Today we speak with former green Party President ial candidate jill stein, who is pushing for recounts in three states wisconsin, pennsylvania, and michigan. Donald trumps narrow victories in these states secured his election, but could a recount put Hillary Clinton into the white house . We will also speak with Cyber Security and private privacy researcher Bruce Schneier on why is subject to hackers. And we will speak with Lawrence Lessig on the Electoral College and why they should choose clinton over trump. All of that and more, c coming. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President elect donald trump has announced a handful of new cabinet picks. On t tuesday, hehe named billioe Steven Mnuchin to be treasury secretary. Mnuchin has deep ties on wall street, including working as a partner for goldman sachs, where his father also worked. Mnuchins hedge fund also played a role in the housing crisis, after it scooped up the failing Cal
Today we speak with former green Party President ial candidate jill stein, who is pushing for recounts in three states wisconsin, pennsylvania, and michigan. Donald trumps narrow victories in these states secured his election, but could a recount put Hillary Clinton into the white house . We will also speak with Cyber Security and private privacy researcher Bruce Schneier on why is subject to hackers. And we will speak with Lawrence Lessig on the Electoral College and why they should choose clinton over trump. All of that and more, c coming. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President elect donald trump has announced a handful of new cabinet picks. On t tuesday, hehe named billioe Steven Mnuchin to be treasury secretary. Mnuchin has deep ties on wall street, including working as a partner for goldman sachs, where his father also worked. Mnuchins hedge fund also played a role in the housing crisis, after it scooped up the failing Cal
Bush as chief economist and is dean of the Columbia Business School and johnson goolsby is an economic professor at the university of chicago. Lets begin with you, austin. Lets pretend for just a moment, we wake up tomorrow and the senate is controlled by the republicans, what happens next . Well, the senate wont be controlled by the republicans until they get sworn in. I think what will happen next is a mad dash to get as many things done with the democratic majority still in the senate as they go into the lame duck session. I dont know what glenn thinks but i dont think theyll get a whole lot done. And then it sets the stage for this battle of wills. Theres one group of people in the democrats, and you saw joe biden repeating this view, that if republicans take the senate, then the pressure will be on them to get something done so there will be more compromise and the other view, which i say i more believe in it would be more like 2010, if the republicans win, theyll say we just won,
Sheer, whos our assistant secretary of defense for east asia in the pacific. You know that david was had come back from hanoi to do this job. He was our u. S. Ambassador there. David is an expert on china and Southeast Asia. I think for many of us who are sort of in the trenches every day on these issues, couldnt think of a better person for the pentagon to put into this role. Next to him is one of the top Southeast Asiaenists in the United States, and he also is singapores ambassador to the United States. Aspoke. He was most recently singapores ambassador to indonesia. He was in the past has been singapores ambassador also to australia. And to quaul la lumpur and has a long history in Singapore Foreign affairs working on asiarelated affairs. And finally, a good friend and a real hero of Southeast Asia and asian policy in the senate is chris bros. He works with senator mccain in senator mccains office. Previous before that he was senior staffer in the Senate Armed Services committee. A
In about 1 4 of the states. You can see that on the map, all the states in pink, red orange and purple have closed and results are beginning to come in. In fact, the Associated Press has called races in kentucky where Mitch Mcconnell is declared the victor and the two South Carolina senate races, and in West Virginia all going to the g. O. P. We have cameras at the headquarters for Mitch Mcconnell and Allison Grimes and you see rand paul talking to supporters at the mcconnell headquarters and what it looks like over at the Allison Grimes headquarters in kentucky. Later on tonight as their speeches get underway, well certainly be there so you can hear what they have to say. Our colleague, steve scully, will be out all night at the desk looking at the details of the votes as they come in. Lets see what he has for us. Susan, you mentioned West Virginia. Thats a pickup for the democrats where senator Jay Rockefeller is retiring, First Time Since 1942 a republican has won in the senate race