symptoms maybe the president himself has been experiencing, so we'll be talking to him a little bit later this hour first i want to go to leland at walter reed on what he's seeing and hearing. leland: neil good morning the president has been here about 15 hours its been about 12 hours, 10 or 12 hours since we have got an update on the president's condition. it came in about midnight last night, dr. shawn connley saying i'm happy to report the president is doing very well he's not requiring any supplemental oxygen but in consultation with specialists we've elected to initiate remdesivir therapy, he's completed his first doseage and resting comfortably in addition to the regeneron antibodies that the president got yesterday morning while still at the white house. so, regeneron, remdesivir are the two experimental drugs the president is getting, and then zinc, vitamin d, pepcid, melatonin and aspirin is part of his regimen, at least that's what we know so far. walked out to marine one yesterday, about 6:00 p.m. waived, gave the thumbs up, did not talk to reporters was wearing a mask because he walked on to marine one, overnight we got this tweet from the president. going well, i think, thank you to all, love with lots of exclamation points and we're continuing to learn by the hour of more people in the trump inner circle that have tested positive for the virus. as of now, we are at the president, the first lady, three senators including mike lee, thom tillis of north carolina and now ron johnson of wisconsin , ronna mcdaniel the rnc chair, kellyanne conway and the president's campaign manager. none of them, as far as we know, are in the hospital. only the president, president's former doctor explained why. >> both of the medications he's getting right now are being given iv, so they like to do that in a hospital setting. we can do that certainly at the white house, but it's much easier to do that with a full nursing staff there. leland: so here at walter reed it's not like being in the hospital, neil as you or i would think about it for the president, there is an entire executive suite that includes both medical care, possible icu care if he needs it and then offices for him to discharge the duties of the president, that's where he is now and as you pointed out we're just about an hour away from the first time we're going to hear from the president's doctor on camera about exactly how the president is doing and what the past 12 hours had been like for him. neil: all right, as leland is speaking we're getting an update on the first lady condition from our mark meredith this is from the spokes person who says that mrs. trump is doing well her symptoms have not worsened and she continues to rest. she's staying at the white house she remains in touch with her husband and thinking of all who are ill and wishes them a very speedy recovery. let's go to dr. craig spencer, columbia global health emergency medicine director, for much much more doctor thank you for taking the time. you're aware of the president's treatment and the regimen he's on right now. what do you think of it? >> you know, right now, so much of it is speculation because what we've heard is really just from these thank you press releases and the two medications he's been given according to those press releases one the regeneron antibodies, the monoclonal antibodies are an experimental medication, they are being given on a compassionate use basis and they don't have an fda approval they don't have that emergency use authorization, they've only been given to a couple hundred patients so far, but it looks like the safety profile is good. it looks like they're helpful in an early stage of illness. i actually think that it's probably a good idea and is hopefully going to be beneficial for the president who as you've pointed out is in an older age category, is a male, is at risk of some other risk factors that put him at higher likelihood of having a severe outcome from this . in addition the remdesivir is a medication that we've been learning a lot about over the past couple of months. there's not a lot of great data on it. there is a suggestion that it decreases the length of hospitalization, the fact that he's getting both of these medications at the same time is i think quite unique is probably not many patients if any others that have received both at the same time, so i think it's important that he's being monitored he has a great medical team at walter reed, we're right across the street from the nih, i'm sure he's receiving the best care and i wish him of course the best recovery. neil: now, in the case of regeneron, it's really meant to target some of the symptoms that are common in patients particularly some of the older patients, so that approach to address the symptoms right now, does that signal to you that he has more than would usually be the case or this is just about what be the normal regimen? >> it's hard to say this certainly isn't the normal regimen and the president isn't a normal patient. the very limited data we do have on regeneron is actually it was used in younger patients of an average age in their 40s so hard to say whether the outcomes are going to be comparable. we do into that in other independence tasks, monoclonal antibodies have been used for other illnesses sometimes they've worked sometimes they haven't. we do know the safety profile is pretty good so again, they are most helpful early on in the illness and not surprising he's receiving this it is, i think, a little surprising when you hear that the president is getting experimental medications, i've seen a lot of people critique this as we're treating the president as a guinea pig but again, the president is a different person that's going to get a different level of care. that being said i've treated hundreds and hundreds of patients throughout, we have 200,000 people that have died from this , we need a lot of this medication and so many other things and vaccines and other treatments for the million s and millions of other americans that have been infected and have unfortunately have been felt by this virus as well. neil: doctor, what is he i'm trying to map out what you think the next few days will bring obviously they are going to try to aggressively treat some of these other issues the right way , but patients that first go not hospital and this was a good place to be, close to the care, i get that but what kind of things do you look for as a doctor? >> the one thing that i've learned about covid after taking care of so many patients is it's a pretty ferocious virus and i've seen people in their 80s that have for days and days and days been pretty asymptomatic and done really well, and i've seen people in their 30s and 40s who have immediately decompensated gotten extremely sick really quickly, so, this disease, it's unlike anything that i've ever seen. it's good that the president is being monitored and having access to good care, because anyone can decompensate really quickly, people can get worse. we don't know what the course of this illness is going to be it'll really great to get the update in the hour from the actual physician to know what symptoms are p haing how things have progressed from yesterday but right now, covid can do anything to anyone in a really short period of time, so it's good he's where he's at and getting the treatment he's getting, because we're all hoping for the best. neil: yeah, you know, doctor, the consensus seems to be that he's going to be at the hospital for at least a few days, so is that you think be adequate, could it go beyond that, just out of abundance of safety to keep him there through the quarantine period or how would you handle it? >> again i think that's all speculation. it could be that he's feeling better in a day or two we don't know how he's going to respond to these medications. these medications despite having a good safety profile do have side effects, so it's possible that those medications could induce side effects that require him to be there longer and it's also possible that his condition worsened significantly, and he needs to be on supplemental oxygen or mechanically ventilated we don't know in either of those cases it's possible if he gets much worse, he could be hospitalized for many weeks. this is something we've seen with other patients who have decompensated and gotten very sick that needed supplemental oxygen many patients need to be in the hospital for weeks if not longer. neil: all right, we'll follow very closely dr. craig spencer i'm following these developments here we should be getting an update from the president's own physician on how the president's treatment is going thus far. that's coming up in about 50 minutes from now. i assume it is going to be at walter reed but we'll keep you posted on that and meanwhile we come back you heard a great deal of discussion about regeneron, remdesivir, and the guy behind regeneron of course and this antibody cocktail getting so much buzz, it has dramatically reduced symptoms and problematic symptoms that have come up in patients in the past. it is being approved on a compassionate basis here as one of the drugs that have promising , promising results, we'll talk to the scientific director of the company behind it, after this. stock slices. for as little as $5, now anyone can own companies in the s&p 500, even if their shares cost more. at $5 a slice, you could own ten companies for $50 instead of paying thousands. all commission free online. schwab stock slices: an easy way to start investing or to give the gift of stock ownership. schwab. own your tomorrow. neil: all right, the president is still at walter reed medical center he will be there at least a few days right now, we know they have already begun treating him with among other things remdesivir which has had a very early promising results in some patients and regeneron, this antibody cocktail you've heard a good deal about, that has already been released under a compassionate use request. it commonly treats a lot of the symptoms around covid-19. the company chief scientific officer dr. george yankopolis joins us right now. doctor very good to have you back with us. do we know how the president is faring since his first infusion with your company's drug? >> no, and we're not in a position to be reporting on the president's health. all we can tell you is about our antibody cocktail and what we know about it. neil: so explain how it works or what's behind it, doctor. >> i think we all know now that the battle between the virus and your immune system to see who wins, and for most people luckily the immune system wins by making these antibodies. unfortunately, for some people, they don't make the antibody's fast enough and to high enough levels and the virus can grow and multiply, take over the body and have devastating consequences. we figured out ways to make the best of the antibodies that your body makes but we can make them outside of the body in these huge bioreactors, purify them and give them back to you in highly-concentrated form so it's like we're substituting for or supplementing your own immune system with these very powerful antibodies, and we just released data, just this week, that showed for the first time for any treatment it has been shown for remdesivir, it hasn't been shown for con have less enter serum, that our approach convincingly can really dramatically lower viral levels, so patients who have the highest viral levels, who are at the highest risk presumably, in a few days with our cocktail, we can lower those viral levels by about 99%, which is really important, because it's all about beating the virus and so we're just helping the natural immune system beat it, by supplementing it with this antibody cocktail. neil: and how often is it distributed? all we know, doctor is that from the president's own physician, would will be updating everyone in about 45 minutes, shawn conle y, that the president quoting here, completed the infusion without incident. explain how the procedure works, how oftentimes, how often you administer, what you look for , what you worry about. >> right. this is a very long-acting antibody cocktail. it's like it replaces or can substitutes a supplement for your own immune you just get one injection and based on the results that we release it can last for months to either treat and beat the virus but also to protect you. so this one infusion that he seemed to go through very well will last a long time. now, we should say that this technology, this is not some brand new thing. it's a set of technologies that we invented and pioneered at our company, our scientists over the last 20 years, we use this to produce some of the most important and safest medicines in the world right now, to fight blindness, asthma, cancer, a topic dermatitis, heart disease and most importantly, we use this to produce the first therapeutic that will be approved the fda for ebola, so we made an antibody cocktail specific for ebola it was tested in a study coordinated by the world health organization and the nih. the same exact approach and that's why i think a lot of people were following our work and very excited that we were applying the same tried and true technologies to attack this pandemic and they had a lot of hope that maybe like it worked for ebola and all these other diseases it could work as well here. neil: the early studies have indicated had overwhelming positive response and the vast majority of patients who use it, what happened to the few for whom it did not have any material benefits what are some of the things you look for that are unusual but still happen? >> well in the results that we released it looked like the people who were not already mounting their own immune response and the ones who had the highest levels of the virus in their body, it seemed like that's where the cocktail worked the best, because it was essentially replacing or substituting for the antibodies that these patients didn't have. that's exactly where you would want it to work. if people have their own antibodies, then and they're doing well then you don't really need this but if you don't have your own good antibodies or if it's early in the infection that's when it looks like it can really make a difference which is exactly where you want, if the people who have so much virus in their body and they're not beating it on their own, that's who it seems like it works for. neil: gotcha, dr. george yancopoulos, the regeneron chief scientific officer, thank you, sir if all goes well with the president as early indications are, it is, we'll be monitoring that as well and we'll be getting an update from the president's own far zillow is in about 42 minutes or so, ahead of that how this literally upended washington right now, not only on stimulus, which now increasingly looks good but on those supreme court confirmation hearings for judge amy barrett, a lot of senators have met with the judge, including my next guest, rick scott, after this. i'm happy to give you the tour, i love doing it. hey jay. jay? 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>> well you don't have to. since march we've been hosting our hearings by web ex. you can either show up in-person and social distance which is what we do we're in big rooms so we're not close to each other or do it by video, so there's no reason we can't continue to do that, so i don't think this is going to upend anything. and by the way, judge barrett's a wonderful person. she's humble, she's got a wonderful family, adopted two kids from haiti is raising seven kids and successful law professor, successful judge, so she needs to be confirmed we'll get her confirmed the last week of october. she's already been confirmed by most of the people in the senate , so, it's not like this is, she's a new person. she's already gone through this process three years ago. neil: yeah, you're right. it's a different game now, i think because it's fair to say going for the supreme court especially in these time, senator having said that i know you were talking about these hearings could be conducted virtually a number of your democrat being friends have been saying no, no, not for something this big and not a good idea. what do you say? >> look they want to postpone this they just don't want a trump nominee to be confirmed. there's no reason she should be confirmed she's a great pick, she understands there's three branches of government. i appointed 407 judges when i was governor of florida and i didn't ask them about an issue and ask them if you are not the executive of legislative branch and she absolutely wants to interpret the law not make the law so that's exactly what everybody, that every republican or democrat that's what the they ought to be nominating and how our constitution was setup but democrats want activist judges that want to make law because they can't get it passed so they want a judge to make the law for them rather than go through the process of working to get people to agree with them. neil: you know, we just got word today that besides senator mike lee, senator thom tillis, north carolina senator ron johnson of wisconsin, also, have tested positive for the virus. if you add that to rand paul who had it earlier this year, that's a 4% positive rate in the united states senate. do you worry for your colleague, do you worry for yourself? >> well i think everybody i know in the senate has taken this very seriously. i just talked to ron johnson a few minutes ago. he's feeling fine and doesn't have any symptoms and everybody is taking it seriously. we wear masks we social distance , when we have lunch together we're six feet apart, we're sitting at big table, so my experience in the senate is people have been cautious and at the same time, you know that senators are doing their job talking to people trying to get out and do their job every day, and so they're not just sitting at home, so they are trying to do their job but trying to do it in a safe manner i was tested yesterday i think for the sixth time and i tested positive again, and i bet we start seeing everybody get more, you know, more tests now in the senate just to make sure we keep everybody safe. neil: you know, i'm not a medical expert. i know you and your prior healthcare days, you know, are, but i am curious we just got word out of the vice president's office that he tested negative for the virus but i've been hear ing from some doctors, senator, who say given his proximity to so many of the individuals including the president who tested positive for this , maybe the better part would sort of hunker down to quarantine ahead of the debate, his own debate next week. maybe not have it postpone it what do you think of that? >> i think to the extent you could have debates i think it's great to do. i'd did debates in all my races and now you remember my opponent didn't want to debate me in 201n the first hispanic debate or spanish debate i did with him but i think we ought to have the debates. people have to answer questions you understand the issues so i think debates are a big positive and by the way my experience at the white house is people are cautious, where if you are around the president you're being tested and there's social distancing and wearing masks when i've been there so i think look, all of us have learned that we have to take this seriously. we're not out of the woods yet. we don't have a vaccine, we still have working we're expanding testing rapidly but we don't have enough tests out there, so we're all still learning how to get kids back in school, how to get businesses reopened how to get this economy going again and deal with this but i tell you what i think people are making progress every day, the economies getting better you saw unemployment is down to 7.9% which is a positive i look forward when it gets under 4% again, but people are figuring this out and we got to keep doing it and i want the president the first lady all senators everybody that gets this to be healthy. i unfortunately lost some people i've known to the coronavirus and i've told people all along, wear your mask, social distance. if you don't have to get out don't get out, be careful. neil: you think they should change things at the white house talking about the white house being cautious but apparently when they had this announcement for judge barrett last week, 50 of the 180 people only 50 wore masks in attendance. >> they should be everybody should be wearing a mask. i mean, i'm glad the event was outside. i think it's great to do your events outside to the extent you can but they have to wear masks and social distance. you have to do exactly what you're telling everybody else they should do. neil: got it. all right, senator scott, very good seeing you and be healthy be well. rick scott, beautiful state of florida. thank you, neil. neil: in the meantime here, everyone's worried for the president's health and the first lady as well as all those who recently tested positive but then the issue becomes especially for the president. if this gets dicey, should there be an orderly transfer of power at least a plan in place just in case? even if nothing happens? even if he momentarily anesthesia, then what? after this. who is usaa made for? it's made for this guy a veteran who honorably served and it's made for her she's serving now we made it for all branches and all ranks whether they served one tour or made a career of it. we also made usaa for military spouses and their kids usaa is easy to work with and can save you money on auto, home and renters insurance. become a member today. get an insurance quote at usaa.com/quote usaa. what you're made of we're made for neil: all right, it's the 25th amendment and what it is is that the president is in kanye west pass it tated even for a little bit it could be just anesthesia to go under a minor procedural the way up to mentally incapacit ated or worse physically compromised there is this procedure that allows the president to transfer power to the vice president during that interim, and eric shawn on its history and whose utilizing it. >> hi, good morning, neil. we're told the transfer of power to the vice president is "not even a consideration" the president we're told is expected to make a full recovery , fully in charge and hard at work say sources, but what if? well congress had passed the 25th amendment back in 1967 and the transfer of power of the presidency to the number two. but first, to kick in president trump has to agree bicepping a written declaration to the president pro tempo of the senate, that's iowa republican senator chuck grassley and speaker of the house, nancy pelosi and vice president pence would then take over, potentially as acting president. you know the transfer of power has only been used three times in the past, twice by president george w. bush when he went under for colonoscopies, and once by president reagan in 198r colon cancer but he did not invoke the full amendment to do that last night democratic congressman jim clyburn says if no one is admitting it publicly plans should be in place he thinks for vice president pence to step in if need be. >> i've been in a lot of discussions about what may or may not be and everybody may be having these kinds of discussion s, but i will say this i do believe that it's necessary that for the leadership of the vice president and the leadership of both houses need to be sitting down, having those discussions now. reporter: and there's been a lot of talk about that november 201e president went to walter reed medical center, and reports that the vice president was put on stand by. bret baier asked mr. pence about that claim this is what he said. >> i don't recall being told to be on standby. i was informed that the president had a doctor's appointment and i don't want to -- i've got to tell you part of this job is you're always on standby, if you're vice president of the united states. reporter: the vice president is always on standby he says well he did test negative for the virus we're told but neil there's rumblings that tuesday's debate at the university of utah in salt lake potentially it should be held instead in washington d.c. so mr. pence can be close, stay in the nations capitol but for now it is a go in utah. neil? neil: got it, eric shawn thank you very much. right now, you know, a lot more about this subject than certainly i do and that its use here and whether this is the time to at least get it in place or think about it. what do you think? >> i don't think that we're quite ready for the 25th amendment yet, but of course that's a recent development in the past, presidents have not had that particular option, but we'll have to take that, i think , on a day by day basis. neil: right, you know, the recent phenomenon withstand ing this with woodrow wilson when he was severely incapicatated when his wife was running the country nobody knew about that so should there be a system in place that we all know about just in case? >> i think so and you're exactly right, president wilson was campaigning vigorously to try to get the senate to pass the league of nations, and the senate was unwilling to do so, and so wilson ended up getting a stroke on the campaign trail. he's in his last year and a half almost year and a half in office , he was inkanye west pass it incapacitated, and his wife was running the country and he had some of the same situations that president trump has today and senator albert fall whose a republican from new mexico came into deliver some papers, to president wilson, and said that we're praying for you, mr. president, and wilson responded, which way, senator? neil: wow. you know, some of this can be just routine if the presidents you know, under anesthesia and even a minor procedure i think this was a case a couple of times with president george w. bush, and that's one thing, but how often has this temporary transfer of power, sometimes very temporary, been used? >> well, as recent, remember, president eisenhower had a heart attack in 1955 and he was in the hospital for six weeks, and so richard nixon who was the vice president, was constantly on hand and providing visitation and that kind of thing. now, when president harding had a heart attack in 1923 and died, coolidge was immediately made president and that transition was very smooth. so even without the 25th amendment, we have been able to negotiate well in these times of crisis, but it is good to have that amendment, so that the president can actually transfer power to the vice president in case he really is incapicatated. neil: now there are a lot of things that we know, and a lot of things we don't know, we learned many many decades later that john kennedy had addison's disease that was actually quite compromising and he was a sick president and we didn't realize the degree to how sick he was as i said, until so many years later so that gives some people pause about leaving it up in this case to the president to transfer power. there are ways around that where others worried about the president can join forces to force the issue. >> kennedy was a case of someone who was hiding his illness. he did have addison's disease and it effected his hormones, the adrenal glands, it fatigued him and he also had back de generation. he had colitis, a variety of diseases but he hid all of this so that the public did not know. neil: so what happens then is people around the president can try to move. i know there was concern in the waiting days of watergat ex about richard nixon and how he's mentally and physically holding up and the others i don't think you'd call it a coo, but they were clearly looking to force an issue and it never got to that point, richard nixon resigned but that's kind of what this thing is for too, right? >> well, right and i think that's what the 25th amendment is all about. if the cabinet gets together, then the cabinet can make a decision, if the president really is incapicatated so i think that helps. in the case of president trump, physicians seem to think he has an excellent chance of getting out of this maybe in a week whereas in the case of eisenhower he was in the hospital for six weeks and was later able to go back on the campaign trail and run for re-election, so, it varies from case to case. neil: got it. all right, burt, thank you very very much again there's nothing telegraphing any of these issues in president trump we're just realizing and sort of the accept scenarios out there god forbid if this were to worsen also keeping you posted on really how the president is doing and you hear many in the media saying he was fatigued tired out of it as much as 24 hours before we got wind of this so that was news to joe piscopo who was at the big new jersey fundraising event where the president was just a day before. what he saw that he says the media didn't understand. 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[indicating] neil: [laughter] >> oh, please it was far away and it was very open. neil: let me ask you it's a personal question but apparently people have been advised since the contact tracing people trying to find out who met with the president when i guess it's an issue if you're within 15 minutes of being within six feet of him or whatever. are you getting yourself tested? do you know of others at that event who had requested to get tested? >> i would say better safe than sorry whatever you feel. i, mr. cavuto i had the antibody , thank you very much. neil: oh, okay. >> a couple months ago i felt a little off so my doctor said how are you feeling and i said a little off, you know my doctor, so he goes take this medicine and i had the chills a little bit, and then you know what? took the medicine and by next morning by the grace of god my people we go like this i was good, i was okay and then a few weeks ago my daughter and i went to get tested for antibodies and when i took a picture at the event, i took my mask off and i said i would take the picture with somebody i felt good, but you know me. you know whose a bigger hypochondriac than i am? the president of the united states was careful, he was a mile away and came out and i'm telling you top of his game was gracious and warm, like the best i've ever seen president trump. turned around, walked back, and then the only people close to him were the secret service, you know? neil: got it, all right well i'm glad to hear that. always love talking to you in your mansion, library there. it's just funny. getting it done, my friend. getting it done. >> [laughter] thank you. neil: all right, joseph thank you very much, joe piscopo, gets a lot of buzz on because he's just decent on all sides there's a concept. when we come back the presidential election is about a month away. this is obviously upended it, right? or has it? after this. neil: all right, we are about 8- 10 minutes away from hearing from the president's physician on how the president is doing right now walter reed medical center, the developments here, the president testing positive for the coronavirus and a host of other senator, congressmen, and women, and you know, cabinet member, it's obviously upended everything there, and maybe the presidential race with little more than a month to go. frank luntz joins us right now. frank how do you see this playing out? >> well this is a unique opportunity with only 30 days to go, for the president to actually look the american people straight in the eye. i believe that he should make a statement to the public, and boris johnson did after he got sick, and it's a chance for him to say okay, here is what we're going to do, here is what we've donald here is what we will be doing over the coming days, weeks and months, for him to be empathetic for him to give america in a sense a hug, which he's not been willing to do. joe biden has pulled all of his negative ads, so its already changed the tone of the debate. there's a question whether the second debate whether the town hall between biden and trump will go on, because it's day 13 of trump's quarantine, so we don't know what's going to happen there, and the president 's basically six and a half, seven points behind with just 30 days ago so i think he needs to use this , as an opportunity, to reframe, reshape, and communicate to the public what he did so effective ly four years ago. i will be your voice. you're not forgotten. you are not ignored. i'm there. i may be in walter reed now but i'm there for you every day, every week, every month. i don't know if he'll do it but his people have to be thinking about that right now. neil: you know, frank, switching around watching the other networks and their coverage of this , there does seem to be a great deal of concern, sympathy, empathy for the president, right now that's changed some of the nastiness on both sides over certainly the last week or so. how long do you think something like that lasts? >> it will last until the next debate. it will last until enext event until the next eruption. neil, it could last an hour, or it could last through november. that's really up to donald trump how long this lasts, and i agree with you but up to a point. i've seen some nastiness of the media, not joe biden but the media, trying to use this as a way to beat on the president, challenging things that he said in the past, or otherwise making really ugly or snide or snarky comments and you don't do that and i'm looking at joe biden's tweet where he says i'm running as a democrat but i'll be an american president. he's actually telling his people stop the partisanship right now. this is a unique and memorable moment we will not forget. donald trump should use that moment to speak up. neil: all right we shall see frank, meanwhile, joe biden did after that, sort of get rip ping into the president's economic record what he would do differently but it was a delicate balance and he tried to balance it out. we'll have a lot more after this including the latest right now on the president's condition how he's doing, day two, begins. ... >> you're looking live at walter reed hospital in bethesda, maryland. we're going to be getting an update on the president's condition from the president's physician himself who says so far the patient is doing very, very well and getting infusion therapy without incident. leland vittert is joining us. it's actually an involved process, isn't it, leland. leland: exactly, neil. already the president has had two of the sort of of leading experimental drugs in the fight against the coronavirus. that's remdesvir he received last night and an antibody from a company called regeneron that tries to mimic the antibody that the human body makes in a lab and injects it into somebody who has the coronavirus before their body would begin to make antibodies on their own. both are experimental treatments the president has had. and both, want to draw you to the statement the last real update on the president's health in 12 hours from dr. shaun connolly who wrote last night, the president is doing well and not requiring any supplemental oxygen. that's a key data point and key thing that doctors tell you to watch when it comes to the coronavirus in terms of pulse oximeter readings and in case somebody has needs, that's a turn in the wrong direction. the fact that hasn't happen is important to note. medications the president is talking, we've talked about regeneron antibody therapy, that happened thursday-- friday morning, pardon me. and remdesvir. zinc, vitamin d, pepcid, over-the-counter, antacid and aspirin melatonin. he did not come by to wave to reporters. he tweeted last night. going well i think. thanks to you all. love. nothing's saying he's experiencing symptoms, but experiencing symptoms of the coronavirus. he's not the only one, inside the republican white house inner circle, you have the president and first lady who tested positive. mike lee, thom tillis and ron johnson, hope hicks, the key aide tested positive. hope daniels, and kellyanne conway and the president's campaign manager tested positive as well. earlier today, the former doctor to the president, ronny jackson told why it was important to have the president at walter reed. >> both the medications are given iv, they like to do that in a hospital setting. we can do that certainly at the white house, but it's much easier to do that with the full nursing staff there. leland: and behind me here at walter reed, while we await dr. conley's update. the podium is across my left shoulder across the street here. the president's facility here is different than what you or i might think of. there's a presidential ward at walter reed for an event just like this. it hasn't been used for a long time. a full suite of medical services, icu and critical care inside that suite. secure conference rooms and offices for tpresident's staff who is here with him and they say that the president can dischar discharge do the duties of the president. the president has two of the tip of the spear treatments for the coronavirus and we're now waiting. it's been almost 12 hours since we've heard any kind of update officially from either the president or from his physician physician, so this 11 a.m. update now a couple of minutes late is going to be a key data point for us. neil: leland, thank you very much, leland vittert. we just saw mark meadows, the president's chief of staff leave the facility a second ago. i don't know exactly what he said, it was very, very brief, probably something, a point you'll hear from the physician's president, that things look good. i have the head of melt meet metrics. >> what do you want to hear. things you want to see and worry you, what? >> good morning, neil. thank you for having me. i had -- very good, he's not on it and we'd like to remind all of us, we're praying for him and wish him a speedy recovery and need to respect his privacy as well. though he is the president and we need to know how he's doing, but we in the united states, keep the privacy of every point at one point in time respect the privacy of the president. neil: now, we do know a little bit, doctor, that he's been taking gilead sciences remdesvir and regeneron antibody cocktail, one infusion, zinc, aspirin and others. what do you make of the regime they have him on. >> and it significantly reduces the number of days in the hospital and f.d.a. approval. regeneron has not been approved and it's in clinical trials and shown so far, it's very effective, especially early on in the disease and presents a lot of complications, that's very good. i expect the president to be and eventually may take some steroids, for example, and they have other patients. and he's in good hands and good place and wish him a speedy recovery, he and his family and those infected. neil: you know, doctor, some of this is powerful, you have to have treatment for the side effects. what are side effects of some of these. he's 74-year-old patient and very energy levels and the rest. what do you look for? >> neil, one of the factors we look at obesity, the president is borderline obese. i'm not treating the patient, of course. what we've seen before, our physicians right now are getting much better at treating covid-19. some of the complications that may happen, needs to be in the hospital, the key issue again to keep in mind for all of us, i believe to breathe on his own or does he need to be intubated. neil: you know, doctor, when i flip around and some people say the president is morbidly obese. to me he looks a little overweight, but even the obese thing -- some thin guy came up with morbidly obese. what do you look for, what does it make for not only covid-19 recovery, but treatment? >> so, for treatments with obesity, of course, and again, the president i don't think is morbidly obese, but also looking at somebody who has diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases or any other health problems, that clearly the president doesn't have, so this is going well for him, his age is above 65, that's a factor, and a male. unfortunately males are at higher risk for covid-19 and mortality as well even when they are are in the hospital. these are factors that we worry about. he doesn't smoke, which is good, very good. so we will see, we'll see what the physician will say in a few minutes. neil: all right, we look forward to that. doctor, thank you very, very much. dr. ali mokdad. and we'll look at the chief of staff role that you had, sam, and hey, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, neil. neil: you know, we all know when presidents, their health is compromised, and i remember george h.w. bush and the famous tokyo visit he was commenting at a big event and a lot of people were worried for him. and people said should or does that trigger an immediate alert to the vice-president? or a transfer of power issue comes up because the president's health, even momentarily looks compromised? what do you do? >> well, first of all, we're in real-time connection with the field. wherever the president is, if he's not at the white house. we're getting a first time, full-time report from the staff there about the president and how he's doing and then the vice-president is alerted and we stand by. in this case of the visit to tokyo, he was covered, it was the stomach flu and he went the extra mile to go to that dinner and backfired, so to speak, on him. this is triggered when there's any health issue with the president. neil: sam, most are transparent and some others try to hide things from the public. we mentioned earlier with the historian, with john kennedy and addison's disease, fdr, the polio and we didn't know, and he triumphed through that. the example, woodrow wilson, his sickness deteriorating so much that many think he really dependent know what was going on. his wife was all, but running the country. how do we know -- i mean, you talk about a transparent age and you like to think everyone is being upfront and i'm certainly in the charging of this president or those immediately before him, with keeping things away, but the presidents by nature don't want to worry folks. how do you balance that? >> well, in today's world there's transparency whether you like it or not. there's real-time and sources inside of government that know what's going on and they have sources in the media. the president's moves are monitored on a regular basis and real-time basis. the idea that you could do what president roosevelt did or others did, if you start thinking that way or that you could hide it you're not recognizing. soon you could be transparent and acting in an organized way the better off the country will feel and be. neil: you know, as a former chief of staff yourself, this particular white house is obviously on sort of virus alert right now. so many have contracted it or come close, they're doing contact tracing to see who knew what and when. it's got to be a pretty scary place right now. if you were chief of staff, if you were mark meadows right now, you obviously have an obligation to the president, but you have an obligation as well, i suppose, for those who work in the white house, not only serve the president, but chefs and workers within that body that have served multiple presidents? >> no question about it. that's a big issue. you're putting people in harm's way who are really putting themselves in harm's way for the president. you've got to take care of those people. and if it's a private corporation, basically close the building down and send everybody home and get mandatory testing for everybody monitoring where they are. what if it was a cabinet meeting, and spread, half the cabinet would be sick. you've got to treat this, and taking care of the people. in today's world we can do business so to speak by phone and teleconferencing, so it's not impossible to run government, but you can't put each other next to each other in a closed session and not expect to have some serious culpablility and vulnerability with the people in the world, i know a situation. neil: go ahead. >> a meeting early in the coronavirus and 10 of the 13 board of directors caught it in an hour in a board meeting. neil: it's amazinglien could taye gus, -- it's amazingly contagious, you're right about that. i know a week ago in the rose garden to introduce judge amy barrett to the world. of the 180 people gathered there, sam, 50, only 50, i believe, were wearing masks. i imagine in future events and we hope the president gets out of that building soon and is doing well, i'm sure all of that is going to change. >> oh, no question. it's a wake-up call for everybody, certainly, a wake-up call for the white house. everybody should be wearing masks. they should be doing daily testing. should be reporting in. shouldn't be embarrassed if they have to stay home. we should put in the same protocols that people who have been affected in controlling this disease have put in place in some time. i think we'll see the president and his staff and everybody wearing masks from now on. neil: it's too far to say whether the president might want to think pushback, canceling the upcoming presidential debate on the 15th. presumably so close to the end of his quarantine period if it goes the full 14 days. now many of them raising with me, sam, the vice-presidential debate and whether it should go on as schedule, that he should be nearer the president, nearer washington, there's great risk if he's too far. he himself, even though he just tested negative is, you know, around the president all the time. there might be requirement for further tests. i guess what i'm saying, do you think that vp debate should go on as scheduled for next week? >> yes, i do, really. the vice-presidency is always important, but especially important now so i think it should go on, yes. neil: all right. senator skinner,s always good catching up with you. >> thank you very much. neil: all right, be well, my friend. mark meredith right now at the white house on, well, it's a very changed place, i imagine and that's putting it mildly, mark? >> although i was surprised going into the white house, i didn't notice new health precautions we as the press would have to go through. it's fewer people because it's saturday morning. but i didn't see anything drastically different. a few months ago, the temperature checks, you'd come into the white house complex, ask you the questions, have you come in contact with anyone. that hasn't been done in the past several weeks. i want today pick up the major headline, white house officials telling fox news that both the vice-president and mrs. pence have tested negative for the coronavirus. that's good news. they get tested every day. we have been wanting to know whether or not this is going to impact the vice-president's schedule in any way. he is set to debate california senator kamala harris wednesday in salt lake city. the debate is still on the schedule and we learned that the vice-president would visit peoria, arizona, outside of phoenix for a campaign event. first lady melania trump remains at the white house, the good news her symptoms are fairly mild and officials say on friday she was experiencing a headache. we got an update from the first lady's spokesperson an hour ago, she remains in touch with her husband, she's thinking of all who are ill and wishes them a speedy recovery, so, one update there from the first lady's office, there has been a number of road blocks set up around the white house, that has nothing to do what's going on with the president, instead there's a rally happening on the national mall today. this appears to be a pro trump rally that's been set up. unclear how many demonstrators will be coming out, but i'm surprised how big the road blocks are around the white house complex. and so much focus on the white house staff, people who come in contact with the president, the vice-president and us in the press corps so often, we know that those people get tested so often and we try to piece together who has been tested and who hasn't and white house is trying to protect the identity of the people and making sure their health conditions are their business and not necessarily the public. the public wants to know what's going on with that white house staff. as we have been talking about that, the update is coming from the white house physician. up at walter reed, the press pool standing by at any notice, at 10 a.m., it's a drive for them. no updates to the schedule yet. it's possible we could see some administration officials come out to gaggle up on the white house driveway. we have not seen that happen this morning. we heard from the white house chief of staff mark meadows, he's at walter reed. they were you think r a few minutes behind for that conference. it's not the full duty, but we'll see if more people show up to work later on today, neil. neil: all right. mark meredith, thank you very much. be safe and healthy yourself, mark. appreciate that. i want to go back to my buddy leland vittert on this. you know, people want to get an idea how the president has fared in the first day and follow-up treatments and all that. and it's generated a crowd and the white house press pool will be there for this, i'm sure others gathered there. maybe you could describe the scene. >> yeah, important to understand, neil, sort of the way this is going down. over left shoulder is the podium where the president's doctor is going to walk out of walter reed to give that update. probably 300 or 400 yards past the fence of walter reed over there. along the highway here, in bethesda, maryland, you probably hear horns honking, those are the horns of some of the president's supporters that have come out with flags and waving american flags and trump flags and the pantheon of media here from all over the world as this is quickly the only story in the world, which is the president's health and the fact that he is hospitalized. we talked earlier just how unusual this is to have the president as a patient, inpatient in the hospital for an unexpected reason. over the past couple of presidencies, we've had presidents come to walter reed obviously for physicals and occasionally for some type of procedure here and there. you have to go back a long way for an unexpected hospitalization of the president of the united states. talked to ronny jackson, the president's former physician, and talked about the facilities and equipment. what they have as an extra safety precaution and safety blanket. we saw the president walk out to marine one yesterday, seemed to be in good health, smiled, waved, wearing a mask, you wouldn't know anything was different about that walkout for marine one perhaps for the mask, and the president didn't stop and talk to the press as he normally does. this white house often times, we hear lots of different leaks and pieces of information. they have been incredibly tight-lipped over the past 36 hours or so. if you think about it, neil, from the time that tweet came out from the president about 1 a.m. yesterday morning, we're now at 34 hours, what we've learned the president and first lady were positive. there were some very mild symptoms and then you had that antibody treatment of regeneron and now you're getting into the recomme and went into the decision about moving the president to the hospital and making such a point as you pointed out that's so unusual that sort of completely changes the optics how we see the president of the united states. the white house made a very big point at walter reed there is this presidential medical unit. so it's not just the president in a hospital room, he has a suite of offices and staff around him and conduct the business of the american people, if you will, and the white house has made a point, as has the president's surrogates that he's doing just that. yesterday we heard from mitch mcconnell saying that he talked to the president about the supreme court confirmation process and heard from kevin mccarthy he had talked to the president along 10:00, 11:00 p.m. they're trying to make this real point that the president is still working and running the country. at the same time as you pointed out, already had pretty extensive medical treatment when it comes to the coronavirus, two of the tip of the spear treatments, another of the drugs the president is on and it's been 12 hours since we've heard any kind of update. we are supposed to hear from the president's doctor to walk out at the podium about 11:20 to address the small press pool that represents the much larger group that's outside of the gates, and talk and answers some questions. that was suppose today happen 20, 21 minutes ago, mark meadows came out, chief of staff said it's a 10-minute delay. we're past the 10 minutes and one could write that off to what happens when we're going to the doctor's office, doctors are often late, and you have to wonder now what's happening. neil: sometimes you go to the doctor's office and you look around the waiting room and everyone has the same appointment time. i imagine it's different with the president of the united states. [laughter]. neil: we'll see. leland vittert, thank you, my friend, very, very much. by the way, leland was talking about compassionate use, emergency use, gilliard -- gilead science's drug and when it's in the patient's interest and that it would be good to try and that the record is such that it would not be too dangerous to try versus an emergency use of what the heck have you got to lose. there's a distinction and both have been used on the president and his physician will probably detail their use and why they were used together in combination with zinc and some other treatments and aspirin and you know the drill on that. we should hear from the doctor shortly. in the meantime, don't forget this is still a presidential race a month away. joe biden still campaigning, he's taken down all negative ads. hillary vaughan with the latest from wilmington, delaware. >> hey, neil, democratic nominee joe biden tried to stay away from politics when talking about the president testing positive for the coronavirus while he campaigned in person yesterday in the battle ground state of michigan. and he couldn't bring out differences between himself and the president and how he's handled the pandemic, one of those that biden brought up was a national mask mandate. >> this is not a matter of politics, it's a bracing reminder to all of us that we have to take this virus seriously, it's not going away automatically. we have to do our part to be responsible. that means following the science, listening to the experts, washing our hands, social distancing, wearing a mask in public and encouraging others to do so as well. it means having masking mandates nationwide. >> and even though they're looking at that, after two negative covid complaints, biden made the decision to pull down negative ads, but the trump campaign is not buying the gesture, pointing to attacks that biden made in person and in remarks yesterday. he said, he is in no position to say anything, the trump campaign is not returning the favor and they're keeping ads up and today, biden is back on virtual campaign trail here in wilmington and he'll attend a virtual town hall with members today. neil. neil: all right. thank you very much. hillary is speaking we just got word to that cam newton, quarterback for the new england patriots has tested positive for covid-19. that means he will be out on sunday for the game against the chiefs. we don't know much more than that. of course, they have had other issues that have come up in some of these, you know, teams, the titans and steelers game that was supposed to happen this weekend and pushed back another couple of weeks and that's obviously a big name in professional football who has tested positive for the virus. today was also supposed to be the day had none of this happened, that the president was going to be in wisconsin for a very big rally, i think it was scheduled for green bay, wisconsin. scott walker is with us, the former governor of that beautiful state. governor, that's not coming to pass, that rally. this has pretty much up-ended everything. what are your thoughts. >> as if 2020 could get any stranger, it goes back to the future, doc, whatever you do don't go back to 2020. and i think most americans regardless of our politics, our prayers with the president, first lady, cam newton, anyone around the world dealing with this global pandemic. it will heighten this issue. i think as the president pointed out the other day and i assume that vice-president pence will mention on wednesday, vice-president biden, the one complaining about when the scientists told the president to shut down foreign travel in china and other places, joe biden attacked it. when the scientists dr. fauci and dr. birx told the president to take immediate action, to flatten the curve, he did that. it's incumbent on the president on his allies to get that point out to the american people. neil: you know, governor, joe biden wore at that darn mask and the president made fun of it before the debate and now it looks like the former vice-president was wise. do you think that this comes back and obviously, we wish the president well and the first lady well and all of these folks that tested positive, that we rethink how we go about conducting our lives, watch distancing, maybe wear masks, that something here changed the dynamic mightily, what do you think? >> every time you get the president, not just the president, cam newton and anyone else, how important it is to be vigilant. my wife and i without government mandate have been wearing masks out in public since march, she's a type one diabetic and we've been cautious. whether they are of a certain age, risk factor, we remind our kids, youth, you can transmit it. i think all americans should do that, but as we look at this, just because the president wasn't always wearing a mask, remember, he was tested and the people around him tested, obviously in this case there was some breakdown in that system, but it is a good reminder now going forward that no one, no one is protected from this. you've got to be careful in every and each situation out there. neil: you know, you're very right about that and governor, one thing that i've heard from a lot of people say, it's the most powerful man on the planet can contract this virus, then, man, i've got to be careful. it's alarmed people to the point that some of them are rethinking trips that were on the schedule, rethinking going outdoors and even rethinking going to open indoor dining restaurants. there is a danger here of overreacting, isn't there? >> well, theres without a doubt and remember, when the former vice-president biden talks about a national mandate, that's not the way our federalist republic is set up, but more importantly, you've got 49 different states have some variation of either a statewide or by local jurisdiction requirements for masks and one of the worries i've had is if we just have the government dictating it without explaining to people why this is important, and what i fear has happened particularly the last month or so, people start to take it for granted, as things ease up a little bit, until we find a vaccine, until we're completely able to tackle this global pandemic, we all need to be vigilant going forward. it's not as simple i'll leave it up to the government, if you don't explain the why, the what doesn't matter if people haven't bought into it. neil: governor walker, always good talking to you, good health to you and your family. >> same to you. neil: scott walker, former governor of wisconsin and recent candidate as well. in bethesda, we're waiting for an update on the president's condition, a little more, what's 18 hours into arriving at the medical center. let's first go to charlie gasperino though. talk about something that out of the blue walloped the markets in a year we've had a number of things walloped the markets. covid has begun the issue and once again it's become the premier issue. charlie, what are you hearing from folks? >> well, if you look at the indexes, the markets didn't trade off that much on the news. they initially, the futures were off and then, you know, markets bounced around and essentially flat. here is what's interesting. you've got to do a deeper dive into stocks and some other commodity prices and if you do that, the markets are pricing in a biden victory right now. if you look at solar panel stocks, for example, up pretty dramatically. you look at oil stocks, anything related to energy, down pretty hard. and this is all a trade that biden's fiscal policies that he's likely to get elected and his fiscal policies are going to change the shape of the markets going forward. so, clearly markets believe joe biden's going to be the next president. we should point out that, you know, what happened in march doesn't necessarily happen now in terms of the virus. and traders are paying attention to this. a hospitalizations, you know, are down overall. and we're slowly defeating this thing, despite the sad news of the president being sick with this. and the treatments are better. we can treat it better. my brother, who is an icu doctor told me today he thinks that the president will pull through this. my brother's treated dozens of covid patients and you know, maybe 100 in the icu and he himself contracted covid and got it really bad early on, but he survived it, now he's 53, 54 and very good shape, works out every day. the president doesn't fit those characteristics, necessarily, but people are surviving now. so, you know, i think we should take a deep breath here. prayers go out to the president and his wife. chances are he's going to be fine. it is going to up-end the presidential race and markets are pricing in, in sort of myopically, not trading off the indexes, myopically in certain sectors and stocks, they're pricing in a biden victory. again, we're 30 days away. the election isn't over, far from it, but clearly, this is-- and we should point out, neil, that they began pricing that in, not just yesterday or the day before. they would price that in following his debate performance. most people thought trump's debate performance, most wall street market watchers believed it wasn't a good performance and they thought, you know, would he needed to do, he was behind in the polls, he didn't do, to catch up. particularly in battle ground states and among certain groups of voters that he needed to outperform with, suburban educated white voters in particular. so this was pricing in a week before, but you know, again, neil, 2020 has been such a wild year. you and i have covered everything, we've covered 9/11, we've covered the financial crisis, mass shootings. this has been a year that is so many twists and turns, there's nothing certain. you know what i'm saying? i'm laughing, i'm laughing out of-- >> quickly, charlie, one other issue that's come up with verizon and wall street wrapping around a biden victory is that democrats will spend a lot. the notion, it's going to be very system latistimulative. part of that stthinking is if yu like stimulus, you'll get a lot of it. what do you think of that. >> you're going to get a lot of tax increases, too. tons of regulations. remember, when president trump and his economic team started to deregulate certain bases, that was a defacto tax cut. there's going to be a defacto tax increase on this if biden wins and the democrats take the senate which a lot of people think very possible, if the top of the ticket is democrat. so your a going to get higher taxes on capital gain and that impact stocks. i think there has to be a trade-off of stocks if the democrats win -- have control of everything. there's probably going to be a breakup of tech. i mean, elizabeth warren, most of the most anti-capitalists of all public officials out there, i mean, there's a few others, maybe bernie sanders and aoc, but she's right up there, is going to be a -- is going to have a lot of power. she might even be the treasury secretary. there's going to be an economic price to pay for democrats running the table here, has to be. just common sense will tell you, that will adjust. and then maybe things will go back to normal, who knows? we've got a very accommodative fed. businesses adapt to taxes and regulations very fast. they may lay off a lot of workers to make their margins, just remember that often happens. so, you know, listen, there has to be a recalibration if biden and the democrats take hold. and long-term, you know, businesses do adapt, but there has to be. if you're already seeing it myopically in those sec force. but again, this isn't over yet. there's a lot of republicans who think that the republicans can take the senate, can hold the senate. i've spoken with republican -- political people who say they're giving up on the president's chances and they're focusing on keeping the senate and keeping the government divided. by the way that could be very good for stocks, a divided government has done very well for the stock market. neil: absolutely. >> there's a lot of scenarios and we've got 30 days left. neil: we do, anything can happen. charlie, thank you very, very much. just not to politicize the markets, but these guys, they're not red or blue, they love green. they'll find a way to make money or see the money-making side of any candidate out there. and the latest issue that charlie spoke on, the idea that a full run or a sweep or running the table of the white house and keeping of the house and maybe picking up the senate, while it scares some in that it could raise taxes and all of that, the thinking is that it would lead to a lot more spending as we go through deficits and debts, we just did 27 trillion dollars in debt. but wall street seems to like any stimulative effort and the prospect that the coronavirus is there us measure ain't dead yement. there there are things attached to the president that as nancy pelosi said yesterday, changed the dynamic. i think she was referring to the stimulus effort in light of the coronavirus to come up with a plan that both parties could agree to and maybe what's happening with the president right now is galvanizing that talk. chad here to talk about that what do you think about that? >> certainly the conversations between nancy pelosi and steve mnuchin increased. they had not talked much since early in august and they met in about earn this week and led to health concerns after we found out about the president, both pelosi and mnuchin tested negative. there's had a strange dynamic, the house leader steny hoyer said on the floor that they might be able to announce that they have an agreement this weekend and then maybe bring members back after several days of putting this into legislative language late in the week and maybe vote late in the week or next weekend or something like that. now, what's interesting is i have been hearing from several republican sources that they don't like what might be going into this bill. neil: all right. chad. if you can just wait a second here, we're going to pause for a moment to let our fox stations join us right now. this is fox news coverage of president trump's physician and physicians, i should say, giving us an update on his condition. i am a neil cavuto in new york and now an update on how president trump is doing. >> good morning, everyone. thank you for coming. dr. sean conley, physician to the president. this morning i'd like to start by first sharing that the president and first family, first lady, extremely grateful for the enormous outpouring of support and prayers that the whole world and the country have been providing and sharing. i'd like to thank colonel andrew barr and all the medical and support staff here at walter reed for the tireless efforts providing everything and anything. the medical team the president and i could need. this morning the president is doing very well. behind me are some of the members of the president's medical team whom i'd like to introduce. dr. sean dooley, pulmonary critical care. dr. robert browning pulmonary critical care, dr. jason blalock, infectious disease. dr. wes campbell infectious disease. dr. john hodgkin's anesthesia. curt cline army nurse, lieutenant guiliana navy nurse, lieutenant john shea clinical pharmacist, not with us, are navy nurses and the doctor and executive director of the medicine program. in consultation with this group, i recommend we bring the president up to walter reed as a precautionary measure to provide state of the art monitoring and any care that he may need. just 72 hours into the diagnosis now, the first week of covid in a particular day seven to day 10 are most critical in determining the likely course of this illness. at this time the deem and i are extremely happy with the progress the president has made. thursday he had a mild cough with nasal congestion and fatigue all of which are now resolving and improving. at this time i'd like to bring up dr. dooley to discuss some of the specifics of the president's care. >> thank you, and good afternoon, dr. sean dooley as dr. conley mentioned. >> i'll start off by mentioning what an incredible -- how incredibly proud i am of our medical team assembled behind me and the honor it's been to care for the president over these last 24 hours here at walter reed. he's receiving outstanding multidisciplinary care. the state of the science for coronavirus infection. we are monitoring him very closely for any evidence of complications from either the coronavirus illness or the therapies that we are prescribing to make him better. we have monitored his cardiac function, his kidney function, his liver function, all of those are normal and the president this morning is not on oxygen, not having difficulty breathing or walking around the white house medical unit upstairs. he's in exceptionally good spirits. in fact, as we were completing our multidisciplinary round this morning, the quote he left us with is i feel like i could walk out of here today and that was a very encouraging comment from the president. i'll go ahead and introduce dr. garibaldi talking about the therapeutics and the plan of care for today. thank you. >> thank you, dr. dooley and i'd like to echo the sentiment from the entire team, what an honor and privilege it is to be part of the multidisciplinary unit to care for the president. the president received a special antibody therapy directed to the virus. and we're monitoring him. yesterday evening he received his first dose of remdesvir and our plan is to continue a five-day treatment plan for remdesvir. and the treatment plan today he's in good spirits and doing well, to encourage him too eat, drink, hydrated and stay up out of bed and doing things he need to do to get well. i'll defer to dr. conley for any questions. >> thanks, it's important to note that the president has been fever-free for over 24 hours. we remain cautiously optimistic, but he's doing great. with that-- oh, one other note. it should be clear he's got plenty of work to get done from the chief of staff. and he's doing it. with that if there's a couple of questions about the president's health in the last couple of days. >> sir, could you tell us the president's oxygen saturation level, please? >> the last saturation that we had up walking around he was about 96%. >> he's not received any supplemental oxygen? >> he's not on oxygen right now, that's right. >> he's not received any at all. >> he's not needed any this morning today at all. that's right now he's-- >> do you have an estimated date when he might be discharged? >> well, i don't want to put a hard date on that. he's doing so well, but with the known course of the illness, days seven to 10 we get concerned about the inflammatory phase, phase two. given that we provided some of these advanced therapies so early in the course, a little bit earlier that most of the patients that we know and follow, it's hard to tell where he is on that course and so every day we're evaluating does he need to be here, what does he need, and where is he going. >> what do you say is the probability he will need supplemental oxygen going forward? >> i don't want to put a percentage on that, but right now all indicators are that he'll remain off of oxygen going forward. >> and in terms of like blood clots, pneumonia, bacteriaal infection, what do you see as the risk? >> we know all are risks associated with the condition. he is receiving all of the standard of care and beyond for routine, you know, international covid protocol. so we're monitoring for all of that, but at the moment there's no cause for concern. >> you said he was fever-free now. what was his fever when he had one? >> i'd rather not give specific numbers, but he did have a fever thursday into friday and since friday morning he's had none. >> okay. what was the date-- >> other antibodies? >> i'm sorry? >> why remdesvir on top of the other antibodies? >> remdesvir works differently than the antibodies. we're attacking the virus, multi-pronged approach. it's the president, i didn't want to hold anything back, if there's any possibility it would add to his care and expedite his return, i wanted to take it and the team agreed and we proceeded. >> doctor, what was the date of the president's last negative test. >> i'm not getting into the testing going back, but he and all of his staff routinely are tested and so-- >> doctor, what is the ppe protocol for the president receiving visitors and doctors? >> it's the same for any hospital staff. we have an area that's clean that you put your equipment on and then beyond that, everybody is fully gowned up, mask, gloves. we're protecting ourselves and him. >> have you done a screen or any sign of any lung damage whatsoever? >> we're following all of that. we do daily ultrasounds and lab work. >> has there been any sign of damage, sir. >> i'm not going into the specificsments has he ever been on supplemental oxygen? >> right now he's-- . >> you keep saying right now. should we read into the fact that-- >> yesterday and today he was not on oxygen. >> so he's not been on it during his covid treatment? >> he's not on oxygen right now. >> considered a viable treatment option for the president-- >> we discussed it, asked about it, and not on now. >> what symptoms has he experienced difficulty breathing? >> no, he did not. he had a little cough, a fever, more than anything he's felt rundown. who is handling contact tracing, the white house or c.d.c.? >> the white house unit in conjunction in collaboration with c.d.c. and local health and state departments are conducting all contact tracing per c.d.c. guidelines. >> when was the positive made, 72 hours, put at wednesday? >> so thursday afternoon following, following the news of a close contact is when we repeated testing and given kind of clinical indication, a little bit more concern and that's when -- late that night we got the pcr confirmation that he was. >> is there anything when he became infected? >> we're tracking the course, back here-- >> did the president have to stay at walter reed to get the five day remdesvir? >> if he needs all five days that will likely be the case. again, every day we're reviewing with the team his needs for being here and as soon as he gets to the point where it's not a requirement, he may still need some care, but if he can provide that we can transmission to that point if the team agrees. >> in addition to his weight does he have any other risk factors that makes him at risk for sort of a severe case. >> no, not in particular, he's 74, he's male and he is slightly overweight. other than that, he's very healthy. cholesterol is great, his blood pressure is great. not on medication for that. he's up and active and you saw his activities the days leading up to and long hours, he's able to hand it will. >> can you provide vitals heart rate, blood pressure and temperature? >> so his heart rate is in the 70's to 80's. his blood pressure has remained where it's been during our physicals. you know, 110 to 120, great. never budged. had no concerns there. >> why was the decision made to transfer him here? >> because he's the president of the united states. >> and the doctors have found that the prone position is helpful for covid. >> he asked about that thursday into friday, he's been briefed by the task force and the scientists for months and he brought that up, you know, we were discussing his cough and at the time his oxygen levels were okay, we didn't feel he needed to do it. we came up here and discuss it had with the team as well. we consider all options, but he's not needed any of that. >> why wasn't the first lady admitted as well. >> the first lady is doing great, thanks for asking. she has no indication for hospitalization and therapy. she's convalescing at home, thank you. >> and try that one more time, i know you said no oxygen-- >>'s not on objection generals today. >> receive any on thursday. >> what's today, saturday. >> that's why we were-- >> thursday, no oxygen, none at this moment and yesterday with the team while we were all here, he was not on oxygen. >> so has the president actually been admitted as a patient to the hospital. >> the president is a patient at walter reed medical center. >> is he on any steroids-- >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. neil: all right. well, that's very good news we hear from the president, the take away line from the president himself quoted as saying and telling doctors, i feel like i could walk out of here today. but it was a very upbeat report. we heard from the white house official essentially saying the president is doing well, he's doing very, very well, extremely happy with the progress that the president has made, that they got into a few more details about the regimen the president is on. we told you about regeneron, of course, that antibody cocktail, if you will. that's an infusion therapy so that's not something that's administered every day. but recommemdesvir by gilead, u to treat hepatitis to ebola is used here because it's proven very effective at speeding up recovery times in trials for just covid-19 use. one of the other issues that has come up here, it can prevent the virus potentially from replicating, so you can kind of stop it in its tracks, hence the issue they're going to keep using it for the next five days. i don't know if that means every day. i want to explore that with a doctor here. the bottom line, you're hearing that the president is doing, very, very well. there was a back and forth whether he was utilizing oxygen or anything of that sort. he's not on it now. and then the reporter questioned was he ever on it thursday or friday. the general view seemed to be what i got is no, he's not had to require oxygen. that's something you worry about particularly in older patients because it's the first thing that becomes an issue with an older patient. the respiratory issues involved, but none of that an issue right now for the president. the indications are that at least with the next few days, he will remain in bethesda. so, that's where we stand right now. this is fox news coverage of the president's ongoing treatment right now at bethesda. we'll continue on fox news stations as well as the fox news channel. stick with us for continuing coverage for that. i'm neil cavuto in new york. >> you're looking live at the walter reed medical center in bethesda, maryland. we just got an update from the president's condition from a huge swath of lawyers-- lawyers, doctors who are treating him, very, very carefully here. and by the progress that the president is making. so much so the president himself seemed to be in fine spirits telling doctors i feel like i could walk out of here today. read on this from dr. ali mokdad at institute for health. what do you think about what the doctors are saying, seemed to be okay. >> i'm so happy, the key questions that everybody tried to push for is he on oxygen, he is not and seems to be doing very well. and he has the team that he needs of course and no surprise the days ahead will be telling and seems to be doing extremely well so that's very good news for everybody. neil: what do you look for, doctor? he's an older patient, it's interesting when they talked about remdesvir he'll continue talking for the next five days. down whether that's a once a day treatment? with regeneron and infusion therapies, they're not every day, i guess that. what do you make of the strategy they're using here? >> no, they're-- the physicians said, they're following the protocols so they're giving him remdesvir and they'll keep doing it the course of five days, of course. so and he has been responding very well to all the medication that they have given him so far because he told us that he had fever and now he doesn't have fever. so for me, that was a good sign that the regeneron is working in that regard. so the question i would have loved to be answered is when somebody asked is he on steroids and the physician didn't answer, but that's very important and will be telling if he's on steroids or not because it means that the body is defending much higher than it should and would like to slow it down when that's the case. neil: doctor, when i'm hearing that they're going to look for the next five days, treatment, let's say for the remdesvir, that would seem to indicate he's going to be at walter reed for at least another five days, right? >> you know, neil, early on when the president announced he had covid-19 many of us, including myself, were prepared that he would be in the hospital, he's the president of the united states, above 65. that's not indication of how severe his case is, but that's an indication that he needs to be in a place all the tests that are needed will be there. it's easier to treat a patient of course in the hospital than the white house. even with all the facilities that the white house can offer. so staying at the hospital in my opinion is a good sign rather than a bad sign. and the precaution that he's in the hospital in good hands. neil: you know, doctor, we're learning right now just how contagious in covid-19 is, as if we needed to be reminded, just in the last few minutes. we've got confirmation that former new jersey governor chris christie tested positive for the virus, remember, he was helping the president plan for last week's debate and heard that cam newton, new england patriots, tested positive for this. a number of incidents with a number of senators i believe up to three now tested positive for the virus. what is it about covid-19, doctor, that makes it so contagious? is it airborne, is it the close proximity, what? what is it? >> it's a virus for sure and so contagious, airborne, as we into by now. the problem with covid-19, nup of us has any -- we're all susceptible for it and none of us is immune for it. that's why it's so contagious if we come in touch with the virus, we'll get covid-19. that's why it's contagious in the united states. right now in the united states the highest-- we know the highest positive is in new jersey, about 25. so a lot of us in the united states are susceptible for the virus and moving forward we have to be -- and i'm hoping that this incident will remind all of us that if the president of the united states gets covid-19, all of us can get covid-19 and we have to be very careful. and they need to do the contact tracing for everybody who came in contact with the president. he is a busy man of course, and he's been out and about and they need to follow them and make sure they keep track of this virus, to make sure they do the tracing and make sure nobody gets infected and isolate those who came in contact with the president just to be cautious. neil: do you get a sense, doctor, that this is going to be with us a while? the hopes that even if you find the vaccine or any of that, whether it's later this year or early next year, that the mask thing, the distancing thing, the limited capacity at restaurants, the public places thing, that that will likely be around a while? >> yes, unfortunately, i mean, this will be with us for a long time. we have to change our behavior and live with it until we have a very effective vaccine and very effective drug and there are so many, you know, good drugs out and vaccines are promising. we have to do our part, you and i and everybody else to give our scientists a chance to find a cure for it, or vaccine to prevent it. until then all of us have to be very, very careful. neil: dr. ali mokdad for the institute of health. the upshot is, the president of the united states, first full day at bethesda medical center, looks like he's doing very, very well and very upbeat and the indications that that will continue to be the case here. it looks to me the next five days at least he will be there. we have little more than that other than it's upended washington where we're getting talks that it could be upended in a good way, progress on a stimulus measure and full steam ahead on the nomination hearing for judge amy barrett. what a crazy week. bill emery is next. >> you've heard a moment ago, you heard about president trump's condition, his medical team saying that the president is doing well, but that they do not want to put a hard date on when he may be discharged. good saturday afternoon. this is a special edition of bill hemmer reports. i'll take you through the president's condition, the virus, the election, supreme court battle, the economy. first, the doctor has given information, mostly positive. fever-free from 24 hours, telling the

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