Trump Is Now 6th Head of State to Test Positive for COVID-19; CNN's Original Series, "First Ladies," Premiers Sunday at 10:00 P.M.
MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I'm Matthew Chance, in Moscow, where Vladimir Putin has sent President Trump a telegram wishing him and the first lady a speedy recovery. Putin said their, quote, inherent vitality, good spirits and optimism would help them cope." But, of course, it is more than just those qualities that the Russian leader has depended on to defend himself against COVID-19. Unlike Trump, Putin has spent much of the pandemic in a virtual bubble, usually speaking to his officials by video conference, canceling all foreign trips, according to the Kremlin. And working mainly from his residence outside of Moscow where disinfectant tunnels that spray visitors down as they pass through have been installed.</s>KEILAR: U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, have undergone their own public battles with COVID-19. I want to bring in CNN's Shasta Darlington, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Nic Robertson, in London, to talk about this. Nic, let's start with Boris Johnson. When he fell ill, we remember the video. He seemed to not be doing too badly. And there ended up being a lot of spin coming from 10 Downing Street that he was doing well when we know it got very serious.</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yes, and it was really serious. And when the prime minister got out of hospital he praised the two nurses who gave him through oxygen through one of the nights where it was touch and go if he would survive. It is a near- death experience for him. I think there were several takeaways. You talk about the spin, 10 Downing Street continuing to tell the British public, even after the prime minister was admitted to hospital, that he was reading his ministerial papers. And then the next day, the country wakes up to the fact that the prime minister is now in ICU in intensive care. That in and of itself, that spin was one thing but getting into intensive care really shocked the nation and there was a surge of support for the prime minister. He hadn't been handling the pandemic well but this boosted his popularity. When he got out of hospital, however, that fell away. And I think it was when he got out of hospital, he made some statements on camera. And I think people could see how weak he was looking. But he had to take two weeks off work because he wasn't strong enough to get back in the game of running the country. So I think those were the big takeaways. But there's one other piece of the picture that doesn't get talked about a lot and that was, while the prime minister was ill, his ability to control 10 Downing Street, control his office and his key ministers, seemed to unravel a little. His chief adviser, who had COVID symptoms, drove hundreds of miles across the country against COVID lockdown regulations. They even suggested later that he'd done to test his eyesight because he wasn't sure how he would cope with all of the driving. So while the prime minister was away, his control and ability to get people to do what he wants, that was not in place. And that really, that issue about his chief adviser driving the length of the country, that is something that has really come back to haunt him a lot in these many months later.</s>KEILAR: What an odd thing. Nic, thank you for that. And, Shasta, what about President Bolsonaro, how did he handle it, especially considering how much he downplayed the virus before falling ill with it.</s>SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Brianna, his case was really very different from Boris Johnson. For months, Bolsonaro referred to COVID-19 as a, quote/unquote, "little flu." He slammed governors and local governments for closing schools and businesses. And then in early July, he tested positive. But he reported a very mild case. He went into isolation. But he spent a lot of the time boasting about how the use of Hydroxychloroquine was keeping him safe. He continued to greet supporters who would line up outside of the residence across a water canal. He would greet them and, in some cases, get quite close to them. In the end, he even did cross the canal and see some of them in person. After a few weeks, he was back on the job. He was able to use the fact that recovery was quick, that he didn't have serious symptoms, to continue arguing the dangers of the virus were overplayed. He insisted that hunger and unemployment could end up killing more people than the virus itself. And so he continued to hold in-person meetings and hold rallies. And this in a country where more than 4.8 million people have contracted COVID-19 and some 145,000 people have died -- Brianna?</s>KEILAR: Shasta and Nic, thank you so much. It is great context. We appreciate it. In the last few hours, we've learned of at least three new cases of coronavirus in people who have been in or around the White House. We'll take you there live with an update on the president's condition and his postponed campaign events. First through, a sneak peek at this Sunday's premier of the CNN original series "FIRST LADIES."</s>BARACK OBAMA, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I would not be standing here tonight without the first lady.</s>UNIDENTIFIED GIRL: When you were little, did you want to be the first lady?</s>MICHELLE OBAMA, FORMER FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES: I didn't know I could be the first lady.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What she was interested in was changing the world.</s>HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES & FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: Humans rights are women's rights.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My god, a woman who is actually trying to do something different.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All he wanted to hear was I was wonderful and all she was going to do was tell him the truth.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She would ask questions. She stepped up when she saw things were going the wrong direction.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She gets the last word.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She's 31 years old. She stands up to all of the president's advisers.</s>M. OBAMA: When they go low, we go high.</s>ANNOUNCER: The new CNN original series, "FIRST LADIES", premieres Sunday at 10:00 on CNN