Foreign governments reportedly patronize trumps properties. A windfall for the family business. We cover it all this morning with eric trump the man running the trump organization. A this week exclusive. The response from Biden Campaign cochair Cedric Richmond. Our brand new abc News Washington post poll and a closer look at independent voters in arizona and an analysis from our powerhouse round table. Announcer its this week. Here now jonathan karl. Good morning and welcome to this week. Days since the president announced he had been infected with coronavirus and six days since his doctors have answered any questions about his condition or his treatment. While his physician says the president is no longer contagious, the American Public is still in the dark about basic questions such as when the president last tested negative for covid and whether he is now completely in the clear of the disease. We do know at least 34 people tied to the white house have tested positive and despite that, hundreds of Trump Supporters crowded together on the white house lawn just yesterday and tomorrow the president is scheduled to hit the campaign trail again in florida. The covid outbreak isnt limited to the white house. The cdc forecasts up to 20,000 more americans could die from covid by the end of the month. Our brand new abc News Washington post poll finds two thirds of voters say President Trump failed to take appropriate precautions against the virus. Whats more, a whopping 62 of voters say they dont trust what he says abouweadop to talk to dr. Fauci about the outbreak at the white house and across the country. He was more than willing to join us, but the white house wouldnt allow you to hear from the nations leading expert on coronavirus. In fact, they wouldnt allow any medical experts on the president s own Coronavirus Task force to appear on the show. This morning well be joined by biden cochair Cedric Richmond and eric trump on behalf of the Trump Campaign. Eric, we start with you. Thank you for joining us. Ill get you to respond to the New York Times story. Lets start with the rally at the white house. Ive got to say, the president , your father, certainly looked to be himself. Are you any concern about him getting back out on the campaign trail . Jon, my father is doing great. I speak to him every day. He sounds great. Hes a true warrior. Hes working incredibly hard. We should talk about that. Everybody who attended the white house event yesterday had their temperatures checked. It was outdoor. They were Wearing Masks. Now we get that out of the way. I see hundreds of protests across the country that you guys unfortunately dont cover oftentimes where people are literally burning down cities. Theyre burning down cities. No one is Wearing Masks. Theyre never condemned. A beautiful protest by africanamericans, latino americans going to the white house to support Law Enforcement in this country is criticized by abc. Its an incredible thing. They took every precaution. Temperature checks. Masks. Outside. It was a beautiful event. Why is it that its only trump events called out . Why are these protests we see all over the place new york, portland, seattle. I see them everywhere. Antifa is going wild. No one ever talks about them Wearing Masks. Yet a beautiful protest in front of the white house to support men and women in Law Enforcement becomes subject of an abc show at 9 00 a. M. On a sunday morning. Its eric, to be clear im not let me finish. Ive lost a lot of faith in the media. I really have. Eric, to be clear im not criticizing. Im reporting the fact. Actually i did notice something ive not seen at the white house until yesterday. That is an event where most people are Wearing Masks. Is that an admission it was a mistake to have activities at the white house including the Amy Coney Barrett with people not Wearing Masks . I got to say people were Wearing Masks yesterday at the white house. Jon, everybody you know this. You report from there every single day. Everybody who goes within 500 yards of the white house is tested every day. Its a different apparatus in that machine. Again, i find the hypocrisy so crazy. You see these massive riots and protests in these liberal run cities and no one is Wearing Masks. No one cares. No one cares. The media doesnt talk about it. How many have we had in new york and chicago . The media never talks about that. When you have peaceful trump rally at the white house in support of Law Enforcement, cnn cuts away. Msnbc cuts away. They dont want to show the support. Its just its mind blowing to me. I mean, we have covered the protests. I see a lot of protesters Wearing Masks as well. On your fathers condition, when he spoke to rush limbaugh, he suggested there was a moment where he thought he might not make it. How bad did it get . Yeah. Listen, that first day he got hit hard, friday. As a son, its never fun to watch your father fly off to walter reed on marine one. Its a day no son wants to remember. Its no fun to watch. Im telling you i spoke to him three times the next saturday. The guy sounded 100 . It was amazing. It goes to speak to how good some of the vaccines are. What my father did on a vaccine front, no one could have done. No one could have done. Biden was calling my father xenophobic. For shutting down america from travel to china. The virus came from china. My father started day one creating this vaccine. He worked to push this vaccine. Now my father just took it. You see how well wait its an inspiration. As americans can you clarify that . You said your father just took a vaccine . When he was in walter reed, the medicines he was taking. The therapeutics . Friday he felt horrible. I spoke to him on saturday. He sounded tremendous. It shows the power of medicine in this country and how far weve come on covid in the last six, seven months. It looks like the Debate Commission has said there will be a debate on october 22nd, an inperson debate. You looat fst in cleveland, u d other members of the trump team were violating the rules that the Commission Set in terms of Wearing Masks in the hall. We even saw karen pence at the vp debate get on stage without a mask. Given the concerns, will you commit the trump team will abide by the safety precautions the commission put in place at the next debate . Will you be Wearing Masks . Jon, im happy to wear a mask. Im happy to wear a mask. Whats interesting the real story should be how biden backed out of the debate thats supposed to take place in miami thursday. He didnt want to stand on the stage with my father. That should tell you everything you need to know about him. My father wants nothing more well, i mean biden wouldnt show up. The only thing he would do is he would do a zoom call. My father is a traditional guy. He didnt want to do a glorified Conference Call for a president ial debate. To be clear im happy to wear a mask. To be clear, it was your father that pulled out of the debate. The Commission Said it was a virtual debate. It was your father that pulled out of the debate. Are you ruling out is a virtual debate something you wont agree to at all . The next debate has to be in person . Anonthe stage with his o. Stood there and deteall. He wants to stand on the stage. He wants to look somebody in the eyes. Bidens not willing to do that. Biden is willing to go to pennsylvania or some state and do a town hall standing on stage with three or four people. He wont stand on the same stage as my father. My father doesnt want to do a Conference Call debate. He wants to stand on the same stage as a person. Gotcha. So thats been done forever. My father is still willing to do it. He wants to do the debate in miami on thursday. If joe wants to accept, hell be there. Vice president pence when he debated Kamala Harris said it was a privilege to be on the stage with her, recognized her historymaking pick as bidens running mate. The next day your father said she was a monster. Why . How is Kamala Harris a monster . Why did he say that . Well, you know, there are a lot of stances she takes are mind boggling. Shes come out and called to abolish law enforce. Shes compared i. C. E. To the kkk in senate hearings. Shes wants to demolish Law Enforcement. She wants to take away 180 million private health care plans. She wanted to limit the amount of red meat americans could eat. Eric, political differences. You mischaracterized her positions in that litany. Political differences are one thing. A monster . Calling the democratic Vice President ial nominee a monster, i dont get it. Jon, youre dealing with a person who is willing to lie every day. Its amazing who . One day theyre calling for Kamala Harris and joe biden. Lets abolish all Law Enforcement. Then they get to pennsylvania and they no longer want to abolish Law Enforcement. They eric, im sorry. They havent called for abolishing Law Enforcement. Lets stick with the facts. Lets move to the New York Times story. Its a big story in the New York Times. Lets go back to that. Biden wants to defund police. He wants to reallocate funding for police. Hes clearly stated lots of times he doesnt want to defund the police. Let me ask you about the New York Times story. Their investigative series on the president s tax documents. They write, quote, over 200 companies, special Interest Groups and foreign governments patronized mr. Trumps properties while reaping benefits from him and his administration. Heres some of the specifics on this graphic. Five members of maralago offered ambassadorship. One company granted ten new federal contracts worth 1. 3 billion and the president would ask what guests at his properties wanted from the government. Let me ask you lots of specifics in this story. You guys didnt respond to the New York Times. Heres your chance. Whats your response . My response to that is we lost a fortune. My father has lost a fortune running for president. He doesnt care. He wanted to do what was right. The last thing donald trump needs is this job. He wakes up in the morning and he has to fight you and the entire media and the democrats and he gets punched in the head every single day. He wakes up and he fights for this country and fights against the lunacy of the radical left. He created the greatest economy. He created the most jobs. He rebuilt the military. Were no longer getting ripped off by mexico and china and were no longer getting ripped off in terms of health care. Eric, back to the story jon, he doesnt need this job. My father has lost a fortune, an absolute fortune doing what he does. Compare that to joe biden back to this story. How is it appropriate let me finish. Answer the question, please. Please. Go google bidens house right now and tell me if you think that a person who has been in government for 47 years, 47 years, can afford that mansion on the water in wilmington, delaware. They cant. Eric i would ask you to will you address what the New York Times revealed in their investigation which is all these companies and individuals who have spent money at Trump Properties that have gone on to get Big Government contracts and other favors from the Trump Administration . How is that not at the very least a huge appearance of a conflict of interest . Were a hospitality company. We have tens of millions of people staying at our Properties Every year. The New York Times is absolute fake news. All they want to do is take down my father. Whats interesting about the New York Times im glad you mentioned them. Every single day, every single day starting literally the morning of the debate theyve dropped some story that theyve been sitting on for literally the last six months or year of two years to influence the election. Its horrible. I mean, you know, the media is gone in this country. The media is gone in this country. When i hear the tone of this conversation i mean, the media has become the activist arm for the Democratic Party. Nothing is fair. Eric, were asking legitimate questions. One last one. The New York Times report said that the president owes some 400 million. Dont the American People have a right to know who he is indebted to, who the president of the United States owes money to . Can you clarify that for us . Jon, its in his Financial Disclosures. You know who the money is owed to. Thats another democratic talking point. You know who i dont on a proportion of his net worth my father has low leverage. The New York Times, if you want to bring them into this, they came out and said this the other day. If you own buildings, if you own real estate, you carry debt. Thats what developers do. Thats what Business Owners do. They carry some debt. As a proportion of his net worth its incredibly low. We have a phenomenal company. Theres nothing new about that. Its the same debt he got elected on. Its all fully disclosed in his Financial Disclosure forms that you have access to. Eric, thank you for joining us. I appreciate your time on this sunday morning. Thank you. Lets get a response from the cochair of the Biden Campaign, congressman Cedric Richmond. First, let me begin with that discussion on the debates. The commission has said october 22nd for an inperson debate. Any doubt in your mind that inperson debate will happen and joe biden will be there and the two of them will be on the same stage together . I know joe biden wants to debate donald trump again. Americans saw the disaster that donald trump had in the first debate. Well do what we did from the beginning of this campaign and pandemic. Well listen to the american experts and scientists. Here its the cleveland clinic. Theyve set up the protocols. If donald trump is covid free and the protocols are set up to protect the health, not only of joe biden, but the health of the families that attend, the health of the camera men, the health of everyone, the janitors in the building see, joe biden cares so much more about American People. Its not about joe biden in his mind. Its about everybody else. He will not put americans in harms way of this great pandemic and dangerous virus si political gain. He wont do that. He will listen to the cleveland clinic, which is who will control the debate protocols. Well go from there. We would love to see it. We want to see it in a town hall format. Will the Vice President , Vice President biden, agree to a third debate on the 29th of october as the Trump Campaign proposed . Well, look, i dont know about a third debate. We need to get to the second debate. Lets be clear. We just heard eric trump incoherent, rambling, lies and babbling. Some of the things that he said, the American People need to hear the truth. Senator harris is not a monster. I would hope he was dignified enough to say that. We never called for abolishing. R anxpands h theyre in court right now trying to take Health Care Away from 20 million americans in the middle of a pandemic to take away coverage for preexisting conditions. Those are the things he wont get to. I will answer your questions. I hope we get a chance to go over all that nonsense we just heard. Let me ask you about something thats come up and came up in the vp debate, something Vice President biden has been asked about a lot. Its where he stands on the issue of expanding the Supreme Court. I mean, he said this was an answer he would give after the election. This is a big issue. Can you clarify, first of all, what is the answer . Does he support expanding the Supreme Court . One, thats a better question for me. Im in congress. It would take legislation from the United States congress and the United States senate to do it. I think joe biden and senator harris are clear. Its a distraction. We should not be talking about a hypothetical Court Packing once this nominee is confirmed. When were talking about packing, were talking about the judges hes packing on the court right now.