coronavir -- head of the coronavirus task force, even as the virus surges across the country. there he was, making his way to north carolina. on top of that we have learned that mark meadows tried to keep the news of the outbreak under wraps. this morning, when asked about the surge in case numbers nationwide, here was mideadows' response. >> we're not going to control the pandemic. we are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics. >> why aren't we getting control of the pandemic? >> because it's a contagious virus like the flu. >> why not make efforts to contain it? >> we are making efforts. >> by running all over the country not wearing maskses? >> we can't get into the back and forth 678 let me say this. we need to have the proper mitigating factors to make sure people don't die from this. joe biden is now pointing to that comment as proof that the white house has given up. just moments ago president trump campaigning in maine without a mask, getting up close to voters to sign hats, give phi bumps. it was just over three weeks ago he was hospitalized with coronavirus. joining us is dr. jonathan reiner, a professor of medicine at george washington university, also advised the bush white house medical unit for eight years. doctor, good to see you. let's start with this new outbreak in the vice president's office, and we saw pictures moments ago boarding a flight on the way to north carolina to campaign. what's the message this administration is sending? >> it's a perplexing message. someone who's had the level of exposure that the vice president almost certainly has had with five very close aides, including his bod counter man, that exposure should be followed by a 14-day quarantine. the only other possible explanation for not quarantining would be if the vice president has already had the virus. if he has not already had the virus, and certainly we've never been doled he's had the virus, he should be in quarantine, pitched. >> he's considered a essential worker, if you listen to the chief of staff mark meadows. he says he should be out there, no problem. >> yeah, what is essential about a campaign trip? when i think about an essential worker, i think about the last person able to work in a nuclear power plant control room. yeah, that's an essential worker, but there's nothing critical to public safety for the vice president campaigning. if we were in a time of war and the vice president needed to be in the command spaces, okay, but this is a campaign. he risks infecting everyone around him. >> so the cdc recommendations are 14 days that you quarantine if someone in your circle tests positive. we're told that pence tested negative today, so what would be the window of consideration for the vice president if we're learning that five people in his circle have tested positive? is there a window, like a safety window for him, to be able to bypass those cdc recommendations? >> no, the window is 14 days. testing does not get you out of the window. first of all, most people will test positive or develop symptoms somewhere in the 4 to 7, 5 to 7 day range after exposure, but it can be wider than that. testing negative today doesn't mean he'll -- that he won't test positive tomorrow. in the meantime, he's shedding virus. he could be quarantining. >> so you're talking about the risk now for everyone who may be on board that flight or anyone who comes into contact with the vice president as he makes his ways to kingston, north carolina? >> right. it's a community health hazard. anyone who comes into contact with the vice president, if he indeed is infected, runs the risk of acquiring the virus. >> president trump made a campaign top? maine today. you can see him. he is just inching away from non-masked people, his secret service just as close. you see the president even knuckle bumping some, signing heats. what are your concerns? he has had coronavirus, he's the one who says he's immune. what are your continued concerns about the medical community and sometimes the coronavirus seems to be conveying, but exemplified very differently here. >> i feel like every time he i see the president, he's pulling the rug underneath my feet. every time i talk to patients not just about their heart health, but i talk about viral safety, masking up everywhere you go, social distancing, lowering your viral footprint, and then i look at the leader of this country completely undermining that effort. bringing thousands together, most of them without masks, 180 degrees counter to the message that every health professional in the united states gives their patients. it's a menace to society. >> chief of staff mark meadows said today to our jake tapper, we are not going to control the pandemic. so those words, and that imagery, i mean, is he is saying we're simply throwing in the towel? >> yeah, i hear a lot of scott atlas in that statement. that's a lot of herd immunity in that statement. that's horrifying. we can control this pandemic. think about the district of column bia columbia, despite thes apparent epps centering in the white house, d.c. with the highest rate of mask wearing in the country, i'm proud to say, has a 1.3% positivity rates, some of the lowest rates in the country. that's how we contain the pandemic. that's what we do. we get everyone to marv up. what the chief of staff is saying is surrender. no, no, no, we get everyone to mask up, that's how we get the rates down. >> jonathan reiner, thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> my pleasure. all right. earlier, biden's running mate. kamala harris was pulled off the campaign trail for several days out of an abundance of caution after her communication director tested positive. she now says vice president mike pence should do the same. jessica dean is following all of this for us. jessica, what more are we hearing from the biden/hairs campaign? >> well, fred, as you mentioned, a similar situation happened to kamala harris, though she was never in close contact with her communications director after she tested positive, but out of an abundance of caution, they did pull her off the campaign trail for several days. she's back on the campaign trail. here's what she had to say about it earlier. >> he should be following the guidelines. we're doing it. i think we have modeled the right and good behavior, and they should take our lead. >> reporter: this has been a stark contrast that the biden campaign has wanted to draw between president trump and his administration up and down what a biden/hairs administration would do. they have centered so much of their campaign around the coronavirus pandemic, what they would do to get it under control, what they would be doing with masks, et cetera, et cetera. you can imagine, fred, they're all about following the guidelines, listening to the scientists. we have heard that again and again from this campaign. it is echos what harris said today. we also got a statement from joe biden 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president still campaigning? >> reporter: they're trying to blow past the situation the way the president caught the virus. you have the president saying a short while ago you have to ask vice president pence. it's up to him what he does. mark maddos this morning said that vice president is an essential worker, so he's going to keep doing his job. so we have pence out on the campaign trail. we have pence saying he intends to be in the senate chamber tomorrow night for the vote to confirm amy coney barrett for that ninth spot on the supreme court. plainly what's happening is the head of the coronavirus task force is giving the coronavirus battle less priority than his other goals, trying to come from behind and win an election and cement a majority on the supreme court. that attitude has some allying of the president concerned. the president could presumably anywhere, but today he was in maine. why maine? >> there's one electoral voight that he could win that he won four years ago. he's been trailing joe biden by a narrow margin there. as he sweeps around the country trying to defend turf from a bunch of places -- from arizona, florida, north carolina -- he 'making a stop in maine to try to defend that electric troll vote. he's going to need every one of those on election day. >> john harwood, thank you. joining us now is john avalon and margaret hoover. good to see you, as always, guys. this idea that it's just nine days before the election, a little over a week, there's a second white house coronavirus outbreak, one that the chief of staff tried to keep hush hush about the leader of the task force continues with his campaign rallying s john, doesn't that scream we don't care about people's safety? >> this is the do as we say, not as we do. this administration doesn't care about transparency. the fact that it's five people in the vice president's office, that he's the head of the task force, one includes his body man as well as his chief of staff, who to some reports has been somewhat skeptic about the mitigation efforts, and the chief of staff today said there's nothing we can do to control the virus. this is on the ballot on election today as america hits new highs. we aren't seeing frankly responsible leadership. >> we heard from kamala harris, she was pulled off the trail. even chris christie said he was surprised pence wasn't quarantining. what are the optics here? >> ana, let's be very clear. kamala harris was not pulled off the trail. she chose to stay off the trail, because she felt that was the better, more responsible approach to having been exposed to coronavirus. there's a fundamental ate different approach and philosophy about how to handle coronavirus from the chair of the white house coronavirus staffing force, which undermines all the gripes they have put out. here's the problem, for pence and trump and all, is that as long as coronavirus is in the news, greating the narratives, they're losing the election. when the story is everyone around them has coronavirus, it high dpp lights how poorly they've handled the coronavirus. that is every single poll, every single cross-tab, almost every sector believes that. the best thing they could do from a political perspective is pretend it's not happening and just keeping going. keep campaigning, keep getting out there. that's why you're seeing them still hitting three states. this is what they need to do in their view, and probably political in order to shift the narrative. doesn't help. >> it shows the fundamental problem -- an ostrit ostrich-it approach. >> they're expected to speak next hour to this crowd. i can't tell if they're socially distancing, or just typically fewer people than what we see at trump's rallies, but clearly people aren't worry here about pence it coming and potentially exposing him. he tested negative this morning, but we know there's still a possibility he contracted the virus but just haven't tested positive yet. >> there are pockets of this country that still don't believe this it virus is real. we know the nature of this virus. what seems to be missing is the sense of personal responsibility to the common good, in order to mask up and take precautions to help other people. they don't need to be losing if they would just change the way they handle it, which is to following the task force guidelines. >> john, you mentioned earlier the president would like to be talking about anything other than the coronavirus. he made it clear yesterday. listen. >> we're rounding the turn. we're doing great. our numbers are incredible. that's all i hear about now. you turn on the television, covid, covid, a plane goes down, 500 people dead, they don't talk about it. covid, covid. by the way, on november 4th, you won't hear any more about it. covid, covid! >> the thing is, john, i spoke to a previously undecided voter, he told me he made up his mind to vote for joe biden. >> when he was sick and he went to the hospital and came back and just marched up the steps right there and took his mask off, i'm thinking to myself, no, that can't happen. we have to protect people. we have to do the right thing. we have to be smart and we have to get ahead of this thing. he's not making any strides to do that. >> john, are you surprised the president hasn't changed his behavior or strategy here? >> no, because donald trump is not going to change. i'm surprised to some extent it was the co-vita episode -- that would be an evita reference. >> it actually impacted many trump voters, who thought that was a moment that really -- >> but the covid response has been a real problem with folks who have been wanting to stay with him for various reasons, but i want to go back where he says covid, covid, covid. that's an insult to the every single one of more than 200,000 people who have died. they're not distractions. i'm sorry it's getting in the way of the narrative the president would like to say, but we are in the middle of a pandemic. we are not turning the corner. it is getting worse. friday we hit a new all-time high. it's not that mike pence will give those folks in the audience covid necessarily. we have a problem with the president spreading misinformation and disinformation when we cannot agree on common facts. that's a failure of leadership expressing itself in a real, historic up impact. >> just to bring the temperature down a bit -- >> i'm sorry. >> i appreciate it is a very serious matter, but from a purely political matter, ana, the other piece of this is that the president's campaign has significantly left cash on hand than donald trump, so the reason you have to see mike pence in north carolina and donald trump in maine, and donald trump in michigan where he's going repeatedly over the next nine days, is the only way they can be on tv is with earned media. the only way he's doing to get media attention, his earned media is going to track with joe biden's paid media. they can't afford to take precautions, in their view. >> meantime you have biden planning to campaign in georgia, a state that hasn't got blue since 1992. they're sending kamala harris to texas. what does that tell you? >> you see the democrats trying to play in states that donald trump has won last round or democrats haven't won in a long time, because the polling shows them close or slightly ahead. while donald trump is busy defending the areas he won the time around. you want to find the truth in politics, follow the money. trump is playing defense, democrats are playing offense. that's just what the map tells you right now. >> do you think it's interesting, margaret, that the president is in maine? trying to pick up one vote? is that how close he thinking the race will be? >> i think it's evidence that it's close. i think it also helps with the senate. you know, there is no -- susan collins' race in maine, there is no bandy senator from maine that has ever lost their seat. some of the recent polls, which my husband is laughing about -- >> no, no. >> -- demonstrate she's closing the gap. i don't blame trump for going if he hands to hold the senate. >> normally i give agreed credit for my wife's psychic abilities, but the democrats have been putting up signs that say trump/collins. she's trying to establish her independence. >> to be fair, to your very good point, he is trying to rack up electoral votes, about you it doesn't hurt with that solid base of enthusiastic trump supporters. >> it may be uncomfortable seeing how close he was to they voters. he wasn't wearing a mask. there are multiple people around him without masks. while he already had the coronavirus, there's so much we don't know. there have been cases. you want to mask up. john, margaret, thank you so much. i can't believe we're a week away. we'll see you next weekend for the big push. >> all right. a president trailing in the polls with just nine days to go, what is his strategy? legendary journalist carl bernstein joins us with his new reporting, next. 9 1 . in the final sprint toe election day, president trump held a rally in new hampshire before he headed to maine, and he cast doubt again on the election process. >> i was really impressed yesterday in florida, because there was no way there could be any cheating. no way. these people were great, the system is great. there was no way you're voting twice. but the ballots are not that way. the ballots get handled by many, many people by the time they even get there. it shouldn't be allowed. the democrats know it's a hoax and it's going to cause problem. >> i've said it before and i'll say it again, there is no evidence to support the president's continued claim of widespread voter fraud with mail-in ballots. i want to bring in carl bernstein. this is a claim we ahead from the evidence over and over again what are you hearing? >> that he's intention a waging a scorched earth campaign in the final days, the likes of which we have never seen, and it could ben unthinkable. it undermines and cast doubt, so he can claim if he seems to be losing but also kamala harris, her family, others, as well as attempts to get the attorney general of the united statesia initiate arrest -- literally arrest members of the biden family, perhaps obama administration official. he's also in a rage about all of this, just barking out orders to people around him to accomplish some of these outrageous things i don't think he's been wishy-washy about it. ther the republican senators on the hill would have to go to trump and tell him you cannot challenge this election. you cannot challenge these results, because he is setting up an apparatus and methodology in which he intends to prolounge the count that's part of his strategy so there might not be a majority going for joe biden, and then the election would go toed house. but everything he is looking at. i get some of this from republicans on the hill who are terribly, terribly concerned about what they regard as the president's brush with unconstitutional and unthinkable acts to undermine the electoral process. they are very, very worried about it. many republicans in this senate who are trying to come tole to try to make the plan that if the apt trying to invoke a election crisis, they will try to let law, order and the constitution prevail. if he does, what -- >> there's about 6, 8, 10 members in the senate, republicans in the senate, who are talking with each other about how to restrain who they regard as an out-of-control, almost madman, to use the term of one of those senators, who is determined to do anyone to hold on to office, regardless of the legality, regardless of how far it crosses lines that are unthinkable, in terms of authoritarian itch. that include people who talk to mitch mcconnell. they know hi's worried, too because the republican party can be held respond for his actions if they don't do something about his provocative acts to undermine the constitution, if he goes as far in the scorched-earth campaign as they fear he will, some of these senators. >> you mentioned the president urging the attorney general and the justice department to open an investigation into his political opponents. i want to play something else. >> he is lucky that we have a wonderful human being and the most fair attorney general of the funds i know people who would have had him locked up five weeks ago. bill barr is a wonderful human big and very fair person. i say it and i say it once. just remember it. i get angry, too. he's still hoping and trying to get barr to do his bidding and come up with a way to indict obama administration officials that the justice department is in any kind of smear that might make it possible to tar the biden campaign, to tar joe biden, his family, the vice presidential nomineeing in possible he can to doing them to do that would smear these people at the last moment, he is trying to accomplish. once again, the misuse of classified information has some national security deputies worked that it will be selectively used to attack people in a way that is not true. going from what's on social media and particularly the right-wing social media, and getting members of his administration to continue to repeat it, repeat it, repeat it during the campaign including vice president pence. this is about smears. this is about unidermining the electoral process at the same time the smearing is going on, and creating again a scorched-earth campaign, and wise honestly what i've been told is you don't know what you're going to see yet, because it's going to be the likes of something we have never seen. when i heard that, i took it as a real threat to our democratic process here in this country. there are those even around the president who are worried about his actions. >> carl bernstein, thank you very much for joining us. after a race like no other at all ends here, join us for special coverage the way only cnn can bring it to you. from the first 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are you hearing from key republican senators? >> reporter: today we have two republican senators vote against the nomination. however, we expect that lisa murkowski, one of those republicans who voted today, will actually vote yes tomorrow to confirm amy coney barrett. essential what she said was how close this was all happening to the election. however, she did not want to penalize the nominee, and therefore she's going to support her tomorrow during this nomination. we expect that susan collins will be the lone republican voting against her tomorrow. we should note she's up for reelection in the state of maine. ana? >> there's another curveball. at least five members of vice president pence's circle have tested positive. so is he still planning to attend tomorrow? >> reporter: i asked the majority whip john thune about this. he said it's really up to mike pence. remember, they don't need pence to be presiding over this vote. they have the votes that they need. like i said, they only have one republican defection, but democrats are furious about the prospect of pence coming to capitol hill. here is what chuck schumer said just a few hours ago. >> the vice president, who's been exposed to five people with covid-19 will ignore cdc guidelines to be here tomorrow, putting the health of everyone who works in this building at risk. it sets a terrible, terrible example for the american people. and nothing could be a more apt metaphor for what's going on here. the republican party is willing to ignore the pandemic to rush this supreme court nomination forward. >> reporter: we asked again thune whether or not he thought that mike pence should be coming to capitol hill. one point he made that i think is important tounder score, the vice president is tested regularly for coronavirus. he did test negative this morning. we expect he would be tested against tomorrow, but that, of course, is a sticking point going into the vote tomorrow evening, whether or not the vice president 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nine days left until election day. so more than 58.7 million americans have voted so far. this is according to a survey of election officials in all 50 states, in washington, d.c., by cnn edison research and catalyst. it's not just the white house that's up for grabs, of course, in nine days. the balance of power in the senate is also at stake. those reports could make whoever is president's job much easier or more difficult. here to break it down for us cnn political writer harry enten. what is the current forecast for what the senate might look like. >> sure. coming into this election, obviously republicans have control of the senate. they have 53 seats to the democrats 47. at this point it does look like democrats are favored to take control. the forecast is for democrats to get up to 51 seats, which would give them a bare majority. i should point out this race does remain in the margin of error. you can see that with individual races. what you see now is on the democratic side there are five seats where democrats look like they are favored at this point to pick up seats. arizona, colorado, iowa, maine, north carolina. but look at both north carolina and iowa. those races are really, really tight. at this point it looks like the republicans are going to pick up one seat in alabama. that's douglas jones seat obviously that flipped in the 2017 special election. right now democrats are favored but it is a close race. >> let's turn to presidential race. who has easier path to 270 electoral votes. >> right now, look, it's former vice president joe biden. can you see that best in the seven closest contests from the 2016 election that trump won, and you can see that biden does lead in all of those contests but in florida and north carolina it's well inthe margin of error. i would point out perhaps the race was a little closer than it was a week ago. in places like wisconsin, pennsylvania, nebraska second congressional and michigan it's pretty sure biden has the advantage. >> let's drill down. what are some of biden's easiest paths. >> this sort of gets at it. the easiest path by far is to essentially win the clinton states and add in the states which biden holds a five-point lead even if trump won them. we're talking about places like pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. that nebraska second district i mentioned. this even affords biden the potential to lose in places like florida, north carolina, and arizona where he does hold a polling lead. the second best path for biden at this point is let's just say he loses in a place like pennsylvania but then he holds onto the states where he holds a four-point lead in the polls in both september and october, that gets biden to exactly 270 electoral votes because he wins in arizona, nebraska's second congressional district, wisconsin and michigan. in this path he loses in florida and north carolina. >> i'm up against the end of the hour here, so in 30 seconds, give us trump's path? >> yeah. trump's 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