Composed of clergymen of the houston area who have been invited by the association. The meeting is about to be called to order by the president , reverend george wreck. May i call this special meeting of the association of ministers of greater houston to order. Let us stand for prayer. God be merciful onto us and bless us and cause his face to shine upon us. God shall bless us and all of the ends of the earth shall praise him. With these words of the psalmist, we stand before the god as our only sovereign lord. Give us good, lord, and show us mercy. Let the grace rest upon our nation and do not take the gospel from us. Show us always the truth that makes and keeps men free. In the name of our lord jesus christ, we pray, amen. We are very happy that so many of you ministers are present at this meeting. The treasurer of our association has wondered to me if some of you would not like to pay your dues for this time. This year, which begins the september. Im sure he will be in the lobby af
About the potential challenge to the election coming up. And go through the various permutations and possibilities of things that could happen if there is uncertainty about the outcome. They are bob bauer, a distinguished scholar and resident at in my you scroll while. He is now on leave as the Senior Advisor to the biden president ial campaign. Veteranberg, a republican lawless trinity, now a cnn commentator. I would like to recognize one of our special guests today, ambassadors of singapore and sweden and chile and the european union. I would like to recognize our sponsors, our title sponsors, bank of america. Thank you. Our emerging leaders sponsors. Recognizeuld like to see miss usa and the ceo. Siemens usa, thank you for your emerging Leadership Events a few upcoming that some of you probably know about already. Let me remind you, on november 18, at 10 00 a. M. , we will have an event with determent and ceo of johnson and johnson, as you all probably know, johnson and one of the c
A lot going on, not only with vote counts but legal challenges and other things adding up to an ultimate here to keep us updated his john mcardle. Guest the numbers we are working on is the Associated Press numbers, looking to them for results and calls. You may see other numbers and calls elsewhere, but we will be going back to the Associated Press numbers. To take you to the president ial battlefield, the map you just saw, President Trump and joe biden separated this morning with 60 electoral votes to get. Joe biden at 264 electoral votes , President Trump a 214. Joe biden picking up electoral votes yesterday when the Associated Press called michigan and wisconsin. President trump currently up in pennsylvania. Still about 10 left to count in pennsylvania. A lot of eyes on the keystone state today. To georgia, it is getting razor thin. 49. 6 for President Trump, 40 9. 2 for joe biden. North carolina, estate not officially called, although there is about 5 of the vote expected to still
So today well talk about the Electoral College, what it is, how it works and why most scholars kind of hate the Electoral College and its among the Political Science set which homely youve had so far and you get a fullthroated argument against the Electoral College and it is a useful, instructive book because lays out all of the common arguments for it, as well which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. So this is really i do a whole week on this one because its how we like the president and few americans fully understand the process. At the very least if you take a course in the american presidency you should walk away understanding how this process we use to select our chief executive officer work, but also because it is really important in how it structures how elections turn out. Just how we started our discussion by president ial nominations by discussing the history of the nominations pr
Synod for god and everybody to hear that he had total authority i was done it is against democracy while trump does have a sturdy base the strength of republicans coming out against him cannot be overlooked. All right its coming up to 23 actually actually gone past 2300 hours g. M. T. 6 pm on the east coast and youre watching aljazeera special coverage of the 2020 u. S. Election as you can see from the truck at the top right of your screen were about an hour from the 1st polls closing on the east coast go straight to our White House Correspondent kimberly. Kimberly the big question looming of course is when when when when will we have an election whats the feeling at the white house behind you. I can tell you that the feeling at the White House Well the president projected a lot of optimism you can tell that there is a lot of tension behind the scenes the president has been very optimistic promising that there will be a red wave that he will be able to flip states that were typically d