joe biden is on the road today in pennsylvania. we will have live coverage when he begins his remarks here on c-span. tonight, montana gubernatorial candidates take part in a debate. watch live on c-span. good tuesday morning. you can start calling in now. when presidenty hemp announced via twitter would be leaving walter reed. he said, i feel better than i did 20 years ago.

track theng you can president's departure from walter reed via the front page pictures that those newspapers picked. the wall street journal today with the picture of president trump walking out the front doors of walter reed to the front page of the new york times this morning. they chose the moment when president trump removed his mask on the white house balcony. that was also the picture chosen by the washington post this morning. the washington times, they chose president trump saluting marine taking off after delivering the president back to the white house. missiont recorded this -- message. >> i just left walter reed medical center and it's really something very special. nurses and first responders. i learned so much about

coronavirus. don't let it dominate you. don't be afraid of it you're going to beat it. we have the best medical equipment, we have the best medicines, all developed recently. i didn't feel so good. two days ago i felt great. better than i have in a long time. better than 20 years ago. don't let it dominate. we are the greatest country in the world. we are going back to work. we are going to be out front. as your leader, i had to do that. nobody that's a leader would not do what i did. and i know there's a risk, there's a danger, but that's ok. and now i'm better and maybe i'm immune. i don't know. but don't let it dominate your lives. get out there. he careful.

we have the best medicines in the world and it all happened very shortly. the vaccines are coming momentarily. much and walter reed, what a group of people. thank you very much. host: that was the president via twitter last night. how has the president's coronavirus case changed your view of covid-19? twitter onon from democrats including the president's opponent. this is joe biden's tweet from yesterday evening saying now that president trump is busy tweeting campaign messages, i would ask him to do this. listen to the scientists. support masks. a couple other tweets from democrats, the democrat from virginia saying we wear masks

for the protection of others. that's what the mask is for. removing a mask when you know you have this deadly disease means you are knowingly exposing others to the risk of infection, severe illness or death. also showing the moment president trump removed his mask. congressman lloyd doggett said minimizing the severity of this is deeply dangerous. every reason to fear covid-19 and prepare accordingly rather than continue claiming it's no big deal. here are some of the reaction from political media. from the huffington post, their headline on the president's return to the white house, madness, mask lists, unconscionable west wing outbreak. to the conservative newspapers as well, there is the atlantic

story as well.

lewis is next, a republican under colorado springs. just listening this morning, i've had a couple of thoughts, but i'd like to say something positive if i could. trump has made promises and he's cap them. from bringing troops home these endless wars. he has lowered our taxes.

the little sisters from obamacare and set up opportunity zones in inner cities to help minorities so they can have jobs and good incomes and he has built our military up that was depleted by the previous administration. us to theg coronavirus case. as the president's case change your view? the leader of's the free world. my family think he's doing the right thing. he cannot just sit in a basement. he has a job to do. all those comments you were don'tg, you know -- i know. my wife has to turn the tv off now at night. she cannot even watch the local news because the media is so

hateful toward trump, and now the next debate, the moderator is one of your comrades, steve scully. he should recuse himself. he works for biden in the senate. he interned as --host: he interned as a freshman in college years ago for a few weeks for credit, not for pay. do you watch steve scully. have easy -- has he ever given you a reason he's biased? caller: i'm glad you asked. if people would ever watch sunday mornings, just use his words and his video of what he says and how he disparages trump. he usually has just mason on their who hates trump, and he's got little gals on their who just got out of college. they all hate trump.

just like mr. trump said in the press briefing, nobody is listening to you guys anymore because you are not talking about news. .ou can't just talk news you make up comments. host: i would encourage people to go back and watch steve -- watch steve scully and see for yourself if you think he's biased. that's all we can ask you to do. democrat from lake morgan. caller: good morning. i don't believe trump ever had the virus in the first place. consider the fact that he wanted to change the new cycle. we were talking about his terrible debate, his taxes, the fact that he did not denounce white, all that stuff, so he came up with this plan that he was going to use covid to his

advantage. i think he never had it. the first lady doesn't have it. he left walter reed. he's pretending he got all this medical treatment, and his physician couldn't get his lies .traight if you want to quarantine for two weeks, why in the world with a let him back in the white house after three days? host: if that were the case, do you think this has been an advantageous new cycle for the president? >> no, he's been lying for years. why what i believe him now? that he actually beat covid in three days? nobody believes that. this guy is trying to win the white house and win reelection and he's been lying for four

years. that's glidden out of florida. elizabeth on the line for those who have had covid. you are next. good morning and thank you for taking my call. as you stated, i have had the covid-19 virus. i was contact traced. i have been in my home approximately eight weeks, ladies and gentlemen, and the only symptom i had was loss of taste and smell, but i knew i wanted to take responsibility. i live with other people in my home. i was quarantined in a room which, thankfully, has a bathroom. my family does not contact me at all. homestated, i was in my approximately eight weeks before i went to go get another test and deemed negative. for the president of the united states to go to walter reed where none of us can go -- we cannot get that kind of health

he has been trying to take health care away from people, he would do the best hospital ever, got the greatest health care ever, and then for him to tell the american people, don't worry about it, do not be afraid of covid, go out and continue your life -- it's such an insult, c-span. it's such an insult, america. 211,000 people have died from covid. what is going on? and for him to tell everyone, i'm just going to leave walter reed and do what i gotta do. did you see him walk up the stairs? that man could not breathe. elizabeth talking about her case, how she was contact traced in new york, some information at the white house.

the centers for disease control and prevention have readied a team of investigators but have not been asked by the white house to help track down related infections since the president announced early friday that he and the first lady tested positive for coronavirus. the white house, which says it's medical unit is conducting its own contact tracing, is relying on internal resources to investigate the ripple effects of president trump's diagnosis. .lan is next out of maine independent. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span, as always. i would like to try for something a little different. i would like to call for a show of hands, which i know will not work on tv -- i would like to have a show of hands. everyone raise your hand if you would prefer to be living in an empire. i suspect there would be very

few hands on that, and my own as well as ierence think the minutemen at the concord bridge and all our patriots, our founders, our farmers, our framers of the constitution -- i think we would all agree with my posture, which an hat we have already had asshole full of empire. our next-host: caller, democrat from maryland. thank c-spanto forgiving americans in touch with the nation. i would like to keep my comments brief.

watching him and send the staircase to the white house and dramatically peel off his mask was probably one of the most chilling things i've seen. this is in the past three and a half years where daily, we are confronted with things that are shocking and appalling, and i will it. once again, this president and reallyinistration has demonstrated to the american people that the rules do not apply to them in any way at expense to all ofhost: do you tt trump should participate in that debate next week? >> i think that if he tests negative for covid-19, yes, with extraordinary precautions for all, and i think that every

member of the audience should have a mask on, including every member of the republican delegation, and i think that he should all of the rules that he agreed to prior to the debate. town hall style debate next week.e joe biden participated in his own town hall style debate. here's a little bit of what joe biden said last night when it came to president trump and the coronavirus. [video clip] >> i would hope that the president, having gone through what he is going through, would communicate the right message to people. masks matter. it saves lives and presents -- prevents the spread of disease. social distancing. instead of the only thing i heard, a tweet saying don't be concerned about all this, essentially -- there's a lot to

be concerned about. 210,000 people have died. you have about 1000 people a day getting the coronavirus -- 50,000 a week. it's a great concern. i hope no one walks away with a message thinking that it's not a problem. it's a serious problem. it's an international pandemic, 4% of the population and 20% of the deaths. host: joe biden last night when it comes to that time how to bed here's a poll on the debate about the idea of postponing that debate. americans say the debate should be postponed until president trump has recovered from the virus. survey found that nine in 10 republicans and five of 10 republicans think if trump had taken the virus more seriously,

he would not have fallen ill. 57% of americans disapprove of how president trump has handled the coronavirus outbreak. this is jerry out of huntington beach, california. i've got to say, the first time caller from maryland -- i'm not going to be as particular as she was, but i want to say that trump is so full of himself that it's almost painful to watch. now, all of a sudden, he's trying to pawn himself off as a leader? where was the leadership when the virus first came to america? he tried to lie his way out of it or something? to downplay it? now we have this basically mess that we have. it should have been handled differently. maybe the outcome would have been the same, who knows? but there would have been some effort on his part, and his

supporters -- how he's handling the economy is why they like him. what does he do? he gave tax cuts. even the republican economists say you'd have to have growth of 5%, or 6% to make up for that tax cut, and he knew that going in. he just lowered taxes and ran the deficit up, and they think he's this great economic genius. the whole thing is just disgusting to watch. caller: thanks for taking my call. one of my family members works in the medical profession and i have been taking the virus seriously from the beginning.

every person who dies, of course, it's horrible, but when you consider the death rate of this disease, it is ridiculous. 0.01%, 0.3% and on and on and on. host: even after president trump's diagnosis, his trip to the hospital for three days, you still think it's a hoax? i listen to c-span know -- i mention again because those people who actually die, it's horrible, of course, mothers and fathers and so on. they have underlying conditions. i'm 78 years old. i have not been sick a single day in my life. not a single day. i would not know how to do it. -- il you something

discussed this with hundreds of doctors throughout the years. what causes sickness and disease and so is the drugs these people take in the united states and elsewhere. at the very most, 50% -- think all 210,000 americans who died were taking drugs and that's why? caller: no, but they are not healthy. i'll give you another example -- host: we take your point. this is richard out of massachusetts. said, allve always ,hese deaths from corona

everyone that dies know they put in the corona category. i'm 76 years old. my two friends were 74. one died of cancer and one died of virus pneumonia, and they were both put in as covid. their wives were pretty upset about it. the bbc only -- set only 6% of 200,000 coronavirus deaths were from corona. of the rest was long, hard, and everything -- president trump's case change your mind about anything? and how serious it is? no, it is not that deadly. only 1% of the people who get it

die. i wish the best for everybody, blowingis country everything out of proportion. i hope you all have a good day and a safe day. social few comments from media this morning. sue writing in new jersey, i appreciate the message president trump is trying to convey. business,d is serious most people who get it will not die. there's been a lot of fear mongering and misinformation from the start. give us the facts so we can make good choices, and asking for an update on the first lady, who is recovering at the white house, did not go to walter reed as the president did. mohammed from wisconsin saying the cocktail medicines administered to president trump is not available to 99% of americans, only to the privileged to be able to pay for concierge health care, confirming my view on the idea

of universal care. gary in minnesota saying the president's comments made him wonder if people were told not to be worried -- afraid of the bubonic plague or the spanish flu or smallpox or polio. church,m falls virginia, independent. good morning. morning.ood i'm calling because i have a family member who was diagnosed with covid. grandmother. she was 94 years old when she was diagnosed. she had already been locked in a nursing home for several months before she contracted it. said that only 6% of the deaths -- i feel like the media such as yourself has been fear mongering people instead of saying that people who have died of covert versus people who have died with covid -- my 94-year-old grandmother who had covid, when she passed

away, she did not have any of the symptoms. i think she more died from depression and not being able to see her family and interact with them and the poor care she was getting at this nursing home, but we could not do anything about it, and unfortunately, we could not even sue the nursing home. we have talked to several lawyers and they will not even touch it with a 10 foot pole because of the laws congress has been trying to pass through with the cares act and things like that to protect nursing homes from people suing them. i think the president's actions and words are inspiring because the survival rate for it is 99%, most people, and i think we need to get back to work, and we need to let people know that most of the people who contract this will live from it. 99% of them will. you're more likely to be killed in a car accident on your way to work then you are from totracting this on the way work. if your kids get it, you are more likely to have your kids

die from shingles or something else they could easily contract as well. living in fear is not a way to live. as one of the president said, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. in regards to steve scully, he's a political hack, and i think anyone who listens to his words will realize that. next, from columbus, georgia, republican. go ahead. caller: good morning. this is the first time you have seen somebody get the disease, then go to the hospital and take -- medicine that the doctors hello? host: take the medicine that the doctors what? medicines thehe doctors prescribe, and he seems to do better. once he takes the medicine, his fever goes away, his call for whatever goes away, and then the democrats and media decide that

these doctors are bad doctors, and they want to take the money away from the hospital where the president was at because they want to see the president died. this is ridiculous. i mean, everybody doesn't die from this disease. with the president that he contracted this disease and whitten got medication for it, a doctor's care, he got better for it and he's gone home. you don't see this a lot. what you see in the newspaper and the fake media and the democrats, all you see is all the death. they want you to believe that all this is just a problem that the republicans put on you, but the republicans did not do this. china did it. you've got to remember that. when you remember what happened

and you see that people can survive from it, that democrats and media, they don't like it. bert from georgia, bringing up the president's medical team, briefing the walter reedde medical center before the president's release yesterday. here's a little bit of the president's medical team and his attending physician, who has been caring for him since the president was diagnosed with the coronavirus. [video clip] try to get patients home and out of the hospital as quickly as a safe and reasonable. every day a patient stays in the hospital unnecessarily is a risk to themselves, and right now, there's nothing being done upstairs here that we cannot safely conduct down-home. daysu had said seven to 10 was a wonder we would be concerned about. i don't think we're there yet. do you have concerns about potential worsening or reversal, and what are your plans to

address that if it happens? >> you are absolutely right. that's why we all met -- remain cautiously optimistic and on guard because we are in a bit of uncharted territory when it comes to a patient that receives the therapies he has so early in the course. we are looking to this weekend. if we can get him to monday with him remaining or improving, better yet, then we will all take that sigh of relief. careworld class medical down there. we're not going to miss anything that we would have caught up here. position.president's if the president's case has changed your view of the coronavirus. that special line for those who

, (202)d covid-19 748-8003. as you're calling in, want to keep you updated on some of the news happening in and around washington. we talked about this story yesterday, senator patrick to me, the two-turn republican announcing yesterday he will retire from politics in two years, giving up his senate seat and rebuffing overtures to run for pennsylvania's governor, leaving a major hole, "the washington times" writes, for republicans to fill. also today, watching for any detail that might come up when it comes to new coronavirus relief legislation. fox news capitol hill

correspondent tweeting yesterday evening that nancy pelosi was discussing coronavirus talks with treasury secretary steven mnuchin, courting her as saying they are having their conversations and that they will be talking again this morning, so we will see if anything develops on that front. as weo your phone calls caseas president trump's of coronavirus changed your view of covid-19. bradley, good morning. what do you think? good morning. sometimes i'm kind of shamed to be a democrat. i usually turn nbc on when the today show first comes on, then i go to c-span real quick. ,his morning, the first thing the president tears his mask off. what in the gods name is wrong with the media? my watched him -- he pulled his

mask off proper, folded it up, put it in his pocket for later use. it's a disgrace, these people get on tv or anywhere and run the president of the united states down and bash him like they do. it's no wonder the country is in the condition it is in. one of my best friends had corona, and he did not get -- he said it was like a severe cold. you know, when you get your best medical treatment from the hospital where he's at, all presidents got it -- yet they want to bash him because he's there at the best hospital in the united states. what's the metal -- what's the matter with people? that's his hospital. that's not their hospital unless they are a veteran in bad shape. that's like the debate. horrible, but yet they both -- not just the president, eatjust biden, they both

each other to death. it's a disgrace. thank you, c-span, and have a good day. these people need to wake up and get their head out of their butts. about thetalked debate. are you going to be watching the vice presidential debate this week? caller: i will probably watch some of it. it's just sickening when they bash each other like that. i don't care if it's biden, i don't care if it's from. i know when somebody calls you a liar when you are president right on tv, that's a disgrace to the country right there in my book. the vice presidential debate will take place tomorrow night in utah. we will be talking about it more in our 9:00 hour this morning on