we know at this point, the virus is in the white house. it's inside the white house. it's in the perimeter. it's a contagious virus. people are in the vulnerable age groups. they should be wearing a mask. i think it's really good that these three doctors are quarantining themselves. i think it sets a good example and reminds people what you have to do and what significant numbers of people will have to do as we start to do significant contact tracing. these conversations about masks, no masks, the testing, i think some of this is going to seem, in a few weeks, wolf, trivial, kind of like when we first started talking about people should be physically distancing outside. people were really reluctant and a couple weeks later it became obviously the norman peop, and understood it. if you wear a mask, it will decrease the likelihood you will spread the virus. weep know that vir we know the virus is in the white house now. we don't have a vaccine. we don't have an effective therapeutic. so we need to do what we know to do as best as we can do it. and wearing a mask is part

breaking news from the white house this hour. vice president mike pence will work remotely for now as a precaution after his press aide tested positive for coronavirus. the white house stresses pence is following the guidance of medical personnel. he continues to test negative. this will likely be for a short time. we have more coming up on that on "kasie d.c." >>> by tomorrow, more than 408 states will have partially reopened after weeks of restrictions. as governors push ahead with their recovery plans despite health experts warning the risk of a second wave is real and the threat is far from over. >> it is a risk no matter what we do. it is a risk if we don't do anything. it is a risk if we do this. we wish we were going down. we are not. we have been hit in ohio just like other states have been hit economically. so we have got to try to do two thing at once. >> you know i have not been counting on the white house because there have been too many situations where they made promises and not delivered. we are going it alone as t

at the white house with mrs. john f. kennedy, created for the cbs television network. ♪ >> this is the white house as seen from the south lawn. johnhe next hour, mrs. f. kennedy invite you to visit. [applause] >> good evening, everybody. ok. what i would like to do for a few minutes is ring a little color to a black-and-white tv show. some color pictures of how the rooms looked when mrs. kennedy was doing it, and then pictures of how the rooms have changed since that time. i think mrs. kennedy would have been the first person to say to everyone that what she was doing was a first step, when she was ,sking people to donate things may be the best things were not offered at the time, but when you had nothing you took what was offered. there have been improvements and growth in the collection come and that is what she expected every first family to do, to contribute to the house, remaining a museum and growing and becoming more interesting to the public. you can see the white house, and a picture of mrs. kennedy during the

house, on the white house staff, could be at a higher risk right now? >> reporter: right. to your point, kate, testing in this situation can only go so far. all you know is that that person is not getting a positive test at that moment. they could be incubating the virus and they could also feel perfectly fine so they're completely asymptomatic. just because someone has a negative test doesn't mean that they can't spread the virus. is it unlikely? yes, it's unlikely. but it doesn't mean that they don't have the virus. so that's another question that comes to my mind, is did this valet have a test before he entered the white house? and if it was negative, and it later turned out he was positive, what does that tell us? >> stick with me, elizabeth. let me bring kaitlyn collins back in. she's on the phone. kaitlyn, maybe to answer the question that elizabeth led off with at the top, what is known about how close the valet gets to the president and the vice president, the responsibilities of a valet? >> reporter: that's what's so notable. they get incredibl

joining me now from the white house is nbc news white house correspondent kelly o'donnell. kelly, this story seems to have been shifting very quickly over the last couple of hours and here just in a few minutes ago we got this new statement from the vice-president's office. what do we know about whether the vice-president is going to be there, what kind of contact he had with the aide who had coronavirus, and how he's handling himself as compared to those health officials that are going to go so far as to appear via video conference at that hearing on tuesday? >> reporter: well, kasie, good to be with you and happy mother's day. the vice-president is keeping quiet over the weekend. nothing on his schedule. he was cleared to a extend a national security meeting held here saturday night, but he chose not to participate then. so keeping a quiet weekend, but no restrictions on his schedule based on the white house physician. and so his coming week, his schedule will not be affected by that, meaning no isolation, not in quarantine. but out of caution, kept a lower profile, laid

based upon the fact there's new infection at the white house and the fact that the white house wasn't able to even protect the president and vice president trump. doesn't instill confidence that they're ready or willing to take necessary steps to protect us. >> indeed. good to see you, thanks so much. >>> now over the weekend south korea reported its biggest single day jump in coronavirus cases since early april. the spike believed to be linked to seoul nightclub scene. with the president warning of a second wave. cnn is live for us in seoul. good to see you. south korea widely praised for the handling of the virus. how concerned about this up tick? >> well they're very concerned. the seoul city mayor gave a briefing saying that if seoul falls the country falls. the next two to three days the that's critical to try and contain the tout break. what it started from a 29 year-old man on may 2 went to a number of clubs in the area in seoul. and since then we have seen from officials that 85 more people have tested positive. related to that one particular case. asking people from about a t

we'll go straight to the white house. chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us. jim, two coronavirus cases reported inside the west wing of the white house and just two days. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and taking an extra precaution today because of the day's news, the white house medical staff is now testing aides to the president and vice president as well as members of the press in what's become a scramble to respond to a potential hotspot on the white house grounds. it was the president who revealed that today a senior member of the vice president's staff, his press secretary, katie miller, tested positive for the coronavirus. all on the same day that the president is responding to devastating new unemployment numbers, the worst since the great depression. for the second straight day, the white house is confirming a staffer has contracted the coronavirus. this time, a senior official. vice president mike pence's press secretary, katie miller. >> she's a wonderful young woman. katie, she tested, uh, very good for a long period of time and then all of a s

and the white house refused to answer that question. >> the white house refused to answer that question. so that was all july 8th, 1974, the last time a case like this went to the supreme court. that was the supreme court considering whether the then president, president nixon, had to comply with the subpoena and hand over a bunch of white house tapes that had been subpoenaed. the nixon white house raised the specter in court that even if the court told president nixon he did have to obey the subpoena, the nixon white house said they might not obey the court. they were just there to get the court's advice, but they weren't even sure they considered a supreme court ruling to be binding. 16 days later, 16 days after they heard the arguments, the court very quickly ruled in that case. they ruled unanimously that president nixon did have to obey the subpoena. he did have to hand over those white house tapes. and frankly the country was so riveted by this at the time that everybody was still kind of camped out on the courthouse steps to hear the ruling when it came down. >> we interrupt our

from theive minutes white house. we get to the white house. i go to my office, she goes to the residence. as i walk in, there's nobody in the office, and the phone is ringing, which is very unusual. i pick it up and it's this reporter for "the washington star," jennifer hirschberg. she said, "capitol police are radio is" -- "police reporting there were shots at the washington hilton. do you know anything about it?" i said no, and i dropped the phone and just ran all the way back toward the residence. she ran this way. we went right to the hospital in fact -- in spite of the fact that the secret service did not want her to. no one knew yet what was going on, and they like safety. they like to know what is going on before they walk into a situation. i think she even said, "i'm going to the hospital." her agent said, "no, ma'am, if you just wait, we will drive you over." she said, "forget the car, i will just walk. he needs me." ms. drake: at that point, you did not know he had been shot? ms. tate: no, we didn't even know. >> not until we got the

the white house and the vice president are very formal places. there's a reason why there's a downstairs official area in the living quarters upstairs because there really is a difference between this public life and private life. what about you, lynne? i'm sure you have many funny stories. have you had strange ones as well from that period? lexus is funny and strange. we spent a lot of time at camp david, as carl knows, after 9/11 it was the undisclosed location and we had our kids and it's the same as carl's story in the sense that you find joy in life even though you are in a dreadful time.we also had our dog a big labrador yellow lab named dave. dave was the level of our lives. we took them everywhere in camp david. dogs are allowed everywhere. except one day come, karl help me. as a laurel that we eat. >> yes. >> barney, who is the president's dog, kind of mean little scotty. >> mean little vaster. he used to bite me all the time. [laughter] >> barney was a troublesome dog. dave thought he was probably a squirrel. because it was kind of litt

even in the white house. while they operate on a do as i say, not a as i do policy, fushls saying it was only a matter of time before the virus arrived in the west wing. where aids rarely worn masks and social distancing is recommended in theory, but often doesn't happen. a source telling cnn that the president doesn't want to be near anyone who hasn't been tested. and has bristled when coming into contact with some people in the white house. 11 secret sfls agents currently have the virus. get this. he's reportedly asked why his valets weren't ordered to wear masks sooner. really, mr. president? you want to know why your valets weren't ordered to wear mask when is you yourself have refused to wear one? just two days ago the president refused to wear a mask a at an event with vet events pap i said this again and again but it's really important. this is about saving lives. wearing a mask is the not about protecting yourself from the virus. it's about protecting other people. and those elderly veterans are at an

and it's not my judgment but that's what i've been told. >> so the white house and white house employees benefit from surveillance testing, which is nonstop testing of individual just to make sure you haven't contracted it, and contact tracing, for instance those doctors, fauci, redfield, hahn, all now in some form of quarantine because they came in contact with the white house staffer who tested positive. nationwide, we are not seeing the same kind of aggressive surveillance testing and contact tracing that we're seeing in the white house. why not? why not implement a nationwide aggressive testing and contact tracing system? what's the downside? >> there is no downside. in fact we could use every single test that we can generate. and that's something that we're working overtime on ramping up testing. we tested about 300,000 people i think on thursday. and there are some new tests that are being approved. you're exactly right, the objective is to get as much testing as possible. but the really sad story about my dear colleague in the west wing is that even with that testing, things can s

the house oversight committee is looking into complaints from former white house volunteers jared kushner played favorites in distributing scarce protective gear as the crisis was building. >>> president trump will be meeting with iowa's governor just later this afternoon as meatpacking plants, nursing homes and prisons in rural areas become the new hot spots for states unable to slow the spread of the virus. >>> and this morning secretary of state mike pompeo accused china of a cover-up that caused the death of hundreds of thousand u.s. thousands of people around the world. joining me now, kristen welker, white house correspondent peter baker, the senior scholar at johns hopkins health and security and leon panetta at the pentagon and cia. kristen, president trump backing down under pressure for the talk he was going to dismantle the white house task force. the task force that included all of those health care officials, now saying also that more lives will be lost with the reopening, but that is what we're going to have to deal with, the price we're paying i guess for reopening, for ret

a white house official tells nbc news miller was at the white house this morning and showed symptoms president trump today publicly revealing the news. >> she's a wonderful young woman. katy, she tested very good for a long period of time and then all of a sudden today, she tested positive she hasn't come into contact with me. she spent some time with the vice president. >> reporter: the revelation delaying pence's departure to iowa as they traced miller's contacts with six staffers removed from air force two. a senior administration official said all six was tested negative and miller was not on the plane. a white house official says miller was with the vice president yesterday part of her job to be right by his side pence tested negative for coronavirus this morning, part of new safety protocols here. >> the white house now is initiated an effort the president and i not only will be tested every day but i think everyone that comes into contact with the president will be tested every day. >> reporter: that new precaution put in place yesterday after one of the president's military v

it's in the white house. it's -- i'm sure they're disinfecting, they're obviously taking these precautions, but these are still just precautions. it's the best we can do right now. people sort of fundamentally understand that. these precautions are important. but they're not a failsafe in terms of protecting this virus from being contagious and still continuing to transmit from person to person. now we're talking about a situation in the white house, the virus is there, the president and vice president both work there. i think it's really important to make sure you can do everything you can to stop the spread, especially among people who we know have been exposed to the virus. the president was likely exposed to his press secretary in some way, whether it was a low risk or medium risk exposure, we don't know. but he did have an exposure and that's of concern. even if he's being tested on a regular basis, it could be he tests negative for several days and then tests positive from an exposure many days ago. i m

obviously, the white house tapes were damming. they contained the smoking gun in which nixon offered to pay $1 million in hush money to cover up the watergate crime. and there was his infamous 18.5 minute gap in one of the key tapes at a key moment that suggested there had been a deliberate erasure. the result of the revelations in those secret tapes was so dramatic that impeachment resolutions were drafted in the house. obviously before the house could even get to impeaching richard nixon, members of his own party, including senator barry goldwater, went to the white house and said they could no longer support him. on august 8, richard nixon flew away in a green helicopter, the first president in american history, and all of these presidents we have studied, to resign in disgrace. so that begins another dramatic moment in american constitutional history as we move into the presidency of gerald ford. it lasted less than 2.5 years. president ford's pardon of richard nixon becomes one of the seminal moments in the history of the ame

the second staffer in the white house. but we're going begin with the children's sdre taking a deadly turn and the warning for parents across the country. abc's stephanie ramos leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, that rare inflammatory illness possibly related to covid-19 attacking children now turning deadly. health officials in westchester county outside new york city confirming a child died at a hospital there overnight from pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome. >> we hadn't seen any children of this type until about a week, ten days ago, when we all of a sudden received a cluster of children of this type, and all 11 were admitted. >> reporter: another 5-year-old in new york city died overnight, also believed to have the shock syndrome associated with covid-19. >> this is every parent's nightmare, right? that your child may actually be affected by this virus. but it's something have to consider seriously now. >> reporter: now there are at least 73 cases in new york. and cases reported in louisiana, michigan, ca

>> the virus is inside the white house. so now the white house is going to have to try and do contact tracing. this is what epidemiologist have been insisting for states to open they have to do this on massive scale. contact tracing. the white house needs to contact every person the valet encountered during the period he may have been infectious and track down every person that miss miller interacted with during the period where she may have been infectious and track down those contacts and their contacts. this is contact tracing. this is epidemiology. put the virus down. >> doctor. >> it's likely there more people at the white house infected. >> so if it's good enough for the white house, if the president can be tested every day, and everyone in the white house can be tested every day, and they have to do contact tracing, why is it good enough for the rest of the country? why shouldn't that be happening? our their lives more important than ours? i don't think so. >> someone needs to ask how many of the systems do they have

said the white house is stepping up measures. we know previously officials coming into contact with the president or vice president, they were tested on a weekly basis. now that is happening on a day by day basis. certainly they are stepping up preventative measures but more questions here do remain. i should note as well, the spokesperson for the cdc said that dr. redfield would come to the white house if he needed to in order to fulfill any responsibilities as part of the task force but he would do so by coming and wearing a mask, checking his symptoms daily and the testing provided by the white house. >> the director of the cdc, the cdc is based in atlanta, dr. stephen hahn, the commissioner of the food and drug administration, he's here in washington. i assume both were in contact with katy miller, who is the press secretary to the vice president, who has been confirmed with coronavirus, right? >> reporter: that's right. the officials aren't confirming katy miller is the individual who came into contact with them, but it's a

joe johns at the white house good to see you. what is the sense inside the administration as we are getting ready in a few hours to hear from the president on testing. >> reporter: poppy, as you know, a lot has changed at the white house since last friday, after katie miller, the vice president's press secretary, was tested positive for coronavirus. after that, we're told by reporting from a colleague that officials did spend the weeke trying to trace the contacts how we got it. they haven't been success envelope figuring that out. the question now is who is quarantining at the white house and who is not. there's not a lot of certainty. this much we know, katie miller, the vice president's press secretary who also happens to be the coronavirus task force person, she is going to quarantine along with the fda commissioner. that stephen hahn the cdc director robert redfield. people not quarantining include the vice president himself, even though his press secretary tested positive. the hhs secretary as well as the surgeon general. b

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does anyone outside the white house and your acolytes believe that? i doubt it. i yield the floor. >> mr. president countless times they stir up stepped up to serve our country during the covered pants, 19 pandemic their actions are amazing and they save lives i would prefer to name individuals in their particular circumstances because of the tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands of people have participated i'm going to

so the white house considered its own analysis. a small team led by kevin hassett, former chairman of trump's council on economic advisers, with no background in infectious diseases, quietly built an econo mettic model to guide. white house aides interpreted the analysis as pre-diktsing that the daily death count would peak in mid-april before dropping off substantially and that there would be far fewer fatalities than nationally seen. this model was embraced inside the west wing by the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, and other powerful aides helping to oversee the government's pandemic response. the model affirmed their own skepticism about the severity of the virus and bolstered their case to shift the focus to the economy, which they firmly believed would determine whether trump wins a second term. by the end of april, though, with more americans dying in that one month than in all of the vietnam war, it became clear that the kevin hassett econometric model was too good to be true. a former senior administration official

the white house has not enforced social distancing

the white house's suppress secretary insisting that the white house is safe. >> we'll have this individual, there is a member of the vice president team who's positive for coronavirus. we have put in place the guidelines that experts have put forward to keep this building safe which means contact tracing and all guidelines that we have for businesses and essential workers. as america reopens safely, the white house is continuing to operate. >> mcenany is saying there they are following the guidelines. if you came in contact with somebody who tested positive, those initial guideline that is the president held up of 14 days extended to 30 days. you are supposed to self-quarantine. the president and the vice president were not self-quarantining. >> they were asked about that, the president did not offer an answer. are you guys going to quarantine. the president did not answer and the vice president took over. it was not clear. they did reference the guidelines but did not say what they're going to do. we did have the press secretary confirming a member of pence's staff have tested positive fo

that is the main fence of the white house, and there is the white house. the president is sleeping in the white house, or at least watching television, and this is what is happening right outside of his house. there are the usual chance of "black lives matter," "i can't breathe." and then what you are seeing in front of me, shannon, trying to break down the is barricades and push through. every time they would come of the secret service will advance. and go through the barricades getting back up. just recently now we have much more confrontation of a standoff between the secret service officers and their riots and the protesters. for every time you have been at the white house, even when things get a little unruly or there is protests, et cetera. secret service takes great pride in their resolute professionalism. and they have certainly shown that today in the restraint. but there has now been a very clear line drawn between the protesters of not going over these bicycle barricades. the protesters have stolen a couple of bicycle barricades. they don't know

what is the level of anxiety inside the white house this morning? >> reporter: good to see you, as always. i think kevin hassett, the economic adviser captures it best, he has a reputation among all of the public-facing white house officials as being among the most candid and yesterday on one of the sunday shows, he said it's scary to go to work. he realizes that he would be safer sitting at home than he is going to the west wing, given that as you point out, there are now two white house aides who have tested positive for coronavirus. you've got the military valet to president trump and also katy miller's, vice president mike pence's press secretary. they're boosting temperature checks and testing. senior staff who interact with the president are being tested daily, i'm told. and the entire west wing is being sanitized on an even more frequent basis. you've got the country's top three health officials all now self-quarantining in some form, that includes dr. anthony fauci and the heads of the cdc and the fda who you see there on your screen. all of

economy reopen and recover even when the white house is unsafe. you know that's a good question because that's the that's the key question in across the country how do you restart the economy if you don't know really how widespread the virus is be as soon as you open the country up a little bit to local communities open up for business again and states open up for business again. and the numbers are then in a trajectory up north again so there is no and there's a trust issue of course people need to believe that they are safe before they go to work otherwise nobody's going to work and you do not open the economy then so that's the quote. the big problem here for the president and everybody involved with solving this problem ok stephanie simmons in washington d.c. thank you france has begun to lift its coronavirus lockdown after 8 weeks of restrictions people can now leave their homes without a permit most shops and businesses have reopened and many children will soon return to school with 26000 fatalities france has the world's 5th highest cove in

i'm eric >>> tonight, the coronavirus hits the white house staff. a top-level aide to vice president pence, who is married to one of president trump's closest advisers, testing positive. this week seen talking to reporters without wearing a mask. the news coming days after one of the president's personal valets also tested positive. the president's chief of staff calling the white house the safest place to work. but are they following their own guidelines? >>> the risks of re-opening. 44 states now easing restrictions, but cases still climbing in 20 of them. frustration mounting for many. some business owners defying the stay-at-home orders. in california, elon musk threatening to pull headquarters out of the state if he can't open his doors, as the u.s. death toll now tops 78,000. staggering new numbers about how lethal the virus has been to america's seniors. >>> and we have reporting on the warning from doctors about a shock-like syndrome involving covid-19 and children. two more kids dying here in new york in the last 24 hours. tonight, the symp

white house and across the country. mark meredith is live at the white house now with more. mark. mark: good afternoon, jon, as you mentioned president trump is due to land in florida later on this hour for the spacex launch but so much of the focus is also on the violent demonstrations that we have seen happening all over the country including in minnesota, the president did address that before leaving the white house this afternoon. here is what he had to say. >> it's a great state, minnesota, they've got to get tougher, they've got to get tougher. they've got is to be strong. honor the memory of george floyd, honor his memory, they have to get tougher and by being tougher they will be honoring his memory but they cannot let that happen. mark: the president praising efforts of u.s. secret service outside of the white house. we were told 6 people arrested after the demonstrations in lafayette park outside of the white house fence, we got a statement from the secret service about what transpired last night. they say, quote, demonstrators repeatedly attempt to knock over security b

tonight the white house physician issued a statement. he writes, quote, after numerous discussions he and i had regarding the evidence for and against the use of hydroxychloroquine, we concluded the potential benefit from treatment outweighed the relative risks. about a month ago, the fda strongly advised against taking the medication outside of hospital settings while several studies have also shown it to be potentially dangerous. this afternoon, one of the more senior voices employed by fox news and his on-air guest warned viewers against following the president's example here. >> if you are in a risky population here and you are taking this as a preventative treatment to ward off the virus or in a worst-case scenario, you are dealing with the virus, and you are in this vulnerable population, it will kill you. i cannot stress enough. this will kill you. >> these drugs can be very dangerous, and if they don't have any effect, there's no reason to take them. >> today there was also promising news in the race for a vaccine. the drug manuf

because nobody's coming to the white house. there have been a few people inside the white house, a small number wearing masks but the example is set from the top, wolf, in everything organization, including the white house. if the president were to walk in wearing a mask, i guarantee you that the people around pimm would be wearing a mask. and this is a president, as david is saying, who wants to kind of say okay, we're on to chapter 2 now, we're done with phase one, we're done with all the tough stuff, and now we're going to get back to work and the country's going to go back to normal. wearing a fas mask kind of doesn't fit that narrative for him. he just doesn't want to do it. >> david, former president barack obama had a private phone conversation with a lot of his former aides last night. the tape was leaked to yahoo news among other things. president obama said trump administration's handling of the coronavirus was an absolute chaotic disaster. so he's speaking out. there were a few hundred people on that call. i assume h

senior white house staff, tested every day. if you are coming in contact with the president, you're being tested. now, some of the vice president's staff who work elsewhere on the complex, at theiz theizen eisenhower. today, after ms. miller's positive test, she was scheduled to travel with the vice president to iowa today. she was not on that plane. six people who had contact with her were also pulled from the plane. and it goes to show, in some ways, that the penetration of this virus can even burst the sort of buttal ecause they haves to tests frankly the rest of the country doesn't have. and the president is trying to instill this sense of confidence. right? he resumed travel. went to arizona earlier in the week. talkling about reopening the economy. trying to push states to ease their lockdowns, especially in light of today's terrible job numbers, and he is showing images of being safe. won't wear a mask. his senior aides don't wear masks. he is afraid how it will make him look. but, yet, not only do not -- americans don't

we are hearing from the white house's office that he'll be going to the white house tomorrow. we'll see whether or not he will choose to wear a mask for additional precautions. >> we'll see what dr. birx decide and alex azar decides as well. a lot going on. jeremy, we'll get back to you. i want to bring in dr. harris, director of the global institute. you just heard what our reporting is, let me start with you doctor, would the vice president be in self-quarantine like dr. fauci is right now or is it okay for him to show up and work tomorrow at the white house? >> the best evidence suggests that he should be in quarantine. it takes a few days for the test to turn positive. one out of seven or six times the test will be falsely negative. it says you are negative even if you have the disease. last thing we need is more people in the white house getting infected. it is best for him to quarantine for a while and watch those symptoms and continue to get tested. >> the vice president spent a lot more time with katie miller than dr. fauci did or dr. redfield or dr. haun did. you woul

kennedy's contribution to the white house. the lincoln bedroom, carpet was installed in the truman renovation. the period wasn't period. the mantle wasn't period. it was still an interesting room. the lower right evolved. didn't change much in the early 2000s. it was still the 1952 carpet on the floor after 50 years of use. the furniture, the lincoln bed, the wonderful center table. this is one where in 2004 first lady laura bush said could we refresh this room and go back to the period documents and do it as right as we can. i think mrs. kennedy would have found that enormously gratifying. you heard her cite using historic documents to put things in their original places and design things correctly. it's a little more victorian than it was then. you see now the lincoln bed with a proper recreation of its crown, wall paper based on the lincoln office, carpeting based on the lincoln office, upholstery based on period things. it's a little stronger than in her time. it's still one of the principle guest bedrooms in the white hou

the white house is starting to travel more. the white house is hitting the roads often. the president went to arizona for the first time and he wanted to make a trip to ohio. that's still in question as to whether or not it will happen. will the president self quarantine for the next 14-day. it is going to be a question and of course what do they recommend him to do. >> kaitlan collins. thank you. >>> our control official is joining me now. let's get straight to this. the president of the united states' aid tested positive for coronavirus. this aid exhibited symptoms yesterday, if it were you if i showed up to your doctor and that's your story. someone who had symptoms yesterday, tested positive, what would your recommendation be? >> recommendation to be quarantined 14 days from the last contact with the confirmed case, in this case, the valet and staying home and no visitors and celebraseparating yourself others. wear a face covering when you are around others. that's the recommendation. >> this is the president of the united states. it is not you and me, you may call h

in the white house. how they're dealing with this right now. >> what it has been is anyone that goes onto the white house grounds, staff, the press, a visitors would all get a temperature check every time you enter in through the gates. in addition to that, aids who are going to be in close contact with the president would get a coronavirus test before being ie contact with him or if you are someone who is regularly in contact with him like larry cud low, we were told those type of people would be tested once a week.we now after this incident with the president's valet coming down with coronavirus and the valet, i should note to put this in context, there is someone who basically takes care of all the president's needs. t you mentioned like serving meals, they make sure the president's clothes are ironed, his shoes are shined. they would pack him for trips and bring him beverages throughout the day, anything they need. there is a small staff often times who are navy personnel who do this at the white hou

white house. now the senate considers an appointment to the office that will be responsible for, among other things, investigating the trump administration, exactly what you criticized. even if i did not have concerns about your independence i still , have concerns about how this administration treats i.g.'s that simply do their job. here's a recent example from friday. the president, after unfairly smearing her, removed christi grimm, the acting i.g. who identified shortages and testing equipment and ppe. mr. miller, you can establish your independence right now in front of this hearing. can you tell this committee that it was wrong for the president of the united states to remove ms. grimm for doing her job and holding the administration accountable? mr. miller: senator, first of all, i'd like to say, i wrote an article defending the independence of inspectors general. i'm always concerned that inspectors general remain independent from any influence, whether it be from the executive or the legi

the white house is always going to be in favor of transparency. the president comes from a world of entrepreneurs where we embrace competition. this is about the minority leader trying to use the bureaucracy at the cdc to bog down the economy. we have got to from this point forward make sure that we adhere to everything, the health-care experts have told us. but we've got to be able to do a couple of things at once and that means a smart resource to the economy. the cdc and other health agencies are targeting the regulations from day number one. they were the most challenging regulatory agencies to rein in. the democrats and bureaucrats who have been content with the status quo has been blocking efforts to deregulate since president trump took office. how we can do that when decades have brought us to the point with the healthcare system in general doesn't make sense to a main street entrepreneur like me who found a different dynamic works. the cdc, for example, was in the driver's seat during the initial stages of the outbreak. their missteps for

house staffers, they're white house representatives, they're white house executives, and everybody has a mask on. we've had just about everybody i've seen today, has worn a mask. >> reporter: are you the one who required that, sir? >> yeah, i did. i did. i required it, yes. please. go ahead. >> reporter: mr. president, you're now promising that everyone who needs a test will be able to get one at some point soon. can you give us some figures on what you're changing to ramp up testing, when will that be a true statement exactly, and how exactly are you going to accomplish that? >> it's a true statement already. we have more testing than any country in the world by far. but i'll let admiral go into a little bit of the future. >> when you look at the testing numbers that we worked with collaboratively with the state leadership, it's not just with the governor but the state health officers, the state epidemiologists, the public health labs, it's really a combination of testing those who need something for diagnosis, diagnostic testing, tracing, but the largest fracking part of th moving in

er for it's already clearly in the white house. it just seems obvious that you would protect yourself. >> dr. phillips, they all get tested when they come to the white house. they do have brief 15-minute tests. but there are concerns about how effective these tests are right now. where apparently there's a rate for about 15%. that's a problem. there's a problem with that test. and a false negative test you get. let's say that test has a 50% false negative rate. and all negative. 15 of them could have the virus. that's what we struggle with in our hospitals. there are more sensitive tests out there that take a slightly longer period of time to get the results back. and that's what we routinely use. and we typically only use but there's a severe emergency that requires them to have a basic procedure. and whether advising them. and getting the most sensitive tests. >> and dr. phillips, i'm going to have you both stand by. there's more medical-related issues we need to discuss. once again we're following breaking news. three members of

>> reporter: the white house insists these aren't official white house numbers. this never went through any vetting. of course the numbers are shocking. they show a dramatic increase in the number of cases per day and the number of deaths we could have per day. all the way up to 3,000 deaths per day. now, the president was asked about this last night in an interview that he had with the "new york post." he dismissed it. he called it fake news. and what the white house is saying officially on this statement is this really didn't come from them. this is an external document, they like to refer to it as a draft government document but nothing anything officially part of the administration. it was really the speed with which the white house tried to distance themselves from this document as it broke midday yesterday. it was somewhat remarkable. trying to put distance between themselves and these projections because, ayman, what the white house wants the focus to be on this week is how you reopen the economy, how you convince americans it's okay to go out, start spend

after september 11th 2001, the white house closed. we are not open to tours and it is gradually reopened. now the old habit, in the original days you just lined up and if you were there by noon you got in on the tour. now they are giving out timed tickets so that you could not spend your whole day standing along the fence. it is required that you have to go to your congress person and submit information to be cleared through the secret service. so it has cut down maybe not quite 50%. most museums and historic sites would die for 700,000 visitors a year. we are the most visited historic house in the world, i think. >> we have a question. >> in the original broadcast mrs. kennedy showed a a shop which upholstery was done on site. i was wondering if there were other craftsman where people were set out for work to be done, in any other locations during mrs. kennedy's overseeing of the reservation? >> and if so is there a way to actually research that. my grandparents had an upholstery business and renovation and it has always been said wi

plus coronavirus in the white house. the scramble to contain the spread and a new policy mandating mask, but why isn't the president wearing one? and the government loan program supposed to be a financial lifeline. many, though, in the restaurant industry say it is failing. let's go out front. >>> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight trump's mission accomplished. the president claiming victory when it comes to testing in the united states. >> we have met the moment, and we have prevailed. >> well, in fact the president is saying the united states is only conducting 300,000 tests a day. the director of the harvard global health institute with a very conservative estimate says the united states needs to be at at least 900,000 tests a day this week. especially considering that a lot of people right now who are even able to get a test have symptoms. they're symptomatic. something president trump pointed out himself today. >> if people want to get tested they get tested. but for the most part they shouldn't w

jeremy diamond is at the white house. what's the white house saying? >> reporter: well ana first of all those comments by president obama were a searing indictment of president trump's handling of this coronavirus pandemic. president obama calling it an absolute chaotic disaster. and what obama said is that he believes this is because of trends being selfish and dwizive divisive. >> it is part of the reason why the response to this global crisis has been so anemic and spotty. even with the best of governments, it has been an absolute chaotic disaster. when that mind set of "what's in it for me," and "to heck with everybody else," when that mind set is operationalized in our government. >> reporter: and the white house is now responding to the comments by the former president saying president trump's coronavirus response has been unprecedented and saved american lives. that is a comment from the white house press secretary. is who also insisted there's been bipartisan recognition of president trump's leer leadersh. and while some of that criticism has b

white house for the new year's reception. and well over 100 african-americans show up for the reception, and mary lincoln was not having it, and forced them to wait until after white guests had gone through so i don't think mary had the same egalitarian strain her husband did. > late in the war, did lincoln solicit or share his thoughts on reconstruction? jonathan: did he share them with whom? >> his black visitors to the white house. jonathan: that is a good uestion. to some extent they did, in terms of reconstruction and talking about expanding the franchise, but i don't know that he did. he certainly talked about public policy. robert smalls is a famous slave from south carolina who escapes and after the war becomes a congressman. smalls gives a speech in the 1880's, in congress, where he talks about when he met with lincoln in 1862, and smalls claims they talked about arming black men to fight, and this was before the emancipation proclamation, so smalls may have influenced lincoln's thinking with regards to that importan

wood is this white house in historical perspective the white house is very different and it's because the president is very different and i think we are in a very divisive time period and he got elected as a sharp partisan capture. it wasn't that he created it greta just think the president has not happened experience as a government official and so business experience and the level of information that you have to provide is a lot less than it is once you get into government asking the question if you want to push was a governor before he came here obama senator they learn that the press is his part of governing and that you may not like it but you. i have to learn to live with it this president doesn't seem to want to live with. and. listen so this week i'm following up on the mother stuff and if we send anything off to anyone else that that's the stuff that we should do because all that stuff that happened in the last 24 hours. recently did feature going back to the border interviewing drug dealers and illegal immigrants so what i'm writing now is basically act 2 of the muller inves