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Hello and welcome to the program im pete adult observers of american actions often talk about an october surprise the unexpected event all revelation that reshapes the campaign into its final days but few would could have predicted the announcement that came early on friday President Donald Trump and trump have both tested positive for covert 19 that followed news that trumps top aide hope hicks had contracted the virus the day before will bring and i guessed in a moment but 1st this report from rob reynolds the news came in a late night tweet from the white house President Donald Trump wrote tonight the 1st lady and i tested positive for covert 19 we will begin our quarantine and Recovery Process immediately we will get through this together. It is not known how despite elaborate precautions and constant testing of white house officials the White House Press corps and others in contact with trump the president contracted the virus but earlier one of trumps top aides hope hicks was confirmed to have tested positive hicks accompanied the president to the debate in Cleveland Ohio on tuesday trump phoned in to a Fox Television program earlier on thursday and talked about hicks having been exposed its a tough kind of a situation its a Terrible Bank so i just want to test it and well see what happens i mean who knows the white house physician sean conley said trump and the 1st lady are both well at this time and that the White House Medical Team will maintain a vigilant watch lonnie a trump later tweeted we are feeling good trump has several risk factors that put him in danger of complications from covert 19 he is in his bid seventys and overweight would have to wait for the next few days. You know for some people get really sick within hours but you know some people dont get sick until week after and so we have the reading be carefully observing the situation trump has declined to wear a mask on many occasions of clothing at rallies where many of his supporters also refused to wear a mask. His entourage including family members went masculists at the tuesday debate trump even ridiculed democratic candidate joe biden for wearing a mask as recommended by virtually all Public Health experts i dont wear mess like him every time you see him hes got a mask he could be speaking 200 feet away from and he shows up with the biggest mask ive ever seen if trump were to become seriously ill and unable to carry out his duties the constitution provides for a Vice President mike pence to take over temporarily pence said he is praying for trumps recovery there can be no spin you can you know harbor ups there has to be clear understanding of what is going on with this person this president United States because otherwise if hes not going past the to take care of the business he will have to be by the 25th amendment transition has to occur. But a glaring question now is how the news will affect trumps Reelection Campaign already trailing nationally and in certain important swing states it would seem that trump can ill afford to stay out of commission for a quarantine period of 2 weeks trump joins other World Leaders including brazils president gyre balsa naro and the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson who have contracted the virus worldwide the death toll from covert done teen has exceeded 1000000 rob reynolds aljazeera. Ok lets introduce the panel today here on inside story in philadelphia weve got Claire Finkelstein professor of law and philosophy at the university of Pennsylvania Law School in knoxville tennessee weve got jason emmett professor of International Law at Lincoln Memorial university is also a former chairman of the Young Republican National federation and from essex in the u. K. Weve got natasha lynn stat professor of u. S. Government at the university of essex welcome to you all clear if i can come to you 1st how important is totally see through transparency on the part of the white house moving forward. As very very important because the white house needs to show that theyre under control that they are taking this seriously that they care about the people who the president and the 1st lady and hope picks may have infective their rhetoric is badly undercut unfortunately the president s refusal to take precautions his ridiculing as your lead in mentioned of joe biden for taking precautions his attacks throughout this pandemic on governors who put stay at home orders in place the attack on wearing mask the rallying his base particularly far right supporters to rebel against these precautions just recently we had the attorney general saying that the requirement to wear a mask was the greatest interference with civil rights since slavery so weve had a lot of rhetoric that is attacking the need to take precautions and this is absolutely critical now for that for the white house but also for the campaign to figure out how theyre going to situate themselves relative to this to these attacks because they are a position has now been very badly undercut jason have we got a snapshot or an open window here as well on to a white house in chaos the news of the covert 19 test or having the test before the test result came back positive was a leak in effect and it was caused by or we got that information because journalists were drilling into hang on whats going on with hope picks the president is so close to her it wasnt a press release it wasnt a tweet from the Vice President it wasnt even the press secretary doing an on shuttle news briefing. Well after all i like to say everything the claims of the director and government are all about marine one the administration what every administration has and im and newt mr big and its not going to be able to be covered up. We have a particularly chaotic white house you know where. And i think this will grow in a little bit more chaos lets say the least because i dont think its the end of who runs the that we know whos been the problem and the track and run errands and i just like to say to my my problem prayers are with our family and with an ugly atmosphere every a because its good for the nation and its good. And coming natasha in culture so that this idea that hope picks had it she was tested she was tested positive and then she got on to air force one and she traveled with the president and thats crucially important for them clearly but also for americans when it comes to absorbing the general you know antique ovid 19 Health Message because they have a very close very intimate relationship were told shes almost like a an adopted daughter to him they really get each other in another life they would be friends. Right i mean im actually surprised that trump didnt contract the virus sooner with the raid that he was following the rules and never wearing a mask now its been reported that there were there was constant testing going on of people that are around him but he was exposed to a lot of people that have the virus with the secret Service Staff or his sons girlfriend there are many people that contracted the virus and would have been reported was that he and the people that surround him were being more lax about things werent Wearing Masks werent he protective measures and so obviously hes going to contract it at some point but this present a problem for him because hes been trying to downplay the virus to the American Public he said many times this is going to go away its just like the flu this is no big deal and as the report already mentioned he was making fun of joe biden programming a mask so hes going to have to really work out what kind of messages you want to send to the American Public about this now hes trying to project an image of strength of course and he doesnt want the campaign to be about the virus this really puts a wrench in his can be because he wants it to be about law and order and that is writing where elected to total chaos instead all were focusing on is the virus and this doesnt bode well for him to take only because 40 percent of americans or only 40 percent american see that hes handling the crisis well jason how does he go forward with the Election Campaign if this is the best Case Scenario and 2 weeks from now he comes out of locked isolation quarantine he looks a bit peaky hes lost some weight hes a bit pale but hes able to go to one of his rallies he lives eats and sleeps that kind of politics thats his Natural Environment of course it is but what if he cant do that how does the Election Campaign move forward. You know i think thats a great question and i think the supporters need the long route i mean the president needs to be around those orders 1st these 2 weeks are going to be going to be difficult i think for the campaign i think its the Joe Biden Campaign and it will be a Virtual Campaign whereas the Trump Campaign has not really adjusted as well into the Virtual Campaigning world but once he gets back on the campaign trail in 2 weeks. I just buying them are really dumb from all that i know run a virus and how to fix the body and obviously im not a doctor but. Days of the 90 minute speeches on his route really longwinded the law when the diatribes i believe are over and thats what i think youll see most of us this order so its going to be a much different with paint and its going to be a much different feeling rally i think theyre back home and. Lets go back to what you were talking about at the top of the show you what kind of discussing the optics of the next immediate week or so in theory would days away from Vice President pence squaring off against us how can that happen or if it does happen how can that happen with both candidates not being mosques up. Right well there are 2 halves of this one is the campaign half and the other is whats going on in the white house in the background on the campaign half im guessing that the Vice President ial debates are now debate is now going to be much more important and i am even wondering whether or not the 2nd president ial debate will end up 2nd Vice President ial debate so that if the primary candidates cannot debate it maybe the parties decide to substitute another Vice President ial debate so i think it will shift the attention to some extent from the president ial candidates to the Vice President ial candidates but what youve got going on in the background is a white house that will be in complete and utter disarray 1st of all we dont know how far this virus is going to spread so there have been images playing since this was announced last night of hope it all the various people hope it has been with including jared cushion or so yvonne and jarratt could well end up testing positive we know that pence has tested negative but how far will this thread it throws into relief all of the things that democratic governors in particular have been stressing such as the need for testing the need for Contact Tracing the need for Wearing Masks the need for staying 6 feet apart not gathering in crowds all things that this administration has been flouting and when you add to that the stories that have come out about jarrett cush nurtures commission that he put together to fight the virus which came up with plans that were later scrapped because they decided it would only affect democratic states or democratic areas it really starts to look as though this campaign is going to fall. Natasha we know in a sense in real time seeing a kind of an adopted stance on the part of the wider Republican Party when it comes to dealing with covert changing i. E. Do they have to accept let the science prevail weve got to now see surely every president ial candidate every Vice President ial candidate every congressman every senator wearing a mask theyve got to allow the science to prevail because theyve got to get that message out there that if youre an oil 3 and somebody sneezes nille 2 you can pick it up if youre in an in an enclosed space what comes out of my nose could get you 26 feet away from where im standing. Well i think you have 2 things here you have politicians in the Republican Party who have been mostly Wearing Masks and hearing to guidelines but they have been very vocal about it and thats been one of the problems and i think your question is illustrating the you have the Republican Base and those that are supporting trump and trump has not encouraged people to wear masks and you had attorney general bar as it already going to mention acting like this was a huge violation of our civil rights and we have to be Wearing Masks in the light so republicans may need to up their communication on the importance of wearing mask that this is not a violation of our civil rights it is actually something we do for the better of the community to prevent the spread this is the one big thing that we can do to just mitigate this crisis and then we may see more republican stepping up to do so they just dont want to go against prop they are so incredibly loyal to him and terms big messages this is no big deal its going to go away lets not take it that seriously but weve seen with the you know the tapes that bob woodward has reported he didnt know it was serious he didnt know it was a problem but hes very afraid of doing anything that would go against what his base which is on so well see i think most likely going to have more republicans coming out in support of massacring him like jason do you think mr trump will get a sympathy to just to push their case and you think youll get a sympathy between now and the election the reason i ask you that is this Boris Johnson the u. K. Prime minister he came out of i. C. U. Came out of recovery and he got a distinct sympathy pounds but he at that point was 3 and a half years from a general election if your guy gets a sympathy bones and goes back on the campaign trail hes days away from a u. S. Election or might it backfire against him because people might say well you dont protect yourself and hello you havent protected the 200000 plus people who are dead in this country so get gone were going to miss a bite. Well let me 1st just say that i believe republican governors republican governor my state not only has had a month Long Campaign on the importance of learning math in the years gone so far as cutting commercial lets play multiple times a day with him and other various leaders from across the political spectrum out Wearing Masks and really being an issue as a public face so we can get our physical back open and operating in the new normal so you know you sort of point out there are hundreds and well thats that the governor as well the governor here in tennessee and. As most certainly been pushing back women on the end i met there. To the end of a stint of the mountain for president chop. I just i dont think he has really engender much goodwill. Over his time in office that any opinion of him are going to change his or her thinking based based and there he will come out and ordering not do think that he