and so that's why we have to demand that we hear from the president's doctors, that we get more information to know whether we have to be in a situation to think about alternatives. >> senator chris murphy, thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> thanks, jim. >> and thanks to all of you for being with us today. obviously a very consequential one. we will be on this around the clock. we'll see you back here on monday. i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto. >> "newsroom" with john king starts right now. >> hello, everybody. i'm john king in washington. thanks so much for sharing this stunning day with us. the president of the united states is in quarantine, infected with the coronavirus. the first lady infected, too, and at least one of the president's most senior aides. we learned this overnight, and we are digesting it now 32 days before election day. the questions are many about the operations of the government and the impact on the campaign. the white house doctor says the president and the first lady are well and will remain at home during their convalescence. a white house official telling

us the president is experiencing mild symptoms, something echoed just moments ago by the white house chief of staff. >> the president and the first lady tested positive for covid-19. they remain in good spirits. the president does have mild symptoms. >> the chief of staff also there saying don't be surprised if there are more positives in the west wing and there is now a massive contact tracing operation under way. top west wing aides and cabinet members who have been in close contact with the president and first lady and hope hicks and top trump campaign officials, members of congress, secret service, military aides and more. the vice president, mike pence, reports a negative test this morning. democrat joe biden is also getting tested this morning. remember, he was on a debate stage with the president tuesday night, and it is quite possible the president was already infected and perhaps contagious then. the the former vice president mr. biden scheduled to campaign

in grand rapids, michigan later today. world leaders are sending messages of support to the president and to the first lady. global markets are tumbling. it is no secret that the president for months has ignored his own team's coronavirus safety guidelines, mocking mask use and insisting on holding crowded political rallies. his debate prep sessions early this week were no exception. >> no one was wearing masks in the room when we were prepping the president during that period of time. >> the president revealed his diagnosis on twitter shortly before is being a.m., hours after it had been report that had his top aide hicks had tested positive. hicks traveled to minnesota with the president on wednesday. thursday morning she tested positive. yet hours later the president was on air force one headed to new jersey for a fund-raiser, that ignores white house guidelines that recommend quarantine after potential exposure. again, the timing here only adds to the crisis atmosphere. the public's get welles and

words of support from leading republicans masks public worries that the at the present time testing positive is a damning fact of his miss management and coronavirus statistics right now are headed in the wrong direction. cases are climbing in half the country. the daily new case number on thursday, 43,000 plus new infections. the president of the united states now part of the data he repeatedly tells you to ignore. >> i just want to say that the end of the pandemic is in sight and next year will be one of the greatest years in the history our country. >> let's get straight to cnn medical correspondent, chief medical correspondent dr. sgupt a. sanjay, it's just stunning news. the president of the united states now in quarantine. the white house doctor use the term convalescence. there are a lot of things we don't know. from what we do know so facts and circumstances what's the biggest takeaway? >> well, we know now it wasn't

in the official summary that the president does have mild symptoms, and that is -- that is important, you know. one of the reasons is that it gives some indication of, you know, how serious this may be, and as you pointed out and as mark meadows correctly pointed out staitivitically the odds are very much on the president's side. you know, if you look overall because of his age, because of his pre-existing conditions, he is at increased risk. he still has a greater than 90%, 95% chance of doing fine with this and coming through this particular illness. now, i think the idea of what to do about it if the president starts to become worse. that's god to be a decision point that i'm sure the doctors and medical teams are considering now. if he starts to have trouble with breathing or oxygenation, what are the triggers for those sorts of things and how long should this isolation last? as you know typically, john, 14 days, but i think that those are some of the questions i'm sure

swirling around. john, you know that in the days before someone becomes symptomatic, that is when they are most contagious. just remember that. so if the president became symptomatic on thursday, go back two or three days, that's probably the time when someone is the most symptomatic. if hope hicks became symptomatic on wednesday and go back to sunday now, you can get an idea of how laborious this contact tracing process will be, and that's ongoing, john. >> and so we're trying to get information, and we need to piece together much more of the timeline you just said. dr. scott atlas, a member of the president's coronavirus task force, telling fox news earlier today, he says there's absolutely zero reap to panic. he says it's no surprise that people get the infection even with precautions. i anticipate a full and complete recovery back to normal and that he'll be back on the road and in full swing. let's hope that dr. atlas is right about the president. to the challenge here, we don't know, people here in the news,

hope hicks tests positive and hours later the president tests positive but we don't know that. the president was doing debate president bush in a room with a bunch of people. has routinely discarded masks. he's met with the vice president and his cabinet members and supreme court nominee amy coney barrett and the treasury secretary, all tested negative this morning but explain how important that test today or yesterday might not matter. how long do these officials have to keep checking to make sure? >> yeah. no, this is a very fundamental point, so if you've had contact, if you've been in close contact with someone with code of. typically unmasked within six feet for longer than 15 minutes, that's the sort of general guidelines. if you've had that kind of contact you need to quarantine yourself. right, so that people know that, so that's -- regardless of what

a test may show because you could be testing negative for several days after that exposure and then all of a sudden day five, day six and day 14, you can suddenly test positive. that's when you have to go into quarantine. the testing is important. i don't want to minimize the risk of testing it, but it's not a get out of the quarantine free sort of card here because you have to assume that you've had this exposure and there's a certain incubation time, that's, you know, up to 14 days, that's going to be critical. that's going to be close to these contacts. if you're on a helicopter with people, if you're on a closed room or small room like governor christie was describing and nobody masked, smaller room in the white house, may not have great ventilation, that's a real concern and those people really need to be monitored and testing is great, again, but it doesn't mean that you -- that you shouldn't be quarantined at this point. >> and, again, it's important for us to take the time to do the reporting, to try to address

many of the questions that we have about the timeline and who may have given the infection to whom. that's critical. but we do know, we do know for months that the president and many around him have brushed aside the white house task force rules about whether you should be in large groups. we even have some sri. we even saw at the debate the other night that the biden team was on one side of the haul all wearing masks and on the right side of the screen that's a woman from the cleveland clinic from a lab coat coming up and approaching members of the trump team asking them if they would like a mask and you had members of the president's party sitting there without afc mask and the biden team was wearing masks, and then after this debate, the president's son went on television with sean hannity. let's listen to a little bit of that. the. >> president trump's son donald trump jr. you know -- >> we've been tested.

don't throw us in the gulag for being really close. >> he says i was tested. i want to make it clear so i don't get thrown in the gulag, just the dismissive way about this, the dismissive way about this. again, if he was tested that day, let hope his test tomorrow, next week and forever are negative, but they throw that word out all the time. they say this at the white house all the tile. the most tested man in america, therefore, he can be in close contact with people. it doesn't work that way, right? >> no, it does not work that way. first all, testing doesn't prevent you from getting infected. unfortunately, it's testing, as we look at the white house protocols it's really the only covid security because they are not focusing on physical distancing or wearing masks, obviously. the testing is just going to tell you after the fact. you know, they are very jioke about it, you know, the idea that somebody could test negative in the morning and then still test positive later on that same day, having been a

source of significant spread of the virus throughout that entire day or maybe even before that. you could even be contagious, again, the few days before you start to develop symptoms, so it's really concerning, you know, in an indoor environment like that sitting next to somebody for a long time and not wearing a mask. that's the exact concern. if you look at the diagram of the hottest spot and what is going tonight riskiest it's just that, indoors, unmasked, long duration and that's exactly what's going on there. >> grateful for the time and insights. let's continue this important conversation with seung min kim of the "the washington post." let me start with you about what we don't know and how we try to get it and i was struck especially when mark meadows, the chief of staff, came out with a serious tone he was taking, we're all in this fight together. this reminds us this virus can get to anybody. that is not the tone the

president has taken in recent weeks and indeed months. the question now and one of the reasons that there are so many questions is that this is a white house that's not known for its transparency, what is missing from the accounts that they have given us so far? >>ia. john, you mentioned the tone. the tone has been set by the president. the tone for how to respond to this coronavirus has been set from the top from the president. he has wanted to put a positive spin on this from the very beginning. he said i wanted to downplay this, and that's also what we're seeing as the president has been diagnosed with this virus so they are continuing to downplay this. they are saying that everything is moving full steam ahead, that the president is doing well and that he only has mild symptoms and he's feeling fine and will continue to carry out prospects of his office. we don't know what symptoms he has, the mild symptoms they are talking about, haven't outlined what they were, we still don't know when exactly the president contracted this virus and don't know how many people in the white house who have been

infected and when it comes to transparency we didn't find out this information originally from the white house. we found out about hope hicks after a media reported that she had tested positive. even some people within the white house didn't know until the media report it had so there's a lot of room to grow when this comes to transparents from this administration or white house. there are a lot of questions that still need to be answers, especially about the president's health and the continuity of government. we still need to learn exactly what's happening behind closed doors so the american people can have confidence this close to an election in what their government is doing and in what the government is telling them about the virus. >> and to that point, the president of the united states is now in quarantine. this is the letter the doctor released through the press secretary and used the term convalescence. this was the first hint that we had that the president had symptoms, using the word convalescence, not just in the quarantine out of precaution, but it was mark meadows came out to the white house driveway, you know, for a few minutes and good for him for giving some update on the president's condition but

it's the president's doctor. do we have any indication that the white house is willing to put the president's doctor forward to walk us through what do we mean my mild symptoms and what do we know about how and when the president might have contracted this? how do they explain, for example, why the president got on that helicopter and went to new jersey yesterday after being told hope hicks had tested positive? >> there's no indication about what more information, what more administration officials will be briefing the media and the public on the latest situation at the white house. the chief of staff did indication that he would be giving or others would be giving more updates but not just from the president's doctor yet. you're making so many good points. the biggest question mark is why was the president allowed to go to bedminster around the time that meadows himself confirmed that several white house officials learned about hope hicks' diagnosis? meadows says that even the

reason why some officials were pulled off the trip but question is why wasn't the trip cancelled all together because we don't know the extent of the spread of the white house. we don't know when the president contracted it and from whom, and also this has significant implications for the other end of pennsylvania avenue. the there is constant communication, constant movement even right now in the time of coronavirus between the white house and capitol hill. you know that secretary mnuchin, chief of staff mark meadows have been speaking and communicating with speaker pelosi over these stalled on again and off again coronavirus and really obviously judge amy coney barrett who has tested negative this morning for the virus. her and top white house officials, top white house officials have met with some three dozen senators already on capitol hill this week so there's a lot of questions that need to be answers in the coming hours and days. >> and as you try to put thissing to. chris christie was on abc this morning, the former governor of new jersey and part of the debate prep and he said during

the debate president bush everybody is in a room, in close quarters and nobody was wearing a mask and we do have pictures of hope hicks going on air force one. show went out first to marine one at the white house and then was on air force one with the president. we are told it was later that night at the rally she began to feel symptoms, felt achy and the like. i've been inside marine one and i can show you pictures here from the obama administration about how close the quarters are, a white house photo released back during the obama days. you can see it there. you see how closely packed that is. that's president obama with his top aide valerie jarrett and chief of staff rahm emanuel and illinois congressman and senator on the helicopter there. we show you that just to show you the close quarters. the white house has a lot still to fill in in terms of how many people were around the president. what is the contact tracing operation? they say it's under way but we don't have many details but the white house has told people if you're among those people

telecommuting, telework is now back in. can you work from home if you believe you were in contact. >> yeah. the white house has a pretty big task on its hands. they need to contact trace and potentially dozens or hundreds of people not only with the president and the inner circles and in close proximity to hope hicks. they have a large number of people unlike his rival and unlike what public health guidelines say. you should not be going into crowds and holding massive events the way the president is doing so they need to contact a lot of the people who have been in contact with the president. we know the president and white house officials have not been wearing masks and even the idea getting your temperature checked, that was in place earlier in the spring. i would go into the white house and getting my temperature check. that doesn't happen anymore so they have relaxed their standards and guidelines and they have made it seem like this virus is just going away and disappearing and it's not something that they need to take control of and now we see it's inticketed the oval office.

the white house has a lot of work to do to get a sense of how widespread this is. we did see chief of staff mark meadows speaking without a mask so there's a lot of work to do to follow their own guidelines and this has hit home that if they can't protect the chief -- the commander in chief, if they can't protect his closest advisers, how are they going to be able to message to the american people that this is all under control and that the president is doing a good job, so they have a pretty big public relations task and a pretty big public health task and it seems like they are pedaling upstream on that right now. >> it's a difficult challenge for them because we certainly wish the president a speedy recovery, the first lady as well and hope hicks, but the president's behavior in recent days and weeks has been directly contrary to the advice given to him by his own white house coronavirus task force. appreciating reporting and at insights. when we come back, an inside look at how a white house physician deals with a president who is ill. first though the house speaker

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so how does the white house handle a crisis that involves the president himself? with me now two people who worked in the west wing, former president adviser david gergen and former white house physician dr. william lang. dr. lap, i want to begin with you because i want to understand and i think viewers around the world would like to know what are the protocols in the white house? you have a president and his chief of staff says he has mild symptoms. he is 74 years ed a. he is overweight and has a history of some mild heart reason to believe based on what we know. we do note president is vigorous, that he won't be fine, but how do you draw the line as the white house physician of can we handle this in the house or should we get the president somewhere elsewhere he has better care? >> oh, well, first thing is we treat the president as a patient. that's one of the first things we teach new white house docs coming in is you've got to keep track of what you're doing. you're taking care of a person so how do you take care of the president as a person? you apply the same rules and same medical guidelines you apply to anybody else, but, of

course, he is the president so you have to start thinking about where is the best place to take care of him and what do you need to do to take care of him most effectively and efficiently? remember, you can bring lots and lots of equipment, if you ever needed it, not to say that we do need it or that we expect we need it but you can bring the equipment and the personnel you need to the white house, so the question of is when would you go to the next level of care, which would be to walter reed, would be if you feel like you need more support that is just safer done in a medical environment. that's something that with this disease it doesn't happen at a moment's notice. it's something that would evolve and we'll be able to deal with that going forward. it's not something -- we always have to think about what is the next step but something we could evolve into it if needed. >> david engineeringen, four presidents have called on you in times of crisis. 3 it days from the election, the defining issue in the campaign

is the coronavirus pandemic and we learned over the night the president of the united states who has dismissed the seriousness of this pandemic, morkd mask use as recently as the debate tuesday night has covid-19. what would your advice be to the president at this moment about how to handle this? >> remember history. we're 70 years, john, there's been an overwhelming focus in the white house when a president gets sick or is shot to find the best physicians in the country to bring those people to the white house and to make sure that the president gets the best analysis available and then to be transparent. when i had president eisenhower had heart attacks, got wonderful physicians in and they talked publicly to the press in huge detail, so much so that eisenhower was quite uncomfortable with it and hindon johnson had heart problems and did it well. when ronald reagan got shot the best physicians came out, they gave regular reports to the country. that calls people down and let's people adjust to the new

situation. it protects everybody's interests and protects the health of the president which we pray about now, but it also gives confidence to the country that we're not being bamboozled. give it to us straight and we can figure out and, of course, in the case of the pandemic, the white house has been anything but straight in recent months. >> dr. lang, what are the protocols? i assume the chief of staff or the president himself who makes the call about what to tell the american people. is there a playbook for the white house doctors that talks about the public's need to know, or is it you provide the care and then pass the information up the chain of command but they make the decisions about what we are told? >> well, that's right. hipaa applies to the president just like anybody else, but as mr. gergen said the -- the bad news doesn't get better with age, but people don't -- they don't know what to expect if you're not being open and that's why traditionally whenever there's been illness, even a

minor thing like a cold, an announcement is made, either the president or the medical team tells what's going on because as you a share that information people trust that you'll tell the whole story so that's one of the important things is communication and that's one of the things that has always been done in this administration and other administrations as it pertains to the actual health of the administration, you tell the story and people believe you're telling the story and people are more comfortable when they understand what's going on. >> david, what's your best guess on this day from your experience because this year has been a gut punch constantly. we keep learning new things. still trying to learn about this novel virus and 32 days from the election the president. united states has covid-19. he's behind in the election right now. we suspect the second debate which falls within the quarantine period will at least be postponed. what goes through your mind on this day when you think about the moment, where we are in the calendar and the consequential election just ahead? >> john, i think we don't quite

know where we are, and so much depends on how people respond publicly over the next couple of weeks. if the white house -- if the president and the white house come out and show some humility about this and to recognized, in fact, they could have done a better job, wouldn't be in all this contact tracing or coming down with the virus itself, but if they showed some humility i think it will go one way. if, on the other hand, what we see is a president within a few days bouncing into our living rooms by television and saying i'm the guy who beat covid, i'm just staying here for extra caution sake and i took it like a man and everybody else can do it and if he's defiant, in other words, i think it will go a very different way and i don't think the public will have much sympathy for him or his people. i think right now there is a natural amount of sympathy but let's see where this goes in the next six, seven days.

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welcome back. the democratic nominee joe biden tweeting well wishes to president trump and first lady melania trump saying he and jill biden are praying for them after the first couple tests positive for the coronavirus. biden was tested for the virus this morning and we're awaiting word of his results. the democratic presidential nominee was on stage with the president on tuesday night. neither one wearing a mask, you can see the pictures there though the two gentlemen were socially distanced. former vice president biden was supposed to be on the campaign trail in michigan. cnn's jessica dean is in grand rapids and joins us now. obviously a lot of questions, most of them directed to the white house but we're waiting. we're waiting to see how did joe biden's test turn out and will he be on the trail?

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president trump is in quarantine at the white house dispraying mild symptoms of the drives, his chief of staff tells us, the same president who has spent weeks and weeks downplaying the dangers of the virus to the american public

including in tuesday's night's debate with joe biden. >> i wear masks when needed, when needed. i warren masks. i don't wear a mask like him. every time you see him he has had a mask. >> masks make a big difference. his own head of the cdc said if everybody wore a mask and social distanced between now and january we'd probably save up to 100,000 lives, it matters, it matters. >> and they have also said the opposite. >> no serious person said the opposite. >> joining us to discuss is the editor for axios. let's start by looking forward. we don't know the full diagnosis and this will not only impact the wheels of government and we know on the books there was supposed to be a trump rally cancelled, one over the weekend cancelled and still on the books in arizona next week. he's obviously in quarantine and

a debate in two weeks. we don't know exactly and we do know this is a major disruption in american live and america's campaign. that's absolutely right and what we'll be watching for in the coming days, signs already, the white house very actively and preemptively testing out every person with a negative diagnose, mike pence, steve mnuchin negative today so there is clearly a desire and willingness to go forward with pence or surrogates if they can pull this off and that's a big question. you remember what happened in tulsa when the crowd fell far short of what the expectations had been. for president trump politically speaking the only thing worse not doing a rally is scheduling a rally and not wanting to come and the president getting the

virus might change people's thinking on that. what's going to happen now, very tight deadline for the supreme court nomination. republicans going forward with the hearings as scheduled. will democrats go along with that and there's a lot of questions both from a governance and campaign perspective how the next month proceeds. and we know the president for months has criticized restrictions put in place by governors who have kept the government closed and has mocked those who say people should wear a mask more often. wearing a mask as i approach people, i don't see it myself.

i don't agree with the statement that if every wears a mask that the thing is go away. a lot of people think that masks are not good. >> we don't know a lot and this president is surprised by the campaign and as president and on this day the incoming from a lot of republicans is they view this as disastrous, a time when he's trying to push this pandemic to the sidelines, trying to make it about the incumbent and having the president test for covid on the calendar is just horrible timing. 100% horrible timing because what he wanted to get away from is talking about the coronavirus, and it reminds me of 2008 when john mccain decided to step off the trial and it was

a politically loaded decision that ended up being a turning point. the circumstances are different here and there's a public health impact that you can't ignore, but it's a very similar trajectry. the president is no longer in expansion mode. he's trying to hold an electoral break even and many on his staff are concerned about his ability to do so. >> grateful for the reporting and the insights. we'll talk to you again soon. when we come back, the president is now a parish. we'll talk to a doctor on the front lines who knows what it's like to treat covid-19 patients. just between us, cleaning with a mop and bucket is such a hassle. well i switched to swiffer wet jet and it's awesome. it's an all-in-one that absorbs dirt and grime deep inside.

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a new coronavirus breaking news wrinkle today on the big news day. the utah governor confirms he has tested positive for coronavirus, the senator says says he will isolate himself. mike lee republican senator of utah announcing he tested positive for coronavirus. more now on the breaking news at the white house, president trump last night announcing he had tested positive for coronavirus. so, too, the first lady melania trump. the choief of staff saying they have mild symptoms. joining us is director of global health at new york presbyterian columbia medical center. so the president of the united states is 74 years old which puts him in a high risk group for covid-19, obese and triples the risk of hospitalization and we know that he does have moderate heart disease and incredibly vigorous person on the campaign trail and showing lots of energy.

if you were his doctor at this moment, what are one, two, and three coming to treating this? >> those are really important points and wort mentioning in addition to being older he is a man which is associated with a higher risk of bad outcomes of this. i don't know did the details on president's case and this is speculation but i have seen a lot of people in the 60s and 70s who have been very ill from this and died from this. if this were my patient, i would treat him no different than any other 74-year-old in the emergency room, we would have a discussion and think about the treatments that are possible and available. we know that right now there is no magic bullet for covid. we know that steroids are helpful for some patients depending on the severity of the illness and remdesivir may be helpful in certain patients. it would have to be a discussion between myself and the patient

looking at the severity of the system symptoms. >> all we have heard and waiting and hope there's more transparency, we hear from aides and the chief of staff said he has mild symptoms and he was sluggish. >> i had a bullet in 2014 and many of my symptoms were misrepresented and ultimately i think reported was incorrect, it is important to take all of this as speculative right now. we don't know what this means. we have to wish them well and hope they have access to the type of mode call care that every american does. i'm glad they have access to the testing that we all need and i hope it enlightens them to how

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hello to our viewers in the united states and around the world. thank you so much for sharing a very, very busy and important news day with us. the president of the united states is in quarantine infected with the coronavirus. the president has mild symptoms according to the white house choof of staff and the first lady tweeting she is experiencing mild covid-19 symptoms. the questions today are many about the operations of the united states government and about the impact on a presidential campaign one month from the finish line. several officials are working from home today and there is now a massive contact tracing operation under way inside the west wing and the highest levels of the united states government. the vice president reporting a negative test this morning. the president's daughter and son-in-law both soon yoenior ad

at the white house say they're negative. hope hicks is a positive and the west wing knew of her positive results before the president traveled to new jersey yesterday. republican senator mike lee who tested negative at the white house earlier this week today reports a positive test result, separately outside of washington the chairwoman of the national republican committee confirming she is positive for covid-19. the timing adds to the crisis atmosphere here. the public get wells and words of support of leading republicans, masking private worries that the president testing positive at this moment is a damning development in a campaign to defined by his mismanagement of the pandemic. cases are climbing in half the country, that's the red and orange across that map there. the daily new case number on thursday 43,000 new infections. the president is a part oth