Says he Still Believes hell win and is currently 32. 00 Electoral College votes shy of al broad victory. Votes are still being tallied but trump is threatening to go to the Supreme Court to stop the counting. And in other news the ethiopias Prime Minister or his troops into the 2 prayed region following a deadly attack on a military base. And joining us go with the sports argentina football hero Diego Maradona has had Successful Surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain. Welcomed news oh it is 1500. 00 g. M. T. 10 am in the east of the United States and as the new day begins the country is waiting on a handful of results which will decide who will be the next president with 43 states counted results are neck and neck that leaves. 7 states to decide the direction of the country and most of them could go either way while other states polls for the night counting continued in wisconsin were expecting to hear the results there in the coming hours and counting has restarted in other are
Azar, secretary of housing and urban development, ben carson, who are the way, was fantastic over that weekend in various interviews you did, then, really good job, i appreciate it. Secretary of veterans affairs, robert wilkie, administrator seema verma, chief postal inspector of the United States postal infection inspection service, gary barstow, and he has done a great job especially spotting drugs come into our country. My administration is working tirelessly to stop the depraved criminals who seek to defraud american seniors of which there are many but we are doing a very strong number on a lot of them. And nobody has ever done what we have done. Three month ago we have launched the National Elder fraud hotline , which has already received 1800 calls. In three years we have charged 1000 defendants involving 2. 2 billion in fraud against our seniors and this afternoon the doj has announced a 2 million grant to help enforcement identify victims and bring lawbreakers to justice. These
Why did you want to write about Political Parties . Your first book was focused on political lobbying. In the universe of potential reforms, the electoral college. The money in politics which we hear a ton about. Executive power. You chose to focus on parties as a linchpin. Can you talk about what drew you to parties . Tell us about the process. Great to be with you again matt. A fun reunion on cspan. So why did i write this book . I wrote this book because i was worried about american democracy. I saw hyper partisanship as a serious problem affecting our country and i wanted to think about if there was some way to maybe solve that problem. It kind of flowed in an indirect way from my previous book which was about the growth of corporate lobbying. In that book, i had concluded that one way reason they were so powerful was because they wrote a lot of the laws. Because there was not a tremendous amount of expertise. After that book came out, i went talking to folks in and around congress
Well welcome to you this monday youre watching r. T. International with medicare and now our top story russian athletes are holding their breath with the World Antidoping Agency or wada deciding on monday whether their National Team will be disqualified from International Sports for the next 4 years is russia was accused of tampering with a doping test database they handed over to the body earlier this year where russian sport is facing a number of possible sanctions including a ban on participation in International Tournament among them next years tokyo summit games on the beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 its officials could also be barred from sporting executive bodies additionally the country could be banned from hosting or attempting to host any major sporting events and on top of all that the russian flag might not be seen at any competitions any time soon. Well the Russian Olympic Committee says waters recommendations are a lot equal and inadequate the scandal broke when wanda ana