indicate that yes he is back in where he should be where the president the united states should be but one must remember too of course that the white house is a fully equipped surgica

house has its owi'i centre, and the white house has its own medical centre, the white house has doctors and nurses working around the clock, they have a very well—equipped surgery here. why is it that they feel they cannot do whatever is necessary here and that he needs to go to walter reed? i think that is one of the questions that people are going to a light on and say maybe there's more to this than meets the eye and maybe there is something else to this. but as you also said, which i think is really important, they are not invoking article 25, section three of the constitution, which hands over power on a of the constitution, which hands over power on a temporary basis to the vice president. donald trump or means in charge, is the message that the white house are very keen to put out this evening —— donald trump are means in charge. jon sopel there at the white house for us. let's go to bethesda, maryland. barbara plett usher is there. that is were the helicopters going to land, barbara. what are you hearing about what conditions he is going to be held in while he's up there,

president leaving here and going back to the white house today? or a white house staffers? >> no. >> p tsident said don't be afraid with kobe. do you agree with that? >> i'm not going to get into that. >> his heart liberal and kidney function was norma or impring. improving, does that mean there were of facts and is it normal? >> it is all normal right now. i would say he seemed to be a little dehydrated friday. he was able to just drink and recover from that in everything looks great. >> what soo? of things >> the first thing we neo is there is no evidence of live virus still present that he could possibly transmit to others. and that is what the infectious disease experts and some of our rtners, military civilian entities, doinadvanced diagnostics just to see as soon as we can identify that. routinely we talk about a 10 day window. cdc guidelines. we are checking him or her to me than waiting 10 days. there is a possibility it is earlier than that. ilere is a chance it is a little bit later but weknow as soon as possible. and then we will look at him clinically. how are y

south lawn of the white house. it usually takes a few minutes for the president to get out there. it'll be interesting to see if the president walks out of the helicopter which i imagine he probably will given the description of his symptoms from seasean conley, his doctor. perhaps he will stop and talk with the press pool that is there for all the helicopter departures. maybe he will let us know he's doing all right. out of an abundance of caution, according to the statement from press secretary kayleigh mcenany. dana was talking about this, she has been to walter reed more often than i have. by virtue of her position with the bush administration. there was an entire suite of offices up there to support the president of the united states and he'll be working out of that suite for the next couple days. clearly it's an indication that they want to make sure that they stay on top of it. again, great facilities here at the white house. there is a dedicated medical office here at the white house. the president has got

as he was returning to the white house, this evening, there were other white house officials taking off their masks, who were just in close proximity. anderson, they live inside a different reality over here at the white house. and that is what -- what is just so damn frustrating covering this presidency. because we have seen this from the very beginning of this administration. but it is now so critical because a deadly virus is circulating inside the west wing. i was just in the lower and upper press areas of the west wing, anderson, where the white house press staffers and communication staffers work every day. it is gone. it's empty. they're all gone. and that is because they've essentially had to flee the building because this is something of a hot zone. and so, you know, the president may be interested in going back to the oval office. he may be interested in getting back to business. but there aren't a whole lot of people here to help him get back to business because they have had to evacuate the building because of this deadly virus that's circulating around. it is -- it's just -

in the white house. i've literally talked to somebody who worked in the white house who says that she was advised that if she really ever needed to, she could havel her baby at the white house, meaning she doesn't have to go home from work. they could take care of it there. i'm assuming a lot of that is hyperbole, but there is an expectation the white house medical unit can do almost anything. that's what makes it feel in part very grave that in this case the white house medical unit decided that the president needed instead to be hospitalized. we'll talk with a former doctor from the white house medical unit who in fact served during the trump administration. stay with us. look limu! someone out there needs help customizing their car insurance with liberty mutual, so they only pay for what they need. false alarm. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ with priceline, you can get up to 60% off amazing hotels. and when you get a big deal... ...you feel like a big deal. ♪

should he be at the white house? >> i think the president still has not learned despite having said he gone through coronavirus school now and having acquired the virus himself. he has not learned the most basic lesson of this pandemic which is wear a mask. it will protect you and others. so it has me concerning and back when i was in new york city when we had a patient with an infectious disease that's airborne like tuberculosis. i would require them to be hospitalized at bellevue. unfortunately, we can't do that in this case. he's presenting a real threat to others of his working and living environment. you are familiar with inside the white house, do you see a way of the president remaining away from his staff, does that seem like it could work? >> i am not sure what they are thinking. we have a president of the united states who has covid-19, he's still contagious and he's taking heavy medications. he's taking steroids. he really ought to be in an isolated situation. he should be at the hospital frankly. in the w

there was definitely an outbreak in the white house. a lot of people who have come down with a virus were at that event. we have now seen pictures from the event. people were hugging, not wearing masks, indoor receptions and people shaking hands. so definitely not following the president's own cdc protocols. but we are going to see if it spreads more. mark meadows white house chief of staff says he expects to be more spread. and the president will make a dramatic exit, we assume out of the golden doors of walter reed going home. i think he tweeted earlier this was a mission accomplished moment. i don't know if that is the right phrase, but every doctor has said, he's got to be watched carefully. this virus can take a very circuitous path and you can feel good and then, you know it hits you again. so he's not out of the woods. i think they said they wanted to monitor him through the weekend to make sure that his vital signs are good and that he is recovering well. >> bret: chris, we are one minute away from this moment where president tr

the white house and the white house doctors have been asked, multiple times, when did the president have his last, negative test? it's a very easy question. they've answered similar questions about when he had a positive test, when he first tested positive for coronavirus. but when it comes to this question of when did he last test negative, they clam up and they don't answer the question. and it's clear that, whatever the answer is, it does not reflect well on this white house. it does not reflect well on the president. we already know -- we know he has not been taking this virus seriously. we know that he has not been following protocols. we know he's been making other people less safe with his actions. so i wouldn't be surprised if the white house is trying to cover up the fact that the president does not get tested on a a daily basis. he, maybe, did not get tested before going to the debate, where there was the honor system, essentially. each candidate had to get tested and tell the debate commission that they had been tested, that they were safe to be in that hall. it would not be a

at the white house didn't say mr. president, you're grounded, you're quarantined, you're in close quarters with someone who has symptoms of this and later tested positive, it is shocking. but yes. it is very tight quarters in marine one. >> sanjay, what do they have to do inside marine one now to guarantee that the president is not going to spread this virus to the others who are going to be in there with him? >> you can't guarantee that, wolf. that's the issue. he should be isolated. that's why you get isolated if you have a contagious disease that's diagnosed. he has a symptomatic contagious disease. he should be in isolation. he's gone around on a car ride, on two helicopter rides, apparently he is walking around the hospital, he said, saying hello to soldiers. i don't know were they in personal protective equipment when he was doing so? you can't guarantee safety. i hope what they're doing is at least putting everyone that's going to be on that helicopter in personal protective equipment, so n95 masks, goggles, go

house don't work at the white house right now. quote, we cannot stress enough the importance of mask wearing, social distancing and common sense at the white house complex. >> brian, i used to cover the white house. one of the things that people are surprised is how close the quarters are. not just for the reporters. we are talking about very small areas that make it very difficult to socially distance and you have to take as many precautions as possible and i talk about the press offices. there are people sitting there chock a block at desks. like a classroom feel. >> definitely. that's why it was a mistake for kayleigh mcenany to hold a press conference yesterday. would we know right now if news did not leak? there's murkiness about that. the fact that there's a white house staffer who sits with the press who's a confirmed positive, this speaks to how many other cases there might be and there's privacy issues here but might be other cases of the white house right now. >> all right. brian stelter, thank you so much for the news j

of people at the white house who tested positive. now, it is even harder to find out about those on the residence staff.f. >> absolutely. there are 90 housekekeeping staf as far as s we know in the white house who are charged every d dy with maintaining thehe order in the sananity and the safetety oe white house i itself forr the people who live there. this entntire industry is really defined by visisibility -- invisibility. people are working behind closed doors. ththeir work is not evenen seens real work. it is still referred to as "help " after so many genenerations fr we understand ththis work isis essential. itit is work ththat is disproportionally done by women and peoeople of color, women of color, black and brown women in particular. so all of those factorss contribute to the invisibility and the dehumanization of this workforce, which is why it is so important we are vigilant about finding o out about the health d safety and the well-b-being of those workers in t this time. we need transpsparency. and even more than that, we

the white house marine one leaves the south lawn of the white house having just left the president back at home after 3 days in hospital. santa maria continuing coverage here on.

>> gosh, i mean, you know, the white house still really -- i mean, a spokesperson from the white house has not gotten in front of the cameras yet and really explained that. we had mark meadows call in to the judge why neo janine last nd with he reiterated, where he said there had been quite a bit of concern about the president's health, really contradicting the much mormuch more rosey portrf the president's health that was painted yesterday. the doctor just said he believes mark meadows' statement had been misconstrued. unclear exactly how that is, since we were just reading it verbatim. but at least we're getting a lot more clarity today from that briefing with the president's medical team than we did yesterday, trace. >> we're going to talk to white house communications director alyssa ferin to get more information from her. as president trump undergrows treatment, a -- undergrows treatment, a number of staffers and allies have tested positive for the virus, including one of president trump's so-called body men, nick luna, who is married to an assistant to jared kushner. mark meredit

the white house and the doctor, dr. conley, had to scramble and say we meant this was day three and gave an explanation trying to change what the doctor said that was totally incomprehensible. i find unpersuasive, we don't know when president trump got infected at this moment. we don't know how sick he is. as bob woodward said, these are matters that go to the core functioning and credibility of the united states government and not knowing those things, we are in a state of reasonably large not quite a constitutional crisis, but a crisis nonetheless, and the thing, last thing i'll say, the fact that you mentioned the cdc, the cdc has a contact tracing unit. they have been standing by since friday offering to go to the white house to start doing the contact tracing on the president, and the white house has not taken the cdc up on that offer. why? why do they not want the cdc there to do this contact tracing? i think because if they had the cdc inside they have to start telling the truth to the cdc about when the presiden

and the white house physician, dr. sean conley clarifies this statement about the president being diagnosed with this virus 72 hours ago. >> and again, jeremy, the doctor was given the opportunity because a reporter did ask. you said 72 hours. and he refused to correct himself, if he had misspoken. so again, more questions than answers. thank you so much, jeremy diamond. >>> now this. some breaking news. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is seeking an agreement to push back senate floor activity two weeks until october 19th after multiple republican senators announce that they have tested positive for coronavirus and the confirmation hearings for the president's u.s. supreme court nominee now less than two weeks away. cnn congressional reporter lauren fox is with us now. so what exactly is mitch mcconnell asking for here? >> well, there's a lot of uncertainty on capitol hill right now when it comes to amy coney barrett's nomination and whether or not they'll have the votes they need in the committee to move forwar

it raises questions on why he went to go back to the white house. for him, it's about optics and staying in hospital makes him look weak, and he doesn't like that. it will be fascinating to hear from his position in about 25 minutes' time. for now, thank you very much indeed. let's get a bit more analysis on the —— political fallout. let's speak now to dr brian klaas, an associate professor to global politics at ucl, and a columnist at the washington post. diagnosed, treated, three days, now out of hospital it seems. i suppose the only way one could look at this as isa the only way one could look at this as is a very trumpian recovery. it is, but it's also very reckless, most medical experts say he should not be leaving the hospital at this stage. most would also have said that he should not have gone on his car ride yesterday either with the secret service agents in the car with him potentially getting infected by him so that he could wave to his supporters. i think this is the pattern of term's infection is the pattern of term's infection is t

at the white house. how worried are you that countless people have been exposed without even knowing it? >> very worried. this seems to be a super spreading event. we've got over a dozen people infected and i think it's really important to remember that those individuals might transmit it to other people. these are people who live not in the white house. they live in the district of columbia or in the suburbs. so the public health officials in those areas need to know if they have active cases. 00 i would consider anybody that was at any of the amy coney be tested or consult with their doctor because this is something that we're seeing a disproportionate number of cases and the fact that we're not getting a contact trace really makes it much more dangerous for the days and weeks ahead. >> sir, thank you very much for your time this hour. i appreciate it. >>> we have some breaking news this hour in florida. this afternoon florida governor ron desantis extending the state's voter registration deadline unti

the white house is functioning in chaos. the press sry is not able to give briefings because she is at home quarantining and the president is walking around restless and going into the oval office and people have put hazmatui to interact with him. they are trying to say things are as usual, but it isin any but business as usual. robert: dr. fauci said on cbs radio that amy coney barrett last week was probably the superspreader event for these white house officials. you are notnly a debate moderator and writing about speaker pelosi and has raised stakes about the 25then amenand whether congress should talk about t fitness of the president to serve. what is she up before the 2020 campaign ends? susan: it's not unreasonable to look at questions of suck ceaseon but it looks -- successon. speaker pelosion -- pelosi said it wasn't directed at trump but indicated it was motivated by trum and has long expressed concerns about the fitness of his office and whether the drugs he is takingo treat covid-19 might be affecting his judgment

the white house did not make this public. it came through the reporting of a journalist but after that, the president traveled to his golf club in bedminster now here is the tick tock. here are the facts as i know them the president flew to bedminster not wearing a mask and went to a fundraiser, did not wear a mask, returned and did not wear a mask all after learning that hope hicks had tested positive for the virus. in addition, the president had been around hope hicks during all of that time the cdc guidelines would say that if you are around someone who has tested positive, that you should -- the guidelines are clear that you should isolate for a period of days before you receive multiple coronavirus tests that are negative. instead, it is our reporting that the president went to bedminster, attended the fundraiser, greeted those who were participating in the fundraiser, and did -- here is some pictures from washington yesterday and was not waearing a mask along the way there is an attempt to get a list of people who were

white house did not disclose anything related to coronavirus in the white house. but then around 8:00 bloomberg news broke the news that hope hicks had tested positive for coronavirus. cnn quickly confirmed that. subsequently the president went on the hannity show and said did he not know if he had coronavirus. he was waiting for his test to come back. then after midnight just before 1:00 in the morning he tweeted out that he and the first lady had both tested positive for coronavirus and were beginning the quarantine process and that started the chain of events that we've seen unfold today. that includes vice president pence and karen pence saying they have tested negative. same with treasury secretary mnuchin and same with joe biden the nominee announcing that he had tested negative for coronavirus and now we wait to follow the course of the president's illness and of course we hope he does not get anything worse than the mild symptoms that aides say he's suffering right now. >> that is exactly right. it is really important to see that timeline in full and it wi

it seemed like a white house press conference. the sort of political press conference we are accustomed to where there are more questions than answers and lots of no comments. and that is very troubling. the public should see a medical press conference where every detail is shared. at one point, dr. conley was asked, how high was the president's fever when he had a fever. and the answer was, i'd rather not give any specific numbers. it doesn't matter what he'd rather do. the american people need to have those numbers. the american people need to be given all this information as transparently and accurately as possible. so i thought this was a disturbing press conference by the president's medical team that ended up with a lot of questions. and we need to continue to show skepticism. here's the big thing, fred. when trump was on with sean hannity thursday night, he acted like this was no big deal. he downplayed hope hicks' diagnosis. he said he was going to get a test and see what happens. if, in fact, he knew he had been diagnosed

>> it's white privilege. it's ignorance, but it's expected coming from this white house. trump talks about his funding for historically black colleges, but what he doesn't tell people where he said no one can teach diversity inclusion training and race specific policies will jeopardize your federal funding. i read an article today that puts hbcu funding in jeopardy because they teach a robust and thorough history of this country, including slavery, including our fight to be a more perfect union. he would stop funding to hbcus because they teach that. jared kushner -- first of all, black people are not complaining. they're articulating the systemic racism in this country. they're advocating for lpolicin reform because unarmed black people are being killed by the police. this whole thought that the president wants successful black people more than black people is consistent ignorance coming out of the white house. >> congressman, i appreciate your time, thank you. >> thank you. >>> a minnesota state senator loses his father-in-law to coronavirus, a virus his father-in-law t

house as a white house reporter as has dana. we've seen pictures of people in hazmat suits scrubbing down the public spaces inside the white house. that's the situation. the white house itself is a coronavirus hot spot. my god, david, look at that picture. look at this. this is the white house in the united states of america in and this is the building that the president walked into last night without a mask. and he thinks that's strength? >> he thinks that's strength. he thinks he's the terminator. i mean, that's the bending of the arc in this mythic way, because the cold political reality is that he's up -- he's losing a campaign against someone who he piller rated joe biden for, quote unquote, spending time in his basement, and he ends up in the hospital with the coronavirus when his handling of the virus is very much issue number one in this campaign. so staying in the hospital had to be a nonstarter. and as sanjay has said over the past 12 to 24 hours to 48 hours, he does have a medical team led by his doctor who seems to b

the white house is not very safe right now, as a place to work. what do you make of the treatments the president has been getting? we know with this virus, there could still be quite difficult days ahead. absolutely. so he first got the regeneron monoclonal antibody therapy, which is not even fda approved, not even for emergencies. that synthetic antibody is a little bit aggressive, but understandable as a vip, but at the same time the dexamethasone that he got is very worrisome, because the who actually advises against dexamethasone for anyone with mild illness, it's only for serious and critical because it actually increases viral replication and suppresses your immunity unless you're in a very critical state. so in certain ways, the fact that they used that drug, granted he was on oxygen, is an extreme measure, and he's not entirely well yet, because this virus has a very see—saw kind of trajectory, and we know from the uk recovery trial that one in four people who need oxygen still die down the road in 28 days, so he's not out of the woods y

white house medical unit. not answering some very specific questions about when the president tested negative last to covid-19. that was apparently a question he did not want to answer towards the end of that briefing. he also said he does not have the information of the viral load, the indicator as to whether or not it is safe for the president to be out again and be in the company of others. had ed he did emphasize that the president was not treated by using hydroxychloroquine. that is of course something president trump had personally advocated for earlier on in the pandemic. lots of angles to this news conference that we heard there. all of this obviously preceded by the fact that the president himself tweeted out a short while ago that he would be discharged at 6:30, raising all kinds of questions about the medical care he was given, the doctors that were involved in it, and now him returning to the white house and what that means for this country. joining me now are nbc's cara lee who's at the walter ree

the white house physician, dr. sean conley, said the president has received an infusion of an experimental therapy called polyclonal antibody under compassionate use. he said the president is fatigued but in good spirits. earlier in the day, white house chief of staff, mark meadows, tried to reassure the public, saying the president was in contact with staff and working. >> we've talked a number of times this morning. i got the five or six things that he had tasked me to do, like i do every single morning. >> reporter: the white house is now in crisis mode. >> we fully expect that as this virus continues to go on, other people in the white house will certainly have a positive test result. >> reporter: vice president mike pence tested negative, and sources say he is working from his home at the u.s. naval observatory today. his doctor said there is no need for him to quarantine. white house medical staff are trying to find anyone who may have had contact with the president after a whirlwind week of events that took

we have never seen one at the white house before. this goes to show that when you have these gatherings, where you do not have social distancing, where people are not wearing face coverings, and you have a false sense of security based on testing, that can be a recipe for disaster in this era. vonnie: could joe biden still test positive from that event? i think it is becoming increasingly unlikely when we look at the way they have investigated it. remember, it is not fleeting contact that gets you this transmission. you need to be within six feet and they determined he was never within that radius. it is not out of the realm of possibility, but ice expect -- but i suspect he probably did not contract it. if he was not significantly exposed. and by that event, i meant the debate. scholar at the bloomberg school of public health, thank you for joining us today. ♪ so you're a small business, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? you don't, you bounce forward, with serious and r

that people who we re the white house. that people who were closest to president trump, kelly mcinerney, his body man, his personal assessment another close aide hope hicks several senators who we re aide hope hicks several senators who were in his debate team and other people who are close to him in last few days of all tested positive. the numbers appear to be growing at least two other deputies have all tested positive. it speaks to how the white house is handled this cavalier attitude to massacring and social distancing. it begins to show how serious this might be. those particles about covid—19 safety are now again being scrutinised in the white house and damage control to try and make sure that they don't pressure that they didn't take this seriously enough. is there a danger of course, you've got a country that you're saying to abide by certain protocols, social distancing, it's much more difficult now to try and say that to a country these are the regulations, these are the guidelines, this is what you should try

even as the white house itself remains a hot spot. 18 people tied to the white house or to the campaign have tested positive so far. with top aide stephen miller the most recent addition to the list. and today the white house told staff that, quote, all contact tracing was completed for positive covid-19 cases identified at the white house. while trump was behind closed doors today, we did hear from his twitter account, which unleashed a deluge of erratic tweets, more than 50, in the early morning hours alone. but as we know, trump is not the only one who runs his twitter feed, so is he even sending them out? i don't know. meanwhile, trump has yet to show any empathy, none, for people who don't have the resources that he has. in a series of tweets last night, he abruptly called off talks with capitol hill on a coronavirus leaf package. then demanded congress approve the relief anyway and said he'd approve the funding for some industries hours later. now, you would think that trump would recognize his last political lifeline as this rollicking disaster goes down the drain, especially aft

john roberts at the white house. thanks. more on this coming up just ahead with the national press secretary for the trump campaign hogan gidley joins us live at 9:30 a.m. eastern time. lots to talk to him about. >> trace: former vice president joe biden is back on the campaign trail today heading to pennsylvania fresh off the town hall appearance last night. that is getting some criticism. mark meredith live for us in gettysburg with the biden campaign. what does biden hope to focus on with voters in pennsylvania today? >> trace, good morning. a campaign source says the former vice president will focus his message today on unity getting to the location of one of the most bloody battles of the civil war and talk about bringing the country together. he will be here in the battleground state later today after making a trip to another battleground state. he was in florida on monday. biden making multiple stops include in miami's little havana and little haiti neighborhoods and got a chance to meet with voters one-on-one. also a

the white house has not updated us on this. and so, when you say the president's in quarantine, i want to make sure our viewers know, we're not really sure what that quarantine is going to look like, yet. because medical experts have said you should quarantine if you just did the bare minimum of what we already know has happened, come into contact with somebody who's tested positive. we've already crossed that bar when it comes to president trump but he is saying they are quarantining until they get a test result back. whether he gets a negative result, if he is going to continue with a roundtable and rally tomorrow, that's still to be determined. >> 31 days when people wake up in the morning, until election day, john. 14 days, he's going to quarantine. and then, he's only going to have 14 more days to campaign? >> well, look. i wouldn't bet on him quarantining, if he gets a negative test result. but i think the bigger question, right now, is why we haven't gotten the test result from the president. it is not plausible, more th

meanwhile, white house physician dr. sean conley refused monday to answer questions from reporters about the health of trump's lungs. >> busy of pneumonia or any inflammation in his onset all? >> we have done routine imaging. i'm not at liberty to discuss. clubs's you are actively not telling us what the lung scans show? rules andre hippa restrictions that restrict me in sharing certain things for his safety and his own health. amy: dr. conley also refused to disclose the last time the president tested negative for the virus. >> can you tell us please on testing, can you tell us when he had his last negative test? was it thursday? do you remember when he had his last negative test? >> i don't want to go backwards. amy: this comes as the number of coronavirus cases emanating from the white house continue to grow. on monday, trump's press secretary kayleigh mcenany said she had tested positive, along with two of her press deputies, bringing the number of people in trump's circle with covid to well over a dozen. for more, w

caitlin collins is at the white house. look, the web keeps growing, but we still have nody f dy fintive count and the krz is not involved in contact tracing. >> reporter: we're seeing how wide tread this is in the west wing alone. we were talking about how there are now four press staffers in that office that tested positive for coronavirus, in addition to the press secretary, who we found out tested positive yesterday. and now we have learned that today steven miller has tested positive as well. and in a statement to cnn. he said over the last five days he had been working remotely. he said today i tested positive for covid-19 and am in quarantine. that is after he was in direct contact with hope hicks after she tested positive, in addition to the president and several others who tested positive. just to show you how much we don't know about coronavirus, a few months ago, steven miller's wife, who is a top aide to the vice president, also tested positive for coronavirus and had it. of course, clearly steven miller did not

and now your white house, your white house is in free-fall. people are pissed off that they have been lied to inside the white house. they're angry at mark meadows for acting like a total idiot. they're angry at mark meadows for lying through his teeth at every single day about how bad this is. they're angry at mark meadows, they're angry at donald trump, they're angry at you for continuing to cover up for a man who has continued to lie to the american people. he doesn't trust the american people. you don't trust the american people. so please, don't say you do. just say you screwed up, you had a super spreader event, you acted like you're from medieval times. you acted like the age of enlightenment never happened. the age of reason never happened. the advancement of science never happened. the advancement of medicine never happened. you acted also, mike, like the american people couldn't be trusted with the truth. that's what the cigarette companies thought in the 1950s i'm sure. i'm sure that's what a lot of corporations thought when they we

and we need to make sure that we win this white house. frankly, i think it cwould be a privilege and it would be a luxury for us to be talking about what we would lobby the next democratic and how we would push the next democratic administration. but in terms of my role, i believe that that has been my role and my role is consistent in making sure that we push the democratic party to have a larger vision for our future, to listen to the needs of the working class of people who are living paycheck to paycheck, young people, people of color because i believe that is the base of the democratic party, and that is who we are, you know, it is our job to make sure that we are serving all peep in the united stat the -- people in the united states and particularly our base. it is my job to push the democratic party? absolutely. that has been my job -- that has been a part of my role since i have been elected. >> it has. okay. understanding your reluctance to count chickens before they are hatched, it remains a competitive election, and absolutely

white house. the respiratory symptoms of coronavirus, those are the worst ones. there is also... if you were to have any of those competitions of coronavirus, they can easily treat him at walter reed. what do you make of the fact, though, that he has got in there so quickly? again, this is the president of the united states. if he sneezed wrong, he really should be observed. this is the leader of the free world. i would absolutely bring him to the hospital and have him in the hospital and have him in the hospital rather than the white house. that is just... hospital rather than the white house. that isjust... this is a very deadly disease and a disease process, so, yeah, he should be monitored in a proper institution. this is a hospital which is fairly close to the white house, a ten minute flight white house, a ten minute flight or so by helicopter, and it has treated former presidents in the past. what can you tell us about it? and what kind of facility and care he will be getting there? most l

tonight, the white house in crisis mode. vice president mike pence stepping in for the president on a call with governors today. all of this just 24 hours after learning the president's top aide, hope hicks, who had traveled with the president all week, had tested positive. after learning she had the virus, the president was back out and traveling for a fundraiser. new questions tonight about why that happened. and new jersey's governor now urging people at that fundraiser to get you can which had. mod the immediate concern this