Overturn the election. It is a countdown to 270 electoral votes. The number needed to secure the white house. The scoreboard as it stands now, 36 electors for joe biden, 56 for donald trump. We are covering it all as it happens along with john king, the rest of our political team. John, i want you to set the scene for us, what we can expect this hour. We can expect it is a big state, a celebration of democracy, reaffirmation of what the founders wrote in the constitution, and wolf, forgive me, proof the only fraud is from the president of the United States and his team. We know the results. It will be 306 to 32. Possibly one or two go faithless, but the end result is already clear. You mention the noon hour. Lets look as we go through. States go through this process in their time zones. 13 states so far, 11 states this hour, gets us to 24 by end of the hour. A big one, pennsylvania, georgia, arizona. We will look back at those. Ohio and north carolina. If youre a democrat, youre celebr
Of things. Its both available on amazon prime, a video series called a more or less perfectunion. As well as a companion book. If i can ask you judge ginsburg what was it that made you want to do this . Thank you tony for asking. This is addressed to what i think is a real crisis in our Education System in the us now. In that civics is not being taught as nearly and widely as it should be. Even American History is often neglected. So we have millions of students graduating each year from high school who have never been exposed to how our government works, what our constitution says. What our National Values are even. The younger person is these days, the more ignorant they are likely to be on these topics and we simply cannot have a functioning democratic republic with a completely ignorant population but we are heading in that direction. And i am, what im doing is part of a broader reaction to that in civics education. I think Sandra Day Oconnor started the ball rolling a dozen years
Renewed threats of sanctions. As many wonder whether donald trump will take ever more extreme measures before handing over the white house. We speak to the head of a top israeli hospital thats ordered russias sputnik vivax seen as the anti covert job goes through final phase trials. We are pretty sure the idea of a very good morning to you. Its 8 am here in the russian capital, and youre watching r. T. International with me. Becky, aaron, its great to have you with us. In the moscow has begun dispatching peacekeepers to monitor the cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan. Russia brokered the deal a week ago to stop the bloodshed in the disputed region of new go karabakh. Well, these are the latest pictures of russian equipment, hundreds of vehicles and some 2000 personnel, landing and on media. The mission will last 5 years with an Automatic Extension in for a quiet. Hes one county and is on his latest upon a time to russias peacekeeping. Headquarters and more i get to see you how mu
Went on you know as you said we werent sure if it was going to be this he wanted to do which was hoping that he would have a race be called today and then give that victory sponges they were saying an address to the nation happening this evening prime time as there was no other race called he came out here saying that he wanted people to remain calm. He wanted them to be patient and he said let the process work out he also expressed a lot of confidence maybe even more confidence and he has throughout the entire week talking about the states reading and talking about the accomplishments of leading in those states of reading in the state like arizona at a state like georgia. Both that have been reliably red for he also mentioned how he knows people or frustrated with the process moving so slowly. But he said its going to be worth the he also says that hes already begun work not only really the transition but just the work of addressing the pandemic which they did which is true they were
City. This conversation took place online due to the coronavirus pandemic. The New York Historical society provided a video. Good evening everyone. Im delighted and have the opportunity to talk to my good friend and professional colleague, harold. I want to remind you that you can ask questions anytime during the program by using the q a buttons. We will get to your questions after the conversation. Lets turn our attention to some objects that help us describe the civil war. In the history museum, objects to a lot of heavy lifting and standing in for a larger historical narratives be on the characteristics that define the objects itself. Let us just talk for a moment about the book civil war and 50 objects which inspired this program. Harold, tell us about it and how did the objects help to develop the complex story of the civil war . Its extraordinary, really, because when we undertook this project eight years ago it was difficult to find the objects, although we think they tell the s