this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." i'm michael holmes, appreciate your company. the u.s. president's medical team is cautiously optimistic but warns he is not out of the woods yet. donald trump now spending a second night at walter reed military hospital as the virus that defines his presidency also potentially endangers his life. earlier, trump posted this video. >> i'm starting to feel good.

you don't know over the next period of a few days. i guess that's the real test. we'll be seeing what happens over those next couple of days. >> now trump's doctor later said his patient made substantial progress since his diagnosis. the doctor adding that the president spent a lot of saturday conducting business. the white house releasing a couple of photographs depicting that. but a source told reporters earlier that the previous 24 hours were not so positive, that the president's vital signs were quote very concerning and that the next 48 hours will be critical. the "new york times" and associated press identifying that source as the white house chief of staff mark meadows. now later on saturday, meadows called in to one of his boss's favorite fox news shows and paint a painted a somewhat more optimistic picture. >> the doctor is exactly right. he's doing extremely well. in fact, i'm very, very

optimistic, based on the current results. and, as the doctor said, he's not out of the woods the next 48 hours or so, with the history of this virus, we know, can be tough. and, but he's made unbelievable improvements from yesterday morning when, i know, a number of us, the doctor and i, were very concerned. >> and now, turning to the treatment. doctors say the president is getting remdesivir for five days. a source close to the white house adding that trump definitely has had some supplemental oxygen, although the doctor dodged that question when asked about it more than once. >> has he ever been on supplemental oxygen? >> he, right now he is not on oxygen. >> i know you keep saying right now. but should we read into -- >> yesterday and today he has not been on oxygen. >> so he has not been on it during this covid treatment. >> he's not on oxygen right now.

>> now at that same briefing, dr. conley had some head spinning when he said trump was diagnose diagnosed 72 hours earlier and said he misspoke and it was day three. one adviser said the briefing was a fiasco. >> if you go out there wear ago white coat, you are a medical doctor, not a spin doctor, and what we saw today was just spin. >> meanwhile, another person in the president's orbit has tested positive. nicolas luna is one of trump's assistants and was frequently in close contact with him. now as far as the outbreak of positive covid tests among republicans this week goes, a seen your official in the trump administration telling cnn many likely can be traced back to the white house event last week where the president announced his latest supreme court pick. and those images there are now

becoming infamous. no social distancing. not everybody wore masks. in fact few did, several attendees have now tested positive. sarah westwood is live from walter reed medical center in bethesda. what is the latest? >> reporter: the latest, michael, comes from a them in owe that the president's doctor released this evening saying the president has made substantial progress since being diagnosed with covid-19 and that he's cautiously optimistic. we learned it that the president today received his second day, his second dose of remdesivir. he's on that five-day course of the anti-viral drug and he is fever-free today and not on supplemental oxygen. as you mentioned, whether the president has received supplemental oxygen was one of the points of confusion that came out of the briefing that we received from the president's doctors at walter reed earlier today. there was also confusion about

whether the president had serious symptoms before he came to walter reed and the timeline of his illness. in fact, the doctor was forced later to release a clarification about when the president started exhibiting symptoms and received the first positive test. and adding to that confusion, after the upbeat assessment around 11:00 this morning, a source told reporters that the president had very concerning symptoms before he was taken to walter reed. so the white house has been sort of in cleanup mode trying to project that the president feels fine. the president himself has contributed to that, posting video of himself at walter reed continuing to work. they're also awaiting the results of more tests of advisers. the white house medical unit is conducting contact tracing after the event in the rose garden.

at that event very little social distancing took place. nicolas luna tested positive today. that was reported out this evening. but we know that many others who had come into contact with the president, including his campaign manager, bill stepien, chris christie, kellyanne conway, and ron johnson have also tested positive. so the extent of this outbreak that sickened the president still isn't quite known, michael. >> man, it just keeps growing. sarah westwood there at walter reed, appreciate it, sarah. now a doctor joins me now from portland, oregon. what did you make from the news conference? confusing information and optimistic tone, even as reporters were getting more sobering information about the president's condition. what was your take from what you heard? >> it was a completely confusing

press conference with kind of incomplete and conflicting information and also frustratingly, a lot of evasion around some key questions, at least questions that i had as a medical professional. they kind of said he's not on oxygen now, but that sort of insinuated that he had been on oxygen. there was some mention of testing like doing serial daily ultra sounds. that was a puzzling thing when we hadn't heard of a chest x ray or cat scan which would be the more common test to diagnose early complications of covid disease, and then at the very end when the white house physician was asked about whether or not the president had started a course of steroids, which is kind of the next thing we would expect him to be treated with if he had pulmonary disease and required oxygen, that press conference abruptly ended. >> even in light of what his

doctors said in revised form, the timeline suggests it is entirely possible the president could have been mingling while infectious and perhaps even knowing he was. if so, what does that show? >> he almost certainly was mingling while he was infectious. i mean, if we count backwards, he started to have symptoms on thursday, it seems like. at least by, from thursday into friday. and since we know that typically, coronavirus symptoms begin four to five days into the disease, if you count backwards, it's likely that he had disease, and it most certainly was, was infectious at the top of that week, and so that takes us into, you know, the time of travel, the debate. many private meetings after the debate and fundraisers. and so it leaves open a, just a world of possibility for every single person who crossed his

path and also those who caught it at the same events and sort of went out from there and went along their, you know, on their business with many other contacts. >> is certainly smacks of recklessness. given the usual progression of the illness, what would you be looking for in the next few days? >> like was mentioned, this is actually the slow buildup. we don't expect much in the first week, and often we'll see patients early in the course of their disease and we'll say we're sending you home, not because you're out of the woods but because there's nothing to do for you right now because you have mild symptoms of the cold or flu, and we give everyone a warning that seven to ten days into the disease they could take an abrupt turn for the worse and to be, to be very cautious about that. and to return to the hospital if things should get severe. and of course we saw that with the british prime minister, boris johnson became precipitously ill about nine days into the disease, which is

classic for covid. >> yeah, and it can hit hard later on. we know from others, and you mentioned cardiogram and other tests that he's been given, from others who've recovered from initial refiinfection, there ca lasting impacts, could those things be a risk for the president? >> certainly, if he goes on having severe coronavirus disease, that can affect every organ in your body, and those patients who go on and are very sick and are in the hospital for a long period of time or require icu care, i mean, their illness course can go on for many, many weeks, even months. i mean, we're still learning about patients who, many, many months after their disease are still not recovered. but even patients with milder disease, this, this is not just like the flu. the friends i have who've had it, even though they stayed home and didn't have to go to the hospital, it really knocked them

down to the ground, and they described their bone-breaking fatigue. i've heard it compared to dengue and ebola, and people said it knocked me down like no other disease has had, and there was a long recovery. even for people who weren't critically ill. so i'm anticipating his course will go well into, you know, into the next month. >> yeah, we've done plenty of segments on long-haulers and so on. it is a real problem. just quickly before we go, there was a senior administration source who said the spread probably originated at that supreme court event or on capitol hill. if the origin was capitol hill, and we've seen senators test positive, too. what should happen on capitol hill? should there be a shutdown? should there be mass testing? what would be urgent in your view? >> yeah, i mean, it's so interesting for them to go from zero, not quite zero, but close to zero to 100, we need to do

common sense things. of course they should do world class contact tracing and quarantine, really investigating who exactly came into contact with who. but it would also help if people stopped going to close gatherings without wearing masks. d do the basic things that weren't even happening at the white house. that's a great place to start. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we already no several people who attended a white house event have tested positive for covid-19 and now more of the president's aides and advisers also testing positive. we'll try to understand how it all came to this when we come back. when i started cobra kai,

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welcome back. the u.s. president, donald trump, had been down playing the need to wear face covering for months, of course, before finally wearing one in front of the cameras. let me show you some video. this was back in july. of course face masks have long been known as one of the most effective ways to stop the spread of the coronavirus, but even then, the white house was trying to find a way around them. >> the president is the

most-tested man in america. he's tested more than anyone, multiple times a day. we believe he's acting appropriately. >> testing of course is not prevention. a few people have been wearing face masks at the white house, especially at the event that may have gotten u.s. president trump affected. >> i say it all the time. we're rounding the corner. >> infections and concern about them are ricochetting through the immense web of people surrounding the president. he announced his new supreme court nominee last weekend with health officials, bill barr standing by, now several from that event have tested positive. trump has shared space with vice president mike pence, who traveled on to campaign in pennsylvania. trump met with a gold star parent, military leaders, cabinet and congress members, journalists, too. >> no matter where we go, we're having crowds like i don't think

anybody's ever gotten before, ever. not even close. >> trump met with his chief of staff, mark meadows, who went to capitol hill to talk to mitch mcconnell who then along with pence met with that supreme court nominee, amy coney barrett. he talked with his treasury secretary steve mnuchin who went to see nancy pelosi. then trump sat down with hope hicks, kellyanne conway, rudy giuliani and chris christie. >> no one was wearing masks in the room when we prepping the president during that period of time. >> leaving for the debate, trump was surrounded by dozens of aides and family members, including ivanka and jared kushner, don jr. and kimberly guilfoyle with no signs of masks or social distancing. trump did not get close to chris wallace walla wallace or joe biden. >> and i have a mask right here. i put a mask on when i think i

need it. >> and then they took them off in violation of the rules and refused replacements, even as trump mocked his just a moment. >> he could be speaking2 200 fet away and shows up with the biggest mask i've ever seen. >> and on it went. trump and his entourage cramming into marine one, trump talking with reporters, holding a large outdoor rally and attending a fundraiser. >> 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 of our country. >> multiply it out and the president has clearly had first or second hand contact with thousands of people. that of course doesn't mean that they will all get the virus, but it completely shatters his long claim that it could never penetrate his inner circle. tom foreman, chi cnn, washingto. max boot is a senior fellow at the council on foreign

relations and joins me now from new york. always good to he sao yosee you. trump seemed to base his whole reelection campaign on the pretense that the coronavirus is going to magically disappear, not even all the resources of the white house could keep him safe. how much greater is the danger to the rest of the country, unquote. and that is a key point politically, max. it lays bare the president's own playing down of the virus, and here we are. >> exactly right, michael. i mean, really, since the virus hit, president trump has been pretending that it's going to go away of its own accord. he said numerous times magically it will disappear. this summer he said it was down do embers. he said this september we're about to get a vaccine. he said on thursday before his diagnosis was announced that we were turning the corner. and i think the fact that he is

now in walter reed hospital because of the coronavirus is a very sharp indication that we are not turning a corner. the virus is not disappearing. in fact, we're seeing in many states across the country that it's actually getting worse. and a lot of that reason is due to the fact that president trump has not treated the virus with the gravity and seriousness that it deserves. his administration has not done enough to stop the spread of this disease, and unfortunately, now, he is one of the victims of the very disease that he has ignored. >> and they can't protect the president, what happens to the rest of us. it does seem stunning when we talk about the cavalier attitude, stunning that the president may have knowingly gone around, mingling while infectious, depending on the timing. could have been fundraisers, perhaps even a rally, traveling on air force one, marine one. people in close contact. if that is in fact true, how

reckless was that? >> that is a high degree of recklessness. but he's shown a high degree of recklessness throughout this crisis. he has not done enough to address this pandemic. as a result of that, we have the greatest number of fatalities from covid-19 of any country in the world. more than 200,000. there is nothing inevitable about that having happened, and now we can't even get the straight story on when was the president infected, when did he know about it. there are so many conflicting stories from different people in the white house from the president's physician, to his chief of staff. it's very confusing. but that's really emblematic of the chaos and deceit that has characterized the white house reaction to the coronavirus from the start. i mean, remember, donald trump is on tape with bob woodward, talking about how he understood what a serious disease this was back at the beginning of the year, but that's directly opposite to what he's been telling the american people then

and now. >> yeah, exactly, knowing that it was airborne way back then. let's talk about joe biden. he's had a surge of campaign donations over the last couple weeks. he's still campaigning. mr. trump has of course lost, at least for a while, his favorite campaign tool, and that is in-person crowded rallies of adoring supporters. how has this diagnosis changed the campaign in your view? >> it's too early to say what the impact is going to be on the campaign, but i'm not sure there's going to be a huge impact, because the race has actually been very stable from a year. a year ago joe biden had a lead of eight points in the polls and right now he has a lead of about eight points in the polls. certainly, president trump did not reverse joe biden's trajectory with the

meltdown. it shines a harsh spotlight on the administration failure to control the coronavirus. and this is the last thing they want to be talking about in the last month of the campaign. the president wanted to conclude the campaign talking about the supreme court. instead, the only story anybody's focussed on is the coronavirus and the failure of the administration to contain it, of which donald trump is simply the latest victim of millions of americans. so i don't think that's a story that the trump administration wants to go to the polls on. so i very much doubt this is going to help the president. >> good point. i mean, it's interesting that biden removed negative ads while trump is hospitalized. interestingly, too, the trump campaign has not removedi its negative ads. purely politically, shouldn't the biden campaign not be full steam ahead? are the democrats playing enough

"hardball hard ball? >> he wants to show that he is somebody more committed to bringing people together and respecting his opponents than donald trump. can you imagine what would happen if it was joe biden who had the coronavirus? would donald trump suspend ads? no, he would probably attack joe biden for getting sick. just as four years ago he attacked hillary clinton for getting pneumonia, it's still right for joe biden not to imitate the gutter tactics that donald trump is known for, but i don't think he can take all the negative ads down until the election. at some point he needs to go full steam ahead. but i think for a few days to show respect for the president, that's the rate thiight thing t. >> as you were saying before we started. every day feels like a year. thank you, max. we'll take a quick break. when we come back on "cnn newsroom," how the president's

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trump spending his second night at doctor says mr. trump has made, quote, substantial progress but isn't out of the woods yet. the doctor says the president spent most of the afternoon conducting business. the white house sending out this picture earlier, one of a couple they released. it's been a frustrating couple of days, full of confusion and mixed messaging from an administration that does so much of that. done howard breaks down what we do know about the president's condition and what we do not. >> more than two days after we learned vee ra presidential tweet that president trump had contracted the coronavirus we still do not have clear, credible information about the president's condition or his prognosis. here at walter reed medical center today, a team of doctors led by white house physician sean conley, gave a press conference, but it was extremely evasive about specific details.

dr. conley did not say how high the president's fever had been, whether he had taken supplemental oxygen though we later reported he taken supplemental oxygen, or whether he experienced damage to his lungs. dr. conley confused the timeline of when the president had contracted the coronavirus, which is a full day before he traveled to bedminster and would have put at risk donors at his golf club. later, dr. conley clarified and said he meant to say that the diagnosis occurred on thursday, that he had misspoken. now this press conference was so unsubstantial that subsequently, a white house official came out on background, later identified by the "new york times" as white house chief of staff mark meadows, and said that the president's vital signs had been concerning on friday and that it was unclear exactly what the president's prognosis was.

the next 48 hours would be critical. we only got that news on cam frcamera from the president himself where he acknowledged he'd not been feeling well when he came to walter reed, said i'm starting to feel good, but also displayed a note of vulnerability and said we don't know what's going to happen. we're going to have to wait and see for the next 48 hours, and we in the news media are going to have to wait and see whether the physicians decide to provide any more candid information in detail as we move forward in the course of the president's treatment. john harwood, cnn, bethesda, maryland. coronavirus also putting president trump's plan for the supreme court under threat. three republican senators have now tested positive for covid-19, and that could potentially delay the confirmation of mr. trump's pick, judge amy coney barrett.

mitch mcconnell is trying to make it happen before the election and is pushing for all senators to come back by october 19. >> it's not just the white house that is grappling with kind of the magnitude of this moment. the president testing positive for coronavirus and now on capitol hill where three republican senators have also tested positive for coronavirus. it's obvious a public health issue, they're trying to figure out how those senators are going to deal with it. a third believes he's asymptomatic. but there's the question of what happens next on a massive issue, the nomination of amy coney barrett to join the supreme court. republicans have made clear, they're working on a compressed timetable and want her affirmed before the election e t. two of the three republican senators, thom tillis, mike lee, they're on the committee to move forward on that nomination. they will need to be present if

the committee is to vote on that nomination, likely starting the process on october 15th. the question is two fold, one, will they be okay in time, be able to come back in time to consider that nomination. the second one, i think this is what unsettles everybody more than anything else. is anybody else going to get sick? right now they don't have answers to those questions. while they've made very clear they want to move forward on the nomination, those answers could change that computation. phil mattingly, cnn, capitol hill. well, now that president trump and several others have tested positive for covid-19, the democratic nominee, joe biden, is going to get tested more often, that's what our sources are telling us. the nominee says he does not want to attack the president and first lady while they're ill, but that he would have handled the pandemic in a fundamentally different way. have a listen. >> for so long, washington left

our states, cities and transit agencies to bid against one another. if that's not the president's responsibility, what the hell, the heck is his responsibility? not my fault, very no responsibility. go to your mayor, your governor, your employer. it's unconscionable. >> alex saenz is following the campaign for us. >> reporter: joe biden is moving forward with his in-person campaigning and will be tested more regularly for coronavirus. this follows the news that president trump tested positive for coronavirus as well as several other people in his orbit. now the biden campaign says that they will release the results of the tests each it time he is tested. biden last received his last negative test results on friday and told reporters that while he wasn't tested on saturday he will be tested for coronavirus on sunday morning. now the biden campaign has always adhered to social distancing and safety standards at his campaign events.

officials believe that the way that they've structured these events have promoted health and safety not just for their candidates but also those involved in the events and the general public. biden is always wearing a mask when he is at these events, and tey have people at social distances from each other and him. and that those are protocols that they plan to move forward with as he continues to campaign in person. on monday, biden is heading to south florida, and on thursday, he will travel to arizona. his first visit to the battle ground state, and his running mate, kamala harris will be joining him. she is set to face off against mike pence in their first debate on wednesday. and we're learning there have been some changes to the way that debate will play out. the two candidates will be seated down for that debate. and originally were only slated to be seated seven feet apart. they will now be 12 feet apart from each other as this debate plays out. we've also learned out that masks will be required for

everyone in that debate hall except for the two candidates and moderators. this follows tuesday night's presidential debate when many on the trump side were not weari masks. but going forward, anyone in that debate hall must wear a mask, and if they fail to do so they will be asked to move. just one of the changes made due to the coronavirus pandemic. arlett saenz, cnn, delaware. the next debate will be between kamala harris and vice president mike pence. special coverage begins 7:00 p.m. wednesday on the u.s. east coast. if you're up late, that's midnight in london, 7:00 a.m. in hong kong. we are less than one month away from the election. cnn's jeff zeleny spoke to

voters in the key state of michigan. >> reporter: as denise hard way cast her ballot, she had president trump's health on her mind. >> i pray for him. i hope he recovers. i hope his family recovers. >> reporter: but she voted for joe biden, in part because of what she believes is the president's mishandling of the coronavirus for which he's now tested positive. >> he has been denying the whole science behind coronavirus. so i hope this is a wakeup call for him. and i hope that it changes his administration's thinking and that he realizes and understands the importance of this pandemic that we're in. >> reporter: in michigan, like many states, the election is already under way. with voters dropping off their ballots, even as the campaign is suddenly filled with fresh uncertainty. >> this is not a matter of politics. it's a bracing reminder to all of us that we have to take this virus seriously. >> reporter: at a stop in grand

rapids. biden also wished trump well, hours before the president was admitted to walter reed hospital, a remarkable development that put the pandemic back into the forefront in the final stretch of the campaign. >> i hope it turns out well for him, but he's kind of pressed the limits. >> reporter: tom has supported many candidates but friday voted for biden. did the president's handling of the coronavirus affect your vote this year? >> sure. i believe based on what i know that this has been poorly handled. and a lot of it could have been eliminated. i can't help but think that it's going to be a big issue in this election. people that know people that have died or been affected by it. >> reporter: four years ago, trump narrowly won michigan. the first republican candidate to carry the state since 1988. >> on november 3rd, michigan, you better vote for me.

i got you so many damn car plants. >> reporter: his strength here in detroit will determine if he does so again. >> i think he was dealt a bad hand. >> reporter: phillip cast his vote for trump and does not blame him for how he handled coronavirus. yet said he was surprised he tested positive. >> this is a very contagious disease. >> reporter: the covid-19 diagnosis is the latest bombshell of the 2020 campaign. but conversations with voters suggest it may not change many minds. >> i can't believe it took this long for him to get the virus. because he just didn't follow any of the rules, as far as staying safe. >> reporter: linda lorraine said the president should have taken the pandemic more seriously but noted that she always planned to vote for biden. dave ellis don was less

charitable toward trump. >> you should have worn a mask, dude, now you've paid the price. i don't want limb to die right now, but he should get a little bit of taste of his willingness to avoid what everybody tells him he's supposed to do and set a good example for this country. >> reporter: yet not all voters here are as harsh. >> nobody could have done anything different. blaming him for all the deaths is ridiculous. this is something we've never experienced before, ever. >> reporter: this michigan doctor, who asked to be identified only as steve said he is leaning toward trump, because of his economic policies. will coronavirus play a role into how you voite this fall? >> no. not at all. >> reporter: it's an open question. if the president's case of covid-19 changes the minds of any voters. coronavirus is front and center in this campaign conversation one month before election day. jeff zeleny, cnn, birmingham, michigan. president trump has not held

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welcome back. throughout history, many presidents and many of their aides and supporters have tried it lead presidential illnesses from the public and media. now since president trump's coronavirus diagnosises, reporters and the public have had to piece together confusing and contradicting information about mr. trump's condition. now there was a time when the media willingly went along when asked not to publish details about a president's decline in health. a historian spoke to cnn earlier about trust and transparency,

particularly with this president. >> when the presidential health was not revealed directly to the public, the rationale is the public will panic, we can't do it. i mean, looking at cleveland, having secret surgery for jaw. he is on a friend's yacht. wilson is in the third wave of the spanish flu, and he has a severe stroke. so they don't dell the public. that is not regarded well for wilson or his administration at the time. fdr, in the middle of world war ii is diagnosed by a young cardiologist with severe congestive heart failure. his own doctor says don't even tell fdr what you found, and he goes out, the personal doctor does, and says, it's just bronchitis, he'll be fine. democracy needs the people to know. and i think they can face the

truth. they have the wherewithal to do did. and then they can trust the people telling them what they're not supposed to know. >> you said trust in the president's word is critical and timetables are the spine of history. given that, i wonder what you make of what weave wei've seen e last two or three days. >> the conflicting timetables is a minuscule example that we've lost trust in the president's word. it's the most important thing the president has. the president is the one who has to tell us that we need to go do battle, why it's important to do so. fdr had to tell people why rationing was essential during world war ii so there would be an equitable distribution of scarce resources. if you don't believe even the timetable of what happened who knows what when is what history is always about. the fact that we've had a conflicting timetable raise the question of what it was president trump knew back in

february about the virus but didn't think the public should hair i hear it. it's the seam thi it's the same thing all over again. >> president trump's hospitalization has sparked comments from leaders all over the world and even from president xi. we begin with nic robertson. >> reporter: in that growing list of world leaders who have sent their support to president trump, there has for quite a while been one noticeable absence. that was president xi of china. he has now sent his extended sympathies to president trump, wishing him a speedy recovery. kim jong un says he sincerely hopes president trump will recover soon, make a good recovery. and prime minister boris johnson today called president trump's family. he said, he said that he believes that the president will be doing what his doctors tell him to do, and he said that

president trump has a resilient character and that he's sure he'll pull through well. but i think, when we look at it in balance, significant, that president xi held back his good words. >> i'm matthew chance in moscow, where vladimir putin has sent president trump a telegram wishing him and the first lady a speedy recovery. he said their inherent vitality, good spirits would help them cope. but it's more than that that the russian leader has depended on. unlike trump, putin has spent much of the pandemic in a virtual bubble, usually speaking to officials by videoconference, canceling all foreign trips and working mainly from his residence outside of moscow where disinfected tunnels spray visitors down have been installed. the growing club of world

leaders with covid-19 is one the russian president seems not to join. >> i'm matt rivers in mexico city where people woke up to headlines like this one, trump hospitalized, and it also shows a picture of trump on his way to walter reed wearing a mask. the newspaper expresses some surprise that he did so considering that it says as recently as the debate on tuesday he was making fun of joe biden for always wearing a mask. well wishes have poured in from across latin america, the president of mexico of course as well as the president of brazil. bolsanaro is trump supporter and says he wishes the president well and hopes this will not hurt his re-election campaign. both trump and bolsanaro have expressed skepticism over the threat posed by the coronavirus despite the fact both men have now had the coronavirus. >> one of the top football stars in the united states testing positive for coronavirus.

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well, we continue to see the impact of the ongoing global pandemic on the sports world. now the new england patriots quarterback cam newton testing positive for covid-19. that's according to the nfl network and espn. now, the 31-year-old who was most recently with the carolina panthers has played three games with new england so far this season. the patriots were scheduled to play the kansas city chiefs on sunday but the nfl deciding to postpone that game because players on both team tested positive. they hope to play on either monday or tootsz. now the patriots took to twitter on this issue but didn't name newton. they did confirm a player is self-isolating, and any players and staff that came in close contact had been tested for covid-19 and the results had come back negative. this is going to be the second game this weekend that's been postponed due to the coronavirus. on friday the league rescheduled

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>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm natalie allen live from atlanta. updating you on the major breaking news, u.s. president trump's medical team is cautiously optimistic, their words, but warns that he is not out of the woods yet. as he spends a second night in the hospital battling coronavirus. earlier he posted this video. >> i'm starting to feel good. you don't know over the next period of a few days i guess that's the real test, so i guess we'll be seeing what happens over those next couple of days.

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