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Senator Kamala Harris campaigning at a drivein Voter Mobilization event in las vegas. Live coverage begins at 6 30 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. This morning, white house chief of staff mark meadows gave an update on President Trumps condition. Heres what he had to say. Mark good morning. Obviously we had a great jobs report this morning, unemployment down below 8 , economy continues to be robust in its vshaped recovery. Unfortunately thats not what everybody is focused on this morning. As all of you know, the president and first lady tested positive for covid19. They remain in good spirits. The president does have mild symptoms and as we look to try to make sure that not only his health and safety and welfare is good, we continue to look at that for all of the American People. He continues to be not only in good spirit bus very energetic. We talked to a number of times this morning, i got the five or six things he had asked me to do, like i do every single morning, and he is certainly wanting to make sure we stay engaged. I think the other thing that is critically important, the doctors continue to monitor both his health and the health of the first lady. Theyll continue to do that. Theyll be glad to provide some updates later today as we look at this. But i think the great thing about this president is not only is he staying committed to working very hard on behalf of the American People, his first question to me this morning was, how is the economy doing . How are the stimulus talks going on capitol hill . A number of us in the core team of the white house continue to get tested on a daily basis like we are, like we have been. Nd as we look to that, we were very excited about making sure hat not only is the health and safety of the president and irst lady is addressed but certainly that we address this battle together as a nation, together, and the American People can rest assured that we have a president that is not only on the job, will remain on the job, and im optimistic that hell have a very quick and speedy recovery. Reporter how would you describe his symptoms . Is he taking hydroxychloroquine . Mark im not going to get into any particular treatment he may or may not have. He has mild symptoms, as we look at that, the doctor will continue to provide expertise in the residence. Hes in the residence now and in true fashion hes probably critiquing the way that im answering these questions. I can tell you that a number of us will be reporting back to him on the task at hand. Reporter what day and time did you find out that hope hicks tested positive and did you sit n it until after the president went out to his fundraiser in new jersey . Mark as we look at this, im not going to get into the i can tell you in terms of hope hicks, we discovered that right as the marine one was taking off yesterday, we actually pulled some of the people that had been traveling and in close contact. The reason why it was reported ut just frankly is that we had started the Contact Tracing just prior to that. As you know last night even in the early hours of this morning, the minute we got a confirmed test on the president we felt it was important to get the news out there at that ime. So thats why we sent out the tweet late, or actually early his morning. Reporter will you be asking Staff Members to take additional precautions . And why arent you wearing a ask right now . Mark ive obviously been tested. Were hopefully more than six feet away. If theres any concern there from a guidance standpoint, we have protocols in place. You know, we early on, when we first started to tackle the covid19 battle, we actually did two Different Things in the white house, a number of contingencies as we looked at not only additional testing but certainly mitigating the risk for social distancing and private meetings and the like but i think it goes to the broader question is, even with a lot of mitigating factors, jim, what you have is a virus that is contagious. That certainly continues to be regardless of whatever protocol we have, that it has the ability to affect everybody, as you know, the president we keep a pretty wide circle, all of you who have interacted with him know that. Even with that wide circle around the president we find that hes having to deal with this like so many millions of other americans and people round the world. I can tell you what were doing s focusing on the therapeutic, the vaccines, continues to do that that doesnt change. Talking simultaneously] reporter the officials who were on the flight with the president on wednesday, including crish in her, are they all quarantining . Have they been tested . Mr. Meadows we tested all of our core staff. I can tell that you mr. Kushner, myself, a number of us have been tested. And comes back with negative results. And yet at the same time i fully expect that as this virus continues to go on, other people in the white house will certainly have a positive test result and weve got the mitigation plan in place to make sure that the government not only continues to move forward, but the work of the American People continues to move forward. Even as recent as this morning, the president was giving me a number of things to make sure i get done and im that i will have those they have to be back to him later today. So i wanted to come out and give an update to all of you, show the courtesy of giving an update, well have future updates, ill be glad to do that. Any other specifics [everyone speaking at once] later in the day White House Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany gave an update on President Trump and the first lady following the announcement that they tested positive for covid19. Reporter what kind of test did the president

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