this time it's representative rodney davis, republican from illinois. the congressman joins us now. i'm glad to see you're able to join. just tell us, how you doing? your wife is also tested and she is negative, thank god. for now. you know, that can change. you have to be careful around her. i'm sure the doctors are telling you that. how are you doing? >> i'm doing great, chris. i feel fine. no symptoms. my temperature actually dropped. i'm looking forward to hearing what you went through so i can know what to possibly expect. >> no, no, no. god forbid you go through what i did. hopefully you have symptoms on the lighter scale. some people get it. how long did you have the fever? >> it was just yesterday. i take my temperature every morning and every night with the same thermometer. it always registers me a little bit low around 97 max. yesterday just before i got up i wanted to go work out and i took

congressman rodney davis, illinois. >>> all right. now another story of covid. one i know very, very well. you know my next guest very well. alyssa milano. she and i are friends. you've seen her here on the show. but alyssa milano found out something that she has believed was true for months but she couldn't get a medical answer. so many people were in alyssa's position. they think they had it. the tests don't make sense. they can't get the test. they can't figure it out. we lived it together and she finally found out that she was right. she has antibodies. she did have coronavirus. they kept telling her she didn't. she couldn't breathe. everything hurt. i mean, she took it a lot better than i did which, you know, was a point of no source of pride while i was going through it. but two coronavirus tests later both negative, look at her. have you ever seen anybody go through covid and look like that? look at me look at her. those are the faces of the two different realities of this covid. but what she went through and what she now knows and what questions it raise

congressman rodney davis announced he had tested positive for the coronavirus, and he was issuing starkve test davis urged fellow republicans about staying safe and said, don't become stupid and become the story of the day. congressman, thank you for being here. we hope you and your family are on the mend. it is clear, based on your previous comments, this is something that spreads so rapidly even when you do everything right, it's very hard to prevent yourself from catching it. how are you feeling? >> i'm one of the lucky ones with minimal symptoms. i had a sore throat yesterday and really that's it. i took my temp every morning and every night with the same thermometer, and i knew i had a little spike on wednesday, went and got tested, assumed it would be a negative test. lo and behold, i'm positive. we did everything on monday and tuesday when the attending physician thought that might have been the times i could have contracted it, everything we could to follow guidelines, meeting with constituents, social distancing. i must have made a mistake somewhere because i came down with it.

i do want to ask you because there's a congressman, republican congressman rodney davis who announcedt he has tested positive for coronavirus. but i want you to listen how he described it. >> i took my temp every night and morning and had usually a temperature around 97 with the thermometer i use. yesterday it was 99 because i had public events planned i went up to a rapid scan testing facility in the district. got tested and surprisingly i tested positive. to be honest with you, if i wouldn't have tested yesterday morning i came home -- i was home all day yesterday and tested again last night with the thermometer and it was 98 degrees. >> okay. so what do you think about that? because a lot of people when they're testing themselves look for something over 100. we have had people come on talking about the covid experience of 103, 104. he's talking about a slight uptick from the normal 97-degree body temperature to 99 degrees. >> i think there are two key things. first is that he was able to go and get rapidly tested. if i'm in austin and want a same-day test i can hop into a pharmacy

this is representative rodney davis of illinois.comes after representatives grijalva and louie gohmert tested positive last week. congressman davis, look, thank you very much for being with us this morning. your dog is right behind you, i think soiling your lawn. how are you feeling this morning, congressman? >> you know, i feel great. take my temp every night and every morning. i had -- i usually have a temperature around 97 and yesterday it was 99 because i had a bunch of public events i went ahead and went up to the rapid scan testing facility we have in the district, got tested and surprisingly i tested positive. to be honest with you, if i wouldn't have tested yesterday morning -- i was home all day yesterday and tested last night and it was 98 degrees. i'm glad i went in and i can keep people safe. >> only a temperature of 99 sent you to get to the test, but you're extra vigilant, correct, because your wife is a nurse and a cancer survivor? >> you know, i do my best to be vigilant. everybody we're never perfect. but in the end

it's rodney davis of illinois. and here's why he's voting for it. >> well, i'm going to vote yes. i've been a big supporter of our postal service. i think the men and women who deliver our mail to our mailboxes every day get taken for granted for the job they do and the precision they have throughout that process that really keeps many rural americans that i represent, it keeps them available to have that lifeline into the global marketplace. >> most republicans, though, are going to vote against it. republican leaders are telling their own members that the $25 billion is in fact unnecessary, and they're saying that the democrats' complaints about the postal service are a conspiracy theory. well, there's new documents that the democrats on the house oversight committee just released earlier today that shows statistics that, in fact, mail delivery did slow down by as much as almost 10% starting in early july. that is shortly after the new postmaster general and trump donor, louis dejoy, took the el h helm. so, while this is going to vote today -- or going to pass today, i should sa

one is rep from new york, another is rodney davis of illinois. they support $25 billion in funding for the postal service. and they are going to vote for this legislation. it's also interesting to note that both of those members are also in tough re-election races. so that is going to play a big role on if any republicans vote for this legislation. expect most of them to be ones who have tough races in the fall. linds lindsey? >> were you surprised by meadows' comments? i understand the gop was in favor of doing a postal service bill to help with funding and a separate covid relief bill. >> reporter: that is, but i would say meadows is up here trolling democrats and trolling speaker pelosi. he is talking with a bipartisan group of rank-and-file lawmakers, these bipartisan lawmakers, about these covid relief talks. but he has not met with speaker pelosi. he did say, though, that he stopped by her office just before he came to talk to the press. she was in a meeting so she did not take his impromptu meeting. i think that was an attempt more to -- m