Outcome is unclear we havent seen on rest we havent seen riots and i think thats a good thing so i think as the days inch on that goes right those the potential for riots and unrest becomes less and less at least here in washington good talking to you thank you for joining us and rachel risen from the Truman National security project thank you well many of our present trumps tweets since election day have been flagged by tweets a full containing disputed or misleading content so lets take a look at his latest post it contains a headline from the far right media outlet breitbart alleging vote counting chaos in closely contested states and michigan the breitbart hospital says the Trump Campaign has been denied proper access to the counting process in the city of detroit so lets take a closer look at these claims with that d. W. Fact check and i dont have a welcome your show what have you found out. Well team debunked this story and breitbart reported on poll workers in detroit covering w
Democrats do because you do think your. Call deplorable. So. Were going to stick with this were going to win this election with. Just a matter of counting the votes. It may come down to the courts to decide who wins this election the closest fought battle for the white house in 20 years. So lets take a look at the current state of play with a closer look at the states that havent yet clad figures show biden on 264 on President Trump on 214 Electoral College votes 270 the winning post say a michigan was the last states to drop into the biden column its 16 electoral votes which trump one in 2016 now go to his democratic challenger to wisconsin they came in for biden with another 10 electoral votes trump one wisconsin full years ago both campaigns pull huge resources into the state now its around votes that are still being counted by the a. P. A. News agency which is our main source of election data ice cold arizona for biden the other major outlets havent yet called it 11 College Votes u
Will continue. Im going to cross welcome to the program 2 days after the u. S. President ial election and still no winner votes are being counted in several key u. S. States democratic challenger joe biden is closest to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to secure the presidency any remaining state will get him over the line the Associated Press has called arizona for biden but other networks are saying its too close to call with arizona biden has 200 64. 00 Electoral College votes just 6 shy of the 270. 00 he needs but counting is going on there and elsewhere and the result could tip towards trump still meanwhile the Trump Campaign has launched legal action claiming fraud trying to stop. The count in 3 states but there is 0 evidence of any wrongdoing to the contrary counting is proceeding smoothly across the country. Frustration spilling out onto the streets in new york and trump protesters demanding every vote be counted. In other cities like here in seattle a similar story. In p
Continue to own the majority stake in tictac something President Trump says he does not like were looking into that from the standpoint of buy dance we dont like that ive been just conceptually i can tell you i dont like that. That has not been told to me yet that has been reported but it hasnt been told to me it could be very accurate reporting for a change so if thats the case im not going to be happy with the only this is china which i think it probably is yeah the Chinese Foreign ministry also responded to the latest reports thursday continued to label the situation as unfair. So we urge the u. S. To respect the principles of market economy and fair competition abide by International Economic and trade rules stop politicising normal economic and trade cooperation we can provide an open fair and nondiscriminatory Business Environment for Foreign Companies in the u. S. And joining us now to discuss our boom bust cohost Christine Benz swan and thank you both for being here as always k
A strange twist in all this because remember originally the deal was coming down to either oracle or microsoft then walmart jumped into it and said well well partner up with microsoft will sweeten the deal and it should come to us and then it didnt go into oracle instead so now somehow walmart has jumped off of the microsoft ship and theyre now jumping into this with oracle apparently as you said here in the lead up the c. E. O. Doug mcmillan of walmart is going to get a board seat on to talk as part of this deal and walmart with own an equity stake in the company in fact what the treasury secretary Steven Nugent has said is that u. S. Companies oracle and walmart he claims will together own a combined 50 percent plus of ticket now we dont know that thats true thats just what hes saying but hes saying those to us investors which calling these guys investors is ridiculous right because it does best its almost like highway robbery or like bandits that are jumping into this forced to sell