muffy commenting on the problems the political problems of bloggers johnson the prime minister many says excellent program but listening to the predictions of these 2 excellent gas from events over the next year is one measurable prospect and john says 1st time i've watched the program welcome aboard john i enjoyed it peter oborne and richard murphy able both excellent and alan says sue not referring to the chance of the exchequer his poster boy status is on borrowed time phyllis says scotland wales will definitely want independence from england before long mata mcphee says professor muffy predicted 5000000 unemployed while i mean whoa a gem wallace says if that whoever does happen in my lifetime to fell into an independence vote i will go back to scotland vote no and then go back to england i paid many thousands of scottish taxes in my lifetime so i have every right to vote . in the last scottish referendum in 24 to which i hold guys it was

a residential vote you had to stay in school wherever you were from to be entitled to vote what it would be like next time if indeed there is a next time when would this have to wait and see about how many from from bangladesh says or some presentation and discussions gene says glad to see you by good analysis all we have things stand for the tory party i'll keep all the points to hand to see the end result as will we all jean and now back to there's been a. when prime minister boris johnson was rushed to hospital in london britain held its breath and the prime minister's popularity soared it took months for the halo effect to wear off could the same thing that happened to president trump or will has succumbing to the virus reinforce the accusation that he and his entourage have not taken it seriously enough until of course they find it knocking at the door of the white house until ordinary americans wonder why they don't have access to the

experimental drugs which seem to work the presidential oracle in double quick time attention has also been focused on the event at the white house rose garden to recognize supreme court nominee amy corney ballot numerous people who attended this event have already tested positive and events where social distancing seemed very far from their norm so while the president gave a sympathy vote or loose support from those who think he got corporate appoint himself will he be admired for his rapid recovery or resented for his privileged access to treatment alex is joined by professor joe white of kipp western reserve university cleveland joe welcome to the alex salmond show it's a pleasure to meet her this whole business of the press the helicopter of the hospital helicopter vote again announcing that he has defeated covert how is this going to play out and there's

a my remarkable presidential campaign. it won't make much of a difference i think that part of it is that so many other things have been going on such as his debate performance part of it is that so many people have already made their decisions about whether they like trump a dislike trump i think it's slightly hurts implacably in that he will look a bit more like a fool and a hypocrite particularly when he says it's not such a big deal after having probably hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of free healthcare from the federal government it'll be fairly easy for the democrats to shoot back at that safe you know it's not such a big deal if you haven't shown it and you have a whole government at your command at your command but meanwhile you know the republicans are trying to take away people's insurance and this is a lot bigger deal for those people so i think i don't think you make much of a difference on balance it probably had some just a little but couldn't the president well listen we can go i was generally

recognized not by himself of course but by lots of people as a loosening of the bit no i'm not ignored to myself as a aware over covert 19 hasn't he dominated the political agenda. i don't think he will certainly make the argument that this shows it's not such a big deal and therefore it's a government and democrats plot that has caused us to shutdown the best economy in history and his survival you know show shows that it's not such a big deal but you know he had one of the guests athlete is oklahoma valley guy who mccain former republican presidential candidate again he got medical care that's not available to the literally anybody even the special plexi so it's not going to be really compelling argument you know make it absolutely and i don't think it's going to convince anybody who wasn't already convinced by him so many americans

may well say i would love to get the sixpenny mental drug cocktail that so marcus lee treated the president equal lot of people say what show was present trouble whatever you may say as a fighter that he's a straw man he's demonstrated that he can recover from anything is not an argument might cut a some swing at least of his own base well 1st of all we have to remember that we don't know what is going to happen over the next week with president trump like many medical conditions people get on better and then they get worse i know somebody who has a colleague whose father was getting better one day and died the next with over so we have to remember that we do not know how the health story is going to play out this weekend could be a very different look than like now he's been trying to play down the bias all along and he will make that argument but i don't think it's going to change

anybody's mind i think of all the supporters will buy it and the people who don't like him will not buy the what are the consequences of the press that being dramatically helicopter the hospital was at the. democrat campaign to say to withdraw the attack ads these are the negative ads principly on television which dominate american election campaigns it doesn't sure bit of uncertainty in the democrat cambers how to deal with for prez the opponent when he's down and that sort of thing. yeah it's sort of hard to it's hard to be sure that the republicans would have done the same thing but remember there's a lot of other ads going on i don't think the lincoln project all that that you know the republicans are really disliked and have been running very strong ads against him i don't think they've all they have ads it's just for a short period of time it gives the democrats in running some positive ads what the

heck why not do that for a little while i do not think it's a big deal it's very hard to think that the ads are going to make much of a difference one way or the other again with how polarize people out right now i have no doubt that joe biden is going to have more people trying to vote for him and donald trump is whether that turns out to biden winning the election is an entirely different story but how do you rate the chances of the the president saying no i'm the accepting that i'm i'm going to cooked i'm going to challenge the state results i'm going to i'm going to challenge it right to the supreme court i'm going to fling the election into the the house as a serious prospect the democrats i'm no looking for was joe biden right to come a sweep aside in the presidential debate well i think what he was doing in the debate was he was your boss saying this isn't a serious thing in order to make it looks silly go do democrats think trump is going to do that absolutely and not just democrats i think that

a great many commentators and observers of american politics and it very hard to believe that trump would accept vote counts that say he lost so what really but let's just assume that the opinion polls in america are correct and that joe biden is heading for let's assume that this reflected in the electoral college and overcomes all the problems if we look back on the presidency of donald trump it would be at least be able to say that the end of 80 than terms of how he communicated with the american electorate i mean he has a government by by tweet does he not. yeah it sort of i tweet therefore i am he seems to see himself and validate himself to seems off on social media i think that that trump has shown a couple of things about the presidency one thing is 'd that when you teach about the presidency i teach a presidency course usually talk about things like the formal powers of the

presidency and the informal powers of presidency and how presidents get elected and the ways that presidents can shape policy you cannot shape policy but trump has definitely set a standard for. both how to talk about your opponent's bypassing the normal media of course he has a huge megaphone and fox news but bypassing the normal media relating to people directly through through social media but really sort of establishing the tone of politics how people think about politics shipping how people think about each other that was going on anyway this this country has been polarizing for a long time presidents can try to work against it or they can try to work for it and one of the most memorable aspects of trump's presidency and aspect of biden is one thing against is the way that trump has helped to find the polity define what our political life is supposed to be like through the attention of the

president. so joe i want you to think you are many for for sort of a hot so for a 2nd and we'll in your crystal ball and tell our audience what's going to happen over the next few weeks who's going to weigh. i don't know who is going to win and i know who is going to have more people trying to vote for him but i do not know how that will play out all of the things that can go wrong fate a trial in terms of the popular vote the all the obstacles to voting a bigger obstacle to democrats than to republicans the electoral college clearly favors republicans $538.00 nate silver has analysis web site says you know you have biden wins by 3 by 3 percent of the popular on the popular vote there and yeah he's favored to win the election but if he wins by 2 he isn't so i really do not know what will happen if i had to guess i would say that that by the middle of november it will look like biden won the election and then

trump and the republicans will do everything they can to overturn that so come next january who's going to be sitting behind the desk in the oval office boy that's really hard to say because even if you say it ends up being you nancy pelosi by the law that law will be shallow you know again if i have to guess joe biden but that's with relatively low confidence you know 55 percent in which case joe will vary by to interfere in february and fight you so much for joining me by mail exam and show. and join us after the break what i'm to view professor could be should get on so probably the best thing in the nation's capital washington d.c. join us and. so what we've got to do is identify the threats

that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic developing the only relief i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. to. the bill and those who say that the bill is double. what mccain i wonder why you know. i'll. tell you we hope will be but there are some friends of the us are still so but the sole thing to do

something this year. which. they have about that wasn't the simple dollar was also going by was a boy with someone that you know worked in that. i. class. american citizen he didn't want to talk to. the other. guy and. i would vote for the republicans who are trying i would vote for anyone not you want and that's how it would break. down. if you. have my 2nd

wife. she can handle it all she and i divorce because our trouble is what the president and i followed it for him and she tried stamp. collection. you know history. to go before a presidential election now is the u.s. now. one of the highest priority. they've been. just some of the questions we put in their. welcome back just over a week ago the democrats would be feeling pretty confident on most assessments vice president joe biden emerged ahead on points after that 1st presidential debate they are feeling equally confident that their feisty vice presidential candidate sen

come on the hottest sell off the rather nondescript incumbent mike pence in the 2nd debate now all calculations are up in the air alex asked professor can you should grant how the democrats will handle these unprecedented circumstances welcome to their like silent show professor grout thank you for having me from a political point if you're hopelessly dramatic events off the last week with the president rushed to hospital and didn't declare himself well and helicopter themselves back to the white house how is that going to play out with the american electorate. i think we are se it playing out a bit with some of the polling numbers changing it's been a case that joe biden has a seat a bit of a jump in the polling support from americans as a result of the president's hospitalization and i think there has to do both with kind of the idea of their thoughts when a leader who is well but also with the idea of the individuals and not feeling good

about donald trump's haven't gotten cold enough hearing good about maybe some things they think he could have done to prevent getting cold in this instance but hasn't the president got an argument our week ago when he was well recognized as the loser in a presidential debate with joe biden now he has declared himself the the winner overcovered 19 days are not a powerful message. i think it might be for some people and i think there we are living in a color as time in the united states as other people who support downtown support him fiercely the people who support joe biden support him fiercely as i think they're certainly a part of the point of leaving the hospital and going on to the balcony to have a top with the american public is to do a straight strength but they also think that this has the potential to backfire hopefully the president remains well but if he doesn't then at the un for him i

think the other thing with this creates a bit of a problem is that americans know that he has different levels of access to care than they have to sell it does demonstrate that he is a winner but i think people still have questions or demonstrate for the moment that he is a winner but i think people still have questions about whether he will be a winner over cold in the long run and whether their lives will be feeling like winning lines following this election. though from the perspective of the the democrats in the head in the polls though biffen touching distance of an election victory will the be a tendency over these next few weeks for for vice president biden to sit on the lead trying not to make mistakes or will they be pushing hard for a convincing victory. i think they'll be pushing hard workers harlow's that is different from the democrats then what it is for the republicans as are happy for

them pushing harder means having the president the vice president maintain conduct on not be so public in space public facing isn't this a part of that but also in part because he has been in the past criticized for some missteps in some misspeak i think that we should expect to see come the heresy activating out in about more publicly in the near future and so at the day yes they will be pushing to get in with a way to just ensure that they win but again i think what that looks like will be different from this for them than it would be for the republicans who i might expect would have the president from center of their push now you mention. the vice presidential candidate for the democrats who saw the debate a melee hours of a small and how important figure will she be in the last few weeks of this campaign i think she's an extremely important figure critically important i think that the debate performance was important i think that the continuing questioning they will

see her conduct with the supreme court will be important i think she is an important syria because she can talk she can do so peacefully she does so well and i think the dispatcher to talk not only to the american government electorate probably but also to people in various looks like black voters and women voters and other kinds of individuals who would like to democrats elected she had a final push in the days leading that's the election clutch oppressor grant us a distinguished academic a leading university in america but a young black woman. how do you relate to thinking about this divided society the sort of slightly older white american supporters of donald trump is not the most massive divide them american society almost 2 different countries i think it is but i think the reason it is a massive divide is not to do with me you or people let me at

a black women myself in particular other people who i know let me understand that we have a lot in common with the people who support downtrodden and they're much of what we face many of the problems that we face or others are as i americans in general but there are some americans the americans like the ones you name who don't recognize these problems as problems they're got crossed the color line they are they think they're the problem that race is the most important problem in the nation and i don't think that they see places for us to work together where i think people like me believe that we better serve the our together against these common problems we have. i'm thinking about the president who has many pronouncements and is even more twits it is so anything a tall about the donald that you can relate to in terms of anything he says a vote by any subject i mean it could be said the whole lot of our recent press that it hasn't involved america and many more overseas adventures for example i

heard senator is now i don't this is so much wrong about the current state of the world that i can't remember a think about anything there is great about it i think to the point that you're asking about this idea that america should be at home and there should should be at home i think there has its place and sell i you know don't stay foreign affairs and would not comment tremendously on that but that ain't the vast majority of the things i experience in my life and that i envy. has been negative during the trial in ministry she is still to be frank i can't think that the as much that i can celebrate about his presidency now of course or the democratic party after being beaten unexpectedly 4 years ago are fust thing for a victory but the country see senator biden as anything more than

a transitional figure is not likely as we'd see in scotland to set the whole on fire lizzy yeah i think that's a great question and i think that you're right he is probably a transitional figure not that he knows that i think the democrats have made their peace with their i think a part of the reason that he has such a new tense debate about the vice president who would be best president was because everybody understood that a person named vice president would have a say or to be the president in the next election and so i think they joe biden understands that he will likely not be changing the dual party tremendously that he will be a bit of a stable as of where the nation and i think most democrats and joe biden as a candidate is are out of there so are your hopes beyond that we might all be well for the democrats in the election be looking in 4 years time up to. a president kemal a hoss. i think that would be the only. way i have learned over the past 4 years to

come in and monetary and manage my expectations s.-l. for now i just want a good clean election with a smooth transition of power and good clean current 4 years and then we can deal with after their personally i'd be thrilled if letterman has as president of united states how do you rate the suggestion has been made them and certainly one which hasn't been outright denied by the president the might be a chance that he'll not accept an election defeat would set in the white house would take it to the supreme court would challenge various state results is that a real expectation among democrats that the the president is not going to evacuate the the oval office under any circumstances for sure at the democrats are worried about these peaceful transition of power the republicans are worried added to i think only the folks who are the most diehard trance the workers who support truck over the notion of our democracy are fine with us his comments about fighting this

on multiple levels even if seems to be legitimate i think everybody else is worried about the prospect of him when we are bullied someone else in the alleged and one final thought professor grant many people watching us run the world for all the criticisms i have been of the united states which have been many still regarded the united states as the the shining city on the hill to use the quotation could you say to those people have sought my of the medicare but of had to have substantial doubts about the integrity of the american system indeed american society over these last few years. i think i will say to them to have faith in the american people there is still a very large population of americans who have their heads on straight who understand what it means to be a shining city on the hill who believe in this the mark received and who are

willing to work for it and so i think that this election will be kind of a turning point where we get to see who controls power i think many of the people who are the folks who i'm talking about who want the best for the nation did not believe that the worst was possible did not believe that elections matter they didn't believe that the work that changed significantly or that our nation could change significantly based on who was elected president so i think everybody has been disavowed of those beliefs now that we all understand how important the american presidency is and i think that everybody who can will be doing their best to have their voices heard during this election because now we understand how important. professor grant from hoed university in the nation's capital thank you so much for joining me mel exxon and shell thank you for having me. only one week ago with the president rushed to hospital american political historians were busy researching the name all for discreetly this charting figure of 1000 century

journalism and co-founder of the republican party find himself campaigning as a presidential candidate against official republican incumbent leases s. grant his health failed to do in the campaign and he died before the late to a college mate now one week later the same political commentators are researching the last of this present trunk's dramatic recovery means the tisdale's problems may end up causing more political questions for the democrats 1st because campaigning against an ailing opponent it's never a good look or an easy option thus the biting count pane pulled all of their attack ads only to then find that the president had no intention or big oil to combat for a long 2nd because of dollars of brush with his own mortality had the effect of making the president more vulnerable and therefore more human his rapid recovery means that he now claims to have taken on the virus and overcome it thus the

president has find no doubt inadvertently yet another way to dominate the political agenda in the space of a few days has gone from generally a judge loser in the presidential trade to 20 debate to self-proclaimed victor over covert plenty to say any of this turn the contest upside down and turn the underdog president into the favorite perhaps not but equally the many commentators who had all but written him off should reflect on the full impact of this october surprise to end all surprises but for now from alex myself and all that issue it's goodbye stacey i mean hope to see you all again next thank you.

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