hicks, apparently, developed symptoms. she would be teeming with virus, and that's not the time to be on a small helicopter or in a small conference room on air force one, with a buchnch of people. the president should -- should really quarantine for 14 days, and as should everybody. this is going to be very, very difficult. >> doctors, stand by. this is our breaking news tonight. the president of the united states, in quarantine, while awaiting covid test results after his close aide, hope hicks, tested positive for the virus. first lady, as well, waiting -- awaiting her result. according to cdc guidelines, the president and the first lady should continue to quarantine for a full 14 days after his last-known exposure to someone who has tested positive for covid-19, even if the test results come back negative, now. and that's because the incubation period for the virus can be up to 14 days. let's bring in, now, andy slavitt. the former acting administrator for the centers of medicaid and medicare services. thank you, sir.

hope hicks was there. we just showed video of hope hicks, kushner, nicholas luna and hicks all getting on marine one. none of them are wearing masks. that is on wednesday, the day that she started to feel symptoms we understand, is that right? >> yes. that is our understanding. they get on marine one. they get on air force one. they go to minnesota where the president has another closed-door fundraiser inside, not outside. then he goes to the rally that was mostly outside in an airport hangar. >> and we don't know if she is the person -- as far as we know she is the first one that tested positive. we don't know if she could have spread it to others. it could have been the president that spread it to her. she actually got symptoms on air force one on the way back and was still allowed to get on air force one and quarantine on the plane? >> it is not clear if she felt symptoms while at the rally or way back. once they had been in route to minnesota we are told that is when she started to feel symptomatic. i

hicks has traveled with the president over the past several days. two's debate, wednesday together in minnesota. often seen without masks. dr. sanjay gupta is back with me now. sanjay, just in hindsight, was the debate tuesday set up in a safe enough way. they were socially distant. they were probably more than six feet. i'm not sure of the exact distance. looked 8 to 10 feet distant from each other. they were looking at each other. the president was yelling a lot and, you know, stuff was coming out of both people's mouths. was it safe? >> well, i think -- i don't think you can say it was safe. you can say that they tried to do the best job they can -- they could in setting that up in the midst of a pandemic with a very contagious virus that's circulating. it is worth pointing out that both men are considered vulnerable. my parents are in their 70s living in florida. they've been told to stay home in march. they watch this saying, we're staying at home for the last several months and two people around our age are up there in this sort of setting. i

hicks -- and by the way, let me just start by saying i wish ms. hicks the best. i wish her a speedy recovery, as i'm sure everybody does. but she became symptomatic, apparently, last night. so we know she was likely contiguous as early as monday night and she's been with the president all week. now, marine one is a very -- it a very small aircraft. so everyone on that aircraft has been exposed to the virus. we know that. with clarity. and i would suggest that a lot of people on air force one have been exposed to the virus. cdc guidelines for this are pretty clear. everyone who has had a close exposure to somebody who is a -- has a -- is a known infection should quarantine for 14 days. so the entire staff who traveled with the president this week should be quarantining for 14 days. the president of the united states should be quarantining for 14 days. important for the continuity of government is that the president and vice president should not be together now for 14 days. to prevent both the president and the vice president from contracting the virus. the preside

it may not be hope hicks. who got it first between donald and his wife melania, where they got it is still potentially a question. and this virus, how it plays out in each person is very different. some people have no symptoms at all. we'll be having a doctor on this morning who had covid who did just fine and he's in his 60s. so many questions here. the one thing we do know is that hope hicks tested positive and now the president and his wife has as well. so many questions, not just about how this began but who else in the administration could have potentially been exposed. >> when you look at the ripple effects and you wonder who else could be exposed, you see jared kushner walking closely to hope hicks wednesday, getting on air force one. that means ivanka trump, of course, as well. dan can sereno is in that image, steven miller the adviser is there as well. when you ask about further ripple effects, the white house chief of staff, mark meadows has spent a lot of time with amy coney barrett, taking her to h

and hicks works directly with jared kushner.ly raises questions about hope hicks and her contact, but jared kushner, dan scovino, stephen miller and everyone the ones that went to the fundraiser because, once again, they're in contact with the president. this has set off a slew of headaches for the white house they're going to have to deal with when it comes to this. here it is, 11:00 p.m. and we still do not know the results of his test. even though it was broken around 8:00 p.m. on the east coast. >> the president speaking about it on his favorite channel, fox news. kaitlan collins joining us with the breaking news. we'll get back to kaitlan throughout the evening. i want to bring in now miles taylor, the former chief of staff at the department of homeland security and jonathan whackrow. . j, good evening. another big night of breaking news. miles, this is a huge development. the president is at serious risk of having this virus. >> well, don, i would say this -- you want to hope for the best. look, people can love or hate don

but hope hicks may be actually a superspreader. walking around in close proximity while she was sick. if she had symptoms yesterday or the day before yesterday and has tested positive for that, she could have for the last two weeks before that been actually infected and asymptomatic but able to spread the coronavirus. so the network that are going to have to be identified and contact traced, as we say, and tested is vast. and i think, as i said earlier, that since we don't actually know how far the coronavirus can spread from somebody who is infected, i do worry about people who are more than six feet away from them. there's a lot of people within the six-foot perimeter, but even on the debate stage with the distance between the president and former vice president biden, we still could have had transmission of an aerosolized virus if the president was actually infected during the debate. so there's no end to the problems here. but the other thing i think to keep in mind is that this campaign in terms of campaigns as we know them is

when did the white house find out about hope hicks? and i'm asking specifically because she was on yesterday's trip, and you know the confines of the helicopter, the aircraft, and the tight group of people around the president on the road in holding rooms and the like. >> brian, the white house realized last night, wednesday night got the diagnosis of hope hicks, who is indeed one of the president's very closest advisers. so they've known from last night that she had tested positive for the coronavirus. and indeed let's walk through the chronology of the week. tuesday night she accompanied the president to the first general election debate in cleveland. yesterday she was in minnesota. she traveled with him for a couple stops in minnesota, including a rally, traveled with him on not just air force one but on marine one. it is protocol for staff to wear masks in the presidential helicopter, but it is extraordinarily close quarters. hope, we're told, via white house aides, is one of the white house staffers who does wear masks from time t

but hope hicks may be actually a superspreader. walking around in close proximity while she was sick. if she had symptoms and -- yesterday or the day before yesterday and has tested positive, she could have for the last two weeks before that been actually infected and asymptomatic but able to spread the coronavirus. so the network that are going to have to be identified and contact traced, as we say, and tested is vast. and i think, as i said earlier, that since we don't actually know how far the coronavirus can spread from somebody who is infected, i do worry about people who are more than six feet away from them. a lot of people within the six-foot perimeter, but even on the debate stage with the distance between the president and former vice president biden, we still could have had transmission of an aerosolized virus if the president was actually infected during the debate. so there's no end to the problems here. but the other thing i think to keep in mind is that this campaign in terms of campaigns as we know them is essential

that would be hope hicks. is believed, if past performance was the guide for tonight, to have been given the rapid test at the white house. and then when we didn't hear anything, when we saw his tweet talking about beginning the quarantine process, nothing more, nothing less, we suspected perhaps multiple tests to rule out a false positive or false negative. but this president, who has been outwardly and publicly, from the start, can fairly be called a covid-19 denier, did his best publicly to diminish the threat, diminish what it was doing in its travels across our country, many times promising it will go away. it will disappear. early on telling us cases would go down to zero. we now know thanks to tape recordings with the journalist bob woodward he knew better. he knew better privately. he was willing to discuss that over what he thought was a private telephone call. but he said as not to panic the public, he was not willing to share that with the public and was eager to play it down and keep playing it dow

but hope hicks may be actually a superspreader. walking around in close proximity while she was sick. if she had symptoms and -- yesterday or the day before yesterday and has tested positive, she could have for the last two weeks before that been actually infected and asymptomatic but able to spread the coronavirus. so the network that are going to have to be identified and contact traced, as we say, and tested is vast. and i think, as i said earlier, that since we don't actually know how far the coronavirus can spread from somebody who is infected, i do worry about people who are more than six feet away from them. a lot of people within the six-foot perimeter, but even on the debate stage with the distance between the president and former vice president biden, we still could have had transmission of an aerosolized virus if the president was actually infected during the debate. so there's no end to the problems here. but the other thing i think to keep in mind is that this campaign in terms of campaigns as we know them is essential

no one had to tell us it was hope hicks, necessarily.he fact that a senior aide to the president had tested positive as of yesterday morning who the white house knew was in close contact with the president and the president still got on that plane, what are your concerns this morning? >> the first thing i want to say is i wish all of them a speedy recovery, i think we all do. it's a tragedy what's going on many terms of the pandemic. but john, it's irresponsible. and you don't even know if hope got it first. she could be the fall person and then the president does the news drop at 1:00 a.m. to try to deflect what's going on with his personal health. we don't even know what's going on because of all the lies. but here's the thing that's so irresponsib irresponsible. he's going to minnesota, knowing that hope had it. he's going to new jersey, knowing that hope had it. the white house press secretary unmasked is giving a press conference. nobody in the congress is being notified. and so this is just rank irresponsibility and it's rank incom

but it is not just hope hicks.ennifer jacobs tweets, "some of trump's closest aides sensesed n wednesday that the preresident s feeling poorly. the president seemed exhausted, i'm m told. someme talked it up t to 15 fron intense campaign schedule and others began to worry he had the coronavirus." this was on wednesday. as he flew in a plane, knowing that hope hicks,s, one of his closest aides, had tested positive for covid-19. what does that mean to fly i ina plane when you know you have been exposed to someone w with active coronavirus, not to mention may not be feeling g wel themseselves? >> franknkly, it is unethicall behavior. the minute you think you may be a conduit for someone else's illness, you have a responsibility to declare that. to fly on a p plane, all of the people, all of the aides on the plane with you, thinking it is a safe place to be, you knonowing you potentially could d be ill d making them ill cocome in that s innanate unethical thing to do t also k keeping with the way this president has dea

the news coming after he first learned the president's top aide hope hicks tested positive, hicks by the president's side as he travelled to manyes in the recent days. including wednesday night in duluth and tuesday with joe biden, together on the stage for 90 minutes, socially distanced. there was immediate concern with the news for joe biden's health, too. this morning, reporters waited hours before learning biden's test came back negative, jill biden's too. we continue with taking the president to walter reed medical center. here's jonathan karl. >> reporter: a sign of just how serious the president's condition is, he was taken via helicopter, late this afternoon to the walter reed medical center. multiple sources close to the president say he is experiencing the signature symptoms of covid-19, fever, chills, nasal congestion and a cough. the white house released a statement from the president's doctor saying he has been treated with a, quote, polyclonal antibody cocktail as well as zinc, vitamin d, famotidine, melatonin and a daily aspirin. as of this afternoon, the doctor wrote,

hicks might have been most infectious. so it is critical that he quarantine himself and avoid other people so he doesn't continue the transmission chain and doesn't spread the virus to others. >> and he's scheduled for two rallies in wisconsin this weekend. would that be even -- would that now be an even more reckless public health risk for the president to impose on wisconsin? >> well, first of all, it clearly was a bad idea before this whole thing happened. wisconsin is the third highest number of new cases in the country. it's a super hot red zone, lots of cases. so bringing together for a rally was very, very dangerous. but i do think at this point that the president should not be out and about, and again i think he should be quarantining himself and obviously getting -- continue to get tested until he's no longer a risk. but i think for his own protection and for those around him, everybody who has been in touch with ms. hicks needs to be self-isolating until further notice. >> so, doctor, the breaking news is that th

i wish miss hicks well. we want everyone who gets infected with this virus to get better as quickly as possible. but this is another example where it demonstrates testing does not prevent infection. they do a lot of testing in the white house but you need to wear the mask. testing detects infection. you need to wear the mask in air force 1, in the white house at all times. when you get into these large groups whether fundraisers or large rallies, i promise you the virus is there and is being transmitted. now, the interesting thing is, everyone who is associated with miss hicks in the recent past should be quarantined at home and stay at home and not go out anywhere. that would be routine public health process. we'll see if it gets done in the white house. >> context. kaitlan if you identify other people but if they were with her -- >> whoever else. the close quarters crew. if they were around hope hicks and she tested positive and she had no mask on, you're saying that those people should not be by the presi

ms hicks is the closest person to the president known to have contracted covid—19.president and first lady are being tested for the virus. let's speak to our north america correspondent, peter bowes. what do we know about what is going on here? we know from several us officials, citing multiple sources, that hope hicks has contracted coronavirus. as you say, she is one of the president was my closest advisers. she has travelled with him on at least two occasions this week, to minnesota for that rally and as the world saw on tuesday, she was with the president, having travelled on air force one to clear land for the debate. there is a photograph circulating now on social media of her leaving that flight and arriving, not wearing a face mask, obviously in the next few days going to be the subject of some scrutiny. peter, i am sorry to stop you mid— flow. we are having trouble with the line. we will come back to peter as soon we can re—establish that line. for now, peter bowes, thank you very much. next, the european union will immediately impose sanctions on belarusia

and hope hicks, as well. but the fact is that when i talk about the ripple effects, it is that there are people in the west wing, there are members of the cabinet. people in the west wing who went to capitol hill, who met with senior leaders of the senate leadership, and i believe the house leadership, and then, let's just add the third branch of government in, or the woman who wants to be on the third branch of government, amy coney barrett. the president's nominee to take ruth bader ginsburg's spot on the supreme court has been at the white house. she has also been on capitol hill. you have all of those, just on the surface level, all of those top people who have been potentially exposed, who are undoubtedly going to be asking their doctors, do i have to quarantine? so what if mitch mcconnell, the top republican in the senate has to quarantine? what if amy coney barrett, the nominee, has to quarantine. what if the president's chief of staff, the vice president? i mean, those are not far-fetched notions. san

hicks tests negative on wednesday morning.he began showing minor symptoms wednesday evening and was quarantined on "air force one" on the way back from the campaign rally in minnesota. her positive test came back yesterday morning. here's the president on fox news last night discussing hicks just hours before announcing his own diagnosis. >> she tested positive. she's a hard worker. a lot of masks. she wears masks a lot, but she tested positive, and i just went out with a test, you know, because we spend a lot of time. the first lady went out with a test also. it's very, very hard when you're with people from the military or law enforcement and they come over to you. they want to hug you and kiss you because we really have done a good job for them. you get close and things happen. i was surprised to hear this with hope, but she's a very warm person. she knows there's a risk, but she's young. >> you get close and things happen. joining us now, jon meacham. jon, your current book, the title is "the truth is marching on." i'm sor

the vice president was not in close contact with hicks. the president is going to have to quarantine, ill assume some of the work would have to be handed to the vice president of the united states but if the vice president of the united states has to quarantine as well then that'll go to the speaker. who knows what happens at this moment? can you walk us through this? >> the president of the united states may be at this juncture. based on the number of people he comes into contact with before we get continuity, simultaneous to that, there is a continuity plan that's in place. every administration puts together one of those continuity plan. if infection cripples the top tier of the government, there is a plan in place. don, i don't have a great faith that this administration has done any scenario planning. at this point is unclear to me that the president and his team have done basic homework to try to figure out what to do if the president of the united states is una i belieble to perform hi. this is an unprecedented situation based on the

and hope hicks could volcano required immediate testing.he might have been infective since september 15th or 16th and it should have raised alarms and unfortunately, the president is potentially extremely vulnerable to being extremely sick. as my colleagues have said. that means we have serious national security concerns that are the result of having a president who actually may be sick enough to be unable to fulfill his functions ads president and we turn to the vice president who they have to figure out, the vice president's staff is being tested right now as well, brian. >> yeah there is interplay among aides, between the two, there is interplace among staff, and secret service. doctor, i hate to mix politics and medicine. the three most prominent world leaders known to have coronavirus, brazil, uk and u.s. have one theme between them. they were all coronavirus deniers. >> brian, i mean, that is unfortunately a horrible common denominator. i'm sure if you ask the leaders of the two countries, they probably don't want to be a part of that

hope hicks they fight outed as they wouldn't test him immediately? i find that impossible or incredibly negative. >> yeah, me, too. i think that doesn't sound right. we know. you just came into contact. the only thing that could possibly make sense, they got the test results, you know what, we want to confirm it, we're going to do it again, which sometimes happens. it still doesn't make it a reasonable thing to get on a plane and fly somewhere. maybe it was a confirmatory test. again, even that's hard to believe. this story does not make sense. having close contact with the sort of testing he has available. regardless, what the doctor should have told him, you've had close contact with someone. regardless, at that point you need to be quarantined, mr. president. >> i was meeting with a fund rags trip in new jersey nchs it's impossible to believe except forth fact that the white houmps has put on with a test. we've been told everybody is going to be tested in the morning. it's entirely possible that they didn't get around until testing the president a

it's not just hope hicks anymore. i mean you're talking about hours later the president also tested positive, the first lady as well. so they're going to have to look at all of the ramifications of this. people checking classified information. if they have to come into the white house, this will really reverberate through the entire white house. >> and this news spreading across the world this morning. reaction coming in from other world leaders. uk prime minister boris johnson tweeting out my best wishes to president trump and the first lady. hope they both have a speedy recovery from the coronavirus, of course, boris johnson himself contracted the coronavirus. spent weeks in the hospital. three days in the icu recovering from the coronavirus and his symptom. >> we're hearing from another close ally, bepg me men men me netanyahu. we are thinking of donald trump and first lady melania trump and wish our friends a full and speedy recovery. that coming in as the world reacts to the president and first lady testing posit

, anybody else who's been in contact with the president or hope hicks?t's interconnected but we know the folks are tested on a daily or almost daily basis. as dr. siegel was saying, if the president tested positive tonight, he's probably been tested every day leading up to this. if they're cashing in, it's probably very early in his affection to show up as it probably takes a little bit of time. it's not impossible that the first day he had been infected which show, but they may have been more than a couple days. we know every person the presence in contact with, it's very carefully documented and it will be possible for folks to go back and trace all of those potential outreaches. knowing that there is constant testing and the president is monitored by his position on a regular basis, inside and outside covid times, they will have a very tight bubble around him and every move, every temperature check, think of him and the first lady that there will be the very best medical care for the president. there have been a number of other world leaders if you th

hope hicks was at that event. i couldn't speak to that.ou out of abundance of caution, i believe everyone will be self isolating. >> you have ridden on air force one a few times, too. hope rode on air force one to the rally before she had symptoms and knew she was sick. she would have been in the staff cabin. how tight quarters is that? how would you describe that part of the plane? >> you know, savannah, about the size of a conference room. it is small. there's a table there, about 8 seats around the table and some outside seating along the edge of the airplane wall. you know, it is close proximity. if you have 8 or 9 people, you're going to be very close as you would be in a regular conference room or board room, so any of those individuals that would have been in that cabin with hope i'm sure will be retested and isolating as well. >> i have to let you go. are yo do you feel like you need to do that, get another test? >> yeah, i do. i need to get another test done immediately, that's the responsible thing to do for family, my friends, t

hope hicks, as you said, was on air force one with president trump. last few days and today is when she tested positive and she is someone she tested positive and she is someone who is in the president cosmic ‘s ina someone who is in the president cosmic ‘s in a circle. it has wide—ranging implications. not just for the president but the senior staff ‘s what we know right now is the president and the first lady are taking a test. they may have to take additional measures. jason miller, one of the top people, this is something that has wide—ranging applications. this is something that has wide-ranging applications. you are white house correspondent, give us insight into what kind of testing regime there is in and out of the white house. of testing regime there is in and out of the white houselj can tell you, from our perspective, we get tested every day. we go to the white house with the rapid tests which will get you results back in about 15 minutes. seem more invasive tests which takes more time to find results. it's what test hope hicks has being ad

the first lady and a top west wing adviser, hope hicks, have also tested positive. and tonight, the white house is frantically trying to reach out to anyone who was in close contact with them recently. former vice president joe biden who shared a debate stage with mr. trump on tuesday says he has tested negative twice, and he was back out on campaign trail today, as you see. now, after months of downplaying the severity of the crisis, the president is now one of millions worldwide suffering from it. at the same time, he is responsible for leading the nation's response to it. not since ronald reagan has there been as serious a threat to the president's health or to national security. and just a reminder: we're just 32 days left until election day. his diagnosis now also presents a serious threat to his own campaign. there's a lot of news breaking right now. our entire cbs news organization is developing all of the details. i want to begin tonight with cbs' ben tracy, who is going to lead off our coverage from the white house. good evening, ben. >> reporter: norah, go

hope hicks wasn't feeling well. the white house knew this and whether or not she had been tested or not, they went ahead with a fundraiser in new jersey. does that seem out of step for what a protocol should be? >> it's funny. just before we went on, i get my daily check from the university of pennsylvania where i have to fill out and go through symptoms like, am i feeling fatigued, have i had a fever, have i lost smell and taste? have i come into contact with anyone who has turned positive from covid? i have to fill that out every single day. and it is surprising. if you had done that routinely with the aides at the white house, hope hicks would have been caught. but we should remember, hope hicks would have been infectious before that, and she had been with the president before she had symptoms. and there may be some other common person that the president and hope hicks saw or were exposed to, and we need to find that out as well. and this, obviously, held tremendous ratifications. and it may have big ramification

again, alongside aide hope hicks, hicks, we're told, felt unwell on the return trip, she isolated on air force one, later tested positive for covid-19. that positive test came back on thursday, the president traveled to bedminster as well, we know, on thursday, for a private fund-raiser, the governor of new jersey is now saying that people who attended that fund-raiser are being advised to get tested. and he says that contact tracing is under way. and then late thursday night, early this morning, before 1:00 a.m., president trump announces to the world that both he and the first lady had contracted coronavirus. as you mentioned, at the current ffial says that discussions are are under way for the president to perhaps address the nation publicly though no decision, no firm decision has been made on that, hallie. >> and i would imagine there are some questions about that, jeff, if the president is in isolation as he says he is with the first lady, it takes staff and other people to get the president in front of americans, that's a big question mark here. peter, to your reporting, first

hope hicks tests positive for coronavirus. the president is around hope hicks, correct me if i'm wrong, more often than most anyone inside the entire building, is that right. >> reporter: that is right she's involved in the debate prep with chris christie and rudy giuliani and often in the white house and accompanying the president on travel. she's one of the closest aides, that is definitely true. >> so she tested positive and he got on a plane and didn't wear a mask and wend to a fundraiser, didn't wear a mask or socially distance and got back on the plane and went back to the white house and by this point they still have taken no precautions while admitting that they knew she was positive and didn't tell anyone that she was positive so no one who was at the eechbts in bedminster knew that the president had been exposed to someone with covid-19 while they were not socially distancing or wearing masks. the story line, when you look at it as a journalist, does not look like one that will live well in the history books. >> repo

starting with the diagnosis of white house adviser hope hicks. when did they know it? why did we learn about her diagnosis from reporters and not the white house? and also, chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz brings a really great point up. she said, it would be hard to fathom how many people should be or will be quarantined because of this. for example, the president has an immense security detail. there's a full staff at the white house. there's so many people. he visited multiple states. he held rallies. most notably, he was in the same room as former vice president joe biden with a small crowd and also moderator chris wallace for that debate. >> we are continuing to stay on top of this story throughout the morning. please stay with us for more news. you are watching "world news now." >>> welcome back. we are covering the breaking news coming out of washington where president trump has tested positive for covid-19, along with the first lady. earlier we were looking at the white house where the president and first lady are in quarantine after testing po

hicks. they could have had a common source. so there's lot of work ahead in sorting this out. >> when you say it's possible he was infected within the last three to five days and was contagious even before that, this opens up the huge range of possibilities. just giant range of possibilities. not to mention sharing the stage with joe biden the other night. it does stretch the imagination. >> yeah. it does. still so many questions as we know this morning. we're also looking at the impact this is having on the markets. u.s. futures tumbling on the news that president trump tested positive for coronavirus. let's bring in cnn -- >> good morning. this is a market seen all around the world here. because it's a big uncertainty that's injected 32 days before an election. an election that investors were already concerned about the possibility of a contested election because of some of the president's statements and behavior and now coronavirus in the white house. just a remarkable turn of events. markets hate uncertainty. they like clar

the behavior with him and hope hicks and the staff, what have you seen? >> exactly, katy.s a very busy week. of course, we knew the president was gearing up for that first general election debate, but he was also on the campaign trail. on saturday, after officially nominating judge amy coney barrett to the supreme court, he went and held a large rally in pennsylvania. he then continued to travel and do events and appear in many different ways in the briefing room with reporters, he was in the rose garden, in addition, touting coronavirus testing strategies, where that day vice president mike pence actually had a sort of ominous warning when you look back saying i think the american people can expect cases to rise in the days ahead, likely, of course, not knowing or referencing the fact that among those cases would be the president, the first lady, can close trump aide hope hicks. but after that general election debate, the president went on the trail. on wednesday, he was in minnesota, where he was at a fund-raiser. and then of course, held a rally as well. and as we know,

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

same thing with hope hicks. couple three days backwards from that would be when they were the most contagious. >> wow. i mean, it just extraordinary again and the fact that chris wallace said they actually didn't get a test before the debate at the debate hall. we don't know when the president's last actual test was prior to the testing positive. we're going to pick this up after a short break and hear more from everyone. joining us, as well, what one reporter saw up close at the white house today as staffers at that small self-contained community struggled to cope with what was happening and tom freedman on how he thinks this will affect a divided country. 90% clearer skin at 4 months after just 2 doses. skyrizi may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. before treatment your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms such as fevers, sweats, chills, muscle aches or coughs, or if you plan to or recently received a

but we're only focused on hope hicks. for all we know, he gave it to hope hicks. she didn't give it to him. so how aggressive would they be in drawing that circle, in getting as many people as possible, so that you don't have it continue to spread? >> so, i think they are. i mean, from -- by all accounts, nay se they seem to be very aggressive right now about the contact tracing but here is the big point, chris. that is, if the president of the united states has been involved in some superspreader event, you got to think that's not an accident. that points towards a systematic problem with how the president is being protected. now, look, i used to help oversee the secret service. i highly doubt it's because the secret service hasn't been following protocol. what, again, seems more likely to me is that the people around the president, up to, and including, the president, himself, have not been following these guidelines. 48 hours or so ago, in some ways, they were mocking joe biden for adhering to these guidelines. that's important to note. >> it seems kind of sket

we are trying to find out when hicks tested positive.sident traveled again the same day but the time line is not totally clear. the president and the first lady tested positive for covid-19. while we wish the president and the first lady, obviously, all of a best and a speedy recovery, it has to be noted how often the president has claimed the worst of the pandemic is behind us. that we have turned the corner. 937 died of the disease the day before yesterday. the president has not shown much enthusiasm for masks. >> i wear masks when needed. >> let me ask -- >> i don't wear masks like him. he could be speaking 200 feet away and shows up with the biggest mask. >> we've been communicating with the office and they will inform the public about what's going on. dr. sean conley says president trump and first lady melania trump tested positive. the president and first lady plan to remain home at the white house during their convalesce sense. rest assured i expect the president to carry out duties while recovering. mike pompeo tested negative. h

given his close contact to hope hicks. contact with hope hicks, yes.y about contagion. thank you very much forjoining us. so what impact is this having on the world stock markets? stock market you just point to all three main indexes in the us falling around 1.5% when trading gets under way. let us talk now to a senior market a nalyst. markets do not like uncertainty. exactly correct. what we are seeing here is a classic risk off trade, selling off risk yet assets such as stocks and moving flows towards safe havens, gold, the us dollar and japanese yen, the trades we are looking at right now. what could happen later today? we have the nonfarm payrolls today usually the highlight but this will really overshadow that. markets will be watching the developments closely because of the implications that it could have on the us presidential election which were clouded in uncertainty any way. what kind of message when investors like to be hearing right now, what could settle things down? some clarity over what will happen. until we know the severity of the ill

he has spent as much time with the president as hicks has. coronavirus infections continue to surge with the new york state reporting the most cases since may. health officials in the u.k. say london is at a tipping point while lund -- paris may close bars and restaurants. restrictions imposed on madrid while ireland has their highest toppingce mobile cases, 24 million. president trump is suggesting he won't accept potential new rules for the next debate with joe biden. after the first descended into name-calling and chaos. the commission said they are thinking of changes to ensure a more orderly discussion. trump's performance was a national embarrassment. the reading expected to show a sharp deceleration in job gains and slowing of the recovery. employers added new positions in september, which would be the smallest improvement in the nation's revival so far. new fed stimulus in doubt. virus cases are picking up. rishaad: a bit of news breaking nikola,oment, gm and the embattled truck maker. general motors revising its deal with that compan

hope hicks traveli with the president. we're trying to hammer down when hicks tested positive, the president traveled the same day. the time line not totally clear. that brings us to friday as the white house says the president and the first lady have covid. now while we wish the president and the first lady the best of luck and well wishes, it should be noted how often president trump has claimed the worst of the pandemic is behind us but 976 americans died yesterday from covid-19. 937 the day before that. masks, of course, are the best defense, but masks were something the president did not show much enthusiasm for. >> i wear masks when needed. >> okay, let me ask -- >> i don't wear masks like him. every time you see him, he has a mask. he could be speaking 200 feet away and shows up with the biggest mask i've ever seen. >> from the debates there. we've been communicating with the white house physician's office. it will be responsible for communicating to the american people about the health of the president. dr. sean co

president trump was on fox news last night after he confirmed that hope hicks. >>has tested positive for coronavirus and here is what he had to say. >>that's very hard when you with soldiers what year airman marines and i would tend to police with him so much and when they come over to its very hard to say stay back he back, you know it's it's a tough kind of a situation is a terrible thing today. they want to hug you and they want to kiss you because we really have done a good job dormant. you get close in things happen. >>and in this case and more things have happened and now that we've got this positive test we want to hear from the east bay representative eric swalwell because there it is there's going to be fallout within the government near ken wayne and pam moore had a chance to speak with him last night to see what might happen next. take a listen. >>right now, you know as an american i'm rooting our l-aders to be healthy and able to cover me because you know we why make sure that the case with her you know continuity you know plan a succession plan. eve

we found out about hope hicks after a media reported that she had tested positive. even some people within the white house didn't know until the media report it had so there's a lot of room to grow when this comes to transparents from this administration or white house. there are a lot of questions that still need to be answers, especially about the president's health and the continuity of government. we still need to learn exactly what's happening behind closed doors so the american people can have confidence this close to an election in what their government is doing and in what the government is telling them about the virus. >> and to that point, the president of the united states is now in quarantine. this is the letter the doctor released through the press secretary and used the term convalescence. this was the first hint that we had that the president had symptoms, using the word convalescence, not just in the quarantine out of precaution, but it was mark meadows came out to the white house driveway, you know, for a few minutes and good for him for giving some

hope hicks' positivity did not come from the white house. and the fact that the president flew up to new jersey to do a fundraiser just seems irresponsible and totally unethical. exposing people. it reminds you of rand paul going to the senate gym to exercise when he knew he was positive. and if the president was symptomatic, again, irresponsible. and not wearing a face mask. we don't even a lot about the president. we do know he's 74, which increases his risk for covid death if he's covid positive to about 11%, which itself is sky high. he's obese, borderline obese with a body mass index roundabout 30 to 30.5. we know that in the past he's had high cholesterol. exactly how that rates now, we don't even we don't know. he has a prediabetic situation. he is from health standpoint at increased risk. mark meadow dodged the question about what therapies they've started. things they may be considering or even have started, we just don't know because of that lack of transparency, did he get remdesivir? did he get any of these monoclonals that are i

todd: hope hicks tested positive. you are watching an early addition of "fox and friends first" on friday morning. jillian: let's get to griff jenkins live in washington with the latest. >> reporter: you don't get news like this very often, the president and first lady testing positive for the coronavirus just 32 days before the election, the announcement confirmed just before 1 am, at 12:507 am. here is what the president tweeted out to the nation. we tested positive for covid-19. we will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. we will get through this together. first lady milania tweeting to the nation to reassure a rattled nation, too americans have done this year, we are quarantined after testing positive for covid-19. we are feeling good and i have postponed all upcoming engagements, please be sure you are staying safe, we will get through this together. the white house dissection, doctor sean, we confirming that is that the president and first lady are both well at this time and they plan to remai

unfortunately hope hicks testing positive. the people that come in daily constant contact with the president very important, as the day evolves, how the president is doing his daily duties as leader of the free world continue to change in this unprecedented time. at least for the time being know the fundraiser in d.c. canceled as todd piro pointed out. he won't be going to florida where there is going to be a rally. guys? steve: you know the former vice president joe biden, speaking of him, he was on the debate stage obviously with the president and melania a couple days ago. and joe biden is due to go to a some sort of a campaign event today in grand rapids, michigan. so the question is whether or not he is going to go ahead and go because he is always talking about how he would lead by example. but he came in contact in a general way with covid a couple of days ago. the question is whether or not joe biden will actually quarantine. griff: we will find out we typically get a schedule from the put campaign. i have reached out

to have direct contact with hope hicks. however, she did not quarantine as is recommended, if you have come into sustained contact with someone that tested positive, and instead relied on negative tests she took every day and continued to come to work as she did on friday when she gag eld with reporters outside without a mask and as she did yesterday, with reporters briefly for two minutes, but still once again taking her mask off as she was approaching the microphone. it shows this level of recklessness inside the white house where she is relying on having negative tests as you've seen several other officials as well despite the fact that she did come into contact with someone we now know is positive. actually two people. she was also obviously around president trump as well and hope hicks. so it goes to show how the white house has responded to this when everyone else, if you had come into contact with someone that tested positive, told you were in direct contact, you would go in quarantine and she chose not to do that as