feverish and there's been no official briefings from any doctors we only have the word of the white house communications team to go on this white house has been very non-communicative very untransparent about what the story is they've been that way really about his medical history in general throughout his term when it came out that he was moving to the hospital congressional leaders came forward and said they had received no briefings as to his situation you know this is a white house that has spent the last known 9 months now of this pandemic gaslighting the public as to the severity of this disease and now with so little information out there there's a lot of misinformation that's been spreading. how serious is this situation. yeah it's been quite a blast radius shall we say i think we're up to 8 people at least who have come forward and said that they have also tested positive going to look at my list to make sure i get this right we have former new jersey governor chris christie his former aide kellyanne conway his truck his campaign manager these are all people who are very close to the present at

anthony scaramucci there, the former white house communications director.g on bbc world news, we'll be right back. scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon, has called on the mp margaret ferrier to resign after she travelled from london back to scotland this week knowing she had tested positive for covid. ms ferrier, who has been suspended from the snp, of the political spectrum. has received a barrage of criticism for her actions from all sides of the political spectrum. nicola sturgeon described margaret ferrier as a "friend", but said that her actions were indefensible. now, people contact me and say, "why don't you just sack her7" and this is a point that i have to make clear — i don't have the power to force an mp to step down. no party leader has that power. but i can make my views known, difficult though it is, and i have done so. and i hope she will come to the right decision in the interests of the overall integrity of these vital public health messages. first minister of scotland nicola sturgeon. and it's emerged tonight that the metropolitan po

you were the white house communication director. at conversations do you think the white house team had with president trump about last night. and over his message to the proud boys. and let me read this. this is from the source familiar with the president debate prep tells me they want him to be aggressive but not act like jason from friday the 13th. >> so? >> i'm sorry. i thought you were playing a sound. here's what i would tell you. universally they told him he did a great joe biden. family members are trying to get up the gumption to tell him it was a terrible job. if he had good aids on the way back they would have told him you have to walk back the white supremacy stuff. that was a disaster. people don't like white supremacist. and you don't have enough to win the election. nobody did that and no one will do that. and they tell him he did great. and you pulverize him and that's how you should act and be that amped up and so forth. chris christy, rick santorum said he came in too hot. there's aids, there's no way anybody told h

now you see this is the same this is white house communication and their effort to get information and it is a mess so we have this statement at this press conference from the doctors from the team of doctors take care of the president and then minutes later a source approaching the pool reporters those reporters who are on the site at medical at the walter reed medical center because you cannot put hundreds of other reporters in this in those quarters there they are approached by a source who doesn't want to be named but who has intimate knowledge about where the president is in terms of his health is that right and he rings the alarm bells with a statement saying basically that the last 24 hours they were really really concerned that he is definitely not out of the woods and that's why he is at medical rule to read medical center and not as a precautionary measure as the doctors just say bottom line is this white house has a trust problem and an information problem meaning it is not transparent nobody believes the white house and as reporters and press here everybody's disappointed a

white house today, which isn't really helping matters. according to speaker pelosi, when nguyen told her there resuming talks about a bigger package. as mnuchin spoke with her on the phone, the white house communications director went out on the driveway of the white house and said the president only wants a narrow bill. so there is more than a little bit of confusion here in washington, and the politics around this or more than a little bit complicated. i'm not really sure there are votes in the senate to do anything, quite honestly. i don't see a lot of republicans being out there, other than a couple of people who are in trouble for reelection, like susan collins, saying they're prepared to spend on a new round of stimulus. i'm not a market participant, and i'm kind of glad right now. if it doesn't happen right here, right now, it feels --e the markets going to some sort of stimulus, is at the right way for the chips to be falling? >> i think it's possible if democrats win a big victory on november 3 and then bad jobs report comes out, there will be some new urgency to come together on a big stimulus package. now could happen, but right , there is so much turmoil, i wouldn't want to try to make a c

joining us tonight, white house communications director alyssa farrah. want to start with the stimulus package we've heard a lot about negotiations. the president has broken it down, if you will, to a la cart, individual packages. pelosi says, no, she wants the comprehensive $2.6 trillion behemoth that would send money across, of course, blue states that are desperate for budget relief. tell us what's going on. where are we? >> yeah, absolutely. the most important thing for the president is that we get needed aid to hard working americans who lost income through no fault of their own. as he said when he wisely walked away from what was a bad deal from the speaker, $2.2 trillion loaded with liberal priorities and not addressing the core issues, he came back and said i'm willing to do this piecemeal. i'm willing to do a skinny approach, and he highlighted the ppp payments to americans, getting direct payments to americans as well as securing some form of airline aid. we're willing to negotiate, we're willing to even add on to those three items. but what we

it, don. >> i'm wondering about the conversations they were having because you were the white house communications director. what conversations do you think the white house team had with president trump about the fiasco last night and over his message to the proud boys? and let me read this benefit you answer. this is from our dana bash. says a source familiar with the president's debate prep tells me they wanted him to be aggressive but not act like jason from "friday the 13th." so? what kind of -- >> oh, i'm sorry. i thought you were playing sound. >> no. no. >> here -- here's what i would tell you. universally, they told him he did a great job. a couple of his family members are trying to get up the gumption to tell him, you know, that was a terrible job. but there was nobody in the white house to tell him the truth. and so, if he had real good aides on the way back on air force one, they would have said listen. you got to walk back the white supremacist stuchlt supremacist stuff. i mean, that was a disaster. people don't like white supremacists, and you don't have enough white supremacists to

the national security adviser, the white house legal counsel, white house legal counsel, white house legal counsel, white house communicationsssential personnel should be in the west wing, should be the white house. everybody else should be at home. they should be working remotely, we have the capability, the technology, the senior staff can communicate with their staff, they can still formulate memos for the president cosmic consideration, they can still talk to each other, they can still talk strategy and looked down the road as to how best to position the country, but we should be ona the country, but we should be on a skeleton scale basis. we don't need hundreds of people in the white house. i would say you could get by with 50 to 100 at the most. ron, what about capitol hill? do you think they should be scaling back on the hill too? i do. my friends are very nervous. there are a people in many offices to that member of congress does not wa nt member of congress does not want them to wear a mask. you can do it. i worked on the hill from us nine years. you can do a lot of this with the technology we have, similar to the w

jen psaki was the white house communications director in former president barack obama's administration from 2015 to 2017 and spokesperson at department of state under then-secretary of state john kerry from 2013 to 2015. and above all, i hope she doesn't mind, she's proudly the mother of two humans under the age of 5 which i think is the most extraordinary identifications i've heard in a bio. so, format, each will speak for roughly five minutes. moderated round with me of annoying questions for about 20. and then q&a with our twitterverse email, and whoever else is listening. so, jen, without further ado, let me turn it over to you. >> well, thanks, aaron and charlie and amanda, it's great to join you for this panel. i'm sure i'll learn a lot from both of you. you had a lot of questions in there to unpack. it made me think about back in 2007 and 2008 when i was working for then-senator brm brl and as charlie and amanda, probably you, too, aaron, will remember, part of the reason why he became the nominee is because of his opposition to the iraq war. very much a foreign policy issue tha

joining us now, former white house communications director, scaramucci. have so many questions for you. when the president decides to do something like that, to go for this unscheduled joy ride, he ditched the press. the long-standing protocol of the tight group of press that follows a u.s. president around at all times so the american public can have transparency about where the president is, he ditched them. so what happens around the president in terms of his aides when he decides to do something like that? >> well, so it happens all the time, so it's a fairly predictable thing. obviously, there was some impetuosity in terms of making that decision. he then probably bullied some of the doctors and the aides are easily bullied now, because he has nobody left with a backbone, so they said, okay. and he puts those secret service men and the driver in ppe and puts all of them and their families in harm's way to go do that ridiculous stunt. so he thinks that stunt is a sign of strength and a great metaphor and a great image. and it may be for some of his cu

white house doctor late this morning saying president trump's health is improving and he could be discharged from the hospital as soon as tomorrow if things to go well. let's bring in white house communication'salissa farrah. was the white house surprised that dr. conley he can be released as early as tomorrow? >> we are drilled by positive update and i want to thank you and your viewers and millions of americans across the country who have been pray forking the president and the first family. we seal that outpouring of support and i know it's keeping him in good spirits. he's getting the best quality of care imaginable. we are monitoring him. we know he's not out of the woods but we are very confident in his condition improving. dr. conley gave an update today and will continue to give updates as we have them. trace: in the past couple of days, alissa, critics have said and there's been confusion, mixed messaging coming from the white house and coming from the doctors, why -- why hasn't the white house come out and just cleared the deck, cleared up all of this stuff and said, you know, this is the way it is, here is what happened and given everybody a tiktok of what happened from the beginni

the white house communications director on fox news. >> the president is improving dramatically and quickly but he is not out of the woods is continued to be monitored by a start medical teams.>> several senior military leaders will quarantine after coming into contact with the vice commandant of the coast guard who tested positive for covid- 19, this includes the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark millie. >> the president looks forward to participating in next week's debate in miami florida.>> the presidents intention is to go and participate in the debate in person and will be relying on the worlds best medical experts to clear him to do that. >> reporter: joe biden remains on the campaign trail and is visiting pennsylvania to deliver a message of unity.>> too many americans did not overcome our divisions but to deepen them. we must seek not to have our fists clenched.>> reporter: vice presidential contenders continue to test negative ahead of their wednesday debate. >> the president still plans on participating in the debate nine days away, what is the joe biden campaign

now you see this is the same this is white house communication and their effort to get information and it is a mess so we have this statement at this press conference from the doctors from the team of doctors take care of the president and then minutes later a source approaching the pool reporters those reporters who are on site at medical at the walter reed medical center because you cannot put hundreds of other reporters in this in those quarters there they are approached by a source who doesn't want to be named but who has intimate knowledge about where the president is in terms of his health is that right and he rings the alarm bells with a statement saying basically that the last 24 hours they were really really concerned that he is definitely not out of the woods and that's why he is at medical rule to read medical center and not as a precautionary measure as the doctors just said bottom line is this white house has a trust problem and an information problem meaning it is not transparent nobody believes the white house and as reporters and press here everybody's disappointed abou

i want to talk about what's happening at the white house right now. the communicationsector on safety precautions they are taking with the staff around the president. let's watch. >> at the white house we take precautions in events we host and i think in light of the president's positive test and the first lady, we will take more for the time being to protect the staff around him. >> harris: doctor, from what we know with the staff that has gotten covid in the white house, what are your greatest concerns, and what should they be doing in terms of getting that environment safer? >> yeah, so it will be important for the president to isolate as much as possible. the basic principle that we have been advocating for for many months and perhaps even more so now. making sure that the individuals are masking and anyone in close proximity to the president, maintaining distance wherever possible, at least 6 feet certainly from the president, but also from each other to prevent any further spread. we have also seen some spread in that area. the basic principles washing your hands,

you have the white house communications director saying the chief of staff is trying to be an transparent as possible with the american people and the president is furious at him for it. boris sanchechesanchez, thank y >>> doctor, glad you're withes, and francesca, good to see you as well. doctor, you know one of the president's doctors saying they're treating him with the steroid drug, what does that tell you about the condition of this, you know, covid patient? the president at some point has had high pox 'emmia. >> is it at all worrisome to you? >> -- to impact and improve mortality in these patients. >> then there was in question from a reporter to the doctors about the president most recent lung scan. listen. -- >>> there are numerous findings with covid on chest films radiography, anything from subtle signs of inflammation to more subtle signs of pneumonia. that's all we can gather from what was told to us. i do not think that that all that really tells us how the president is doing. the test x-ray is just a piece of the clinical picture. we have to rely on -- and oxygen levels. >>

a former white house communications director. thank you so much. lots to talk about.et me get your -- what you think about "the new york times" reporting that the president was not tested every day as they said he was the white house -- i think they're in full coverup mode. are we going to find out he wasn't tested before that debate? >> you'll probably find that out, but i think you got to step back and look at the culture in the white house. it's set by the president. he made it clear he didn't like people wearing masks in meetings. he made it clear he frowned upon testing. he went to rallies and said, the problem in the united states is the testing. if we didn't do the testing you're not going to have the cases. it was all this false science and weird science. so yeah, of course there's a coverup, and of course they didn't handle it right. i had a cabinet official in my office last year say, it's going to be a huge crisis. the president has no managerial skills. there's no coordination with the rest of the executive branch. the cabinets and sub agencies, et cetera.

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joining us this morning to reing, white house communication director is here along with texas senator ted cruz, donald trump junior and nfl football great, herschel walker joining us this morning. it's a big show. you don't want to miss it. election interference allegation affecting futures this morning. we're expecting a lower opening for the broader averagings this morning. the s&p down 11 points right now. a big day for earnings, three dow components reporting this morning, coca-cola, dow and at&t. we're awaiting american airlines and southwest, all those numbers as soon as they hit the tape this morning. and bag it up early, more americans are getting holiday shopping done now and it's making a buzz this morning. "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪ maria: european markets look like this as the final phase of brexit talks between the eu and the u.k. is on today. markets were mostly lower yesterday, overnight in asia, rather, take a look at asian markets with the worst performer the japanese market, the nikkei average down three quarters of 1%. the international monetary fund

white house balcony. white house communications director told us reporters here at the white house this morning that the president's speech is expected to be brief. they're not expecting at this moment, at least, a long speech from the president. it all seems to be part of this effort all week from the president to project the sense that he's perfectly fine, that he's back to normal, holding this event less than a week after he was released from the hospital. of course, we are still awaiting results of the president's latest coronavirus test. we do not know if he is giving this speech today while still positive for covid-19. we do know that yesterday the president said he's no longer taking any medication for the virus, though, and he did reveal for the first time that in a lung scan that was conducted at some point since his diagnosis, doctors did detect some congestion. >> the president is also scheduled to hold a rally in the orlando area on monday, and minnesota officials just announced that at least nine people who were at his rally there a few weeks ago tested positive for covid. so what kind of precautions,

the last communication we've got fren doctors was from -- no, that is from white house doctors, we have one communication from a white house doctor that came out late this afternoon and it is this letter that came out from kayleigh saying that the first lady is doing well and the president is fatigued but in good spirits that is the whole letter right there. once he got to walter reed, we had wondered if we might get some sort of medical update, if a medical professional might say come to a microphone or send out a text or some way that the president is doing well. something about the president's condition. something about what is happening there. when obviously the whole world is watching and curious and hopeful that the president is well and on the road to recovery we've received no further communications from doctors. there is a lid at the white house so we don't have any reason to believe that we'll have further communications on the president tonight. i've read you earlier the -- the tweet from eric trump, his son saying that he's praying for his father and he knows how strong he i

hours, supreme court justice, we will get reaction to amy coney barrett's confirmation from white house communications and senate judiciary committee member senator mike lee and congressman michael wolf, former green beret weighs in on the latest from capitol hill. i democrats going to increase or decrease their lead in the house and one week from election day, many think that is 7 days, donald trump junior indefatigable, he will be here live, dave bossi on the pathway to 270, he has been by the president's right side for the last two weeks. also under charles payne on the economy. lawrence jones out and about on the trump site and biden side, joe cona on why the media did not pick up the ceremony last night, msnbc and cnn. all that coming your way, gradually get dressed. jillian: election officials believe suspicious emails they are receiving could be part of a bigger attack according to the wall street journal. several emails appear to impersonate state election directors but officials say most emails did not have the attachments. todd: with mail in ballots, only counted if received by election day,

. >> i will be joined live by julian castro, and white house communication director will join me to talk about the trump brand, and his covid diagnosis, how it is affecting the president's image. we will be back. >> it is hur two, we are following the latest developments involving the president's battle with covid. 24 hours after a briefing that left everybody confused. the president's medical team tried it again today. equal parts medical update and dleen-up job. new information, the president could be released as early as tomorrow. and confirming that president did infact receive supplemental oxygen on friday. why he dodged the oxygen question, coming from a doctor people are looking for honest information about the president's current condition. >> reflect the upbeat attitude that team, the president, the course of illness has had. didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction, in doing so, came off that we were trying to hide something. which wasn't necessarily true. >> and conley addressed the conflicting messages from from the chief

and there's been no official briefings from any doctors we have only have the word of the white house communications team to go on this white house has been very non-communicative very untransparent about what the story is they've been that way really about his medical history in general throughout his term when it came out that he was moving to the hospital congressional leaders came forward and said they had received no briefings as to his situation you know this is a white house that has spent the last months now of this pandemic gaslighting the public as to the severity of this disease and now with so little information out there there's a lot of misinformation that's been spreading. how serious is this situation. yeah it's been quite a blast radius shall we say i think we're up to 8 people at least who have come forward and said that they have also tested positive going to look at my list to make sure i get this right we have former new jersey governor chris christie his former aide kellyanne conway his truck his campaign manager these are all people who are very close to the president least 2

process to make sure that this story doesn't get out. >> sandra: just ahead we'll talk to white house communications the biden campaign. we kick things off with chief white house correspondent john roberts. >> good morning to you. the president covering a lot of ground both in terms of geography, policy and politics over the weekend. and continuing to hammer his rival joe biden for reports about hunter biden's emails and what joe biden might have known about hunter's international business dealings. in campaign rallies president trump likeened the bidens almost to a new york crime family. listen here. >> president trump: joe biden is and always has been a corrupt politician. he always has been. and as far as i'm concerned, the biden family is a criminal enterprise. it really is. >> did biden campaign has not contested the authenticity of the emails. his handlers have said his schedule shows he did not have a meeting with the ukrainian energy executive who amrong with hunter biden was on the board of burisma. a new email, the authenticity of which was confirmed by fox news suggests joe biden was in f

and we've seen some spin come from the white house from a white house communications aide today sayingow donald trump has had covid, so he really understands it. that is not going to fly with the american public. it's also not going to fly when he says don't be afraid of covid. he goes back to the white house and he's being watched 24/7, as most americans cannot be watched. >> dr. hotez, the president's physician continues to refuse to answer a bunch of questions, but specifically, about the president's lung scans or when he last tested negative for the virus, as the failure to be transparent and provide all of this information to the american public about the president's condition contribute to this credibility crisis. >> well, absolutely, wolf. remember, this, we think it's possible that the president suffered a very severe illness. he has all the risk factors in terms of his age and the fact he's male and co-morbid conditions including his weight and other factors. it sounded as though he was getting very sick on wednesday and thursday, and that was the reason why they implemented a

. >> so that was the deputy white house communication director brian morganstern making clear they would like to see the second debate back on schedule and in person. as i mentioned, the biden campaign is moving forward with this other town hall event. president trump is likely to do the same if the debate is not put back on the schedule. of course, there are still questions about the president's health. of course, the president's doctor did not say the president had tested negative. some health experts said that's knotts necessarily necessary in order to clear the president to return to public activities, but there are still a number of questions, particularly given the severity of the president's illness. the cdc suggests perhaps it should be 20 days of isolation, and given the lack of transparency from the white house, it's been difficult to assess these different things. fredricka? >> the president didn't even get ten days of isolation. he returned back to the white house just a couple days after being at walter reed. we have reached out to the debate commission to see how they will

now you see this is the same this is white house communication and their effort to get information and it is a mess so we have 'd this statement at this press conference from the doctors from the team of doctors take care of the president and then minutes later a source approaching the pool reporters those reporters who are on the site at medical at the walter reed medical center because you cannot put hundreds of other reporters in this in those quarters there they are approached by a source who doesn't want to be named but who has intimate knowledge about where the president is in terms of his health is there and he rings the alarm bells with the statement saying basically that the last 24 hours they were really really concerned that he is definitely not out of the woods and that's why he is at medical rule to read medical center and not as a precautionary measure as the doctors just say bottom line is this white house has a trust problem and an information problem meaning it is not transparent nobody believes the white house and as reporters and press here everybody is disappointed

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the president once named anthony scaramucci who was a family friend to be white house communicationspresident is most competitive person i have ever met. i have seen this guy throw a dead spiral through a tire. >> the president would say he barely knew him after he got the boot 11 days into the job for badmouthing ore officials in the administration. after the president mocked a reporter disability something that he denies to this day despite clearly doing it right there on camera he claimed despite having one of the all-time great memories i certainly do not remember him. well, he said that he covered the president in the business dealings for years and interviewed trump inside his office and here's what the president said about one of his democratic critics. >> i'm not sure i ever met bob casey. i never met him. >> problem is the president himself in the very next breath fact checked himself. >> i'm sure i did. i shook his hand. i'm not sure. his father was a good man. knew him a little bit. but we're dealing with a totally different person. i don't think -- i don't know this man.

here at the white house, there's still a lot of questions about how many staffers have been infected with covid-19. we heard from the white house communications director a few hours ago who said the white house plans to give the press the exact number of staffers who were infected. we're waiting to get that number. the administration insists it's able to keep staffers safe. this is what they had to say earlier today. >> we're wearing masks when we can't socially distance, just the general protocols. we go through routine cleanings of the building to make sure surfaces are covered. we're fully functioning. we're going to be working throughout this. >> reporter: white house staffers do get tested when they come in contact with the president and even members of the press when they fly on air a force one, they get tested as well. it's unclear if we're going to see additional protocols come into play within the next couple days. before we did see temperature screenings. those haven't been happening the last several months. we'll be waiting to see how the white house responds as things can change hour by hour. >> mark, thanks. as president trump ho

white house. and president trump and joe biden in pennsylvania where biden is leading in the polls. 4re79's diskugss. former white house communications director anthony scarimucci, john, eight days left. can you believe it? it's really a week. president trump has a crazy campaign schedule coming up. it's not too late for the president to turn his race around. but time is running out. what are they saying at the white house? >> well, they are scrambling, and making the best of it and saying the polls are off and they have a ground game that is going to work but it will be difficult. it's more like they that joe biden wins a landslide than trump wins a squeaker like in 2016. if you look at the map, joe biden needs to hold off the clint yob states from 2016, and the polls indicate he's going do that and win the three rust belt states that trump narrowly won to squeak out a victory, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. he is at or above 50% in the polls. both of those are significant and different from the situation that hillary clinton found herself in, in the end of 2016, where she had a lead. >> it ain't over until it's over. back i

white house communications director said there are going to be precautions in place but the president's speech today is expected to be brief. >> we're making sure we're taking precautions. the president is going to be up on the balcony. it will be a short event. he's going to give remarks and it will be all outdoors. distanced of course and then hopefully once he's cleared by the doctor we're going to have him back on the road soon. >> keep in mind we're still awaiting the results of the president's most recent coronavirus test. so we don't know if he is heading into this event giving a speech while still positive for the virus. and we gave an update on his health last night which he said he is no longer taking any medication for the virus. but he revealed for the first time that lung scans at some point since his diagnosis revealed that there was congestion in his chest. so a potential point of concern there. nonetheless the president is expected to hit the campaign trail this week. he has a rally in florida scheduled for monday. >> sarah westwood. thanks so much at the white house. >>

the white house communications director said that under the president's leadership the nation made great strides in the fight against covid listen here. >> on this date you are the most likely to survive and get treatment for coronavirus in the u.s. than ever prior because of this president's leadership and how he prepared us to deal with it. >> president trump in a spat with twitter comparing coronavirus to the seasonal flu. do we close down our country? no, we learn to live with it. like we do with covid-19, far less lethal. twitter said this tweet violated the twitter rules about spreading harmful information about covid-19. the president fired back at twitter, said repeal section 230 which protests social media companies when they censor people. the president want to gets out of the white house for next thursday's debate. it is likely we will hear from him today. maybe another white house video. there was talk of the president doing an address to the nation. that's late in the day to arrange that. >> bill: we are on standby for that. joe biden on his way to gettysburg, pennsylvania.

white house communications director told reporters here earlier this morning this is expected to be a brief appearance for president trump. they are not expecting a long speech from him. it all seems to be part of this effort from the president to project the sense of normalcy. the sense of back to normal that he's been trying to put forward all week through releasing twitter videos and doing a number of interviews with friendly news outlets. but we are still awaiting the results of the president's most recent covid tests and that is really important. because we do not know heading into the speech today whether the president is still positive for coronavirus. whether he's still contagious. we haven't heard from the president's position in a while. there is not a lot of transparency into the president's condition right now. he did give an update on himself last night in one of the interviews. he said he was no longer taking any medication to treat the virus. and he revealed for the first time that a lung scan taken at some point during his treatment revealed there was some congestion i

now you see this is the same this is white house communication and their effort to get information and it is a mess so we have this statement at this press conference from the doctors from the team of doctors take care of the president and then minutes later a source approaching the pool reporters those reporters who are on the side at medical at the walter reed medical center because you cannot put hundreds of other reporters in this in those quarters there they are approached by a source who doesn't want to be named but who has intimate knowledge about where the president is in terms of its health is there and he rings the alarm bells with a statement saying basically that the last 24 hours they were really really concerned and that he is definitely not out of the woods and that's why he is at medical rule to read medical center and not as a precautionary measure as the doctors just say bottom line is this white house has a trust problem and an information problem meaning it is not transparent nobody believes the white house and as reporters and press here everybody is disappointed a

is because those are doctors and not politicians they are part of the white house administration in the white house communications director or political directors and there you have it and going back to point number one it's highly political why is it part of political speculation is that. the initial infections between other people more than just the president and the 1st lady happened actually less said today at this event as we had mentioned in the report we just just seen when the president announced his nominee for a new justice if the supreme court this was picked there was no masks wearing there was no social distancing everybody was hardening shaking hands and this was maybe not the criminal or criminal of washington but this was the courtroom white house administration team was there steven miller senator this is the judiciary committee of the committee of course 3 of them are now sick with covert 19 the general attorney kellyanne conway who was also. diagnosed as covert 19 seeing shaking hands and hugging with the attorney general and so on so this could have been a let's say spreader not super spread e

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there's phone security there so secure communications can go on with the white house agency. it's an elaborate suite of rooms. nicole, it occurs to me that we have tramp he wi-- trampeled alr the hour of ari melber who has been monitoring the coverage over the past hour. ari, what have you picked up. good to be with you. you mentioned and you eluded to it as well in the overnight coverage. brian. the lack of transparency and the public health issues here actually combine the public interest and self interest, starting as soon as hope hick-s and the testing, she tested positive and the slow trickle of the information that affects the well being of the president as we care about and other people as you just mentioned, nicole and others made an important observation, clearly the effort that went in to create the video to stage manage this exit. while there's still very little information and detail yet provided to the public about the president's condition. the second point i would offer in more of the legal lane, brian, we are witnessing the president going to the hospital for

joining us this morning to reing, white house communication director is here along with texas senator

his white house communications team said he was tested not just every day, but multiple times every day. he dodged the question. he refused to answer. i assume that means the answer is likely no? >> reporter: the non-answer was telling in and of itself, right, because if he had been tested on the day of the debate, you would expect the president to remember that, especially after the weeks of speculation, and to be able to say that quite clearly. instead this is what the president said. >> reporter: did you test the day of the debate? >> i don't know, i don't even remember. >> reporter: did you take a test on the day of the debate is the bottom line. >> i probably did. >> reporter: then you don't know if you took a test on the day of the debate? >> possibly i did, possibly i didn't. >> reporter: jake, not only is this critical for the questions of contact tracing but also the president, not only during the debate, after that he continued to travel across the country. he went to a rally and fu fundraisers in minnesota and that was after his partner hope hicks tested positive for the viru

there was a moment between one of the white house communication officers and alison camarata of cnn that i would like to play. >> let's talk about acting responsibly. with wisconsin, are you concerned given that there has been a outbreak in vice president pence's orbit, hospitals in wisconsin are near capacity. does that give you any fauz act going there to hold a big rally? >> no, the vice president has the best doctors in the world around him. the american people have the right under the first amendment to assemble too. >> the vice president has the best doctors around him. let's also read what the white house said, the trump campaign, said about an omaha rally. he said that president trump loves his supporters and he was thrilled to visit omaha next week. because of the sheer size of the cloud we deployed 40 shuttle buses. at the guest departure location we have generators, hot cocoa, and generators available for guests. we care about their safety. what i find striking about both of those things is what is at the top of mind here seems to be that the vice president and the president a