INCLUDING MEMBERS OF DETAILS WHO
THOSE MAY BE.
AND THE PRESS WHO INTERACTED
WITH THE PRESIDENT DURING
YESTERDAY'S TRAVEL, THE
PRESIDENT'S LAST PREVIOUS TEST
AS WE JUST REPORTED WAS ON
TUESDAY WHEN HIS TEST RESULT WAS
NEGATIVE.
HE WAS AT CHURCH WHEN HE GOT
BACK FROM OVERSEAS ON SUNDAY,
VERY BRIEFLY WE DID SEE HIM
AGAIN PUBLICLY AS I NOTED
YESTERDAY, BUT HIS PUBLIC
APPEARANCES HAVE BEEN QUITE
LIMITED SO FOR NOW WE ONLY HAVE
A LIMITED VIEW OF WHO HE WOULD
HAVE BEEN AROUND IN THE COURSE
OF THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS, LAST
48 HOURS WHERE WE MAY HAVE BEEN
IN A POSITION TOIN FECK OTHERS
AROUND HIM BUT THOSE ARE THE
QUESTIONS HERE AT WHITE HOUSE.
>> AND YOU STARTED TO TOUCH ON
THIS PETER, BUT IT IS WORTH
REPEATING AND GETTING INTO THE
SPECIFICS OF IT.
BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT, ANY
PRESIDENT IS WELL PROTECTED, A
PRESIDENT WHO IS 79 YEARS OLD IN
THE FACE OF A COVID PANDEMIC ALL
THE MORE SO.
AND THERE ARE PROTOCOLS THAT HE
HAS BEEN OBSERVING SINCE HE CAME
INTO OFFICE ABOUT WHO COULD HAVE
CONTACT WITH THE PRESIDENT AND
WHAT YOU HAVE TO ESTABLISH TO
BECOME IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH THE
PRESIDENT.
YOU COULD WALK US THROUGH THAT.
>> YEAH.
YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.
THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN VERY
STRICT IN THESE PROTOCOLS AND
FRANKLY FOR THE COURSE OF THE
TIME THAT -- SINCE THIS
PRESIDENCY BEGAN, IN ORDER TO BE
IN WHAT WE DESCRIBE AS THE PRESS
POOL, THE GROUP THAT WOULD
INTERACT WITH THE PRESIDENT IN
SOME CLOSE SPACE, YOU WOULD HAVE
TO TEST NEGATIVE THAT DAY.
IF YOU WERE BEING INVITED INTO
THE OVAL OFFICE, YOU WOULD HAVE
TO HAVE A NEGATIVE TEST.
AND THAT WASN'T UNIQUE TO THE
PRESS.
THAT APPLIES TO THE MEMBER OF
KORLD AND THE WORLD LEADERS AN
THE MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDENT'S
OWN STAFF WHO WE WOULD SEE
WEARING DIFFERENT NEON BRACELETS
OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS,
THAT WOULD INDICATE THAT THEY
WERE NEGATIVE AS YOU WALKED
AROUND CAMPUS.
AND IF YOU WERE POSITIVE, YOU
WERE NOT NOT ALLOWS ON CAMPUS
BUT YOU WOULD HAVE TO TEST
NEGATIVE AFTER A PERIOD OF I
BELIEVE IT WAS TEN DAYS.
I TESTED POSITIVE A WHILE BACK
AND THOSE RESTRICTIONS WERE
CERTAINLY APPLIED TO ME AS THEY
ARE APPLIED TO EVERYBODY ELSE.
SO THE EFFORT WAS TO MAKE SURE
THAT ANYBODY WHO CAME INTO THE
PROXIMITY WITH THE PRESIDENT HAD
TO HAVE THOSE TESTS.
THERE WERE OBVIOUSLY LARGE
EVENTS, BIG GATHERINGS ON THE
SOUTH LAWN, NOT EVERY INDIVIDUAL
WHO GATHERED FOR THAT WOULD NEED
TO BE TESTED BUT FOR EVENTS
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IN THE
ROOSEVELT ROOM OR THE SITUATION
ROOM OR IN THE OVAL OFFICE,
THOSE INDIVIDUALS WOULD HAVE
BEEN TESTED AND IT WOULD APPLY
TO THE INDIVIDUALS MOST OFTEN
WHO WOULD BE IN THE FIRST ROWS
OF SOME OF THE PUBLIC EVENTS
THAT THE PRESIDENT WOULD BE