Live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. With robyn curnow. This is cnn breaking news. We begin with this breaking news in the u. S. Election. The state of georgia will once again recount the president ial ballots as the Trump Campaign requested. Recounts are allowed there when the margin of victory is less than 0. 5 , as it was for joe biden. The state already did an audit of the president ial vote, so this will be the third time around at taxpayer expense. The Biden Campaign says the recount will show yet again that joe biden won the state. It also said there is no reason to believe there are widespread errors or fraud, and the Trump Campaign has no evidence to back up its baseless claims. I asked cnn election law analyst ranita tolson if the latest georgia recount will make a difference. Its a formality. So when you have a vote as close as it was in georgia, so less than 0. 5 , the Trump Campaign can request a recount. They rescan the ballots. Let me emphasize, recounts rarely ch
Lead the u. S. Intelligence community and the first latino to lead the department of Homeland Security. As well as the firstever special envoy for climate. Also breaking right now. A new defeat, a very important defeat for President Trump as he seeks to overturn the u. S. Election. A michigan board has just voted to certify the states results, despite a lot of pressure from the president to try to overturn them, making it even clearer that the president , right now, has no path forward. We are following breaking pandemic news. The u. S. Death toll has now topped 257,000 people. The number of cases here in the United States is growing at an alarming rate now past 12. 3 million with 225,000 confirmed just this month and its only november 23rd. Lets get to the breaking transition news first. Jessica dean is joining us from wilmington, delaware. Some very, very important posts being filled on a very speedy rate by the president elect of the United States. Reporter yes. They are moving at a
Top of the hour, im poppy harlow in new york. We begin with breaking news on the benghazi terror attack investigation. A staffer fired from the House Select Committee looking into that deadly 2012 attack on that u. S. Diplomatic compound in benghazi, libya. That attack that took four american lives including ambassador stevens. Joining me now, cnn Investigative Reporter chris frates in washington. What are you learning . A former staffer investigating the benghazi attacks says the panels probe has become a politically motivated inquiry targeting former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Its a politically explosive charge sure to resonate on the campaign trail as clinton runs for president. Major bradley poliska, an air force reserve intelligence officer, says that after news broke earlier this year that clinton used a private email server, the republicancontrolled committee set its sights almost exclusively on clinton. Paliska says he was fired as a Committee Investigator because he r
Served his city of baltimore for over two decades dying after a Longtime Health complications and where we begin this morning. This was a stunner. Bill hemmer, welcome to our coverage today. Sandra well reflect back on his life. Good morning. Im sandra smith. Reaction pouring in from capitol hill and beyond remembering a man who was both a giant during the Civil Rights Movement as well as a major presence in the entire impeachment inquiry sitting at the helm of the oversight committee. Bill we got a tweet from the president. My warmest condolences to the family and many friends of congressman Elijah Cummings. I got to see firsthand the strength, wisdom of this political leader. His work and voice on so many fronts will be very hard if impossible to replace. Griff jenkins live outside his home office in baltimore. He began serving the maryland Congressional District in 1986 and his career was in the house of delegates and known as a legend on capitol hill as chairman of the overnight an
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