You know, this is really e sprint to the finish. 25 days to election day and the president recovering from his covid19 infection. Set to address 2,000 supporters at the white house tomorrow. They are going to gather on the south lawn and trump will speak from a balcony. He is also planning a Campaign Rally in florida on monday night. Joe biden slamming what he calls trumps reckless, personal conduct. And its official. Next weeks second president ial debate, cancelled. Trump refusing to debate in a virtual format. Lets discuss, now. Mark mckinnon is former adviser to george w. Bush and john mccain. And former White House Communications director, anthony scaramucci, joins us as well. Good evening, one and all. Mark mckinnon, boy, you are going to have a show this weekend. My head is spinning from this. This week, the lies, the coverup, the back and forth on the stimulus, on the debates. And now, the president is going to hold another potential superspreader event at the white house tomorrow. This is insanity. Yeah. Once again, our shows having problem with lack of material for the episode. But, yeah, think about that, don. By tomorrow, and think about the fact that dr. Fauci, today, defined that rose garden event, for the swearing in of the Supreme Court nominee, as a superspreader event. His you know, his the trumps own cdc director is is is defining it as a problematic situation. Now, they are going to replicate that again, tomorrow. Now, im sure theyll have masks. But the notion that you are going to do something to remind people about how this all may have started is just insane. The president talks about how he could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody, people would still support him. Well, now, the question is can he stand in the white house and infect people . Right . Wow. Crazy. Anthony, why wont anyone why wont anyone in this administration tell the president that its nuts to hold events with thousands of people right now, when you have the virus . Well, hes going with his instincts. Hes trying to replay the 20152016 way things worked. And so, theres nobody left on that staff that can talk to him. Maybe, there is a few kids of him that want to talk to him but theres other kids that dont. So, theyre stuck. And he is the campaign manager, the campaign strategist, the communications director, and the president. So, youre going to get more of this. Whats weird about it is would anybody on this Television Program right now, go to that next superspreader event, even if you were wearing Neil ArmstrongsLunar Landing suit . I wouldnt. People willing to go to an event like that, it just shows you how susceptible people are to lunacy and cultism. Keerirsten, i want you to lin to what the president said with Rush Limbaugh. I was in not great shape and we have a medicine that healed me, that fixed me. I feel better now than i did two weeks ago. Its crazy. And i recovered immediately, almost immediately. I might not have recovered at all from covid. Two weeks ago . But he was hospitalized, kirsten, a week ago. Was he not feeling well two weeks ago . We dont know. Thats the problem is we get all this contradictory information and we cant trust that any of this is straightforward. And the way that he talks about these things, joe biden is right in calling him reckless. You know, talking about this, as if theres some like miracle drug that heals you from it in a week or whatever time period he had it. I mean, we all know people who have had covid. You know, young people dont bounce back from it as quickly as the president claims that he did. Its just its not really believable that that happened. And hes sending a recommend reckless message to people that it is something that could be healed so quickly. That there is this miracle drug, and that, now, you can go back and have another big event at the white house, and pretend that covid, you know, didnt actually spread at the white house. I mean, hes completely out of control. Even for him. You know, this is just this is just next level out of control. Mark, this president is giving everyone on capitol hill, and in the country really, whiplash over the stimulus negotiation. Flip flopping. Totally out of step with his own party. Republicans cannot be happy about this, especially those who are up for reelection. Are they going to start bailing on him . Or too afraid . Oh, i think youre sort of seeing it, behind the scenes, now, don. Theyre starting to cut and run because i mean, theyre left in a place where first of all, look at key demographics, like seniors, who are so key to trumps victory. He is now losing them by 27. And you can just imagine where that numbers headed given the you know, that doesnt even take the capital of the last week. So imagine after seniors saw whats gone on the last week and tomorrow. Thats what biden calls it, reckless. And when you are doing it about Health Issues that are affecting millions of people in the country, thats a really problematic situation. And then, this whole stimulus thing is insane. I could not find a single republican, the other day, when trump went south on the deal they had. Walked away from it. Nobody could find any rationale, strategic rationale, where that made sense. It was just trump being petulant. A loet are they furious . Are they furious with him . Yes. Theyre now, theyre mad. Now, theyre mad because like i said, its just not making any strategic sense, whatsoever. Yeah. So, listen. You were anthony, you remember the emails. Lock her up. All that stuff. Yesterday, trump slammed the secretary of state, mike pompeo, for not releasing more of Hillary Clintons emails. Well, today, pompeo says hes going to release them. Is is he just is this 2016 the strategy . I mean, what is obviously this is a very different race. Its going to have a huge effect on the Hillary Clinton campaign, here, in 2020. I mean, its just nonsensical. Maybe maybe, she wont be reelected but go on. Im just saying. Yeah. Its going to be really bad for hillary. But heres the thing. Mike pompeo knows better. Okay . Hes a Harvard Law School graduate. He went to west point. Hes just in for the ride. You know . And so, somebody is going you know, its not going to be a nuremburg trial, thank god. Were going to get rid of this guy but someones going to have to answer for this. Secretary pompeo, what was that all about . And oh, by the way, why were you doing this . Why were you listening to him on that . You know he is nonsensical and you know theres something wrong with him. What was it about your personality, that you allowed your will and your strength, as an american patriot, to bend to him . And so, people are going to have to answer for that. Mark knows were headed for a major reckoning in the Republican Party. All of these sycophants are going to have to do a 180. And then, vwell have to all as each other, what was that about . Why did we all do that . Yeah. I thought about that the other day. I said what if what if he did lose . Then, what happens to all those republicans who were his lapdogs . I dont know. Theyre going to pretend they didnt know him, don. Theyll disavow him. But, kirsten, you cannot count him out, at this point, because i know the polls show that joe biden is say heahead. But theyre tightening. You cant count frump outrump o now. You cant count him out. Of course, anything could change. But to marks point, if you look at the polls, particularly with seniors, particularly with women, suburban women, you wouldnt want to be donald trump, right now. You know, if if you are looking at these numbers, theyre very, very concerning for him. And to see people who voted for you the last time, to be flipping the way seniors have, you know, any campaign in their right mind would be freaking out. So, on some level, i think that is part of the president s behavior. Its feeding into his behavior, and hes, you know, sort of acting increasingly desperate. But, youre right. Until we actually have election day, we know whats going on in the world, we do not. I mean, this whole, like, week, right, was like a year, basically. We dont know two years. Whats going to happen next week yeah or in the following weeks until until we get to the election. Anthony, listen. As of now, things could change again, like i said. I have whiplash. Next weeks president ial debate is officially off. But, you know, i have got to ask you about a tweet that you appeared to get from cnn excuse me, cspans steve scully who was supposed to be the moderator. That tweet asked about how to respond to trumps criticism but cspan says it was fake. Sean spicer even came to scullys defense. And you say you take scully at his word. But what happened there . And will there be another debate, in the future, do you think . Well, i certainly dont think there will be a debate. How is the president going to stand there . The reason why he was interrupting Vice President biden so much in the first debate is what is he going to say . I ruined the economy. I lied about the health care crisis. Tens of thousands of people died, unnecessarily, because of my lack of crisismanagement skills. How is he going to sit there and tolerate that for two more debates . So, i predict there wont be any more debates. As it relates to steve scully, i take him at his word. Hes a very good guy and a credible journalist. I responded to it with what i thought was very good advice, by the way. Dont respond to the president. Dont take his bait. Let people like me, okay, fellow new yorkers take the bait, and let me knock heads with him. Its not appropriate for journalists to do that and steves an objective guy. And if they decide to use him as a moderator, he will do a terrific job. And, you know, we all have our opinions of things but steve is a consummate professional in that seat. He would do an amazing job in that debate. He was saying he was hacked. And i take him at his word. I do think he was hacked. Do you do you guys dm . On the on the bible, i have five beautiful kids, i have never dmed him and i would even say that under oath. I have never dmed steve scully. Okay. It sounds like someone thought they were dming. Maybe, he thought it was dming me. I dont think so because it was obviously a hack. But i have never dmed steve scully. I got ya. So, mark, not much is happening. Slow news week. So, im sure the circus im kidding what do you have coming up this week . Well, we talked to leon panetta. We talked to the authors of the g g jim baker book abo. And peter baker about the parallels between reagans hospitalization and trumps hospitalization. Its really fascinating to go back and look at those parallels. All righty. And lincoln project. Oh, yeah. And this and that. Okay. Thank you, all. Fascinating conversation. I wish i could talk to you longer but got to go. See ya later. Thank you. Be safe. The president , who says that he was retested for the virus but still hasnt told us the results. Planning a big event at the white house, tomorrow, and a Campaign Rally in florida on monday. And joe biden says this to anybody planning to attend. Good luck. I wouldnt show up unless you had a mask. I dont know. Look. 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Cases are spikelining already t and the day is not even over. 54,000 new cases reported. The u. S. Death toll more than 213,000, now. And yet, the president , badli b the virus, himself, inviting 2,000 supporters to the south lawn of the white house tomorrow for a rally. Lets bring in now dr. William lets bring in william haseltine, i should say, former professor at harvard medical school. Also, author of the covid commentaries. You can call me doctor, if you want. Thank you, doctor. Doctor professor. Listen. Seriously, though, the president says he has been retested but the white house or his doctors, they havent released the results. So lets say he still has the virus. Okay . Should he be hosting a white house event tomorrow . Or a rally next week . Is that reckless . Well, the first thing, i think, its not wise for him, personally. I think almost any doctor would recommend rest, stay quiet, dont get out there. And if he is doing that, its against any good doctors advice. Good doctors wouldnt do that. The second thing is it really depends on the precautions that theyre planning for the rose garden. If its anything like the introduction of the Supreme Court nominee, it is definitely a very dangerous thing to do. As you know, covid is spreading and is spreading particularly white house and is likely continue to do so. And in the united states, and people come from all over the united states, were in the midst of another, major rise in covid. As you mentioned, there were 54,000 people, so far, today, that have been tested positive. But there were 56,000 yesterday and over 920 people died. This is not over. We are not out of the woods, and its a very dangerous thing to do. So, the white house couldnt keep the virus out of the rose garden nomination event a couple weeks ago. We just had it up on the screen. Dr. Fauci is calling that event a superspreader event. And i want you to look at his rally. This is in minnesota. Nine people ended up testing positive. Is he a walking superspreader . You know, a superspreader is somebody who, themselves, produces a lot of infectious virus and infects others. I cant tell you if he, himself, is the spreader. If hope hicks, who was on that helicopter, is a superspreader. But what we can say is those events, with a lot of people packed together, not doing social distancing, and not wearing masks, is definitely a superspreading event. And, beyond that, those people fan out all over the country. You know, one of the big problems we had earlier was that motorcycle rally, where everybody came together from around the country. And then, spread out again. And there were many, many people who were contacted by people infected there who got infected and started their own, my thiin epidemics wherever they were. One thing people have to remember. The epidemic, pandemic that circled the globe, started with one person. One person can start with this virus and thats something that everybody should take to heart. Do you want to be next to that one person . No. No. I know its rhetorical but no. Dr. Haseltine, thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you. Tonight, the number of new cases of covid19 spiking across the country. And dr. Anthony fauci saying he is disturbed and concerned by the big jump in new cases. Here is cnns nick watt. Reporter a new outbreak at a nursing home, here, in california. Nine dead. Im trying to prepare myself that i am never going to see my mom in person again. Reporter in new jersey, average, new case counts are up over 60 these past two weeks. New mexicos governor is worried. Were in a pretty difficult spot, in the state of new mexico, right now. We are at extreme risk of uncontrollable spread. Reporter 56,191 new coronavirus cases reported in the u. S. , thursday. The most in nearly two months. This is really something we need to Pay Attention to. Reporter these ten states have more covid19 patients in the hospital, now, than ever before. These three states, kansas, south dakota, tennessee, just logged their most covid19 deaths in a single day. Over the course of this pandemic, weve seen hot spots, spikes, rolling waves. The state of florida. Arizonas at a real crossroads. The hospitalization rate here in california. Up one place. Down in another. But right now, every region in this country is on the rise. New york saw hell in the spring. Now, seeing spikes. Some centered on religious communities. Its important for all of us to not let her guard down during thanksgiving. We see that from the high holy days, people are just yearning to be together. Reporter broadway now shuttered until at least the end of may. Went dark, midmarch. Will stay dark for more than a year due to a virus. This morning, the new york jets sent players and coaches home after a presumptive positive test. But theyre supposed to play the cardinals sunday. The nfl now juggling its schedule, reacting to outbreaks. Patriotsbroncos, now moved from sunday to monday. Titansbills, will now play tuesday. They are trying to keep this season alive. Nick watt, cnn, los angeles. Thank you, nick. I need to tell you this. Anderson cooper and dr. Sanjay gupta. They are going to be speaking with five former cdc directors for a new cnn global town hall. Make sure you watch coronavirus facts and fears. Thats tomorrow night at 9 00 right here on cnn. Well, the second debates cancelled after the president refused the virtual format. But considering he is trailing joe biden in the polls, doesnt he really need the debate to boost his numbers . Plus, the president doing his first oncamera interview since his coronavirus diagnosis. Well, guess which network he spoke to. When we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. I remember setting up shipstation. One or two clicks and everything was up and running. I was printing out labels and saving money. Shipstation saves us so much time. 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