Saying hes concerned the sight of him hospitalized, quote, makes him look weak. It comes after a weekend of misleading, sometimes flatout false statements on the president s health. We know he experienced two drops in his oxygen levels as he has battled covid19 and as a result was given supplemental oxygen on friday. We know that he is getting a variety of treatments those include remdesivir and an experimental antibody, dexamethasone. Which makes this this sight stunning, the president going on a photo op joyride, a surprise to everyone, including the media, going outside walter reed, risking the health of his own secret Service Agents in the process. Lets begin with joe johns who joins us outside walter reed for more on the president s condition. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The president s condition is improving according to his doctors. He hasnt seen any fever since friday, according to the doctors. He hasnt seen any mark meadows said this morning that the president is goin
It comes as key members of the White House Task force are praising a move by twitter, a move that over the weekend removed a tweet by the president s covid19 advise r, dr. Scott atlas for pushing misinformation saying masks dont work when they do. Lets get to Martin Savage in utah, though. An alarming spike in new cases in utah. Reporter absolutely. The governor here is declaring that utah is seeing one of the worst outbreaks of covid19 seen anywhere in the country right now. He says the numbers are unsustainable and, in fact, you could argue that the last seven days in utah have been the worst they have seen since the start of the pandemic. Sunday marked the fifth day in a row that this state has seen a thousand plus new cases every single day. Let me show you whats going on here. We are at the parking lot of the university of utah stadium. Huge open air facility where this morning they just opened the gates and it is another day of testing here. Its one of the largest testing sites i
Worsening Health Crisis there is a nation divided politically. Sharply. A critical election just 13 days away and tomorrow the final president ial debate, President Trump is digging into his rally strategy in the final stretch while joe biden prepares for the final faceoff. Former president obama is set to make the case for his former Vice President on the trail for the first time today. More on the 2020 race in just a moment. First, though, lets begin with cnns senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen on this warning about herd immunity from the Surgeon General. This is important because the member of the White House Coronavirus task force that the president seems to be listening to scott atlas has been pushing this publicly, you have the Surgeon General pushing back hard. Right. Dr. Atlas is not a seasoned Public Health professional and it shows when he starts advocating for herd immunity. Herd immunity is the theory of just let it rip, just let the virus rip, protect the people
Prosecutors to go ahead and investigate what he is calling vote irregularities e despite a lack of evidence of any major widespread voting irregularit s irregularities. Now the biden team says theyre mulling legal action as they lose time to get things done. John harwood and jessica dean are us. The president on top of this just fired his defense secretary now theres concern of what may happen to the head of the fbi and cia. Reporter thats right. The interference the president is conducting with the normal transition of power which every Outgoing Administration has cooperated with is only part of it. We all remember after the acquittal in the Senate Impeachment trial, the president went on a purge of officials who told the truth about his conduct during the impeachment process now he has embarked on a similar purge against officials who stood up against attempts to corrupt their agencies. He fired mark esper, the defense secretary yesterday. He had resisted the president s attempts to
Democratic process. It can be, frankly, chilling to hear. Take secretary of state mike pompeo this afternoon. Is the state department currently preparing to engage with the Biden Transition Team . And, if not, at what point does it delay a hamper a smooth transition or pose a risk to National Security . There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump Administration. A smooth transition to a second Trump Administration. That is madness. And, at the same time, secretary pompeo was saying that, Vice President mike pence was on capitol hill detailing all of the trump lawsuits and supposed voter fraud at the gop senate lunch. The white house is also now currently firing top officials at the pentagon and replacing them with fierce loyalists and most republican officials in washington are going along with this. Here is senator ron johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland security committee. Senator, have you congratulated Vice President biden yet . No. Reporter why not . Nothing to co