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and olivia troye, let me get with you and your reaction to the president now finally coming right out and saying very specifically anthony fauci is a disaster and at the same time letting it become public that he is afraid to fire him. >> well, i think you're seeing publicly what i saw behind the scenes for several months. and i know that there were times when he wanted to fire dr. fauci and everyone else on that task for telling the truth. he knew it would backfire. what you're seeing is the president's plain desperation because he knows he's on the losing end and he's on the downward trajectory. so what does he do? he doubles down. when people tell the truth and it's not the truth that donald trump wants you to hear, he fires back at them, and that's exactly what he's doing today with dr. fauci. >> when you were on the task force, was it at the point where dr. fauci was getting death threats? was that something you would know about? >> yes, i remember that clearly because that is when we got him a driver, and this has been going on for months. this is not new. and every time the pre

olivia troye, thank you. olivia troye is a former white house coronavirus task force. was a member of that force, and she was the top aide to vice president pence. thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you for having my back. >>> up next, as the pandemic takes aim at -- it's our pleasure to do that. as the pandemic takes aim at much of the midwest, we're going to talk live with one of the doctors on the front line. stay with us. we'll be right back. be right ba. when was the last time your property tax bill went down? what? never. are you kidding me? for years, the residential burden has gone up. while the corporate burden has gone down. prop 15 reverses that. it closes corporate loopholes and invests in schools, small business, and firefighters. and when the big corporations pay more, your tax bill goes down. that's right. a savings of a hundred twenty-one dollars a year for the average home. give homeowners a break. vote yes on 15. >>> this is the cover of the jamestown sun today published in jamestown, north dakota. quote, north dakota reports record number of

joining me now, olivia troye, former top aide to vice president mike pence. dr. nahid bhadelia and jason johnson, professor of politics at morgan state university. where to respond? where to respond? where to respond? donald trump said it was a blessing that he caught covid. here's joe biden's response. >> i think it's a tragedy. the president deals with covid like it is something not to worry about. when already 210,000 people have died. i think it's -- i think it's a travesty. >> you know, olivia troye, you were an aide to vice president mike pence, who is the head of the coronavirus task force. he has to defend this, whatever we're calling this -- this parade of weird that's coming out of the white house in tonight's debate. can you give us some sort of an inside view as to what goes on in this white house in terms of the relationship between donald trump and staff? is there anyone, you know, from what you saw -- and i know you worked for pence and not trump directly -- that could possibly talk him down, roid rage or not, into just continuing to openly spread

olivia troye, top aide of the coronavirus task force.ewman, department of homeland security, they both join me tonight. it is great to have you both. olivia, i thought i start with you and elizabeth of your reaction of watching this last night. having worked inside the administration and having seen how that leadership style if you can call it that translates into the actual working of government. what did you think? >> well, i think the president shook the nation and exactly who he is. i am glad he put on display on what i have been watching behind closed doors. i was disgruntled of what i saw and it was appalling and ridiculous. >> how about you, elizabeth? >> the first half of the debate, i sense the ptsd, the chaos of his manner and speaking and interrupting and never quite knowing what he's saying reminded me of the first few years of trying to figure out how we are supposed to help him implement his policies because he's constantly changing from one thing to the next. the moment that really anger me was when he refused to condemn w

olivia troye, thank you for coming on.o ask you about what we learned today from this cornell university study. this idea that it is the president himself that is essentially responsible for 38% of the overall misinformation conversation. first, does that surprise you? >> it doesn't at all. it's what i have been saying from day one when i decided to speak out so bluntly. it's exactly what i saw every single day. we would meet as a task force, and the president would go out and say something very contradictory to what the experts and the doctors were telling him. and quite frankly, it was dangerous. and it was complete misinformation from the number one person who had the largest platform to speak from. >> you know, it's interesting to see, i'm curious if you can help us sort of explain the way -- i'm going to play a quote from admiral bret giroir on with hallie jackson and how he tried to navigate this issue with the president. take a listen. >> the president, i think he's come out and said mask wearing is very important.

>> olivia troye, john heilemann, thank you both very much for starting off our discussion tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> and when we come back, we saw the breaking news on rachel in the last hour. michael hayden, former head of the cia in the bush administration, announced his endorsement of joe biden for president. another former head of the cia, john brennan, joins us next. john brennan, joins us next. before voltaren arthritis pain gel, my husband would have been on the sidelines. but not anymore! an alternative to pills voltaren is the first full prescription strength non-steroidal anti-inflammatory gel to target pain directly at the source for powerful arthritis pain relief. voltaren. the joy of movement. voltaren. tonight... i'll be eating roasted cauliflower tacos with spicy chipotle sauce. [doorbell chimes] thank you. [puck scores] oooow yeah!! i wasn't ready! you want cheese to go with that whine?? (burk(customer) deep-something like that... (burke) well, here's something else: with your farmer's policy perk, new car replacement, you can get a new one. (customer) that is s

olivia troye, thanks for being on the show.are staying on top of all these breaking developments. i'm headed to cover this other beat and i'll see you tonight on "nbc nightly news." for now, craig melvin is picking up our coverage. >> thank you so much. as promised, we'll don't stay on top of the breaking news this hour. president trump and the first lady testing positive for coronavirus. we're following the response, the testing, the fallout. we just heard from the chief of staff there, mark meadows, confirming that the president is experiencing some mild symptoms. the chief of staff there also saying the president is in good spirits. also testing positive for the virus, top aide hope hicks, republican national committee chairwom chairwoman, rana mcdonnell, people close to the president including the vice president and the second lady, as well as family members ivanka trump and jared kushner have tested negative. house speaker nancy pelosi has taken a covid test out of an abundance of caution. she's awaiting the results of her

people like olivia troye, who has criticized the president in terms of his response or lack of responseemic. but, listen, this mystery is finally solved and i'm sure we'll hear more from miles taylor and perhaps more people, right, in the coming days. there's been a trickle of ex-officials criticizing this president. >> gloria borger, your response? >> well, i agree with nia. i think it won't come as a surprise to them since they've seen him publicly be so critical on our air. i think it does raise the question again, which was his initial argument, which is we people are staying inside the white house because you need to know there are some adults in the room, and in his original article, he said, we're trying to do what's right even when donald trump won't, and then he wrote about this two-track presidency. so the question is, are there any adults left in the room now? miles taylor is gone, olivia troye is gone, john bolton has come out and said that the president is unfit for office. so the question is, is it better to stay and be an adult left in the room and try and right the ship,

nbc news senior white house reporter and former aide to mike pnc on the coronavirus task force olivia troye and director dr. patel. shannon, so this breaking news f the military are quarantining because of exposure to the virus coming as the president is once again tweeting that this is no deadlier than the flu. what is the reaction inside the white house? is the president flouting the advice given to take this seriously or is he being given advice to play it down? >> reporter: you know, katy, the mood in the white house has been rather grim the past two days and despite the president coming back with this triumphant return where he stood on the balcony and gave this boisterous video recording where he told people not to be afraid of the virus, inside the white house staffers are afraid. they have said they feel left in the dark. one white house official described it to my colleague as people dropping like flies around the west wing. of course, there was kayleigh mcenany and two deputies yesterday. today the joints chiefs of staff after the commandant infected and we don't know if that case

. >> olivia troye, i have to tell you as someone who worked in government myself on the democratic side of the united states senate, i can't tell you how much i admire your decision this year to take this stance, take being guided by your conscience in this situation. i think you have the admiration of really everyone watching this program tonight. it's a great example of government service and service to the country. thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you so much. >> olivia troye gets tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> well, good evening once again. day 1,377 of the trump administration. that leaves exactly seven days to go until election day. we've now entered the most critical part of this race at a time when the coronavirus is at its peak thus far across our country. donald trump and joe biden have now the final week to amplify their messages and get out the vote. >> you're going to see a red wave like they've never seen before, and they saw a very big one. this is going to be bigger and they know it. it's going to be beautif

john: olivia troye, former top staffe of the coronavirus task you very much.se, thank >> thank you forme. judy: w n explore some of the questions being asked aboutp' president t's condition and treatment with two physicians. one is an emergency position and professor of health picy at the george washington university. she is a former health commissioner for the city of baltimore. and dr. william lang, a former deputy white house physician, and director of the white house medical unit under president's bill clinton and george w. bush. we welcome both of you to the newshour. based on what you heard today from the president's doctors at walter reed, everything they are saying about him and the fact that they say he is not still out of the woods, that they will be continue to monitor him -- what is your understanding of his condition? >> i believe that his condition is very serious. this is bas on all the little pieces of information that were given and all the things that we are not being told, but it had at least two episodes where his oxygen saturation dropped. one ofev them wase enough

and when you go in and you're meeting with someone, there's really just no personal space. >> olivia troye, former white house coronavirus task force member, top aide to vice president pence. thank you for being here tonight, olivia. i know it's been kind of an emotional day. >> thank you for having me. >> when you talk to people who have worked in the white house, particularly at a high level, one of the things they tell you about the white house medical unit is that there's almost nothing medically speaking that can happen in the white house that can't be handled in the white house. i've literally talked to somebody who worked in the white house who says that she was advised that if she really ever needed to, she could havel her baby at the white house, meaning she doesn't have to go home from work. they could take care of it there. i'm assuming a lot of that is hyperbole, but there is an expectation the white house medical unit can do almost anything. that's what makes it feel in part very grave that in this case the white house medical unit decided that the president needed instead to

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olivia troye what was your experience on working inside the task force on trying to come to agreements and how has that changed with dr. atlas involved? >> we're aware that there have been heated discussions in the task force now that he's there. it's known that he is sort of the overshadowing voice unfortunately, and i i am aware that the doctors on the task force are pretty much in agreement that he is basically subscribing to these false theories. and he has the ear, unfortunately, of the president. and the president will listen to him because he knows that he can refer to him as the doctor on the task force and use that title for him, fully knowing that he is perpetuating these narratives that are just, quite frankly, not accurate. >> olivia troye and dr. vin gupta, thank you both for starting us off tonight. >>> we have arrests in a plot to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitmore, but that hasn't stopped president donald trump from keep trying by saying "lock her up." police have arrested a man in playing to kidnap the mayor of wichita because he supports wearing masks. the may

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olivia troye, thank you for coming on with us today. ashley parker, thank you as well. geoff bennett, thank you. >>> and joining mow now is former acting director of the cdc, dr. richard besser, currently the president and ceo of the robert wood johnson foundation. doctor, thanks for being here with us. i want to underscore what i said a moment ago and have you elaborate on it. just because you have a negative test now doesn't mean you're going to have a negative test tonight or a negative test tomorrow or i guess any time in the incubation period. >> that's right. first thing i want to say is, my thoughts are with the president, first lady, everyone who has been impacted by this. and my hope is that this is a wake-up call for what we need to do to really nip this pandemic and slow it down so transmission is reduced and lives are saved. your question is a good one. so with every infection, there's a time between when you're exposed and when you develop symptoms. for this on average, it's four to six days but it can be as long as up to two weeks. that's why it's so impor

>> the answer is very simple, and i could not be prouder of my former colleague olivia troye, who was in the vice president's office as his homeland security, who left, and who has shined a light on this decision. olivia's answer has been very simple. because for donald trump, he was afraid that by talking about this pandemic and telling americans how bad it really was, it would cost him his re-election. and you know what that's turned out to be, chris? a self-fulfilling prophecy because by ignoring it and downplaying it, the president has made it so bad and so many thousands of americans have died unnecessarily that he's ultimately, i believe, going to cost himself the president by not taking ownership. >> a couple more things. one, in terms of what has happened since, what you've seen with chad wolf in the agency and the extension of his policies and the harshness, is he to be blamed, or is he somebody who is being overrun by the president? >> well, i promised since the beginning here to try to stick to my rule of focusing my attention on the president and not people by name. i know

so, these are super bad guys, don, and i'm proud of people like miles taylor and olivia troye actually speaking out about it. i'm concerned that republicans that are elected officials that took an oath to the constitution to protect the american people have not spoken out about it. but the american people are about to speak out about it, don lemon, and they're going to vote this guy and his team out of office next week. >> anthony scaramucci, thank you. i'll see you soon, okay? >> good to be on. i'll be fighting again tomorrow. >> i'll see you then. >> just want to make sure you know. >> trust me, i know. i got it, buddy. all right. >>> so, joe biden has a lead in some of the states the president is desperate to hang on to. just how narrow is his road to 270? plus, how long will it take for this country to get back to something like normal maybe? maybe longer than you think. >> i think it will be easily by the end of 2021 and perhaps even into the next year before we start having some semblances of normality. ♪ it's velveeta shells & cheese versus the other guys. ♪ clearly, velveeta me

this -- i was on the program with olivia troye who used to work for vice president pence and is now a whistleblower about this whole process and she said look there were plenty of meetings and everybody knew how serious this was. the problem was at the top the fish left ahead and if the president isn't interested in government and the president believes in magical thinking, if the president thinks he can just wish away a crisis that is a threat to national security you are in deep trouble and we were and we are. >> is very disturbing. also interesting to me that not of the same magnitude but another [inaudible] they did standup in their own way and that's something that he famously went to church right after the murder of jamal. he listens to the investigation on the ground in turkey. he was something of a turkey specialist. and then she came back she testified on the hill that the saudis were responsible for the murder. she never said in public that he would never speak to the public. she never denied that. as many mini-figures of both parties republican and democrat said that's what

joining us now is olivia troye, the top aide of the vice president, she left the white house since augustitical of the president hahn li >> it is good to see you again. >> thank you, good to see you again. >> how has it been for you today? >> rachel, this has been a hard day for me the last 24 hours of hope hicks and honestly last night when i heard that, i just knew that we would be hearing more people would be positive because of the proximity of the immediate staff and i know how close she was to the president. she was part of the inner circle. as i watch this throughout the day, it has been a somber, sad day for me. it is something very serious. i know a lot of these people and i know that a lot of them are here right now and i have been in touch with some of them and this is very real to them. i think to be honest a reality check for everybody in that white house right now. >> i think a lot of people and certainly speaking for myself, i think that i assume part of the reason the president seemingly so cavalier of the risk of this virus because he was almost exquisitely protected of t

. >> john bolton and olivia troye and miles taylor joins jake tapper. make sure you watch "insider," sunday night at 9:00 p.m. >>> so the president is hitting the campaign trail in wisconsin where the covid positivity rate is more than 26%. i am going to talk to the students who asked joe biden one of the toughest questions in the town hall last night. >> what do you have to say to young black voters voting for you of a system that continues failed to protect them. go go go on a real vacation. visit go rving.com or your nearest rv dealer. you're on it. exercising often and eating healthy? yup, on it there too. you may think you're doing all you can to manage type 2 diabetes and heart disease... ...but could your medication do more to lower your heart risk? jardiance can reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults who also have known heart disease. so, it could help save your life from a heart attack or stroke. and it lowers a1c. jardiance can cause serious side effects including dehydration, genital yeast or urinary tract infections, and sudden k

. >> olivia troye, let's hear what olivia said about others working in the trump white house. >> i don'teople can go home. >> i don't know how a lot of the senior political staff claimed to be christians when i think their actions are anything but. how do you properly politicize things and weigh politics over their regard for human life and the safety of americans, especially children. >> what is your reaction to that? >> again, i think that the motion of american exceptionism is literally getting people killed. prison industrial complex to the children at the borders, school shootings, the american government has been ripping babies away from mothers since the founding fathers sat down in philadelphia. you know, across the country. there is an idea that christian decency will be the savior of america or preserve a central american values. that does not bear up under any type of scrutiny when you think of the good christians that set up the systems in the first place. i think we need to ask the ideas of america to be made manifest for the first time ever, instead of being startled upon f

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. >> olivia troye and elizabeth newman, i appreciate you both speaking to us. that's all for "all in." "the rachel maddow show" is with us. >>> thank you, my friend. this is the front page. this is the "arre arizona repub and this is "the denver post," yelling and name calling. do you have "the boston globe"? chaos. here is "the l.a. times" today. interruptions. this is "the washington post" front page today. at the badebate plunging into fiery squabbling. and the all capital letters subheading there. trump interrupts and jeers ceaselessly. here is the front page of "the new york times." trump heckles, sends the debate into utter chaos, talk of policies and ideas drowned out. notice the theme? as much as it is true, the whole country is alarmed and weirded out and shocked by what that was last night. that form of discourse does not make much sense anymore if this is what the president is going to be like now. this led to the presidential debate commission today say they're going to change the rules to stop something like that from happening again. they're going

. >> olivia troye, thank you so much for joining us. good luck to you and good luck to your family in el paso as well. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> let's turn to our medical experts right now. dr. sasse joins us now, and the dean commissioner for health of new york city. doctors, the vice president mike pence is in charge of coronavirus efforts, but yet he's refusing right now to quarantine, continues to be out there campaigning. this is how chief of staff mark meadows responded to a question about that. listen. >> i can tell you that what he's doing is wearing a mask, socially distancing, and when he goes up to speak, he will take the mask off, put it back on, but he's wearing a mask as it relates to this particular thing because the doctors have advised him to do that. >> so, dr. jha, aren't these the things the centers for disease control and prevention are telling us all to do whether or not we've been exposed or not? >> wolf, thank you for having me on. they are. it's nice to see the vice president doing that. but at

. >> doctor, great to hear from you and olivia, troye, indeed. you so much. >>> talking turnout, republicans and democrats stepping up the ground game in texas to get voters to the polls. we're live in houston where one effort is under way. stay with us. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. g "andrea mitl reports" on msnbc. 133 million americans have pre-existing conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and asthma. this administration and senate republicans want to overturn laws requiring insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions. they're rushing a lifetime appointment to the supreme court to change the law through the courts. 70% of americans want to keep protections for pre-existing conditions in place. tell our leaders in washingtn to stop playing games with our healthcare. >>> as organizers are working on both sides to get out the vote in texas, coronavirus cases, particularly in el paso, are surging with roughly 200% increase in covid hospitalizations in less than a month prompting officials the

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americans and two officials who were part of the early response from the trump administration, olivia troye, a former member of the white house coronavirus task force and rick bright, who was directly involved in trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine. let's talk about the trump administration and the pandemic. rick, let me start with you. president trump, frankly, seems only more defiant after contracting and surviving coronavirus. he's holding rallies with no masks required, no distancing, obviously. he's claiming he's immune, which is not bourn out by science. do you worry that his handling of the pandemic, which you've already criticized as reck less and care less is only going to become more reckless and careless now that he's been infected? >> i think it's beyond worry, jake. i know his actions and his words and the things he's doing now are extending the duration and magnitude of this pandemic. the people attending these rallies that are not following public health guidelines, not wearing masks and social distancing, they are spreading that virus. and unfortunately, in some cases, i

you have elizabeth newsroom imagine, olivia troye. the people who saw him up close are among the most alarmed. >> yeah, i think that's exactly right and very telling. every administration and every presidency has somebody who writes with them to tell all maybe and the president has no clothes on. president bush had, that president obama, president clinton, everybody does. but nobody has in modern times, at least since watergate the numbers, the sheer volume of people emerge from the administration and say this is not only somebody i disagree with, this is somebody who is dangerous to the country. and whether miles teller is telling us something new or he is simply one more voice in the crowd, i think it is the crowd that is so telling at this point, the idea that there are people who were on the inside, or intended to be loyal to the president or at least loyal republicans or saw themselves as patriots to the country and wanted to serve and came away so disenchanted by what they saw that they felt they had to raise the alarm with the

i want to go to olivia troye, who served as vice president pence, who has since endorsed joe biden . so john, let's start with florida, key state, very different message. it could not be more stark and they both know it and own it when you see those images on the screen. yet millions have voted already in florida. millions. more than 4 million people have already voted in florida. and is the die cast? >> the die is not cast, because we don't know how it's going to end up, and florida is always tight. but the contrast couldn't be clearer, and all the major themes of this election, the pandemic, the hyper partisan politics, the contrast in styles, division versus yunity, are coming together in florida today. it is a stunning moment when you reflect at these intersections, and in a state whose governor embraced the kind of herd immunity being pushed by many, especially scott atlas, in the white house. and you are starting to see the toll of that strategy take place in very real ways, especially with so many senior citizens there. >> dr. reiner, biden slamming trump today for holding sup

. >> olivia troye, we are out of time, thank you for being with us and sharing your perspective this coming up next, what joe biden says he will do if elected to unite separated migrant kids with their parents. we've got new nbc news reporting just out next, right here on msnbc. at dell technologies, we started by making the cloud easier to manage. but we didn't stop there. we made a cloud flexible enough to adapt to any size business. no matter what it does, or how it changes. and we kept going. so you only pay for what you use. because at dell technologies, we stop...at nothing. ♪ >>> i want to share with you two new headlines just in this morning on immigration. first, sources inside the biden campaign tell our team that the democratic presidential candidate will announce today that, if he win, he plans to create a task force that would work to unite children separated from their parents at the border, and he'll do that on day one as president. watch for more of that from joe biden later on in florida. . it's happening as we're also learning that the federal agency responsible for

. >> sure, olivia troye and patrick casper. thanks to you both. >>> tonight more than 72 million ballots have been cast and there are still six days to go. we've got the one, the only, the man, steve kornacki at the big board to break down the polling after this. after this it must be nice to play by a different set of rules. in california, we're the only state where wealthy trust fund heirs get their own tax loophole. these tax cheats avoid millions in taxes on vacation homes and coastal mansions depriving our schools. prop 19 closes this unfair loophole that's been exploited by an elite few and helps our schools, firefighters, and seniors. vote 'yes' on prop 19. tell them [record scratch] the party's over. >>> as we close in on the end of voting and the 2020 election just days from now, joe biden holds an 8.2 point lead over president trump. 72 million americans have voted early or absentee so far. that's according to data gathered by nbc news and target smart. some states are creeping close to their total 2016 turnout. voter

. >> i'm olivia troye. i worked on the coronavirus task force from day one, side by side with dr. anthony fauci. i witnessed donald trump and senior white house officials routinely sideline and disconsider dr. fauci, both privately and publicly. and now the trump campaign is twisting dr. fauci's words in a campaign ad for their own political gain. it's gross and upsetting and typical of a white house that has no regard for the truth. for donald trump, it's always about him. for dr. fauci, it's always been about serving the american people. join me as a republican and former trump administration staffer who is voting for joe biden. >> again, that is just out tonight. that is the first time that ad has played anywhere, a new ad from republican voters against trump, defending dr. anthony fauci as the trump campaign starts to air ads falsely claiming an endorsement of president trump on his handling of covid from fauci. as i mentioned, dr. fauci is objecting loudly to that himself. republican voters against trump, with this new ad tonight. they're basically trying to backstop dr. fauc

. >> let me, in that spirit, let me play olivia troye describing some of what you're talking about on that complex. here she is. >> i think there are still people walking around the white house today who don't actually believe this virus is real. a lot of them disregard it. even though, as you've seen, we have got over 7 million cases and we've lost a lot of lives here, and we're still watching this globally happen across the world. everyone is trying to figure out how we get past this. >> phil rucker, i spoke to a close trump ally, and he raised the political implications of a president who has tested positive for a virus that he thought months ago he could will away, that it would miraculously disappear, one that he boasted about downplaying because he wanted to reassure people that having caught up with him, to use the word you used in your last answer, punctures the, you know, most generous explanation was he really was trying to will away something horrible. but i think most people think that he was in denial, that there was more he could have done to protect the country. he lead

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take for example, olivia troye, former advisor to vice president mike pence who worked on the coronavirusecause trump didn't care if people died from the virus, including -- including his own supporters >> the truth is, he doesn't actually care about anyone else but himself. people i don't have to shake hands with these disgusting people. those disgus people are the same people that he claims to care about these are the peop >> seth: i'm surprised trump ever shook hands with his supporters he's a wealthy germophobe who lived in a golden penthouse and traveled everywhere by limo. of course he was disgusted by interacting with normal, non-rich people. even before the pandemic, he probably finished his rallies and then sent mike pence out to shake hands in a trump disguise. "i really don't want to do this, sir. "then maybe you shouldn't have been so stingy with your kisses. maybe you're starting to regret that choice now. republicans are in lockstep behind this guy all so they can win and maintain power, that's the corrupt bargain they've made back an unrepentant criminal sociopath who's ove

white house come out and tape ads, talking about what their experience is, elizabeth newman and olivia troye, and what they said is internally this was a policy, to pretend like this wasn't a big deal because they didn't want it to hurt the president's re-election campaign. so it wasn't just that the president was spreading disinformation. he was preventing the people who are public servants, whose job it was to try to protect us, from doing their job. and so this is -- you know, we were going to open at easter. the think was going to go away when it was hot. he was going to say this all the way up to election day, and now, you know, they've been so irresponsible and so obsessed with this perception that everything is fine that they're all walking around the white house with somebody that has the virus and nobody's wearing masks, nobody's distancing. and it's insane. >> we're just learning that former colleague of ours, vivian salama, is apparently reporting that the biden campaign has asked a journalist, a pool reporter covering politics who has covering the trump outing on wednesday, not t

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. >> john: olivia troye, thank you very much. >>inhank you for hav me. >> woodruff: now, were some of the questions being asked about president trump's ion and treatment with t physicians. dr. leana wen is an emergency physician and professor of p healicy at the george washington university. she is a former health commissioner flt the city of ore. and dr. william lang, a formerse deputy white hhysician and director of the white house medicaunit under pres bih. clinton and george w. b >> woodruff: and we welcome both of you to the "news hour." dr. wen, to you first. baseon what you heard today from the president's doctors at walter reed,ng everythey're saying about him, and the fact they say he is still not out of the woods, that they're going to be contuing to monitor him, what do you -- what iur nderstanding of his condition? >> doctor: i believe, judy, that his condition is very serious. and this is based on all the little pieces of information that we're given, and all of the things that we're not being told. but it soundlike

"outfront" now, olivia troye. she served as vice president pence's lead staffer on the coronavirus task force. she has now endorsed joe biden. so olivia, you've got the president doing what he just did with the mask. so let me just ask you because you've been in those rooms, you've been in the room with him and the vice president. was there anything about that that surprised you or is that what you actually expected him to do? >> i have to say that i was somehow, even after two years of having worked in this white house, i was still shocked. it was deplorable what he just did. as the leader of the free world showing, exhibiting that behavior, the rest of the world must just be -- i mean, this is just despicable. i can't even -- i guess i'm rarely at a loss for words, but i could not believe that he did that. i mean, he is entering the people's house. he continues to use the house that we all unfortunately elected him to. right? this is who he's representing. and this is just -- it's embarrassing as an american. it'

how much do you think the politics that olivia troye talks about, whether with the covid response orsaw in thwarting efforts to bring intel about white supremacy or russian election hacking, how much does that sort of taint the information that goes out from public officials about an alleged crime like this? >> i think at this point almost everything that goes out is for the purpose of getting trump re-elected. there's so few people left in press and communication jobs that are able to report on good news or tell you facts about anything other than what will help get trump re-elected. sadly -- look, there's always a tension -- and nicolle you know this -- with a press office, a communications office, because your job is to try to make things in the best light possible. but you also are balancing the fact that you're managing the government and you have a duty to provide accurate information to the public so that maybe for their own protection, if it's a national emergency like covid is, or just so the electorate can be informed about what the government is doing. what you've seen in

and olivia troye, aide to mike pence and now works with the anti-trump group republican political alliance for integrity and reform. i want to start with you. i saw in the first ad or interviews that you did, that one of the unfortunate and i'm sure tasks you took on reluctantly was to have to call dr. fauci when he was en route to the coronavirus task force meetings. i guess it is not a surprise that 14 days before an election trump is in a war of words with phony fauci who maintains i think about a 67% trustworthy rating and trump is in the 20s. but i wonder what you make of what it says about his inability to xwlach t grasp the pandemic. >> i think that you are watching the president sort of scramble, right, to sort of spin this in any bay that he can. you saw him first cut an ad trying to take dr. fauci -- well, he took dr. fauci's words out of context and tried to say that dr. fauci supports him personally, which is not the case. he was praising the task force. and he consistently undermines these people repeatedly and now you see him going into the election, two weeks out, numbers ar