And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
Democrats can call in at 202 7488000. Republicans 202 7488001. Independents 202 7488002. You can also send us a text this morning. That number 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Catch up with us on social wj, on on twitter cspan facebook. Com cspan. Today marks three weeks since election day 2020. Transition to Bidens Administration begins. Take you now to the front page of the trade news. Their lead story about the certification process. Michigan born in charge of certifying election votes casts what they call a pivotal vote, cementing joe bidens victory in the state. The board of state canvassers voted 30 to certify the results. The republican board member crossed over to certify the election, which is traditionally viewed as an administrative step , but had drawn a spotlight as the Trump Campaign questioned the integrity of the election. Less than two hours after that final vote, a letter from gsa administrator emily murphy to joe biden. That sa
Bookstore. We celebrated 51 years this year. Would like to thank all of our supporters, the supporters of Scott Anderson and julian sank ten. The output of luck for bookstor bookstore. We have adapted to the Current Situation had to adapt again. So we are bring you the things you love the most about books through these Virtual Events but were also offering Curbside Pickup which is scheduled to resume this coming saturday. You can order scotts book and pick it up starting again on saturday. Or, if you are anywhere in the country you can have it mailed to you. We offer a variety of mailing options. And we can get the book in the mail to you wherever you are. We are happy to be able to bring our events theories virtual. It advances our way to expand our mind and make the world a better place but we hope you enjoy this event and hope you support Scott Anderson and purchase a book for you and all of your friends. This keeps events or is going, its what keeps our doors, whether they are open
Days of the projections we have for you at this hour starting in kentucky with 8 Electoral College votes they go the way of donald trump that is exactly as we would expect but just have a look at some of the detail on it of the popular vote and its solid isnt it 53 percent with 14 percent and this is just how to understand it even with 14 only 14 percent of precincts reporting it is enough for us to be able to make a solid projection for donald trump also looking at vermont which is going to the column of joe biden the 3 Electoral College votes which the democratic candidate pretty much always gets at this time of the night and just running through a few others now the polls are close but that doesnt mean we can actually decide at this point indiana too early to call in indiana with its 11 South Carolina as well if its 9 its too early to call as is virginia more on offer in virginia 13 that should be blue when the time comes but it was a swing state in past years and finally we will lo
Team is there for you to fact check his remarks. From william book rough welcome to the program facing possible defeat u. S. President donald trump is doubling down again making false and baseless claims that he was robbed of victory in the u. S. President ial election which wrapped up just 48 hours ago the Trump Campaign has launched legal action claiming fraud trying to stop the count in some states state Election Officials meanwhile say there is 0 evidence of any wrongdoing to the contrary counting is proceeding smoothly across the country heres some of what the president had to say but challenge joe and every democrat to clarify that they only want legal votes because they talk about votes and i think they should use the word legal illegal votes we want every legal vote. Ive counted and i want every legal vote counted we want openness and transparency no secret count rooms no mystery ballots no illegal votes being cast after election day you have election day and the laws are very