Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us its election day in the United States and today and all this week well be looking at the impact of the vote on countries across asia one of the most important relationships for the u. S. In the entire pacific is its in gage meant with india the 2 countries together with japan and australia from part of what is known as a quad for democracies in a clear counterpoint to china the regions large authoritarian state we sat down with indias foreign secretary harshvardhan to discuss regional politics we started by asking him whether thered be any change with a biden presidency especially given president dollar trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modis great personal admiration for each other. Other relations with the United States are really based on bipartisan support you see it in congress you see it in public lives we do believe that the force that elation ship that today is had visits to the test of time is very comprehensive and
Have to be counted some of them are only or a lot of them actually starting to be counted today and thats an awful lot of ballots to be counted so an official result of that is actually quite usual for the United States here we didnt have and other elections also you official results its the t. V. Networks and the pollsters who called the winner early about official results likely not to be happening tomorrow at this time will there be a network or Many Networks and polls this calling a winner by tomorrow this time. I dont know maybe thats the best you can get out of me and maybe a solid maybe its really not clear theres a lot of voting count valid to count the vote count going on and it has to be done to really really firmly call a state or. An overall result for the elections ok and what should we expect from these these old important to swing states that a so important for these counted is. Yeah there as you said they are really important it is those states where actually the math i
Barrett to the Supreme Court, with National Turn it National Journal Senate Reporter. Maryellen klaas, and then Michael Binder. Journal is next. With eight days to go until election day 2020, congas begins with a stalemate over Economic Relief and a response to the coronavirus pandemic and the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the support. The senate has a rare weekend session to move forward on the nomination and democrats are holding the senate in session through tonight, into this morning. You can see live pictures of the senate floor right now. Heres how we are dividing the lines. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Ndependents, 202 7488002 you can join the conversation by texting with your first name, city and state, at 202 7488003, or go to twitter, or facebook. Com cspan. Has covid19 impacted your vote . If it hasnt, we want to hear from you as well. What is impacting your vote and if the pandemic impacts your vote, we want to know why. Why has it motivated you to
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Commissioner to see if she needs help. President bernal with the quorum present, we move on to the next item. The approval of the meetings of the minute of september 1st. Wrong date, im looking at the minutes. The minutes of the meeting of september 15. Upon reviewing the minutes and without amendment, do we have a motion to approve or any amendments from the commissioners . So moved. Second. Before you all vote there is nobody on the Public Comment line, so there is no need to take Public Comment. I can take a roll call vote, commissioner. President bernal yes. Commissioner green yes. Commissioner chung yes. Commissioner chow yes. And lets see if okay, i will call her as we move into the next item. That looks like the minutes passed. The next item is the directors report. Director colfax. Good afternoon. The director report, grant cocolfax. One item of note, september 30, state department of Public Health released details regarding a Health Equity metric to help continuing efforts to