Trump Returns to Oval Office Despite White House Outbreak

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Two top aides are now wearing protective equipment with an infected President Trump returning to the Oval Office. Mike Pence and Kamala Harris face off in the first Vice Presidential Debate amid new pandemic precautions. U.S. coronavirus death toll tops 211,000 with 7.5 million cases. White House official concedes that Trump is not tested daily but “regularly”. Trump says he wants to talk to Nancy Pelosi about the stimulus bill despite abruptly canceling negotiations. Sen. Warren joins the show to talk about Trump putting lives at risk. Dr. Fauci says the U.S. could see as many as 400,000 pandemic deaths this winter. Eight U.S. states are seeing record new coronavirus numbers. U.S. averaging 44,000+ new cases daily. Positivity rate five times higher in some New York “red zones”. Trump calls new FDA guidance on vaccine a “political hit job”. Wisconsin sets a new record for daily coronavirus hospitalizations. Britain facing possible test shortage as coronavirus cases climb. Scotland is putting new restrictions on bars & restaurants. Germany and France are seeing a growing number of hospitalizations. Holiday crowds throng China’s Great Wall amid pandemic. 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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1:01.0	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
1:03.8	I'm Will Flitzer in the situation room.
1:05.8	We're following breaking news.
1:07.8	President Trump leaving the White House residents for the Oval Office, despite his COVID
1:11.7	infection and the growing outbreak among White House
1:14.4	staff in what is truly a stunning display of disregard for the health of those
1:18.4	around him. CNN has learned that White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Social Media
1:23.8	advisor Dan Scavino have been with the president in the Oval Office and that
1:28.1	they wore personal protective equipment. We can expect all of this to be front and center just hours from now at the
1:34.8	vice presidential debate when Mike Pence and Kamala Harris face off for the first time
1:39.2	in a historic contest. Senator Harris would be the first female vice president and the first
1:44.2	person of color to be vice president. The debate comes on a night when the US
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