Postelection standoff between the Trump Administration and the Biden Campaign. Day and it 8 45, leo shane discusses the fallout from the defense secretarys firing. A week ago this morning, the results of the 2020 election were unknown. By saturday morning, joe biden had garnered enough electoral votes, and was declared the winner. President trump and his republican allies have been contesting that, but states are standing by the results, and legal efforts so far have yielded no change in votes. Good morning. It is veterans day, november 11, 2020. This is washington journal. We will talk about the continuing standoff in this first hour. We want your calls this year. If you are a supporter of joe biden and Kamala Harris, the line is 202 7488000. Supporters of donald trump and mike pence, 202 7488001. All others, or if you did not vote, the line 202 7488002. Also, send us a text if you would like. It is 202 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. Andwitter cspanwj facebook. Com cspan. Results continue to come in from several states. Here is the front page of the New York Times. Election officials nationwide find no fraud. They write, Election Officials in dozens of states say that fraud played no role in the outcome of the president ial race, a forceful rebuke of President Trumps portrait of a fraudulent election. Over the last several days, President Trump and allies have put forward the false claim that the election was stolen for mr. Trump and have refused to accept the results that show mr. Biden as the winner. Said ins have interviews and statements that the process has been a remarkable success despite record turnout and the complications of a pandemic. The New York Times contacted the offices of top Election Officials in every state to ask whether they had inspected or had evidence of illegal voting. Officials in 45 states responded directly. For four of the remaining states, the times spoke to other officials or found Public Comments of secretaries of state. None reported any voting issues. Just some of the highlights of those interviews the New York Times did with state officials. Fighting a false claim is the headline. Not experience any widespread issues with voter fraud, intimidation, and irregularities. Inhigan cope michigan, we have not seen of play. E of fraud or foul know of a i dont single case where someone argued a vote counted where it should have or did not count when it should. There was no fraud said there secretary of state. In ohio, there is a great Human Capacity for inventing things that are not true about elections. The conspiracy theories run rampant. From the secretary of state. Pennsylvania, many of the claims against the commonwealth have already been dismissed and repeating these false attacks is reckless. No evidence so far has shown widespread problems, according to the attorney general in pennsylvania. State, it is throwing grass at the fence at this point, from the secretary of state, republican. The lines for you if you support joe biden and Kamala Harris, 202 7488000 if you support President Trump, 202 7488001. For all others, 202 7488002. The president elect yesterday was asked about the continuing standoff. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] what would you say to americans who are anxious over the fact that President Trump has not yet conceded and what that might mean . Is anden i think it embarrassment, quite frankly. How can i say this tactfully . It will not help the president s legacy. Know from my i discussions with foreign leaders they are hopeful that the United StatesDemocratic Institutions are viewed once again as strong and enduring. I think, at the end of the day, you know, it will all come to fruition on january 20, and between now and then, i hope the expectation is the American People do understand that there has been a transition, even among republicans or people who voted for the president. I understand the sense of loss. Think t, but they but i think the majority of the people who voted for the president understand we have to come together. I think they are ready to unite, and i believe we can pull the bitter out of this politics we have seen for the last 5, 6, 7 years. Host joe biden yesterday. Just want to bring you an update from yesterday from brad heath, who reports from reuters on the michigan race. A couple tweets. The trumpng, campaign released that 230 four page stack of affidavits from poll watchers in detroit tonight. So far, mostly allegations, but they could not get as close as they wanted to to counting, could not leave the room after they left. This is handwriting that says i observed a ballot being duplicated and i approached the supervisor and asked if there was a republican there to witness this. He said he did not know. The inspectors continue to duplicate. Brad heath, claims of ballots counted more than once. He noticed tape on top of the ballot where it would normally be. Those are the affidavits, some of the affidavits submitted late asterday, last night as matter of fact, by the Trump Campaign. 234. Here is one that has been turned over in pennsylvania. The headline in the Washington Post, postal worker recants ballot tampering claims. Postal worker whose claims have been cited as potential evidence of voting irregularities admitted to investigators that he fabricated to allegations according three officials briefed on the investigation. He claimed that a postmaster instructed postal workers to backdate ballots posted after election day. Authorizedlliam barr prosecutors into opening criminal probes into voting irregularities before votes are certified, a reversal of longstanding policy. Hopkins told the office of Inspector General that the allegations were not true, and assigned an affidavit recanting his claims. Democrats on the House Oversight committee tweeted the whistleblower recanted. Lets get to your calls. Barney, a joe biden supporter, bradenton, florida. Good morning. Caller i am ecstatic that Kamala Harris and joe biden beat two bit dictator. He turned this country into a bandana republic. Into a banana republic. He needs to be locked up. And the Republican Party. I cannot even believe. This never happened in history. Been dashed by the morands in the Republican Party. Bruce is on our republican line, supporting President Trump. Good morning. Caller good morning. First of all, i am not a partisan. I dont like either trump or biden. Biden has endorsed agenda 21 many decades ago. He is a globalist. Let me tell you what i think is going on. This whole coronavirus thing led to sending ballots out all over the United States, not absentee ballots, they just sent ballots out. This set the stage for the fraud. I live up in michigan and i have to laugh when they say there has been no problems with this election. I mean, look at Antrim County, softwaree dominion shifted 6000 votes to biden before they questioned it because Antrim County was majority republican. And when they looked at the glitch, it went back to trump. Now, this is being used in 48 counties in michigan, and this software is known to be able to flip elections. Then you look at detroit. The pasten reading representative. In detroit. Fraud was off the charts. I think if we count the real ballots, trump will be our president. I will make two predictions. Isaac the Supreme Court will rule for trump. I think the Supreme Court will rule for trump. The second thing host which case . Which case as the court likely to get . Is the court likely to get . Caller the big thing, i am a journalist, and i have been censored by facebook over nonsense, so what we have is an abridgment of freedom of speech by big tech we have never seen. That put the thumb on this election. They would not want the hunter biden stuff. Havet, i mean, here you biden getting all this money from communist china, who has killed 200,000 americans. Host what money did biden get from communist china . Caller come on. You have the burisma thing, the deals they made with china. His family is getting millions of dollars from ukraine, from china. Host we will go to judah in illinois, a joe biden supporter. Good morning. Caller good morning. Go auys let that moron little too long with the conspiracy theories. That is part of the problem. Lies are not facts. I am aforward, republican who voted for biden and harris. There is a cancer of ignorance and ineptitude within the Republican Party. And we are witnessing a reckoning. Republicanhat officials fear donald trump. Those who were duped into voting for him. This too shall pass. We have a president of the United States with the demeanor of a pimp. Period. Host to maryland we go. Darrell did not vote. Tell us why. What are your thoughts on this postelection situation . Caller thank you for having me. Old. 55 years the first time i voted was an 83 for ronald reagan. In 1983 for ronald reagan. Dosidents, they dont nothing. Lincoln freed the slaves. They were afraid of rebellion. The only president that has ever done anything for black people was lyndon johnson, who gave us the right to vote. Other than that, i do not vote because i look at both parties as one will call you the nword to your face, the other behind your back. Becomeour years, we important and nothing happens. And nothing will change until this country goes back to god. And moves forward. Until that happens, we will continue to see and a house divided cannot stand. I put my faith not into a man, but the lord that i serve. Have a blessed day. Host here is this mornings politico playbook. The headline, we know he has lost. Lets talk about the real world. Allies knowrumps know he, they say has lost, they say. They are adjusting to the reality of a joe biden presidency. It is mostly performance art. A tweet from anna palmer. She points this out on twitter. Trump has not had a public event since his comments postelection. Today, he and the first lady will attend a veterans day observance at arlington, virginia. We will have live coverage of that memorial at Arlington National coming at 11 00 eastern on cspan. Lets go to wilma in connecticut. Inlets go to tom connecticut. Hi. Caller i did not vote. I have three absentee applications. One was placed in my mailbox and two were mailed to me. When was postmarked new jersey. One was postmarked new jersey. I had a friend of mind at the poll and i was informed i voted for joe biden. I did not vote. The New York Times that you have been quoting from, that and also peopleo, i look at the , but watch the late andrew mccabe, who spearheaded the investigation of the russia collusion yesterday. I do not believe in Anonymous Sources. When cspan promulgates New York Times articles based on Anonymous Sources, i would appreciate if not tom, there were Anonymous Sources in this article. I will show you again. They talk to secretaries of state. Caller they interviewed the officials contact . Host they interviewed all of them. Their names are on the front page. Thanks for your call. We go to mike in lafayette, tennessee, joe biden supporter. Good morning. Veterans, foryou, your service on this day. My grandfather in world war ii and three uncles in vietnam, i value their service. This man we have in the white house, i think biden hit it out of the park. Embarrassment. Obama and him were so gracious when trump won. We accepted it. You should see the pictures and the video of him welcoming Vice President pence, joe biden did. It is just now in embarrassment. An embarrassment. What i hear from my friends in d. C. , everyone is looking for an exit. You are right on that story and politico. It is all theater. Off thenot want to piss base because we still have georgia, and that could hurt republicans chances of keeping control of the senate. It is theater. The last guy they called my head would explode. I could not do your job. They call him with conspiracy theories and it is just junk. It is so secure. The checks and balances that are in their and the security is incredible. I feel sorry that trumps legacy is going to be, guess what, he wouldnt leave and we had to force him out. It is sad and we hope we can heal from this. Thank you for taking my call. Host ok, mike. Appreciate that. Falls church, virginia, we go to jason, a donald trump supporter. Youre first off, Richard Hopkins story is false, and that was using Anonymous Sources. He has said on the record that he never recanted. Today, james okeefe will release the whole interrogation he got through oig federal agents where they coerced him into saying something that was not true, but luckily they recorded it. I hope your attract that or correct the record. Retract that or correct the record. Host it was not just in the post, it was the house investigation and Oversight Committee that released the news. This is their tweet. Whistleblower completely recanted his allegations of tampering with mailin ballots after being questioned by investigators according to the attorney general. Caller the video of him saying i did not recant, he released the interrogation where they say, we are trying to scare you. We are trying to twist your arm because we want you to Say Something that is not true. Host where can we find that . We will look for it. Caller it is on project verita ss website. And they have never lost a lawsuit. So i wish you guys would not use Anonymous Sources and do your due diligence. Host this was not anonymous. This was from Postal Service investigators in the Oversight Committee of the u. S. House. I am not using any Anonymous Sources. Caller why are you not saying the postal worker who is being quoted here, who has publicly , is as did not recant well . Host we will look for that. We appreciate your input. The front page of the washington times. Trump likely to. Trump likely to fall short of votes even with lawsuits. Clear an exceedingly high bar to overturn the projected victory of democratic rival joe biden. The majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell, was asked about the continuing standoff yesterday. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] this is the third or fourth time the president has alleged Election Fraud without proof. He is doing it now. Why do you continue to indulge him . Goingcconnell what i am to do here in the senate is concentrate on the business we have left to do, which i mentioned a while ago. On this appropriation bill, maybe another coronavirus package, and let the president ial election go through the various stages that he goes through under the constitution. There will be, apparently, litigation. Those cases will be decided. And then the Electoral College will meet. And then we will have the inauguration. But i am going to concentrate on what we are trying to do here in the remainder of this congress. Was there any fraud in your senate race or any that you know of . Mcconnell i dont know. At the risk of bragging, it was not very close. [laughter] host Mitch Mcconnell yesterday on capitol hill. Kaw professor steve loddoc tweeting about the legal efforts. Thatle have discovered when there is no electoral theege winner, there is role of the house. But the mere existence of litigation or recounts doesnt prevent states from certifying. It would take a Court Order Barring them from doing so. A long shot. The key is that the margins are too big in many states. Writing about that suit is the wall street journal. Much of President Trumps legal challenge to the Election Results rests on the distance that observers stood from workers tallying votes. Some Election Officials stationed political volunteers more than six feet away. Multiplee spans lawsuits in courts in pennsylvania and echoes complaints republicans had in other states, including michigan. The pennsylvania has accepted a case the pennsylvania Supreme Court has accepted a case. The Trump Campaign has asked a federal judge to stop. Rtification of results they write the trumps campaigns lawyers argue that something led to the in philadelphia and pittsburgh. I do not know if we show this photo of the one observation, the one observer in the Philadelphia Convention center from election night. Back to your calls. We will hear from roxanne in maine. Hi. Caller good morning. I want to respond to our veterans, today being veterans women out there that have served in continuing served and continue to serve. Thank you. My comment is about the applications that were mailed. Some got two or three. I have