face. >> tucker: there it was, the virtual al smith dinner. it lets ithat is this you make s tonight, the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. a sean hannity rightor p now. >> sean: we echo your thoughts and prayers. for anyone who had to deal with the virus and families, thank you. welcome to "hannity." the president the united states will join us live for an exclusive one-on-one interview, that is coming up earlier tonight. as tucker just mentioned, he delivered a speech at the al smith dinner where he defended amy coney barett from the despicable disgusting attacks on her faith. let's take a look c at that par. >> to protect your god-given rights, i was recently honored to nominate one of our most brilliant legal minds, judge amy coney barett to the united states supreme court, that was an honor indeed.

we will not stand for any attacks against judge barrett's faith. anti-catholic bigotry has absolutely no place in the united states of america. it predominates in the democrat party, we must do something immediately about it like a republican win. >> sean: a lot more on that later when the president the president joins us live. first, 33 days, you are the ultimate jury, the time for urgency is right now.lade yeah, i'm sounding an alarm as forcefully as i possibly can. this election is not just about >> this is a fox news alert, i'm actually straw mild live from new york, president trump tweeted moments ago that he and the first lady have tested positive for the coronavirus. it developed news a top aide hope hicks who traveled with the the president tested positive and then includes boarding brave one, and railing in minnesota

wednesday. aboard air force one to tuesday night's first presidential debate in cleveland. he said he would be quarantining at home and experiencing symptoms and multiple white house staffers have tested positive for the virus and in fact this includes katie miller, vice president mik mike pence, robert o'brien, and one of the presidents of personal ballets. president trump and first lady melania trump getting tested for the coronavirus after hope hicks becomes the most senior white house official to test positive for the coronavirus so far. as i said they have tested positive, president trump tweeted it not too long ago and the virus killed more than 200,000 americans and infected more than 7 million nationwide. joining us on the phone, the senior white house producer kelly, what can you tell us about this? in the past 5 minutes or so, this is news. >> we've been waiting to hear

from the white house and they say that there is a memo of some sort that will be coming in the white house will probably provide more context hopefully on this. we're obviously having a lot of questions about the timeline and what happens from here. he tweeted that he tested positive along with the first lady and their procedure at the white house is one that a lot of the journalists are familiar with, the rapid tests. this week, the president felt he was touting that are planning to distribute them nationwide. the president frequently uses that and uses it all the time and tested very frequently. we do not know whether the first test possibly which comes back in about 15 minutes tested positive and they do the secondary test and we don't know how if he learned that this was the case. we know that he traveled.

the test was confirmed last evening is what we are hearing from other reporting, not from the network but other reporting and concerns that's the case. after trouble today he went to a closed fund-raiser and came back. we're waiting to learn more about were hoping to get context in the memo coming out. >> as we say, he does not rapid tests quite frequently come out one more time did he take the rapid tests and we know has he taken nasal swab? that's what supposed to be the most effective. >> we don't know, we don't want to jump to conclusions in this case and we don't have context. we know that it's used at the white house so it's possible that's what happened. in the secondary test performed. it really is a process of

assumption only and the fact that he's touting it this week he had at the rose garden touting the widespread use of this. we know that used rapid testing and we don't know for sure if that's the case when he used. hopefully we have a lot more context and he had full travel schedule he was supposed to do tomorrow and he was supposed to go to florida, wisconsin over the weekend, and obviously this will have a big effect on his campaign. we do not know how long he will be in quarantine, 14 days is what we hear is the standard but we have to find out what will happen in his case. we don't know when he's exposed and obviously he's the president but we see how he fares and obviously others wishing him well. >> do we know how many rallies he has planned and doing to a day so far. has he come in contact with mike pence that we are aware of? >> off the top of my head, i don't think of a event where

they are in same spot. >> what was the first part of your question? >> how many rallies do we know we know for the near future. >> writes. basically only taking up and they had promised us something like one dozen rallies in the coming week or so. he's been planning multiple stops within one state to doing a couple of events within one statement over at another location and the kind of thing that obviously will cut into his travel schedule. something that we are concern first and foremost but it something he has to on the campaign trail. at that will be very frustrating for him. >> obviously, very big concern for his health and there is no known information whether he's symptomatically symptomatically, is there? >> no, definitely not, and along

the lines we don't want to jump to that. by the way, the president described it from his tweets that they are taking extra precautions and trying to follow the protocol when you test positive. >> i'm looking at is twitter right now and the internet is going crazy over this. but joining us, a couple minutes ago, president trump tweeted he tested positive along with melania trump for the coronavirus. speaking from the president's position, it's coming out rightd it to you. it's from sean connolly, the commander u.s. navy. the subject is the present and the first lady and we can't forget she's involved, she tested positive. the statement says "i release the following information with the permission of donald trump in the first lady, this evening i received confirmation that both president trump and first lady melania trump tested positive for the sars-cov-2

virus. the president and first lady are both well at this time. they plan to remain home within the white house during their convalescence." the white house medical team and i will maintain vigilant watch and i appreciate the -- i expect the president to carry out his duties without din while recovery and i will keep you updated on future developments." obviously, the physicians not concerned and right now they said their well so it sounds like possibly a means there isn't a medic as far as we know. something mild that most it sounds like. >> hope hicks was experiencing symptoms, correct? >> yes. she had mild symptoms is what we are learning and again this is from other recordings that we are learning apparently was mildly symptomatic and that's what drove her to get the secondary test. apparently she initially tested negative but we do not have that timeline totally officially laid

out for us. i can guarantee you we will have a lot more questions and i'm sure we will get more from the press secretary. >> okay. all right, thank you so much. what were going to next to fox news correspondent peter doocy with more on this news. coming from president trump tonight. peter. >> ashley, we arrived in grand rapids, michigan, ahead of the bite in the vent here tomorrow. tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon, and we reached out the last few minutes and i know it's late, but i feel bad for some of the campaign aides. but we reached out to see if the former vice president now has any plans to quarantine himself because he and his staff were all in the same debate hall, the former vp was on the debate stage with president trump. for 90 full minutes, two days ago, and we have been told in

recent days that joe joe biden d kamala harris have been regularly tested now that they are out on the campaign trail more. we do not know yet if this is a situation where the president who is in close proximity to, testing positive that somebody goes to a joe biden up and has to go administer a coronavirus test. it we don't know any of that ye. >it could potentially change a lot because the debates between kamala harris and mike pence is scheduled for a week from right now, wednesday in salt lake city. the next presidential debate is scheduled -- excuse me, one week from now and the next presidential is less then two weeks from now in miami. this has the potential for a lot of seismic changes in the campaign trail. >> obviously, we have never seen

anything like this in particular with the coronavirus in general, but that's my next question. are we completely unaware and i must have missed the part where you side with that joe biden, is he being tested whether it be rapid or a nasal swab or do we know if that has been a consistent thing with he and kamala harris? >> once they hit the campaign trail more regularly at the democratic convention in august, they did start to get tested more regularly. but we don't know the frequency of those tests. we don't know which kind of tests either. but this is something else that joe biden, scheduled to be in michigan tomorrow. he and kamala harris scheduled to be in arizona next thursday, a week from yesterday. i know that early friday now. we do not know what the impact

is on their travel schedule, but -- and something else that popped into my head now. the campaign has been saying for months that they did not think they needed to be knocking on doors and canvassing which is what that trump campaign has been doing since june. locked down, the trump campaign was out knocking on doors and just today we confirmed with the campaign that the biden campaign thought it was safe enough that they had procedures in place to get back out there and start knocking on doors. so, is this something now the president of the united states testing positive for the coronavirus. it is this something that has an impact on the campaign plans? we don't know. it is very late and a lot of aides are probably getting pinged and probably waking up in the middle of the night trying to start figure this things out right now.

>> this could have the potential to be a messy situation, peter doocy, thank you. next, we have sean hannity and sean, you spoke to president trump tonight on your show. when did he say about that and i know you mentioned hope hicks. >> sean: yeah, are you there? okay. hey, ashley, yeah he mentioned that he and the first lady has been in close contact with hope. i know from my sources in the white house, hope was very vigilant about wearing a mask, took it very seriously. it's the invisible enemy and i know, obviously, the president and the first lady. our first thoughts and prayers are with them in their speedy recovery. many as we know and american families had to go through this. the invisible enemy pretty well defines what this is.

the one thing the president mentioned and touched on a little bit tonight was that the fact that we've come up with better therapeutics, were closer than ever to getting the final phase of testing and number of companies in terms of vaccines. you know, when that happens, it might be as soon as late october, late november, the president talked at length about the advancement of therapeutics and the movement towards the vaccine which would be in record time. warp speed. you know, the president said in the debate the other night, one person is too many people to die from it. but there are now -- we know, we have better means and abilities to deal with it and take care of people than we ever had before. it's unfortunate obviously for him, his family, everybody that works with the white house.

i know there will be probably those that want to politicize something like this as quickly as possible which is sad, but predictable. but our hopes, our thoughts, our prayers are obviously with the first lady and the president said that they have a speedy recovery. whenever appropriate measures need to be taken by those that have been in close proximity to him and those that have been with him. i'm sure they will be taken. that includes vice president biden and any of the people he might have come into contact with the debate on tuesday night. >> ashley: shawn, when you talk to him tonight did he say anything about they felt and he was feeling well and it was precautionary? >> sean: he did not say anything, but he mentioned that he felt bad in any way and obviously precautionary. i need time any time i interviewed him,i'ves

and taken it numerous times. i myself being in cleveland in the debate, the cleveland clinic tested everybody, it was the more expensive test that goes up a lot higher into -- i don't know if you want all the details, ashley, but it goes pretty far up your nostril. >> ashley: i've had it a couple times. >> sean: your eyes begin to tear for a little bit, ten seconds, not a big deal. obviously, mine came back negative and i've been tested three times in the last week, to be honest. for varying reasons. you know, look, it is something -- i think we are on the back end of it which is the good news. we've never broken down the sequence of a virus as quickly as we have covid. we have never been in final stage human trials as quickly as we have been here. companies from a dharna, fisa,

astrazeneca, gave us positive hope and i believe the trials il starting in late july and have not been stopped probably will tell us that they found in stage two that everybody can't antibodies and that there was no doubts and there is no complications probably a good sign that that's what they are seeing in stage three testing. the president mentioned the ability to mask manufacture as many vaccine doses that would be necessary. i think they would prioritize that for those i would be most in need meaning the elderly, those with underlying conditions, compromised immune systems. again, the one thing the cdc came up with in the last week and a half that younger people under 70, without pre-existing

conditions that the infection rate even at the time the mortality rate is very low. this one thing remained constant even though all the experts in all the projections were way off on the laws of this from the beginning and the one thing that remains constant as older people and underlying conditions compromised immune system, the most vulnerable. that remains the case today. the president mentioned tonight this new therapeutic i forget the name of it off the top of my head. everything from remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, we have more information than we've ever had. people make those decisions in consultation with their doctors. >> ashley: it is interesting that you said that hope hicks was very adamant about wearing a mask and we've seen several

images of the president with a mask on and he pulled a mask out of his suit jacket on the debate on tuesday. that is interesting to note because there's been a huge push to wear a mask. if in your opinion, how do you think this is actually going to affect president trump's campaign trail as well as former vp joe biden. even though they are social distancing and they were distance, there had to be some kind of contact by someone at some point and correct me if i'm wrong. >> sean: from my understanding, when they did a walk-through in cleveland before the debate, they did it at separate times. the closest they gods to each other was socially distance. we have political differences and i don't care if you're republican or democrat i don't want any american getting the virus. one death would be one too many. it was a point in the debate

about for example the travel ban. the president even against the advice of some of the top medical experts implemented the travel ban from china. ten days after the first identified case of corona. it remember the first case was january 21st of this year. the travel ban went into effect january 31st. february 1st, the former vice president, you know, he called it hysteria fearmongering and kept it up almost through the end of march. that was the point of disagreement in the debate the other night. i do believe -- look, with 32 days now outside of a pivotal tipping point election, everything is going to be used to the prison of politics, i would argue the

health of everybody comes first. president is strong, healthy, fit, he takes no medications that have made public that i'm aware of and i don't think he takes any. i think that he's probably a good candidate with therapeutics to make a quick speedy recovery and we pray for that, we pray for help, for the first lady. we pray to the vice president that the formervice president ry too. >> ashley: think you for joining us late tonight. we do you so much. >> ashley: joining us on the phone is dr. bob, he's the new york medical college professor, chairman of medicine and thank you for joining us tonight. >> quite all right, thank you for having me. i'm very surprised with the ne news. >> ashley: are you surprised it came out so late or are you surprised that he was so quick

or a little bit of both? >> i'm surprised at both and i'm little surprised that it happened so quickly and i was alerted to the fact that to the president was being tested around midnight. then i got the call just a few moments ago about him in the first lady being positive. i think this is a very important thing and i think sean hannity refers to the cdc data of the last few days actually where people who are over 70 and we are talking about the former vice president and president trump that there is a 96.4 chance of survival and that age group. what's also clear is that if you have a comorbidity and obesity is in one of those, we know that could be a problem. hypertension, chronic lung disease, heart disease, all very, very bad for anyone who gets an infection.

go ahead. >> ashley: do we know of any symptoms and i know that's the big question because there's a lot of people who are in a symptomatic and it's just as bad to have because it will spread all over the place. obviously, a lot of people and everyone wants to know if the president and the first lady are symptomatic. >> we don't know if they are symptomatic but the first symptom will be a chronic cough, a dry cough, and a fever probably. people present in various ways, people present with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and their symptoms are mostly gastrointestinal, the vast majority of people is a dry cough, fever, and feeling as though you were hit by a bus. lots of discomfort, muscle ach aches, lots of pain. much like a very, very bad case

of the flu. but this is about ten times worse. so it remains to be seen to see what the president of the first lady experienced with the positivity. >> ashley: obviously, the president is very busy doing at least two rallies a day and having the presidential duties, and as well as having the debate on tuesday. do you think the lack of possibly sleep or the constant go, go, go had anything to do with a question mark possibly the lower immune system and may be more susceptible to a question mark >> that's a good question. it doesn't have to do with the acquisition of the infection and everybody who's exposed and experience the virus from other people perhaps they're not wearing masks will get the

infection. how you handle the infection really depends on your immune system. robustness, i guess is the best term. your immune system can be torn down by a lot of things and it can be stressed, it can be a terrible travel schedule, but that's not good. it can be your diet. it can be any emotional concerns that you have. your immune system tends to come to all of the different environmental and external factors. that's a very interesting thing that we in medicine and science do not understand fully. but if you are under a lot and this could go for vice president biden as well, if he turns out to be positive, these two gentlemen have been under extreme stress especially with the debate of this past week. their travel schedule, it's almost a superhuman thing to be a candidate for present of

united states and to face something that's horrendous, a viral infection, i mean, just hoping as sean hannity said, and praying that everything goes well and that they handle -- that there immune systems handle this well. >> ashley: do we know by chance the chances of contracting covid-19 for those wearing a mask? i know sean told us a couple minutes ago that hope hicks was very adamant about wearing a mask. so, is that concerning a little bit? that you contracted it and most of the photos you see her in, she is wearing a mask. >> come you might guess, that's a very interesting point and i talked to many patients who said they born masks and they've gotten covid-19. now, wearing masks is not the only thing that you have to be careful about. you really, as we said from day one, one has to wash one's hands with either hand sanitizer or

soap with such frequency, particularly if you're touching common objects. on air force one, everybody is touching the same objects, the same door handles, et cetera, and i don't know what kind of precautions are taken in closed spaces like in airplanes such as air force one. or in a movie studio or in the tv studio. we know that these kinds of infections, even though you wear a mask, if you don't wash your hands and keep social distancing in a religious way, you are prone to getting infections, no question about it. >> ashley: i'm curious as to how easy or difficult it will be to trace how hope hicks contracted this. do we have any further information on that and how that will look? >> we don't have much information on that. i heard about hobart earlier this evening and i was very, very surprised when i heard that and it made me quite anxious

actually. i fear that the president and the first lady might contracted. they were on the airplane to duluth i believe it was. i said well, this is interesting, we will see what happens. everybody with the president all the staffers, the aides, the secret service people all have to be tested. that's probably in process as we speak. >> ashley: i'm sure it is. okay, thank you for joining us late at night and i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> ashley: joining us now, dr. jeanette swats fox news medical contributor as well as family and emergency medical doctor and jeanette, you're arod covid patients a lot and you're constantly testing. what are your thoughts on the news that's coming out for the president at his age and the like? >> hi, actually, i'm around patients and i pray diagnosed, i

manage for the past six months. it's not surprising to me although i know the white house they do practice social distancing and they wear their masks, they do the best they can is busy as they are but we've got to remember this is a very highly infectious and contagious virus. masks are not 100% effective even though they help. in happens and remember, the mortality rate is low and some people have no symptoms and some people exhibit mild symptoms but right now, the goal and the priority is to ensure that we perform contact tracing. the president is doing the right thing by quarantining. can you hear me okay? speed when you're on the little bit, but i think we can -- yeah, go on. >> right now, the president has

done exactly the right thing even before he received his test results he was exposed, he followed the cdc's guidelines. it can take about 2-14 days for incubation period's even if you test negative, even if you test negative you need to be on the 14 day quarantine. during this time, of course, contact tracing, monitoring symptoms, i'm sure he has the best doctors there in the white house monitoring him and ensuring he's taking zinc which is shown to help the virus from replicating, sufficient and vitamin d. make sure that he's getting things like antioxidants to fight in inflammation, and medicines that we did not have six or seven months ago. we have come a long way. i am concerned and i'm worried. but i'm reassured and i think we will get through this, we've got

rendremdesivir, convalescent pl, we have a lot that we didn't have six month ago. at the mortality rate dropped significantly in the last two months almost 85% since april. those are some reassuring things to know and some facts to know. this is just a matter of watching and seeing how they do here in the next week in the next two weeks. >> ashley: doctor said right before you told us, it's not about wearing the masks only, it's about washing your hands and the touching of doors. trays, things like that on air force one for the president and hope hicks.

i wear a mask, i don't have an issue with this. >> there compliant and follow the guidelines of the spread of the virus, it's not one thing to do. it's not wearing your mask, it's a combination of trying your best to practice the physical distancing avoiding close contact in crowds and also keeping your hands washed and clean and not touching your face, nose, eyes. that's important. you are more likely to pick up the virus from someone coughing, sneezing, breathing then touching surfaces. remember, this is a respiratory disease in the viral particles, if you cough or sneeze, or your talking and you can go into the air. can enter the mucous membrane of another person's eyes or nose into their throats, that's commonly how you catch it and more so then touching objects and inanimate surfaces. it is still important to make sure that we continue to clean

and disinfect. if you had somebody who blew their nose and some viral particles gone on a doorknob or a light switch in the next person comes along and it touches that and rubs their noses her eyes, yeah, you can pick it up that way. but the common method of transmission and acquiring the virus is from respiratory coughing, sneezing, breathing, we have to wear our masks and clean and disinfect. even on the president's airplane, airplanes have air filters, high-quality filters that help the elimination of particulate matter. the filtration and ventilation is quite good on an airplane where you're circulating and using the outside air and mixing it in with the filtered air on the airplane. flying an airplane is not necessarily the way he picked it up. we can't say exactly how he picked it up or even if it was

from hope hicks, we can't say for sure. probably likely is since they worked very closely together, but at this point, this is just a reminder that we need to continue to practice a mitigation efforts on wearing your mask, keeping her hands washed and clean and not let your guard down. it is great that we have come a long way and gained so much knowledge and so much information. the past six months. the numbers have gone down but we can't let our guard down because we don't want this virus to have the opportunity to spread worried it's an opportunistic virus and we have the power to prevent it from spe best we can to practice the mitigation efforts. >> ashley: doctor, you said it's a 14 day incubation period so hope hicks' expensing the symptoms and i don't want to dissect this and i know everybody is different whether they are sent to a symptom addict, but a few showing symptoms right now, this is she possibly contracted this more than two weeks ago?

>> that's possible. 2-14 days, it's a possibility but the average the average of when you pick it up and show symptoms is about 5-7 days for most people. it's not an exact science of one day or two days, ten days, everyone's different and we are still learning more and more each and every day about the virus. what's important now is to make sure that everyone she came into contact with and everyone our president and first lady came into contact with is tested and also going into quarantine. because we do not want the exponential spread of this virus. it might be a handful of people that need to go into quarantine, but the white house, the president, the task force, they are prepared for the scenarios and they have health safety action plans to mitigate any

potential outbreak. we know it could potentially happen if you are very strict with mitigation efforts, it happens. i have colleagues that tested positive and we where masks and n95's and do everything we can possibly do. trump minimize the transmission but nothing is 100%. >> ashley: dr. nesheiwat, thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you, actually. >> ashley: no problem. now joining us as marc siegel, fox news contributor, thank you for joining us tonight. following up on what dr. dr. nesheiwat touched upon, the airplanes, and they read in many different places that it's more difficult to catch it because of the filtration on the plains. if it might not be aware he caught it but if you could go into that just a little bit more in detail. where you can most contract the virus and where it's harder to do so. >> looked, actually, the first thing you have to realize is

that there are filters on planes and filters are they are in a way on air force one. a filter actually alters out 95% of the viruses and it's quite good at filtering out covid-19. having said that, it's confined space and there is still the fact that both the first lady and the president now tested positive and that they spent a lot of time with hope hicks on air force one on wednesday. the timetable for this, that's a little rapid, but i want to point out something about how it works. usually, we have a time when you're most contagious way when you're presymptomatic when you've gotten it at about 4-5 days passed up until five days. that's when he would be most contagious. they spent time with her before air force one, before wednesday, it could have been a little bit earlier in the week. that's the critical period. we've been talking about seven days, 14 days, but it's

generally up to five days that it's most contagious. >> ashley: the president is 74 years old. obviously, if the virus can potentially -- i'm not saying it does -- affect older people more than it does middle age or people in their 50s, can you explain the difference and how it affects people at different ages, especially those presidents age? >> that's a critical question. i'm much less concerned at this moment about the first lady who is 50 years old. the president is 74 years old, he is heavier, having a lot more problem with people who are overweight, almost all of the severely ill patients have been over the age of 65, over the age of 70 is a magic number for th that. the reason is because we are seeing the inflammatory response from covid-19. all the inflammation that you are seeing teens to be occurring in elderly people and we don't know exactly why. it has to do with inflammation

and we're pretty sure that with obesity for being overweight, the inflammatory chemicals that are already in the body. it is like lighting a fire and it's already there, but it's more likely that you're going to get the problem. it does not we're going to see it with the president, no? majority of the time, people over 70, they do fine. i know the president's doctor, dr. conley, and the personal physician is excellent and i talked to him multiple times not about the president but other situations. he is excellent and the president obviously in the first lady are obviously in great hands. >> ashley: tonight on sean hannity show, the president spoke to him in the back half of his show and he mentioned the therapeutics tonight. it did you by chance catch what that was off your head? i remember that there is more obviously therapeutics now than there was back obviously early march and april. are these -- while these help?

i just wonder which of those if any the president is sort of taking and what's more effective in your opinion? >> i will walk you through those but i don't have personal or inside information about which ones he might be taking. we know that there is a lot and some benefit to remdesivir which is a antiviral drug. we know the later stages were using steroid. is there some steroid inhalers being tested but when he might be referring to is that we're getting close to the finish line with antibodies that are targeted to the protein on the sars-cov-2 virus. that's the future of therapeutics here, no doubt. but we are in the early stages of testing that. that might be what he's referring to but the standard of treatment early on is the and anti-trial drug remdesivir. that's assuming, by the way, he were to get help.

we will watch and hopefully they remain a symptom attic and not get sick from this which might very well be the case and then we will watch everybody that's been in contact with him. there will be constant testing going on. >> ashley: i would assume and believe this as well that every single person has come in contact with him will be tested if they are not already. as far as the testing is concerned and i'm the white house has the rapid testing. i've heard that that's not as effective as the nasal swab appeared up with a swab takes longer to get back unless it's the more expensive ones out white house has. correct me if i'm wrong on that. >> i know that personally because when i went to interview the president at the white house i was tested with a rapid testing and that's a 15 minute test.

the test that you're talking about, the nasopharyngeal swab, the one where you do the more extensive chemical testing, if you get that back on the rapid labs within 3-4 hours. >> ashley: how effective is that? 40-50% just a numbers throwing out there, but if it is even that low of a percentage, you test positive and obviously i just wonder if the testing for the rabbit is getting stronger or better? >> it depends on the probability of having a positive result going in and in other words i'm much more likely to believe it now for somebody that came in close contact with the president or the first lady. if i got a negative test, i would be likely to believe it. but the tests about 70% probab

probable. the sensitivity and specificity of the test, the more extensive one, it's about 70% but in this situation, even a little higher than that. you know some of the who had an exposure and if you got the negative test you're more likely to believe it. about, actually, it would probably do it again a couple days later just to make sure. >> ashley: dr. marc siegel, thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you. >> ashley: now we go to shannon bream, the anchor of "fox news @ night." shannon, thank you for joining us. if i know you guys were all over this during your show tonight. >> we were. and of course and makes news when anybody close to the president and the inner circle comes up with a positive test. after that, you are the president on sean hannity saying he and the first lady where is awaiting their test results, they had them within ten or 15 minutes and i knew that they

had access to the best of the best in the quickest of the quickest. but now we start to spin out the thread that you do with anybody who would be around you, who would test positive? you start to think that all the crossovers and to th to the pre. spending time with senators on the hill but you start to think all over washington, some people are very careful with distancing and masks. a lot of people get tested on a daily basis and certainly those around the president. it's a very tightly controlled situation but it shows that none of us is 100% protected from this thing and nobody is a 100% of the time safe. we learned a lot obviously about treating these things and handling lease things. you talked with dr. siegel about the fact that the president has been exposed before. if foreign dignitaries, visitors, people in the white house.

he's done hydroxychloroquine before, there's plenty of debate whether that's a preventative or helping after the fact. we know the commander in chief is going to have a very access to the best medical care ends all the options available to him. if they feel good, they're going to quarantine and we will see. >> ashley: i wonder, the president has done two rallies a day in the presidential duties on top of everything else. then the stress of only i can imagine the debate on tuesday. i wonder how this is going to affect and make this already i feel like a cluster of an election almost for 30 or 40 days out? out? how will this change things? >> we have to think ahead to whether they develop any symptoms or any complications. every case and some people are completely asymptomatic. it is just going to be wait-and-see because you think

about next week is the vice presidential debate. within another week after that, it's supposed to be the next presidential debate. that would be hitting it around and it would see the 14 day quarantine for the president. it is so close to an election that you just have to watch all of these events that are critical to both campaigns. if you have to think about everybody who was at the debate on tuesday night, is there not already undergoing tests if bo h campaigns. we are told the former vice president biden, senator harris undergoing regular coronavirus tests. you have to think that there is the universe of people potentially impacted here. so close to an election, it is a year like no other. i think we are safe with saying that. of >> ashley: for sure is. and i wonder because there is the 14 day incubation period and then if the quarantine for 14 or so more days.

that's half the time almost to election day. do you think this will negatively affect the rest of the campaign? he hit the ground running 24/7 and the man never sleeps. >> true. you think about how effective it was for the vice president -- former vice president to do campaigning in targeted ways from his home safely. zoom interviews, he made it work. you've got to wonder if they're going to revert to the model now and maybe both campaigns go back to the model because you know, they've done things very differently the last few weeks. the president had an open air event and they have been at airplane hangars, places where he could be outside. really, the former vice president esther biden just started to do more public even events. they made both retreat now for mr. biden a very safe bubble at

home. you have to think ahead several steps to see just how much of a lockdown they're probably going to be considering on both sides of the aisle of this campaign. because, listen, it's like unlike any other year and people are voting large numbers of people voting by mail. you've got to think that this is just going to change the entire timeline for some people. may be feeling confident go to the polls on election day and may be stopping to see, okay, the president and the first lady makes a very real for voters out there. it may be they start to think how they vote but we are well into the process. it is hard to see how it will play out but i think is going to be done from home. at the vice president was modeling for months and was working for him. >> ashley: do you think, obviously, hoping that

mike pence did not come in contact and i know i asked a couple tonight and they were unsure about that. do you think any of this could kind of, you know, rely heavily on him and how he does at the debates next week? or is not even going to happen? are people going to be preconscious? there some moving parts to this and a lot of uncertainty. but these are things people are wondering right now and how will it affect the rest of what we're expecting to come? >> i do not know for sure but i assume the vice president is getting tested if not every day pretty regularly and he's around the president a lot and they been doing separate campaigning trying to cover more ground. i'm sure we will hear more about that tomorrow and cross-referencing the schedules. but i would imagine that both parties are going to want to go ahead with the debate next week if they could do so safely. you've got to get creative and imaginative. could you have the two people into different zoom locations? i mean, who knows how you could do a debate.

by 2020 i think you've got to consider the most creative options. knowing senator harris and vice president pence are tested on a regular basis along with the inner circle and the staffers around them. i would think over the next few days they will try to continue to move toward the plan that they had signed up for the central debate but honestly right now, who knows? we will just have to wait and see but i think maybe there will be more attention to the debate then there would have been as the potential debate tends to get the most attention. i think the vice president's debate with the latest news will be even more so under a magnifying glass. it's me have to wonder how jumping for joy the trump base would be if they had to do zoom rallies. i'm not quite sure. just watching from a distance. >> lost in translation, it's not the same campaign trail. but this tempted everybody in a lot of ways and you know, in

ways that we did not know comeau 15 days with stretches of several months. people have different levels of confidence and fears about this and we've learned every day. and what the therapeutics are working, were on the vaccine, there are in historically fast timeline and that will continue, operation work speed. but it seems to heighten everything in the position that people have had to this point. i guess, it will be on steroids, people are going to be very much dug into how they feel about these and what it does now. i hope people can be united in wishing to present the first lady well. and everybody out there the struggle with a difficult pandemic and a time that stressed everyone. >> ashley: absolutely, shannon think you for being with us tonight, i appreciate it. >> you got it. >> ashley: joining us now,

former white house physician dr. ronnie jackson. thank you for being with us tonight doctor, and first off obviously, i never know what the protocol would be immediately following something so serious like this with the president and what would be the first step that would be taken? >> i think the first thing obviously people that have been around me for the last few days, asking the questions if they're symptomatic, or trying to figure out if anybody else is developing symptoms that's been in contact with the president and the first lady. i actually turn the news on a few minutes ago and i've been on the other side but it's my understanding hope hicks tested positive and that's probably what drove the president and the first lady to be tested. the fact that hope is around the president a lot and testing positive. it's my understanding at this point in the first lady are in symptomatic and that's good ne news. i think they will go through the contact tracing around the president and making sure that

everybody else is healthy. they will do what they need to in the president will get great care. he will have the best care that is available to him and the first lady in the first family. they will keep him away from other folks for a while here while they make sure that this is all cleared up and for anybody else that tested positive. that's what i suspect is happening right now, a lot of contact tracing and making phone calls. >> ashley: is there any particle or anything set up for a situation like this where is this kind of just, you know, depending on what the situation is right now. i know coronavirus is something that we have not dealt with before but are there any kinds of protocols in place to how this is handled, how it's also handled with the first lady. obviously, the president is the priority, but is there a difference in priority and how they too are handled? >> obviously, he's the inner

chief and the head of state. everybody is thinking, trying to look in there some contingency planning going on of course, what happens if you get sick. basically performing the duty, it's not going to happen, i'm confident with the president and i know firsthand he's in great health. i think he's probably going to be fine. i hope that this is one of those cases where president and the first lady test positive and they are completely asymptomatic. the only reason that they know that they are positive is because they were exposed to somebody who did have symptoms and potential he tested positi positive. i hope that they continue to be asymptomatic and the quarantine. passes and everybody is fine. i think that is what will happen. there's contingency plans are in place when the president get sick and people are thinking about that.

i am a firm believer that he probably got coronavirus to this point and never even knew he had it, did not get symptomatic. i think the president and the first lady are in the category right now and i hope that's the way things continue. but they remain healthy and asymptomatic and . >> ashley: his son, don jr., his girlfriend, h she had coronavirus. he's been around people that tested positive and he was seemingly okay, but i have a question for you. obviously he is positive, but if he sees no symptoms and he continues to test positive, positive, positive, with a peasant tests negative on day ten and is a free to go or will he be under the quaranti? >> your asymptomatic, you will

be able to integrate back into the population. i think as long as he remains a symptomatic, everything is going to be fine. i mean, i did not want to believe and understand at the white house it's really impressive. because of the president of the united states and the leader of our country, so the level of testing that takes place at the white house for the president and all those around the president is way above what happens out in the general population. so they are going to find people even more readily than they would in the general population that are testing positive for a decent or manic. i think there's a ton of people in the general population right now in that category he sent demand for testing positive. there'it is not surprising thaty find somebody that tested positive in the white house. we hope the president would not, but i think that he's just like

any other person, any other american out there. out in the community, there's a chance he will test positive and he has. i honestly think that as long as he remains, we don't have anything to worry about. >> ashley: the president and 74 years old. is there anything, in your professional opinion, hope is quite young and she's experiencing symptoms, there's a chance the president could experience symptoms as well. but with his age, what are the typical symptoms for someone his age? 74? >> the symptoms are the same for anybody else. fever, things of that nature, he's a little bit older, higher risk category of somebody like hope or somebody younger than he would be. the one thing president has going for him, they don't have

any comorbidities to speak of. the president doesn't have a heart disease, diabetes, he doesn't have some of the other comorbidities that we know now put you at much greater risk for the developing severe symptoms. if potentially having a serious problem with the infection. i feel confident knowing the president's health first hand and he doesn't have any of the comorbidities to speak of. i'm pretty confident that he's going to weather the storm and canoed to move on. i will bet you that he gets -- i will bet you that he does not develop symptoms and he moves on. and this does not become a big deal. >> ashley: writes, i was going to say obviously, a lot of people know that he would be in a high risk just solely based on his age.

but i'm fairly certain he mentioned many times he doesn't exactly live a bad lifestyle as far as drinking, and he obviously does not sleep, the man works 24/7 and he's up i feel like every hour of the day. i asked it earlier, maybe you might know more about this. we have about one minute left of this. is he were to -- like i said, he tested positive, tested 14 days. i want a clarification, is there a negative test on day eight or nine, ten, not 14, would he be considered cleared and have to go through one, two, three negative tests? how many negative tests do you need to be considered cleared? >> the rule is if you get to negative tests and if he went that far out, eight days out, a negative test in the following day at another negative test he would be clear at that point. he could go back to work with confidence that he's not

infectious and not going to develop symptoms to that point forward to. >> ashley: okay, doctor, i appreciate it and thank you for being here with us late tonight for the news that's breaking. ♪ >> ashley: this is a fox news alert i'm ashley strohmeyer from new york, president trump tweening overnight that he and the first lady tested positive for the coronavirus and testing and following is the top aide hope hicks tested positive and they've been traveling extensively with the president this week. if there's reports that he exudes is experiencing symptoms however , at this time there's no word if the present and the firt lady are feeling sick. they are both well at this time and remaining at the white house during this time. for the very latest,