Court justice her appointment solidifying the courts conservative majority and handing President Trump a Major Political victory also on the show. Shouts of freedom from the talionis protesting against a 2nd pandemic lock down demonstrations of interest and the law turning to violence along with clashes with police the governments promising to Small Businesses support to calmly on rights. And well take a look at the Game Changing discovery that could transform space travel nasa top aside just confirm theres more water on the moon than previously thought. Im dr thomas good to have you with us today we begin in the United States where the confirmation of a. Kone barrett to the Supreme Court has given americas top court a conservative majority for years to come the senate approving her nomination by 52 votes to 48 her appointment was strongly opposed by Congressional Democrats will have analysis about this far reaching development after this report. After a month in the spotlight she fina
Win this election. [applause] our goal now is to ensure the integrity for the good of this nation. Maria the president went on to say yesterday process deserves look from the highest court. This is a very big moment. This is a major fraud in our nation. We want the law to be used in a proper manner. So well be going to the u. S. Supreme court. Joe biden also speaking to his supporters over the outcome of election. Watch. Take a little longer as ive said all along it is not my place or Donald Trumps place to declare who is won this election. Thats a decision of the American People. But im optimistic about this outcome. Maria so here is where we are, six states are still too close to call. One of the ones were watching this morning pennsylvania, which has now stopped the ballot counting process until later this morning. Markets this morning are lower. Take a look at futures indicating we will see weakness at start of trading taking a hit after the overnight speech showing strength on nas
An 11point lead in the state of pennsylvania. But theres a lot of vote yet to be counted in that state and want to bring in the attorney general of that state josh shapiro joining us, i believe from philadelphia. Josh, thank you for joining us this morning. If youre not in philadelphia, i apologize for that. Tell us where things are with the count, when you expect to see more results, how the process is going. Yeah, look, george, i get it. Folks want to know. My kids jumped on me this morning, daddy, daddy, who won and my kids jumped on me too. Weve been saying for months, you know, were going to secure, protect and count every vote so we secured the vote. We protected it and now its being counted all across pennsylvania clerks from our communities are making sure that these ballots are counted. Theres still a lot of vote left. This is way too early in the process. I anticipate throughout the day today youre going to see significant numbers of votes being put into the system, so the pu
Market as well. Tom ive got to be careful here, but ive never seen it before. The dynamics of particularly dow futures have been extraordinary. Nasdaq 100 shows a little bit of persistency, with green on the screen. Jonathan 18 basis point trading range on the treasury yield. It is the election map everyone feared they might wake up to, confronted with the idea that you might have to wait maybe a few more days. Lisa theres several maps that are the worst Case Scenario for markets. We have the potential for a contested election, but also looking like the democrats will be unable to win the senate. Not yet determined, but that is the map. If you look at the Electoral College, it is the path to 270. Former Vice President joe biden currently racking up 238 of those votes, versus 213 of President Trump. It is going to be up to wisconsin, michigan, georgia, pennsylvania, nevada. It is so close that the big take away here is that this was not the blue wave people looking for. This is not the
Political institutions and a commitment to the traditions of democracy. But on the other hand, it saddled us with some obsolete 18thCentury Institutions. Foremost among them is the Electoral College. Back when they set up the Electoral College, the gap populous andeast most populous state, you had a 51 ratio. Today it is well over 601. The Electoral College is biased against the most populous states and biased in favor of the smaller states because no state, no matter what its population, gets less than three Electoral College votes because votes are determined by the number of congressional representatives plus the two senators. So the small states have just one member of congress, but they also have two senators. That is three Electoral College votes. It distorts our political system. Now, why the Electoral College . Why did the framers set this up . Like anything else, there are multiple reasons. The framers loved the common people, but they did not love them all that much. They bel