house collection. >> i'm pleased that my portrait brings an interesting symmetry to the white house collection. it now starts and ends with a george w. >> reporter: painted over a period of more than 220 years, some of these portraits evoke napoleonic grandeur, others everyday approachability. this portrait of teddy roosevelt looks you confidently in the eye. harry truman projects mid western humility. while the mournful john f. kennedy casts his gaze downward. >> this is the great portrait of george washington. >> reporter: in 2014, bill almond showed me the first picture of a president to hang in these hallowed halls. gilbert stewart's iconic 1797 portrait of george washington. hanging in the east room, it's played background during some of the most memorable moments in modern american history. but this treasure was almost lost. during the war of 1812, dolley madison and an enslaved man named paul jennings, managed to take the 8 x 5 foot portrait with them as they fled the white house, shortly before it was burned by british troops. >> this thing is really big. it's not like you c

in the morning from the white house. john? >> well, this is why we wait here for the president to emerge. we're told in fulton county, in georgia, there are five election workers. you were talking about the people working through. five of them have been left there to -- five sets of hands are counting in fulton county, georgia. they are still in there counting. so i just -- you just think about those five poor souls in the room doing their work here now at 2:00 in the morning to keep the count going in georgia. >> all right. and we are waiting to hear from the president of the united states. his campaign feeling strong after a victory in florida. >> but when you look at the numbers, can't both campaigns feel good at this time? >> they both have pathways to victory. so they can both -- >> go ahead, john. >> but the president has to be thrilled with what he was facing coming into this election which was having to defend nine states in which he was being told in the polls at least he was down by -- outside the margin of error in

but you can see the white house behind me. the president is there holed up with his advisers and the statement you just read out has a much more sombre tone than his tweets on the last few hours about stopping the account and all of the re st of stopping the account and all of the rest of it. so clearly the president is trying to decide what tack to ta ke is trying to decide what tack to take in people here just waiting patiently for those votes to be counted. i was told by somebody senior on the campaign today that there is quite a lot of demoralization amongst campaign staff and now we are hearing from the white house that actually several aides did not show up to work today. it is pretty empty. do you get any more sense of what the mood is like inside the building behind you? so what i am hearing is how did people approach the president? king kong as a sometimes call him inside the white house. he is in an absolute foul mood and the debate amongst his advisers seems to be who is it with the most weight can say it for him th

so, he wins the white house. that's a look at georgia, looking at that recount and it does go democrat, if he takes pennsylvania, then we will have a look at that and he gets 360 electoral college votes and that was the number that donald trump got back in 2016. that would be an irony. these projections, no one is declaring the winter all of the us networks being very careful as well. thank you very much for that update. james clayton is in las vegas, nevada james, there has been some thought that maybe nevada would be giving us a few more votes some kind of indication of where the vote is going. what are you shooting from officials there? we have heard something, they counted about 8000 votes today and they're breaking down around 5000 to joe today and they're breaking down around 5000 tojoe biden, 300 to donald trump and that gives joe biden around 20,000 to about 22 or 23,000 lead. everything that is coming up from nevada here keeps putting joe biden further and further ahead from donald trump. there is no goo

the white house and the campaign. in some ostensibly will hear about coronavirus and pfizer today saying they will apply for emergency use authorization but you will be asked an awful lot of questions about the election and my bedding is to the largest degree, she's going to defer to say that those are questions for the campaign that she cannot answer from the white house when she is very sensitive to the logan act and wants to make sure she doesn't walk past that line. >> harris: always setting the table for us for what we're about to feast on coming up, thank you very much. we will come back to you in just a second. i want to come to you on this idea of faceless electors because that's what john roberts was backing up there, other states as well, can you say the people voted this way, i want to load the electoral college meeting up with people who would put me in the white house. talk to me about that and the response you are seeing, a lot of response for and against on social media. >> we haven't heard directly fro

andrew jackson talked about the white house as the people's house. after 9/11, the white house became a fortress. have fun, be loose. >> and michelle obama calling the white house the people's house was one element of a much larger effort to move us forward. >> mrs. obama said she wanted for people who had never been to the white house to be comfortable in a way. >> just get comfortable here. get comfortable with a little greatness. >> we wanted to bring in diverse bodies and people and genders. everybody, we said come on in. >> if you think this day was special and it is because we think you all are special. >> whether it is kids that got in trouble before or college dropouts. >> so today i want all of you to know that you belong right here in the white house. >> that is a game changer because they can see themselves there in the future. >> remember this moment and remember the first lady of the united states told us that you can do anything that you want to. >> the 2012 election is only a year away, and the president's approval rating is worrying l

let's get to the white house and cnn's jim acosta. so tell us, and also, when he came back from playing golf which i know is what he did today, they put i guess technically a lid meaning we weren't going to see him again, anticipating him being quiet but of course did not keep him off twitter but what is really going on here? >> reporter: yeah. one thing we should point out is the white house has called a lid. that means we do not expect to see the president later on this evening. he could change all that. he is the president and can do that. he is the president for another couple months mind you. we did see the president return back to the white house after a day on the golf course a short while ago and he was greeted by these throngs of jubilant biden supporters out in the streets celebrating biden's victory as president-elect of the united states. i have to tell you, erin, it is a striking thing to see. you know, i grew up in this city and, you know, you just don't see celebrations like this in the nation's capital very often. i wa

he is overthe keys to the white house. —— and here he is. he is over the 270 mark. keys to the white house. —— and here he is. he is overthe 270 mark. if the president wins all the remaining states, which looks like he will not do, he still will not have enough. 0f do, he still will not have enough. of course, we have the legal challenge is outstanding, and recounts and standing —— outstanding, perfectly legitimate recounts, but it has become increasingly possible for the president to turn this around. we understand the present is no longer at the white house, we are told he has travelled to one of his golf coui’ses has travelled to one of his golf courses in virginia. he may or may not be on the core is now getting that news. this will be a huge moment for the white house and again a particular huge moment, in terms of how they respond, politically, to this rubicon that has now been crossed. what did i say? do their lawyers tell them they have any chance, in terms of these challenges? will the other states that start to come in an

white house to do a transition. and i remember in january 2009, when the outgoing chief, josh bolten, and the incoming chief, rahm emanuel, were in the situation room, monitoring a terrorist threat. we're a long ways from out of the woods here. this could be a dangerous period. >> let's go from the woods to the weeds. the president's fight here, the legal battle he's launching, is it surprising that we're not hearing from other members of the republican party? we aren't hearing from mitch mcconnell. and the president is really supported by the original trumpsters, rudy giuliani, corey lewandowski. what does that tell you about the strength of his argument? >> it tells you it's not very strong. there may not be there, there. and you're not going to get james a. baker iii out carrying your case when you have no evidence. the larger problem, there may be -- we may need an intervention along the lines of the barry goldwater-led delegation, in 1974, the senators who went into the oval office and told richard nixon, your

they met in the white house library. and if you know the white house, it's a room on the second floor that is shaped like an oval, and it faces the washington monument. so she's given permission to go into this room, an hour before her meeting with lincoln and set it up, because she's an artist, she wanted to look just right. and then she meets with lincoln and they have this very touching conversation, she brings her minister with him -- with her. he talks to lincoln about how grateful she, is gives a great word, lincoln response and he is choking up in the conversation. and then they go on their way. and when i first encountered the story i said well this is a very touching story. but then i wanted to try to write the book in a way that will really capture the scene. so i wanted to find out what the white house library look like. so i started to do a lot of research trying to find newspaper accounts of what the white house looked like, and the more i read, what i discovered was that the white house library was part of

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many thanks to our white house correspondent kimberly. let's go to mike hanna is in biden's home stays to delaware and joins us from the city wilmington mike earlier tonight we thought we were going to hear from biden and then we thought we when going to hear from bob and now again we're hearing that he may speak even the not officially been any kind of result to clay what are you hearing. well precisely that has been going backwards and forwards initially there was a speech is scheduled regardless then we heard that mr biden would be waiting for a proper call on a major state such as pennsylvania before speaking and now we're hearing again that joe biden will be speaking regardless of whether or not there is a major projection issued in coming hours but i think the way to leave it is on this is that once his convoy comes into the convention center on the road right next to me here then we'll know that he will be making a speech within the coming hours but i just want to pick up on the supreme court action that has just occurred the supre

that isa anxiety inside the white house. that is a must win for the president, is an absolute must win. things are still very tight there. the trend is going on the wrong direction by the president. i think it's pretty likely there will be a recount there but let me give you one number when you talk about a recount. they had a recount in wisconsin back in 2016 when hillary clinton lost by 20,000 votes. that recount changed 131 votes. that recount changed 131 votes so recounts did not attend to make massive differences and if they are relying on that inside the white house, i think they will be relying on something that isn't going to really deliver what they want. because they may need to do this in more than one state, of course, if georgia goes, pennsylvania goes, it's not then just a question of flipping one state, you have to make multiple challenges across the board. and as we heard, you have this ironic, ironic possibility that actually, joe biden could end up with precisely the number of electoral college votes that d

it's not just the white house, though. a number of republicans have refused to acknowledge the election results, something former president barack obama says could cause long lasting damage to our country. >> well, look, joe biden will be the next president of the united states. kamala harris will be the next vice president. there's no legal basis. there's no -- >> but he's getting support from members of the republican party who are not challenging him. >> and that has been disappointing. they, obviously, didn't think there was any fraud going on because they didn't say anything about it for the first two days. but there's damage to this because what happens is that the peaceful transfer of power, the notion that any of us who attain an elected office, whether it's dog catcher or president, are servants of the people. it's a temporary job. we're not above the rules. we're not above the law. that's the essence of our democracy. >> joining me, white house reporter for the daily beast. when we look at this, the trump campaig

we know white house personnel, nonpoliticals even, white house personnel had to deal with the fact they were not contacted but they were in sufficient close contact because of the nature of their work. to your point, andrea, around the country only 1 to 2% of coronavirus cases are getting traced. this is becoming an incredible problem as we now are seeing a surge in our country. we need to know how to keep people safe through tracing and testing and i think the president-elect's task force will concentrate on those efforts going forward. >> and joe biden is saying repeatedly wear a mask, wear a mask. this is not politics. let me ask you quickly about pfizer because we've heard big announcement before. this one is now being hailed asterisk as as terrific by people not involved in the country itself. is that your take as well? >> it is, andrea. let me offer we need to see the data. what we've seen is through the company's press releases. it didn't come from company independent data safety and monitoring board saw these analysis. here is the good news. if it is 90% effective with what they

f the white house transition project advisory board. thanks for being with us on washington journal. karen: good to be here. host: the white house transition project, tell us about it. this is a nonpartisan, nonprofit entity. it is staffed by political science professors and others around the united states. 1990's for thehe white house interview program. they were trying to develop some institutional memory by talking to people that had various white house death and over time. staff positions over time. they can find out what happens to staff positions for both parties. directedolved and is by martha -- i am a member of the advisory board along with other colleagues as well as people like norm ornstein and other people from the larger washington community. providetry to do is nonpartisan backing for what kinds of things have worked and not worked so well in and around the white house when a new president is getting ready to take over. in 2016 whencase president trump was coming to office and here in 2020 when the president-elect biden i

that is what's going on at the white house too because well we see the outside of the white house where the celebrations are going on on the inside the president is stewing in fact he has been tweeting in the last 7 minutes and one of the tweets where he talks about 7 minutes ago he says that he won the election he says the observers were not allowed into the counting rooms i won the election got 71000000 legal votes bad things happen which are observers were not allowed to see never happened before millions of mail in ballots were said to people who never asked for them what the president's talking about we should point out that twitter has flagged this as a disputed claim with respect to election fraud but the president's i'm happy that due to cope with 19 that many people were sent out solicited ballots that they could mail in so that they didn't have to stand in line and vote have the president's issue is is that he believes that these votes that were mailed in some received after election day that they should not be counted that the election count should have stopped on election da

the wheels have come off the trump white house. the president is clearly no longer interested in governing. so, now what? gop leaders need to find a backbone. they need to tell him it's time to concede, and need to let joe biden prepare to run this country. enough is enough, people. kaitlan collins is here. pamela brown as well. and i'm happy to see both of you. good evening. kaitlan, late-breaking news that the president's own government is saying the 2020 election was secure. no votes lost, deleted, or changed. they are refuting president trump's lies. >> yeah, don. not only are they saying it was secure, they're saying it was the most secure in american history. and this is an agency, within the president's own department of homeland security, the cybersecurity, and infrastructure security agency saying it was the most secure election in american history. there is no evidence of any kind of widespread fraud that the president and his allies have insisted there is and alleged, without evidence, of course. but also, don, they're d

and continuing to spread inside the white house. the white house political director joining the list of a half dozen trump aides who have tested positive in the last week. powerless against the loft voters and unwilling to tack the the pandemic, trump is imposing his will at the pentagon, firing the secretary of defense and replacing three other senior defense officials with loyalists. a defense official calling the purge scary and unsettling, telling cnn these are dictator moves. sources telling cnn that fbi director chris wray and cia director gina haspel could be next. meanwhile, election officials across the country say they have found no evidence of fraud or irregularities that could swing the presidential race including philadelphia's republican city commissioner al schmidt. >> i have seen the most fantastical things on social media, making completely ridiculous allegations that have no basis in fact at all, and see them spread. one thing i can't comprehend is how hungry people are to consume lies. >> reporter: minutes later t

jeremy diamond over at the white house. the president's losing streak in federal court is growing. >> we're at more than 30 kaucas that the president or allies have lost or had to withdraw across the country, the latest at the hands of a trump appointed judge, and this judge is saying that the trump campaign's legal claims have quote no merit and yet as the president yesterday said that he would indeed leave the white house if the electoral college confirms joe biden as the next president of the united states next month, he is now suggesting that joe biden needs to first prove what state and local officials have already attested to that this election was not fraun fraudulent in order to get into the white house. >> we caught them cheating. we caught them stealing. i'm the president of the united states. don't ever talk to the president that way. >> lying and lashing out, president trump bitterly refusing to except his loss to president-elect joe biden. >> it's going to be a very hard thing to concede. >> reporter: but also

dispels some myths around her time in the white house. the white house historical association hosted this event and provided the video. ms. mann: today we are welcoming carl sferrazza anthony, the author of several books on presidential families including four biographies and a conference of overview of all the first families. he wrote a two volume history, an inside view of 200 years inside the white house. he served as a consultant to the first lady's exhibit and was the national first lady's historian in 2017. welcome. mr. anthony: thank you. i appreciate so much being able to join the white house historical association today and very honored to give you a little bit of a background about florence harding in the book. i have to tell you, as is often said, a parent should not really have per se a favorite child, and i think an author perhaps should not have a favorite book. but i will say that the research of this book and then the unique promotion that i did for this book will always be a very important part of my life. i started writi

she brought the first radio into the white house. and although she tried her best to stick to the traditional notions that a first lady should not speak on the record with reporters, she could not help herself. so, she really was, in a very short period of time, a very dynamic woman and a very honest woman. now, everybody also always warned her about scandals. and the fact of the matter is, as far as personal life goes, we know from letters released that warren harding had a full-blown love affair with a woman who had been his wife's best friend in ohio. we also know now, because of dna, that the very young -- she was almost 40 years younger than harding, and passionately in love with him, had a child by him. the degree to which mrs. harding knew about her is not entirely clear, although there are some suggestions that she suspected something. but she certainly knew about the carry phillips incident. but in another entirely different dimension, the hardings very much loved each other. when mrs. harding almost died in september of 192

where our correspondent kimberly helka watching things unfold at the white house and of course the trump team not really accepting the results as they stand at the moment one wonders what their next move will be. well right now the president has released his public schedule and for a 2nd day we expect that on thursday the president will have no public events we did not see the president in person in front of the television cameras on wednesday however he did tweet even being and expressing concern about the fact of ballots that some ballots had been dumped this was a tweet that was flagged by twitter but the president is continuing to cast doubt on the integrity of the u.s. election meantime i can tell you that there were many protesters in miller's about sort of just scattered around the white house that remains walled off with a number of primitive fences in the last few moments there was one lone protester shouting joe biden tear down this wall so already there is a sense that they are starting to believe that this will be joe biden president elect and not the former vice president bu

the white house press secretary today called the meeting routine, but it's not routine. the president's attorney sidney powell has stated on the record that her goal is to get state legislatures to overturn the will of their own voters. based on a bizarre and discredited conspiracy theory, backed by zero credible authorities. that is anything but routine. the big question is what, if anything, republican officials will do to stop the president in his attempts to subvert the election results? that remains unknown, though there are new condemnations of the president's actions by a republican lawmakers on capitol hill and a source tells cnn some alarmed rank in file republican senators are beginning to consider more forceful pressure on president trump to give up his election gambit. arlette saenz reports for us now, mr. trump's obstruction has forced the biden transition team to speed up its announcement of key administration positions. >> reporter: with president trump and his administration stonewalling the process, joe biden is presenting a united front. the incoming wh

traveling in the motorcade back to the white house we should see him any moment entering the white house there is no indication that he is ready to accept this outcome that has been called by the networks and been called so far in fact we saw a statement earlier that we had talked about a little bit earlier as well where he said that joe biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner and his media allies are trying to help them they don't want the truth to be exposed in this statement president troubles who talked about the fact that he is planning to launch further legal challenges this is what we can expect from the president especially on monday he said he will start further legal challenges but from all of the legal analysts i've seen covering this here claire the consensus is that the president doesn't really have a basis to work from the legal challenges he has launched in key battleground states to this point in pennsylvania in michigan in georgia have not proven to be fruitful for the president because they have launched lawsuits before having the evidence the legal basis to actu

i'm not privy to at the white house is doing on that. i do hope they will take into consideration all the things we talked about. >> harris: cindy mccain on the program today. great to see you. i will see you in arizona when i'm home. nico please do. thanks. >> harris: absolutely. remember the boarded up windows and the violent protests? it didn't happen. and the argument that the outcome would have been different if joe biden had lost is what we will get into next. ♪ vbenefit lets you easily refinance to a lower rate? one call to newday can save you $3000 a year. with newday's va streamline refi there's no income verification, no home appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. it's the quickest and easiest refi they've ever offered. call newday now. and now your co-pilot.. still a father. but now a friend. still an electric car. just more electrifying. still a night out. but everything fits in. still hard work. just a little easier. still a legend. just more legendary. chevrolet. making life's journey, just better. essential for sewing, b

complete how come they're our white house correspondent in washington d.c. with all the latest thanks company well let's now get the view from the biden camp with mike hanna he's in wellington delaware biden's home state mike biden tonight really calling for patience when he came out earlier despite sounding fairly confident he must be very happy about these wisconsin numbers. well that's very important indeed a full of 4 to the democrats to the buying campaign in the early hours of the morning wisconsin one of those of blue wall states along with pennsylvania and michigan absolutely critical for joe biden to win given the results that have we see in the course of the count but that along with arizona certainly a big blow for the democrats a major fillip for them and that is something that joe biden when he spoke to his supporters here at the convention center just after midnight he was already saying then and he felt good that he was optimistic particularly about those states now these states are interesting because why we have not got the results yet his c

he did summon them to the white house. and those michigan state legislators, those republican legislators put out a statement afterwards that was widely greeted as a very reassuring statement. i'll tell you, i read it as vague. maybe i'm incapable of being reassured at this point. but this is what they said in the part of their statement that was about this question we're talking about. they said, quote, we have not yet been made aware of any information that would change the outcome of the election in michigan. and as legislative leaders, we will follow the law and follow the normal process regarding michigan's electors just as we've said throughout this election. michigan's certification process should be a deliberate process, free from threats and intimidation. allegations of fraudulent behavior should be taken seriously and thoroughly investigated and, if proven, prosecuted to the full extent of the law. and the candidates who win the most votes, win elections and michigan's electoral votes. these are simple truths tha

vote reelect president donald trump to the white house. i heard on the way here that today is the last day to vote early, and north carolina. so after we get on here, you can go down to the wilson county board of elections, 112 douglas street east. they are open until 3:00. plenty of time to vote to reelect president donald trump for four more years. [applause] so, get it done, leave from here, and remember, friends do not let friends vote alone. bring a neighbor, a coworker, and vote to reelect president donald trump for four more years. [applause] you know, those that get the most votes when, right? so we need you to vote. secondly, after you vote with a friend, i encourage you to do two more things. first of them is just go tell somebody. tell somebody why you came out on this beautiful saturday to hear this president's vice president. tell them why you feel so passionately about what you've done as a country. all that we have accomplished in the first three years under this president's steady leadership and the challenging year in my l

think it is trickier to maintain the white house. to the extent that you are looking for health care equity to an extent -- the configuration that gets you the best outcome there is the democrats winning the white house and the senate. jonathan: appreciate your time. send our best to the team at morgan stanley. whereike today our days typically, a lot of news slips beneath the radar. this headline does not. the shanghai exchange has board, citings changes in the regulatory environment. this comes from a statement about 10 minutes ago or so. can you speak to the regulatory tension between the shanghai exchange and this listing? lisa: we talk about tech regulation in the united states, but this is also going on in china in particular, with chinese regulators going after online lenders. new rules have come out targeting the use of asset-backed securities to finance quick consumer loans. they cited the inability of ant financial to comply. fascinating at a time where china hopes to double its economy by 2035, that is cracking down on one

in the white house and since then, several attendees tested positive, including white house chief of staff mark meadows, ben carson, dav david bossie, and white house political director brian jack, all in attendance, all having tested positive. today we learned there are two more positives -- republican national committee chef of staff richard walters and trump campaign adviser cory lewandowski who since that election party spent time in philadelphia trying to help trump's failing legal challenges there. he showed up at the infamous news conference saturday outside the four seasons -- the four seasons total landscaping company. but don't panic. lewandowski told cnbc today, i feel great and it's agree he's not experiencing symptoms right now, but it's not great for the nearly with 157,000 people who caught it today or the 57,000 people in the hospitals. these numbers are consistently going up because of a lack of national response. each state has been left to make up its own rules in response to case numbers. maryland, minnesota, utah, iowa, and other states imposed measure since yest

white house political director brian jack and healey bomb gartner, a former white house aide who now works in private equity. she tested positive for the virus yesterday and two sources familiar with the case confirmed jack's diagnosis. a number of other guests at last week's event also tested positive for covid-19, including mark meadows, the president's chief of staff, ben carson, the housing secretary, and david bossie, an adviser to trump who's leading the charge on lawsuits and other efforts related to contesting the election outcome in several states. with the addition of these latest cases, at least 42 trump administration and campaign officials and contacts have tested positive for covid-19. 42. >>> a campaign update now. for days, president trump and his allies have been railing against the election results, claiming that it's not up to news organizations to project the winners. so, it was a bit dissident yesterday when the trump campaign blasted out a press release, noting that alaska had been called for the president, while also asking for donations. white house senior adv

she's going to be named the white house communications director. we know her as the deputy campaign manager for biden's 2020 campaign. we also have jen psaki who is being named press secretary. we will be seeing her behind the podium inside the white house briefing room. two other names i want to mention, symone sanders is being named the chief spokesperson for vice president-elect kamala harris and carekarine jean-pier. they will be serving throughout the white house and we should note there's real racial diversity here. two things that biden has talked about as being important as he forms his future government and administration, jessica. >> and we also heard via the pool report this afternoon that president-elect biden twisted his ankle on saturday playing with his dog. interesting, they gave us that information, the transition team, in contrast to president trump when we still don't know why he went to walter reed. what can you tell us about president-elect biden's condition this evening? >> reporter: yeah, a bit of an incident involving his do

it clearly gone out in the name of the white house. whether or not it was passed by him, wejust don't know. this isjust it was passed by him, wejust don't know. this is just a bureaucracy saying, "we will follow the requirements and the statute. " we follow the requirements and the statute." we will soon see in the coming days, but in terms of what's on the record for the president, he still going to court on monday. 0k, gary 0'donoghue, thank you for those of you. it is coming up to 8pm in the united states and we are waiting for president—electjoe biden to give his victory address. this pictures you are seeing there in wilmington, delaware, live pictures from the scene at the biden hq party victory drive in raleigh. these are campaign workers, volu nteers are campaign workers, volunteers —— drive in rally. he is surrounded by an extremely loyal group of people. they have been through him all these decades in the sentence. —— senate. they were with him back in 2008 when he tried to become president. they have been with him d

somber in fact our white house producer is out the white house kind of taking a sense of the mood for many hours as the news was trickling in that this was happening that there was finally a call in the presidential election the doors to the press office were closed it was very silent that's not what you usually see at the white house you get the sense that that his campaign his family there watching this unfold in the white house and having to realize ation that the challenge ahead to try and potentially claim victory is becoming harder and harder for the president continues to speak on twitter system that he won this election but as you can see from the crowds behind me as we've taken some of these shots here from the noise the celebrations by biden supporters are only building and it's that momentum that will really really hard for the president to turn around can they have it with the latest at the white house kimberly's thank you. well joe biden is expected to address the nation in the coming hours but before that he has tweeted saying america i'm honored that you have chosen me

house itself well we're hearing reports from the white house pool reporters that the president is on the move that he's leaving the white house we don't know where he is headed we do know that this morning he's been active again on twitter i'm just looking at his twitter feed here he is again repeating those claims of voter fraud and that this election was stolen from him and says that particularly the big cities where a lot of mail in ballots were cast that these are the ones where he believes fraud took place fraud that stole the selection from him so michael that doesn't bode well for what we might see in the course of the day the president clearly making clear here and that he is not willing to concede this election that the major divide in the united states in the drama is not over what are the biggest changes expected. well 1st and foremost we know what to expect as the biggest change from joe biden now he made clear that tackling the covert 1000 pandemic is the biggest priority and he's announced that he will create a task force of us scientists and experts as he put it on mon

i think the numbers are going to speak for themselves in the systems, forget the white house. georgia's going to certify. it's just going to happen. i think the force will happen. i think the other thing is, the president's going to try to do something, and he's trying to do something in the legal system. usually, we've all done this, you parallel system between your communications, your political strategy, your legal strategy. he's now got a divergent strategy. it will be very hard unless there's something there for a judge to want to go basically be part trump has just done. i think throwing out thousands or hundreds, rather, of legal cases, then a rhetoric at decibel 12, is undermining him both in public opinion and with the court of public opinion, also in the court of law. >> chris, sara made the point at some point the votes will dictate what this president will have to do. from your perspective, when do you think republicans begin to say, as we said on the air earlier, have their goldwater moment with the president? >> i think two ways. once, as rahm said, when the vote

joe biden has other routes to the white house too. let's assume that he succeeds in keeping nevada — hillary clinton won that in 2016 — and that he manages to flip arizona as well. that gets him to 270 as well. so there are different routes forjoe biden to the white house. i will return the map to the state of play to show you that for donald trump, it's more difficult. he's got to win pennsylvania. and then also three of the four other major swing states in order to stay in the white house. a much more uphill task. what impact would a change in the presidency have on the relationship between the us and the uk? what are the formalities surrounding the transition of power? we can speak to the former foreign office minister, sir alan duncan. don't suppose wh thinking i don't suppose what the uk is thinking is top ofjoe biden‘s priority list right now, but what are the formalities? at what point does the uk government say that we are talking to the transition team? are they already doing that in the washington embassy?” are they

white house reporter jeff mason joins us. what are the pressures, arm-twisting, favor seeking, favor reminders, political fixes that mr. biden is now facing on these choices within his own ranks. >> a lot for sure, he is keeping that in mind as he keeps his choices, he has to satisfy the center of his party and satisfy the left in particular after getting the support from senator sanders and senator elizabeth warren, those are forces that he has to keep in mind, that said he needs to have a cabinet up front. the senate will be controlled by republicans if the republicans win both of the seats in georgia or very tightly controlled by democrats makes that consideration he asked to take into account. eric: that is very important when he's considering secretary of state let's look at the candidates names for secretary of state, talk about confirmation, susan rice, benghazi, you will hear a lot about that, chris coons of delaware, chris murphy of connecticut, william burns who is respected longtime diplomat, anthony a foreign poli

some live pictures from outside the white house now. clearly as this election drags on, as these cou nts as this election drags on, as these counts continue to move agonisingly slowly, tensions are rising. we can see there just outside the white house, growing crowds of anti—trump protesters will stop there's obviously an impatience among a lot of americans who voted forjoe biden, who have opposed donald trump to get a clear resolution to this election. we are inching our way to that. let's go to washington and speak to gary 0'donoghue who is outside the white house. what is the mood there? of course we are inside, so we are protected by these barriers from what's going on outside. i don't think they will be hearing very much of that here in the west wing. clearly i think they are pondering what to do once pennsylvania is projected forjoe biden, if that finally happens... sorry. i'm sorry, gary... that gary has been tweeting, talking about pennsylvania, saying they've behaved ina pennsylvania, saying they've behaved in a horrible, law

let's go now to the white house. we just saw president trump's kids arrive and now we see the president and first lady taking the stage right now at the east wing of the white house. let's listen in. >> thank you very much. this is without question the latest news conference i've ever had. >> we love you. >> i appreciate it very much, and i want to thank the american people for their tremendous support. millions and millions of people voted for us, and a very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise that group of people, and we won't stand for it. i want to thank the first lady and the entire family, vice president pence, mrs. pence for being with us. and we were getting ready for a big celebration. we were winning everything, and all of a sudden it was just called off. the results tonight have been phenomenal. and we are getting ready -- i mean literally we were just all set to get outside and just celebrate something that was so beautiful, so good. such a vote, such a success. the citizens of this country ha

there is relief in the white house and no one has yet call pennsylvania for joe the white house and no one has yet call pennsylvania forjoe biden and into that as the wedge and at the longer this goes on, the more doubt they can still about the outcome and they can still about the outcome and they hope that the keystone state, pennsylvania, is providing them something in the counting of the provisional balance of they can hang onto and delay and fight. do we know who is talking to the president? do we know who he is surrounded by? formerly his deputy campaign manager david bossi is the person who will be leading this legal challenge. he is surrounded by family as ever and by his trusted son—in—law is surrounded by family as ever and by his trusted son—in—lanared kushner. also his daughter yvonne cattrall and people who think that the president is on a downward trope and he should everything about his future in the future of its business have been hoping that it may be family who can point to the president the way forward. but the president the way forward. but the president him

as you enter the white house, do you have plans to put someone in charge of this in the white house in the way you were in charge in the obama white house of coordinating the response to the ebola crisis? >> first of all, lawrence, you're absolutely right. it's a tragic milestone, all-time record number of daily cases. i remember back in september when joe biden said we were facing a very grim and dark winter and donald trump dismissed that as being kind of apocryphal. yet here we are in november on a rate we may see for the first time ever within seven days seeing a total of a million cases. so we are in a very, very dire straits as a country. we are approaching the rate at which people die, potentially 10,000 deaths in a single week, that also would be a grim milestone we're headed towards. as a candidate for president, joe biden promised he would put an official in charge of the covid response in the white house. he will do that. and he will have a covid coordinator who works in the white house who has direct access to him and will be briefing him daily. otherwise as needed in respo

the race to the white house is farfrom come in. the race to the white house is far from over. this is bbc us election 2020. in washington, we are waiting on states like arizona and wisconsin to give us a steer on how this will all play out. stay with us for all of the latest results. it's 6am here in washington with both donald trump and joe biden saying they are on course for a victory in the us presidential election. it's proved to be an extremely close race with results still to come from a number of pivotal state and voter turnout has been very high and mr trump has performed better than many poll suggested taking florida, texas and ohio. mr biden still has a path to the white house if he can secure arizona and northern industrial states like michigan and pennsylvania. donald trump said in an attempt to frustrate is when will be taken to the supreme court but they has presented no evidence of fraud. joe biden said the election is not open to every vote has been tallied. so far, 85% of the popular vote has been counted and mystified's campaign team said mr biden ‘s ——

it was all high hopes and big promises back in 2016 when donald trump took his place in the white house the nation was already divided by race gender class you name it and the country needed a hero now it's time for america to find a once of division have to get together. go all republicans and democrats and independents across this nation. i say it is time for us to come together as one united people turned out trump never came to be that knight in shining armor. and on. the 20 twentieth's presidential election seasons looked more like an all out war on the streets more than anything mishandling of the pandemic response and the economic crisis but most significant was the brutal killing of george floyd that sparked outrage across the nation and even calls to de-fund the police all together . and instead of trying to unite people america is dividing lines became part of both parties political strategies on the one hand biden and the democrats sold themselves as allies of the so-called peaceful protests which let's be honest were not so peaceful friendlessness for instance peacefully pro

white house adviser dr. scott atlas apologizing after he gave an extensive jaw-dropping interview on the kremlin-controlled propaganda tv network rt. and according to the footage, atlas did this from the white house. >> lockdowns have been one of the -- will go down as an epic failure of public policy by people who refuse to accept they were wrong, were wrong, refuse to accept they were wrong, didn't know the data, didn't care, and became a frenzy of stopping covid-19 cases at all costs. and those costs are massive. >> let's bring in sarah westwood at the white house. so what is being said now about this apology and really about the circumstances of the interview? >> reporter: yeah. after a backlash over the fact that dr. scott atlas did that interview and did it from the white house, dr. atlas is saying he did not know that rt was a russian propaganda arm when he did the interview. he tweeted out an apology that i want to read. "i really -- i recently did an interview with rt and was unaware they are a regi

from the white house to the west coast. dancing and marching to celebrate the end of a trump presidency. [ cheers ] ♪ >> reporter: back in wilmington, biden and harris brought their entire families on stage with them to close out their victory. ♪ for a fireworks display to celebrate the election of the country's 46th president. ♪ and so now joe biden gets to work. his transition i'm told officially launches tomorrow, and we've also learned that he is set to sign a shoe of executive orders -- slew of executive orders aimed at overturning key parts of the trump agenda including the paris climate accords, reversing the part in the world health organization, ending the muslim travel ban. a campaign source says that joe biden is making good on his long-standing promises. >> getting to work quickly. geoff bennett in wilmington, delaware, thank you so much. >>> president trump meanwhile vowing to fight the election results saying in a statement the election is, quote, far from over, claiming on twitter that he won the electi

grand plans to transform the white house. but she immediately faces opposition. >> everybody on president kennedy's staff said no. you don't know what you're doing. how dare you touch white house. she's 31 years old. she stands up to all the president's advisers and says, i'm going ahead. >> jackie raises money to buy back furniture belonging to past presidents and persuades collectors to donate antiques. she welcome as film crew into the private quarters for the first time. >> mrs. kennedy, i want to thank you for letting us visit your official home. this is obviously the room from which much of your work on it is directed. >> yes, it is attic and cellar all in one. >> this was probably her most important performance during her whole time at the white house. she was tense. she was very, very nervous. every time they had a break, she would smoke like chimney. she had some brown liquor with her and invariably, she would drop the ashes on this beautiful silk settee, you know? >> so exciting to see things every day. >> at the en

let's get right to kelly o'donnell at the white house. >> reporter: tonight defiant and denying his own defeat, president trump answered questions for the first time since election day. >> i don't know what is going to happen i know one thing joe biden did not get 80 million votes. >> reporter: asked if he will concede, more obstruction. >> it is going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud. >> reporter: pushed about whether he would vacate the white house january 20th if the electors finalize the biden victory. >> certainly i will. certainly i will. >> reporter: the president's legal team has not shown fraud or irregularities but the president vented. >> and the whole world is watching and the whole world is laughing at our electoral process. >> reporter: president trump angry and lashing out minutes after he thanked overseas troops for their service. he criticized joe biden for forming a cabinet and would not publicly commit to attending the inauguration earlier today joe biden followed a more traditional playbook in a video message from delaware, p