appeared on monday, about a quarter of 1 percent so we want to make sure that the same thing is applied to her votes and joe miller votes and what happened in our election is not repeated in a future election. neil: is this a recount? what do you want? guest: ultimately it could be, we fileed yesterday, but filed an affidavit from the form lt. governor who stated and i quote, i am unaware of any alaska election in which the hot lieutenant governor knowingly counted write-in ballots containing misspellings or where the candidate s name was written differently from how it appeared. neil: you are when your rights by alaska law to demand a recount because it is when the 1 percent or 2 percent that allows so why not just go full throttle
point. throughout this process of the count of the write-in ballots there has been evolving standards. as to what ballots are contested, not contested, there s been evolving approaches to even behavior within the room. whether you take pictures or couldn t. because you did not have a consistent standard at the beginning of this count with the write-in, who knows where the ultimate count is going to end up if there is a recount and a consistent standard applied. it s anybody s guess as to what the 2,000-vote difference will be at the end of the day when a consistent standard is applied. we know at the end of the process, ballots historically for decades have been considered voided were added back in the total. yet at the beginning of the process, beginning of the count, that did not happen. we re going to simply ask we want first consistent standard. if it s impossible, we re not going to pursue it. but with a consistent standard with the military ballots i think the voters of the state
properly, to ensure that there is integrity as part of the process. neil: where do you get the 2,000 vote gap? they have it around 10,000. where do you get 2,000? the 10,000 comes from the unelected bureaucrat making the call on the ballot in the divisional election. that s the new standard that has never been applied to write-in candidates in alaska. we have a pending case about that. if you take out the contested ballots, then you are at the 2,000 spread, which is again much less than 1%. neil: i got you. all right. so they cut i think it s go ahead. neil: i m sorry. but they argue that even allowing for 2,000-gap if you re right, the 1,000 ballots they re still waiting on, even if you won them all wouldn t make you a winner. right. i mean, the process has gone down so far has been a hand count of the write-in ballots. there has not been any hand count of the other ballots. they ve gone through a machine count process.
full-body scanners at newark international. and a pilots union is telling members to avoid scanners, in part over radiation concerns. now there is an internet campaign urging travelers to refuse screening on the day before thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel days of the year. rob and vinita? the focus will be on air cargo security today on capitol hill. the head of the tsa is expected to be grilled on security gaps in light of that parcel bomb plot which was discovered last month. packages intercepted in britain and dubai contain bombs sent from yemen addressed to synagogues in chicago. the alaska senate race has still not been decided but it is inching closer and closer to a winner. senator lisa murkowski has built a 1,700-vote lead over gop nominee joe miller. election officials have about 10,000 ballots to pore over but the trend appears to be in murkowski s favor, since more than 98% of the write-in ballots have been for her. in washington, the new members of congress are
checking write-in ballots with about 10,000 left to go. the trend has been in murkowski s favor with almost all the ballots marked for her. it was a bizarre scene behind closed doors on capitol hill. veteran congressman charlie rangel walked out of his ethics trial, claiming he had no lawyer. the committee though continued with the hearing, which will move forward later today. wabc s dave evans has more. reporter: when congressman rangel arrived at his trial he had one strategy delay and plead for postponement. 50 years of public service is on the line. i truly believe that i m not being treated fairly and that history will dictate that notwithstanding the political calendar, i am entitled to a lawyer during this proceeding. reporter: rangel has already spent more than $2 million on his defense. he d need another $1 million for the trial. rangel showed up with no lawyer, having split with his legal team last month. and then just last week, prosecutors filed a new 80-page stat