Justice on the u. S. Supreme court on october 12. Earlier, Chuck Schumer spoke outside his office in new york reiterating his opposition to the republican plan to move forward with the Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Is that ok . Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming and we will keep this short as we usually do given the guidelines. Course, that the top levels of our government have been hit by the corona outbreak. We wish the president , senators, and everyone else who got corona a speedy recovery. It shouldnt be a surprise. A new poll came out this morning, three out of four americans doubt that President Trump took the threat of covid19 seriously enough. Why might they think that . Look at this superspreader fears to. Super spreader photo. This is Amy Coney Barretts ceremony at the white house, people sitting close together for long periods of time with no masks, most of them. Inside, they were encouraged to take off their masks even though being inside is more damaging t
We all know of course that the top levels of government we wish the president a speedy recovery. Americansof four doubt the president took the threat of covid19 seriously enough. That . Ght they think look at this photo. Barrettsy coney ceremony at the white house. Most of the people sitting very close together for very long periods of time with no masks, most of them. When they went inside, they were encouraged to take off their masks even though being inside is more damaging than being outside. To talke here today about two people who have to take covid seriously and act on it. The first is mitch mcconnell. Mitch mcconnell seems to be jamming through the hearings on Amy Coney Barrett, even though three senators have covid. It ishough he has said not safe to meet in session, but it is ok to have the hearing. It does not make sense. It is not safe for the senate to meet in session, it is not safe for the hearings to go over go forward. The idea of having virtual hearings for the highes
Ads about trump and urges people to wear masks. In other news after 6 days of fighting armenias government says its ready to discuss a ceasefire in nagornokarabakh. Crowds in india defy a ban on protesters anger grows over the gang rape and murder of 2 women. Hello the us President Donald Trump has been moved to a military Medical Center for treatment thats 24 hours after testing positive for a coronavirus white house Officials Say trump will be cared for in a special suite at walter reed medical facility for the next few days earlier trumps doctors said he was 58 but was in good spirits and was being treated with an experimental antibody called tell its also being reported that hes developed a mild fever President Trump posted a brief video message to twitter shortly before he was transported to hospital. A lot of thank you everybody for the tremendous support im going to want to read or think im doing very well but were going to make sure things were the 1st ladys doing very well so
Just hours after white house staff aide hope hicks tested positive for the virus. Since that many top level regularly in contact with the president and hope hicks have been getting tested for the virus. And diagnosis of course comes just days after the first president ial debate on tuesday. The president shared a stage with former Vice President Joe Biden Biden says that he has been tested several times today and both he and his wife are negative for the virus joining us now live from washington dc is jesse to noren jesse just a stunning turn of events just weeks now about a month away from the election. How does this shape the month that we have now before we have a president ial election. Yeah thats a good question really isnt so much is still up in the air president Trumps Campaign did say that all of the scheduled events these next few weeks. Would either go to a virtual platform or be postponed altogether and like you mentioned really a month away from the election were less than
You can imagine about just what happens next not only with the election. Certainly the president s health and the president s own duties. Joining us now bay area congressman Jared Huffman who represents parts of the north bay congressman thank you for being with us tonight your first reaction when you heard last night that he has covid and then when you heard late this afternoon that hes going to be hospitalized. No thank you for having anytime the president of the United States has a health problem, its its a serious issue. And i wish who has contracted covid full. Hes in the best hands, the best medical hands we have in this i hope the doctors at walter reed are in charge of the president has surrounded himself with some. The some quack ish medical doctors as well so im hoping that hes letting the top notch folks at walter reed call the shots at this stage i think if they do theres theres every reason to believe that they dont have a a cautionary tale obviously when you have someone