It is a team that will keep our country and our people safe and secure. Its a team that reflects the fact that america is back, ready to lead the world, not retreat from it. Biden held a News Conference on tuesday. He was joined by Vice President elect harris and the individuals he selected. Most of the nominees must be confirmed by the senate. Antony blinken was picked as secretary of state. He was deputy secretary of state during former president obamas second term. He nominated former deputy cia director haines to be the director of national intelligence. She will be the first woman to hold that post if she wins confirmation. Alejandro mayor casse was nominated to be the secretary of homeland security. He will be the first latino and first immigrant to fill that role, if confirmed. The News Conference was held one day after the countrys General Services administration cleared the way for the transition of power to officially begin. But President Donald Trump has not conceded defeat.
He seems to be unmuted. There were problems. Commissioner scott are you unmuted thank you everyone for being patient. Well cap up with our technology. Can you hear me now . Yes. I heard everyone in test mode. Steven, can you hear me . Yes. Thank you very much. As the board is aware we annually engage in a selfevaluation for the board of directors and also an annual evaluation of the executive director. The Governance Committee met a week ago to review both documents as well as a time line for both processes. As you know, we initiate the selfevaluation first and then follow that four weeks later or so with the executive directors evaluation once we received the executive directors selfevaluation. In reviewing both documents, we did not make any changes in the executive director document. We did modify in the board selfevaluation document a couple of questions. We eliminated one question and we modified the wording on another. So those changes are contained in the attachments sent out in
Youtube, twitter, linkedin and, of course, axios. Com. We hope youll follow along using the hashtag axios event and axios on twitter. Over the next 30 minutes, ill be joined by mike allen, and well unpack the news of the day, vote or turnout and how National Security will play a key role in the november elections. But now, id like to welcome our first guest. She is the ceo and president of voto latino, Maria Teresa Kumar if joins us from nfnlgt welcome, teresa. Thanks, margaret, how are you going . I mean, im tired [laughter] but were not on the road. Thats the biggest thing of all of this, right . [laughter] were not on the road, but i dont know about you, i kind of get energy being on the road, and also there is an end to the day on the road. There is no end to the day when zoom and your office is also your dining room table which is also next to the kitchen. I know. I think thats absolutely no, and i think the challenge is that by november 3rd youre just, like, you dont want to see
His Democratic Party i didnt ask them to anxious u. S. Population to remain patients. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program facing growing likelihood of growing defeat in the u. S. President ial election donald trump has again claimed without evidence that he has won and that democrats are trying to steal the election in fact trump is steadily losing ground as the tallies in most undecided states swing in favor of joe biden lets have a look at the latest figures now which show biden with 264. 00 electoral votes President Trump at 214 we go now 1st to georgia we have to take talk about what has just been happening now in the past hour there 16 alike. Toral votes up for grabs it is an extremely tight race but biden has just pulled ahead of trump with a little over 900. 00 votes with 99 percent of the votes counted there meantime pennsylvania it is the biggest prize yet to be decided with 20 electoral votes donald trump currently holding a very narrow 3 tenths of a percent lead that gap t
Has 20 electoral votes should biden pull ahead here and when the states he would of he would have crossed over the magic number of 270 Electoral College votes so that means he would he would win the election. Trump is still ahead by a little bit but its mail in voting ballots that are still being counted that favor joe biden and some of them are coming from the philadelphia area which is also a democratic leaning. Area and so that would mean that biden could pull ahead here and were expecting more numbers from there soon lets talk about the further numbers that are expected we also know from philadelphia that you just mentioned also know that georgia 99 percent of the vote counted and that is really quite a lot given all of this when could we expect to bristle at sort of timeline could we be looking. Well that is of course what everyone is wondering and the short answer is we dont know exactly some numbers and some states as you mentioned are very close to having all ballots counted. S