Important. It is a very important moment for him. He is the incumbent president of the United States. He gets to set the tone for how it goes for the rest of the country. Will he give us the unfiltered trump that we saw earlier on twitter, or will he give us something more restrained and thought through that allows the American People to remain in a state of calm while we wait for the ballots to be counted, or will we get something that is trying to declare a victory where there is no victory to be declared . I think you are being charitable. Will he read a read a teleprompter or just riff. We always hope for the best when it comes to his behavior. But he has already gone on twitter and said falsely and misleadingly and potentially dangerously that democrats are trying to steal the election and there is no evidence of anyone trying to steal the election. There are election workers in georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, nevada, counting the votes. I am not suggesting there will
Its tight this hour. We have our eyes on a number of key states as more data comes in. Lets start this hour in arizona. Here is where things stand out west in arizona. Just after 11 00 on the east coast. Still too early to call there in arizona with 86 of the precincts reporting. To georgia we go. In georgia we expect an update from the secretary of state there at some point here about 30 minutes from now. When that happens, we will go to georgia and listen in. From georgia to maine, theres a look in maine. Still too early to call with about threequarters of all precincts reporting any second. In michigan well get an update from the secretary of state in michigan. Right now still too early to call in michigan. But we can note that some 90 of the precincts have reported their vote totals in michigan. Here is a look at North Carolina. North carolina still too close to call. 76,737 separating the two candidates there. In nevada, here is the look right now in nevada. All eyes on this battl
Midwest battleground state before and after election day. Hearing late today concluded with this appeal to the judge from wayne county lawyers, the effort to go back and audit the election for potential troubles, well, that is a threat to democracy. These are scenarios desperately dangerous in either scenario is completely unnecessary to provide any relief to the plaintiffs. So we are in a position where our votes could be complete disenfranchised. Shannon well, this new michigan lawsuit is requesting that officials certification of detroit boats pending an independent audit be stopped, the judge says his opinion will be written and delivered by friday. This is just one of several efforts going on around the country intended to ensure that this was a free and Fair Election in which roughly 77 million votes have been recorded for joe biden. Roughly 72 million for President Trump, both record high numbers. So far no indications with the claims that weve seen that the overall result will
Pages really brings back memories. This, for me, forever is going to be the sense memory of the donald j. Trump administration. Redacted, redacted, redacted. What this is is a 20page long order from the top judge in the federal court in d. C. , chief judge barrel how well, judge howell issued this order in late august. She only made it public today. As i show you, a bunch is blacked out. But what we can see in the parts that arent blacked out is sort of show stopping. What this document reveals is that federal prosecutors at the u. S. Department of justice have been actively investigating what the judge describes here as a, quote, describriberyforpardon scheme, and secret lobbying scheme, by which some people were suspected of bribes to the president. Those substantial political contributions would be the bribe. The act they wanted from the the president in return for that bribe was allegedly, quote, a president ial pardon or reprieve of sentence for, person whose name is blocked out.
And i say she made it public, as i snowed you, a whole bunch is blacked out. But what we can see in the parts that arent blacked out is sort of show stopping. What this document reveals is that federal prosecutors at the u. S. Department of justice have been actively investigating what the judge describes here as a, quote, briberyforpardon scheme, a quote, secret lobbying scheme and bribery conspiracy by which some number of people were suspected of arranging bribes to the president. In the form of, quote, substantial political contributions. The substantial political contributions would be the bribe. The official act they wanted from the president in return for that bribe was alleged, quote, a president ial pardon or a reprieve of sentence for person whose name is blacked out. So, this document unsealed today, although still heavily redacted, what it shows, technically, the work of the court that is revealed of this document is that judge howell approved a request from these federal p