A federal judge and also significant because of the extremely scathing language he used. He likened the trump appeal to a frankenstein monster which had been put together. Have hazard lee. He made very clear that he believed there was no grounds for the trump claim whatsoever. And this makes it very unlikely that it can go on an appeal given that there are no grounds. Nevertheless, trumps lawyer says personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, who argued the case before the judge says he wants to take it to the next level, the 3rd district and from there to the supreme court. But very difficult to see how he is going to achieve that. And very significantly to the senate for pennsylvania. Pat toomey has issued a statement saying that the judge in this particular case, matthew brand, is a lifelong republican, with no legal bias whatsoever. He considers the whole matter. Now closed the legal position over and he congratulated president elect joe biden, and his administration looking forward. He says,
Of about 14000 votes. Now it is possible that that lead could be reduced even further because there has been some reporting that there were some uncounted votes that were discovered in georgia. But the just general consensus has been that this still wont overturn the narrow lead. The joe biden has over donald trump, that it may reduce it from 14212800. So still not enough to undo the result that has been projected, as donald trump has claimed. So were watching for that very carefully in time is of the essence for the truck campaign. If it was to try and challenge these results because once released, if it is very close, they could and do have the opportunity to request one more recount unclear if theyre going to do that or not. But the votes are to be certified in that state. The u. S. State of georgia on friday, so its a very tight timeline for any sort of recourse should the trunk campaign choose to do so. My palm bay has become the 1st us section of state to visit an illegal israeli
And i do think unfortunately before we see february we could be close to form 50000 americans have died from this virus the u. K. Meanwhile has become the 1st western country to approve a covert 1000 vaccine for public use those most at risk including Health Workers and care home residents will get the inoculation from next week Prime Minister bars drugs and praise scientists for their work but also said people still need to be cautious Hong Kong Media tycoon and prodemocracy advocate jimmy lie has been refused bail on fraud charges this is seen as part of a growing crackdown on dissent its just a day after 3 prominent activists were jailed themselves. U. S. President giving a speech or cast on social media repeating his unfounded allegations of Election Fraud facebook and twitter post warnings on the video statement a day after trumps claims were contradicted by the attorney general himself from alan fischer. It was remarkable this may be the most important speech ive ever made more f
Dismisses accusations that civilians were killed in operations against 2 great forces. The 2nd u. S. Drug maker has announced its asking regulators there and the European Union for emergency approval for its covert 900 vaccine data says its final trial results confirm its more than 94 percent effective. Its, a week behind visor fueling hopes. The u. S. , at least, could have to approve vaccines by the end of the year. That is, Public Health experts say the country should be preparing for a surge in cases after thanksgiving weekend. Where the u. S. Health secretary says this. If everything goes to plan federal approval for vaccines could be granted in the coming weeks. With pfizer, we have the f. D. A. Announced an Advisory Committee for december the 10th. And if everything is on track, everything proves out what, what it appears to be. We could be looking at approval within days after that. Madonnas basically one week behind that. And general perna has said from operation work speed th
Historical precedent . 1918 is the one that comes to mind. And we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my good friend christopher nichols. He is a professor of history at oregon state. Hes also director there. Oregon state center for the humanities and founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard, waysleyan and at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on, i would say, earliest parts of the 20th century. Of course, is he expanding out. He and i, before we came on, were just chatting about new work we have coming out on ideologies on u. S. Foreign policy. That book itself, that term, that title, was a seminole book in the field in 1987. Im really glad someone has decided to go in and update it, shall we say. Theres no better person to do it than chris. Will he talk to us about the 1918 pandemic. I would encourage you, as you look at your zoom screen, on the bottom youll see a q a button. Please, hit that button and submit your questions