To discuss these topics and more im joined by my guest george samueli in budapest he is an author and a you tuber abacab goal and here in moscow were joined by Dimitri Bobbitt shes a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project hi gentlemen crossed out rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate it well lets go to george in budapest 1st well george this is the last time well be doing this format before the election here and i think for me since this programming cross talk in general focuses a lot on the media you know irrespective of the outcome on tuesday then the media really acquitted themselves into the deplorable way this election cycle because we have at the very very end and im not saying you know we like this october surprise of the hunter by laptop i mean lets just put that aside here it is a news story and the media for a lot for the most part there are some exceptions but for the most part refused to recognize this
Lets just put that aside here it is a news story and the media for the law for the most part there are some exceptions but for the most part refused to recognize this is a fact that it is important for people to make decisions about their political future they talk a lot about outside meddling its the media is meddling in this election george yes youre absolutely right. That in pot they have been intimidated by the Clinton Campaign and by the democrats since 26 theyve so theyve been accused of having publicized the disclosures the wiki leaks and thus helping. Trump when and at worst helping the kremlin so just to be you know bad to the media i think they theyve been scared of touching this because again they think of trump wins then they will be. Blamed for this picture but that doesnt excuse their refusal to investigate something that is clearly news with because here we have the man who presumably or piece of going to the polls will be the next president of the United States was usin
President of the United States was using his name to enrich his family and he was his family was in business with some very dicey people helping the Chinese Government which after all but its going to be one of the big issues of the coming decades america goes. Rivalry competition whatever with china and here is this man was going to be the president who is really seems to be batting for the other team hes helping the Chinese Government to infiltrate itself within American Life through bidens family that is a very very big deal and for the media just to ignore it is simply a serious dereliction of duty you know game in essential what they have done is they have suspended their professionalism. Little they had of it and they suspended common sense and any sense of ethical behavior in it shows their partisanship i mean theyve shown their colors to everyone here they dont want to look into a real story because the russia gate hoax was a hoax ok this has parenthetic evidence ok so theyre s
Both sides involved in a very hot contest. This morning as we are counting. The ballot said that have already been cast, but the voting is far from done i the countdown thats going to be the herculean feat for a number of states as they try and get these numbers out as. Quickly as they can. But they do have their own legal processes that vary from state to state but yeah interesting and it was 2 different stories last night when we heard President Trump prematurely say that he had one. The battleground states and joe biden saying patients because as we said james, there are still. Our least hundreds of thousands of ballots yet to count. These are not new votes. These are not ballots that have just been found. But they were cast in many cases months ago, yeah, thats right. These were the early polls. Counts the mail in ballots that for some states had to wait until day of ballots were counted before they could then be process which is why its no surprise that for some states were still
Here in the bay area county registrars are busy processing ballots, but theres also a growing sense of anxiety from many voters. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana reports in San Francisco on voter turnout and voter stress. Reporter just two days till polls close on election 2020, and county registrars offices across the bay area are already busy processing ballots. But for some voters there is still a pretty high level of anxiety. I am anxious in the sense that in light of the new voting, you know, vote by mail, we wont know whats going to happen till much later than tuesday. It becomes contested, violence, unrest, things like that. Reporter however you decided to keep track of the election, whether watching the news around the clock or checking updates, psychologists agree on one this can. Voters from all parties have been reporting high stress levels because of the election. Its been at times divisive and at other times bizarre. There are boundaries around how much of the conversations y