The president is expected to carry out his duties without disruption while recovering. They point out that trumps diagnosis will have a destabilizing effect in washington, raising questions how far the virus has spread through the highest levels of the u. S. Government. The Vice President of the United States tweeted around 2 00 a. M. Eastern time, karin and i send our love and prayers to donald trump and melania trump. And swiftr their full recovery. God bless you, donald trump and the first lady. One more piece of information, nbc news has posted a letter from the white house physician about the president s covid diagnosis. It is fairly brief. That, i a note less released the following information with the permission of President Trump. Both have tested positive for the virus. The president and first lady are both well at this time, they plan to remain at home. The White House Medical Team and i will maintain a vigilant watch and i appreciate the support provided by some of our count
It could be open to a ceasefire as fighting rages in the disputed are going to occur about. Crowns in india defy a ban on protesters anger grows over the gang rape murder. So that the white house says the donald trump is in isolation and is experiencing mild coded 1900 officials are now rushing to find those the president has come in close contact with in the past few days the 1st lady and a senior aide have also tested positive a month out from election day theres new uncertainty over the campaign. The president does have miles sent to him and as as we look to try to. Make sure that not only his health and safety and welfare is good we continue to look at that for all of the American People he he continues to be not only in good spirits but very energetic weve talked a number of times this morning where the 1st lady has also has also mauled coronavirus symptoms however she said in a tweet that shes feeling good and thank people for their concern and lets cross now to alan fischer whos
Cocktail made by regeneron lets get to meg tirrell with the details. Reporter we just got confirmation from regeneron itself as well that they provided this experimental drug to the white house at the request of the president s physician on whats known as compassionate use. That is a way to access experimental drugs outside of Clinical Trials. Now this is the drug that we just saw the first data on, i believe on tuesday afternoon i think i said it was last week, but thats because time is of no normal consequence right now so it was just earlier this week that we saw the initial data from Clinical Trials on this antibody cocktail from regeneron for covid19 it was 275 patients and it was promising data but very early. It showed in patients who have covid19 but are not yet hospitalized with more mild to moderate disease, that the drug reduced levels of the virus and also helped improve symptoms they said it showed positive trends in potentially avoiding the need to go to the hospital they
Hes the president of the United States. As the virus spreads through the white house, Trumps Campaign and the senate. Three more people tested positive for the virus. Hope hicks testing positive. Kellyanne conway tweeted tonight i tested positive. Two gop senators on the Senate Judiciary committee have tested positive for covid. Seems to grow by the minute. Mounting questions about the safety of the president , the stability of the country and the race for the white house in this final month of voting. This is not a matter of politics. Its a bracing reminder to all of us that we have to take this virus seriously. I look forward to finishing up the campaign the way it was started. Re now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning, and welcome to this week. What a week it has been. When we signed off last week, heres what we didnt know that President Trump had paid just 750 in income tax in 2016 and 2017. On the hook now for several hundred Million Dollars in debt come due in a se
News the president of the United States threatening executive action this hour as negotiations have collapsed. The president is about to speak from his resort in new jersey. He has just stepped out and told people assembled there hes going to be speaking in a couple of moments. It comes as the House Speaker nancy pelosi and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin describe the talks as far apart or at one point today very far apart. And new jobs numbers show an incredible slowdown in hiring, the United States down 13 million jobs since the start of the pandemic. So, the issue here is the 600 weekly jobless benefit which expired at the end of the july so people didnt get that this weeb. Currently more than 30 million americans are collecting those job let events. I want to go first to Jeremy Diamond at the white house. Jer mist just to be clear here, the president had what he called a lid. He was done for the night. He was going to have his private time. That was lifted and hes going to be com