Organization youre involved with and what your efforts have done so far in the 2020 election. Guest sure. So about four months ago, a number of us former federal officials pulled together the National Council for election integrity. We now have over 40 members of this council. Its evenly divided between republicans and democrats. It includes former members of congress, like bill frist, dash ill, tom ridge, a number of others. We also have former cabinet secretaries, like madeleine former department of Homeland Security secretaries. And weve got three former fourstar generals or admirals. Weve got a pretty broadbased group. And our concern four months ago was that with the pandemic and with the high volume of mailin ballots required because people didnt want to vote in person as much as usual, and because of the possible closeness of this election, we knew that this could be a problem having a successful election. And getting both sides, whatever happened, to accept the results and to h
And william glucose welcome to the program 2 days after the u. S. President ial election and theres still no winner votes are being counted in several key u. S. States democratic challenger joe biden is closest to the 270. 00 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 that puts him just 6 votes shy of the 270. 00 he needs but the counting goes on the result could tip back towards trump 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 portland
With counting of the postal votes favoring his democratic party. And anxious u. S. Population to remain. Well im terry martin good to have you with us facing growing likelihood of defeat in the u. S. President ial election donald trump has again claimed without evidence that he won and that democrats are trying to steal the election from him in fact trump is losing ground as counting continues in 4 swing states that remain undecided lets take a look at some of the latest figures they show that biden show biden with 264 and President Trump with 214. 00 Electoral College votes youve got to have to 70 of course to win. And that was take a look at some of the states in georgia where 16 electoral votes are up for grabs its an extremely tight race biden and trump are still neck and neck there with 99 percent of votes counted the latest count has shown the former Vice President has less than 2000 votes behind the president and is catching up fast pennsylvania is the biggest yet to be decided
Understand itse true impact whh has been particularly devastatingar to countries and e most vulnerable communities, women, youth, the elderly. But most importantly, we are here to find Innovative Solutions to i creating change. This is precisely the focus of this Years World Bank which wilwill takeplace starting octod Global Leaders of the government, business and civil society. Just at the stage for the evening we will hear today from World Bank Group david and whato it will take to tackle this crisis and how we can turn this into an opportunity for an inclusive recovery. We will be joined in conversation with the president school of finance and joining from his office in sanford doctor redman has been president of the German Central Bank and is a member of the governing council, represents germany and the imf and other National Bodies and has been chairman of the board of directors of the bank since november, 2015. Welcome. The floor is yours. Thank you for your kind words. Ladies an
Another bipartisan spending bill. The battle to replace Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg will be anything but bipartisan. The president said he will announce his pick on saturday. Joining us to talk about how the markets are digesting this news, bloombergs abigail doolittle. This is not what investors to hear. We got that big 200,000 number in the united states. 200,000 americans have died due to covid19. Talk to us about how investors are handling these continued mixed signals. Abigail that is a tragedy in the u. S. In terms of impact on the market, probably not so much. We are looking at the volatility on the backside of the huge rally in august. August was the best month ever going back to 2014. At this point, the nasdaq 100 where it was at the beginning of august. That slump that never deserved to happen according to some strategists has now been erased. Perhaps we are on a level Playing Field that on the day has taken the nasdaq and s p 500 down. You were mentioning the big drop for ap