And and and a couple of key precincts, they are going after republicans varied welcome, i a neil cavuto and this is your world. We want to go to john roberts i the white house. The neagle legal strategy the president is an plane to get th counts going and some signs tha it could be going it his way. That might be elite, but we wil get the latest from john parrott. They hit a small victory in court today in pennsylvania. Right where we are right now, the president will be meeting with the secretary of state mik pompeo, the secretary of the treasury. The president is still doing president ial business and what isnt big news, the president signing an executive order whic will prohibit americans for investing in some 31 Chinese Companies that support, supply, and help moderates the Peoples Federation army. The president saying american money will not be used to modernize the american army. It will be new restrictions of one b uses that the president i expected to announce the negative order soon. They are sending their kids to private or parochial schools because the lock down some Public Schools may be able to get some money for that. Now, to the lawsuit, pennsylvania a bit of a moral victory more than anyone for th chum campaign. A symbolic victory as lease is judge rules that they state in the did not have the authority to say that people who needed t show identification will have until the ninth of november to do it by the judge saying that she had no authority to do that so those votes that have been sequestered and not counted wil likely be tossed out very thick trunk campaign is looking at Th Supreme Court is going to decid if they take it up, whether or not the Supreme Court of pennsylvania had the authority to order an extension past 8 00 p. M. On Election Night to receive mail and votes. And other big thing thats goin to be happening very soon is th beginning of the recount in georgia. Congressman deb collins of georgia is the point person for the chum campaign on that braid hears what he said about that. We are seeing a close election, 14,000 votes about racine it also having the first of its kind and that is a hand recount that will actually take these ballots and actually put to rest and to Going Forward that were actually taking thes ballots against the machine count for this is the first tim its happened in georgia. To get the other big thing in georgia will be the runoff at the end of the year for the senate races. Its been suggested that President Trump should as well, but no determination has yet been made whether the president will campaign in georgia. Its now been almost eight days a week ago today that we last saw the president come out and speak with us. Ive never seen him be violent silent for so long grady grade hes prolific on twitter, but n public statements that we have seen. Is it scheduled the same cracks hes obviously still doing his job. But we know whether that is going minute by admitting. We dont get a look at his private schedule, but the publi schedule has been very sparse, today he had lunch with the vic president verities got that meeting with the secretary of state and treasury. Other than that, no Public Events on the president schedule. Im told that what hes mostly doing is working the phones in terms of talking to members of congress, people out there in the field try to get these votes. Hes also got a briefing on the runoffs in georgia today. Its just, its so strange to not see him out every day. Absolutely. Absolutely. John roberts at the white house. Now as for the count going on i pennsylvania the 20 electoral votes varied the battle isnt just between republicans and democrats, but sometimes betwee republicans and republicans varied. That it is. The top election official. The president s claim about voter fraud are wrong are any illegal votes being counted or democrats dealing the election here . Know. The only balance being counted by the board of elections at th Pennsylvania Convention center. The president says there is mountain of corruption and dishonesty here. Is that true . No, its not true. The president says observers were not allowed in the counting. To get the president says, bad things happen that are observer were not allowed to see. Is that true . Absolutely not varied more than we have seen our own families. The place is so big, what would you say about that. It like a football field length and some have binoculars fred. Its a big operation inside and weve arranged it in a way that observers have access to see what is going on. A federal judge agreed with us on that. He fears the greatest danger to our republic in the future o our country are these unfounded claims of voter fraud that people would then not have confidence in the election system. In the very tenets of our democracy. She does say that voters can have every confidence when the election here is finally certified. That is coming in 11 days. It doesnt get bothered by the president s tweet against him yesterday. He says we have a lot of work t do here to finally get the vote finished and certify the election. Back to you. To be clear, i just want to make sure i heard you, even if there is cases of fraud or something unusual with some of these ballots, not in the numbe that it would take to change th substantial gap right now to ge they dont have any reports of any voter fraud here, and in terms of those ballots that arrived after election date up until 5 00 oclock last friday, there are about 10,000 of those ballots statewide and according to the figures now they would not affect the final outcome since mister biden is much further ahead than the presiden and those numbers. Counting things in philadelphia. Before i get to how the biden campus responding to all of this , i want to bring you uptodate on what really the focus seems to be now its narrowed to three states, pennsylvania, michigan, and arizona. Today they encompass about 37 electoral votes. Michigan already called for joe biden. All the states were 146,000 votes gap amounting to a little more than two and a half percent. Finally in arizona, 13,000 vote gap is up for a tenth of a present. Helping with accounts and some of these improprieties, they charge are going on in the fraudulence that has gone on will be reversed. The separate case with georgia will be getting into but suffic it to say that tends to be the big focus right now. The Vice President is already looking and possible pics, and boy oh boy, he is getting a lot of very strong advice i get. You can say that again, neil. As you mentioned, the legal cases that we were just talking about have been dismissed by bidens legal team as political skidder, the focus now is on picking his cabinet post, his administration. The jockeying has begun and som people are being a little more subtle than others. Delaware senator chris coons wh is at close friend of the president elect is. He will be participating in a Virtual Summit on American Global leadership in the time o covid 19. He just also penned and opted i Foreign Affairs titled i bipartisan foreign policy. She wrote, we know that washington insiders in their establishment allies are ready to declare that unity and consensus mean turning over the keys to giant corporations and their lobbyists. Democrats must resist the stretcher. She laid it on the table not mincing words, but one head of the Agricultural Department saying i do know there are many people lobbing. My name was mentioned even before the election. Ive been very very loyal to th ticket and i will remain loyal to the ticket right a lot of folks want to see Bernie Sander running the Labor Department bu with the balance of the senate still a question, senator sanders knows he might have to fight hard on the floor for the promises made to get biden a progressive backing and that includes raising the minimum wage to 15 an hour and moving away from the fossil fuel industry. And want to do everything i can to protect the working families of this country who ar under tremendous duress right now, weather that is in the senate or in the Biden Administration, who knows. Lets see how that unfolds. One thing interesting about this process thats unfolding, typically during a transition you see people coming in and ou of the Transition Office in washington, dc for this meeting sprayed a lot of this is happening virtually just as a lots of bidens campaign was going virtual in the last several months. Thank you very much. In the meantime, we are where joe biden seems like the president elect of the United States. He is entitled to security briefings at this point. Justin make sure all bases are covered if he is said to become the next president as it looks like you will. But there are a number of force at play stopping that from happening including trump appointed head of the General Services administration. Is not writing up on Election Results are getting a stamp on getting the briefing started. That has caused some consternation among a lot of republicans is well. We should be in the same posture we ran throughout the whole campaign with both of the receiving briefings. And then allow the process to b able to go through right now. I think that both the president and his competition here, the Vice President biden should have access to those classified reports. To years ago Chuck Schumer one let me come to orientation or do anything until i went through to rake recounts. I think we are to finish counting the votes. Can to keep my next guest was among a number of very prominen Security Officials who wrote th General Services administration saying that it should recognize joe biden as president elect an did not do so or a delay in doing so would be a serious ris to National Security. Among the former department of homeland officials i believe dating back to a number of administrations but your is wit gerald ford and many president s since. Your view is that its importan because it wasnt a party view, it was a view of safety. Can you explain . Thank you, neil, just to clarify, my time in government was from the bush and menstruation through trump administration, but i also before i entered Government Service in the early 2000 had a small role with a private company that helped with the transition from clinton to bush. So ive seen this now almost through 20 years, and i do thin like several of the other peopl who signed that letter think that ensuring a smooth National Security transition form the Outgoing Team to the incoming team, that is a the key functio that helps keep the country saf and it should be removed from any sort of political calculation that is going on at the time. I apologize for screwing up your background, that was not intentional on my part. No worries. I did want to get your take. I didnt know this process involves the General Services administration and whether they have yay or nay on the process Going Forward. Is it because it does not recognize yet that joe biden is the president elect or there ar some details we might not be appreciating . That is a great question, neil. It does revolve around the authority that the administrato of gsa has in the president ial incision act, im not a lawyer and when i was dealing with the transition related areas i was more on the execution side of things, but still, parts part o the language revolves around in this president ial transition act , who is considered the apparent successful candidate. It doesnt mean that like the situation were dealing with now that all the votes have to be formally counted and the Electoral CollegeCollege Results are complete and incoming it just means based on the way the voting is going in specific time, that there shoul be some indication of who that apparent successful candidate i and that does seem to be president elect biden. So if that is the case, then wh cant we get this process started for intelligence briefings, for president elect biden and his team. For the folks that were on thi different Transition Team certainly in the National Security realm to show up to th General ServicesAdministration Building and get the clearances get the access, the different departments of agencies that they will need to go to. There are still some issues of mechanics and process that have to be worked out for any of thi to start. Before it does start, then bide elect team is sort of waiting i the wing great i can think this has potential to cause harm to our National Security. Emily murphy, who is the hea of the gsa she was ticked by ac by president from right . She was the appointee under President Trump. To get that is a good question. Looking from the outside, she certainly has the authority as the administrator to make all this happen. To sort of pump there breaks a little bit and make things more difficult. Ive been out of government for a while so its hard for me to answer that. But it could go either way. This is kind of scary, i dont want to belabor the boys point, but ethan singlehandedl put the yay or nay on getting the security briefings on . If this goes on indefinitely, and joe biden, assuming he is the next president of the unite states, is he getting the briefings . That could really handicap them once he does take office. Him said very similar to the long count of george bush and how that might have compromised National Security and caught us flatfooted eight or nine month later i 9 11. Are you worried about Something Like that . Absolutely. She has the authority to make i happen whether she has the fina thumbs up from inside the west wing or the white house, that i something that we dont know. Again, if she wanted to make this happen, she could, whether she will or how much longer there will be a delay, is something we will have to wait and see. In the meantime, im trying to emphasize the light longer this goes on, the more potential fro harm that it causes to National Security and thats not a good thing for anybody regardless of your politics. Regardless of your politics is right. Thank you very much. We will see where this goes. It doesnt seem like a great deal of risk in affording a former president Vice President of the United States he had exposure to share it with him now, both sides are still arguing on this point. We will see how soon it is resolved. Stay with us. But scrutiny includes whats happening with those two senate battles, to runoff elections. We might only see one in the case of perdue and account that could bring up over 50 percent. That runup might not be necessary. Very closely watched state in the case of Lindsey Graham to help out in these Republican Senate campaigns that could go long way to deciding the shape of the United States senate. Democrats would have to take both races to get a Senate Majority here, that could be an uphill climb birds eve harrigan following it all very closely. A lot of work about to begin with the president ial election here in georgia. There about to begin counting across the entire state about 5 million paper ballots in that president ial election. They have to start by 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow across the state they have to finish by wednesday, those votes have to be certifie by november 20th. There will be basically a simpl operation to election workers a each table, a pile of paper ballots for trump, a pout ill paper ballots for trump. Right now biden is leading in the poll by about 14,000 votes, we will see if that changes. You mentioned the two Senate Runoff races january 5th, they are already really heating up eight on give you a taste of what it looks like between republican and her democratic opponent or knock. Wants to make your neighborhoods lets save. Dont let him full you with pizza and puppies. Rafael warnock is too extreme for georgia. The man in charge of the elections for this entire process this enormous recount Just Announced a short time ago that he is his wife tested positive for covid and how he i in quarantine. Neil . Thank you very much. Meanwhile, the pressure is on the president elect about the picking and choosing his cabinet. A number of people are making i known they would love to be considered for that or have som great names for him among them Bernie Sanders who would happil take labor secretary position i a Biden Administration and then there is all the talk around whether Elizabeth Warren could be recruited to become secretar of treasury. That kind of stuff generally panics that markets. But of course, that may be a bi of a dicey proposition as we ge into the head having nothing to do with Elizabeth Warren, but the fact that she is a senator and the governor of our state i a republican. Messenger