Let's get the latest from the White House.

Have he has mild symptoms as we way.

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The doctor will continue.

Thio provide expertise.

Uh uh, In the residents, He's in the residents now, Uh uh.

In true fashion, he's probably critiquing the way that I'm answering these questions.

Uh uh, and I can tell you that a number of us will be reporting back to him on the task at hand.

What day and time would just clear this up.

What day and time did you find out that hope Picks had tested positive digits, Sit on it until after the president went out to his fundraiser in New Jersey.

Actually, as we look at this, I'm not going to get into the ticktock.

I can tell you, in terms of hope, hope Hicks.

We discovered that, right?

As, uh, the Marine one was taking off yesterday, we actually pulled pulled some of the people that have been traveling in close contact.

The reason why it was reported out, just frankly, is that we had already started the contact tracing just prior to that, uh, event Aziz.

You know, last night, even in in the early hours of this morning.

Uh, the minute we got a confirmatory test on the president, we felt like it was important to get the news out there at that time.

And so uh uh, that's why we sent out the tweet late, late or actually, early this morning way.

Why aren't you wearing?

Yeah, eso I've obviously been tested were hopefully more than 6 ft away.

And if if there's any any concern there from a guidance standpoint, we have protocols in place and we You know when?

When?

When?

When?

Earlier, Early on, When we first started to tackle the cove.

It 19 battle.

We actually did two different things in, uh, in the White House.

Ah, number of contingencies as we looked at, Not only additional testing, but but certainly, uh uh, mitigating the risk for for social distances in in private meetings and and the like.

But I think it goes to the broader question is is even with a lot of the mitigating factors, Jim, uh, what you What you have is a virus that is contagious.

That that's certainly, uh, continues to be, regardless of whatever protocol we have, uh, that that it has the ability to affect everybody.

As you know, the president, uh, we keep a pretty wide circle.

All of you that have interacted with him know that.

And so even with that wide circle around the president, we way find that, uh, he's having to deal with this, like so many millions of other Americans and people around the world have had to do, I can tell you, I can tell you that what we're doing is focusing, uh, on the therapeutics, the vaccines continuing to do that.

And that doesn't change the oh, really quickly.

Officials who are on the flight with president on Wednesday, including Kushner Scavino.

I think Stephen Miller was there.

Are they?

14 have been tested way.

We've tested all of our core staff, and I can tell you that, uh uh, Mr Mr Kushner, Mr.

Scavino myself, a number of of us have been tested, have come back with with negative results.

And yet, at the same time, I fully expect that as this virus continues to go on, other people in the White House will certainly, uh uh have, ah positive test result.

And we've got the mitigation, uh, plan in place to make sure that the government not only continues Thio to move forward, but the work of the American people continues to work for move forward.

And so even as, uh is recent is this morning at a little after eight o'clock, the president was giving me a number of things Thio to make sure that I get done.

And I'm sure that I will actually have those, Uh uh do outs have to be back to him later today.

I've I've gotta wrap mainly.

I'm not gonna ask eso.

I wanted to come out and given update to all of U s.

So that show the courtesy of giving an update.

We'll have future updates.

I'll be glad to do that.

But any other specifics at this point would would be not.