Amidst record turnout we hear from commentators on the key issue. Sort of so if they want to stop the counting over since they want to continue to tell me its a joke every night after night if today they sit there and i watch the big board our system moves what he used the word but he also say that in the United States constitution voting is never mentioned at all watching our Team Internationals u. S. President ial coverage my name is donald quarter and ill be joining you for the program but certainly a nail biter as vote counting has resumed in key states to decide the u. S. President ial election. Now the contest for the white house could be over in the coming hours with Democrat Joe Biden looking more and more likely to be declared the winner increasing his vote margins in key states however a recount has been announced in the state of georgia leaving americans hanging on the edge of their seats attention is focused on a handful of states and were still waiting for crucial results in nevada and pennsylvania to where the democrats hold a tightly. As it stands this is how it looks joe biden has 264 electors if you include arizona which some do say is still too early to call but if you assume he won biden needs only 6 more electoral votes to achieve the 270 required for victory donald trump on the other hand currently stands at 214 with that said it remains a very tight race gaps closed in different battleground states on sunday and the former Vice President is leading in nevada and is less than one percent ahead in pennsylvania in georgia biden has taken the lead by 0 point one percent with 99 percent of the ballots counted as i mentioned the margins are so tight there that a recount is already set to happen a democrat hasnt won that state in decades while the North Carolina the race is still too close to call while democrats may feel quite confident of the vote results are already coming under legal scrutiny the u. S. Supreme court judge has ordered pennsylvania to keep separate any mail in ballots coming in after election day and tells us the latest things look good for biden right now at this point in arizona in georgia and pennsylvania and in nevada biden has a narrow lead were hearing quite a bit of optimism coming from the democratic side this is nancy pelosi the speaker of the u. S. House of representatives i wish we werent wearing masher 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 donald trump does not share these sentiments that biden is on the road to victory hes spoken up on social media reiterating some of the concerns he expressed regarding the fact that he thinks that there is fraud going on around the country this is some of what donald trump has said on social media. Joe biden should not wrongfully claim the office of president i could make that claim also Legal Proceedings are just now beginning i had such a big lead in all of these states late into Election Night only to see the leads miraculously disappear as the days went by perhaps these leads will return as our Legal Proceedings move forward already some of these legal challenges seem to be in motion u. S. Supreme Court Justice samuel alito granted a motion to have votes that are being counted segregated so that votes received after november 3rd would be counted separately however a judge in nevada did not give any credence to Donald Trumps concerns and ruled against efforts to stop the vote counting in nevada now at this point though the republicans are raising the concern that they feel that the way votes are being counted is not proper theres not proper transparency republican observers are not able to watch the vote counting process donald trump has also raised a concern about the fact that in georgia he is not sure what happened with over 9000 ballots cast by members of the u. S. Military these are absentee ballots by members of the u. S. Military that were sent to georgia hes concerned about whether or not those votes are being counted or not now its also important to note that legal challenges it appears are going to be filed in response to an announcement of Election Results when such an announcement comes the Republican National committee has made clear they are with trump when it comes to filing these legal concerns we intend to ensure that every little fool votes and has their vote counted in accordance with the law that observers are granted the access they a jew on the state law and then any irregularities that have occurred with a by malicious intent or incompetence fully investigated to the fullest extent allowed under the law the Biden Campaign has not declared victory and we are expecting to hear from biden show. However at this point they are using some rather spicy language describing fears that donald trump may not leave office in a friendly manner this is what the biden camp had to say the American People will decide this election and the United States government is specifically capable of school bus passes out of the white house the us president ial election was on tuesday we still do not know the results however we do have a mayor in philadelphia who says that the vote counting was carried out in a very transparent manner and everything was fine we have a secretary of state and arizona who says that the way donald trump is characterizing the counting is completely wrong and that only legal votes are being counted but when results are declared though they look very good for biden and biden is expected to declare victory when results are declared theyre going to be a challenge theyre going to be in court so at this point theres a lot of frustration among americans because it is still not clear who won the 2020 president ial election and who will be leading the country for the next 4 years we spoke to republican election lawyer terry campo and he explained what could happen if the vote counts are contested. There always is some fraud and a usually happens in the major cities and its usually where theres one Political Party control of her 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 kind of what happens it becomes very difficult once those ballots are in the box to to invalidate them and so whats what poll watchers are for and why we try to have poll watchers everywhere to prevent those improper ballots from being counted the problem this year is so many ballots being cast by mail were done in private without any witnesses there is always when these recounts that happen there will be challenges about what Legal Standard was apply to how to count those votes and those issues probably will be taken up by the Supreme Court 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 the decision and thats very well may be happening again. Now we can get live reaction now from peter cause nick professor of history and coauthor of the untold history of the United States thank you very much for joining us on the program now the republicans are insisting theres been voter fraud mostly connected to this mail in Ballot System but a lot of Media Outlets are stressing that no evidence has been presented so what do you make about these statements. Just nonsense its a crock. The republicans are trying to find some vote fraud that they can challenge the election with but they made clear that this was their strategy before the election even occurred its not only the democrats who are making this point fox news trumps favorite news network has said that there is absolutely no evidence thats been presented and then has significant fraud so yes there might be 2 or 3 dead people who vote and there might be a couple other improprieties but there is no serious vote fraud nobody serious in the United States takes this at all seriously ok well u. S. Supreme Court Justice alito just ordered that officials in the state of pennsylvania the one crucial for both candidates has to have 2 separate mail in ballots they received after election day is that going to be crucial and how could that make a difference do you think it can make a difference the mail in ballots that receives after election day where in. Less than 5000 from what i saw. Biden is going to win this state of pennsylvania by over 50000 maybe even over 100000 votes so the fact that the 5000 votes might be challenged is not going to be statistically significant and the courts wont even hear it unless its enough to make a difference in the election ok well what evidence do you think there could be if i mean you said that its you know the fraud stuff is just not true but if that if there was some sort of evidence that the trumpet ministration would put forward what do you think they they would put forward. Theyve been asked for evidence repeatedly and they havent come up with anything so its not only the not only fox news thats been saying this a lot of republican lawyers whove been involved with previous elections have said the same thing theres been no evidence presented of any significant vote fraud so this is really just to try to discredit the election and is very very dangerous because 80 to 90 percent of trump voters believe that the election is stolen and thats the narrative that trump has been putting forth is that if the 1st night he said it again yesterday that the election is being stolen now intelligent informed people know that thats not true but youve got a lot of trump voters who actually buy this stuff and theyre going to think for the next 4 years the certainly for the next 2 months that something illegal is going on this is never happened before in American History this is a level of corruption that now lettie mendacity thats never been seen before in the United States weve never had an overtly fascist president before but we have one now and the right people have got to be aware and not do anything to encourage this kind of lying in this kind of mendacity because it can lead to violence and its going to an attempt at a political coup by donald trump and not only that in the world has to take notice if you saw donald trump ranting and raving and lying and. It made it sort of like that 1st debate but this madman this lunatic has got his finger on the Nuclear Button and we know that whole drug is not a rational person this is very dangerous for all of us has got to be taken quite seriously and if there are any adults left in the Republican Party and its not clear that there are very many adults theyve got at calm him down and get him to behave like an adult instead of like a 2 year old on a temper tantrum. Well just one last question donald trump said on twitter that joe biden shouldnt declare victory just yet saying that Legal Proceedings are going to be on the way what do you think about that and i think donald trump his the last person to talk because he already declared victory on tuesday night so the fact that he could declare victory when he had no evidence and joe biden shouldnt declare victory when its so obvious that hes already won the election its just that they the networks a very very hesitant to stick their necks out now because they know that trumps going to go after them but they have about 99. 8 percent if not more clear that biden has won this election is going to probably win 306 electoral votes so hes not going to just win it by a little bit hes going to win it by probably 5000000 popular votes and 3 percent or 4 percent in the lead and terms of the percentage of the vote so i mean by think it because he can be patient he can wait thats fine but this is clear in the United States who won this election and this and this race is as good as over it or close knit pro professor of history and coauthor of the untold history of the United States thank you very much for joining us on the program and get down. Now what youre seeing on your screen is the scene in washington d. C. Where anti trump demonstrators are taking a stand next to the white house theyre calling for the vote counting to be done legally and fairly other Peaceful Demonstrations in support of both candidates are also taking place in a number of cities. The battle over whether or not the results are being rigged started even before election day with both parties stressing the vote had to be legal. If you count the illegal votes by easily when if you count the illegal votes d they can try to steal. The election from a sip in america the vote is sacred. Its how people of this nation express their will. And it is the real will of the voters no one not anything else but chooses the president of United States of america this tremendous litigation going on and this is a case where theyre trying to steal an election theyre 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. Parties Senior Correspondent more odd discuss the tension around the country with nikki aaron. The u. S. Really does pride itself on its democratic system does britain now appear to have glitches with everything thats going on but i would say its at this point more of a spectacle i mean the elections in the United States the there are always something of a shrew for the entire nation but this year in particular they seem to have outdone themselves democracy sometimes messy sometimes requires a little patience as world but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years in the system of government governance the envy of the world while the envy of the world perhaps in days long gone if youre in the United States you just a citizen wanting to exercise your constitutional right to vote what 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 2 to 4 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 well prepared you did it you you went and registered next youve youve got a good 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 sunday is 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 the very little social distancing suit you will you vote as democrats have been urging their supporters to do you mail your vote and its lost 150000 votes have been confirmed sue for are lost in this election and theyre still counting there this potentially tens and tens of thousands more even election as clues as this. Where every vote matters theyve lost so many already Democrat Officials never believe 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 ballots they refused to include any requirement to verify signatures i get is or even determine whether theyre eligible or it was a vote it is a nation divided more now than it has been in living memory the level of polarize ation 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 go take the extra step to understand the other side everybody wants things down their way and and this is being repeated across the country protests violence Political Violence level 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 new bodies envious of these in europe theyre saying look we we simply cant afford in content out europe to become as divided and as pony rides as the United States the poor is asian 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. Whats happening 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 hope 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 to victory that their winning bird will be contested little shoots of being fired off like firecrackers but by trump especially the this election will be condensed interim self said that you know this saloon and in the Supreme Court. Is quite the warning of legal action several election commissions in america have insisted that every valid vote was counted and accurately reported International Observers have also said the ballot proceeded lawfully theyve slammed Donald Trumps allegations of fraud saying it damages public trust in Democratic Institutions the count has been particularly complicated in the current contest and its thrown up many contentious issues r t america discussed 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 we had to look at Voting Rights we need to move the ministries records of who the president is be authorized to make things that the 5 Border Guards at the have National Standards only legends we cover republican were fighting against that since the late eightys and the what i was saying that metastasized into this years election now i dont know 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 to which i think transcends that 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 let me 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 youre going 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. Whole call or 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 to says 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 were 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. Of course i disagree with that idea or still by the term i think its important that he does because hes a throwback to the oh thanks when we were governing your me 51 to 49 country we were we have bipartisan agreement would be a big thing to big big projects of that nature we put people on the moon we won cold war 2 we 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 covert 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 i sit there and i watch the big boards you know whether its on c. N. N. Or ever 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 close trumps lead is evaporating were out of 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. 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 past that to become the decider in fact were in the arena is full combatants this is something almost unique to the presidency i mean the uncomfortable position of being a never trump or somebody who thinks the president should be defeated hope see is 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 its been a particular 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 democrats spent large sums of money campaigning in a bid to win more influence in the house and senate that though has not happened the house is expected to stay in the hands of the democrats with results still coming in however some experts calculate the blue majority will actually be thinner this year and so far theyre down by at least 6 incumbents 218 seats are necessary to win a majority and so far the democrats are on 208 and the republicans on 193 are also battling for the Senate Democrats need to gain 4 seats to flip control of congress is Upper Chamber although thats unlikely as the republicans already have 48 seats and have been leading in 3 of the remaining 4 races to get up to this number right here 50 so thats the race for seats in congress meanwhile in the president ial contest 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 forecast Election Integrity activist and independent journalist nico house told us why. That stage was set unfortunately prior to the general election because well the candies that i thought could be trumped which would include gabbert Bernie Sanders and i would even argue andrew yang those arent the ones who are allowed to go up against wrong in the moment that they selected the one of the male 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 trump then you are setting the stage for a fund will go will have to pull in support base awful party lines because thats seemingly where at least the democrats are demanding we vote on and by that its by extension you want to have republicans of course staying loyal in most cases to donald trump. Now lets take a quick look at whos got what in the president ial race democratic nominee joe biden has 264 electoral votes leaving him just 6 short of the presidency while donald trump has 214 biden currently has a narrow lead in the traditionally red state of georgia and hes also slightly ahead in nevada and has just gotten out in front in pennsylvania as well stay with our teeth throughout the coming hours and days as we continue tracking the 2020 us elections. And. If you can say some of them if you buy this more and i say that you can then say you know thousands of other lives well my response is that the way we should think about that is joe. Is that just as theres a child in a store experiment full of you in this burning building you can say well also just thousands of children around the world and take millions of children around the world you could potentially state it weight its light weight in the situation of being facing a burning building just all the time. Anybody who thinks that because. The election we are problems are over that thats simply not true the problems were there before President Trump theyre not going away you have problems with the economy in the room youre going to have to pay for the things youre going to do we still have a problem in the United States which raises we have too many young. Jails are growing possessions etc so those problems are. Simply allowed to produce not does not solve them. But say everything in here is given to me basically these 4 tables that were given to me are really ugly so im in the process of. A little personal so thats another way of cutting costs this is the coin share. This is my share