Was joe biden the democratic challenger who is important to call health who is mentally incapable now its their candidate who is seen to be the one who is questionable in terms of his capacity i think if trump was a different type of person you might try to count on the sympathy vote to try to rally people to vote for him but donald trump has never relied on sympathy on the past and he certainly didnt on tuesday night with that very aggressive performance trying to attack by. Now this is a time of a lot of focus on domestic issues anyway but given that this is a president who may now be more preoccupied with with his Health Condition what does this mean for how much attention is left to Foreign Policy issues do you think. I mean i think Foreign Policy wasnt even getting a look in any way the door was shut on it on tuesday night between joe biden and donald trump dont you reference is outside america i can think of was donald trump blaming china for the virus and joe biden saying inshallah. As a bit of a satirical jive trump this is always going to be on domestic policy on coronavirus on the economic downturn on the social racial matters raised by black lives matter so the rest of the world was always going to be a spectator what does it mean for the contact that other World Leaders can have with him now if hes in quarantine does it increase or decrease that and i think its an important question because this is a president whos been known to make decisions all reported to make decisions are personal contact with other World Leaders youll recall the New York Times reporting october 7th 2019 a surprise announcement of u. S. Pullout of troops from syria followed a phone call with the turkish president. Yeah i mean it depends on whether donald trump. Is still well enough to use the phone and as well as using twitter so he can still try to do that in terms of personal contacts for leaders who are already cutting down the chances of contract in this entire action by meeting trump you might remember that the g. 7 summit was cancelled earlier this year in part because im told merkel the german chancellor would not travel to the United States given the risk i think that continues this way i think perhaps more important is is we know that a lot of this trump diplomacy has been done through family and friends for example his son at large air cushion or how much discussion in the final weeks of the Campaign Including a middle eastern issues continue to try to meet foreign leaders and to try to find some kind of good news for the Trump Campaign do we know how much contact hes had with some of those personal family and friends who conduct the policy because i mean if theyre if theyre all now in a potentially testing of positive or are least have to be quarantined for a while that could have a big impact on the Decision Making process right. Thats a great question that a lot of people havent picked up on yet we know that donald trump is likely to have gotten this far its because of his age and his close confidant hope the former Communications Secretary but has he been traveling including in confined spaces like helicopters like airplanes with an advisor like jarrett kirshner with other members of the National Security establishment. Thats being kept i think very close and very hush hush by the white house i suspect there are a lot of tests that are being done today to see if anybody else is positive to be honest with you but the american Foreign Policy machinery was already in just a raid because of the way that this president governs it will be thrown into further uncertainty by this news of the last few hours and what does that may for the stability of Decision Making in Foreign Policy and domestic policy as well given that this is a man who has been known to make decisions on the fly sometimes without legs properly consulting his aides as was the case a member with the announcement of ending military exercises with south korea on june the 12th. You know the american Foreign PolicyForeign Policy machine has almost been broken because there are no adults in the room as it were now those adults who will try to come back in and contain us theyll be the leaders of the military including the chair of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley whos been very very upset with trump and the way that its conducted himself it will be of course secretary of state might come peo whos more truck loyalist it will be the members of the National Security council i think they will try to hold everything together others have been speculating on an october surprise you know whether trump would do something regarding iran possibly aggressive action whether there is yet another deal of the century regarding the middle east to be honest where the i think that speculation i think were pretty much certain for the last 3 weeks of the campaign and that is the trump tactics were going to be a the Supreme Court nomination i think thats been put to the side now and its got to be the idea that only truckie keep america safe that doesnt change even with him being important. Its good to get your thoughts and analysis on that thanks so much scott luke is there thank you youre watching aljazeera were looking at live pictures coming in from the white house as we continue our breaking News Coverage the u. S. President donald trump and the 1st Lady Melania Trump have both tested positive for covert 19 thats after a Senior Adviser hope pics contract of the virus the 74 year old and his wife started their 2 week quarantine and the white house doctor has confirmed the president will continue his duties while recovering in a tweet Vice President mike pence said he sends his love and prayers to the president and 1st lady he also said millions across america are praying for their recovery the Prime Minister of india also reacted on twitter saying wishing my friend donald trump and the 1st lady maloney a quick recovery and good health. White house correspondent kimberly how close joins us now from washington d. C. And kimberly we were talking earlier about this development of donald trump of course being diagnosed as positive with covert 19 theres still a lot of Unanswered Questions this point about what exactly symptoms and his condition may look like right. There are a lot of questions about his condition because we know that the white house is not going to give americans the complete picture because of fear of inciting panic already weve seen reverberations just in the early Financial Markets the impact on this on the economy on american confidence is going to be basked so this is a white house that is going to try and put a positive spin on this and to reassure the public at the same time there are some concerns about what this is going to mean for how things will play out in terms of. The campaign the u. S. Election campaign because what we know is that this was an Election Campaign that was looking ahead to a number of things namely another president ial debate this would be a town hall style in miami october 15th it was already in a little bit of peril given the fact that the 1st president ial debate that took place on tuesday was very much chaotic and tumultuous and many would say one of the worst president ial debates in u. S. History so there were already questions about how this next one was going to proceed it appears now it may not proceed at all given the fact that not only has donald trump now had to go into court and tina and could be gravely ill but the time october 15th rolls around but also there have boyd to be real questions about the safety of joe biden the democratic president ial nominee given the fact that well the 2 men appeared in the same stage with some distance between them there was a lot of yelling a lot of shouting that was going on and it could be the lot of spewing of water droplets which we know is almost an aerosol like the fact that allows for coke at 900. 00 to be transmitted whether or not. Joe biden who is even older than donald trump although not afflicted with obesity could be at risk is certainly. An open question the other open question in all of this is why the white house waited to quarantine the president because its my understanding the whole picks his trusted advisor who we know tested positive may have been exhibiting symptoms of coronavirus or coke at 19 as early as wednesday now we know she took a test on wednesday where she tested negative but then began to feel the symptoms and presumably was tested after that where she tested positive why there wasnt some sort of precaution put in place to self isolate the president the 1st lady is certainly going to be something thats going to be scrutinized by the media and many members of congress in the days to come the other big issue in all of this is the continuity of government we know right now that the. That the Vice President of the United States mike pence would be the next in line should the president not be able to carry out his duties right now there doesnt appear to be any concern that he cannot but things can change very rapidly for a person who is of advanced age like the president and then after that it would be in terms of succession who would fall next in terms of being or acting as the president of the United States if the president cannot carry out his duties would be House Speaker nancy pelosi also of at that stage these individuals now likely will have to be isolated in order to assure that if something happens to donald trump that there can be continuity of government so its very likely that these plans of action are already being activated to assure the health of not only the Vice President but also of the House Speaker nancy pelosi the most prominent democrat the highest profile democrat in the house of representatives kimberly and that segues nicely into the fold of do we know how many people donald trump has been in close personal contact to be the mongst the decision made a circle of Decision Makers that in some cases include close family members like jerry cush nevan could trump and so on people that youd think would have access to a close family member. The Contact Tracing challenge of seeing who has been close to the president and then who has been close to the individual that was close to the president is going to be enormous given his public schedule just this week alone the fact that there was direct tasking that was taking place in advance of the president ial debate but that we know that help hicks was present and now is exhibiting the systems symptoms and testing positive means that all of the people that were present who were helping donald trump prepare for that debate are at risk to that the president to handle him a little bit what does that mean does that mean that all these people now whether they have tested positive or negative yet they they need to be isolated in quarantine because that that could mean theres quite a number of influential policy makers in quarantine right now is that what youre basically getting at. Thats exactly what im getting at is its standard protocol in the u. S. Government already just at the agency levels if you have had whats known as casual contact with somebody who then test positive that as a precaution you are recommended to sell high sleep for 14 days to ensure that you dont not only become infected but then in fact someone else so this presumably is something thats going to have to happen if all of those precautions are being taken now the question becomes why that didnt already happened in the last 48 hours and that is something thats going to be carefully scrutinized but the number of individuals that may have to sell isolate as a result is going to be enormous and the people that have had contact with those individuals you can see how it kind of ripples out in terms of the impact of this given the fact is the president had a packed schedule for example just on. Were on friday morning so it would have been wednesday night he went to new jersey for a fundraiser knowing that his aides maybe potentially have been in fact in or at least was exhibiting the flu like symptoms that we know are characteristic that night t. V. This is going to be a very large question why that occurred why there wasnt any self isolation taking place and perhaps there was the white house is just not been public about it but these are questions that are going to need to be answered because this isnt just an issue of reassuring the American Public this is an issue of National Security were talking not just that this is the president of the United States that tested positive for cocaine 1000. 00 but this is the commander in chief of the u. S. Military and this is the the world power that is being impacted gravely and potentially the right of the rival who is also trying to win the white house in the oval office job i could potentially be infected as well so the ramifications are enormous and im going to have reverberations for hours days and weeks to come all right thanks so much kimberly healthy there from washington d. C. Speak now to dominic amys joining us from berlin and i mentioned earlier weve seen a sly in the european markets following the news about donald trump right dominic. Yeah the reaction the 1st reaction from europe has come in the stock markets the 3 principal stock markets in europe being the footsie in london the docks in frankfurt here in germany and the cac in paris all of them down around about one percent although thats changing a little bit a glance lost at the the markets about 30 seconds or so ago and theyre down that theyre not down by quite as much those the 1st reactions politically the European Reaction well the european heads of government heads of states are in brussels right now for an e. U. Summit and the 1st person of any note to make any reaction so far is shot in the shares he is the president of the European Council and his statement on twitter he said i read it he says wishing donald trump President Trump and flotus the 1st lady lonia trump a speedy recovery covert 19 is a battle we all continue to fight he says every day no matter where we live thats the 1st reaction from a european leader as i say pretty much all of the heads of government heads of states in europe who are in the European Union are currently in brussels and it is not much of an of a prediction to say that it is likely that when news conferences are given by the relevant heads of government and indeed by showing the shirt and a sort of fund lion the president of the European Commission they may well be asked about mr trumps condition President Trumps condition and asked to provide a comment it would be very likely that that would happen so far at least here in germany there has not been a twitter reaction by the foreign minister heikal mass nor indeed by. The spokesperson for the German Government stephan site that he is the press officer the main profit press officer here and would be the person who might communicate something from Angela Merkel the chancellor so no reaction officially from ministers in the German Government their reaction so far is coming from brussels from the president of the European Council at shul and we shall tweeted the scope of 19 is a battle that everybody faces every day no matter where they live but as i say it is very likely indeed that the time will come in the course of the next few hours during the e. U. Summit that still going on in brussels that the individual heads of government will express their opinion because it will certainly be our last for it by reporters because of the the importance that the United States government has in the European Union not just insofar as the European Union is concerned but also because the u. S. Government and the United States has such a role in nato and nato of course is the prime protector as it were of europe and viewers will recall that President Trump over the course of his administration has had difficulties as has said real issues with several european governments notably the German Government about the contributions that germany and other european governments make towards nato make towards defense towards the protection of this continent as i say thats something the President Trump has spoken about many times and other president s to from the United States president obama also expressed when he was in office his concern about the Defense Budgets in europe so that is something that really has energized the european debate but in so far as this news right now is concerned it is shot and michelle who has spoken 1st about it on twitter and as i say it is very likely indeed other leaders will express their perspective when they get the chance when the summit restarts in brussels this morning. Plenty for those leaders to get through than with thanks so much john mccain. Youre watching our continuing coverage of this breaking news story of the u. S. President has announced that he has tested positive for covert 19 as well as the 1st lady that comes after his Senior Advisor hope pics contract of the virus 1st lady maloney are testing positive to both attending that Fund Raising Event in new jersey on thursday afternoon the Top White House doctor says both will quarantine at the white house and that the president will continue his duties while recovering Peter Matthews is a professor of Political Science at suppress college he explains how this new development could potentially impact the president in terms of the upcoming election. About 7 percent of the voters have told the polls or the polling people that theyre not decided yet as to the support by your trunk that 7 percent could be affected by this or maybe even more than that some of trumps own supporters because we dont really know exactly what the severity the onus is yet hes been tested positive you know we want we know that from your eyeballs in vault what shape is president of the army because the conditions are not all when all are but i think this cannot help in any way politically as far as the election goes he told us admitted directly recently that back in february when he knew how the severity of this are asleep it is intelligent people reported to him that it was a pandemic so many people told me i didnt know we knew that was going to china and those coming out its going to hurt the economy and kill many people he just carried it out basically said you know we dont really matter want to i want to do want to tell everyone about it i dont want to scare the American People thats not the way to leave the country in a pandemic in a dangerous situation and given that cynicism and i think he was thinking about the economy and about his election those kind of things for granted fortunes so many so many hundreds of 1000 people died too or 200000 many lives couldnt seem to be taken action immediately basically informationally hat such as massive testing Contact Tracing quarantining early on and introducing downplay the incident Wearing Masks thats unconscionable and thats been a real problem here all round its had an effect not sure going to affect the next few days on a lot of things the markets economy the election lots of things a White House Correspondent once again campbell how that joining us from washington d. C. And kimberly i read out that statement by the doctor saying the president will continue his duties as normal but do we know how differently he will have to conduct those duties now. We only know the next 24 hours in terms of the president s public schedule that prior to the news that he had tested positive for code 19 had been a schedule it included not only a phone call with from the white house with seniors of affected or in some way by hope at 19 ironically now he counts himself among that group but it also included a business to the trump hotel down from pennsylvania avenue in washington where he had planned to meet with supporters and then the president was scheduled to travel to florida for a rally one of many that have been held this week on saturday he was scheduled to travel to wisconsin another pivotal battleground state just like florida the president needs to win in order to win reelection with me now we know that at least in the case of the rally in florida it has been canceled whether or not the one on saturday in wisconsin will continue continue with the president appearing remotely is an open question but for now the official word of the updated daily guidance from the white house is that in fact the president has virtually cleared his schedule as we know hes going to quarantine along with the 1st lady so the president and his doctor indicated that business king proceed as usual that seems to be something of a reassurance to the American Public its not going to be business as usual we know from the public calendar already things have been scaled back what this is is a reassurance of continuity of government that the president is still able to carry out his duties but that could change very rapidly and thats what makes this a National Security situation if you look at this from a global step point in the in the United States has a massive vulnerability in the eyes of its adversaries and this is something that americans that deal with National Security are going to be concern. About are going to be trying to mitigate this is this appearance that things are still strong and ok this is the commander in chief of the u. S. Military this tested positive for covert night t. V. It doesnt get any higher than that so what we know in terms of an activation of continuity of government according to my source and that this is likely has already taken place what that means is that mike pence the Vice President who would be next in line should the president not be able to carry out his duties that he is going to have to sell isolate and so well nancy pelosi the top democrat in the house of representatives because she is the speaker of the house who comes after the Vice President in terms of acting on behalf of the United States and as president as the president cannot so these individuals are now going to have radical changes in their own lives as the u. S. Government tries to reassure the American Public that things continue we expect that the president as long as he can and we saw this it just a few hours ago as he called into fox news that he was talking about the day about hope picks the adviser who has tested positive of presume has passed this on to the president that he believes that things could still carry on and he was wishing her well not revealing that he had also tested positive although its reasonable to believe that the president may have already known at that point given the fact that the test results complete come back so quickly its hard to believe the president didnt know the question becomes why the president didnt scale back its schedule sooner given the fact that we know that his advisor hope kicks began exhibiting some symptoms of coke at 19 as early as wednesday and given what you said there about events are already being canceled the you knows some of the schedule is already being changed do we know wall is Donald Trumps preparedness. Readiness to perhaps delegate for a person whos prided himself as being the deal maker as a person who likes to think that he can impose on his personal intervention can make a difference on policy issues. This is a president that always has and by his own definition is a cheerleader he will be the last to say things are going wrong rarely does the president ever met that i can think of only one occasion baby to in the time of his presidency where hes acknowledged that things are less than desirable this president puts a positive spin on the worst of situations and downplays adversity at the same time this is out of the president s control this is. Covert 19 and this can damage is unlike anything any with living today has ever experienced so the president can project all of this positivity but his body and his genetics are going to really determine how he fares and so in terms of the Election Campaign moving forward its hard to see how this is going to proceed at all the ballots have already been printed and are being mailed out people have already cast their votes in some cases in advance of november 3rd there was already a different kind of us election taking place because of coke at night t. V. And this is only going to exacerbate that but in terms of how this looks moving forward its still very much going to be adjusted based on the condition of health of the president as your guest earlier suggested many can even of advanced age bounce back from that and if that is the case for donald trump in many ways if he gather some sympathy he could also have this appearance of invincibility something that could help him considering hes lagging in the polls. All right thanks so much kimberly washington d. C. Correspondent and well just bring you up today with a new story the breaking news story that weve been covering don trump and the 1st lady of the United States have tested positive for covert 19 they say theyre in good health and theyre quarantining. 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