Out west continues to grow as supports the fda and those new guidelines that the fda wants to yet another hurricane rapidly intensifies in the gulf of make sure that, on average, mexico and heads for the gulf people who get the vaccine coast of the United States. Trials then spend about two months, at least a median amount of the people spend two months kate snow with this interview with dr. Fauci today. Welcome to tuesday. Thanks very much. Its meet the press daily. But stick around here. I want to bring in dr. Tom im chuck todd. Just 28 days until the election. Inglesby. Before i set you up, i do think the president is in isolation at the white house, essentially its worth noting what tom hospitalized at the white house. Hes being monitored by a team bossert tweeted out. Tom bossert was the president s of doctors with a team of chief Homeland Security adviser, assistants from walter reed medical hospital. A position theyve since a physician said in a memo the downgraded after he left the president today is reporting no white house. And he tweeted this yesterday. Symptoms and that hes doing for the good of collective well. A senior white house official tells nbc news that no decisions Public Health, not just your have been made whether hell own, please remember to avoid deliver some kind of address to large gather,s. They are superspreader magnets. The nation at some point today. Socially distance, wear a mask, but the president is clearly not out of the woods yet. Isolate when sick and quarantine after being in contact with doctors will not disclose the someone sick. This pandemic is far from over. Results of his lung scans nor the date of his last negative these are the core elements of the targeted layered mitigation covid test. We dont know if hes tested strategy. Negative yet before they sent the president and senior people him home. Hes back at the white house essentially hospitalized at the around him have violated all of these fundamentals. White house. They have the ability to do we can all learn from these unfortunate developments. That. The president said hes planning dr. Inglesby, how frustrating to to attend next weeks debate in see the president tweeting this miami. Last night he made a dramatic morning about covid and you and return to the white house from walter reed. He appeared to be struggling for other Public Officials have air as he stood for a photo op after climbing those stairs. Done . Yeah, i think its really the president continues to try concerning to see that message. To downplay it. He tweeted this morning once its clearly not true. Again suggesting covid, which has killed more than 200,000 and so obviously not true. But i think, obviously, people americans in this country and do many people do listen to counting and over a Million Worldwide is no worse than the the president and could get the seasonal flu. Upon his return from the message that this virus isnt as hospital last night he tweeted out this video saying this. Dangerous as it clearly is. Im also really concerned about dont let it dominate you. The president s words yesterday where he was saying dont be afraid of this virus. Dont be afraid of it. Youre going to beat it. Its almost beriding people who we have the best medical equipment. We have the best medicines. Take concerns and precautions. All developed recently. And youre going to beat it. Its the opposite of what we i went. I didnt feel so good, and two should be doing. We see the damage this has done days ago, i could have left two in the country. Days ago. Two days ago, i felt great. We should be working to try and like better than i have in a get our economy moving in safe long time. I said just recently, better than 20 years ago. Ways, but we cant stop doing as you can tell, he does not what tom bossert just said we sound like a healthy individual need to do. Those thats whats going to there. Dr. Fauci just spoke to my help us contain this virus colleague kate snow about some around the United States. How concerned are you that of those comments. Well have more on that in a were about to get into a really moment. The president is contagious. As an outbreak continues to rage bad spike here . It feels as if one has been around him. A person familiar withhe militao building. You know, whether its schools comes into contact with the opening labor day, shut down president tested positive over the weekend which means were up to 15 people connected to the fatigue, the combination of it white house or the trump all. It seems like every week the campaign who have tested number just keeps going up. Positive for covid in yeah, i mean, were about 20 essentially the last eight to up in terms of new cases as ten days. As the president battles a compared to three weeks ago. Personal health crisis, hes and for the first time in facing an alarming political months, the number of crisis with just four weeks hospitalizations nationwide is until election day. Beginning to go up. If you look at states like a new cnn poll has him trailing wisconsin, they have higher joe biden by 16 points. Incidents in that state than is that an outlier . Weve seen in states in a long because our recent nbc wall time. So i am very concerned that street journal poll had biden up 14. Things are moving in the wrong so something happened post direction. Weve got more than twothirds debate. And a new poll of battleground of the states have increasing cases day over day, week over pennsylvania which is vital to the president s path to 270 week. So i think with the cold weather electoral votes shows biden also approaching, people are moving up double digits. More indoors. 12 points in this one. We have to do everything we can joining me outside the white to try to avoid large house is my nbc news colleague gatherings, wear masks, shannon pettypiece. Physically distance and the messages coming out of the white also kate snow who just sat down house right now are really with dr. Anthony fauci. Confusing and i think exactly also dr. Tom inglesby, director the wrong way to be going. Of the Johns Hopkins center and and almost real dr. Rmal naval doctor. Headscratching considering what theyve all been going through. Youd think theyd be moving in the opposite direction. Let me bring in dr. Marty from shannon, let me start with you. And where we are on the Florida International university. President s condition and this i want to talk about the president s care in particular. Idea that he may speak to the let me put up a graphic of the nation tonight. What do we know . Well, chuck, our reporting treatments hes receiving in some form or another. Hes either currently or has. Indicates the president is anticipated to make some comment to the country tonight. We dont know in what form. Remdesivir. Regeneron antibody cocktail. Could be another one of these we dont know if hes still prerecorded videos like he has taking that. Been releasing or a more formal dexamethasone, a steroid. Address to the nation from the supplemental oxygen. Oval office like he has done in hes gotten zinc, vitamin d, the past. You mentioned that we got a brief update on his health today. I will say the only update weve famotidine, melatonin and gotten is this threesentence aspirin. His doctor claims hes not memo from his physician saying experiencing symptoms today, but he has no symptoms and it begins they didnt tell us whether hes with the caveat that hes still on remdesivir or releasing this information with the permission of the president. Dexamethasone. And we know that the if he was not experiencing symptoms, would he still be on physician the president s physician has given some those drugs . Contradictory messages. The course for those but otherwise, staffers have been out trying to portray this medications would, for example, the remdesivir is five days. Image of a president who is the five days has yet not feeling extremely well and who passed. Is ready to go to the debates the treatment of dexamethasone would normally be given if next week. Presumably under the fda only if he has a problem with guidelines, someone has to it takes about 10 to 20 days since oxygenation. If you give dexamethasone to a exhibiting the first symptoms patient who is not experiencing for someone to be clear of the virus. They have to have a viral load under a certain level and cant problems with being able to get enough oxygen into his system, be showing any symptoms. So i think maybe this memo today you are potentially causing harm emphasizing the president s exhibiting no symptoms could be and would normally be given to him once a day and probably for a foreshadowing to them making at least five and no more than an argument that, oh, hes been symptom free for a number of ten days long, this days and clear to go to the dexamethasone treatment. I would also add that we are debate. But the president s campaign and the president himself very clear only still in the beginning of that he plans to go to the his symptoms. Debate in person next week. We are still to see whether hes going to crash, which he may shannon, i want to make it still do. Clear. We still do not know when the they do have sort of a miniicu last time President Trump tested type setup now at the white negative for the virus, correct . Correct. House. It has been asked multiple times so while hes technically out of the hospital, he isnt really. Of the president s physician. He has refused to answer that. And we have to be aware of that so as far as when he could be reality. I want to add one more thing. Clear medically to go to the in addition to what dr. Fauci debate, we dont really know and dr. Inglesby said whom i when the clock started ticking on when the starting point was for his symptoms or for that respect. First negative test. The other thing i want to add is that we have recent data showing we have no idea we have that 49. 6 of the hospitalized not heard from the commission on president ial debates about, do patients with covid19 continue they have a plan b and how they to have one or more symptoms for would protect the town hall a minimum of three months. Questioners from a potentally so you can expect there to be contagious President Trump . Symptoms for a prolonged period we havent. Of time. The Biden Campaign was asked and when they spoke earlier in about this a bit and their take this broadcast about being able and Vice President biden was to be out there if you dont very careful. He said not to get into have symptoms. Commenting on the president s no symptoms with no treatment, health and leaving that to the doctors. Their main line from the biden with no aspirin, with no campaign seems theyll stick to tylenol, with no dexamethasone, what the doctors say. Et cetera. What the scientists say. What the president has been on, what they advise to be done. Has been on a dexamethasone theres a Vice President ial high. And thats why he thinks that debate where Kamala Harris and hes doing better than he Vice President mike pence will be on the same stage. The Vice President has continued actually is. Thats what i wanted to ask to repeatedly test negative, but you. I mean, look, i my fathers you show that graphic of a number of people around the deceased and i remember when president who even as recently as yesterday with the press hed get a steroid shot towards secretary continue to have the end, he felt great for a few have been negative and then all days. Of a sudden have a positive test so is that is that what dexamethasone can do for folks result. Shannon pettypiece, thank you where its just this feeling of, for that. Oh, i feel great . Kate snow, i want to set up your yes, it is. Conversation with dr. Fauci with what we heard from the so if hes no longer on this, if this is being done for what president. Let me put up his tweet about the flu this morning. You said is they are worried flu season is coming up. About the oxygen levels in his many people every year, sometimes over 100,000 and blood, what else are they despite the vaccine, die from likely i mean, is he likely the flu . Are we going to close down our getting supplemental oxygen if country . Hes also getting this no, were going to live with it just like we learn to live with treatment . Its going if he were my covid. For what its worth, on march 9th, the president tweeted this patient, he would be absolutely getting supplemental oxygen about the flu. This is at the start of the right now. Moreover, i would be monitoring pandemic. So last year 37,000 americans not only for his liver function, died from the common flu. It averages between 27,000 and heart function, lung function, 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down life and the economy go on. Neurologic changes and also very at this moment there are 546 importantly his coagulation confirmed cases of coronavirus with 22 deaths. System because of especially think about that. With his history of having obviously, these tweets dont cholesterol problems, high blood age very well for the president. But this issue of the president pressure thats under control, his weight, et cetera. Himself downplaying the virus as hes fighting it, i know that hes being set up for ending up was a toing of conversation for with micro thrombi that can lead you today with dr. Fauci. It was. To further complications. And it was a lengthy conversation, chuck. Hes going to strob monitored this was part of a cornell strictly in the next few Days University event that i agreed to do where i interviewed dr. And especially day 5 to day 7 fauci. Its their homecoming week. Because thats when he may look, i asked him, obviously, about many things. Crash. One other question i want to i asked him about the ask you about dr. Marty has to president s behavior and the do with this nugget in the messaging that happened at the white house last night when the times today. Nearly onethird of hospitalized president removed his mask. Covid19 Patients Experience some type of altered mental dr. Fauci being careful to say function ranging from confusion hed not directly take on the to delirium to unresponsiveness. President or criticize the in the largest study to date of president but he did say, look, neurological symptoms among there are some things that should be universally practiced. Coronavirus patients in an masks. American hospital system. You generally talked about how avoid i many hospitalized patients, avoiding crowds. About half of them end up with doesnt matter who you are. And then i did ask him directly at least some symptom for three about the comments you just months. What is the best way to figure mentioned. The president this morning comparing covid19 to the flu. Out whether you have a mental and appearing to diminish it and incapacitation due to this virus . Say that its not that serious and heres what dr. Fauci said well, depends on what level of mental incapacitation youre in response. Covid19 is manifestations talking about. A very mild if you will, form of mental incapacitation is the enormous fatigue that so many of these patients have. They have strange hallucinations some of these patients. And that can be brought out with appropriate medical supervision and conversations, et cetera. We will have to monitor him very carefully. Its very likely by the way, one of the things a fair number of patients get is loss of hair. Im sure the president would not like to lose his hair. No, that is another point, too. Sounds like we have a long week here to see how the president handles covid as the week goes on. Shannon pettypiece, kate snow, dr. Marty and dr. 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See for yourself, at carvana. Com. Welcome back. Some breaking news. Nbc news has learned that a group of military officials, potentially including some very Senior Pentagon officials including the chairman of the joint chiefs are quarantining after being exposed to the coronavirus. The pentagon says a top official who met with military leaders recently tested positive and thats why they are doing this quarantine. While the president is downplaying the severity of the virus, take a look at this. These are workers in essentially hazmat suits. They did a deep disinfection parts of the west wing last night including the White House Briefing room, press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany and two of her deputies are among the now 15 people tied to the white house or Trump Campaign who have tested positive in the last week. One white house official tells nbc, quote, folks are dropping like flies and that Staff Members arent being informed through official channels about new cases. And a white house source told axios, its insane that the president would return to the white house and jeopardize his Staffs Health when we are still learning of new cases among senior staff. This place is a cesspool. Joining me is someone who knows what its like to work in the west wing and trump administration. Joe grogan, we invited you on because you can give us a firsthand, i think, description of just how, a, tight the quarters are and, b, sort of how dangerous it is to duck this virus if it is running around the west wing. So paint the visual for us, if you will, joe. Yeah, look, its an old complex. Construction began in the 18th century. It is not designed for the amount of people that occupy it. The tempo of people coming in and out. And it isnt set up wi