After being in close proximity to the vice commandant of the coast guard who also tested positive. He and defense secretary mark esper were both at the white house for an event last weekend. As the administration navigates this crisis, Vice President mike pence is preparing to debate senator Kamala Harris tomorrow night, now agreeing to plexiglass barriers after pence aides repeatedly mocked the harris team for wanting an additional level of safety. Joining me now, nbc White House Correspondent and weekend today cohost peter alexander. Nbcs mike memoli in Salt Lake City ahead of the Vice President ial debate. Robert gibbs, former press secretary to president obama, and dr. Vin gupta, pulmonologist and Global Health policy expert at the university of washington medical center. Peter alexander, you heard from chief of staff mark meadows this morning. What is the latest on the president s condition . Because we havent heard from the doctors in two days except for a brief statement. And th
Behind closed doors, spending his morning tweeting false claims about Election Results while continuing to block the biden team from accessing the tools they need to ramp up the transition. Joining me now, nbcs mike memoli and nbc white house correspondents Kristen Welker and Peter Alexander, cohosts of weekend today. Kristen, youre there in wilmington as mike is. Tell us about the latest moves from the biden transition team. Some of the movement were seeing from leading republicans as well. Reporter thats right. President elect joe biden is moving forward with his transition. We saw that overnight when he announced his new chief of staff ron klain. Of course klain served as his chief of staff when he was Vice President. But as you point out, andrea, they are really putting the focus on policy right now, as he builds out his team, that 12member Covid Task Force that he announced on monday, talking about health care on tuesday, so really trying to strike a note of calm in the face of Pr