Also coming up on the program 6 days of fighting dozens dead but now signs of compromise on the news government says its ready to discuss a cease fire in a going to occur. And defiant protesters continue their calls for justice over the gang rape and deaths of 2. 00 women in india. Welcome to the program u. S. President donald trump and his wife melania are in isolation off to testing positive for code 19 displaying mild symptoms of the virus a white house doctor said that trying received experimental antibodies and that he remains fatigued after the diagnosis how long the president s isolation is set to last all that depends on how unwell he becomes u. S. Health Authorities Say people miss self isolate for 10 days after a positive test and even longer if they present symptoms and even off of that trial might have to test negative twice in a row with those test on at least 24 hours apart the crucial question how is this going to affect the Election Campaign says all preannounced events involving the 1st family will either be perspire owned or held online its not clear if trump will be able to attend the next president ial debate which has been set to be held on the 15th of october and of course. Says just weeks to go until americans pick a new president in an election thats been defined by a corona Virus Outbreak this killed more than 270000 people in the u. S. Well alan fischer joins us live now from the white house and so allan that has been confusion and uncertainty but to any more information coming from the white house about the the president s condition. Well certainly the update we got from the press secretary in the last was informative it told is that as you say the president is fatigued but in good spirits we are told that hes been conducting business from the residence the building that you see behind me where he is self isolating its interesting that he was given these experimental antibodies because they havent yet been given regulate to be approval so its clearly something that theyre doing to see if this will help his condition and of course the president will make a decision along with his doctors if any fire 30 treatment is needed there is a big medical unit inside the building behind me so if he were to deteriorate in any significant way they could treat him here and then if things go wash the could move him to a hospital nearby ice for joe biden while hes been on the campaign trail in michigan just in the last hour hes made the point that this is not a political moment this is a moment where people should be taking a view of an american moment where people should walk together and he said this is a reminder that everyone really should be Wearing Masks but theres absolutely no date when were often told that president ial elections havent tobar surprise this was a surprise which is completely up ended the president ial race. From the white house the chief of staff says the president is showing symptoms but walking normally i got. 5 or 6 things that he asked me to do like i do every single morning he wouldnt confirm when they knew the president was at risk after clue seed who picks tested positive we discovered that right as. The green one was taking off yesterday we actually pulled some of the people that have been traveling in close contact democratic challenger joe biden stude on the same stage as the president on tuesday hes know been tested for the virus and is negative he sent his best wishes tweet. Jill and i send our thoughts to President Trump and 1st lady a millennia trump for a swift recovery we will continue to pray for the health and safety of the president and his family before his diagnosis transformed an american t. V. Show and talked about having been exposed its a tough kind of a situation its a Terrible Bank so i just want to protest and well see what happens i mean who knows trump has several risk factors that put him in danger of complications from covert 19 hes in his mid seventys and overweight will have to wait for the next few days and you know for some people get really sick within hours but you know some people dont get sick until we get in so we have to really be carefully observing the situation the president has not worn a mask often including at his own rallies where many of his supporters reject the Science Behind the idea. His Team Including family members went with masks at the debate on tuesday trump even ridiculed democratic candidate joe biden for were going to ask as recommended by virtually all Public Health experts i dont wear masks like him every time you see him hes got a mask he could be speaking 200 feet away from him he shows up with the biggest mask of ever seen House Speaker nancy pelosi also sent her best wishes to the president but said this was a lesson to be learned this is tragic its very sad but it also is something that again going into crowds unmasked and all the rest the sort of a brazen invitation for Something Like this to happen its sad that it did but nonetheless hopeful that it will be a transition to a saner approach to what this virus is all about. No theres a question over how this impacts campaigning on both sides the president is behind nationally and in certain key swing states 2 weeks in self quarantine wont help that trump joins other World Leaders including brazils president and the u. K. Prime minister who can try to divide us the white house says they expect him to make a full recovery. And of course alan this means that President Trump is going to be out of action will for at least a few weeks just a month before the election itself how could that impact his Campaign Given particularly with his supporters as they when he were lying on his speeches in his his galvanizing presence. It complicates things in a number of ways 1st of all donald trump was running on the idea that we were rounding the bend on covert that he gave a speech just a couple of hours before his positive diagnosis saying that we were seeing the light at the end of the tunnel clearly that argument has been smashed apart by what has happened to the president in the last 1218 hours or so he was talking to about how the economy was approving that becomes difficult new job figures out in the last few hours suggest that not as many jobs have been added to the American Economy as many independent analysts predicted in certainly as the white house was hoping so that makes things difficult as well getting out in a boat allows him to generate interest to generate local Media Coverage to generate money to his campaign which has been struggling over recent months if he cant go out and campaign he needs to spend more money on t. V. Advertising they dont have that sort of money to do it in any huge scale particularly in the states where joe biden is competitive and in fact joe biden is in the lead its also difficult for the republicans to swivel to a lot of virtual campaigning its not something theyve been doing not something theyre terribly good at the democrats have been doing it for much longer with that jewel tone holes and meetings and fundraising and so its much easier for them to do it also joe biden will no be a lot more high profile when hes on the campaign trail he doesnt have to compete against the president s voice many people said that part of Hillary Clintons problem was that she was drowned by donald trump seeing things it didnt have to be anything exciting but he said things that got a great deal of coverage 4 years ago and that led to people seeing him on the every single day so for all of those reasons this appends the election race youve got to remember when you look at the recent polls donald trump is behind 8 points nationally forget the National Polls look at the state polls and then in the states with that are competitive that are swing. States he is behind in a lot of those and he really needed to start gaining ground one way to do that is to be out and about he simply wont be able to do that for the next 2 weeks and then there is the overarching question of just how ill is donald trump we know that the white house hasnt been fully transparent about Health Issues in the past with the president remember he went to walter reed the local hospital a short time ago thats part of the white house told is the 1st part of his medical in never took the 2nd part and there was speculation which donald trump eventually had to talk about but whether or not hed had a mini stroke he of course denied that his doctors said that wasnt the case but it left questions about how often the white house will be about the health of the 74 year old president one thing to point out ive been here on the white house campus many times over the last few months particularly since covered became a huge thing there are a lot more people who watch in that building behind me Wearing Masks today than they have been in the last 6 months thanks very much from the white house alan fischer. Meanwhile democratic president ial nominee joe biden is campaigning in the swing state of michigan as you hearing allan just mention that he says that trumps infection is a reminder of how serious the pandemic is. Like to start by acknowledging in which our hero you do as well so you my prayers for the health and safety of the 1st lady and president proves the United States after they tested positive for cuba 90 by way of joe and i prove that they will make a quick and full recovery this is not a matter of politics its a bracing reminder to all of us who have to take this virus seriously and us versions of us have been reacting to trans positive coverage 1000. 00 positive diagnosis with some split on whether its going to impact the election. I think one of his biggest sort of strategies was to make joe biden appear too weak to be president and so that hes got coronavirus that sort of takes that factor away so i think it could potentially greatly impact the election and put things more in bidets favor surprised it didnt happen much earlier. If he is not paid attention to the rules of these encourage other people not to Pay Attention to the rules so i hope its a lesson i dont really think it will impact the election that much i dont think people will change their opinion because he has it now. I do worry that you know i hope he is well and he doesnt get sick very sick i think that ive already seen on fox news today that theyre saying like oh well if hes 75 and he doesnt get severely ill then maybe older people arent as high risk as they think so im hoping it doesnt take the negative impact and it actually gets better so what could happen if president jiang gets too sick to perform his president ial will it could temporarily transfer power to the Vice President might and some of the 25th amendment of the u. S. Constitution and has tested negative for the virus but if he falls ill as well the baton is then pasta nancy pelosi the senior democrat who is speaker of the house of representatives if trump dies or is too sick to stand in the election the Republican Party will need to choose a new nominee but voting has already started and his name might still stay on the ballot so im joined now by Daniel Freeman former counsel and parliamentarian to the House Judiciary Committee and author of the house was my home a book about his career on capitol hill. Can i just start by asking you can you remember another time where youve seen events like this play out just weeks before an election no. Absolutely sounded. Very unusual. How do you think this is its likely to play out in the coming weeks because obviously President Trump is not going to be able to continue with campaigning we know that events have been either spun all on moved online how is that likely to to impact his position in the race given that hes already behind in the polls not just nationally but also in those crucial swing states well id learned a long time ago never to guess what politicians are going to do by can tell you about what the options are there are a lot of discussion about moving the election back. And that is very present in some of the press today but thats not going to happen because all of the dates that are set for this electoral process are set by congress and it takes an act of congress to change that so the question is what are the things that can happen and when and that will govern what the results are going to be if. The president either dies or becomes incapacitated between now and then look over 30 election day. The Political Party his will decide the Republican National committee with the democratic National Committee would do the replacement this is never happened with a president ial candidate but its happened 7 times with Vice President ial candidates and theres always the question of what to do with the president does in all those ballots that people are voting early on contain his name the 2nd time frame is a candidate. Becomes incapacitated or dies between the election of november 3rd and the Electoral College meeting in december 14th party rules would still apply the replacement candidate would be named by the National Party or they could even reconvene a Party Convention thats probably not very likely. The parties still control so what happens if a candidate dies or becomes incapacitated between the Electoral College vote which is december 14th and the you know the region on january 20th most scholars of this issue feel that the action of the Electoral College those people in the state capitals who will be voting on december 14th that that is the actual election and we dont have to wait for the formal joint session of congress to. Resolve who is going to be the president if the Vice President elect. He would become the president elect should the president elect. Then the vice presidency would subsequently be still under the 25th amendment and so can i ask you what what can you give us a sense of what might be happening now behind the scenes because we know that with the coronavirus obviously the president now has mild symptoms but its not about its roughly day 10 of having the virus that symptoms can potentially become much more severe depending on on how the virus plays out within the individual now. What sort of situation were likely to see in terms of a white house advisers being in touch with members of congress who are also getting information from the team of doctors that are providing medical treatment for the president. Well this white house has not been very forthcoming with Accurate Information on a lot of friends and i know a lot of people are concerned that though the American Public will not get the truth about the president s condition. That being said. Everybody is interested in what happens because it will affect america starting january 20th one way you deal with. It is no wonder why its as president or Vice President by Inauguration Day ok. Actually dr freeman were just getting some information now that present trump is going to move to a special suite at the Walter Reed National military Medical Center for the next few days as a precautionary measure so that so that suggests that he is now going to leave the white house they are moving him to the walter reed medical facility but it doesnt seem as though that is caused by any sudden change or deterioration in President Trumps medical condition it appears to be more a cautionary measure a preemptive move so that if the situation deteriorates very quickly if his condition takes a turn for the worse that he is in a place where he can receive immediate care. Well certainly being at walter reed which is an extraordinary medical facility is better than being in the white house. If you were potentially going to get worse and nobody knows whats going to happen with that and we could also have the situation where the president becomes incapable of performing his duties and if he sends a notification to the congress that he is incapacitated then mike pence the Vice President would become the acting president during that time of into passage and it would be up to the president then to notify the members of congress that he was back in the saddle as they say in that he was now back being president and then mike pence would go back to being Vice President but i cant im not a very political person but i cant imagine anybody whos managing a Republican Campaign whether its for president or down to dogcatcher. Is. Chuffed up or how this is playing you know this is not good news for people on the republican side that the if the president s coattails are weak because the president s bill action is weak it could be a devastating landslide thank you very much appreciate your thoughts said Daniel Freeman thanks for joining us we cannot go to alan fischer cause hes also monitoring the situation at the white house articles we just had this news that President Trump is being moved to a different facility so has he has now left the white house. He hasnt we had a suspicion that something was going on because here at the white house theyve a thing called the travel pool the travel pill covers all of the president s events and when