Partnership with the new england journal of massachusetts. Here we are days away from the close of 2020 and we are at an inflection point. While the news around vaccines are promising the daytoday headlines are as grim as they have ever been. An american is dying of covid19 every 90 seconds and we have recorded 4 million new covid19 cases in november and more than 1 million cases in december just nine days into this month. Covid19 has just passed Heart Disease as the number one killer of americans. As of this morning more than 286,000 americans have died due to covid19 and in just one day, just one day yesterday, we lost 2600 of our fellow americans to covid19. To put those numbers into context we are experiencing a tragedy on the scale of pearl harbor every single day, right here at home. From an Economic Security standpoint we are facing the greatest threat to Value Creation since world war ii. If there were ever any doubt about the seriousness of this virus these facts should cast t
Lines. Epublicans, 202 7488001 democrats, 202 7488000. Independent voters, 202 7488002. You can always text us your opinion. We are reading social media on twitter and facebook. Once again, the president is beginning his day at walter reed after being diagnosed with the coronavirus. Im going to read a couple of quick paragraphs from the Washington Post that came out this morning. President trump taped a message for americans before he left for walter reed and put it out on his twitter account. I want to thank everybody for the support. I am going to walter reed hospital. I think i am doing very well. Were going to make sure that things work out. The first lady is doing very well. Thank you very much. Host thank you. We got an update from mark meadows. He met with reporters on friday to talk about the president s condition. We want to make sure that nunnally his health and safety look at we continue to that for all of the American People. He continues to be not only in good spirits but
Guest it is probably the most serious crisis sitting president has had since resident reagan 1981. Ot in the president help is important to him and his family but it is important to the nation and to the world. Ill president creates uncertainty that affects the financial markets, affects our relationship with our allies and obviously with our enemies as well, and i think that uncertainty has really spread throughout the world over the past 2436 hours. While americans and a lot of people around the world are praying for the president and the first lady and his staff to get well, in the meantime, there are a lot of questions that will need to be answered by the white house and others and assurances that need to be made around the country and around the world that the president is well, and throughout the process, the status of the president s health. Host you wrote in july and article that says what happens if President Trump contracts covid19 . Here is one of the paragraphs from the sto
Well im terry martin good to have you with us with just 4 weeks until election day u. S. President donald trump and his 1st lady millennia trump have tested positive for cope at 19 the president made the announcement on twitter shortly after the news that his top aide hope hicks at contracted the virus extravert with the president several times this week trump tweeted that he and his wife would quarantine immediately but his doctors said the president would continue to carry out his duties in the white house quote without disruption. Well for now were joined by d w a correspondent my a schwager in washington and here in the studio william clue cropped up are u. S. Experts good to have you both now lets start with you my your closest to the white house what more can you tell us. Well the information is very basic right now terry its basically just what youve described we know that theyre positive its unclear when they 1st contracted the virus we know that theyre going to be keeping some
Well im terry martin good to have you with us with just 4 weeks to go until election day u. S. President donald trump and 1st Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for covert 19 the president made the announcement on twitter shortly after the news that his top aide hope his contract at the virus has traveled with the president several times this week trump tweeted that he and his wife would quarantine immediately but his doctor said the president would continue to carry out his duties in the white house quote without disruption. With more now were joined by g. W. Correspondent my a schwager in washington and here in the studio william glue cropped our u. S. Election expert good to have you both lets start with you you are closest to the white house what more can you tell us. The information is very basic right now terri its basically what youve lined out for us we know that he is positive we dont yet know if hes showing any symptoms we know that he in the 1st lady are quarantining bu