[music] >> sean spicer former white house press secretary and author of his latest book leaving america: president trump's commitment to people and capitalism. sean spicer, welcome to washington journal. >> good to be with you. >> tell us what your book is about and why did you write it? >> it's about a couple things, he couldn't be more timely considering the news yesterday about this new york post story, by and the big tech media censorship. i talk about journalism and sort of the headwinds of the conservative space in both areas but i also thought corporate america, academia and k-12, college and what the direction the society is moving in and the leftward event of all of these major institutions in america and why i thinkpresident trump's policies are having an influence in pushing back against them . what we can do as conservatives and people who care about free speech and why cancel culture is destroying the country and i also for fun give an account of my time in hollywood through my little adventure with dancing with the stars so i have a little fun with that it's i think a good

i said i'd prefer not. [ laughter ] >> but you know, i didn't feel good and wonderful doctors, sean, whiter, terrific, they're all really talented people but i had 12 of them. literally, 12. johns hopkins, i had doctors from the best schools and best hospitals in the world because you're president, right. and i said i'm not feeling too good, fellows, what are we going to do here? and the following morn, i took something called regeneron, the following morning i felt so good. i felt like superman. i wanted to get back. [ cheering and applause ] >> i didn't want to cancel anything. >> super trump! super trump! super trump! super trump! super trump! >> we didn't want to be canceled. we didn't want to be canceling a lot of things. we didn't want to say i'm going to take -- like biden. i don't know what the hell is wrong with him. he never goes anywhere. and when he does, it's delaware. i like delaware too. but you know, he just wants to stay right next to that house. he feels very uncomfortable. yesterday he did a dre crazy ray with the horns. the camera >> camera turned around and there was n

the author is former white house press secretary sean spicer joining us, 202-748-8001 if you supportonald from, 202-748-8000 if you support joe biden and kamala harris, all of his 202-748-8002. you brought it up at the start. let's go to dancing with the stars, chapter 2, you set it up in the beginning by saying you and your wife didn't get through your wedding dance. talk about the trepidation of going into and tie it into the political fallout that came after. >> guest: we took one dance lesson in dc, let's do a couple turns, cut the cake, she got better than i am but i turned down an opportunity to be on the show, in the white house for a variety of reasons, not a good dancer but there are a couple others. they don't ask that many more times. i thought it would last a couple weeks. >> all out working. less than three weeks, many americans are eager to learn about the candidates. it is imperative our information channels are open and americans can access stories by the press and their own social circles. congress believed in the power of information so much they created special lia

terrible bank so i just want to protest and we'll see what happens i mean who knows the white house physician sean conley said trump and the 1st lady are both well at this time and that the white house medical team will maintain a vigilant watch lonnie a trump later tweeted we are feeling good trump has several risk factors that put him in danger of complications from covert 19 he is in his bid seventy's and overweight would have to wait for the next 2 days and now for some people get really sick within hours but you know some people don't get sick until week after and so we have the reading be carefully observing the situation trump has declined to wear a mask on many occasions occluding at rallies where many of his supporters also refused to wear a mask. his entourage including family members went masculists at the tuesday debate trump even ridiculed democratic candidate joe biden for wearing a mask as recommended by virtually all public health experts i don't wear mess like him every time you see him he's got a mask he could be speaking 200 feet away from and he shows up with the biggest mask i

call 1-800-aspendental. ♪ howie: joining us now, a man who knows the president well, sean spicer former whitess secretary, newsmax host and author of a new book, "leading america." sean, let me start i'm very happy the president's condition is improving but the media absolutely pounding him as you know, saying don't be afraid from the virus, don't let it dominate your life, it is disappearing given the fact we lost 214,000 americans. >> they have been pounding it since day one. that is nothing new. the topic has changed. he has been under assault from the media since the day he stepped into the white house and will not end until even after the day after. we're closer to the election t counts. the president will be back out there making his case to the american people and hopefully focusing on those lines he said at the debate. 4months of accomplishments versus 47 years of doing nothing in joe biden's case. howie: he has three rallies scheduled in the next three days. he wants to get out there. if you were still the press secretary, you were asked when was the last time the president tested ne

. >> reporter: white house physician sean conley released a statement saying the president and first lady were both doing well, adding, quote, rest assured i expect the president to continue carrying out his duties without disruption while recovering. the white house has canceled all of the president's public events for today. he has kept on his schedule a phone call of covid-19 support for vulnerable seniors. hicks had traveled to several events with president trump this week, including the debate on tuesday and to his rally in minnesota on wednesday. president trump attended a fundraiser in new jersey on thursday, reportedly spending time in close contact with a number of his supporters. now the white house says contact tracing has been done, but t's unclear at this point how many white house officials or staffers could be needing to take new precautions in light of this. and a senior aide tells us this morning that chief of staff mark meadows has tested negative. of course, he and the vice president have been on capitol hill this week for meetings between republican lawmakers and t

the white house decision, doctor sean connolly releasing a statement saying the president and first lady are well at this time and plan to remain at home within the white house, they continue, rest assured i expect the president to continue carrying out his duties without disruption while recovering, this news is come just hours after hope hicks tested positive. she was with the president most recently wednesday at the rally in minnesota. tuesday between cleveland and last saturday at a rally in pennsylvania. some good news, the white house chief of staff mark meadows testing negative in his most recent test. this is significant, the staff and is coming in daily contact with the president are vigorously tested, we spoke a few hours ago to doctor ronnie jackson. here's what he says. >> if you look at people who have been around me for the past few days and asking questions whether they are symptomatic or figure out if anybody else is developing symptoms, been in contact with the president or first lady. >> someone who has been around the president, vice president mike pence tweeting this,

redlener, a few more minutes before the white house says dr. seannelly will take to the podium outside of walter reed. we're joined by yamiche acindor, robert costa, national political for the washington post, and lexi mccammon. welcome to you all. robert, as we listen to the president via twitter last night, is it my imagination, or was there a somewhat gentler tone to this president of not caustic when he said thank you to all, love, all caps. have we seen something like this before from this president, robert? >> that might be the tone on the surface, and i wish president trump and anyone else dealing with the coronavirus a speedy recovery, but that is on the surface of this political story inside of the trump administration. a lot of unease inside of the west wing, tracing back to that amy coney barrett, her announcement last saturday, a week ago today at the white house. many people who attended that event, as we write about in today's "washington post" have contracted the virus. so there's a real question inside the president's inner circle ab

so, joining me now is sean spicer former white house press secretary and author of the book "leading america." shawn, thank you for being here tonight your thoughts as you saw your former boss leave the white house, go up the steps of marine one and i thought it was an interesting moment. it caught my eye and i heard charlie hurt mention it as well he gave a tap tap tap to the top of the steps before he got on the helicopter to leave sort of like everything is going to be okay kind of move and sending that signal to the rest of america, too. >> first, i'm glad to be with you and it's too bad that it's on such unfortunate circumstances. i join everyone else in sending my prayers to not just the president but the first family and hope hicks and everyone around the country and world that has had to deal with this. i toured walter reed. i have seen the facilities the president is going at. as kristin fisher said it's extensive and meant to serve as alternative west wing as he can have meeting staff to meet with him obviously because of the nature of this virus i'm not sure how much inter

for the coronavirus and has remained stable since returning to the white house and could return to public engagements on saturday. dr seanremely well" to treatment. in theory resuming public engagements on saturday. i'm sure there will be a lot of interest in that. thank you for watching. hello there. when the sun came out yesterday, we saw 19 celsius, temperatures above where they should be. and they have been for much of the week. but we will swing now to feeling colder for the next few days, probably with temperatures dipping a little bit below where they should be. we will still see some sunshine like we saw on thursday between the showers, this was the rain that moved away, the showers came in, but this next little area of low pressure comes in, giving some quite heavy rain actually through the night as it crosses scotland, northern ireland into the northern half of england and wales. you can see the wraparound here, the area of low pressure, a brisk north—westerly bringing heavy showers, frequent showers following that rain. so, as we go through the day, there will be early brightness in the south and east, but the

dr sean conley said in a memo released by the white house that trump had responded "extremely well" to treatment. so just to restate, the president's doctor saying the president has responded extremely well to treatment for coronavirus and he has remained ina coronavirus and he has remained in a stable condition and will return to public engagements on a sunday. just a bit of breaking news there from the us from the white house. a study has shown that people who have a certain gene inherited from neanderthals are more likely to suffer severe forms of covid—19. scientists from sweden and germany have found that after a person's age, possessing the gene was the biggest risk factor for coronavirus, with far greater likelihood of hospitalisation and being placed on a ventilator. professor sva nte paabo, who is director of the max planck institute for evolutionary anthropology in germany, has led the study. he explained to me what the

sean connolly, the white house for it's time for some weather with louise lear.g looking skies. we are still under the influence of low pressure circulating around, a series of weather front enhancing the showers across the west of the country. for tuesday, still the risk of 20 of showers around —— plenty of showers. eastern areas of shabbat lend will see the best of the sunshine. —— the eastern areas of scotland. temperatures between 12 and 16 degrees. below eases the way, albeit briefly, and wednesday will be acquired day. some sunshine coming through, and a high of 15 celsius. we changed gear once again on thursday as we see another area of low pressure bringing the risk of wet weather across england and wales. breezy with a few showers to the north. donald trump was my doctor said he feels better than he did 20 years ago. it's a risky message to send to the public about a disease that killed some 210,000 people. you'll see him shortly. he returns to a white house hard—hit by the virus. his press secretary the latest effort is test positive. we talked to micha

the white house physician, dr. sean conley, said the president has received an infusion of an experimental therapy called polyclonal antibody under compassionate use. he said the president is fatigued but in good spirits. earlier in the day, white house chief of staff, mark meadows, tried to reassure the public, saying the president was in contact with staff and working. >> we've talked a number of times this morning. i got the five or six things that he had tasked me to do, like i do every single morning. >> reporter: the white house is now in crisis mode. >> we fully expect that as this virus continues to go on, other people in the white house will certainly have a positive test result. >> reporter: vice president mike pence tested negative, and sources say he is working from his home at the u.s. naval observatory today. his doctor said there is no need for him to quarantine. white house medical staff are trying to find anyone who may have had contact with the president after a whirlwind week of events that took him t

the white house physician, sean conley, still doesn't confirm that the president has taken a negativehite house is still refusing to tell us the last time the president tested negative, before he got sick. that, of course, is not just important for knowing how long that he was likely to be contagious. he is right on that number of ten days, if we believe the date when he was first tested positive for covid. but it's, also, very important to establish whether the president knew he was infected and carried on doing campaign events, before we were told he got sick. and that is the reason, perhaps, that the white house is not telling us exactly when he last tested negative for coronavirus. >> so, talk us through these pictures that we're seeing now, on the screen. the president speaking, from the balcony, at the white house. to a largely african-american audience, today. it was a pretty dark message. what was the reason for this? >> the president has been itching to get out on the campaign trail. originally, he was even talking about going out on saturday. we now know that there are three

sean conley, his white house physician who said trump had a rough first night at home and today, he reportsmptoms. overall, he continues to do extremely well. i will provide updates as we know more. the president and the election campaign saying that they fully intend to participate in next week's presidential debate in miami. want himestion, we all to feel well, that is really good news, but as of right now, he is still contagious. can he participate in that debate if he is still contagious? >> his campaign is saying that he is on the mend and that should the doctors given the ok, he fully intends to participate. he is in need of having a major shift in the dynamic of this race but he is trailing in battleground polls as well as national polls. we should know that he is reportedly considering getting a national address sometime today as we get more details. >> certainly we have seen a few campaigns including his return to the white house yesterday which was really quite something, could not have staged it any better, right? >> absolutely. fiscals there to be this stimulus talk, maybe talks

author and former white house press secretary sean spicer will join us to talk about his new book and president trump's reelection. watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern this morning. be sure to join the discussion with phone calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets. >> the confirmation hearing for supreme court nominee amy coney barrett concludes thursday with the senate judiciary committee listening to outside witnesses who support and oppose judge barrett's nomination. that is live on c-span at 9:00 a.m. eastern. on c-span two at 10:00 a.m. eastern, the heritage foundation holds a discussion on election security ahead of the 2020 election. later in the day, we are live from the campaign trail in north carolina with the in trump holding a rally in greenville -- with president trump holding a rally in greenville and kamala harris speaking in charlotte. >> american history tv on c-span3, exploring the people and events that tell the american story every weekend. saturday,this weekend author neil bascom talks about his book on the capture of nazi war criminal adolf eichman

white house physician sean conley says the president and first lady are doing well and will remain at while they recover. the president's positive test comes hours after a his top advisor hope hicks also tested positive, she mostly traveled recently with the president to the debate in owe o ohio on tue, she was with him in medicine se. secretary of state mike pompeo says that he and his wife have both tested negative for the virus. mark meadows has also tested negative. hours before testing positive, though, for covid-19, the president discussed the possible changes for the next presidential debate. in an interview with fox news on sean hannity last night, among the ideas floated a mute button to keep candidates from interrupting one another. >> this is the rules that were agreed to. i think it would be very bad. you remember with hillary clinton, they modulated my mic and apol apologized for it. when i looked at her, i had my mic turned off. we're dealing with tricky people here. i like the format. at the same time, he's got to be truthful. maria: joe biden is also weighing in on the

white house doctor sean conley said in a letter saturday night that the president is no longer considered a transmission risk. but he did did not mention immunity and today twitter flagged the president's tweet saying it violated the twitter rules about spreading potentially misleading and harmful information related to covid-19. in another covid controversy, dr. anthony fauci objected to the use of a quote in a trump tv ad that is saying that he is endorsing trump's handling of the pandemic. fauci said he has never publically endorsed any candidate and not endorsing the the comnts we not given mntext efforts of federal public health officials. >> a trump spokes person responded in part, the words spoken are accurate and directly from dr. fauci'ses mouth. the president today again boasted about his handling of the coronavirus. >> we lost 200,000 plus and you know, there are those that say we did a phenomenal job. >> but a new cbs battleground tracker poll found that likely voters in michigan, nevada and iowa think former vice president joe biden would better handle the coronavirus outbrea

the white house decision, doctor sean connolly put out a statement saying the president and first lady are both well at this time and plan to remain home within the white house. rest assured i expect the president carrying out his duties without disruption while recovering. this news came hours after hope hicks tested positive. she was with the president wednesday and arrived in minnesota, the debate on tuesday and last saturday at a rally in pennsylvania. also getting good news from peter doocy that mark meadows tested negative in his most recent test. this is significant, staff is tested daily especially those coming in close contact with the president. fox news medical contributor mark siegel talked about the president's health risk. >> 74 years old, he is overweight but doesn't have the other risks we worry about like diabetes, lung disease, heart disease or kidney disease is another big one. he has none of those as far as we know, a good blood pressure, all bode well and is in pretty good shape. >> reporter: we are also hearing from vice president mike pence who said karen and i s

became famous yesterday, probably the biggest day of his career in some respects, when the white house doctor seanutside walter reed with the reporters, he pulled them aside and off the record 01’ them aside and off the record or background session and said and dictated a statement, saying you know, yesterday was very concerning and that the next 48 hours i going to be very important and that trump is, you know, it is not a clear decision of how trump is going to do and so basically saying, you know, trump could really have huge, serious consequences and so, trump was not happy with mark meadows for doing that anti— did it in a very ham handed fashion, the anonymous source, but he could be heard on camera at the end of the feed with the one, saying hey, let's talk off the record without the cameras, so he just did not do a good job of hiding his identity! how are you at politico covering the political drive—by, at supporters?” politico covering the political drive-by, at supporters? iwas actually calling former top officials at the secret service, saying are you concerned about the risk that the s

here's a memo written by the president's doctor, dr sean conley, released by the white house a shortago. in it, dr conley says that the president has remained stable since returning to the white house and responded extremely well to treatment. for more i'm joined by our washington correspondent, nomia iqbal. what does this memo tell us? it's interesting what the memo doesn't tell us, to be honest. while he says that donald trump is on the road to recovery and should be able to resume his public duties by saturday, it doesn't really answer any questions on when mr trump was diagnosed with coronavirus or when he starts to get those first symptoms. we don't know, nothing about his first simple terms or his first positive test, we don't even really know if his tested negative, and those of the questions that people want to know. i'm not a medical expert but there will be some scepticism over how the president is able to resume public duties so quickly. i think it's not a coincidence thatis think it's not a coincidence that is soonest that note came out, donald trump's campaign manager bi

here's a memo written by the president's doctor, dr sean conley, released by the white house a shortley says that the president has remained stable since returning to the white house and responded "extremely well" to treatment. for more, i'm joined by our washington correspondent, nomia iqbal. do you make of this memo? it was interesting because in the memo, it says that he is recovering and he is doing well and he should be back doing his public engagements by saturday and that would be day ten since the diagnosis but there is nothing in that statement that says since his first symptoms oi’ says since his first symptoms or since his first positive test. these are all the kind of questions that people want clarification on. in fact we don't even know if he's had a negative test and there are all these questions about the state of his health, he is staying in the white house, of course, and so the white house, of course, and so many people have been in donald trump's orbit and been affected by coronavirus including his wife, the first lady, she was diagnosed last week, same time as th

white house physician sean conley, a doctor of osteopath, not an md, has been trying to explain every since. among the issues, why if the president is doing so well is he on an unusual combination of drugs. not only remdesivir but experimental antibody cocktail and a steroid typically reserved for severely ill coronavirus patients. the president has been tweeting up a storm today. vice president pence and his wife say they have tested negative today. later the vice president will be heading to salt lake city to prepare for wednesday's debate with senator kamala harris amid some criticism about pence's plans to hit the campaign trail later in the week after the debate. joe biden will be in miami today, will take part in a town hall with nbc's lester holt. live right here at 8:00 p.m. eastern. in a moment i'll speak with former secretary of defense leon panetta, also served as white house chief of staff to president clinton. let's gyp with carol lee outside walter reed hospital. "associated press" white house repo reporter. carol, what are white house senior staffers now saying now that

his positive test result on thursday night, those efforts are being run by the white house medical unit, headed by dr. sean conley, the white house physician, the osteopath who has been the public spokesman for mr. trump's doctors since he got sick. dr. siconley today explicitly denied to reporters that he had anything to do with contact tracing around this surgeoning cluster of infections surrounding the president. today, "i have nothing to do with the contact tracing." but according to the white house, dr. conley is, in fact, the person who is in charge ofthal contact tracing. when hope hicks first tested positive early on thursday, from that point forward, it's very simple -- everybody in the white house who had any contact with her in previous days should have gone into quarantine for at least two weeks. instead, they just carried on, including the president. and now they're just not bothering to track what appear to be myriad infections that they have caused by this neglect, not that they've caused in some out of removed sense of, you know, mishandling the pandemic and undercutting public health autho

. >> he refused to denounce white supremacists, told a whit rightg extremist group to "stand back and stand by." >> seanyou see this every two years and four years and he's lying now. you are supposed to be honest, stop lying. he has condemned white supremacy and bigotry and hatred and even in the charlottesville speech that you selectively edit and he's done it over and over aga again. joe, savannah, watch, learn, pay attention to something called the truth, it matters. >> ever heard this president say one negative thing about white supremacists? have you ever heard it? >> i totally disavow the ku klux klan. i totally disavow david duke. >> i got back in this race because of what happened in charlottesville. people coming out of the woods carrying torches, their veins bulging. close your eyes and remember what you saw. the president gets asked to comment on it and what does he say? he says there are very fine people on both sides. >> you have some very bad people in that group but you also had people that were very fine people come on both sides. and i'm not talking about the neo-nazis and the white na

>> sean: as we continue, president trump made a triumphant return to the white house today where his doctors that he can get all the treatment he needs for his covid-19 diagnosis, including >> sean: as we continue president trump made a triumphant return to the white house today where his doctors that he can get all the treatment he needs for his covid-19 diagnosis, including his fifth and final treatment of remdesevir. here to explain the president's course of treatment, he's the host of the hit show, just starting his new season, dr. oz is with us.in regeneron, remdesevir, steroidal inhalers. dare i even say the word, words hydroxychloroquine with zinc. i guess the jury is still out in some people's minds. they seem to be the four major therapeutic breakthroughs. your thoughts on what the president has done especially with regeneron and remdesevir. >> i've got the chief scientific officer of regeneron on the show tomorrow. he is a columbia alum. we were talking about this 30-year history. it's not an overnight success. they've been working on this technology. basically it's a antibo

sean. he's great. white house physician. he said barron tested positive. i set for what?t for covid. there's like 30 different names. i happen to call it the china flag or the china virus. it's more accurate. and you know, about 14 minutes later, i said how barron doing? oh, is recovered fully. i said are you feeling better? he said i didn't know anything, data. you know, they have a very strong -- by the way, get back to school. get back to school. get back to school, right? seniors will be the first in line to get it, and we will -- we will make it available free because it's not your fault that this thing happened. by the way, with or without the vaccine, we are rounding the turn, but the vaccine makes it faster. they will be out soon. very, very soon. our vaccine will eradicate the virus, quickly restore normal life. i just want normal life. [cheers and applause] all we want is a normal. i am looking up to the sky. a friend of mine said you are the most famous man in the world. i said no, i'm not. no, i'm not. who is more famous than you? you are the most famous man i

the doctor treating president trump gave an upbeat assessment of his patients progress white house physician dr sean conley said trump symptoms were improving but he also warned that the critical phase of a covert 19 infection would come in a few days. there's reported yesterday consultation with this group recommended we bring the president up to walter reed. as a 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 it in a particular day 7 to 10 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 improved 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 right it was thin on details and gu

white house physician sean conley this afternoon issuing a statement that read thusly in part, this morning president's team met with him in the residence. he had a restful first night at home. today he reports no symptoms. vital signs and physical exam remain stable with ambulatory oxygen saturation level of 95 to 97%. overall he continues to do extremely well. and the president as you can imagine is taking a pretty aggressive posture against the coronavirus. in fact upon his return to the white house last night he told the nation that the american people really shouldn't allow concerns over getting the coronavirus to dominate their lives. president trump: i could have left two days ago. two days ago i felt great. better than i have in a long time. i said recently, better than 20 years ago. don't let it dominate, don't let it take over your lives. don't let that happen. we're the greatest country in the world. we're going back. we're going back to work. reporter: going back to work indeed. also tonight earns elizabeth, covid relief talks as you mentioned screeched to a sudden halt today as

terrible bank so i just want to protest and we'll see what happens i mean who knows the white house physician sean conley said trump and the 1st lady are both well at this time and that the white house medical team will maintain a vigilant watch lonnie a trump later tweeted we are feeling good trump has several risk factors that put him in danger of complications from covert 19 he is in his bid seventy's and overweight only had to wait for the next few days and. were for some people getting sick within hours but you know some people don't get sick until week after and so we have the reading be carefully observing the situation trump has declined to wear a mask on many occasions occluding at rallies where many of his supporters also refused to wear a mask. his entourage including family members went masculists at the tuesday debate trump even ridiculed democratic candidate joe biden for wearing a mask as recommended by virtually all public health experts i don't wear masks like him every time you see him he's got a mask he could be speaking 200 feet away from many shows up with the biggest mask i'v

you know, the white house doctor went out today. seanley, and painted this rosy picture of the president only to be contradicted by white house official identified to be the chief of staff mark meadows and a senior white house official told me earlier today that one of the reasons why they were so concerned about the president and one of the reasons why they thought he needed to make the trip to walter reed, there were some very serious concerns yesterday, the bout with the coronavirus could take a turn for the worse. >> i don't understand how that's possible that they allow the president to go to a fundraising event for people who paid a lot of money to meet him, they pulled staffers off the trip to new jersey because hope hicks tested positive. just as a national security issue, on the health of the president, wouldn't they have immediately tested the president? i mean, if they didn't, it just seems incredibly irresponsible. >> well, anderson. you have to understand that there's a baseline attitude over here at the white house that the

sean connolly, the white house physician briefed reporters yesterday and said that ultimately the president had some alarming episodes and they're giving him intensive treatment. here's what he said. >> we debated the reasons for this and if we would even intervene. it was the determination of the team that we initiate dextamethazone. >> that's a treatment designed to prevent the overactive immune response they see in a lot of covid patients described as something that you do in a severe case of covid nonetheless, the white house medical team describing the president in good spirits over the weekend saying he was up and walking around and conducting business over the course of the weekend. still as we track all the information that we're getting from the white house, we are getting shifting accounts starting with mark meadows, the white house chief of staff that on friday told us the president was only having mild symptoms and then over the next 48 hours or so we got conflicting accounts of that suggesting that the symptoms he experienced on friday were more than just mild. on saturday he s

in a memo saturday night, white house dr. sean conley said trump is no longer considered a transmission risk to others. he did not mention immunity, though. nor did he save the president has received a negative covid- 19 test. >> the immunity that is from a product like from regeneron, hs. we also don't know what natural immunity lasts. >> the cdc has cautioned people not to assume that they are immune while they research the virus. >>> i can't imagine that anyone could be doing more. >> this morning, dr. anthony fauci pushing back on the use of this clip of him and a trump tv ad that suggests he is endorsing the president's handling of the pandemic. trump campaign spokesperson said the words spoken by dr. anthony fauci are accurate indirectly from the doctors method in a statement, he said he has never publicly endorsed a candidate. the comments attributed to me about the ad were taken out of context with a broad statement months ago about the efforts of federal public health officials. >>> new video overnight e of the staples ce

hold a rally tomorrow night that would be just 10 days since he tested positive for covid-19 white house doctor sean conley released a letter about the president's health. it says the president completed his course of therapy for covid-19 and that his condition has remained stable since returning to the white house on monday. now in his interview last night the president also talked about being tested again but would not say when he last tested negative for the virus. well there were times during that interview. >>have you had a test since your diagnosis a week ago. >>well what we're doing is probably the test will be tomorrow at the actual desk as is or isn't a test on the time but they found very little infection or virus. but then he had only that they found that he hadn't know into a greatly with the doctors. >>during that interview with the president could actually heard coughing or clearing his throat now it's not clear if he will hold those rallies this weekend but we'll definitely keep you posted. vice president mike pence abruptly canceled a planned trip in indiana today. he was supposed to

later, former white house press secretary sean spicer talks about the trump presidency and his new book "leading america." ♪ host: u.s. seventh circuit court of appeals judge amy coney barrett yesterday completed her two days of testimony before the senate judiciary committee in consideration of her nomination to serve on the u.s. supreme court. is thursday, it october 15, 2020. this is "washington journal." outside witnesses today with a full committee vote a week from today. the full senate voting the week of october 26. we will spend this first hour asking you a simple question, should amy coney barrett be confirmed to the supreme court? if you support judge barrett the (202) 748-8000, if you , ifse, it is (202) 748-8001 you are undecided (202) 748-80 2 2. wj.twitter @cspan facebook.com/c-span. we will play some of the highlighted questions from some members of the judiciary committee in this first hour. the reporting this morning in the "wall street journal" on the hearing and what is ahead in the coming week or weeks. amy coney barrett's character qualifications will be discussed b

white house doctor sean conley did say in a letter saturday night that the president is no longer considered a transmission risk. but he did not mention immunity. and today twitter flagged the president's t ed the ttter news abo spreading misleading and pollful information cov9.erewid controversy, dr. anthony fauci today obtain jected to the trump campaign's use of a quote in a trump tv ad that suggests he is endorsing the president's handling of the pandemic. >> i can't imagine that anybody could be doing more. >> in a statement today fauci said he has never pub lookly endorsed any candidate and was not endorsing the president's performance. the comments attributed to me without my permission in the go pcam pawn ad, fauci said, were taken out of context from a broad statement i made months ago about the efforts of federal public health officials. a trump spokesman responded in part, the words spoken are accurate and directly from dr. fauci's mouth. >> the president today again boasted about his handling of the coronavirus. >> we lost 200,000 plus and you know, there are those that say we di

spencer is bigger than david duke in the crock-pot subhuman white supremacist movement, and biden is not asked once what he thinks about that. >> sean: you have 30 seconds. >> let me end with this question. joe biden, are you still a white supremacist? are you still a bigot? are you exactly what kamala harris called you? i think in many ways, you still are. in many ways, you still are. all you do is yell at the president, you call him a liar, you dare to call him a racist? you are a disaster. at that is why they hide you in the basement, and that's why you started interrupting the president of the united states, the same thing you did to paul ryan. if we had an honest press, rather than corrupt, if we had people who really wanted to get to the bottom of each candidate, joe biden would have a chance. >> sean: that's it. a great one, thank you for being with us, mark. by the way, president of the united states is on our line. mr. president, thank you for being with us. thank you for taking the time. >> president trump: , thank you very much. thank you. marcus, you can't say any better than that. i go through this every year. any time

anbarasan ethirajan, bbc news. breaking news from the white house. doctor seannd that shows he is no longer a transmission risk to others. he is no longer actively replicating the virus. the white house had no immediate comment on whether the doctor indicated that the president had tested negative for the virus or not. that breaking news coming from the white house. north korea has shown off previously unseen long—range ballistic missiles at a special military parade. the event in pyongyang marked the seventy—fifth anniversary of the governing party. laura bicker reports. each step must be marched with precision, each cry should be with fervent devotion. this small state is known for ostentatious military parades, but the choreography that went into this predawn display was unlike any other. leader kim jong—un emerged in a western suit and embraced his loyal followers. social distancing is clearly not required here. he claimed his country was free from covid—19. translation: let me take this opportunity to console the people all over the world who battled the di

it's a terrible bank so i just went for it and we'll see what happens i mean who knows the white house physician sean conley said trump and the 1st lady are both well at this time that the white house medical team will maintain a vigilant watch malani a tromp later tweeted we are feeling good trump has several risk factors the put him in danger of complications from covert 19 he's in his mid seventy's and overweight. we have to wait for the next few days. you know for some people get really sick within hours but you know some people don't get sick until week after and so we have to really be carefully observing the situation travis declined to wear a mask on many occasions looting at rallies where many of his supporters also scorned wearing a mask his entourage including family members went without masks at the tuesday debate trump even ridiculed democratic candidate joe biden for wearing a mask as recommended by virtually all public health experts i don't wear mesh like him every time you see he's got a mask he could be speaking 200 feet away from it he shows up with the biggest mask i've ever seen

as we mentioned the president's reality tv returned to the white house tonight won him an honorable mention from seanfdr who to be fair never ripped off his mask while walking into the white house while contagious with the virulent virus during a pandemic. for the record fdr did lead our nation out of a deep financial depression and defeated globally tyranny in world war ii. fdr also said this on this very day in 1944. >> the right to vote must be open to our citizens irrespective of race or color or creed, without tax or artificial restriction of any kind. and the sooner we get to that basis of political equality, the better it'll be for the country as a whole. >> fdr, 1944 on the solemn right to vote without restriction of any kind. which brings us to beatrice lumkin. she voted for fdr, first president she ever voted for, in fact. beatrice is 102, a retired schoolteacher in chicago. she was born in this country before women had the right to vote. and so this week dressed in full hazmat ppe in the middle of the second pandemic of her lifetime beatrice lumkin cast her vote. she heard roosevelt's mess