Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Tuesday, October 6th. In today's news, Eric Trump is interviewed by New York prosecutors investigating possible

Trump organization fraud. The Supreme Court sides with Republicans in a potentially significant

dispute over mail-in ballots.

And the Nobel Prize in physics is awarded for discoveries about black holes.

But first, the big idea. President Trump left one of the world's most elite

medical centers on Monday evening at Walter Reed, even as his doctors acknowledged that they were entering

uncharted territory and citing privacy laws continued to withhold vital information that could illuminate the president's prognosis

for recovering from COVID-19. Trump's determination to appear in control in the

waning weeks of a presidential race in which he is trailing significantly left unclear

whether he or his doctors were calling the shots, especially because members of

his medical team continued to cherry-pick what they're sharing with the American

people. They say his oxygen levels are

normal and he has no fever, but they refuse to answer questions about results from

lung scans, when his last negative test was, or why he's receiving the steroid

Dexamethosone which is typically reserved only for patients with the most

severe cases. Several doctors told my colleagues Francis Sellers, Lori

McGinley, Ariana Cha and Amy Goldstein that the

President has returned to the White House at a fraught moment in his recovery before he has

escaped a period when some patients are known to crash.

Harlan Crumholes, a cardiologist at Yale,

says the problem with COVID-19 is that people's conditions deteriorate rapidly

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