What we witnessed was shocking to watch, even for those of us who are used to this administration. Heres how it went down. Just before 6 p. M. Eastern time the president released a new twitter video from inside the hospital thanking his followers for their support. Heres a piece of that video. 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 a letsreadthe book school. I get it. I understand it. Its a very interesting thing. Im going to let you know what i know about it. In the meantime, we love the usa thank you. The president got into a secret service suv packed full of people who presumably do not have the coronavirus. The motorcade was not on its way to official business of any sort. It appears that President Trump simply wanted tow wave to his supporters. Reporter here at Rockville Pike just behind me, there was the president ial motorcade. The president was visible inside that vehicle during that brief appearance. Crowd here clearly very excited and enthusiastic about seeing the president , but this is really raising profound questions about about the approach of the white house to dealing with the president s illness and why they were taking the steps that clearly exposes people to more risk than is absolutely necessary. It goes against cdc guidance. It goes against Public Health guidance as well. Weve seen this piece of the president s playbook before many times where he does something surprising, shocking, even something he knows will outrage a lot of people. It allows him to drive the conversation and put things on his terms. It may be different this time. This has really hit home for republicans. You have the president and the first lady positive for coronavirus. You have governor Chris Christie in the hospital with coronavirus, multiple republican senators, the president s Campaign Manager and former Campaign Manager, all having contracted coronavirus in and around the white house in the last several weeks. Well have to see whether this provokes a different time of reaction now that americans are realizing despite having this incredibly infectious disease, the president is taking steps that completely contradicts all the Public Health guidance as our country has been dealing with this pandemic. Lets bring in josh bennett, msnbc correspondent, jacqueline almani and dr. Hath, emergency medical physician at columbia medical center. We also have michael mans. Any additional reporting you have decision to what we just heard from josh about the white houses thinking, the president s thinking in taking this ride . Yeah. Whats remarkable here is how little we dont know about what head to t led to the president s decision to have that spectacle, that driveby. Any president ial movement is tracked by the White House Pool of reporters. That White House Pool changed by day. They track every movement a president makes. Its important on a usual day, even more important on a day when the president of the United States is, lets be frank about it, hospitalized because he has covid19. The White House Pool was not given advanced notice he was going to make that trip. We found out much the way everyone else did when he tweeted that video. Once the president left, twhaon that driveby was over, we didnt know where he went. We didnt know if he went back to the white house, if he went back to walter reed. That was done by evading journalist, one. And two, just sort of the reckless approach to that. Spare a thought for the secret Service Agents who risk their lives day in and day out but had to unnecessarily risk their lives so the president could get the sort of adulation that he so desperately needs. Can you add some color to what jeff just said, malcolm . Yeah. There really is a ginormous bubble of people, processes, systems and protocols that surround the individual that is the president of the United States. When he moves from a secure location like, say, a hospital room where hes supposed to be in quarantine and he walks into the hallways and its not to go get a cat scan and he steps into a secret service vehicle, the entirety of the u. S. Defense system, the department of Homeland Security system cycles up and follows him. If the press corps didnt know where he was moving, does the mobile Communications Team at the white house know he was going to move other than the fact that their command post vehicle was moving . Did the secret Service Counter assault teams in the area really know he was moving with more than one or two moments notice. And the entire Nuclear Command umbrella. Do we have to scramble an aircraft to make sure theres enough command and control because the president of the United States is moving. There are Nuclear Security sites and other places which monitor the entire world. The president was obviously not thinking about that. He was thinking about a car parade. Malcolm looks at this through the lens of National Security jeff looks at this as a journalist. From your purview as a medical expert, what comes to mind as you watch this video . I can speak not just for myself, but for all medical experts ive been speaking to. We are horrified. If any other patient in america who ishospitalized with coronavirus tried to leave their hospital room, would be restrained. The idea that the president went into an enclosed space and willfully put other peoples lives at risk is short of criminally negligent. There are secret Service Officers in an enclosed space with no ventilation with an active covid patient. Regardless of what job he has, what status he has, those men and Women Deserve the respect of their lives meaning something. Clearly this was about perception. What was the message being telegraphed to the president s fans and supporters . Yeah. So i mean, obviously i think hes trying to convey strength, hes trying to convey that he is healthy enough to ride around and wave and show that hes going to beat this thing. I think this gets at something deeply embedded in this president s personality and in his psyche. This is a man who weve seen for years now feeds off the affection of his fans and almost needs that affection. I remember several years ago i interviewed trump before he ran for president. He was telling me about his celebrity friends who blow off people who are asking for autographs or whatever. He said he would never do that. He always makes time for his fans, because if they werent around, that wouldnt be so nice for me. I think that weve seen over and over that he gets energy, he gets enthusiasm from being around those people. For a person leak that, the idea of quarantine is kind of a nightmare, right . For everyone else whos covered all the other bases, as far as what we know about this man, its not that surprising that he would at the first opportunity look for a chance to kind of go and surround himself with supporters. Joe biden has been talking about the president s Job Performance on the pandemic all campaign. Take a listen. Hes too weak to beat the pandemic, costing more than 200,000 american lives, thats upended every part of our lives and hit working people particularly hard. Your businesses are closed and schools arent back to normal because donald trump hasnt done his job. How does what we just saw fit into this larger narrative that were hearing from the Biden Campaign . Its an emblematic example of the president holding himself to a different standard than the American People and, quite frankly, previous president s, from how he deals with the White House Press corps to the rest of the country. This has serious political ramifications. I hate to talk about this through a political lens, because it is a matter of life and death. Im not sure that people who know or have family members of the 200,000 who have already died appreciate this being talked about in these lens. But a number of Campaign Advisors that i spoke with over the weekend and throughout this whole ordeal liken this situation to the access Hollywood Tapes, that this is going to dramatically hit trumps numbers. He dropped ten points from the debate. A source on the campaign told me today he expects that joe bidens lead will actually increase another two to three points. Again, this president has a highly contagious disease and he is out holding a north koreanesque military motorcade parade to appease his supporters. Its clear the president views this through a political lens and not the Public Health crisis that it is. Some of the treatments the president is receiving could affect his behavior. Take a listen. I mean, this is evidence that his behavior, his treatment course is not being directed by his doctors. Theres no doctor that would say, now is the time for a joyride around the hospital, you should remain put, you should remain in isolation. It makes me sick to see him in close quarters with the others in that car, who need to go into quarantine right now. Ill also say, when we put patients on highdose steroids like that, we monitor them closely because theres a host of side effects including impact on their Mental Health and decisionmaking. You could see delirium or psychosis. You are not yourself. Do you agree . I agree. The other thing she didnt include is we know there are neurological complications to the Coronavirus Infection itself. We have seen acute psychosis, delirium and depression all as a result of the actual infection. Right now as an acutely infected individual, it is unbelievable that the president seems to be directing his own Clinical Care and when it is he leaves isolation, remembering that millions of americans have literally sat in isolation rooms by themselves, with hundreds of thousands dying alone in hospital rooms. This is not the time for the president to take a joyride around the hospital. Jeff, the big question here, the question that has been the question for the last 48 hours is, do you feel you are getting Accurate Information from this white house about the president s condition . In a word, no. I think whats most egregious about this is that the state Health Department officials who need Accurate Information in order to do the contact tracing, following all of the president s various travels during the past week leading up to his covid diagnosis, they too, according to my reporting, arent getting the Accurate Information that they need. The governor of ohio, republican governor, by the way, not that it should make a difference, but apparently in this era it does. Republican Governor Mike Dewine says hes heard nothing from the white house about contact tracing, given that the president was in cleveland at that debate. Just today new Jersey Health officials finally got the information theyve been demanding for at least a couple of days so they could Contact Trace the 200 people who were in that room in that space with President Trump for that highdollar fundraiser. He went there knowing that hope hicks had tested positive. We learned from dr. Conley that the president was exhibiting symptoms of covid at least as early as thursday afternoon. So its not just the white house physician who chose not to level with the American People yesterday. We found out today it was because he wanted to sort of match the messaging from the president s political team, as if thats what the American People come to expect or deserve from a white house physician. Its also that the state Health Officials who desperately need Contact Information to make sure that the people who were exposed to the president and other white house officials who were in those states, so those people can take care of themselves so this doesnt necessarily exponentially balloon into a bigger crisis than it already is. Malcolm, what does that lack of transparency that jeff is describing there mean for americas National Security . Certainly none of our allies can feel confident that they know what the president of the United States is doing or thinking. They dont know whether he is in a stable state. They dont know whether he is in an unstable state. They cant rely on anything that they see in the news media, because as weve seen today, he deliberately misleads the news media, he leaves the press pool behind. To tell you the truth, the people who probably have the greatest and most accurate picture of what hes doing in his mind is probably the Russian Embassy on wisconsin avenue because his white house uses unsecure phones and they leak like a sieve. Hes out there communicating with mark meadows, melania trump, people in his inner circle. They probably have the information that we dont have. These people dont take National Security very seriously. They take politics seriously. That doesnt mean that its going to work out for any of us. Lets not forget there is a covid relief package on capitol hill. Theres a conversation about a Supreme Court justice. How does this complicate everything thats supposed to be the focus on capitol hill right now . For one thing, there have been a number of lawmakers who have also contracted this virus in the midst of this outbreak and its raised questions about whether with all the republican senators who have gotten sick and are not going to be able to be on the hill for at least a little while, republicans in congress are going to be able to push forward with the nomination, for example, of amy coney barrett. The relief package is a concern also. Some of these things can be handled virtually. The senate in particular have been doing some of their hearings virtually. But i dont think we necessarily know that weve seen the end of which lawmakers have gotten sick. Obviously democrats on the hill are calling for a postponement of at least the confirmation hearings until they can get past these illnesses. So there are a lot of question marks aside and apart from the president s health that impact the American People, and i think were still seeing that cascading effect play out. All right. Josh mckay, jacqueline and dr. Cass, thank you so much. Coming up, the president may still be getting treatment by the time his Vice President makes the debate stage. How his diagnosis will affect this weeks debate. Good evening to you. Some of the stories were following for you, tomorrow marking the first time in 17 years the Supreme Court will begin a term without Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Her seat on the bench will be draped in black as the eight remaining justices begin hearing cases. Case topics include obamacare and mailin voting. Crews are starting to get the fire in napa valley under control. That fire is 15 contained. Its burned 60,000 acres and hundreds of homes. The patriots and chiefs play tomorrow night after tonights game was postponed. Two players tested positive for coronavirus including cam newton, who will not play. S inc newton, who will not play. Welcome back to american voices, we continue to follow the latest on the president s health as he gets treatment for covid19. The president left walter reed this evening to wave at cameras outside the hospital. It was a surprise departure. His doctor spent a second day talking around important questions from the press about the president s health. They would not give specifics on the president s oxygen level. They spent part of today cleaning up yesterdays mess and defending themselves from accusations that they arent telling the whole story about the president s condition. I was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president has had. I didnt want to give any information that might steer the course of the illness in another direction and in doing so came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasnt necessarily true. The effect of the matter is that hes doing really well. He is responding. If everything continues to go well, were going to discharge him back to the white house. The president is still on the job while inside the hospital. The president was briefed by mike pompeo and the joint chief this afternoon. Mike pence tested negative for coronavirus for the second time as he prepares to face Kamala Harris in their only debate. Yes, despite the exposure, the Vice President debate will go on as scheduled wednesday night in salt lake city. There will be a few changes. Senator harris and Vice President pence will be seated 12 feet apart. The two will be seated which is the preference of the trumps campaign. I want to bring in cecile and kristine acosta. Principle of fenway strategies. She was formerly a policy writer and speech advisor for secretary clintons 2016 campaign. Thank y