There you are watching r. T. International this afternoon where its just gone for in moscow in america people are waking up to find their president ial election race stuck on a knife edge results are hanging in the balance in a few key states but that hasnt stopped joe biden claiming hes on course to win a slim lead in Electoral College votes or donald trump for that matter claiming that he has already won and is threatening legal action. Ok well to get more on this were joined in the studio. And also. Is here with us. Coming to us from new york so lets go there 1st and talk to kalib. Just talk through how the race is panning out so far whats the latest and what can we expect. Well as was widely anticipated it is the morning after the election here in the United States and we do not have a clear winner at this point a number of states have yet to declare a winner and its not clear who will be the president for the following 4 years now at this point in the Electoral College joe biden i
Is a tight one so far there is no clear victor but u. S. President donald trump has declared himself the winner despite votes still being counted he says he will go to the Supreme Court to stop vote counting accusing the democrats of stealing the election. We want all voting just. We dont want them to find any ballots at 4 oclock in the morning and then thats the list ok. Its a serious. Its a very sad moment to me this is a very sad moment and we will win this and as far as im concerned we already have one. When his rival joe biden says that when all the votes are finally counted he expects to come out on top who is currently leading in the Electoral College count i heard tell your night we believe were on track to win this election. We knew because of the on pressure down early vote in a mail in vote thats going to take a while were going to have to be patient until we the hard work of tally of votes is finished and then over to every vote is counted every ballot is counted. But were
Thanks very much for joining us my guest today here in the studio are Soraya Sarhaddi nelson from k c w radio maine who says the results show how disconnected American Voters are from the jhumpa and from politicians pollsters and journalists. Also with us is mostly secret freelance journalist and currently a fellow at the American Academy here in berlin he argues that a deadly pandemic months of racial upheaval and scandal after scandal have done little to diminish trumps popularity polls and a warm welcome to to Matthew Carney chief europe correspondent for politico who believes whoever wins in the end the result shows that neither candidates own party has a clear convincing mandate. Thank you all 3 for being here great stuff id like to begin with you Soraya America has voted to in walked one leading financial broadsheet kohls a big us election that resolves little that seems like an option fed description of where we do you agree absolutely and it could become pounded depending on th
Could you go back into that environment today or what was the formula that allowed you to exist for three decades . Did you have a particular relationship with ted turner or just enlighten us a little bit for the developments. Its helpful that i joined cnn 1980 at the beginning. I was one of the founders of cnn, one of the fortunate ones who was there from the you know, i was present at the creation as they say, and it was a spectacular place to work as we built it because it was something unthought of before ted turner. The global cable newscast and he put it into action and institutionalized it. It was really truly remarkable. But it changed over time, as these things do. And we founded it in 1980. By 1984 ted was on the forbes most, you know, the wealthiest list and it been basically on the verge of bankruptcy just four years earlier when he founded it. So his position changed, so did ours, suddenly were in the white house pool, were growing, and over time his commitment, teds commi
President s statement trying to shut down counting them judy coast by list was just precedented being correct a naked if its a take away democratic rights and the before has a president ial to strip americans of their voice it will happen counting will continue until every jew because vote is counted. 8 pm here in moscow for the whole team and myself a very warm welcome to our National Clout you chose us today and what a day it is its november full since the day after the election and the fate of the u. S. Presidency rests in the hands of hoffa a dozen states still counting votes right now these are the ones you can see in great things i wisconsin michigan pennsylvania georgia North Carolina as well and. Results are hiding in the balance and could still go by the way up President Joe Biden is ahead of donald trump in the race for the white house but still. Doesnt have enough to be handed the keys what with me in the studio is more at carstairs and caleb Maupin Taylor lets start with yo