Good morning. Its saturday, october 3rd. Were a mongtth away from the election day. Roughly 210,000 americans are dead from covid19 and around 7. 4 million have been diagnosed with the disease and that now includes President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. The president believes that people have a First Amendment right to political speech. Hes having a rally. People can choose whether or not to come. There really seems to be two standards of health in this country, one for Trump Supporters and one for everyone else. As a precautionary measure on the recommendation of his physicians, the president is right now at Walter Reed National military medical center. Well work out of the president ial offices at the facility for the next few days. The white house says the president is experiencing, quote, mild symptoms. And nbc news learned that trump does have a lowgrade fever. The president s physician says trump remains fatigued and in good spirits and melania has a mild cough and
Going, quote, well. Lawmakers who have been diagnosed continues to grow. Just in the last hour we learned that senator ron johnson of wisconsin has tested positive. He joins two of his senator colleagues, thom till lis and mike lee. At least 7 people who attended that event have now tested positive. Joining me now, laurie garrett, author of the plague is coming. Former senior to the white house, olivia troy and yami yamish elcindor. Lori, i would like to start with you. You had a piece today on Foreign Policy headlines saying only state of the art medicine and luck can save trump now. Can you talk a little bit about what you meant . Well, i dont write the headlines so i did not write that headline, but my article says that we know now that trump has a lot more underlying medical conditions than hes ever really allowed the world to know about. He has tried his level best to appear very youthful, to have no trouble walking, no trouble lifting glasses of water to drink, no difficulty slur