um we just want to pay you the president
now of course
at walter reed just before he left the
white house he recorded this short video
and tweeted it out let's take a quick
listen
i want to thank everybody for the
tremendous support
i'm going to walter reed hospital i
think i'm doing very well
but we're going to make sure that things
work out the first lady is doing very
well
so thank you very much i appreciate it i
will never forget it thank you
president trump just before leaving the
white house anthony i'm watching that
he's standing there he's wearing his
suit he looks well
perhaps a little pale that's all i'm
seeing
uh a little pale perhaps he wasn't
wearing the the makeup that he sometimes
does that that gives him a little more
color looking
perhaps a little uneasy but given the
circumstances i can
certainly understand that the i think
i'm doing well
a little doubt in the voice of the
president of the united states
who normally talks in in certainties and
with emphasis so
i think this has been a humbling 24
hours for the president
who as you remember just yesterday was
talking about
uh how the coronavirus pandemic was
was getting close to the end so this is
uh definitely
what would assume to be a shocking
development for the president himself
this is a virus that has humbled the
whole world
not just the united states and certainly
not just the white house and certainly
not just the president we saw with boris
johnson
that having the coronavirus changed his
attitude
to this illness he had it very seriously
of course he was in hospital he was
on oxygen the president there walking
out
to marine one at the white house looking
fit and healthy
it does look like what the white house
is saying about this being an abundance
of caution
is is what is happening because there
this is a president who can walk by
himself
but i wonder anthony whether we might
see a similar
change in tone changing political
message
from this president when he recovers
from this
virus i i've been covering the trump
campaign of the trump white house for
long enough to
uh be doubtful about changes in tone and
changes in attitude from this president
that are that are permanent in nature i
remember
donald trump giving a press conference
earlier this year where he talked about
the friend of his who had passed away
from the coronavirus in new york
and there was discussion about how his
attitude had changed how
now the virus was really hitting home
for him and it seemed like it did change
the white house's emphasis
donald trump's personal attitude towards
the virus he started to wear a mask
slightly more often
he started to talk about it as a more
serious threat
but after time he went back to focusing
on the economy
went back to dismissing mask wearing
dismissing some of the people who were
trying
on the local and government state
government levels trying to
impose more strenuous restrictions on
businesses
and individuals and here we find
ourselves again
looking at an uptick in the virus count
in in places like wisconsin
and the midwest across the country so
perhaps this will finally drive the
point home
to donald trump that this is a very
serious matter because it's happening to
him
personally but i will i will wait and
withhold judgment
until i actually see it on the long term
and we did see him wearing a mask there
as he walked out to marine one something
that he
doesn't do very often and which former
white house officials have told me he
really does not like to do and doesn't
like to be seen to do so already some
change there anthony thank you
um very much we have by the way been
told by the white house that that's what
they call a lid for the night there will
be no further statements no further
press briefings from the white house
tonight so we can't expect any more
information from that but let's go
quickly to barbara
pled usher up in walter reed where the
hosp with president now
in his executive suite up there at
walter reed hospital as night falls on
this friday evening
here in washington dc barbara
yes and he's very well equipped there um
that suite we understand is known as an
executive medical treatment center
and it has a dedicated staff of doctors
and nurses and technicians who are
trained
to switch over to presidential care from
their daily
rounds if it should happen and so they
were able to prepare for him
very quickly the place has a lot of
office space we understand
communications eating facilities it has
places for family members places for
secret service
uh to stand as well and so it is truly
equipped
for mr trump to continue to do his job
from there
as the white house has said he plans to
do and as he got off the
helicopter here he also walked off he
waved at people there were supporters up
against the gate
uh he waved at them uh and then got into
a car and drove to the hospital so all
along katie he has given this
uh this image of being in control of the
situation as he was coming here
okay barbara plattache there at walter
reed hospital where the president
has now been admitted he will be in this
executive suite for the next few days
there is a lid from the white house we
will not get any more information out of
the white house as far as we understand
it tonight at least not in an official
capacity
of course over the course of the weekend
uh everybody will be monitoring his
progress and we hope that we will hear
more from the white house about it over
the weekend from me kathy kay in
washington
that's it thanks so much for watching
this special coverage