this is it every news life from berlin the white house lawn down the corner virus reaches the door of the world's most powerful leader present dollar trump quarantines after testing positive for cope with 19 just a month before the u.s. election stocks in europe and the us news dot the white house says the president a showing mild symptoms the 1st lady and a close aide also infected german chancellor chance on the american among world leaders and wishing them a swift recovery. and

landmark thank you so much for your company everyone well with just 4 weeks to go until election day u.s. president donald trump and 1st lady maloney have both tested positive for the coronavirus on the white house says the president is experiencing quote mild symptoms trump announced the news on twitter shortly after it was confirmed that is tough 8 hope ics had contracted covert 19 she'd been traveling all week with the president who was last seen on wednesday tossing caps into a group of supporters at a campaign event while trying to do that he and his wife would quarantine immediately but his doctors that the president would continue to carry out his duties in the white house quote without disruption. a very serious and significant moment for the u.s. a lot of questions you know you correspondent in blue cross from a u.s.

election team is here with me on the set what have you learned about the president's condition so as we've already said he and his wife coronavirus he's experiencing minor symptoms cold like symptoms we're told people around him who are his most recent events traveling around yesterday said that he was looking tired under the weather a bit lethargic that apparently went to sleep on air force one this could normally be chalked up to just the normal rigors of the campaign trail but we all know that donald trump especially for being a 74 year old man who is a bit overweight seems to be quite rigorous on the campaign trail so this was at least noted by people around him that he looked more tired than usual now he's in isolation at the white house and the question is what happens now how does how does donald trump even if he's has just mild symptoms how does he continue functioning as the president so that his is his advisors can still come to him that secret service can still safely protect him and those kinds of things now william in these particular extraordinary situations transparency is key and objectively speaking

the president does have a credibility deficit how forthcoming has this white house been when it comes to issues of the president's health well apparently they were not so quick to let people know that hope picks was positive for corona virus apparently they did not inform the biden campaign remember biden and trump around the same debate stage just a few days ago about the condition of the president the potential risks to bite in his team and other people chris wallace for example the moderator of that debate. this entire pandemic leading up to now especially now with with donald trump's condition has really been the only thing in donald trump's presidency to challenge his ability to warp reality the way he wants to of course every presidency every white house spins facts the way that. is favorable to them but donald trump as we all know is on a whole different dimension when it comes to putting forward his vision of how he wants the world to work with endemic can't be wished away can't be spun away and

we're seeing that again today just how important it is that journalists at the american people that people all around the world more or less rely on what the president what the white house are telling us about the leaders of the countries condition and now obviously a very intensive track and trace is underway i mean the president just you know the way that he's campaigning already comes into contact with so many people so what do we know about that and it was many more important is that we don't know we don't know when exactly it was infected how many people he might have been exposed exposed and been exposed to we know that the president his wife or positive of the chairwoman of the republican national committee is positive hope picks we know is positive the vice president and the 2nd lady his wife we are told is negative many members of donald trump's cabinet are negative much of the trump family is negative we're still waiting to hear about nancy pelosi the democratic leader of the house of representatives and joe biden himself being tested we're waiting for those

results and again were it as we said it's going to rely on good communication and transparency that we have all the facts and we can decide and we can that that the american people have confidence that the government is functioning as it needs to it's just amazing how this all ripples out obviously stick around going to put on hold just for just a 2nd because we want to take a look now at how president has handled the greatest public health challenge in decades when the president has long been dismissive of the coronavirus and the precautions his own experts have recommended here's how he's reacted to developments. from initial optimism in february looks like by april you know in theory when it gets a little warmer it miraculously goes away i hope that's true to a number up to about face in march that specific case today i am officially declaring a national emergency us president donald trump has gone to extremes in his public

attitude toward the coronavirus he's always saw a silver lining even as the death toll skyrocketed america will again and soon be open for business very soon we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself we're not going to let the cure be worse than the problem in the start seeing some real laid at the end of the tunnel but this is going to be a very painful very very painful 2 weeks that trump soon turned a medical problem into a political issue forcing the public to choose between him and the experts when government scientists recommended wearing masks he scoffed at the idea is over we're in myself it's a recommendation they recommend it. i don't see it for myself i just i just maybe i'll change my mind he didn't change his mind but as the pandemic refused to go away miraculously he mused in public about rather unorthodox treatments supposing

we hit somebody with a tremendous whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful like when i said supposing it were the lady inside the body can which you can do either through the skin or. in some other way right and then i see the disinfectant it knocks it out in a minute. by june as testing ramped up along with case numbers he seemed exasperated if you don't test you don't have any cases that we stepped essig right now would have very few cases if any. and he started marking the virus making racist jokes and blaming the pandemic on china. it's a disease without question has more names that the disease an issue i can name. comes lou i can i write the different versions of day. with the election looming he doubled down on mocking masks even during the presidential debate i don't have i don't wear miss like him

every time you see me go to misc he could be speaking 200 feet away from it he shows up with the biggest mask of ever seen that attitude held up until the last minute at this rally in minnesota on wednesday trump threw souvenirs barehanded into a packed audience where few wore masks it remains to be seen how seriously trump's diehard supporters will now take the virus that has put their hero into quarantine and. william obviously there the president downplaying the severity of the pandemic do we expect a change of tone because it's one thing when the illness is abstract and one thing when you contract it yeah i mean this is almost unfortunately i told you so moment where a lot of people in the united states and around the world in looking at this saying how does dollars have not yet have coronavirus this is not hope picks is not the 1st person in the white house close a dollar trump to come down with coronavirus other aides have secret service agents

have and it has not really changed donald trump's tune much and i think more then the criticism that donald trump denies the virus are placed on the wires is the mix messaging sometimes that we just saw in the report sometimes he's downplaying it sometimes he's taking it seriously sometimes masks are good sometimes master bad you know in the debate a few days ago joe biden didn't call out donald trump for saying that he meant the bleach comment that we just heard sarcastically well when you were the leader of the. 3 you in the face of the most severe public health crisis possibly in history and by this point more than 200000 americans are dead americans are looking to the president for advice and comfort and support and to know what to do and if you're president we're going to see if you support him or not is telling you one thing and not another thing that leads to the problems we're seeing in the compared to other countries like here in germany were also not a perfect place and we're seeing cases come up to here but

a much lower problem. then in the united states because there is a single message about mass about distancing and all these other kind of rules that donald trump has not really been so clear on up till right now with him saying donald trump is coronavirus task force still saying he just doesn't get it. so that begs the question how is this likely to affect the campaign which is in full swing we're just 4 weeks away from a very crucial us presidential election does this throw for instance debates into question i mean he the next debate is within the quarantine time period so we're going to wait to see if that becomes a zoom debate if it gets postponed if it just doesn't happen at all the debate commission was already saying they were going to change the rules just because of how much of a debacle it was a few days ago how not substantive it was and all this the snapping back and forth so that's definitely in question the vice presidential debate suddenly takes on new importance because as we've been talking about for months now both donald trump and

joe biden are advanced in age which makes the question of who's in that 2nd seat even more important so donald trump also can't be campaigning which is also in that report how much energy he gets from big crowds and so you surrounded by people who support him these next 4 weeks reminds me of 2007 when the financial crisis hit and i'll never forget the press conference that john mccain and barack obama gave separately and john mccain said i'm stopping campaigning i'm going back to washington deal with a serious crisis barack obama struck a much better note saying we can do both. that wasn't decisive for barack obama winning but it really showed obama to be in control of some of your presidential i'm looking made mccain well quite foolish and where i think we're in a public health perspective a similar situation now right after thank you so much for your reporting. well. meanwhile the u.s.

secretary of state mike pompei o says he has tested negative for the virus has left rome after a 3 day visit telling reporters traveling with him to croatia that he was quote feeling fantastic pompei o says he blast met with trump in the white house more than 2 weeks ago. were praying for the president the 1st lady. a speedy recovery i'm sorry i speak up a little bit of a speedy recovery and i spoke to the vice president's up at this morning as well and we're taking this obviously very serious so you will do everything we can to keep everyone safe including you while you're happy result here if you are sick you know the day to get 730 minutes ago 30 minutes ago. well they now seem that the leader of the world's a biggest economy has a contract and covert 19 has also caused well fireworks on the financial markets are not the good kind let's take you to the trading floor at the new york stock exchange or yes of course is there for us oh i see you're actually in your study

yes how have investors reacted on wall street. i reporters are still not allowed back on the floor of the new york stock exchange so that has also still not changed since march well what we do see is that a lot of the stocks that theoretically profit from the reopening of the economy alliance a cruise ships a motel chains and the likes and they're all under pressure here and the early friday is session but overall the market seems to be pretty resilient surprising to me because usually what wall street really hates uncertainty and i would say this clearly it's too uncertain to you what we're seeing what's going on right and now we did open lower it was the dull jones industrial average by a good $450.00 points but at the moment we're down only about $100.00 so is this according to you yes so looking like a blip or could we see a large movement a downward to come or well it really depends because all we know so

far is that the u.s. president does have symptoms even though there are considered to be mild but if that's going to stay that way it will probably take a couple of days to figure that out and then we shouldn't forget the health of the u.s. president is not the only topic that we having on wall street that we are also awaiting of congress might be able to get a new 8 pick on the way to still ailing u.s. economy so there are a lot of things moving to me personally it's really surprising that we are holding on so well shortly before the weekend with so many different things could happen in the u.s. economy as you've just outlined is already in a downturn what will this fresh wall until the need. well i mean the u.s. economy clearly is not where it was in february but recently in the past couple of months at least we saw

a certain recovery even if this recovery was slowing down in the recent weeks and just this weeks we heard from so many companies from walt disney from the airlines that tens of thousands of people are getting laid off or being sent in for a lost soul but the volatility that we see.