news have since confirmed that initial positive test. according to the guardian, meadows writes quote, nothing was going to stop trump from going out there. trump received a negative result just before the debate, but the public did not learn about it until the early hours of october 2nd. today the former president in a statement state on brand, saying quote, the story of me having covid prior to or during the debate is fake news. of course this does not answer the question of whether he received a positive test before the debate. by the way, tonight we are just a little more from two days of a potential government shutdown, the deadline to pass a funding bill to keep things open is midnight friday in the saturday morning. washington post among those reporting tonight, one faction of republicans on capitol hill is on that bill if anyone -- schumer today urged republicans