thank you very much for that update matthew dickinson is a professor of political science a middleby middlebury college and he says the white house is going to do everything it can to signal trump is healthy and still running the country transparency is key here but on the other hand the vice president at this point does not want to alarm the country by. seeming to signal that there may be a possibility that he'll be incapacitated so i don't see the white house leaning in that direction at all 'd if anything i think the emphasis on the white house is going to be on stressing and showing visible evidence that the president is in charge that he's carrying out the duties of his office. the worry here and we've seen this in previous crisis is that the concern for continuity and to show that the president is in charge may lead some of those 'd around the president to. under play the severity of a health crisis we saw this for instance when ronald reagan was shot early in his presidency. there was an effort made by his staff to. send a message that he was doing well he was in charge when we now know he was n