Dont ask me to asked to say that i think the president or his followers to do anything different than Hillary Clintons follow through if youre talking about. Big business when theyre talking about big tax on hollywood they from day one said that the President Trumps presidency and the election was illegitimate and as a journalist you know that we watched this play out before yours if i could just so you have no special to talk to his people about accepting the result he will model i am sure but he right now doesnt believe. That there is the you know they mistreated evidence. Hes lost this race let me add that theres nothing one state to certify the vote theyre going to be several states that will have canvassing and recount and cannot there wont be giving what are you think that will have. Judicial decisions that will impact and in spite of that we have to see it in but give me 300 in this bill i tell you that despite of it despite that in the past hour as we have seen many messages fr
Claimed victory and he says hell ask the Supreme Court to stop the vote kill. I bring cost to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world welcome it has been 24 hours since voting into did the u. S. President ial election and there remains no clear winner democratic challenger joe biden and President Donald Trump along with america and the rest of the world are waiting for results as ballot counting continues in a few key battleground states this election is demanding patience from everyone but the u. S. President has already claimed victory and hes alleging voter fraud without presenting any evidence joe biden hes calling for patience but his supporters are confident that he is on track to win so lets take a look now at the results where the vote counting stands right now in just the last hour hour figures show biden currently on 248. 00 Electoral College votes right there with donald trump right now at 214 the magic number needed of course to 72 wh
Suzanne it is a pleasure to welcome you here today to our conversation on Foreign Policy and the u. S. President ial election. This event is part of the brookings policy 2020 series which seeks to empower voters with factbased, datadriven, nonpartisan information to better understand the policy matters discussed by candidates running for office this year. Thank you all for joining us. We are 29 days away from november 3. Americans will cast their ballots for the next president , but the future of americas global role is also at the ballot. Looking toward the election, todays conversation will focus in particular on its implications for the transatlantic relationship and u. S. Foreign policy toward europe. European leaders and many of their counterparts around the world are watching the election closely. While there are differing views about how the upcoming november election will shape the relationship, few in europe believe it will revert to its previous form. With polling from the Eu
Ask you this question. You worked for cnn for some 30 years. You have a variety of shows, you are not an orthodox republican, obviously not a liberal democrat. Could you go back into the environment today or what was the formula that allows you to exist for three decades . You have a particular relationship with him . Enlighten us a little bit. It was helpful i joined cnn in 1980 at the beginning, one of the founders of cnn, one of the fortunate ones who was there, i was president of creation, as they say. It was a spectacular place to work because it was something on thought of before ted turner. The global cable news cast and he put it into action and institutionalized it. It was truly remarkable. It changed over time and refounded it in 1980 and by 1984, ted was on the forms, the wealthiest list and have been basically on the verge of bankruptcy three years earlier than when he founded it. His positioned changed and subject hours. We were growing and over time, is, teds commitment t
Hello, my name is kai bird, im the executive director of the leon leavy centers for biography at cuny, university of new york. We are sponsored by Sheldon Whitehouse and the abto promote the arts and crafts and biography among other things. We been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years. We are here on a session with the 20th anniversary actually of the National Book festival, the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable publican intellectuals, Harold Holzer is one of the countries leading lincoln scholar, currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer is himself the author of eight books, professor witmer is now on my faculty abwe will be discussing his latest book lincoln on the verge thirteen days to washington. These are two very different books. Im going to hold up each of them. This is literally a mini biography, not so many, its a substantial book, focuses on 13