connelly.have an update on the health of the first lady and will share that with you after the break. de that with you after the break. of course you've seen underwear that fits like this... but never for bladder leaks. new always discreet boutique black. i love how the smooth fit hugs my curves, no matter how i move. and, i feel protected all day. a fit so discreet, you'd never know they're for bladder leaks. always discreet boutique. in an array of styles, colors and sizes. >>> welcome back, everyone. we are approaching the bottom of the hour and awaiting an update any minute now. we do now have an update on first lady melania trump's condition. the first lady also testing positive for covid-19, and her chief of staff, stephanie grisham releasing a statement that read, quote, mrs. trump is doing well. her symptoms have not worsened and she continues to rest. she remains in touch with her husband. she is thinking of all who are ill and wishes them a speedy recovery. from a medical perspective,

now refer dr connelly and questions. thanks brian. it's important that the president spend schieffer free for over 24 hours we remain cautiously optimistic but he's doing great. with that 0 one other note it should be clear that he's got plenty of work to get done from the chief of staff. and he's doing it. but that if there's a couple questions about the president's health in the last couple days. yes so the last saturation that we had up walking around he was about 96 percent. is not received any supplemental he's not on oxygen right now that's right. you've received any at all he's he's not needed anybody any this morning today at all that's right do you know he's do you have an estimated date when he might be discharged well i don't want to put a hard date on that he's doing so well but the with the known course of the on this day 7 to 10 we get really concerned about the inflammatory phase of these 2. given that we provided some of these events there be so early in the course a little bit earlier than to most of the patients we k

dr sean connelly position of the president. this morning i'd like to start by 1st sharing that the president and 1st family 1st lady stream we grateful for the enormous outpouring of support and prayers that the whole world and country have been providing and sharing i'd like to thank colonel andrew barr and all the medical and support staff here at walter reed for the tireless efforts providing everything and anything the medical team the president and i could be. sworn in the president is doing very well. behind me are some of the members of the president's medical team whom i'd like to introduce. dr sean dooley pulmonary critical care dr brian garibaldi pulmonary critical care dr robert browning pulmonary critical care doctor jason blair locke infectious disease doctor wes campbell infectious disease doctor john hodgman and seizure. major kurt kline army nurse commander meghan as ready navy nurse lieutenant giuliana live the vote a navy nurse attending the town of commander john shea clinical pharmacist and not present with

that is doctor sean connelly saying the president is doing very well.back to the white house when they can, but also saying that the president twice has had his oxygen that the president twice has had his oxyg e n level that the president twice has had his oxygen level drop down to a position where they found it to be concerning enough. let's go live to our correspondent who is on the scene. the present's position having to say that he wasn't meaning to be misleading yesterday. —— the president's physician. it was quite something if you thought that would allay fears. certainly i was left with a lot of questions. the issue of the oxygen, he mentioned the president had to be oxygenated twice. he then went on to talk about the time on friday saying it was a very short period that he happened to be oxygenated for. it was only in the question is where journalists pushed him and said, what about that second time? he said, oh, there was a second round of oxygen but he didn't give details on how low the levels dropped or how long he had to be on the oxygen for

connelly also attempted to clarify the situation. in an official mem democrat he wrote in part -- the president inits to do well, however, quote, white not out of the woods, the team remains cautiously optimistic. end quote. that was the second official memorandum. his first was released in an effort to clear up the timeline of trump's diagnosis and treatment, which is really important, because he's been in contact with thousands of people this week, and that was littered with notable errors, including calling the company that created the experiment 58 drug the president was given reg-ron, instead of regeneron. >> he's not on objection jet right now, that's right. >> reporter: he's not received any all all? >>. >> reporter: has he ever been on supplement at oxygen. >> right now he's not on oxygen. yesterday and today he was not on oxygen. >> reporter: so he's not been on it during his covid treatment? >> he's not on oxygen right now. >> none of those repeated questions were different. nbc news has learned from a source familiar with

may be an indication of how serious the president's condition is let's hear what what else dr sean connelly to say. over the course of his illness the president has experienced 2 episodes of trains in drops his oxygen saturation we debated the reasons for this and whether we'd even intervene is a determination of the team based predominantly on the timeline from the initial diagnosis that we initiate dexa method then i'd like to take this opportunity now given some speculation over the course of the illness the last couple days. update you on the course of his his own illness. thursday night into friday morning when i left the bedside the president was doing well with only mild symptoms and his oxygen was in the high ninety's. late friday morning when i returned to the bedside president had a high fever and his oxygen oxygen saturation was transiently dipping below 94 percent given these 2 developments i was concerned for possible rabbit progression of the illness i recommended the president we try some supplemental oxygen see how he'd respond he was fairly adamant that he didn't need it he

that's exactly what his doctor dr connelly said although he declined to answer several pretty important questions again during this press conference the 3rd of the press conferences that he's held where he's declined to disclose important information such as the status of the president's lumps just how many times he is needed and to be administered oxygen but as you just saw he gave a produce any review of how the president's doing and says that he's going to be taking care of the best doctors in the world he's currently under on several several therapeutics and returning to the white house tonight you you you you mentioned what a weird thing about this the president of the united states in hospital but the doctors have been surprisingly vague about what's wrong with him they've talked to he's gone from having mild symptoms to needing oxygen to being treated with that some methods which is no movies a a serious cases to now being released while still sick does this matter to people that. you know it should matter to people there is a long well documented history of presidents being real

that's exactly what his doctor dr connelly said although he declined to answer several pretty important questions again during this press conference the 3rd of the press conferences that he's held where he's declined to disclose important information such as the status of the president's lums just how many times he is needed and to be administered oxygen but as you just saw he gave a producer any review of how the president's doing and says that he's going to be taking care of the best doctors in the world he's currently under on several several therapeutics and returning to the white house tonight you you you you mentioned what a weird thing about this the president of the united states in hospital but the doctors have been surprisingly vague about what's wrong with him they've talked to he's gone from having mild symptoms to needing oxygen to being treated with dex a method which is normally reserved to serious cases to now being released while still sick does this matter to people that. you know it should matter to people because there is a long well documented history of presidents

connelly, the physician, says that the president should have no disruptions in his work. that said, there are going to be disruptions. the president had, for example, an aggressive travel plan for the campaign as we are now just 30-plus days away from election day. that obviously and the immediate future is going to have to change given the president's quarantine now at the white house. i'm told by a senior administration official that the president is quarantining inside the residence. it is not clear how he will be able to interact with staff, what kinds of systems will be in place, although i'm told that safety protocols will be followed very carefully. they will continue to be doing testing, they will continue to do social distancing, i'm told of course, the president at -- campaign events and at times on white house grounds has not done a lot of social distancing at those events the mask wearing has not been as prominent and as dominant as some medical experts and outside observers had wanted it to be given the cdc guidance and guidelines vice president mike pence is

that's exactly what his doctor dr connelly said although he declined to answer several pretty important questions again during this press conference the 3rd of the press conferences that he's held where he's declined to disclose important information such as the status of the president's lums just how many times he is needed and to be administered oxygen but as you just saw he gave a pretty sunny review of how the president's doing and says that he's going to be taking care of the best doctors in the world he's currently under on several say several therapeutics and returning to the white house tonight you've mentioned what a weird thing about this the president of the united states in hospital but the doctors have been surprisingly vague about what's wrong with him they've talked to but he's gone from having mild symptoms to needing oxygen to being treated with that some methods which is no movies of the serious cases to now being released while still sick does this matter to people that. you know it should matter to people there is a long well documented history of presidents being re

livelihoods and what possible tariffs on their exports will look like 90 percent of what they produce is connelly sold to the european union. frank languorous and his son led a 4th generation of sheep farmers they raise some 5000 sheep in the southern english county of kept most of the meat this exported for us. in the french like a lamb like this which has a good conformation. they want them weighing around about $18.00 to $20.00 kilos as a carcass. not too much fat just a little fat they are very discerning like good quality lamb course if there's no trade deal between britain and the european union customs duties of as much as 50 percent could be that you don't have a carcass of an extra board at 6 might mean the meat being less fresh when it arrives and frogs go to the opera twa and then they go into a refrigerated truck and normally they're killed one day and they're in the paris market the next morning and the delays to that will cause big problems if they're talking about you know 4 or 5 days of customs checks and lorries how it up it's just going to. impact the supply chain. parts prices.

president's progress doctor sean connelly revealed that the president is now on a course of steroids he also said trump was continuing to do well but was experiencing ups and downs also coming up as a by john and armine a trade accusations over a deadly attack on azerbaijan 2nd largest city as fighting and the disputed border no kind of off region continues to intensify. omarion evanston thanks for joining me u.s. president donald trump's doctors have issued a new statement on his condition saying he's. given a steroid drug called dex the methadone this medication is usually given to seriously ill coated patients to help their long function well despite this trial was pressed on doctors said the president may be discharged from the hospital as early as monday let's hear what else dr sean connelly had to say earlier over the course of his illness the president has experienced 2 episodes a transient drops his oxygen saturation we debated the reasons for this and whether we'd even intervene is a determination of the team based predominantly on the timeline from the initial diagnosis tha

that's exactly what his doctor dr connelly said although he declined to answer several pretty important questions again during this press conference the 3rd of the press conferences that he's held where he's declined to disclose important information such as the status of the president's lumps just how many times he is needed and to be administered oxygen but as you just saw he gave a producer any review of how the president's doing and says that he's going to be taking care of the best doctors in the world he's currently under on several several therapeutics and returning to the white house tonight you've mentioned what a weird thing about this the president of the united states in hospital but the doctors have been surprisingly vague about what's wrong with him they've talked to he's gone from having mild symptoms to needing oxygen to being treated with that's a method which is normally reserved to serious cases to now being released while still sick does this matter to people that. you know it should matter to people because there is a long well documented history of presidents being

announced that he and the 1st lady had contracted curve 19 early on friday the president's doctor sean connelly later issued a statement correcting himself. following an event at the white house rose garden last week a number of prominent republicans have also now tested positive including 2 senators from the judiciary committee who are due to consider trump's new nomination for the supremes court. with the u.s. election less than a month away the state of one man's house could well decide the state of the nation . joining us now is our correspondent carolyn us for more in washington greetings carol you know we just heard the president say he's doing well did he also defend his decision to continue containing without a mask. well in this video of the 2nd one he released from the hospital his 70 trying to kill the room morris we heard yesterday saying that his health condition was quite serious we don't know though if this is going to change anything on his position towards the measures to stop the infections in the states like wearing a mask or keeping keeping a social distance we have to consi

to it for salumi has more from new york he's going wording that was used by his physician dr sean connelly in a statement on saturday that said that the president does meet c.d.c. guidelines at the centers for disease control guidelines as to when it is safe to come out of isolation but again the president and his doctor have been carefully avoiding the word or the phrase tested negative that is not anywhere in their statements that he actually tested negative for the chrono virus and that has a lot of people suspicious. the head of nigeria's police says that an elite anti robbery unit will be dissolved immediately this comes after several days of protests police fired tear gas and water cannon and used batons to disperse crowds protesting in the bell the russian capital for the 9th consecutive day comes a day off for president alexander lukashenko called it unexpected meeting with opposition activists and prison holes have closed and where the incumbent president emma while the raman has been in power since 1902. as for rivals he is widely expected to win another 7 years her a number of a

puts and what possible tariffs on their exports will look like 90 percent of what they produce is connelly sold to the european union. frank languorous and his son a 4th generation seeks farmers sheesh they raise some 5000 sheep in the southern english county of kept most of the meat this export for us. the french like a lamb like this which was a good confirmation. they want i'm weighing around about 18 to 20 kilos as a carcass. not too much fat just a little fat they are very discerning like good quality lamb course if there's no trade deal between britain and the european union customs duties of as much as 50 percent could be levied on every carcass and extra border checks might mean the meat being less fresh when it arrives and frauds go to the wall and then they go into a refrigerated truck and normally they're killed one day and they're in the paris market the next morning and the delays to that will cause big problems if they're talking about you know 4 or 5 days of customs checks and lorries how it up it's just going to. impact the supply chain. parts prices. in the languages also

doctors who are now saying he may return to the white house residence as soon as monday but dr sean connelly confirmed what he would not in the 1st public briefing that the president received supplementary oxygen on at least 2 occasions the 1st on friday he was not sure to breath he was tired had the fever and that was about it and after about a minute on only 2 leaders his situation levels were back over 40 over 95 percent. stayed on that for about an hour maybe it was off and gone another critical piece of information that the president is now receiving the steroids dexamethasone which is recommended only for critical care the deck cement the zone use again is extremely extremely worrying sign their veto it says it's only used for critical and severe patients it actually recommends against people who are not serious and i age also so it's only for serious patients who are i don't ventilators or supplemental oxygen which trump does barely 54 so he's on a really bad trajectory i don't know if tomorrow tomorrow is a little premature discharge. questions continue about contact tracing in the w

president's condition dr sean connelly revealed that the president is now on a course of steroids as part of his hospital treatment for cope at 19 he also said trump was continuing to do well but was experiencing ups and downs also coming up another weekend of protests in belo rose police used water cannon to disperse protesters in the capital minsk after tens of thousands defined government warnings and take to the streets to demand the release of political prisoners. and also by shonen armenia trade accusations over a deadly attack on observation on the 2nd largest city is fighting in the disputed and i'm going to know kind of operation continues to intensify and. i'm married to evanston thanks for joining me u.s. president donald trump's doctors have issued a new statement on his condition saying he's been given a steroids drug called dexa methods though and now this medication is usually given to seriously ill coated patients to help their lung function and despite this traumas personal doctors of the president may be discharged from the hospital as early as monday let's hear wha

clear thank you for joining us at 5 i'm pam moore and i'm ken wayne, the assessment from doctor sean connelly came late this afternoon conley says quote overall he's responded extremely well to treatment and quote. meanwhile, the fate of the next presidential debate is up in the air the chair of the commission on presidential debates announced the event would be held virtually the president swiftly rejected that idea later his campaign asked to delay the debate. that's a request joe biden's campaign rejected joe biden announced he would step this up 8 in a town hall on october 15 the date originally slated for that debate a warning from house speaker nancy pelosi today, the democrats could once again be talking about trying to remove president trump from office speaker pelosi says tomorrow she will be talking about the 25th amendment which outlines the presidential transfer of power procedures catherine heenan host of inside bay area politics is here now she has more catherine. well speaker pelosi is introducing a bill to set up a commission on presidential capacity. >>but first as she was ta

university of california san francisco good to see you again doctor the president's physician sean connelly says that president trump would be able to quote safely return to public engagements on saturday can we get a 2nd opinion from you on that on the president traveling. yes thanks for having back on i think several of us so many of my colleagues actually across the country are worried that you may still be infectious and that's with several reasons 1st of all. is not necessarily consider a mild case he was put on steroids after all and if you think about that then the c.d.c. guidelines suggests at least a 20 day window period of isolation now you can obviate that by getting every test and we don't have evidence of that is a plus added to the fact that it is put on steroids which can actually prolong the viral setting i think that that makes it even more important to make sure that ease not infectious that it's time ok prevent preventing the shedding is certainly an issue considering that along with the president $34.00 white house staffers and other contacts that's a quote that's accord

livelihoods and what possible tariffs on their exports will look like 90 percent of what they produce is connelly sold to the european. union franc languorous and his son and 4th generation sheep farmers they raise some 5000 sheep in the southern english county of kent most of the meat is exported from. the french like a lamb like this which was a good confirmation. they want them weighing around about $18.00 to $20.00 kilos as a carcass. not too much fat just a little fat they are very discerning would like good quality lamb course if there's no trade deal between britain and the european union customs duties of as much as 50 percent could be happy to have a carcass of an extra border checks might mean the meat being less fresh when it arrives in france go to the average well and then they go into a refrigerated truck and normally they're killed one day and they're in the paris market the next morning and the delays to that will cause big problems if they're talking about you know 4 or 5 days of customs checks and lorries how it up it's just going to. impact the supply chain. parts prices. in th

president trump gave an upbeat assessment of his patients progress white house physician dr sean connelly said trump's symptoms were improving but he also warned that the critical phase of a covert $1000.00 infection would come in a few days. as reported yesterday consultation with this group recommended we bring the president up to walter reed the precautionary measure measure to provide state of the art monitoring and any care that he may need. just 72 hours into the diagnosis now the 1st week of coverage and in particular days of a time of the most critical in determining the likely course of this illness. at this time the team and i are extremely happy with the progress the president has made there is a he had a mild cough and some nasal congestion fatigue all of which are now resolving to prove it all right for more on all this when joined now by our correspondent in washington stefan hello to you stefan so trumps a physician there painting a rather rosy picture of trump's condition but his statement was rather thin on details what did you make of it. yes look right it was thin on de

well thomas physician was also pressed on conflicting assessments of the president's condition sean connelly says he was trying to reflect trump's upbeat attitude when refusing to shaky details on his health on saturday trump released a video saying he's feeling much better the next few days would be the real test his white house chief of staff had said that the president is not yet on a clear path to recovery and i speak now to mike hanna is outside the hospital where the president is being treated and might say some gaps have been filled in have they not least. about the how his state of health is but there's a lot of questions about the timeline. right from the beginning of his whenever his infection was all the way up to his potential discharged from hospital let's say tomorrow. yes indeed well the one piece of information that was confirmed today that there was not 24 hours ago was the fact that the president did have reduced levels of oxygen in his blood stream on at least 2 occasions the 1st on friday says the doctor actually caused this move to the walter reed hospital where he was a

thank you dr connelly. before i begin a brief clinical update on the president's condition i do want to reiterate my comments from yesterday regarding the how proud i am to be a part of this multidisciplinary multi institutional team of clinical professionals behind me and what an honor it is to care for the president here at walter reed national military medical center regarding his clinical status the patient continues to improve he has remained without fever since friday morning his vital signs are stable from a pulmonary standpoint he remains on remember this morning and is not complaining of shortness of breath or other significant respiratory symptoms is a malay doing himself walking around the white house medical unit without limitation or disability our continued monitoring of his. cardiac liver and kidney function demonstrates continued normal findings or improving findings. and i'll now turn it over to the doctor about all the from johns hopkins to talk about our therapeutics and again our plan fo

his doctors who are now saying he might return to the white house is soon as monday but dr sean connelly confirmed what he would not in the 1st public briefing that the president received supplementary oxygen on at least 2 occasions the 1st on friday he was not short of breath. he was tired had the fever and that was about it and after about a minute on only 2 leaders he said ration levels are back over 40 over 95 percent stayed on that for about an hour maybe it was off and gone another critical piece of information that the president is now receiving the steroids dexa met his own which is recommended only for critical care the texan meant the zone use again is extremely extremely worrying sign w.h.o. it says it's only used for critical and severe patients it actually recommends against people who are not serious and i also said only for serious patients who are i don't ventilators or supplemental oxygen which trump does barely qualified for so he's on a really bad trajectory i don't know if tomorrow tomorrow is a little premature destroyers questions continue about contact tracing in t

admission now we understand that president trump's oxygen levels were dropping this is what dr sean connelly had to say. i'm sure. reflect the upbeat attitude that the team the president of course of illness has had. didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction and in doing so you know came off that were trying to hide something that was initially true. and say i have here have it he is the fact of the matter is that he's doing really well. and michael meantime is some questions about the lack of contact tracing from places that trump went to immediately before is announced he tested positive. well this is a very important point 1st of all 6 he tested positive or was diagnosed positive with a p.c.r. test late thursday evening according to the doctors we do not know and are not being told whether he tested positive before god one of the anti genter said very quick test which is the white house protocol for testing it's a 15 minute result but isn't largely inaccurate 48 percent of the time according to most medical observers now the point of a

john connelly, his personal physician, says he is now completed his treatment and can return to normal whether he had been tested since his diagnosis a week ago and did you test negative and on both occasions, the president dodged and declined to give a straight answer. a lot of speculation about when the president first became infected with the coronavirus which potentially infects the people he associates with. even more confusion about the background to president trump's coronavirus diagnosis. he lost his voice a couple of times? there was one moment when he coughed and disappeared off the line returning to say, excuse me. that, iam line returning to say, excuse me. that, i am sure will raise further speculation among those who believe the president is not, as he puts it, a perfect physical specimen at this particular point in time. it has become a very controversial matter here in the united states because the president's personal physician has very often dodged direct question not least about the sort of treatment at the president has been receiving at the walter reed army medical

assuming, are unfortunately not great prognostic indicators. 0k, following on from that, doctor connellyoke of the president being monitored for complications. if you are talking about the high viral load, what complications will they be watching for? the complications from covid-19 are extremely varied. we don't really know yet which of them are really know yet which of them are real and which are anecdotal. there might be more blood clots, but we are teasing out. there's a lot of things we don't know because the magnifying glass, we are looking so carefully a nd magnifying glass, we are looking so carefully and we will know so much about this virus that we don't know about this virus that we don't know about other serious viruses that have infected the whole world, seemingly. the thing we're most concerned about is the progression of the disease, does he require more oxygen and will he need more assistance. will he require intensive care as prime minister johnson did. those are the things we are watching very carefully and to be quite honest, it is a little alarming we are being told h

tweets shortly afterward sees doctors that gave statements so let's hear from his physician a sean connelly it's been more than 72 hours since his last fever. oxygen levels polluting ambulatory saturations and his work of breathing are all normal. though he may not entirely be out of the woods yet the team and i agree that all are evaluations and most importantly he's clinical status support the president safe return home where he'll be surrounded by world class medical care 247 i shredded this sounds like a miracle he was only 3 days ago and not he's leaving hospital. well this seems to be also the most amount of information that we've gotten out of these doctors about the president's condition they've been rather circumspect up until now and now we're getting stats and figures that are all seem very positive but the phrase not quite out of the woods yet taken together with what the doctor said moments later when a journalist asked him when was the president's last negative covert test and the doctor said oh i don't want to go backwards this opens up the possibility that the president has

campaign trail and to attend public events he's echoing wording that was used by his physician dr sean connelly in a statement on saturday that said that the president does meet c.d.c. guidelines at the centers for disease control guidelines as to when it is safe to come out of isolation but again the president and his doctor have been carefully avoiding the word or the phrase tested negative that is not anywhere in their statements that he actually tested negative for the coronavirus and that has a lot of people suspicious recent polls one of them in particular from a.b.c. news shows that only 62 percent of voters actually trust what the president says and particularly when it comes to the coronavirus they're very suspicious and not satisfied 2 thirds of them according to this poll not satisfied with the way he's handled the pandemic so it's not surprising given that the president seems so eager to get back out on the campaign trail which was a big part of what he talked about in this interview yes so what do we know 3 weeks away from the from the election kristen so what do the next couple of

respect to covert 1000 but if you pull the statement here it is from the president's physician dr sean connelly and what he's saying is that he this morning the president's physicians met with him in the rest residence he had a restful 1st night at home and he is now reporting no symptoms vital signs of physical exam remain stable and that his oxygen saturation level is also in what the doctors consider to be a good level and overall he continues to do externally well so once again this is the sort of prognosis of the president's physician but again many people questioning it given the fact that early on when the president was admitted to walter reed medical center they were also talking in rosy terms and yet we later found out the president had a high fever he had been receiving oxygen and the same physician also would not disclose to reporters the condition of the president's lungs and his lung scans and whether or not that had there had been any scarring as a result of his cold infection. and can believe this is happening at a critical time in the united states there are just $28.00. preside

to the dismay of president lukashenko the result is now is not good news for foreign journalists connelly joins me in just a moment he was just forced to leave bella ruse but 1st his report on efforts to gag the media and what that means for the 1st test of. weeks of protests capturing imaginations around the world colorful symbols charismatic leaders. it's often turned ugly security forces cracking down brutally on peaceful protests and when it did photographers and journalists were there to report. people here tell you one thing time and time again knowing that the world is watching makes them feel safer. they show the outside attention acts as a restraint on the government. 6 but journalists are facing increasing intimidation to photographers spent 15 days in jail for quote organizing an illegal protest they had taken pictures of a demonstration an editor who published an interview in which a victim of torture named his torture also ended up in jail and tire news outlets now stand to lose their media licenses without them their journalists could face arrest at any time. foreign journal

medics at walter reed medical center where he's been since friday the president's own doctor sean connelly also said he was doing very well and had been fever free for 24 hours at this time the team and i are extremely happy with the progress the president has made. there's a he had a mild cough and some little congestion fatigue all of which are now resolving improving support to note the president's been fever free for over 24 hours we remain cautiously optimistic but he's doing great but minutes after that an official close to trump said some of his vital signs over the past 24 hours have been very concerning and the next 48 hours are critical and senate republicans have canceled all legislative work until october the 19th as the coronavirus sweeps through the parties ranks are gathering at the white house rose garden last week could be dubbed a super spreader event after several top republican attendees tested positive there wasn't much social distancing or many face masks at the event to nominate amy kone barrett to the supreme court her appointment could also be at risk as key member

prognosis at the last news conference and the his sit tending physician dr sean connelly saying very clearly he wanted to convey what he called the upbeat nature of the group in other words that appears to be code for president trump want to the public to be told that he's doing well but that being said is that the position saying that the president continues to be well talking about a possible return to the white house within the next 24 hours but there's one key point that was made in that news conference nic which does raise certain concerns the doctors have confirmed that he is now on dickson methods now this is a very controversial drug which studies indicate show no benefit to a patient unless the patient is either on mechanical ventilation or receiving supplementary oxygen in other words the fact that he's being prescribed this particular drug indicates that his medical team a wealthy area that he will need supplementary oxygen. or a ventilator at some particular stage that would be no other reason according to medical guidance why this drug would be administered if he was not

that's right we heard his doctor sean connelly say just hours ago that the president might be released to the white house as soon as tomorrow so what does that mean well it doesn't necessarily mean that he's not still sick the white house has a medical unit where physicians can take care of him there was even some question as to whether he needed to come here at all the fact that he did the white house said due to an excess of precaution. does suggest that there was some concern that he was very sick and we now know that he has twice had supplemental oxygen which means his oxygen levels fell below 95 percent the doctor said it was 93 percent so we needed a little boost in his ox on oxygen at one point for an hour will you leave as soon as monday he really know that all we know is what we hear from the doctors and to be frank there is a concern about a lack of candor on the information we're hearing about the president's house john hendren thank you very much indeed. meanwhile 9 states in the u.s. have reported record numbers of coded 900 cases over the past week the country reported an

medics at walter reed medical center where he's been since friday the president's own doctor sean connelly also said he was doing very well and had been a fever free for 24 hours but minutes after that an official close to trump said some of his vital signs over the past 24 hours have been very concerning and the next. 38 hours a critical and senate republicans have canceled all legislative work until oct 19th as the coronavirus sweeps through the party's ranks one trump and i used tested positive for many jersey governor chris christie has now checked himself into hospital mike hanna reports. the entrance to the walter reed medical center is cordoned off a small group of the president's supporters standing vigil outside in mid-morning a following some doctors and nurses appeared to give a briefing on the president's condition. the general prognosis was highly positive but a statement by the president's personal physician raises questions about the timeline of diagnosis just 72 hours into the diagnosis now the 1st week of code in a particular day some to 10 of the most critical in determin

sounding better but i will suggest that many reporters have privately observed while his doctor sean connelly says that donald trump is back that he is a symptom free that he hasn't had a fever for 4 days there is this says that he's still having some labored breathing and what the doctors have not revealed are the long scans and we know that with covert 19 it can leave some scarring in the lungs it can damage other organs none of this has been verified for the american public so donald trump says he's back but again given the fact that he's 74 years old given the fact that his doctors have been a vase of about answering some very basic questions well he sounds ok again the risk of a relapse is high ok we had the v.p. debates last night your time kimberly's so we had mike pence come on harris and the fly that landed up here on mr pence i think for what was it 1213 minutes was never going to move for some reason maybe there's a lot of product the demand will never know. too easy too simplistic to say who won but they both clearly had attack before hand and people are saying will come a harris

echoing wording that was used by his physician dr sean connelly in a statement on saturday that said that the president does meet c.d.c. guidelines at the centers for disease control guidelines as to when it is safe to come out of isolation but again the president and his doctor have been carefully avoiding the word or the phrase tested negative that is not anywhere in their statements that he actually tested negative for the chrono virus and that has a lot of people suspicious the head of nigeria's police says that an elites and the robber you know will be dissolved immediately this comes after several days of protests demonstrators have accused the group of murder extortion and disappearances. police and fire it's your gas and water. to disperse crowds protesting in the. day it comes a day after president alexander lukashenko held an unexpected meeting with opposition activists in prison state media says he discussed constitutional reform with his. production is restarting largest oil fields closed for most of this year because of a blockade imposed by the warlords. libya used to p

to the dismay of president lukashenko the result is now is not good news for foreign journalists connelly joins me in just a moment he was just forced to leave bella ruse but 1st his report on efforts to get the media and what that means for the for chess move. weeks of protests capturing imaginations around the world colorful symbols charismatic leaders. it's often turned ugly security forces cracking down brutally on peaceful protests and when it did photographers and journalists were there to report. people here tell you one thing time and time again knowing that the world is watching makes them feel safer. they're sure the outside attention acts as a restraint on the government. 6 but journalists are facing increasing intimidation 2 photographers spent 15 days in jail for quote organizing an illegal protest they had taken pictures of a demonstration an editor who published an interview in which a victim of torture named his torture also ended up in jail and tire news outlets now stand to lose their media licenses without them their journalists could face arrest at any time. foreign jo