CNN: Top Trump Adviser Stephen Miller Tests Positive for Virus

Erin Burnett OutFront

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4.4 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The COVID-19 outbreak at the White House is growing. Eleven people have been confirmed to have the virus including President Trump's top adviser Stephen Miller. Miller confirmed it in a statement to CNN. He said he had been working remotely and self-isolating, testing negative for the past five days except for Tuesday when he tested positive. Along with Miller, two more press aides tested positive for the virus. As the cases in the White House grow, senior pentagon leadership are quarantining as well. Tuesday, the Pentagon announced a top U.S. Coast Guard official tested positive. President Trump has stopped stimulus talks with Democrats. He tweeted, he would resume the negotiations after he wins the elections. The DOW closed 375 points following his announcement. Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden is sharing a message of unity. He also warned of the "cost of division" in a speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Biden delivered a call to turn past a moment he said is "neither good nor normal" and unify. Michelle Obama is also giving her final push for Biden as election day nears. The Joe Biden campaign released her video message Tuesday, where the former first lady urged undecided voters to vote their conscious. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.2	Out front next, breaking news, Stephen Miller, one of the president's top advisors, testing positive for coronavirus.
1:07.9	This news just into CNN this moment, bringing the number of White House
1:11.5	COVID-known cases to at least 11. That is as of what we know of. The White House still
1:17.7	dodging the basic question of how many. Why? I'm going to ask the White House Deputy
1:22.2	Spokesperson, plus House Speaker Nancy Pelosi questioning Trump's mental state after he abruptly
1:27.4	pulls the plug on stimulus negotiations.
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1:38.1	We'll tell you what they are. Let's go out front.
1:42.2	And good evening. I'm Erin Burnett. Out front tonight. The Breaking News, the White House coronavirus outbreak is growing tonight. We have just learned that top Trump advisor Stephen Miller has just tested positive for coronavirus. This is video of him from last Wednesday. You see him there along with Hope Hicks. Obviously, no one there
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