Level as the controversy continues. President biden met with his Economic Team at the white house today, the administration has not yet said much on the controversy only saying talk to the sec and the feds are monitoring the situation. Strong backlash by some lawmakers including alexandria ocasiocortez and republican ted cruz. Republican senator josh hawley talked about this on fox news earlier. What youve seen with this gamestop meltdown that wall street is having now is these folks at home have got more criticism and more scrutiny than the people who singlehandedly crash the entire Financial Market in 2008. And they got bailed out, the government bailed out those people. It shows you that the fix is in. John White House Correspondent Kristin Fisher picks up reporting for us on this friday live on the north lawn. For the third day in a row, the white house is declining to weigh in on this controversy that has consumed both wall street and main street. The White House Press secretary w
We have been projecting that with 290 electoral votes joe biden has won the president ial election he is now the president elect of the United States pennsylvania is the state that put him over the top and he has now also been declared the winner. Youre watching live pictures now from new york we are seeing huge celebrations all across the country however there are a number of gatherings of Trump Supporters out there flags as well in a number of places in pennsylvania and in washington d. C. As well as you can see theyre out on the streets theyve been charging usa usa the other groups of supporters for joe biden have been celebrating his victory well his victory also means that Vice President elect comer harris will be the 1st woman 1st south asian and 1st black person to hold that office she learned all of that news while she was out jogging and was also one of the 1st to congratulate her wedding ring. Wait wait then a very very heavy the next president of the United States. Lets now
I would like to start from reading from doctor cheneys opening paragraph. Put the spike of a drawing compass into the map of virginia a dairy farm, George Washington home, extend the leg of the compass what reaches out 60 miles and draw a circle, within and it not only washington but thomas jefferson, james mattis and james rural were born leading to manhood and made their home. It is the story that evokes what the historian called the spirit of hope and perseverance that runs straight through the american experience. Doctor cheney is a longtime member of a site faculty and i want to take moment to acknowledge how much we all appreciate her scholarship and her intellectual contributions to ai, not to mention a service she is done for our country. This is the latest in a series of several works by doctor cheney that examine our countrys history, its consideration and rigor. Her last book, James Madison, became a New York Times best seller in 2014 and shed new light on the life of one of
Color, young people for biden and harris. So we have been doing an amazing effort. We have had working with pennsylvania stands up, great grassroots organization, we have inn training our volunteers sevenhour deep canvassing training. Over 600 of them have participated in this effort. We have made over 140,000 phone calls in pennsylvania in the last 3. 5 weeks. Now we are focused on geo tv. In the early weeks, we were focused on persuasion, listening, and helping to move people along the scale, on addressing some of their concerns if they were either thinking about it for trump, turning them around, or if they were not sure theyre going to vote for biden, moving them along that scale. It has been an amazing effort. I am so proud of our volunteers and people who are refusing to leave anything on the line to make sure we do everything we can to elect joe biden and Kamala Harris. Looks no doubt the efforts we made, the congress woman, what about in pennsylvania or other key states, if the
And talk about the potential for violence on Election Night and keeping the majority in the senate. This is an hour. Good afternoon, its monday, the day before election day. Im bob. Welcome do Washington Post live and every day today. We are going to hear from two Party Leaders on the front line of this Historic Campaign and hear from senator todd young of indiana. He is the person who is running all the Senate Campaigns tore the republicans as they hold on to their majority and welcome representative jayapal from Washington State and cochair of the progressive caucus in the house and one of those leaders in washington that regardless of who wins will be a voice in the Democratic Party in the years to come and campaigning across the country and two of my colleagues who i have been waiting to hear rom. First, lets go to the headlines. Day before election day. Voters get to decide. Not us, its the voters, you, who get to decide. Hears what im hearing. Number one, the Trump Campaign, repu