Joe biden says when all the votes are finally counted, he expects to come out on top. The Campaign Says he is on track to win michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania. Joe biden i believe we are on track to win this election. [applause] we do because of the unprecedented early vote, the male invoke, it was going to take a wild. We are going to have to be patient until the hard work of tallying votes is finished. And aint done until every ballot is counted. [applause] we are feeling good. Bidens biggest victory has been arizona, the only state to flip since trump won it in 2016. Millions of ballots need to be counted with results unclear in battleground states. Ethiopia has begun military operations in its north as tensions escalate. The local government has been accused of attacking federal troops. Local authorities have dismissed that, accusing the Prime Minister of plotting conflict. A state of emergency has been declared by the federal government. The region held elections in september,
Pennsylvania. Are her turn to night we believe were on track to win this election. Because of the our pressure down early vote in a mail in vote is going to take a while were going to have to be patient until were the hard work of talent votes is finished and then over to every vote is counted every ballot is counted. But were fair and good. Bidens biggest victory so far has been arizona it is the only state to flip to trump won it back in 2016 millions of ballots still need to be counted with results unclear and the battleground states michigan and pennsylvania. In other news ethiopia has begun military operations in its north as tensions escalate the local government in the region has been accused of attacking federal troops local authorities have dismissed that are accusing the Prime Minister of plotting conflict a 6 month state of emergency has been declared by the federal government the region held elections in september that the federal government deemed illegal. 2 more people ha
Hello im David Rubenstein at the library of congress in washington, d. C. As part of the National Book festival and we are pleased today to have Washington State bob gates whos written a book called exercise from power which ive read and recommend. We are going to talk about this book and a little bit about bobs career. I should point out we worked together along time ago about four decades ago in the Carter White House when i was the deputy and bob gates was executive assistant. So in those days, did you ever think you would become one of the most famous secretaries and have this career, did you ever think about that when you worked as executive assistant . We are both in situations today that we never dreamt about in the late 1970s. But i joined the cia in 1966 i was recruited out of the institute in indiana university. And to do my bit in the cold war i never dreamed in those days that i would end up being the director of the cia at the very time the soviet union collapsed. So it wa
The economy a central issue in the cam paint but a new book by the Washington Posts bob woodward is allowing his rival to keep the coronavirus pandemic front and center amid charges that the president purposely downplayed the threat from covid19. He knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months. He had the information. He knew how dangerous it was, but while this deadly disease ripped through our nation, he failed to do his job on purpose. Paul lets bring in columnist karl rove, Senior Adviser to president george w. Bush. So, karl, nice to see you. Thank you, paul. Paul so you wrote this week that joe biden in the home stretch is, has the edge on the election right now. How big an edge is it . Well, enough that if the election were today, he would win a clear victory. But the race also, as i said in the knecht sentence, is tightening next sentence is tightening. Democrat politicos are anxious that they could have a second election in a row in which so
Their proposal for more on that proposal we want to turn now to kron fours Justine Waldman who has the latest for us now from the newsroom justine will cain today white house chief of staff mark meadows and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin met to put the final touches on that 1 trillion dollars relief bill Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is expected to bring it forward monday afternoon. Both newton and meadow say they want a less ambitious plan that includes stopgap measures like Unemployment Insurance and education funding. But Senate Republicans are poised to pose more way of doing direct payments war Small Business loans and tax incentives for rehiring mission will now share with us. What his focus is for this new proposal. The bill will be introduced monday and were prepared to act quickly this is all about kids in jobs. This is our focus and we want to make sure something gets passed quickly so that we deal with the unemployment and all the other issues paycheck protection