Key issues. So who says they want to stop the killing overseas who want to continue to tell me its a joke every night after night after night a secure and i watch the big board our system of voting is the worst we also see that in the United States constitution voting is never mentioned theyre all. Taught international this friday on our coverage of the u. S. Election what counting in key states continues. The contest for the white house could be a fight. In the coming hours with Democrat Joe Biden looking more and more likely to be declared the winner creasing his vote margins in key states however a recount has been announced in the state of georgia leaving america on tenterhooks attention is focused on a handful of states no we all still waiting for crucial results in nevada and pennsylvania to where the democrats hold. The well as it stands this is how it looks joe biden has 264. 00 electors if you include arizona which some do say is too early to call but if you assume hes won it he has 6 electoral votes short of the 270 required for victory donald trump on the other hand card stands at 214 but. The really tight race gaps are being closed in different battleground states over night in pennsylvania on nevada the former Vice President is leading by less than one percent and georgia byington has taken the lead by just over a 1000 votes with 99 percent of the ballots counted as mentioned the margins are so tight that i recount will take place incidentally a democrat hasnt won that state in decades meanwhile the race and North Carolina is too close to cool to. Lets go live now to our correspondent caleb maupin in new york were hearing fine margins too close to call whats the latest with all these pivotal states that are left to declare. Well it seems that in the last minutes of the vote being counted as it you know the votes are adding up and being counted in these 4 remaining states biden has pulled ahead hes ahead in arizona hes ahead in georgia hes ahead in pennsylvania and hes ahead in nevada and while the Biden Campaign has not yet made any statement to the effect of you know declaring the election over we have heard a number of voices on the democratic side with a very optimistic tone take a listen to nancy pelosi i wish we werent Wearing Masks so we could see how exciting it is to come before you today with joe biden having the tremendous mandate that he has and that. Pretty soon the hyphen will be gone from Vice President to president elect joe biden now in georgia is already set to have a recount in response to the narrow narrow lead and you know allegations and concerns raised by the trump camp and the Republican NationalCommittee Says it intends to file court cases and fight against these results they argue that there was widespread issues of fraud donald trump made such statements last night when he addressed the country this is some of what weve heard from republicans about how they intend to respond to these results as they get closer. And we intend to ensure that every little fool votes and has their vote counted in accordance with the law that observe is a grounds that the access they achieve on the state law and that any irregularities that have occurred with the by malicious intent or incompetence fully investigates its to the fullest extent allowed under the law. Now the mayor of philadelphia has come forward and said that trumps allegations that there was somehow nefarious activity in the vote counting or somehow there was fraud that that is simply groundless and weve heard the trump weve heard the Biden Campaign at this point start to use some rather spicy language about donald trump and about the fact that they consider themselves to be on the road to victory here is something we heard from the biden camp the American People will decide this election and the United States government is specifically capable of school bus passes out of the white house. Now biden is expected to address the country at some point this evening and results are expected to be coming from a number of states one of the 4 states results are expected to come soon so at this point things look pretty strong for the biden camp it looks like biden will soon be declared the victor in the u. S. President ial election however the trump camp says they want recounts and they will fight these results in court so it appears that even if biden declares victory and even if states are given to him in the Electoral College there will be some contentious weeks coming shortly as the Trump Campaign does not seem like it is going to accept these results was such an upside 2020 is going to carry on as it stopped me and throwing a surprise that was caleb maupin reporting from new york. Well the rao over results 1 being potentially raked started even before the action today with both parties stressing to vote how to be equal. If you count the legal votes i easily win if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. The election from a ship in america voted sacred. Its how people of this nation express their will. It is the will of the voters no one not anything else but chooses the president of United States of america is tremendous litigation going on and this is a case where theyre trying to steal an election they trying to rig an election each ballot must be counted and thats what were going to see going through now and thats how it should be our goal is to defend the integrity of the election will not allow the corruption to steal such an important election or any election for that matter its a corrupt system and it makes people corrupt even if they arent. Naughty thenew correspondent mark out stamp discuss the tension or around the country with my colleague. The u. S. Really does pride itself on its democratic system does not now appear to have glitches with everything thats going on what i would say that at this point more of a spectacle i mean the elections in the United States that theyre always something of a show for the entire nation but this year in particular they seem to have outdone themselves democracy sometimes messy its sometimes requires a little patience as well but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years in the system of government governance thats been the envy of the world while the envy of the world perhaps in days long gone if youre in the United States who just a citizen wanting to exercise your constitutional right to vote what do you show up at the polling station and theyll turn you right around and tell you to go and register 1st except you have to register to. 24 weeks in advance depending on the state you know different procedures everywhere and to register you have a say you have to have a special id card which not everyone has so far ok you will welcome pad you did it you you went and registered next youve youve got to get time off work either that because in the United States whereas in europe vote it is always inside everyones free everyone who vote in the United States sundays a jewish holiday and they would make it a National Holiday booting day so you have to go to wednesday for example now theres a pandemic it is dangerous it is literally dangerous to do and stand in huge lines of people with very little social distancing assume you will your vote as democrats have been urging their supporters to do you mail your vote and its lost 150000 votes have been confirmed soof law lost in this election and theyre still counting the theres potentially tens and tens of thousands more in an election as clues as this where every vote matters theyve lost so many already Democrat Officials never believed they could win this election honestly i really believe that thats why they did the mail in ballots with this tremendous corruption and fraud going on thats why they mailed out tens of millions of unsolicited bellas they refused to include any requirement to verify signatures i get is or even determine whether theyre eligible or should go to that it is a nation divided more now than it has been in living memory the level of polarization and division Political Division in the United States is tearing the country apart and it isnt doing anyone any favors everybody understands what is happening in america but there is very little you know that nobodys willing to do take the extra step to understand the other side everybody wants things done their way and and this is being with us. People across the country protest violence Political Violence lovelle to get beaten stabbed because of the color of the had to to work with slogan a new t. Shirt and this is this is being seen worldwide this is nobodys envious of these in europe theyre saying look we we simply cant afford and cant allow europe to become as divided and as polarized as the United States the polarization of america should be a warning for europe we are successful because we preach differences between countries and peoples so we benefit together if we lose the ability to compromise our democracies are in danger was a blink in america does not quite correspond to the democratic culture we know from the United States its important the result is the accepted by everyone its easy to be a winner but sometimes it is hard to be a loser at the end of the day the how close this election is how close the vote is well the last both candidates a lot of leeway both are claiming that theyre on the path of victory that theyre winning but will be contested lawsuits of fire being fired off like firecrackers by by trump especially the this election will be contested trauma myself and said that you know this alone and in the Supreme Court. Well lets get some insight now from Republican Action lawyer Terry Company whos on the line with us terry welcome to the program good to have here fosco fights wanted to ask you how do you rate trumps chances of that recount in georgia changing anything in going his way. Its a very narrow margin in georgia recounts typically happen when there is a vote that is less than one half of one percent most states have an automatic provision such as georgia for doing that and so when that happens theyre literally going to be counting every vote over and what happens in that time is you find a lot of you know you find one vote d that was a crick ordered properly somewhere or a marking on a ballot that requires this individual scrutinizing it and literally when that happens you have a republican lawyer and a democrat lawyer arguing before him with 3 election judges of how that ballot should be counted on a set so long that all of us process for god thing. But its its arduous but its done very quickly they go throughout the night ok and regarding these claims of fault that are coming from the trump camp at the moment how difficult is it to find evidence of fraud because presumably if theyre fortunate about a 2nd to be mingled 10 with heat cool ballots. Well thats always is the biggest problem there always is some fraud and it usually happens in the major cities and its usually where theres one Political Party control over political machine and people have quotas to meet about how many votes theyre supposed to produce to keep their jobs in local government or their contracts and so thats trying to what happens it becomes very difficult once those ballots are in the box to to invalidate them and so last one for watchers or for and why we try to have washers everywhere different men those improper ballots were crucial to the problem this year is so many ballots being cast by mail 3 were done in private without any witnesses. And in anticipate a decent said this is one of the questions obviously thats come up that the whole voting process seems to be cool to into question what do you think the pace of madam ballots is in the american system do you think it is something that is solid that is secure that should continue well i think it should be very limited but i think that trend is that people are like that its convenient for people im afraid thats going to become more more more widespread than ever. The whole system of how America Votes in the Electoral College which is also something quite difficult for people outside of america to father because as you say its about the popular vote a lot of people are now saying now this is showed us that we really need a popular vote to replace an Electoral College do you think that America Needs to update its system or do you think it works perfectly how it is. Well i wont say works perfectly but i think that the Electoral College is the best way if were about for the Electoral College not only but Hillary Clinton won the last election but she would have won it simply by the votes from california and so the Electoral College basically keeps the states in control of the president ial election and forces people to campaign for votes outside the major cities otherwise she would just run a totals in the major cities and that would dictate everything trump is also showed that hes willing to fight tooth and nail to to to stay in the white house where he believes that he belongs and he says hes going he will go to the Supreme Court if necessary what do you think the chances are of the Supreme Court taking this up i think that there with theres always with these recounts that happen there will be challenges about what Legal Standard was apply to kick out of the count those votes and those issues probably will be taken up by the Supreme Court. And if it was to go to the Supreme Court do you think that were going to see a long and drawn out process well the 2000 president ial election 20 years ago bush versus gore that took 37 days from the date of the election for the Supreme Court to reach that decision and thats very well may be happening. Just from a possible perspective whether any moments during the election any states that will call the for you all moments through the night that for you came as a real surprise to any patterns that you saw that were unexpected. I was surprised to see the president doing as well in some places in ohio and pennsylvania. And rule vote was up about 5 percent frankly i didnt realize there were that many voters out there still who hadnt voted in previous elections but we got from President Trump got them al and so those were surprises to me i actually thought that that to fight might carry North Carolina and stick it but not george and it looks like i was wrong its going to look great now hes ahead in georgia and behind in North Carolina so there always are surprises but d when the great one of the things thats really greatest this 160000000 americans voted in this election that is more than have voted ever but its also as a percentage the highest voter turnout in probably 50 years how do you think that the Republican Party as a whole is responding to what is going on do you think that that going to throw that weight behind trump there are some people who have been quite vocal on twitter saying we need to either stop counting all of the back to ballots that they say are not this the staying silent teeth think that going to kind of coalesce around him was much as i love twitter. Is not a place to get the informed opinion or the issue of the Republican Party stands behind President Trump and in fact is deploying this pain for lawyers all over the country to defend his interests in this situation now. And lets just move into the lounge of what if so what if i didnt get the keys to the white house do you think that he will fab factor in trying to settle some of the key issues that are painting American Society at the moment the kind of the civil issues the racial tensions as well. Well i know joe but ive worked with joe biden closely 30 years ago i and while i didnt vote for him i know hes a good man he has very good relations with people on capitol hill with his former colleagues in the senate spent more than 30 years in the senate hes someone you can work with and i think that will go will well health resolve a lot of fat feelings if i can say to use that and of course you know the legislative process insider now. But obviously has a race for the senate as well coming on a lot of people of civilians forgotten that thats anything other than the white house race but at the moment it looks like the republicans will hold to it if not does happen then biden becomes the socalled lame duck president do you think that is going to make his life really quite difficult in the next 4 years if he is elected you know i the senate the senate will work with them senator biden. Has worked closely with Mitch Mcconnell and Chuck Grassley in fact i was Chuck Grassley lawyer. In the Senate Judiciary committee will fight again for more than 30 years ago and theyre friends they get along they dont agree with each other on the issues of the president as senator grassley has mentioned is the president pro tem of the senate so he chairs the senate whenever that but Vice President is not there to cheer so i dont know be able to Work Together they disagree on the issues we disagree with on the substance of the issues and that we use but they will be able to Work Together what i think disagreement is something of what that is very often used when it comes to washington and politics i thought was that terry camp a republican election lawyer thank you so much for speaking to us today. Well despite the warning all vico action several election commissions in america have insisted that every valid vote was counted and accurately reported International Observers have also said the ballot preceded me they have done the tops allegations of fraud saying it damages public trust in democratic institutions. Human rights know eriks wrote can believe the president will fight tooth and nail to stay in the oval office i think its there are advantages and disadvantages to a extended legal. Battle if you will i think that yes if the matter is not resolved by Inauguration Day that seems to be to create a constitutional crisis in the United States however if the Supreme Court is quite aware of when in operation today they said theyre briefing schedules they will eventually era case that will. Issue the appropriate orders but donald trump is fighting for his life he knows hes going to be prosecuted criminally when hes released from the presidency and if not he wants to stay on this is very personal to him however the Supreme Court can hear the matter and here in a quick way i wouldnt be surprised if they want to throw that kind of curveball into it and make everyone have to hold their breath and be plugged into the drama into january i suspect that the matter is much quicker and i believe that it will have the president elect look out has been particularly complicated and this contest on its throat not many contentious issues a colleague said ought to merica just cost just some of them. Look at what the prison is doing legally the places theyre trying to intercede and serve and so if they want to stop the county other states want to continue tell me to get a concrete standard for that and as well as after show be re holder in 2014 weve had a diluted Voting Rights we need to move the ministries records of who the president is authorized to make things that the 5 Border Guards at the have National Standards only legends we cover republicans are fighting against that since the late eightys and the what i was saying that metastasized into this year is what can i do what about that why dont we have one uniform federal law that says when youre voting for president maybe put it on a separate take it im not sure how this will work but why dont we have one federal law for that the question is what youre asking is a great question theres a better question joe which i think transcends this why is it in the year 2020 when we can map of the genome we still have this archaic system which i think speaks to something which is which makes it right and right if for any kind of shenanigans we know so much about how the votes can be stolen we had terrible days of poll taxes and literacy tests and our system of voting is the worst but he also say that in the United States constitution voting is never mentioned at all theres hardly anything new selectors and that sort of thing they never got around to it so the question we have to ask is how is that right now that we see that we have something as archaic and as stupid as. He seems i think is really its gotten him if this is not the donald trump that were used to this is not the same fire and brimstone have bob how did you take it down to what degree. It will say it was embarrassing it was the sad final chapter to a set chapter in American History that something you want here. On an internet war were looking its a choice you want broken to beat him cards that almost everything you said in that speech was a lot its all those little moments you find yourself getting angry a bit of the. Down. For every. Understanding that there is no pair or. Would you want joe biden to drive you home from the airport let me just talk about something right now when you put all this is side this is this says either something about is good or bad when we have a man but im not even sure knows where he is and he is most probably what we see is correct going to be sworn in as the president and i further predict since since we are predicting he will serve my term shorter than William Henry harrison of 31. 00 days when kamel harris will be removed immediately something will happen joel will maybe perhaps that aneurism god forbid something will pop up maybe coded maybe 8 maybe senescence but he will be moved because if you think of anybody thinks that joe biden is going to be if he is the he is the intended get it and you think that well my friends happy birthday cause you were born yesterday robert can you respond to that do you think that there is a likely ive heard from a lot of people on both sides who they all seem to believe that biden will not serve his entire 1st term and i hear from democrats who say that the time with me i hear from republicans who say it would be a scandal but ive heard very few people disagree with that idea do you disagree with. Course i disagree with that idea or still by the term i think its important that he does because hes a throwback to the era oh thats what we were go for me im a 51 to 49 country we were we have bipartisan agreement we did a big thing to big big projects of that nature we put people on the moon one cold war weve liberated oh there were western civilization thats what america used to do when we worked across party lines. This is a sham the fix is in the fix hes been in from the beginning all these states so you know just going around the voter and changing the voting rules claiming that its because of coded setting up the scenario where you think they cant finish counting the votes in georgia or North Carolina or whatever theyre just theyre just waiting theyre coordinating with the biden people and theyre just waiting to see how theyre going to do this we all know its a joke every night after night after that except when i watch the big boards you know whether its on c. N. N. Or wherever it is and guess why the numbers more votes have come in in this state more votes have come in in that state and guess what biden picked up folks trumps lead is evaporating without a surprise this is really a travesty what would you guys say is the actual role of the press in these elections i mean are we supposed to be the observers of the process because these days it does seem like the media wields so much power that it could actually steer perception steer the publics and ultimately steer the election itself through then. Yeah absolutely you know were supposed to be in the media the observer the impartial observer were not supposed to be influenced or in this case weve moved even past that to become the decider in fact i were in the arena is full combatants this is something almost unique to the presidency i mean the uncomfortable position of being a member trump or somebody who thinks the president should be defeated hope so. Hughes defeated and yet finds themselves very sympathetic to the president when he complains about the media because steve is right my friend steve is right the president has got an unfair shake from this media and i think its all people out there like me who dont think dont trust but a good president but we hate it that we have to defend the guy against an unfair media. Wrangling over the election has overshadowed another heated race in the country both parties are still grappling for seats in congress in the days ahead of the vote democrat spent large sums of money campaigning and a bid to win more influence in the house and senate that though did not happen the house is expected to stay in the hands of the democrats with results still trickling in though however some experts calculate the bloom in georgia will actually be thin of this year and so far they are down by at least 6 incumbents 218. 00 seats on needed to win a majority so far the democrats are on to the republicans 193 well that is also a tussle for the Senate Democrats need to gain full seats to flip control of the upper house although thats unlikely as the republicans already have 48 seats and have been meeting in 3 of the remaining 4 races to get to 50 so thats the great race for seats in congress meanwhile in the president ial race the blue wave that many were predicting has failed to materialize even though joe biden is on course for victory at this stage the contest has been much closer than polls for cost Election Integrity activist independent john the sneaker house told me why. That stage was set unfortunately prior to the general election because well the candies that i thought could be trumped which would include Bernie Sanders and i would even argue. Those arent the ones who are allowed to go up against in the moment that they selected the one of the mill democrat in joe biden whos basically been by our standards a republican who is pro fact fracking just like trump who can be a little bit more hawkish on Foreign Policy than then you are setting the stage for a fund will go will have to pull in support base awful party lines because that seemingly where at least the democrats are demanding we vote on in that its by extension you want to have republicans of course staying loyal in most cases to donald trump. Now reminder that all of the numbers in the president ial race democratic nominee joe biden has 264 electoral votes nipping at just 6 short of the presidency. And. He has a narrow lead in the traditionally red state of georgia and hes also slightly ahead has gone out just in front in pennsylvania as well keep checking back in well have all the latest