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Elements from washington where donald trump and 1st lady maloney have tested positive for covert 19 the president confirmed the results in a late night tweet hours after a top aide was confirmed to have the virus hope akes had traveled with the trumps several times in the past few days including on tuesday to the debate in Cleveland Ohio the next day the flew together to accompany romney in minnesota. White house correspondent Kimberly Hauck of his joining us from washington d. C. The statements that originally were coming out from the White House Company were attempting to be in some way reassuring but do we have any idea what might actually be happening in the administration. What we know is this is an administration that was up until the wee hours of the morning the lights never really going off at the white house its clear that this was an administration that was trying to buy time in terms of delaying the news that the president had to cope at 19 it became clear when the president spoke on twitter about his trusted adviser hope it saying that it was a way to get test results that something was amiss it was then that people started to ask questions about whether or not the president had also been exposed given the fact that we know the president can get his test back within 15 minutes so these are the questions that are being asked not only what did the president know and when it in terms of his own exposure but potentially the ramifications of those that have been traveling and working with him in close proximity for several days that may also be exposed is the questions that are now being explored as rob reynolds reports. The news came in a late night tweet from the white house President Donald Trump wrote tonight the 1st lady and i tested positive for covert 19 we will begin our quarantine and Recovery Process immediately we will get through this together it is not known how despite elaborate precautions and constant testing of white house officials the White House Press corps and others in contact with trump the president contracted the virus but earlier one of trumps top aides hope hicks was confirmed to have tested positive hicks accompanied the president to the debate in Cleveland Ohio on tuesday trump phoned in to a Fox Television program earlier on thursday and talked about hicks having been exposed its a tough kind of a situation its a Terrible Bank so i just want to protest and well see what happens i mean who knows the white house physician sean conley said trump and the 1st lady are both well at this time and that the White House Medical Team will maintain a vigilant watch lonnie a trump later tweeted we are feeling good trump has several risk factors that put him in danger of complications from covert 19 he is in his bid seventys and overweight will have to wait for the next few days. You know for some people get really sick within hours but you know some people dont get sick until week after and still we have the reading be carefully observing the situation trump has declined to wear a mask on many occasions of clothing at rallies where many of his supporters also refused to wear a mask. His entourage including family members went masculists at the tuesday debate trump even ridiculed democratic candidate joe biden for wearing a mask as recommended by virtually all Public Health experts i dont wear mess like him every time you see hes got a mask he could be speaking 200 feet away from and he shows up with the biggest mask ive ever seen if trump were to become seriously ill and unable to carry out his duties the constitution provides for a Vice President mike pence to take over temporarily pence said he is praying for trumps recovery there can be no spin you can be you know harbor ups there has to be clear understanding of what is going on with this person this president United States because otherwise if hes not going past the to take care of the business he will have to be by the 25th amendment transition has to occur. But a glaring question now is how the news will affect trumps Reelection Campaign already trailing nationally and in certain important swing states it would seem that trump can ill afford to stay out of commission for a quarantine period of 2 weeks trump joins other World Leaders including brazils president gyre balsa naro and the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson who have contracted the virus worldwide the death toll from covert 19 has exceeded 1000000 robber and its al jazeera ok company stay with us for a moment because we have been hearing from the u. S. Secretary of States Mike Pompeo he spoke to reporters as he travelled from italy to croatia a short time ago and he was tested on board his plane and he came back negative. Actually i have not been with the president since the Abraham Accords on that day. Ive been traveling i cant remember 10 the last of the last 17 days Something Like that and tell a 17 sobbing god i want somebody with me and i think that the south american like were praying for the president and the 1st lady. Speedy recovery im sorry i speak up a little bit. Of a speedy recovery i spoke to the Vice President s office this morning as well were taking this obviously very seriously and will do everything we can to keep everyone safe including you all you have the results here you know negative. Ok i want to bring our White House CorrespondentKelly Holcomb back in the big question one of the Big Questions is going to be just how widely this thing has spread because hope picks was as i understand it still moving around the senior figures within the Administration Even though she was waiting for the results of her test. Yeah thats the sort of puzzling aspect of all of this number one why was hope hicks who started we understand experiencing symptoms of covert 1000 on wednesday Walking Around air force one masculists as were ported by a number of the press pool that was on the plane and then also you have to ask yourself why if there was even the exhibition of blue flu like symptoms that the president and 1st lady were not taking precautions then of taking the abundance of caution and self isolating instead the president went out to a fundraiser he continued to really proceed with the packed schedule including talking to reporters outside the south lot of the white house so the opportunity for exposure to so many individuals is great after that we know that hope is with when the number of Senior Administration officials as the president prepared for the president ial debate that took place on tuesday so we know that there have been a number of people that have been exposed and now the question becomes whether or not there is going to be a need for self isolation of these individuals which will only further 2 impact the president s campaign and his ability moving forward to try and win reelection and even conduct the business of government which brings up the question of the activation of the continuity of government and i can tell you that one of my sources told me already that it would be standard protocol to at least activate some aspects of the continuity of government as a precaution namely making sure that the Vice President in fact is safe and that he is remaining healthy and that after that after mike pence it would be House Speaker nancy pelosi the top democrat in the house of representatives who is 3rd in line should the president become gravely ill and not be able to continue his duties and committee obviously this is going to have a Significant Impact isnt it on the debates in the run up to the election possibly on the election itself just talk us through what the structure is and what contingencies if any are being discussed that we might be aware of at the moment. Well we know that already there were some questions about how the 2nd president ial debate was going to proceed given the conduct of both men but specifically the president was last tuesday evening there were concerns about whether or not there should be protocols in place to cut off the microphone of those that do not respect the moderator there were new rules that were being requested even examined in order to try and get some sort of control because clearly there was very little of that in the 1st debate but also we know that the next debate set to take place oct 15th and my abby was to be a town hall format what that means is that there would be undecided voters asking questions of the candidates but its unclear if that is even going to be able to go ahead there could potentially be a virtual tie question and answer session that could take place if donald trump is healthy but again with that thats very much in question at a rate now it seems that the most imminent pressing matter will be how the president ial duties continue and and then beyond that will be the campaign question already we know the president s schedule has been cleared get a very packed schedule for friday most of that has been wiped out he was scheduled to appear at a make America Great again rally in sanford florida this evening and was expected to go to wisconsin on saturday for a nother rally the question becomes whether there could be a way of doing that wisconsin rally virtually but for now we know that at least one rally that one scheduled to take place in florida has been canceled and very quickly the problem for donald trump in all of this is that these are both battleground states he needs to win if he wants to win reelection as already lagging in the polls behind his rival by 8 percent the president can ill afford to sort of relax his Campaign Schedule but yet thats exactly what has to happen now as a result of this positive test for covert 19 Committee Thanks very much thats our white house correspond. Kimberly hawker talking to us from washington d. C. And of course one of the considerations is the impact on the democratic nominee joe biden of course he and donald trump were in that very. Very intense debate that was happening just a few nights ago even though they were separate i want to bring in Alison Fisher whos in virginia for us allan this is clearly going to have some sort of impact if nothing else on the Democrats Campaign and how they handle this Going Forward particularly with relation to joe biden. Well were expecting a statement from the Biden Campaign probably within the hour they will try and meet the mean 70 and bulletins on the main breakfast she was here in the United States the question that i believe they have debating is whether or not to add a political element to this statement or whether it will simply be joe biden wishing the president and the 1st lady well Biden Campaign is expecting to come under pressure from some republicans to suspend campaigning while the president is self isolating over the next couple of weeks that seems unlikely the Biden Campaign throughout this is being very careful about social distancing protocols you have hared numerous times dont trump talking about how joe biden always wears a mask joe biden perhaps more at risk because of his age hes of course 77. 00 but he doesnt have the same problems with his weight that that the president does and then that is the question of how they advance the campaign from here on and it seems unlikely that at the very least the next president ial debate in miami will go ahead the Vice President ial debate which is due to take place on wednesday might also be in question given that mike pence has spent so much time with the president as well as the Biden Campaign just 24 hours ago announced that they were going to start and perhaps and canvassing particularly in those key states that kimberly was talking about that may know have to be rethought but sadly the Biden Campaign is fairly comfortable with that decision distancing prosser calls that they put in place its just a case now of where joe biden goes and what he does hes done a lot of Campaign Events be assumed via social media and no doubt will continue to do that the reality is that when it comes to u. S. President ial elections everyone talks about how there will be an october surprise and weve had them in so many elections in the past who would have thought that on the very feisty. Of october this would be the president ial surprise one other thing there may well be messaging being tested by the biden campi even as we speak so they strike the right choice but i would suspect that we will get nothing more from the buy in campaign in the next hour or so rather than just best wishes for the 1st lady and for the president because the buy in campaign wants to look as president ial as possible particularly given the big advantage that they have in the polls at the moment nationally and also in key swing states alan thanks very much thats alan fischer bringing us up to date and situation with the Democratic Campaign hes in virginia ok well lets take a closer look at the president s health now trump is 74 years old and considered overweight both make him high risk for the coronavirus concerns were raised about his condition in june when he appeared to have difficulty Drinking Water and coming down from the stage at an event one tweeted that the ramp was steep and very slippery dismissing speculation about his health in november last year trump made an unscheduled visit to the doctor for tests something thats usually noted in his public diary the white house said he was in good health during his campaign and 2016 from produce a note saying hed be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency dr later said trump had written a letter in self though to Peter Roebuck she is an Infectious Disease especially east and director of the School Center for social entrepreneurship at Oxford University and hes joining us via skype good to have you with us and how does it or so thank you very much indeed from what we know about President Donald Trumps physical condition what are the risks that hes facing. Well we knew of course that it danced ages associated with risk of more severe course of illness and a higher risk of death and there are various medical code words that he has that can also increase that risk in this case the president s weight in his most recent visit was classified as a piece so those 2 things probably to increase the risk that the president s infection could take a more severe course its really difficult to predict exactly what this means for any individual based on population studies but were of course very concerned how quickly i would like to know how severe the infection might be well we presume that were very early in the course of this infection presuming that the president has been tested regularly we dont know whether hes been having symptoms or not yet the white house released a carefully worded statement saying he was doing well but didnt say whether hes having symptoms that could have all that i think the course could range from no symptoms at all to something quite severe typically however those who face and more severe course for example require hospitalization often take that turn as they enter the 2nd week of illness so it may be that we start with a relatively mild course but we wont really know for sure whether hes making a recovery and avoiding that risk until perhaps a week out thats what we saw here for example with the Prime MinisterBoris Johnson who was infected back in may the 1st several days will report as relatively mild but in the 2nd week of his illness of course he became quite ill and didnt require hospitalization and we were talking to our correspondent allan fresh from virginia he was talking about the the Democratic Campaign and the impact on that but of course he was also talking about that the last debate thats joe biden had with President Trump it was a very heated debate the 2 men were quite a distance apart what do you think the risk is to the democrat nominee. It depends on whether and when everybody who were in that room was tested before the debate but certainly if the president and or others in that room who are not Wearing Masks including t