hello, everybody. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. president trump says he's ready to leave coronavirus isolation and return to the campaign trail. and he has a reality tv plan to show you. it is safe for him to do so. the white house doctor gives the all-clear for campaigning, but he won't take questions from reporters, because the president won't let him. so we don't know the last time the president tested negative or how long he will be on powerful steroids that can mask symptoms. real medical information is being withheld, but the president will be back in the safe embrace of fox news tonight, to allow one of its doctors to run him through a televised checkup. last night on fox, he was short of breath sometimes and he coughed a bit, but he says a campaign rally return is imminent. >> i think i'm going to try

doing a rally on saturday night if we have enough time to put it together. but we want to do a rally in florida on saturday night. might come back and do one in pennsylvania the following night. >> the political imperative there is quite obvious. joe biden is winning 25 days out. but the medical judgment here is questionable, especially since the white house refuses to provide key treatment details. plus, the president is acting odd, even for him. one day he tweets an end to big stimulus talks. the next day he tweets, it's imperative to have big stimulus talks. the tweets republicans wish would stop include several attacking michigan's governor just after it was announced yesterday that law enforcement had foiled an alleged plot to kidnap and perhaps harm her. the president chose that moment to condemn the governor's response to the coronavirus and suggest she doesn't thank him enough. governor gretchen whitmer says the president's refusal to denounce militia groups and white supremacists fuels a

climate of hateful unrest. the democratic joe biden clearly grea agrees, saying, quote, there's a through-line to the president's dog whistles and tweets of hate and lawlessness to plots such as this one. the debate unfolding. the president planning to go on television tonight to tell you that he's okay as we face a very sad reality in the coronavirus numbers across the country. let's take a look at them. and the state trend line map getting worse. 26 states, more than half, more half of the states in orange and red. and look, it's everywhere again. it is everywhere again. 28 states, excuse me, 28 states right now heading in the wrong direction. 20 states holding steady, only two states, only two states trending down right now. if you look at these five states, a record number of cases. highest cases in the past week. wisconsin, north dakota, wyoming, utah, and oregon. some states now setting records again as we head into the colder season. here's the case timeline.

56,000 new infections yesterday. back on august 12th, 57,000. the highest day since back in the summer surge here. and we know the history, right? down to 17,000 right here. this was the moment in the country to stop it, to push it, to hold it. instead, up the summer surge, down a bit. now we are trending back up just as it gets colder across america. public health experts say that's a dangerous trend line. so is this. the hospital trend line. you don't want a roller coaster. now the hospitalizations in the united states starting to trend back up again as the coronavirus spreads especially in the midwest and the prairie states. and as you look right here, ten states reporting record hospitalizations in the case count in those states is up. s sad sadly, we've just doing this for months, 18 states, wait a couple of weeks, have more deaths. 18 states now reporting more

deaths and see it across the country, 19 holding steady. 14 deaths now, fewer than a week ago, but 17, trending up there. and in three states, the highest death total came right now, thursday. new deaths in the past week, three states setting records. this is a time we're supposed to have the virus under control, and instead, we are setting records. and this is sad. right now, 212 plus thousand deaths. the president's own center for disease control says we will pass 21,000 more americans, it projects, will die by the end of the month. you will not hear today a big white house plan to deal with this surge. you see the president on fox news to get a medical checkup that he says allows him to go back to the campaign trail. a lot of medical experts would like to see more details of the president's treatment. >> i think the first debate they -- excuse me, on the first debate, they oscillated the mic, but i will say this.

absentee is okay. because absentee ballots, excuse me. >> joining me now to does. mally ball, national political correspondent for time and astead herndon with the "new york times." molly ball, it's just this remarkable moment. the case count in the country is going up. you could hear the president there. let's hope he is recovering, but he is clearly still trying to get through the respiratory issues we know that come with the coronavirus. and yet, we're going to see him for the first time on live tv today, he says, on fox news tonight, not to have a plap dealing with this surge that we're seeing across america, for him to get a reality tv checkup so he can get back on the campaign trail. >> this is scary stuff. would you be around a friend of yours who was in this condition, who was audibly coughing, who wouldn't tell you whether they'd tested negative after being hospitalized for a disease that we know is deadly and has killed

hundreds of thousands of americans? so i think, you know, this really strikes a lot of people as dangerous. and while we all hope that the president is correct and has recovered from this fully and now has immunity and is safe to go out there, i think there's a lot of questions about what's really going on that we don't have answers to. and that's quite obvious. and if the president does want to go out there and return to the campaign trail, is anybody going to show up when it's so clear that it may not be safe to do so. >> and the president gets extraordinarily friendly treatment on fox news, but even last night, sean hannity asked a question that many of us would like to get an answer to. >> did you test negative? >> i'll tell you, i took this regeneron, it's phenomenal. >> have you had a test since your diagnosis a week ago? >> well, what we're doing,

probably the test will be tomorrow, the actual test. there's no reason to test all the time. but they found very little infection or virus. >> there seems to be absolutely no remorse, i don't know what the right word is, at this white house for the fact that the president's doctor puts out statements like this, that really don't tell us much. all the medical experts say, okay, that's some information, but here are the five or six important questions not answered here. and yet the president again will let a fox medical analysis say, you're great, sir, go back on the trail. >> that's right, john. we still have more questions than answers. you heard sean hannity right to pin the president down about has he tested negative? and it's not exactly clear when he will be taking another test. we don't know when he had his last negative test before testitest ing positive, which would help count down the period in which he would be contagious about. there's questions about the

condition of his lungs, about the course of treatment he was on. and we have a doctor who at one point last week acknowledged that he had been trying to offer some rosy assessment of how the president was doing. so we are dealing with an incomplete information from the white house and a very strong message from the president and his campaign that he wants to be back on the campaign trail. and exactly how that is going to work is unclear. >> but astead, you can get, as i said at the top, the political imperative more that. the president should be more transparent, the president should answer more questions about his treatment course and his medications and if he's completely off medications or still taking things like those powerful steroids that can mask your symptoms, the doctors tell us. but out on the trail right now, the clock is running. 25 days until election day, millions of americans have already voted. and fresh polling that shows that joe biden is leading in state the president must win. >> you see why the president want to get out there, because his situation, politically, is

looking rather dire. i mean, the best thing the president could have done for his re-election hopes this year would be to respond to the pandemic that voters had consistently said is their number one concern. instead, this white house has tried to make this election about everything other than joe biden and the pandemic. they have tried to make it about the supreme court, about race relations and protest and law and order. and now about his kind of masculinity, rejuvenating after the virus, but never the virus itself, never the administration's response. so what we're going to see today is not a plan on that front, not something to speaker to voters' concerns, which they consistently say is the top issue for them, it's going to be another one of the kind of shows they see from the white house which kind of dips its toe in the issue, but does not own the fact that he is the president now and folks are lookinging for this mirpadministration for a political response. what has happened at the white

house in the last week indicative of what people think the administration has done across the country, which is not take the virus seriously enough and led to its spread. >> yet, catherine lucey, astead is dead right. the president is tanking in the polls when the public is looking at his bafr. it is a cluster across west wing aides and white house officials and pooerm who were at those events. you would think the president would get his message and his team would get the mem. b messa message. look at his son yesterday at an indoor rally in the state of arizona which went through a horrible summer surge. this is flipping the bird at common sense and public health guidanc guidance. >> there is not a lot of evidence that they're going to change that either. you see don jr., i know mike

pence is back out for the president doing rallies. the president has made very clear that he wants to do them as well. and the president says he's beaten this thing, people shouldn't be worried, don't let the virus dominate you. but astead is right, the fact that he got a positive test, got infected and has been hospital i'd has refocused attention again back on the virus at the very moment when he was hoping to be making a closing argument about different issues. he wanted to close this out about the economy, about recovering, about bringing businesses back and schools back. he wanted to talk about the supreme court. he did not want the focus in the final days to be the virus, particularly his own neinfectio. >> and if you're joe biden, the sense is do no wrong. the coronavirus back front and center. but a question, kamala harris didn't want to answer in the debate the other night. the two of them together

yesterday. the question is, especially if amy coney barrett amy coney barrett gets confirmed to the supreme court, would the democrats then try, if they take back the senate and joe biden wins the white house, to expand the number of members on the supreme court. joe biden answering this way. >> you'll know my opinion on court packing when the election is over. i know it's a great question, and i don't blame you for asking. but you know the moment i answer that question. the headline in every one of your papers will be about that. other than focusing on what's happening now. >> what he said then just disgraceful. but what that means, really, is that they're going to do it. obviously, that means, 100%, that's what they're going to do. >> astead, does the vice president need a better answer to that question? >> it's kind of perplexing. this is a question that joe biden had previously answered and rejected, the idea of expanding the court. in this moment, democrats have

said, that's a good question, but we have to see what republicans do first. for joe biden and kamala harris take the explicit point of this being a distraction is one that they -- we know that the biden campaign's posture is they want to make this a referendum on trump and the coronavirus and that is what they are concerned on in the last two or three weeks. if they were to reject the question or answer in a more clear way, i don't necessarily see it being a super game changer in the way that maybe some things happened at the end of 2016 that they're worried about. this is driving the new cycle further and further. it's frankly odd to me they don't give a distract answer, given that joe biden has already answered this question in the past. >> he's made a conscious decision to strategy, we'll see if that's the best option. grateful for the reporting and insights today. interesting 25 days ahead. up next for us, startling new

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attorney general who was on "new day," talking about this case. >> there are multiple groups that are operating across multiple different jurisdictions in different states. and it is something we need to be very concerned about. what we're seeing here in michigan right now, it's not just a michigan problem, it's an american problem. and i think there's going to be more incidences to come. >> and john, that is something we've also heard from fbi officials and homeland security officials. the other thing the president last night, late last night tweeting about this investigation, in some ways attacking the governor there and what he wrote, quote, i do not tolerate any extreme violence, defending all americans, even those who oppose and attack me is what i will always do as your president. governor whitmer, open up your

state, open up your schools, and open up your churches. and john, that last line is the type of rhetoric that has concerned many officials across the country because those words, the lockdowns across the country and what the president has said about opening states up, a lot of these groups, government officials have been using those words to galvanize, to use it as a way to fight the government, fight some issues that they're taking with somewhat some of the states are doing. and we saw that in this case, where one of the people who was arrested was on video, on facebook, talking about some of the lockdown efforts in michigan, how he was unhappy about what governor was doing, john? >> shimon prokupecz, thank you. still ahead, the house speaker nancy pelosi raises questions about the president's behavior and she says congress should get a greater role in deciding whether any president is up to the job. ♪ ♪

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under the 25th amendment to the constitution. the legislation has zero chance of passing. zero. but in introducing it 25 days before the election, house democrats now trying to raise questions about the president's fitness to lead, highlighting several examples of what they say is erratic behavior since it was confirmed he is infected with coronavirus. cnn's manu raju live on capitol hill for us tracking this. it is a bit of a stunt, manu, but the democrats are trying to say they have a point. >> they're raising concerns about the president's conduct, his behavior after getting infected with the coronavirus. but they're saying this is not necessarily going to apply to this president, but for future presidents. this is not expected to get a vote before the election, but the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, indicated that this is something that potentially could come up in the next congress. now, of course, as it deals with the 25th amendment, under the 25th amendment, the majority of the cabinet with the vice president could essentially declare to the president is not capable of serving in office. also, the 25th amendment gives

the body of congress accomplished by congress along with the vice president the opportunity to move ahead and say that the president is not capable of serving. and at that point, the vice president would immediately become the acting president. now, under this legislation, it would create that body by congress to essentially make that determination about the president's health. this commission wonder the legislation, we have 17 people. eight people on each side, on each party would designate people to serve. an additional person would be part of h. they would ultimately vote on wether or not the president is fit to srve. the commission would study the president's behavior and make that determination and his health. when i asked speaker pelosi just moments ago whether or not she believed that the 25th amendment should be invoked given the situation involving president trump, she didn't respond. listen. would you concede that the president had not met the threshold for invoking the 25th

amendment. >> that is not for us to decide. it isn't about any of us making a decision as to whether the 25th amendment should be injoked. that's totally not the point. that's not up to us. >> reporter: so she would not say whether or not she believes that the 25th amendment should be invoked. she's saying the point is to create a process to determine one way or the other if a president should be removed, but of course, all of this has to do with the current situation involving the president at the moment and spotlighting their concerns making this a point right now when all the questions are being raised about the president's behavior. it has no chance of becoming law. will it become law? and if it does, it probably will have to wait until next year. >> we'll see if it carries over. manu raju, thanks very much. coming up for us, hurricane delta. you see some live pictures here. delta closing in on louisiana. this is houston, texas.

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coast. a massive sandbagging effort underway to help protect against hurricane delta. delta expected to bring storm surge along with rain bands already reaching parts of louisiana and texas. kevin gillmore is a meteorologist with the national weather service in slidell, louisiana. kevin within thank you for your time today. what is the latest and when are we expecting to see more significant impacts? >> the latest from the national hurricane center as of 10:00 central daylight time is maximum winds of is 15 miles per hour. that makes it still a category 3 hurricane and that is a major hurricane. it's still down about 5 miles per hour from the 7:00 a.m. intermediate advisory and we did see the intensity of the storm peak overnight. however, we do not want people to let their guard down with the storm. although some slight weakening could be possible, especially by the time it makes landfall later today, around 5:00 to 7:00, central daylight time. we are expecting to have a significant impact, especially across southwest laz, vp spanning well to southeast louisiana, as well. this includes life-threatening

storm surge, heavy rain and flash flooding, as well as isolated tornadoes and damaging winds. >> so, kevin, i want you to listen to the lrn of louisiana, who i met years ago back in the katrina/rita days when he was a local official. this is billy noungesser saying this is the fourth hurricane to make landfall in louisiana. he says it's just exasperating when they keep coming and the power. you have sea rise, coastal erosion. so they're stronger. we're seeing more of them. and they're having a greater impact because of all three of those things on the complete coast, not just louisiana. florida, mississippi, texas, alabama. so we're going to continue to see more hurricanes, stronger, and have greater impact on the people living along the coast. >> why is the question many ask, is this just a horrible, unlucky season? unlucky year? or is this the storms are more frequent, more powerful because of climate change and other factors? >> well, this was already

forecast to be an above-average year due to la neina and la nin causes lower shear across the islands. this was already forecast to be an active season already. we can't attribute one single storm to climate change. we do admit that climate change is really, but we know with one storm particularly, this was just unlucky for this case to be heading north. we do typically see these storms in this area, climatologically speaking moving north, which just so happens based out of the geography with louisiana, that it juts out a little bit towards the mississippi delta region and typically we see a little bit more impacts across the northern gulf coast. especially this time of year. >> kevin gillmore, grateful for your time today. kevin, thank you very much. up next for us, a return to the campaign trail.

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the president would like to turn it his way. if he's going to make a comeback, he has to find states to do that. the president hopes to change it back. let's leave it where it is right now, as leaning biden. and just take a look. this is one state where both campaigns are on television right now. in many states, because biden has more money, he's up on the air and trump is not. let's take a look at the ads side by side here. first, on the biden ads that are up right now, pro-biden ads, you expect that. what are the issues they're talking about? health care and coronavirus? this is important. voters over the age of 50. joe biden right now has an advantage with seniors and voters close to being seniors, usually a republican advantage, j joe biden trying to press it. if you look at the president's ads up in nevada, you see pro-trump includes jobs in unemployment. he is trying to convince seniors he's on their sides when it comes to prescription drugs, international ad. both campaigns spending a fair amount on television. >> my son, beau, was diagnosed

with terminal cancer, given months to live. i can't fathom what would have happened if the insurance companies would have had the power to say, the last few months, you're on your own. >> president donald trump delivered in his first term and he'll continue to fight for you. president trump will end our reliance on china, eradicate the coronavirus and make our medicines and supplies here. >> cnn's arlette saenz and alex burns from "the new york times" join our conversations. arlette, i want to start with you. health care is the idea that democrats believe is critical. and if you listen to the ads, a different approach when it comes to health care. >> trump's plan would wipe out social security. if i'm your president, we're going to protect social security and medicare. you have my word. >> president trump is protecting pre-existing conditions, prescription drugs are more affordable, the cost of insulin

is going down. under president trump, our benefits and our health care are safe and secure. >> now, there's a lie in that trump ad. the president is at the supreme court right now asking it to throw out obamacare. so he's not protecting you from pre-existing conditions or protecting your coverage. but the biden ad especially aiming at older voters, claiming that if joe biden can hold the lead he has right now over older voters, game over. >> and joe biden has made this pitch about health care really a central focus of his campaign. one, due to the coronavirus pandemic and his people are using health care as they potentially become infected and contract the virus. you're also hearing biden lay out the stakes of health care when it comes to that supreme court nomination. you know, pointing to the fact that president trump, that the supreme court just a week after the election is going to hear oral arguments in a case relating to obamacare.

and the biden campaign really trying to lean into the popular provisions of obamacare when it comes to protecting pre-existing conditions. you hear them over and over stress that on the campaign trail in that debate that kamala harris had with mike pence just two days ago. that was also one of her more forceful lines during that debate, warning that the president doesn't have any plans at this point for protecting pre-existing conditions. so this is an appeal that they're making, not just to older voters, but voters really across the spectrum. but particularly here in nevada, you know, voters over the age of 65 make up about a fifth of the elector, from back in 2016. so that's a critical group that biden's doing quite well with right now. and he's hoping that those messages about health care, about social security, about medicare, will appeal to voters here in these types of states. >> and alex, if you use nevada as an example, if you go back several cycles, a very kpre competitive state, a yellow

state, a purple state. back when i first started, it was a red state. now we lean it blue in large part because of the growing latino population and suburban population around las vegas. you're right about this in the newspaper today. i just want to read this from your piece. i found it fascinating. this is from the republican may remember of oklahoma city. cities and states like arizona and texas are attracting young people, highly educated people, and people of color. all groups in the national republican party has walked away from the last four years. this losing demographic bet against big cities and their residents by putting sun belt states in play. it is fascinating. we saw it happen in nevada. we'll see if the president can turn it back this time. but now arizona, democrats have texas. and if you think about it, especially thinking about vegas, used to be a desert town with casinos. no, it's a giant suburb now. think about phoenix, used to drive five minutes, 20 minutes outside of phoenix, now it's suburbs and that's what's change american politics. >> that's exactly right. and nevada is a great example of

how this has happened in such a dramatic way over the last few election cycles. where at this point, if a democratic candidate runs up their vote score, that's pretty much game over at this point and when you see the president trying to drive up turnout and enthusiasm among the considerable population in nevada of rural white voters and white voters without college degrees, even if he accomplishes that, it's probably not enough anymore. these other states have not yet reached the same tipping point as nevada. in part because, up until now, they're affluent suburbs and particularly white voters in the affluent suburbs have been pretty loyally republican. what arlette was talking about with regard to voters over age 65, senior voters, really important constituency, especially in arizona, where there's a large community of retire retirees. president trump has put those

constituencies in play for the democrats in a way that no previous republican candidate has. and the question now is first, can joe biden capitalize on that weakness? it seems like the answer in arizona is that he's doing a pretty good job of it. texas is a bigger reach. and for the longer term, you know, is this a moment that bms a democratses are managing to bring a bunch of unique forces together. or does this herald a real turning point. >> and so in part, when you watch the trump campaign, it is a race against demographics, if you will. the question is whether the president can pull it off again. and arlette, if you go to vegas right now and watch the president's ads, the tone's a little different. one of these ads is from vegas, the other is from the northwest corner up in reno, but the issue, immigration. >> if you elect me, your taxes are going to be raised, not cut. >> what does that mean for you item you compete with illegal immigrants to keep your job. an economy in ruins.

♪ >> there has been some criticism from latino groups that joe biden is not working hard enough to make sure that population turns out in a place like nevada to counter the trump base. what are you going to see on the ground today from the former vice president? >> well, joe biden will be here a little bit later this afternoon, holding two events, including a drive-in rally right behind me here in las vegas. and i'm told that biden is expected to lean into his argument about president trump walking away, his willingness to walk away from stimulus negotiations earlier this week. we have heard biden in some of his speeches criticize the president for not actually getting more involved in these negotiations to offer coronavirus relief for americans across the country. and biden will be here in vegas

kind of reinforcing that. when the president earlier in the week talked about halting negotiations, biden said that the president was turning his back on the very americans who are in need of that kind of relief. and this just goes back to the central argument that the biden campaign has been making when what they believe is a mishandling of the situation. you heard them over the course of the summer months and especially now heading into the final weeks before the election really making that the central focus as they believe it is something that's hitting home with voters heading into november. >> arlette saenz on the ground. still ahead, for us, coronavirus rising around the globe. cases surging in europe to levels that now could surpass the u.s. daily case count. first, want to highlight 2012 cnn hero scott stroed. his nonprofit providers a sober sports community for thousands. when covid-19 forced the

organization to clothes gyms, they found ways to stay connected online. cnn correspondent phil mattingly joined a phoenix class to see how they kept the interaction going strong. >> let's try to get two or three more. you have 20 seconds. nice job, phil. >> what was your thought when coronavirus started to spread and lockdown started to kick into gear? >> i knew that social isolation was going to be a big risk for relapse for a lot of people. pretty quickly we pivoted to offering virtual programs. we knew we had to keep people connected in this uncertain and stressful time. >> three, two, one, and down for the situp. >> always lifts my heart to log into a phoenix virtual class, meet somebody in recovery who's doing the workout in their basement somewhere in tennessee where we don't even have in person programs but they can come to the phoenix anyway. >> nice job, everyone.

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it is a time sadly of new records for covid cases worldwide, and europe is leading the pack with 98,000 new covid cases thursday alone. that's more than the united states, which of course has the most cumulative infections. france, austria, czech republic have case highs. cnn correspondents around the world with more global headlines. >> reporter: here in france, four extra cities enter maximum alert. that means the sorts of restrictions in the french capital already, things like bars and cafes having to shut. smaller sizes for social gatherings and things like gyms being closed as well, and figures in the french capital

continue to worsen. greater paris region. the number of icu beds taken by covid-19 patients is 40%. according to projections of local health authorities, that could reach 80% before the end of the month. one of the criteria for taking an area into the next category which would be a state of sanitary emergency. those figures in paris continue to worsen nationally as well, for two days in a row had the number of new coronavirus cases above 18,000, after the fresh record was set wednesday. >> reporter: i'm in london. scottish government is imposing tougher new coronavirus restrictions starting today, friday, at 6:00 p.m. local time. in central scotland, bars, pubs, restaurants are ordered closed for the next 16 days, through to october 25th. other parts of scotland, venues can open but cannot serve

alcohol inside, it must be served outside, and they must close doors by 6:00 p.m. in the evening. that is the curfew. the government announcement does come with an economic relief package of $52 million to help those businesses that have to close their doors. all of this as scotland tries to battle arise in infections in one 24 hour period. the number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose by 1,000, leaving the first minister to say hard and painful measures needed to be put in place to row te -- protect people's health. i am fred pleitgen in berlin. germany has seen another major jump in new coronavirus infection. german center for disease control recorded more than 4,500 new infections in a span of 24 hours, that's more than 500 more than the previous days increase. the german government is extremely concerned about all of

this, especially concerned about the situation in larger german cities, like for instance in berlin or in frankfurt, is urging people to abide by the coronavirus measures. all of this comes as the amount of districts in germany deemed to be coronavirus hot spots has jumped from 8 to 11. top of the hour, welcome to viewers in the united states and around the world. john king in washington. thank you so much for sharing your day with us. we begin with america's sad coronavirus reality and its anxious reality tv president. this map is the source of the sadness and grave concern. 28 states right now reporting more new infections compared to only one week ago. only two states at this moment trending down. now, president trump says he understands this all better now, he is now the world's most famous coronavirus patient. we're told we will see him on live television today for the first time in four days, the first time since he was released