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Good evening, im erin burnett. Out front tonight, trump breaks his silence as bidens electoral vote win surges to 306. Cnn now projecting the president elect has also won georgia. The first democrat to win georgia since 1992. And it comes on top of biden flipping arizona blue last night. Bidens electoral vote tally, now 306. His popular vote win now more than 78 million. 5. 3 million more than President Trump. Look, this is a major victory no matter how you look at it. And the way america scores political wins. Yet the president , who spoke publicly for the first time in eight days, still refuses to concede and accept his loss. In fact he barely mentioned the election, it was just a passing remark while talking about lockdowns. This administration will not be going to a lockdown. Hopefully the the, uh, whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration it will be, i guess time will tell, but, uh, i can tell you, this ....
Of give him the leverage he needs internally to make his case. you have secretary pompeo on that side, jeanna haskell at the cia apparently urging actions. the president is really torn as always on foreign policy, on one hand the urge against endless wars. he has sort of always with a few notable exceptions been very hesitant about getting involved in foreign conflicts and far away lands especially in the middle east, stuff that he doesn t view as america first. but he also hates to be seen as someone who is weak, as someone who is pushed around on the world stage. you can look back to even his presidency where he did authorize tomahawk missile strikes in syria, for instance, in the early months. and when he felt kim jong un of north korea was disrespecting him he promised a rain of fire and fury. of course that has shifted. ....