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Which is Like Air Force one a fully functioning command center, donald trump weing a video message before taking marine one from the south lawn of the white house to the hospital landing pad. I want to thank everybody for the tremendous support going to Walter Reed Hospital. I think i am doing very well but we will make sure things work out, the first lady is doing well. Thank you, appreciate it, i will never forget it. Democrats have been quick to criticize the president , joe biden taking the high road offering condolences to donald trump and first lady milania who tested positive for coronavirus. Sending my prayers for the health and safety of the first lady and the president of the United States after they tested positive for covid19. This is not a matter of politics. It is a reminder to all of us to take this virus seriously. It is not going away automatically. A rare move sending the president Walter Reed Hospital for care and more rare, received experiment of antibody treatment at the white house that hasnt been approved yet by the fda. This as more officials in the president s inner circle to test positive for the virus. Lucas tomlinson live at the pentagon with the latest on all of this. Reporter key members of the National Security team are back in washington. Mike pompeo and National Security adviser Robert Obrien are back in new york, mark esper continues his trip to north africa but will be returning in the next few days following an official list of those who tested positive for covid19 and some in the last few hours include the president , the first lady, republican senators mike lee, tom tillis, hope hicks, rhonda mcdaniel, kellyanne conway, the president of notre dame and the president s Campaign Manager. He was in the rose garden, judge Amy Coney Barretts nomination, notre dame for experienced an outbreak on september 19th a week before the rose garden ceremony, 18 Football Players tested positive and 40 are in quarantine. This is not a good time to have the Campaign Manager sidelined 31 days before the election. This morning donald trump remains commander in chief, us officials tell me there is no plan to transfer power to the Vice President. The following statement, there has been no change, us military stands ready to defend our country and interest, no change to the readiness or capability of our armed forces, National Command structure is in no way affected by this announcement. Reaction from around the globe was swift, donald trump the first lady tested positive, friends and foe alike weighing in. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson led his nation when battling the virus from the hospital. I think we all want to send our best wishes to the president and the first lady. Ive done that this morning as you can imagine. Officials tell me no chance the militarys foster around the world, Army Soldiers in syria wishing the president well and focused on their mission. Lucas tomlinson, thanks very much, donald trump may be the most famous world leader to test positive for covid19 but not the first, both british Prime Minister Boris Johnson and brazil president bolsonaro tested positive and recovered earlier this. 34 million have tested positive worldwide putting much of the globe on some form of lockdown for months. For International Reaction we go to Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent. A lot of people have gotten it, a lot of people are reacting to it, more World Leaders are responding to the illness of donald trump in the first lady, covid19, remember him, send a lot of warm letters to the president and another one, he says i offer my sympathy, i am hoping donald trump overcomes this. The Foreign Ministry of china, a country donald trump has blamed for a lot of this trouble still managed a message for him wishing him a speedy recovery. Vladimir putins russia developing its own vaccine against covid19, offered it to the United States. They are offering it again to donald trump if you wants it, no word on that, the message they are sending, this is a quote from there Foreign Ministry, the american president treated the viruslike it is nothing, he finally caught it. A lot of World Leaders and top officials, more than a dozen of them over the past several months have caught covid19. One was a covid19 skeptic, b o bosonaro he was laid out for 18 days, it was just a moderate case. In london Prime Minister Boris Johnson had a tough one. He was laid up for more than a month, went into intensive care and by his own admission was touch and go for a wild. The popularity bounced for Boris Johnson lasted a week or two. It is hard to say how donald trump will come out of this on the political side. We are hoping for his speedy recovery. Back to you. This will take us past election day. The white house wants to see this. And after the positive step, the 8 gram dose is being studied for use with early illness but it wont proof for the masses, the president s physician said after receiving treatment donald trump, quote, remains fatigued but in good spirits. How much help might this be . Lets get insight, republican congresswoman from new york and first female physician elected to congress and doctor george diaz, section chief of providence Regional Medical center. A statement we just got from sean connolly, the president s physician, i am happy to report the president is doing very well. Hes not requiring any supplemental oxygen but in consultation with specialists we initiate severe therapy, he completed his first dose and resting comfortably. Lets start with you. What do you make of the treatment the president has received . Not surprisingly given the president s Critical Role in national life, i dont mean this in an alarmist way they are pulling out all the stops to make sure that they insure his safe passage through this virus. The antibody cocktail is meant to imitate, it contains many days. With the synthetic antibody cocktail what they are doing is infusing those antibodies into his body to neutralize the virus more quickly. His body has to ramp up its own responses and the remdesivir is a direct antiviral, that is meant to stop replication of the virus in his cells. They are prudent measures and a lot more they can do that they are not doing. I want to ask how unusual it would be to give someone an experiment a drug not improved by the fda. I would say it is fairly unusual. The reason for doing that is the high risk category of patients given his age and his weight puts him at higher risk category for developing severe in section. Because of this the decision was made to use experimental therapy. Recently the company regeneron made a press release with topline results. Very pulmonary data that suggests treatment with the antibody early before people make their own antibodies, decrease the amount of fibrous one produces and the number of medical visits required by patients. Given the data that came out though its not published yet, the president s overall risk the decision was made to pursue this. I want to jump in, from what you heard about the president s symptoms, theyve been somewhat vague so far, they sound mild at least so far. Is there a way to predict how well use doing and how well he might do . Sounds like you think the antibody cocktail might provide some help, some relief or reduce the amount of the virus or separate the symptoms . The goal is to accelerate the bodys a limitation of the virus. The course of the virus can be unpredictable. People who seemingly would not be at the highest risk, the president , while use obese, does not have metabolic syndrome doesnt have hypertension or those blood vessel conditions that really signal a danger point for this particular disease, they are monitoring him very carefully for his temperature, for his oxygen levels just out of an abundance of caution, they have a lot more they can use and i imagine they are going to continue to infuse the remdesivir, the direct antiviral and the antibody cocktail depending on how they feel he is doing. We have seen covid19 survival rates are very high, 99 except for people over 70 you have a roughly 95 survival rate according to the cdc the years and you mentioned the president s weight. So where does that put him, how much risk you think hes in . It depends on whether he was admitted to the hospital for covid19 pneumonia. This is a little unusual, he was admitted perhaps earlier than we would normally admit a patient for someone with covid19 infection. If the patient was admitted to the hospital because it was a necessary admission for covid19 pneumonia. If you plug in his agent his weight into a pretest formula for determining risk his risk would be over 20 in terms of mortality. That being said i think it was not admitted to the hospital because he needed to be admitted. I think the situation is different, but he was admitted for prophylaxis, his risk is lower than that. We will leave it there, we will see you again during live coverage, thanks for being with us, donald trump could be off the trail for the next couple weeks and joe biden not slowing down his schedule, how will this change the race with 30 days until the election. Our panel on deck to weigh in. Was read Medical Centers one of the finest Military Hospitals in the world, the president stands working there tonight, this morning from his president ial suite. It functions as a mini oval office outfitted with everything he would need to run the country and surrounded by the nations top doctors and staff over 7000, donald trump is not the first to check in to walter reed while in office. We have an inside look at the history lesson. The president listen to Walter Reed National Medical Center for treatment out of an abundance of caution according to the white house. It was known as Walter Reed National military Medical Center and is a military Treatment Center if you will, it is located in maryland and if you watched our coverage yesterday evening you would know it was a very short trip from the white house. Also donald trump posted that video on twitter saying he was thinking he was doing okay, the first lady as well and he will stay at the Medical Center for a couple days. Is now in the hands of top doctors, nearly 7100 staffers, the president will be staying in what is known as 71 with the president ial suite, just one of the centers 88 buildings. This area will allow the president to continue with his duties while getting treatment, the white house says that will continue until he is released or until the doctors say hes good to go with walter reed is known for giving top care to government officials and military personnel, it was named after army doctor walter reed who spearheaded research that found that yellow fever is transmitted through mosquitoes, treating everyone from us president s to army privates. The hospital to care over never let appointed troops as well during the iraq and latino wars. The president visited troops in july at the center. There is video that visit there, his wife and first lady milania trump underwent treatment for kidney treatment there, the president received treatment there, Richard Nixon was treated for staph infection and resident eisenhower died there. And other noteworthy president receive care at the center was Ronald Reagan to undergo surgery for Prostate Cancer at now the 40 fifth president is there for treatment of this invisible enemy that has affected lives across the world. Thanks very much. Donald trumps trip to the hospital for coronavirus puts the future of his campaign in uncertain territory. Don junior was on tucker talking about how this may affect the campaign. I love them on the road for the campaign, that something he does well, he loved that, he feeds off of that, the enthusiasm is palpable. As it relates to running the free world i dont think it changes anything, he has always been a worker and he will keep fighting, thats what hes going to do right here right now for the American People, nothing will take a backseat. He cant do the public appearances he would otherwise be doing. Right now hes taking that very seriously. As the president gets treatment and recovers his events are being shifted to visual experiences or being postponed, joe bidens campaign is going full speed ahead. Biden harris camp pulled negative trump at focusing on positive messaging. What will this mean for the president a race . Here to discuss, and brad blakeman, and advisor to the Bush Cheney Campaign. Good to see both of you. We have seen some criticisms from leading democrats, not from the biden campaign, how important is this . It is important to keep full steam ahead on the campaign, now is the time to be, use every tool in the toolbox, be creative, the president will get his message is on his health permits and he can get out as quickly as possible and when he does it will be a triumphant return to the campaign but others will pick up the slack, the Vice President will do more high Profile Campaign events as well his children, other surrogates but as voting begins with jurisdictions around the country more efforts are put into get out the vote in local jurisdictions as well as state strategies, where does the president have to win, where does the concentration have to be . Get out the vote means requesting an absentee ballot. Surrogates are one thing but the president s strength is the ability to work crowds and not to attend rallies is got to hurt the campaign. I wonder if the biden camp thinks they are close to the finish line. Absolutely right. I want to mention how important it is for the president to get well. That should be the primary objective here and i wish him well and hope he recovers quickly but eveneds in person, likely going to be pushed to the side, donald trump did galvanize his voters that way but joe biden has been Building Momentum and continues to build momentum and the campaign is on the ground in a far aggressive way and we see the Vice President getting out more in public in person, that has been the plan, focusing on turning out voters and ensuring the votes count on election day and after they come in through the mail as they likely would that is the program, for donald trump this certainly is a big shift. From suggest the biden harris caption shutdown their campaign of life the president is unable to campaign, he is second in the hospital but they rejected that idea. Is that fair . It is not fair. The campaign should continue. This is not something that should stop. The president is not incapacitated to the point that he is not able to involve himself in the campaign at all. This is being done as a precaution, not necessity, big difference and we will know more about the president s health in the coming days but right now the president was symptomatic but not to the point any other person would have been hospitalized. Hes there because hes the president of the United States and they want to make sure he has the top care and continue to govern and campaign. I want to have you back later to talk about debates that are coming up. Do you think the debate in two weeks will happen . Very doubtful right now, certainly for donald trump, this is a disease one can never predict how it will unfold. He needs to be healthy before he does anything of that nature. Appreciate your time in these early hours and we will get back to you in a little bit. 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What more do we know . The president s chief of staff said fever, chills, some 8, they transported him to walter reed on marine one. The president is taking experiment of drug cocktail, also taking remdesivir as we learn about the officials who tested positive in the past hour who include in addition to the president and first lady senator tom tillis, mike lee, hope hicks, rona mcdaniel, kellyanne conway, president of notre dame and the president s Campaign Manager will step in, the president of notre dame was in the rose garden last saturday, judge Amy Coney Barretts nomination. The notre dame Football Game experience and operate september 14th, a week before the white house ceremony, there are 18 players who tested positive, 40 in corn team. Team members of the president s National Security team back in washington, secretary of state mike from pale and the National Security adviser back from europe, marcus for is on interest in north africa and is expected to return soon. Hes not doing this short. 31 days before the election is not a good time for the president and the Campaign Manager to be sidelined but donald trump remains the commanderinchief, no plans to transfer power to the Vice President , there has been no change to alert levels, the us military is ready to defend the country and interests, no change to the readiness of our command arms forces, we are not affected by this announcement, the president has to the goldstar families event last sunday to honor war dead and their families. All have tested negative including the chairman and joint chiefs of staff general mark meredith. Sounds like you are suggesting this virus may have gone to the northern Football Team who might have brought it with him to the white house. It is notable that the president of notre dame was in the audience at the rose garden and people have pointed fingers at different officials, it is notable president came to the white house the week before their was a large outbreak among the notre dame Football Team testing positive a week before, he threw up on the sideline and tested positive for coronavirus. Thank you very much. Mike pence and democratic nominee Kamala Harris faceoff in Salt Lake City for their only debate of the 2020 campaign. Both agreed to changes because of the covid19 infection. In this case the Vice President and the candidates were seated in chairs and they will stay 12 feet apart and more changes are possible. Seems likely the president s health will be front and center for the final month of the campaign. The Senate Majority leader sees the possibility of a virtual debate. It should go forward. Hopefully the president feels up to it and they can work this out remotely. They do a lot of things remotely because of the coronavirus, hopefully he can do this as well. Reporter lets bring in kaylee mcgee of the washington examiner. What do you think is going to happen . But start was of the pd bait . How big a deal will this be next week . People have been anticipating mike pence Kamala Harris debate for some time since Kamala Harris will play an Important Role if biden were to win the election. There is no doubt the debate needs to happen one way or the other. If it has to be done virtually so be it. I dont think theres any reason to commit to debate in person safely responsibly, some of the new restrictions theyre putting in place are there for that reason but it needs to happen. They can do it remotely. Most people know how it goes. Bottom line the debate needs to happen, people need 0 Kamala Harris and mike pence on the important issues of the day. Some people are already suggesting prior to the president s positive coronavirus test that the Vice President ial debate wouldnt draw that much attention but now it strikes me this raises the bar, this should be a more anticipated event, everyone will want to know how these two are handling the situation. A lot of eyes will be on mike pence given the circumstances and a lot of eyes were already on Kamala Harris. A lot of voters are legitimately concerned that she would play a more active role in the Biden Administration than most Vice President s would so the stakes are higher especially now. Mike pence could be on his heels trying to defend the president s actions, hinder a lot of criticism for not wearing a mask whenever he appears in public. The fact is trump and his team are right that he took necessary precautions, he did not wear a mask every time he left but the fact is he took precautions and you could be overly safe about this and still contract the coronavirus. That is what happens when you are in a global pandemic, it is contagious, it spreads and it is unavoidable. We wish the president would not have contracted this, we wish he would have been more cautious when it comes to this but it happens, the American People should be told moving forward. The president is scheduled to square off against joe biden again in a townhall style debate in two weeks. Can that happen . It should. Technically it would be past the end of trumps quarantine but that depends on his health. Hopefully he is healthy and ready to move forward. If that cant be held in person i say we do it virtually, no reason it couldnt be done that way but who knows . Either side could use this as an excuse to tap out of the second debate given our first president ial debate went down. It is not clear whether either team will fully agree. If he recovers in time he will likely have to convince voters he Strong Enough to lead but also has to overcome criticism of his last debate performance. Absolutely and the first thing you mentioned is important. What this does to trump is it could do one of 2 things. It could either instill confidence because trump can now come to the American People and say look, i had this thing, i know what it is like, we can get through this together or it could do the opposite. It contains confidence which we saw yesterday when stocks fell and the media went into panic mode about this so trump needs to come out strong and help people be confident in his own strength and ability to overcome this virus and continue to lead the nation which is why the next debate is so important. We all look forward to it. Thanks for your insight. Paying the price, china taunting Donald Trumps Coronavirus Diagnosis saying it will hurt americans image, Senior Advisor ways in next. Chinese state media marking donald trump following his covid19 diagnosis saying the president , quote, paid the price for downplaying the pandemic predicting would hurt the image of the us. Former state department Senior Advisor professor of politics at Carnegie Mellon and fox news contributor, thanks for being with us. Like many of the negative tweets we have seen this seems heartless and some say too soon. What do you say . It is incredibly wrong head and speaks to the fact that china has a major role in what is happening not just in the United States but the entire world. Had it notified the heads of government throughout the world about the virus many weeks in advance we would be in a difficult place right now. Of all leadership teams, to have the chinese speaking against the us president only underscores the fact that they are just right now such a negative force in the International System in this pandemic and it is heartbreaking for me as someone who has served in government to see what they havent done, what they have unleashed on the world and what they are saying about the us president. The president has not been shy about blaming china from leasing this virus on the us and the world and china sees this as payback. We can talk smack about you. The president talked about chinas role but not enough. Many others in the Political Class of the United States, democrats and republicans blame each other, and who handled the coronavirus matter but what about the deeper source . I wish americans would unify to the fact that this is a kind of lowgrade international conflict. And the party you are in, almost impossible to bring it under control the way it was unleashed in the world. Is it correct the image will suffer because of that . I studied issues about president ial crises and written a number of books on Ronald Reagan and in the last couple years studied following when reagan was shot and hospitalized and what was striking to me is that our system is so resilient during periods like this and we will see that happen right now with the white house, we have rules and regulations and laws in place to protect a president who is suffering from Health Situation and keeping our country going. We are in better shape given the history of the number of president s who suffered and how our system works. Not just that he is sick but when he is 6, 30 days from the election. If you think somehow this might help his campaign. I think it could. A number of us who have been talking in the last few hours about about what is happening in washington and at the white house. There is a sympathy factor and people see donald trump as a fighter, someone who is really committed to the point of view that he holds and the ideas he seeks to advance and they want him to win and there is the spirit, the American Public always support someone who is trying to make their way through a difficult time and as you say in the final 30 days it is a unique situation. I get that but i believe in the resiliency of our system and i believe our system will work. In the 30 second we have left what advice would you give the president and his team . Stay calm, keep order, dont panic, they know that but hearing it one more time, really believe in your political instincts, they got you to where you are now, continue to believe in those and pray, really pray. Thank you. Appreciate your time, thanks very much. To get home to they use stamps. Com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the services of the post office plus ups only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps. Com tv and never go to the post office again. Continuing coverage of Donald Trumps positive test for covid19, we are told the experiencing mild symptoms and received an experiment with drug cocktail, the president we are told is responding well. Lets bring a former republican congressman from new york and the first female physician elected to congress and doctor george diaz, section chief of Infectious Diseases for providence Regional Medical center. Millions of americans have caught the coronavirus. It is highly contagious. Should we be surprised the president tested positive considering his schedule and his exposure . If i can answer that question the strain of the coronavirus mutates, has done so since the beginning of the pandemic, the strain that is prevalent now is more contagious but fortunately less maryland. You are more likely to catch it and the president is exposed a lot to folks in his busy schedule even though they take meticulous precautions, a highly contagious virus, very easy to catch but less likely to make people ill and less likely to kill them thank goodness. Would you agree with that assessment and how alarmed should people be about the president s recovery . The patient is in a higher risk category because of the age and his weight and for that reason they elected to treat him with experimental therapy. Hopefully his symptoms, most patients would be observed in the study but because of the early data that was released showing improvements in symptoms, reduced medical visits and viral shedding and patients who are infected, they review that preliminary data and made the decision to have him receive that treatment. Likewise we know with remdesivir the greatest benefit we see is patients requiring oxygen was chosen out of an abundance of caution for the president to receive this treatment. The antibody cocktail is still experimental therapy. We are starting local trials with treatments and dont have the final answer. I want to follow up, the president is not known for laying back. Most people would suggest rest is what you need most when trying to recover from covid19. Is that the case . Knowing the schedule the president keeps, how much more difficult will it be for him to recover . Fatigue is a very common symptoms. It can be very severe, he will need time to recover and decrease how much work hes doing for his campaign while he recovers by the mere fact they are trying to clear this. He will require a lighter schedule for the time being while he recovers. We will go back to you. When people hear someone got coronavirus now, this person got coronavirus, your saying the cdc numbers say the vast majority of people who get sick get better so take a breath and step back and not get too excited about this. We should be vigilant. Those cdc statistics are based on total experience with coronavirus, not even this particular strain. For americans under 70 they have a 99. 9 chance of surviving this virus which is wonderful news. For those 70 and above it is 94. 6 . The odds are in our favor but we are all individuals, we have to be vigilant about our health, the highest risk categories are the ones with metabolic syndrome meeting hypertension, diabetes, obesity, lots of americans in that category, they should be very careful and be aware masks may not provide, dont provide 100 protection unless you are wearing and n95 mask. You where if any your high risk category practice social distancing and wash your hands before you touch your eyes, nose or mouth. I will give it to doctor george diaz. The mask may not protect everyone from this. Your take on this. Masks do not provide 100 protection but it is clear they reduce the risk quite a bit. Wearing a mask, less able to produce viral particles in the air past the mask. It substantially decreases the risk of transmission of the disease. We recommend using masks at all times outside the home, at this point the best weapon against transmission. We heard different theories on that. The recommend everyone get tested or showing symptoms. Everyone who is symptomatic, it is really important to find out whether to florentine or allow Public Health officials to do Contact Tracing. People are under late surgical procedures or other procedures that need to come to the hospital for them, another aspect for tracing contact is what they are doing now, they are being tested like joe biden in the same room as the president. You would weigh in fast. Do you believe people should be tested if you have symptoms . If you have symptoms. If youre exposed and have extensive contact, it is appropriate to be tested, as doctor diaz was referring to, someone like Vice President biden, if you are at risk thank you. Appreciate you being with us. We are hearing the president s symptoms are mild which is very good news as he rests at walter reed Medical Center. As we mentioned, donald trump spending the night at walter reed Medical Center after testing positive for covid19. It is 2 00 in los angeles and 5 00 am in bethesda, maryland where the president is expected to remain at walter reed for the next few days despite having symptoms the white house described as mild. The white house says the president was hospitalized out of an abundance of caution and he will continue to work on the business of the nation from the hospital. He tweeted a video message before leaving the white house. Thank you for the tremendous support. I am going to Walter Reed Hospital. I think i am doing very well but we will make sure things work out, the first lady is doing very well so thank you very much, appreciate it, i will never forget it. Democrats were quick to criticize the president suggesting he didnt take proper precautions, joe biden took the high road pooling all negative ads and offering condolences to donald trump in first lady milania who tested positive for coronavirus. Sending my prayers for the health and safety of the first lady and the president of the United States after they tested positive for covid19. This is not a matter of politics. It is a bracing reminder to all of us we have to take this virus seriously. It is not going away automatically. A rare move sending the president Walter Reed Hospital for care and more rare, he first received an experiment antibody treatment at the white house that hasnt been approved by the fda as more officials in the president s inner circle test positive for the virus. Lucas tomlinson live at the pentagon with the latest. Reporter key members of the National Security team are back in washington. Mike pompeo and the National Security adviser returned from europe, defense secretary mark esper, do back in the next few days, this triple not because short. Officials tested positive and we have the latest list, so we learned about hours ago, the condition of the president and first lady, mike lee and tom tillis, rhonda mcdaniel, kellyanne conway, the president of notre dame and the president s Campaign Manager. A lot of fingerpointing, the president of notre dame was in the rose garden, judge Amy Coney Barretts nomination, Football Team experience of the outbreak following their game against south florida september 19th a week before the rose garden ceremony. 18 players tested positive, 40 in quarantine. We never know who gave it to the president , Contact Tracing is ongoing. Prior to the election is not a good time to have the president and Campaign Manager sidelined with donald trump remains the commander in chief, us officials confirm there are no plans to transfer power to the Vice President , pentagon spokesman issued the following statement, quote, there has been no change to dod alert level, the military is ready to defend our country and interests, no change to our armed forces, the National Command and control structure is not affected by this announcement. Officials say there is no change to the posture. If youre a guided missile destroyer you are focused on sending wellwishers to the president but there are missions to be performed. Rick he has facetoface meetings with generals from the pentagon and others. I assume because of the way the suite is set up at walter reed he can have those meetings over a zoom call. That is right. Walter reed is a lot like camp david. The president with a full array of Communications Devices where he has communications, but the Aircraft Carrier nimitz in the persian gulf launching Super Hornets to fly over syria and iraq. If you are on the uss Ronald Reagan they are launching a watchful eye on china. If you are in north dakota there are men and women standing watch over Nuclear Missiles that remain on alert. Rick good to know. Donald trump is not the first world leader to test positive for covid19. Boris johnson and brazils president bolsonaro tested positive and recovered earlier this year. Contracting the virus is making headlines around the globe. In london, more on the International Reaction. The illness involving covid19 and donald trump and first lady milania, north Korean Leader kim jong un sent warm letters in the past to donald trump reportedly offering his sympathy on hopes the president can overcome this virus. China which the president blames for coronavirus got mixed messages. We are seeing some kind of words from the Foreign Ministry as they wish him a speedy recovery, the kind of signal you might expect from an arch fellow, the american president treated the virus like it was nothing, he finally caught it. It should be noted donald trump is not the only leader who has gotten coronavirus. It doesnt World Leaders in highly placed officials, including trump friend and covid19 skeptic bolsonao, his case was mild but even that admitted him for 18 days and he gave Boris Johnson, had a bad case in april after several days, mild symptoms, and up in the intensive care unit of the hospital where he even admitted it was touch and go for a wild. He was out of commission for about a month. Johnson got a political bounce from his recovery but neither he nor bosonaro faced reelection in any proximity to what the president faces right now. Rick thanks very much. Republican senators mike lee and tom tillis testing positive for covid19. Both on the Senate Judiciary committee. Some question whether judge Amy Coney Barretts confirmation hearing should proceed. Lindsey graham pushing back against democrats tweeting i feel fine and look forward to hearing for Amy Coney Barrett on october 12th. Any senator who wants to participate virtually will be allowed to do so. For more on the political fallout we turn to brad blakeman, advisor to the Bush Cheney Campaign and joel ruben, secretary of state under president obama and president of the washington strategy, brad, this is an unexpected twist. It could get uglier as far as the president s condition and the senators condition and the opposition that is there and growing to the hearings to be held before the election. We got to stay true to the constitution, weve got to do that which the constitution calls for. When there is a vacancy the president must fill it and the senate must do their job to confirm or not confirm, democrats will try every trick in the book to have a confirmation scuttle. If not going to happen. Addiction is the president will have his nominee confirmed by the senate before the election, democrats can go kicking and screaming, they dont have the votes, shes more than qualified candidate and the president is just doing his duty to be true to the constitution. Todd democrats were opposed to holding these confirmation hearings before the election and now they have more ammunition. The rush is all about taking away americans healthcare. That is what is going on here. There is a case coming before the Supreme Court a week after the election, republicans want the ninth justice to take away the individual mandate, taking away healthcare from 20 million americans. Think about this. In the midst of a pandemic taking away healthcare from americans. There are 7 million americans who are newly infected, have preexisting conditions because of covid19, donald trump being one of them. The priorities are all out of whack. Called down, lets get through the election, get priorities taken care of, making sure the economy doesnt go in the tank, making sure people have enough Unemployment Insurance and making sure people have healthcare in a pandemic. That is why it is bizarre to see such a push even with two members on the Judiciary Committee now being sick, still going forward, doesnt make any sense and very dangerous to American Health. Rick i know you will tell us this has nothing to do with healthcare. Absolutely. Rick they would not wait if they had a democratic president. Joel can use scare tactics only wants. That is the policy. It is not a scare tactic. You dont know what shes going to do. Donald trump said that was his litmus test. There is no litmus test. Donald trump said he never discussed healthcare with judge barrett. You can scare the American People all you want. The fact is obamacare is a dismal failure by bidens own admission it must be changed to a singlepayer health care system. This was the ruse all along, duping the American People on healthcare. I know and the people know it. No. You think there is a way for democrats to delay this now, if you believe they have an avenue because of the coronavirus. Poll after poll says 20 of americans think this nomination should wait until after the election. The public pressure is real. Americans like health, voted for democrats in 2018, largely because of our position on healthcare. That the political peril, they are going to james through the symptom, they have a constitutional right, not going to disagree but that is not the way we should be running our country. That policy on healthcare the constitution he has no replacement for healthcare. What do we do with 20 million americans that lose healthcare and a bit of a pandemic while donald trump provide better healthcare. Had years to come up with a policy and it hasnt happened yet. Rick i am wondering if you would admit that perhaps trying to push this through with senators who are sick at home in bed might smell a bit of desperation. Know, the constitution must go forward. Weve been through tougher times than this. George washington didnt give up in the revolution when his troops came down with smallpox. You are comparing independence to take away healthcare is not appropriate. Not appropriate. It is absolutely appropriate. When are we going to care about American Health . We care every day about americans health. Then put forward a plan. To have health to protect our constitution. The health of people in this country hijack like democrats want to do. You are not there is no policy replacement for the current Healthcare System interposed by donald trump in the midst of a pandemic. Rick we will see if this occurs before the election. They hope to hold hearings in a couple weeks. Thanks very much for being with us. Donald trump being treated with an experiment all antibody not approved by the fda. How did it work and what is the prognosis . We will bring back our medical panel next. Millions of americans have been working remotely for months and now donald trump will too, he is not just in any room at walter reed Medical Center. He will be running the country from a fully equipped many oval office in the president ial suite. For closer look at his new space we go to new york. Reporter the president was sent to Walter Reed National Medical Center for treatment of covid19, this was out of an abundance of caution. It is known as Walter Reed National military Medical Center and military Treatment Center, located in bethesda, maryland. If you watched coverage between 5, 6, 6 30 yesterday evening you will now it is a quick trip via helicopter to the white house and donald trump posted a video on twitter saying he thinks he was doing okay and he mentioned the first lady as well and staying at the Medical Center for a couple days. Hes now in the hands of americas top doctors, 70100,000 who work there, the president will be staying in ward 71 known as the president ial suite, one of the centers 88 buildings, this will allow donald trump to continue with his duties while getting treatment. The white house says he will do that until doctors deem it say for him to leave. Walter reed is not figuring top care to government officials and military personnel. It was named after army doctor walter reed who spearheaded research that found yellow fever is transmitted through mosquitoes. Doctors treat everyone from us president s to army privates, the hospital took care of the overload of wounded during the iraq and afghanistan war, the president visited troops in july, july 11th and he was wearing a mask. His wife and first lady milania trump underwent kidney treatment in 2018. Trump is in the first president to receive treatment. Richard nixon was treated for staph infection and white eisenhower died there. Another noteworthy president to get care at this center was Ronald Reagan who underwent surgery for Prostate Cancer and the 40 fifth president has treatment there as well for this invisible enemy that has affected many lives across the world. Rick donald trump being closely monitored during his first night at walter reed Medical Center. After being given an experiment drug combination, and antibiotic cocktail followed by remdesivir therapy, the white house says a few days at the Military Hospital as a precaution which is understandable for the leader of the free world. For more on this treatment we turn to doctor nan haworth, republican congressman of new york and doctor george diaz, from providence Regional Medical center. Thank you for being with us. Lets get specific about this treatment, lets start with you. What do you know about it. The antibiotic cocktail is based on synthetic antibodies, they manufacture the same complex molecules our bodies make to fight off infections as part of our immune response but they selected these antibodies by examining the serum of folks who recovered from covid19 and selecting the ones that are likeliest to help others with their Indian Response and what remdesivir does is fight their replication of the virus. It was first developed to fight the evil of virus, that has been transferred to covid19 with reasonable success. Both are considered investigational. Todd rick are you surprised he is given treatment that have not been approved . Remdesivir has emergency use authorization, there have been shown to be benefits for treatment of covid19. For hospitalized patients, remdesivir is standard care now. With respect to the antibodies this is still experimental. Patients for treatment with his auntie body and the health system. So far we havent seen any adverse effects of the treatment and regeneron made a statement that the profile is pretty good for this antibody. To offer the treatment to the patient we would offer an admitted patient at one of our hospitals this treatment as well if it was available. Todd i want to read the statement from doctor sean connolly, the president s physician we brought you last hour in which he said this evening i am happy to report the president is doing very well. Hes not requiring any supplemental oxygen but in consultation with specialists we elected to initiate remdesivir therapy. He completed his first dose and resting comfortably. What you know about this virus in this treatment what does this tell you, what doctor conley has introduced . They are acting out of an abundance of caution but also reasonably impressively. The president is in demographically a higher risk category being 74. We know that and he is mildly obese. He doesnt have metabolic syndrome which would be accompanied by diabetes and hypertension, those vascular emissions put folks at significantly higher risk. They are being appropriately aggressive with therapies that are wellestablished in the world of covid19 with sufficiently safety profile and riskbenefit ratio, reasonable to give in to the president at this time early on. Rick early on being the operative word, supplemental oxygen would come later in the viruss progression. Your thoughts on that and the president s vulnerability. That is a key part of the statement that hes not receiving oxygen right now, at a much lower risk overall. Patients never require oxygen have very low mortality. That being said, the patients age and weight puts them in a higher risk category which im sure is the reason for the admission to the hospital and treatment with remdesivir and the antibodies. Todd we all heard about 14 day quarantines for people who test positive for coronavirus, the president has a debate scheduled in 14 days. Do you think the president is likely to be well enough to take part in that debate . It is hard to know because he was just now admitted. Assuming he has complete rapid recovery and his symptoms improve i suppose it is a possibility but any bumps in the road would alter the timeline quite a bit and it is possible symptoms might persist like fatigue which would make it difficult to participate. I agree about the potential risk the president is not at 100 but his 75 is most peoples 150 . I have a feeling he will push on as strongly as he can, hoping and praying for everybody who has this virus to be able to thrive. Rick we wish the president and the first lady a speedy recovery. Milania trump testing positive for coronavirus. Social media platforms taking aim at comments like this from former obama staffer and spokesman for clintons 2016 campaign sending a death wish to donald trump. How facebook and ticktock are joining twitter to crack down on ill wishes. Im still on the road to whats next. And im still going for my best. 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Reporter the chief of staff says donald trump has mild symptoms including fever, aches and chills, one reason he was taken to walter reed. The president was given an expert mental drug cocktail not approved by the fda and is given remdesivir according to the white house physician. The official word is the following people have contracted the coronavirus, they include the president and first lady, mike lee, tom tillis, hope hicks, rnc chair rhonda mcdaniel, kellyanne conway, president of notre dame and the president s Campaign Manager. Theres been a lot of fingerpointing at hope hicks but the presence of notre dame was at the rose garden for judge Amy Coney Barretts nomination. The notre dame Football Team following their game against south florida september 19th a week before the rose garden ceremony. Notre dame has 18 players who tested positive, 40 players and quarantine. We never know who gave it to the president. Contact tracing is ongoing. The National Security team is back in washington. Mike pompeo and the president at National Security adviser back from europe, mark esper traveling to north africa and is expected in the next few days. Esper has not cut his trip short. 31 days before an election is not a good time to have the president s Campaign Manager sidelined but donald trump remains commanderinchief. Officials say there are no plans to transfer power to the Vice President. The pentagon spokesman issued the following statement, quote, there has been no change to dod other levels, the military is ready to defend the country and interest, no change in the capability of our armed forces, National Command and control structure is in no way affected by this announcement. The president hosted the pentagon truck top brass to honor families, none of the senior military officials at the ceremony contracted coronavirus, including the chairman, joint chiefs of staff, there are 400 Nuclear Missiles on the ground in north dakota, wyoming and montana to remain on alert. Todd thank you, Lucas Tomlinson at the pentagon. It didnt take long after donald trump announced a positive covid19 diagnosis, some of his critics calling it the best day of the year the mothers posting hopes the president doesnt survive. One tweet came from former staffer for the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton president ial campaign who wrote, quote, it has been against my moral identity to tweet this for the past four years but i hope he dies. Twitter now says it will delete any tweets that wish or hope for death. Lets get reaction from white house and political reporter at real clear politics, we are hearing ticktock and facebook are joining the crowd by not allowing anyone to post anything wishing death on our president or anyone else. For the most part across party lines on social media because of the seriousness of the president s condition we havent seen a lot of this behavior from people in official positions of power. It is encouraging to see twitter, facebook and ticktock say there are somethings across a line. Because of the seriousness of the president s condition this is something that certainly should not be tolerated. In the early days after the president s diagnosis this is encouraging. Should we be surprised by all the hate . Twitter holds up a mirror to the worst parts of human nature, a Dumpster Fire but one thing that is encouraging, the tone that has been set by former Vice President joe biden and his team, they have not been engaging in any type of i told you so behavior and the only message that has come from them towards the president so far as they hope he and the first family recovers, the more people look to the former Vice President for their example. Rick do we expect any fallout for offenders who post these awful things . We will find out pretty quickly how serious social media giants are, twitter has drawn a red line but it will be up to them to enforce that in a meaningful way. In the past, selectively enforced the rules but this is the president of the United States, the leader of the free world and there is a difference between some anonymous account in the middle of nowhere making a bad joke and someone who is a former president ial staffer, former Campaign Aide at least for now it seems twitter is taking it seriously and we should hope they continue to police this behavior. Rick the social media platform can be a vicious place, i wonder if he has been using it effectively. That is the milliondollar question when it comes to donald trump. Hes of the opinion he wouldnt be president if he wasnt able to use social media to leapfrog the media. Donald trump has been more than partisan on occasion. He has an pretty aggressive on twitter, he doesnt engage in any type of behavior this bad, at least for now in the early days of this story there is a line we all agree shouldnt be crossed. Todd they are shutting it down. Thanks for being with us this morning. Donald trump is down but definitely not out. Some say this diagnosis might help him in the race for the white house. Our Political Panel coming back to weigh in. Rick most would argue the president s positive test couldnt come at a worst time with both candidates trying to swing votes but some say the diagnosis could actually help his reelection efforts giving him time to hone his message to unify his basins way others to join him. It may work to the president s advantage that giving a speech to 70,000 people or 10,000 people, 7000 people are 10,000 people and saying something the press picks up on and runs with, he can vary for the next few days carefully style his message and send it out by tweets or by calling into a program like yours or calling into fox and friends or doing a townhall, gives him a chance to be focused in his message for the next few weeks. Of karl rove right . Could the diagnosis work to his advantage the next few weeks . Joining us again, Deputy Assistant to george w. Bush and advisor to the Bush Cheney Campaign, and assistant secretary of state for barack obama, thank you for being back. How can the president turn this positive test into positive results . When the president regains his health, a triumphant return to the campaign, will be robust. The coverage of him coming back will be covered widely. He could be in 15 places at the same time and in battleground states, he will have excuse why he cannot travel. It could be a tremendous advantage in the long run. Returning to health. Rick if it bounces back strongly it could help his reelection efforts . We need to make sure the president is healthy and i want to emphasize this is a dangerous disease, in many ways the team failed him, now he has coronavirus. And many got sick, he is sick. The results are clear. You are not a doctor. I am sorry but the reality is he is sick and his health needs to be first and that is what the American People want k healthy president , take care of donald trump first, the second thing is an inflection point. Will the Campaign Message about the importance of making taking care of himself go back to other messaging, describing mask wearing as not necessary and somehow less american . These are important issues the Trump Campaign has to figure out, changing his messaging to reflect the reality of the Health Crisis or go backwards and expose americans again potentially to more coronavirus impacts . The president gave joe biden a hard time for hiding in a facemask. Could that backfire giving his isolation at walter reed . Now because the president tested positive and joe biden was negative. All of a sudden joe biden is coming out of the bunker when the president is in the hospital. Theres a reason joe biden didnt get sick. That is not true. Joe biden is not immune from this disease. As we dont want brad, if you look at the events the president has had have been very risky, officials across the country said these are dangerous if we dont want people to get sick. That is the point. The president did anything you minimize risk for sure but you cant live as joe biden we are not minimizing, people were hugging each other. The shore we need to take care of people. A lot of events of taken place the last few months but we dont know where the president caught this virus, could have come from anywhere and millions of other americans caught it as well. Many people at that event cost it. We appreciate your time today. Donald trump raising new questions about the protocol, virtual hearings, the changes that could be coming to the hill next. False alarm. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Its a dark, lonely place. This is art inspired by real stories of People Living with bipolar depression. Emptiness. A hopeless struggle. 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Anytime theres an event like this, someone does contract the virus, for the entire capital, the house and senate, congress can be a petri dish, 435 members flying into the district from all over the country and theres the potential for everyone calling a meeting for it to be a superspreader event. We had this call for many months but we are seeing them uptick again after the president s visit. Rick what protocol do you have to go through when you are at the white house . White House Correspondents Association we wants people in a public pool and our mandate is to be there to cover the president at the white house. The numbers are extremely lower and if you are going to be in proximity to the president or covering him where there is potential, typically one of the rapid testings in the morning and otherwise to social the distance, the press Briefing Room and offices of reporters are very tight and cramped spaces but everyone is doing the best they can. Rick there is no coronavirus testing regime at the us capitol, no one tested, us capitol police, journalists, they are not given tests. Nancy pelosi and Mitch Mcconnell ruled out testing earlier this year. Ironically House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer pushing for testing. There are those who say they should have it and those who say they shouldnt, maybe there are changes now. It might. An event as high profile as donald trump getting the virus, definitely sounding off alarm bells in the capital. Something a lot of members asked for, that made more sense with testing availability, that was the main reason Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell, House Speaker nancy pelosi decided and agreed they wouldnt require testing on capitol hill and the testing is more widespread, this is something Kevin Mccarthy said, people traveling from all over the country, it is a dangerous thing to have, steny hoyer, one of the house leaders in the capital looking at this, considering trying to add more testing, experiencing symptoms, we think you could have been exposed but you are right, it is not required and reporters showing up to the capital, social the distance, and use a lot of Hand Sanitizer but that is the only protocol and Safety Measures they are taking could. Rick it is surprising when you consider the petri dish and senators and congresspeople going back and forth, meeting with constituents, a rotating cast of characters for these representatives and we dont know how the president talks about it but it could have come from one of these major events and senators getting it too. Things will have to change. We have to leave it but appreciate you joining us this morning. Donald trump did test positive for the coronavirus on friday and he is now at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, was taken there by a helicopter friday evening and is said to be resting comfortably. You are looking at live images from walter reed where the president will remain for at least a few days and will be getting treatment and running the country. Live coverage of the president and his positive test on the Fox News Channel throughout the morning and throughout the day, have a great day, everyone. Will we begin with a first alert. President trumps doctor says the commanderinchief is doing very well and resting comfortably at walter reed Medical Center. Dr. Sean conley says the president has committed his first dose of remdesivir therapy antiviral treatment that has shown promising results for coronavirus patients. Jedediah the president arrived at the hospital yesterday on marine one. The president is suffering from mild symptoms and taken to the Medical Center out of an abundance of caution. His health will be monitored as he continues to run the country from the hospitals president ial suite for the next several