the answer is this. one former senior administration official speaking on the condition of and mimty to share a candid opinion everyone spent month trying to reconstruct the rose garden. it was good old patient one which is to say the president. the testing protocol and everything is to protect the president from infection by others. but if he tests positive and you let him loose this is what you're going to get. >> that is exactly right, too. there was a striking point in our story from one of his former chiefs of staff john kelley who basically said if the president had tested positive, if i had found out about that positive test result i would have absolutely canceled everything. and, he says, i would have rushed him straight to walter reed as a precaution. so exactly what you just raised not just protecting the cabinet secretaries, the public, the rally goers, the gold star families from the president who very well could have been patient zero but frankly protecting the president from the very real crisis as well.