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FOXNEWSW Fox Report With Jon Scott October 4, 2020

His fever spiked early on, and because of some conflicting messages early on, there are growing questions tonight about the quality of the information reporters have been receiving concerning his condition, as you see the thumbs up from the president driving by his supporters. We will have extensive coverage throughout the next hour with reporters in the field, expert interviews. Well also be with joined by White House Press secretary caylee mci neighbormy mcenany. We begin tonight with Mike Emmanuel with the president up and out today. Good evening, mike. Reporter yeah, good evening to you. President trump reea eliting that new video message on twitter a short time ago. Its been a very interesting journey. I learned a lot about covid. I learned it by really going to school. This is the real school. This isnt the lets read the book school. And i get it, and i understand it, and its a very interesting thing. Reporter then in the past hour there was quite a surprise here in front of walt or reed, President Trump in his motorcade driving past his many supporters who have been out here long hours all weekend long. The president grateful for their support, and folks gathered out here were thrilled to see him. As for his treatment for covid, the president being treated by the White House Medical Team doctors here at walter reed, and a pulmonary specialist from johns hopkins, President Trumps white house physician laid out some of the challenges so far. Over the course of his illness, the president has experienced two episodes of drops in his oxygen saturation. We debated the reasons and whether wed even intervene. It was a determination of the team based on the timeline from the initial diagnosis that we initiate dexamethasone. Reporter a steroid designed to help Covid Patients with breathing, we also got an assessment from a doctor here at walter reed earlier today. Regarding his status, the patient continues to improve. He has remained without fever since friday morning. His vital signs are stable. From a pulmonary standpoint, he remains on room air and is not complaining of significant respiratory symptomses. Reporter the president ial suite at walter reed allows him to do his job, its like an office away from the white house, and Doctors Today talked about having the president out of bed as much as possible and to be mobile with the hope that he can be discharged as soon as tomorrow. It is worth noting former new Jersey Governor Chris Christie who worked with the president on debate prep checked himself into a new jersey hospital after testing positive for covid, christie suffers from asthma, so this was a precautionary measure. Outside the hospital here, quite a scene. A parade really continuing with lots of honking and trump 2020 banners trying to send a message to the president whos recuperating inside. Bret . Bret good to hear that, loud and clear. Mike emmanuel, thanks. Bret also breaking tonight, the president is not alone in dealing with the coronavirus infection. There are plenty of workers on his staff, other lawmakers, friends in the same situation. You heard about Chris Christie there. Correspondent Mark Meredith has that part of the story tonight from the white house. Good evening, mark. Reporter good evening to you. Multiple staff theres have tested positive for coronavirus. Senior officials insist that the west wing is being cleaned constantly, but democrats say the Administration Needs to do a lot more letting the public know whats going on here behind the scenes. The white house has not yet said how many of its staff theres are infected with covid19, but Officials Say with the recent spike in cases, more Safety Measures are now in place. Over the past come of days as this has spread through the west wing, notwithstanding the bubble that was here, we made masking wearing mandatory for National Security council staff. Reporter the white house regularly holds briefings and events without requiring masks, but Elizabeth Farrah insists the Administration Takes proper precautions. Were Wearing Masks when we cant socially distance, we also go through i radioteen cleanings of the building routine cleanings of the building. Reporter critics say the president could do a better job demonstrating how to act during the pandemic. We we all know the president s cavalier attitude towards covid, masks, social distancing has endangered many people including himself. Reporter this weekend the president s campaign scrubbed events in wisconsin. Sources say Campaign Manager bill stepian is now working from home after he, too, tested positive. Vice president mike pence plans to campaign in arizona thursday. He is going to continue to campaign, of course, with an abundance of caution. That was already in place, but even more so now. Reporter meantime, on capitol hill negotiations continue over a bipartisan economic stimulus package. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says a deal is still possible. We want to see that they will agree on what we need to do to crush the virus so that we can open the economy and open our schools. Reporter last week House Democrats approved their own 2. 2 trillion stimulus bill, but republicans revolted over concerns that the price tag . Its 2. 2 trillion, its not targeted and focused as it needs to be. Reporter still, both parties say theyre eager to find a solution as millions of americans remain out of work. This weekend there is growing concern how to keep lawmakers safe and healthy here in washington d. C. Three republican senators have announced that they have tested positive, and now we have learned that the senate plans to hold off on floor proceedings until october 19th. Bret . Bret mark, thank you. Lets bring in White House Press secretary kayleigh mcenany. Kayleigh, thanks for being here. Good to join you. Bret the president seems in good spirits, obviously did the driveby, what can you tell us . Yes, hes in good spirits, hes feeling great. I spoke with the chief of staff, and hes feeling really good, really strong, wanted to thank his supporters. I spoke with the president yesterday. He was his typical self, hard at work duck tating a statement on remarks to me, very meticulous about the precise wording of that statement. Hes hard at work, continues to be working for the American People. Bret hearing what the doctors said today, that it was possible that he would come back to the white house tomorrow, is that what you all are planning for . Look, its, of course, hopeful to have the president back here as soon as possible. Well leave that to his doctors to deem exactly when that should be, but the president , from what im told, is very eager to get back to the white house and get back to work. Hes working from walter reed, hoping to get back here to the residence. Bret so can you understand when some people were confused by some of the messaging coming out about the president s condition . Well, i think what was lost upon a lot of the media is that really chief of staff mark meadows and dr. Conl e y were talking about two different, distinct moments in time. Dr. Conley was summing up the president and his condition at that moment and really over the last 24 hours whereas mark meadows was referring to an incident in the white house where there was some temporary concern about oxygen levels, but it was quickly revised and taken care of before he headed out to walter reed. Bret yeah. Youre talking about the chief of staffs quote to the ap where he says the president s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning, and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. Still not on a clear path to a full recovery. But here is dr. Conley on the oxygen question. Take a listen. Has he ever been on supplemental oxygen . Right now he is not i know you said right now, but should we read into the fact yesterday and today he was not on oxygen. So he has not been on it during his Covid Treatment . He is not on oxygen right now. I was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president , his course of illness has had. I didnt want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction, and in doing so, you know, it came off that we were trying to hide something. Thats not true. He is, the fact of the matter is that hes doing really well. Bret bottom line, there were just some mixed messages there, and the president is doing well now. Yeah. That was the bottom line. Dr. Conley was trying to give yesterday and again today that the president has been good, he has been up and working, he has been in good health, and he wanted to confidence to the American People that their commander in chief is getting through this. He will come out on the other side of this but, of course, were cognizant that the next day or two is important. But hes going to get through this, and the chief of staff was very cleareyed about the episode in the white house where there was the brief lowering of oxygen. The president was not having shortness of breath and did not feel he needed oxygen, but out of an abundance of caution, that was given to him. Bret okay. On the business side, is there still hope in the white house about a coronavirus stimulus bill . We certainly hope so. Look, at the moment it seems that nancy pelosi is still yet again playing poll ticks politics, but weve always offered a oneoff bill for airline worker. We know that many workers have been laid off, so why not just do oneoff bill, something we all agree on, we can come together around. I think its notable that the president , even while going through covid himself, is trying to negotiate covid relief for the American People. You had Kevin Mccarthy today saying thats exactly what they discussed when they had that phone call. Breath e breath and ideally as far as time frame, if the doctors give the okay, youre thinking the president gets back on the campaign trail the, goes back to the debate as scheduled in miami . Absolutely. Look, this president wants to be out there for the American People. Theres nothing he loves more than speaking directly to supporters, notably he did just that with the wave today, rather, acknowledging those out in front of walter reed. He is very hopeful about getting back out there in short order when the doctors deem it appropriate. Bret all right. Caylee mci nunny at the white house, thank you so much for the time kayleigh mcenany. Thank you. Bret joining us now is california congressman john garamendi. Congressman, thanks for being with here. Good to be with you. Bret i want to start with what kayleigh said about the coronavirus stimulus bill. Do you think this can get across the finish line from your perspective . It has to. Absolutely. Weve got a very Serious Health care problemming pandemic across this nation. We need money to support the efforts on that, testing, tracing, hospitals, clinics, all of those are very essential things. And the local, state governments around this nation are really in serious, desperate need of being able to continue the programs that they must do, the heroes out there, the police, fire, Public Health, all of that. And there are other not just the airlines that need the money, but also restaurants, Small Businesses and the bill that we put together is really focused on medium and Small Businesses. We call it main street. Those are the things that we need to do. The amount of money thats been suggested, you know, 1. 6 trillion, thats a lot of money. But if you listen to the economists around the nation, they say youve got to go big to keep the economy from total collapse, and thats where we are. Weve already come down a trillion dollars from where we were with last mate. Bret but, congressman, i guess if youre looking at this from a negotiating standpoint, 1. 6 trillion is nothing no sneeze at, and the people out there, as you mentioned, need it. So the different between 1. 6 and 2. 2, seems like you could get someplace where you could get something across the finish line. Why is that not happening . Well, lets recognize that there are within that 1. 6 or 2. 2 trillion, there are significant differences. Particularly support for state, local governments. I know that in my district i have nine counties, six of them very small counties. Theyre going they are now in the new fiscal year laying people off. Theyre laying off their Public Health peopleing laying off their police, sheriffs and so forth because they dont have the money. So thats a piece of the bret let me just interrupt you there sure, go ahead. Bret republicans wanted to have a stipulation that the cities and states getting relief from this bill would not have had the problems prior to coronavirus. That was the stimulation they wanted, the caveat they wanted to put in there. Im sure that could be worked out. We dont want to put money where its not needed. We have no interest in supporting companies or states or local governments that dont need it. But those that do need it, absolutely, lets get the money there. Lets make sure that those Public Health facilities, clinics, doctors, all of those are able to continue to function. Thats where were looking go bret heres Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell sorry to interrupt you, theres a little delay here talking to me on friday about this. Take a listen. I think whats happened here is weve gotten closer to the election, the spirit of bipartisanship on coronavirus that we had in march and april has largely disappeared. What the speaker did, even after coming down a full trillion dollars, is throw everything you could imagine into the package including tax cuts for rich anemia california and new york and Free Health Care for illegal immigrants, that sort of thing is not appropriate. Bret so respond to that, if you would. Well, the tack issue is one that the the tax issue is one that the republicans slipped in in 2017. Its a very serious problem for the big states that have big expences. With regard to expenses. With regard to Free Health Care, we have to take care of people where are theyre coming from that arrive in the clinics and Emergency Rooms. Thats what thats all about. You dont want people dying in the streets, you dont want infected people running around our communities. You want to be able to take care of them. This is not a Health Insurance program, this is a Public Health program in which people that are out there that do get sick whether they are visitors with a visa or whether they are here legally or illegally, when they get sick, we dont want them infecting our communities. The money thats being talked about here is specifically for that purpose, keep those Health Care Facilities open, taking care of people that are sick. Otherwise bret Emergency Rooms dont turn them away now. Exactly. Bret i want to go just very, very quickly, i only have 20 seconds here. Sure. Bret do you think the president s diagnosis will change this race in the last month . Some may change immediately. People are focused on the president , and i and i think all americans wish him and his wife quick return to health. We we also have 7 million americans that have been affected, 209,000 that have dued thus far, and died thus far, and so we must be understanding of the enormous problem that this coronavirus presents to america and the people. Right now all of us are sympathetic to the governor to the president , as we should be. We should be praying for his health. His health is critical to the security of this nation. Now whether it what it will mean to the election, that remains to be seen, but right now we hope he gets healthy. Bret congressman garamendi, we appreciate your time. Thank you, bret. Byebye. Bret up next, what we know and dont know about covid19 and the president s condition. Well talk to a medical expert. Our family is from . What about here . Here . Here . Daddy, is that where were from . Well, actually. Were from a lot of places. You see were from here and there and here. Turn questions youve always had into stories you cant wait to share; with ancestry. Were getting great reports froe doctors. This is an incredible hospital, watter reed. The work they do is just absolutely amazing, and i want to thank them all, the nurses, the doctors, everybody here. Bret President Trump in good spirits at walter reed with a message sent out via twitter. Here to talk about the president s medical condition, Fox News Contributor dr. Nicolee saphier. You know, looking at good evening. I think looking at this progression of treatment, it is interesting to watch. This, we should know, is the president of the United States, and these doctors are doing everything they possibly can. But it starts with this regeneron which is an antibody cocktail, and then now hes on remdesivir. What do you think about all of this . Well, bret, you know, i think looking very closely at the timeline of events, friday morning sounds like the president spiked a fever, and that prompted him to receive regenerons antibody cocktail which is still in very early Clinical Phase trials, but its showing promising results hoping to boost that immune system, helping recovery time. It sounds like he may have needed a little oxygen on friday at the white house which may have prompted him

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