of one taking covid. the job of white house security, and secret service, is to keep the president alive, right? you're trying to keep the president alive and safe in the context of a pandemic. and you would think that the protocol, and the amount of testing they were doing, how would it be the case that you had this sort of cluster coming out. and the answer is this. the official speaking shared a remarks saying that everyone spent months trying to reconstruct the rose garden, it turned out it was good old patient zero, the president. which means that all the testing and protocol is to protect the president from infection by others. but if he tested positive, and you just let him lose, then this is what you are going to get. >> that is exactly right too. there was a striking quote in our story from one of his former chief of staff, john kelly, who basically said that if the president had tested positive. if i had a positive test result, i would've absolutely canceled everything. and he said, i would've rushed him straight to walter reed.