About the 2020 election. Welcome to Washington Post live. Im david ignatius, a columnist for the Washington Post, and its my pleasure to welcome christopher krebs, the former director of the cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at dhs, and it is fair to say, one of the heroes and protecting the security of our 2020 election. Welcome. Chris thank a lot. David lets begin with your story. You began preparing for a secure election back in february. And i remember talking with you in august for a column at a time when President Trump was warning about the danger of fraud because of mailin voting. You told me on the record interview back then this election would be slower to tabulate because of all the absentee votes, but it would be safe and secure. In august for a column at a time when President Trump was warning about the danger of fraud because of mailin voting. Took you told me in and on the record interview back then this election would be slower to tabulate because of all
It could be given to americans in the next three weeks. And in the battle for the white house today, new data shows just how poor a performance joe biden had in the november election as compared to the number of votes he received. And how many questions now surround the election of 2020. Biden won 212 few or counties than barack obama back in 2012. 212 fewer counties. Yet supposedly he gained more than 13 million vote than did the former president. 13 million more votes while not coming close to the number of counties. How could that be possible . Well, thats a central question, and there are many central questions that go to the integrity of the 2020 president ial election. We will be asking many questions here tonight. Well be exploring what happened and whats likely to happen from here and what really happened on november 3rd and beyond. President trump today acting as if the republic depended on it, pressing republican lawmakers to point out those anomalies and irregularities in th
Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin with breaking news on just how soon americans may be able to get a vaccine for the deadly coronavirus. Tonight the drug maker moderna says it has applied for emergency approval from the f. D. A. For its vaccine, making it just the second company, after pfizer, to ask for emergency authorization. The company says its on track to have 20 million doses ready by the end of december. The army general in charge of distributing the shots in the u. S. Says that by june, 100 of americans who want to be vaccinated, will be. And the h. H. S. Secretary, alex azar, tells cbs news that many seniors in nursing homes, along with front line workers, will have already gotten their shots before the end of this year. But its what happens before then that has Public Health officials sounding alarms tonight. Dr. Anthony fauci the nations top Infectious Disease expert says the country is now facing a surge on top of a surge. The virus
Deaths are too high and restrictions may have to continue well into next year. And in denmark, thousands of mean coord killed to prevent the spread of a coronavirus mutation. Now, the Prime Minister says the government had no legal right to order the cole. Brink off, its good to have you with us argentina has declared 3 days of mourning for superstar footballer diego maradona. He died on wednesday at the age of 60 after suffering. A heart attack and fans have been paying their respects as maradona lies in state in the president ial palace in some clash with police today as authorities try to limit access to the palace. But for many today was simply the chance to mourn a football when he i was cheering for their hero one last time i was outside the president ial palace. And despite the ongoing pandemic, tens of thousands of mourners have been lining up for their chance to pay their respects. Scuffles broke out when police moved to shut down, access to the president ial, palace and motio
For those watching on zoom some housekeeping remarks. You are an attendee of our zoom event tonight, that means you do not have video or audio privileges but you can interact with our moderator and guest by writing your question in the q and a box. The moderator will be reviewing those during the question and answer session which will conclude tonights program and to introduce the moderator it is my pleasure to pass the program over to doctor robert citino. Doctor robert citino, Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum in louisiana, we have a special guest with us tonight. A friend of the museum. My friend and a wonderful writer and author, ian toll, one of those people who doesnt need an introduction as we like to say. The introduction, he is extremely accomplished scholar and writer. He is the author of the epic story of the founding of the u. S. Navy as well as a trilogy called the pacic war, the third volume of which has just been released called twilight twilight of th