On a call for welcome to the show us president elect joe biden has addressed the nation for the 1st time since being declared the winner of tuesdays election biden delivered his victory speech and his home state of delaware alongside Vice President elect kaamelott harris the running mates emerged victorious after taking a clear lead in the swing state of pennsylvania after days of vote counting lets take a listen to what biden had to say. Its time to put away the horse rhetoric gloria temperature she joe there again most reach out there again and im ready for our growth we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies they are 8 not our enemies theyre american theyre american. The bartos rose to Everybody Knows the season of trying to burrow to try. And repeated time to show and a time to hear this is the time to heal in america. Now this campaign is over. What is the will of people what is our mandate. I believe its this america called upon us to marshal forces of decency the forces of fairness to marshal 1st of sorry and the 1st of the horrible and the great grounders of our time. Brought in to control the virus about a bill prosperity are about to secure your familys health care about our chief Racial Justice and root out systemic racism in this country. He is all over salad is in wilmington delaware and joining us now oliver what do you make of the speech when there arent any surprises. Well this was definitely nicole one of the best speeches joe biden has delivered so far and hes known to be actually not a good speaker but this speech was he was president ial it was clear and it was really a spece full of optimism and hope and this is exactly what americans are craving right now after such difficult months and this very difficult year in particular the pandemic the economic crisis resulting all of the Racial Division riots on the street and joe biden really presented himself as the healer you both will do the both to be trying to bring the nation together and heal the nation with a very empathic speech that we heard here tonight today was of course a day of celebration for the democrats but is there also already a sense of how difficult things might get for president joe biden. Yes absolutely and it will be a challenging start for him theres no doubt of that 1st and foremost joe biden of course has many policy visions and ideas of course he wants to undo a lot of the trump policies of the era when it comes to migration also when it comes to multilateralism he wants to return to the paris climate agreement just to name a few and that will be quite difficult if you doesnt win control of the senate that is very much on clear right now theres going to be a runoff another senate race in georgia in january so until then we will know and know exactly how easy or difficult it will be nevertheless there is also this other half of the American Voters the Trump Supporters that are bitterly disappointed tonight in one of his other challenges will certainly be to overcome this division and that will also not be easy whats next for the biden harris camp whats 1st on their list what we heard in the speech tonight is that one of the big priorities that biden hairiest joe biden in coming to her as Vice President have on their agenda is to to put together a covert task force because as we know the situation here in the United States is very bad we are nearing new record numbers on a daily basis year so what theyre trying to do is to put together a scientist to go approach to put together the best scientists and then be ready for Inauguration Day in january on january 20th to really kick off and combat this virus and this is one of the priorities right now that the Transition Team is looking into all of our salad and joe bidens home town every well maintained in the state of delaware thank you very much for your analysis. Now as the news of joe bidens victory broke President Donald Trump was out golfing at the Trump National golf course in Sterling Virginia he finished up his game before returning to the white house several hours later with biden supporters cheering the president s motorcade from the side of the road trump has so far refused to concede defeat in the election and says he will legally challenge the result. Is in our studio in washington d. C. Good to have you with us any reactions from the white house so far well always heard and seen today from the president were his tweets as weve gotten used to over the last 4 years he tweeted out i won the election and he was saying that bad things happen which are observers were not allowed to see so he really hasnt accepted the results so far what can we expect from him now hes refusing to concede for now. What do you think will well see in the next couple of days if weve learned anything from his presidency it is the president is really very unpredictable there is no schedule from the white house for tomorrow let alone any point of beyond that so far so we dont know if he is planning to to give a speech tomorrow or come out at some point. It is highly unlikely that he is going to respectfully can see this as as tradition really with with president s after an election and its up in the air what we will get from him and when we will look at it for the past days and months really baselessly cast doubt over the u. S. Election process how is that affected his supporters to they now accept his defeat. You could say that trump was successful with this rhetoric because his supporters absolutely buy into this theory that there was many of collation and there has been something fishy going on with the elections they do not accept. President elect joe biden and theyre saying that they put all their hopes in to answer the recounts and the various legal challenges now to restore the right president and give them the correct results which they of course say is donald trump won the election lets just be very clear about this is there any evidence for voter fraud havent taken place no there really isnt and legal experts say all these challenges that that the Tram Campaign has been launching really have no basis and really wont go anywhere but of course they have the rights to launch these legal complaints so well have to watch them play out but there has been no 8 no evidence for any sort of money of pollution or voter fraud whatsoever all right kind of like in washington thank you very much. For more im joined now by william glue kroft of our u. S. Election team well youre uniting healing the nation no small feat how are they going to go about it no small feat and no new task i mean lets go back to Barack Obamas 2008 he came in to office also on this platform of healing the nation after 8 divisive years of the george w. Bush this is been decades in the making of partisanship growing tribalism political tribalism growing republicans versus democrats democrats versus republicans you know this was a strategy that became the lynchpin of how republicans began winning elections in the in the eightys and the ninetys by using wedge issues to divide americans. And ignore really much bigger issues that most americans can get behind but instead focusing on things like guns and abortion that inflame a lot of passions and bring out a lot of especially money a lot of money to lobby to get certain issues passed or not passed so joe biden has not just the trump years behind him to have to overcome but decades of partisanship and tribalism to overcome he says he can do it he says that he you know given his experience in the Senate Working as a centrist democrat working across the aisle with other republicans republicans he knows very well that he is the guy to do it but lets not forget Mitch Mcconnell was the Senate Majority leader under the Obama Administration when joe biden was Vice President and his role was to reach out to the senate. And Mitch Mcconnells job was to destroy the Obama Presidency thats what he said basically. But where we go forward now were going to see with biden we happened to see a harris. Strike a very different note and i think we could hear a little bit of what she had to say. Congressman john lewis congressman john lewis. Before his passing wrote democracy. Its not a state it is an act and what he meant was that americas democracy is not guaranteed it is only as strong as our willingness to fight for an. Audience and guard it and never take it for granted and protecting our democracy takes struggle it takes sacrifice but there is joy in it and there is progress because we the people have the power to build a better future. Odd. And when our very democracy was on the ballot in this election with the very soul of america at stake and the world watching you ushered in a new day for america. You know theres Vice President elect a really historic moment for the United States of the 1st woman to be Vice President the 1st person of color female person of color to be Vice President you know she herself said in that speech later you know i the 1st woman to occupy this post but i will not be the last of course to great cheers and its a very heartening moment because the United States is a diverse country it is not the country that we saw the last 4 years and it is heartening to see that reflected in the politics that is not just white men anymore running the show that its more and more. Diverse more diverse picture and this is certainly not the end if not this is the beginning you know now joe biden and kamel has have to help deliver they cant alone do it but they have to help deliver on this promise of making a more equal a more fair and more just society for everyone because they are still so many racial issues that the United States has to deal with john came to power being considered an anomaly in the political universe in the United States is that still the case or has he paved the way for others like him you know i dont know if he was an anomaly i think he was the most extreme version of things that weve been seeing bubbling up for decades as i mention this tribalism you know donald trump was able to capitalize on all of this anger and this sense of a Certain Group of americans feeling theyve lost out to a lot of the. To a lot of the globalization and moving forward into the future into a more Diverse Society was able to tap into all of that so deftly not an anomaly is definitely a symptom not a cause and were going to see if this is a turning point in the United States as joe biden said bring down the temperature start to talking to each other more often hearing each other more or if you know this is just a breather for someone like donald trump who could legally theoretically run again if he wanted to or someone else like him thats were going to wait and see to see how politics kind of plays itself out over the next few years all right william f. Thank you very much for your an elf. If youre watching the w. News life from berlin heres a reminder of our top story joe biden has said he wants to restore the soul of america after being declared the winner of the u. S. President ial election biden delivered his victory speech at his home state of delaware alongside the president elect come on in there is biden told the crowd of supporters that its time for the nation to heal and put away the harsh rhetoric. Youre watching. Meanwhile aim to craft and bert land for me and the entire team behind the scenes thanks for watching. W. s crime fighters are back with africas most successful radio drama series continues only this odes are Available Online course you can share and discuss on w. Africas Facebook Page and of other social media platforms to turn fighters to mean you know. The fight against the coronavirus pandemic. As the rate of infection in developing