Will be so many questions especially for republicans but all lawmakers. Really it will go down as one of the most bizarre moments in the history of the u. S. People who we expect, leaders, presidency. One hopes he doesnt try to top to set examples and we already it in the time he has left in the office. And its no surprise that his had john cornyn down in texas saying that the president was caught not prepared for this numbers are going south among Senior Citizens because what do Senior Citizens do a lot . Outbreak that we saw, dealing they go to the doctor, because with the coronavirus broadly and they have to. That it has to be on the they have to have this checked and this fixed and that, you forefront of the minds of so know, tuned up. Many this morning. They go to the doctor a lot and they hear their doctors whom thank you very much. They trust telling them the well all be reading axios a. M. In a little while and you can truth about covid and what they sign up at signup. Axios. Com. Thanks for getting up way too early on a tuesday morning. Need to do to protect morning joe starts right now. Themselves. And theyre not going to forget im actually disturbed and concerned about the fact that all of that and believe donald our baseline of infections is trump telling them the opposite. That oh, just dominate it. Dont worry about it. You know . Still stuck at around 40,000 per youll beat it. Well, you know, 211,000 people day. Thats no place to be when youre trying to get your arms very sadly succumbed to this around an epidemic and get it to disease and others dont want to the very low baseline as you get into the situation where youre join that list. Going to be indoors more than its this is just its political malpractice, but its outdoors. We have to stop that trend and get everything going down as a country all together. Working together. Just it just says so much about donald trump as a human dr. Anthony fauci continues being. And its just the most to sound the alarm on the disturbing thing i have ever countrys high rate of infection seen painted of a u. S. As one of those people infected president. Certainly in my lifetime and with the highly contagious maybe in the history of this deadly disease just staged a country. Well, Jonathan Lemire, as maskless political stunt yesterday. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, october 6th. A. P. S White House correspondent and youre actually there and it along with joe, willie and me we have White House Reporter for was really surreal that the Associated Press, jonathan helicopter coming in. A bloated, roided out president lemire. Saluting the helicopter. All right. President trump is now back at the white house. Hes inside after spending three it looked like a surreal scene nights at walter reed medical that borrowed from apocalypse now. Center with coronavirus. Truly as gene said, one of the it was a highly choreographed return last night. Strangest things we have ever the president walked out of the hospital around 6 30. He arrived back at the white seen from the white house. House just after 7 00. You were there. Walked across the south lawn, up set the scene for us. The exterior stairs and on to the truman balcony where he tell us what you observed. Well, certainly, joe, you immediately removed his mask and know, as the day went on yesterday, momentum was building posed for photos. For the president to return to started wheezing. The president gave a thumbs the white house. Chief of staff meadows was up. He said he felt good but after optimistic that could happen and then the president announced hed be coming back in the tweet climbing the stairs you can see during the afternoon which he his breathing was labored. Said he hadnt felt this good in you could also see him waving to the photographer, giving the photographer orders to get pictures from behind him as well as he was saluting to get all of the opportunity shots. 20 years and we can probably fact check that. But yes, striding through the just to make it more dangerous for her. Gold doors of the hospital, the white house says physical waving briefly to the reporters access to the president will be who were assembled there outside significantly limited and that the military facility and then staff will wear appropriate ppe boarding marine one and coming when near him. Wait, but wait. Back to the white house. They picked the right time of night, and the Washington Monument in the distance. Im confused. I thought willie, i thought it was a gorgeous setting, but a that this was not nothing to surreal scene and dangerous one because after the president worry about because the ascend president this outrus reckless laboring for air, he took off his mask. He mask, saluted as he called her to come up marine one and turned and went back inside. Behind him. The Biden Campaign had suspended get the beauty so the drop lets can go out negative ads in the last three with the washington skyline or four days since the diagnosis behind him. But i thought willie, donald but last night they were back up on twitter. So an image of joe biden in a mask and donald trump taking off his. Thats certainly an image they trump said there was nothing to worry about. Go on with your life. Why would they have to limit anything other than the fact believe is going to resonate, as that the white house as the drudge report says is a ghost one thats going to matter. That underscores the different town right now because this man has infected everybody inside perspectives of the two candidates and the two campaigns when dealing with the the white house. Coronavirus and then the incredible. Then what were watching right president strode back inside and potentially exposed others in here is he turns and walks the building to the virus. Inside without his mask. Greets whoever is inside the we should note now that yesterday, press secretary building, the residence right Kayleigh Mcenany announced that there and then shoots a video. She was positive. It points again to the flaws in he records a video because he wanted the sun setting behind him and the Washington Monument thiS White House testing system where they have relied on these daily rapid tests to create a and that landscape. Video was he said dont be afraid. Sense of invulnerability and tell that to the 211,424 despite the fact she had tested negative for several days, she families that are mourning someone. Dont be afraid. He said dont let it dominate was positive yesterday. You. After two separate briefings she as if that were a choice for a conducted outside with reporters coronavirus patient. And you could tell as he tried since the president s diagnosis, to project strength up there on
that balcony that he was labored in his breathing. Potentially endangering them as well. What an unbelievable week it he did not project strength up has been. Hard to believe that one week there. He projected ignorance by not wearing the mask and he could ago, the first president ial debate had not taken place yet. Barely breathe while stand up there. Lets get into exactly what he if you want to know how much said after getting this past week has impacted the wait, i just want to say really quickly on that, dont be afraid. Polls, a week ago, people inside dont let it dominate you. You know really. In my family, in my family, the Trump Campaign very confident with florida. There are three people very close to us who we love, very very confident that they were closing the gap in arizona and that they could win arizona. Close to us that covid could be after the debate, i spoke to a death sentence. Yeah. Could be a death sentence. People in the Trump Campaign and now, you dont say that for they were deeply concerned with personal im afraid of covid. His numbers that were plummeting in a way they had not seen a its just like im afraid of the single event cause the president sea even though i have a boat. To lose support over the past im afraid of guns, even though several years. As that tuesday debate did. And now as we move forward, i own guns. Later into the week, the president catches covid. Yes, im afraid of covid. So many people around him catch you dont have to be terrified a covid. The rnc chairperson catches
of covid, you dont have to stick your head under the bed but its something to be afraid covid, his Campaign Manager of. Catches covid, his press should wear masks. I have friends, good friends, who werent able to say goodbye to their mother or their secretary, his first lady catches covid. Chris christie catches covid. Ron johnson catching covid and father the number on the screen. Its spreading throughout the entire republican party. Or their parents or his numbers continue to plummet grandparents because of covid. And then that scene last night, because they died the sad, lonely deaths. Again, a surreal scene, a if thats my experience and im bizarre scene showing how younger than a lot of people who irresponsible and reckless this president is. Are going to be voting in a obviously hes going to cause month, less than a month, voting the numbers to continue to right now, i think thats plummet, losing right now to joe everybodys experience. I think thats probably your biden. 57 to 41 . Experience. I know thats mikas experience. And i talked earlier about well k people dying alone from covid. Loved one affected by this and died. Age, willie, you know, we have a the Lincoln Project picked up on that bitter, sad reality last neighbor and he got covid. Night and released this ad. And for a month after he and i talked earlier recovered from covid, he was
just kind of wandering around. He had to guide him back to his place. Also, it doesnt impact you physically or kill you, but it impacts you mentally. Well get to that study too. But everything he said was so reckless last night. And there were actually one or two really i would say stupid but i think theyre really bad people. One or two really bad people in the United States senate who said, oh, yeah, covid, not much to worry about with that when they know its a lie and they know people are dying from this. These are the same liars, willie, the president a liar who said that covid wasnt come back in the fall. He said in in april even when dr. Fauci said, covid is coming back in the fall and the president said no, its not coming back in fall. Well, were in the fall he got it. The Lincoln Project is responsible for the content of he got it and the president this advertising. Couldnt even breathe last lets bring in the vice night, when he got to the top of the stairs he was wheezing last
night. And his own doctor said hes not out of the woods yet. Provost for global initiatives and so youre right. From the university of hes spreading it to everybody pennsylvania, dr. Emanuel. That he forces to be close to him. It is its lasting us a willie, this is very mccaffrey, poor mr. Trump, hes sick. Also with us is dr. Michelle mcmurray. First, zeke emanuel, your thoughts on the president hes acting sick, hes a danger to others. Hes such a terrible example to leaving the hospital when his americans. Doctors who arent saying much general mccaffrey goes on to and arent revealing much, but say, i have been an infantry they do say hes not out of the leader in dangerous situations. We always work endlessly to minimize risk until forced into woods. Well, hes definitely not out of the woods. Action. Heres a guy that has how there are many, many, many cases the patients look like theyre many people has he already recovering and Getting Better and they crash. The sort of immune response overtakes. They have a blood clot, or they end up with breathing problems. Infected, willie . And so this is way too early and how many people is he going to infect now . Hes endangered so Many Secret Service members. The president is i mean, the willie, we dont know because most irresponsible act is taking
that mask off. We know that hes spewing virus out still and he really, really they dont want to do contact couldnt care about what hes tracing from the scotus i have lost count how many people doing to anyone else. He demonstrated that last have walked from that super thursday in new jersey. He demonstrated that in the car spreader event for amy coney visiting his supporters and he barrett and the white house demonstrated it yesterday when he ascended the stairs and took refuses to do Contact Tracing to find out who else may have been exposed. I have a family friend who was that mask off. Just total irresponsible behavior for someone who is in that audience very close to everybody who was infected. Infectious. Dr. Mcmurrayheath, well who is not well himself. And i would want to know if hes less you address what you saw from the president last night, going to be okay. But theres no Contact Tracing from the white house event of the Supreme Court event ten days but no, no Contact Tracing. Ago. We dont want to show what this theres a team ready to do that virus does at a super spreader Contact Tracing and the without event because that would point reportedly from the new york out that the white house is times cut out the cdc and said responsible. Well only Contact Trace two responsible for getting people days before the president s positive diagnosis. Potentially deathly ill, at the in other words, you have this group that we know at the very least very ill. Lets just stop with the Supreme Court event haS White House. Contracted all of these cases as its all donald trump, willie. Look, a bunch of stooges who a super spreader event. Is there any defense, any wont say no. Who were dominated, you justification from where you sit for the white house not conducting a massive contact know . Mark meadows sat there being a cheerleader when he that would have been a good time to tracing operation off that actually say no. Supreme court event at the white say im not going to let the house . Well, whats been made president risk his own life and incredibly clear this week is risk the lives of secret service that you cannot stop the virus men and women and risk the lives by cutting out the science. Of people inside the white house. You have to be responsible and but the stooges all went along follow the scientific and donald trump went back to the white house in one of the most astounding, irresponsible guidelines. The cdc said its not enough to test. You have to wear ppe, at least wear masks and socially distance moments that any of us have seen from a politician in our and you have to limit mass lifetime. Gatherings and you have to trace imagine going through the experience of contracting covid contacts. I compare whats happening at knowing what that feels like. The rose garden this week with and not being humbled in some way or at least coming out and the call i got from taiwan last saying you know what, this is week. Showing that to date, despite actually something to be afraid their 21 Million People a of, lets be smart about how we reopen and how we operate this way. He cannot help himself but they have been fighting this even longer than we have in the attempt to project strength and u. S. If you do the right things, if again, look at the those images of him on the balcony. Did that look like strength to you follow the right scientific
you, removing the mask and measures you can combat the trying to catch his breath every time he opened his mouth . Virus but cant do it on hope that wasnt strength. But what he said before he left the hospital, quote, feeling alone. Really good. Bob costa, how is the white dont be afraid of covid. Dont let it dominate your life. House explaining, how is the white house defending not we have developed under the performing a Contact TracingTrump Administration some really great drugs and knowledge. I feel better than i did 20 operation off the Supreme Court years ago. And here now is part of the event where we know where all of the cases came from . Message the president recorded after without a mask turning and walking into the white house residence. As a reporter on the white house beat its about what President Trump is doing. I just left walter reed the white house is reacting to Medical Center and its really President Trump from chief of something very special. The doctors, the nurses, the staff mark meadows to lower level aides across the communicationpeople in the agen first responders, and i learned so much about coronavirus and one thing thats for certain. Dont let it dominate you. Dont be afraid of it. Inside the white house. Youre going to beat it. We have the best medical some of his aides wished he equipment, we have the best would stay at walter reed not only so he could recover, but medicines. All developed recently and recover to help the campaign youre going to beat it. Eventually at full speed. But its the president s desire i went, i didnt feel so good, to return to the campaign to go
and i could have left two days back to battling Vice President ago. Biden that is shaping every two days ago i felt great, i decision being made. The president being his own adviser and thats something we said i felt peter than 20 years have seen since day one. Kasie . Ago. Dont let it dominate. Dont let it take over your lives. We are going back to work, well dr. Emanuel, to pick up on be out front as your leader i had to do that. That in terms of the president i knew theres danger to it, but going back to the campaign i had to do it. I stood out front, i led. Trail, what do we know about i realize his doctors have been nobody thats a leader would not incredibly not forth coming so do what i did and i know theres its a little hard to say, but can you just walk us through the progression of this disease, a risk. What we know about ehow it moves at this phase. Theres a danger but thats i mean, there are people i know okay. Im better, and maybe im who are struggling with the immune. Hey, donald, i