That information ultimately ended up in the president's daily briefing.

So what did they know and when and what was being said publicly?

Here's our chief White House correspondent, Jonathan Karl.

Tonight, ABC News has learned U.

S intelligence agencies were warning way back in November that an out of control disease was sweeping through China.

The dire warning was detailed in a report by the military's National Center for Medical Intelligence.

As recently as two days ago, President Trump said, nobody saw the warning.

This came out of nowhere.

Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened.

The November intelligence report determined the virus was changing patterns of life in China and posing a threat to U.

S forces in Asia, analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event, a source familiar with the report tells ABC News, adding the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's joint staff and the White House were briefed multiple times.

The Pentagon receiving intelligence assessment on covert in China last November from the National Center for Medical Intelligence of D.

I.

A.

I can't recall George, but we have many people that watch this closely.

By early January, sources tell ABC News the information was included in the President's Daily Intelligence brief.

Later that month, the president said the threat was under control.

We have it under control.

It's ah gonna be just fine tonight, the president responded to the ABC News report.

When did you first learn about the intelligence and could you have acted on it then?

Well, I learned when I started when I learned about the gravity of it was sometime just prior to closing the country to China.

And when we closed up the flights coming in from China and various other elements, and then, as you know, we closed up to Europe S O.

I don't know exactly, but I'd like to see the information ABC News restarts of the Pentagon repeatedly during our reporting on this story, we just got a response.

They say the story is incorrect, and that quote a national Center for medical Intelligence.

Corona virus related products slash assessment in November does not exist.

David John, we appreciate it.

Hi, everyone.

George Stephanopoulos here.

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