My name is karen. Thank you for joining us here at the center on National Security. We are delighted to be bringing you this afternoons conversation. With me today is awardwinning author, journalist, documentary maker. His new book is the spymasters how the cia director shaped the future and we are going to talk about this book today but first i want to say welcome and thank you for joining us. Its a pleasure to be here thanks for having me. So this is a wonderful read. When i started it i was like this is going to be too much information i wont be able to take it in but its fantastic. Its based on your own knowledge and research over 70 interviews and among those the directors of the cia except for the current ones and its not so much about the cia directors of their relationshitherelationship to te and the president would you agree with that . Thanks for the kind words about the book because what i try to do may be above all else is humanize these directors. I was lucky because as a
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Allege irregularities. His supporters are continuing to protest outside Voting Centers as well but elsewhere its a very different mood celebrations already broken out not dissipate the final results. Well joe biden is edging closer that crucial number 270 Electoral College votes thats whats needed to make him the next president of the United States in the past 12 hours the democratic candidate has overtaken donald trump in 2 states pennsylvania and georgia so this is the state of play at the moment just a handful of states still being counted biden is leading in most of them based on projections from the Associated Press he secured 264 votes so far donald trump has just 214 Electoral College votes and needs both georgia and pennsylvania to reach 270 in georgia its still very close most of the remaining votes are from atlanta and its suburbs which leans towards the democrats which have helped joe biden get ahead but it is still by a slim margin well that might secure him georgias covete
Outcome of the election now hinges on 4 battleground states where mainly postal votes are being tied to and in other news the u. N. Calls for i mean media deescalation intentions that ethiopias Prime Minister calls in troops into the tikrit region following at an auction on a military base the way. To. So democratic candidate joe biden is now just 6 Electoral College votes away from the u. S. Presidency after flipping michigan and wisconsin which donald trump narrowly won 4 years ago biden now has a total of 264 Electoral College votes ron donald trump has 214 hour remember the magic number to become president is to 70 here in yellow youll see the states still in play nevada in the west and georgia and North Carolina in the south and up here pennsylvania donald trump has launched legal action in several states to stop votes being counted. Lets look at georgia firsts an extremely close race ted Donald Trumps initial lead has been steadily falling most of the remaining votes are from atl
Be seen preparing inside a counting center as Trump Supporters gathered outside a white house crossed one can be held at has more from washington d. C. Some networks here in the United States are still saying that this state of arizona is too close to call so this is encouraging for the president he has insisted and in fact hes been working the phones all day we understand as of wednesday he has no Public Events on his schedule for thursday or e suspect he will continue to do this hes launched a spate of lawsuits and even now i am resigning as well as another potential one of the state of the list is he continues to focus on winning. John mica fairly has been sworn in as times it is president off he won a 2nd term in last weeks elections make you feel it was declared the winner by the Election Commission with 84 percent of the vote opposition parties however are alleging widespread from florida. Fi United Nations is an end to fight scene between ethiopia Central Government and local fo