kimberly halkett joins us live. s a sense of the mood, the buildup ahead of this very important debate. kimberly: yeah, there's a lot of anticipation here on the campus of belmont university in the nashville -- in nashville. this is the final time they will see the two presidential candidates on the same stage before the election. the debate is expected to last 90 minutes. it is going to discuss a range of policies in terms of domestic and foreign policy. there was controversy about this, uninterrupted two minutes for each candidates before it goes into a free-flowing open mic type of debate. in the midst of this, there is a lot of question about what the attack lines will be. we know joe biden is expected to hammer donald trump on his handling of coronavirus. and for his part, donald trump hoping to hit back against some of the fogginess about the supreme court and whether or not biden presidency would see that expanded. but many americans are really wondering what the tone and tenor of this debate will be, given th

speak to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett in just a moment but 1st let's go to natasha in paris and sasha even summits are not immune to covert 90 how is the departure of sort of on the lane impacted the meeting.

not to attend any white house events on site for safety reasons so white house correspondent kimberly halkett is stationed about a block away and joins me now kimberly as always good to see you know this was billed as an official event not a campaign rally but the president was clearly in campaign mode was any. yeah this president has been eager to hit the campaign trail since contract and covert 19 even as he tested positive it was clear that he was trying to campaign from his hospital bed at times releasing videos on twitter as well as on instagram and other social media platforms it appeared that well he knew he was lagging in the polls he was spending precious time recovering that could be on the campaign trail so you're absolutely right now even though we don't know exactly when the president 1st tested positive or whether he is now testing negative because of course his physician has not released any of that information his physicians says he is able to resume campaigning now the president has said he wanted to hold a rally even in florida as early as today the campaign says they couldn

thank you now let's go back to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett rooms outside the walter reed military hospital in bethesda it was very interesting hearing the doctors speak kimberly at 1 point one of them saying he's back about the president when he was asked about whether it had been any mental side effects from the medication that doctors themselves are in a very interesting position because the president's medical team is not just for president trumping for decades they're actually military men so what does that say about their relationship with the person that is both their patient but also their commander in chief. you know there is seems to be a very close relationship traditionally with the president and his personal physician your rights this is a military position that is staffed at the white house and we know that this relationship is no different than we've seen with president obama or george w. bush certainly they do get an extra quality of care world class care something that they talked about there in that press briefing that the ordinary american wouldn't

get ahead of the quickening spread there while let's go live to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett who is outside at walter reed military hospital so kimberly you've been there for hours really waiting for an update we're waiting perhaps for a press statement but actually we got the news a via twitter how do you see the latest developments 2. well this is clearly a president who is eager to get out of the hospital we've known for at least 24 hours and that was confirmed by his chief of staff mark meadows and the president has continued to try and project strength through out his illness he has often commented that that is what is required of a leader and he believes that this is that moment for him now so any time there has been a negative report about his condition we've seen the president try to get ahead of that narrative this is no exception the question marks about whether or not the president will spend another night in the hospital it's very clear this president wanted to get ahead of this try and get this information out even before his own medical team updated the presiden

super spreader event at the white house last week go live now to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett she is outside the walter reed military hospital in bethesda where of course the president is but not for much longer he is due to be leaving in the next half hour kimberly but as he leaves how clear do you think the medical a picture of what a situation is right now. well there it is clear that he's not out of danger as of yet in fact his physician say it's going to be another week before they can really breathe as they say a sigh of relief that he's out of the danger zone and there's still some mystery about exactly when the president 1st tested positive and negative in terms of understanding how long he will continue to shed the virus so as a result in advance of the president's plan to leave the medical center behind me in about 30 minutes time the white house has been working very hard to outfit it so the president can continue to work and not spread to any other staff members because as we've been reporting here in algiers here all day in fact there are a number of people that c

could be a key swing state talk about this in more detail with our white house correspondent kimberly halkett kimberly good to see you so is the ruling good news for voters. good news for voters not so great if you're a republican or a conservative but overall in terms of democracy in the opportunity to vote that has been upheld and preserved by the highest court why this is such a divisive issue particularly along partisan battle lines has to do a lot with malin voting typically democrats seem more supportive of that they have confidence in the mail and balloting system donald trump on the other hand has said that it's rife in rigged for fraud and as a result most conservatives choose to stand in line to cast their ballot voting day so the issue became that the republicans wanted to cut off when those mail in ballots in pennsylvania could be accepted on november 3rd but democrats made the argument that they should if they're postmarked by the 3rd still be counted even if they come in 3 days late and so this is where the controversy has come in and to give you an idea of just how much importa

white house correspondent kimberly halkett joins us now live from washington d.c. so kimberly how do we believe the 1st the president of the 1st lady are doing at this hour. i we're still waiting an update from the white house press office where we are standing outside what i can tell you right now is that so far the condition of the president has not been updated from a symptomatic at this point it was only that he was tested v following the news of his trusted aide hope that in fact there became to be some concern about the president's condition now the questions that are now swirling in washington are why if hope it was expressing or at least exhibiting some symptoms of 8 coke at 19 but there were precautions that were being taken for the president and the 1st lady and presumably others that came in close contact with her it's reported that hope ics was on air force one without a mask and that also that she was very close to the president and even the vice president as there were preparations for that 1st presidential debate that took place last tuesday so these

kimberly halkett with the latest on that campaign and more in washington d.c. thank you. the largest prisoner exchange in yemen civil war has been taking place in santa more than 1000 detainees are being swapped between the who the rebels and the saudi u.a.e. coalition which backs yemen's government exchange was brokered by the u.n. in 2018 but it was never implemented as reports. a long awaited moment in yemen prisoners held in captivity for years read in the largest prisoner exchange between the warring factions the deal was brokered by the un in 2018 but never implemented but this time. and the government representatives set aside differences hoping the swap could lead to thousands of detainees being live today to in the future. the implementation of this agreement will build confidence and indeed momentum by demonstrating a simple truth that peaceful dialogue. between the parties and deliver the road to peace it was a carefully arranged operation saudi sudanese and government detainees boarded a plane that took off from hoofy held sunnah airport their destination airp

speak to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett in just a moment but 1st let's go to natasha in paris and sasha even summits are not immune to covert 90 how is the departure of sort of on the lane impacted the meeting. well it's certainly a dramatic twist into this summit that it only really just got started in brussels as e.u. leaders arrived a short while ago but soon after a civil glenn the e.u. commission the head suddenly left the summit it turns out because she said later she has come into contact with someone with a covert 19 someone has tested positive in her own to raj now she says that she has actually tested negative but she had chosen to self isolate in order to take as many precautions as possible because of course she has been in contact with lots of people earlier today and now oh serve on delay and will probably continue to be part of this summit remotely by video conferences certainly hasn't disrupted the business of the summit or subways which is looking mainly at gregg's whether or not the e.u. can come to any sort of agreement with the u.k. on a post break

which would likely bring much needed investment and debt relief our white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more. it comes in the context of one of the other foreign policy goals of this administration and that is the recognition of israel trying to see that there are increasing number of arab nations that are formalizing diplomatic ties up until last month of course it was just egypt and jordan but then we saw the addition of the u.a.e. and also bahrain and there is a keen interest in the trumpet ministration to see sudan working towards that goal as well so we know that within these negotiations this was an 11th hour condition being offered by the administration was humanitarian aid to try and help fight covert 19 and they're very much is the desire to try to accomplish this before the u.s. election on november 3rd microphones or to be muted to allow an interrupted answer as during the final u.s. presidential debate on thursday during their 1st face to face president donald trump constantly talked over his democratic challenger joe biden a 24 hour curfew will come into a force in nige

our white house correspondent kimberly halkett joins us now from washington d.c. and kimberly the eyes and ears of the world will be watching out for any update on the state of health of the u.s. president what is the procedure when are we likely to get an update on that. well the white house press office typically on a normal day would start to roll in about 7 am but i expect that the lights did not go off last night in terms of somebody in that press office they are rapidly trying to come up with a crisis communication plan of how things are going to look moving forward this president was already struggling in terms of his reelection effort lagging behind in the polls largely being criticized by ordinary americans for his handling of the virus and demick in the united states the fact that he openly mocked his rival joe biden the democratic presidential nominee on the debate stage on tuesday mocking the fact that he has. really been holding his campaigning events almost virtually for the most part wearing a mask almost all the time the president is certainly going

which would likely bring much needed investment and debt relief our white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more it comes in the context of one of the other foreign policy goals of this is.

but the white house correspondent kimberly halkett spoke to some trump supporters who are camped outside the walter reed medical center i think that if they put it in his armor and this may be true but then again we think the other side of the coin is people might be inspired by him coming out really strong showing strength and a lot of america probably if you go both ways it cuts both ways his amazing best in the world medical would not release him without everybody being on the same page for him to go. i believe that once he gets home well he never stops working he was doing work the whole time he doesn't stop he's a machine and he's going to continue to. keep making this country great so president comes out of hospital but across america cases of coronaviruses still on the rise on friday johns hopkins university reported 54000 new infections the worst day since mid august in a pandemic that's already claimed the lives of 210000 americans support from john hendren in washington. as pandemic cases spike across the u.s. new york's governor is it all ends with new york city's mayor over a

for office must be determined by science and fair let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly halkett she's joining us from washington d.c. so what happens next when it comes to this proposed legislation and what's been the reaction to all of this. well the reaction has been purely partisan those that don't like donald trump think it's a great idea and those that support the president think it's ridiculous i think that you have to really look at the timing the bottom line is there has already been an attempt by house democrats to impeach the president it failed in the republican controlled senate this very same congress member that is unveiling this legislation with nancy pelosi tried the same thing back in 2017 and it also failed and the bottom line is the american public has the opportunity they have a choice and the 2020 presidential election has essentially become a referendum on donald trump's presidency that is just a little more than 3 weeks away so you've got to scratch your head and wonder why nancy pelosi is doing this now is this just an effort to get under the president's

before will now be accepted in what could be a key swing state our white house correspondent kimberly halkett says the issue of mail in ballots has become important during the campaign. why this is such a divisive issue particularly along partisan battle lines has to do a lot with mail and voting typically democrats seem more supportive of that they have confidence in the mail in ballot and system donald trump on the other hand has said that it's rife in rigged for fraud and as a result most conservatives choose to stand in line to cast their ballot voting day so the issue became that the republicans wanted to cut off when those mail in ballots in pennsylvania could be accepted on november 3rd but democrats made the argument that they should if they're postmarked by the 3rd still be counted even if they come in 3 days late and so this is where the controversy has come in to give you an idea of just how much importance this campaign here at the white house places on pennsylvania back in 2016 around this time hillary clinton in the polls was ahead by 6 percentage points donald trump ended up ta

spreader event had the white house last week let's go live now to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett who is outside the walter reed military hospital in bethesda which is of course where the president is for now but not for much longer kimberly we are expecting him to leave in about an hour and a half from now this is a president that has also always tried to i guess either use events as a t.v. appearances perhaps hour we expecting him to leave the hospital. well we expect but i can tell you definitely what the president will be doing is likely departing the same way he arrives via air force or rather marine one which is his helicopter but no official confirmation of that but certainly this would be something that would allow for a higher level of security than weaving through the streets of washington d.c. which is what would be necessary now in preparation for that whether it be a motorcade or whether it be by air you can see behind me that the crowd of supporters is quite close that's because they've been pushed back the perimeter is been pushed back to give the necessary space fo

spreader event at the white house last week let's go live now to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett who is outside the walter reed military hospital in bethesda and of course we just had a picture there painted of what's going on in the white house many people testing positive presumably many more self isolating right now but that is the context into which the president will drive back to or go back to in about 2 and a half hours. yeah and the outbreaks continuing since we had what's now known as a super spreader event more than a week ago at the white house it was the nomination for the supreme court of amy how many barrett by the u.s. president since then there have been senators that have tested positive the former adviser to the president kellyanne conway testing positive you mentioned chris christie there and now the latest of course in terms of high profile members of the president's inner circle including the white house press secretary now notable is the fact that the president's children have not yet tested positive but we do know that his wife 1st lady malani a trump did i