Were over the top of the hour so what were going to do, id love to ask you and Michael Beschloss and katty and Jonathan Lemire to please come back tomorrow. Continue talking about this. Its a fascinating story and tomorrow what were going to do is a little twist. Were going to turn off our phone alerts. That does it for us this morning. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. Thank you, jonathan. Hi there. Im stephanie ruhle. It is monday, october 5th. Lets get smarter. This morning, the eyes of the nation are on Walter Reed Medical Center where President Trump could be released as early as today. This comes despite the fact that the president is now taking multiple treatments for coronavirus, including a steroid that is meant only for very serious cases. His blood oxygen level has dropped twice in recent days, although as of sunday, doctors spokespeople said his condition has improved. But he is still highly contagious. That is why so many medical officials are asking why he
Walter reed doctor calling it insanity, worried the agents with the president could get sick or worse, and were actively reporting out answers to critical questions. One, the factual matter of his actual health. How are his lungs . Whats up with the medicine . On his testing and treatment timeline. What did his doctors know about him catching tinfection on when. Who was exposed and was the rose garden event really a super spread spreader . And who are you supposed to trust when it comes to knowing the current condition of the president of the United States . Our team is hear with the latest. Im Hallie Jackson in washington with our nbc news reporters, medical and political reporters, carol lee, mike memoli, dr. James phillips an attending physician at walter reed and chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University Medicine and robert gibbs served as press secretary for president obama. Carol, do you at walter reed, what are we hearing. The latest on the white house and when
Mitigation why arent we going to get control of the pandemic . Because its a contagious virus just like the flu. Mark meadows was also involved in efforts to keep a lid on the news we got over the weekend. To keep a lid on it to keep us not informed that five of Vice President pences aides, including his chief of staff, have tested positive for coronavirus. Despite being in close contact with those aides, pence himself is staying on the campaign trail after he tested negative. I want to bring in nbcs carol lee. Shes following President Trump in pennsylvania. Mike memoli is following the Biden Campaign from delaware. Carol, the president basically has one week left. Of course he does. Everyone does. How is he going to make it count . Look, steph. The president is trying to make it every minute of the next week count. Hes doing a lot of events. Hes had three today here in pennsylvania. The two candidates battle it out for these 20 electoral votes in this state. The president will start i
Good afternoon, everybody. Im yasmin vossoughian. Nine days until election day, and there is a lot going on. Joe biden and donald trump both talking about covid in their closing arguments, but one is laying out what he will do to stop it while the other is trying to claim the reality you see every day with this crisis that it doesnt actually exist. Covid affecting the Vice President. His chief of staff has now tested positive for the virus, but Vice President pence is not letting that stop him from campaigning and exposing others. We have a team of reporters blanketing the campaign trail in states across this country. Were going to get to every single one of them. But i do want to begin with the president who wrapped up a Campaign Rally in the battleground state of New Hampshire just moments ago. Kelly odonnell is at the white house for us. Kelly, good to talk to you. Thank you for joining us on this. Lets talk about the polls in New Hampshire. A survey monkey poll has joe biden up by
Winner there. The state secretary of state says that the lawsuit should be thrown out. All of this as the bidens lead in pennsylvania now stands at 74,000 votes. More than double the threshold for an automatic recount. Now, nationally, biden has racked up 79 million votes or nearly that much leading trump in the popular vote by nearly 5. 7 million votes. Joining us now to talk about all of this, Geoff Bennett in women mink t wilmington and also correspondent yame schltsyamesh. And today biden named more members of his cabinet. Walk us through some of the big names on the list. Where do they fall on the ideological spectrum . Well, the president elect is rounding out his white house staff by drawing from the senior ranks of his campaign. So some of the names you see may be familiar, some may not be, but you have dillon, that is a name that people so know, she is the first woman to run a winning democratic president ial race. She took over the Biden Campaign when it was a small operation