Positive for coronavirus. This comes after hope hicks, she tested positive for the last 24 hours. Well continue to monitor her progress but it is clearly now, all eyes focus on the President Trump tested positive for covid. I want to talk about this news and impact. What kind of risk is he at now. This is a stunning announcement tonight and we are all very concerned about having anyone testing positive for covid and particularly the president of the United States and the first lady of the United States. This shows how important testing, tracing and quaranti quarantining and isolate is. The president does fall into a high risk of category. Hes older and some what over weight. I dont know about any other preexisting conditions that he may or may not have. The important thing is hes in an age group that does have and risk for severe covid. So this is very concerning. We are showing picture of the key White House Team going into marine one. Theyre sharing many debates and meetings and fund
Way. The president will return to a white house though where there are new Coronavirus Infections increasing almost hourly. Presence secretary Kaleigh Mcenany and two of our deputies now among that growing list. At joint base andrews, Vice President mike pence Just Moments Away from departing for utah ahead of wednesdays debate, defying cdc guidelines that he actually quarantined. Im going to talk about all of this, plus the possibility of a covid relief bill with House Speaker nancy pelosi in just a minute. All of this as the coronavirus cases in the United States though continues to rise. On friday, the day that the president went into the hospital, the nationwide case count on that day had reached the highest daily total in nearly two months at 54,000. The number of cases now stands at 7. 4 million, and the number of deaths, sadly, at 211,000. Joining me now from the capitol is the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. Madam speaker, thank you so much for joining me. First of all, let
His fever spiked early on, and because of some conflicting messages early on, there are growing questions tonight about the quality of the information reporters have been receiving concerning his condition, as you see the thumbs up from the president driving by his supporters. We will have extensive coverage throughout the next hour with reporters in the field, expert interviews. Well also be with joined by White House Press secretary caylee mci neighbormy mcenany. We begin tonight with Mike Emmanuel with the president up and out today. Good evening, mike. Reporter yeah, good evening to you. President trump reea eliting that new video message on twitter a short time ago. Its been a very interesting journey. I learned a lot about covid. I learned it by really going to school. This is the real school. This isnt the lets read the book school. And i get it, and i understand it, and its a very interesting thing. Reporter then in the past hour there was quite a surprise here in front of walt
On multiple drugs to treat the coronavirus. He is not out of the woods. His own doctors say that. It was a white house photographer who came up right behind him masked, but right in the range, taking pictures of him. You see people there. The first thing the president of the United States did was take off his mask. This is a stunning moment. On top of an absolutely stunning series of events that i think has left everyone in this country just completely in shock. What we just saw there. As we watch this, and were going to see in a moment when he got off the helicopter, it was on the other side of the cameras that you saw, so youll be able to see that in a moment, he obviously, when he got on that helicopter it was a thumbs up as he left walter reed. Continuing to downplay the virus. And you know, his tweets speak a thousand words, which they did today. But what he just did there was everything anyone in this country needs to know. A person hospitalized with coronavirus who feared for hi
Driveby photo op, waving to his supporters outside Walter Reed Hospital on sunday, a textbook risk for spreading the virus, even if others in the suv were wearing ppe as the white house notes they were. Yet, the scene was familiar. Remember back in june in the midst of the heated protests, the president put himself, secret Service Agents and members of the public at risk for a hastily staged photo op across from the white house back then to hold up a bible in front of a boarded up church, yet the idea is the same here. Supposed showings of strength and toughness, in other words, optics over the health and safety of others. Moments before his joyride, mr. Trump posted this. Its been a very interesting journey. I learned a lot about covid, i learned it by really going to school. This is the real school. This isnt the lets read the book school, and i get it, and i understand it, and its a very interesting thing, and im going to be letting you know about it. Months, months, into this pande