today is happening on our walk in years from now. there will be people asking, how did you let it happen? studio will be on scripted part one on i'll just leave the . ready ready the fellow i'm sort of in a, this is the news our lives from don't coming up in the program today. the genocide and gaza continues. 143 palestinians are killed across the strip on tuesday, mostly, and attacks and bait la here in the north and the southern lebanese city a site and is really air strikes, has killed the 7 people. rescuers are digging through the rubble for suffice.

14000000 people have now been displaced by fighting across sedan. it has pushed nearly half the population to the brink of semen on james bayes in washington dc. and i'll explain how it terms of it can make it to the white house despite losing the popular vote. more on the electoral college which is unique in the world coming off the . so we start in northern garza where the is really military is killed at least 16 palestinians. and another attack on de la ha of the this is the most recent footage. and it's really your strength. targeted 3 residential buildings. palestinians are scrambling in the door to find survivors. an earlier strike on the same area killed at least $93.00 palaces. northern gauze it has been under is

really siege for more than 3 weeks. let's go straight to miles. is there a startup was sorry, can joining us from the central part of the gaza strip? you're in darrow butler. can you run our viewers through the last 24 hours in bate law here? what happened and where we are now as well. so it has been a very moving situation inmate lot. yeah. within the past 24 hours, the has been a key focus from these would have mandatory on that very densely populated area earlier it just to die. you'd be, have targeted by the story building bailout. yeah. at least 96. these have city and have been come from killed, including fight, still going along side with 51 others were born. and by the way, till now civilians are at coming through the russell in order to recover everyone who could be alive, or even these who are stuck be these houses. but again, it's spelled just within a few minutes ago had conducted a series of configure with strikes on cree residential buildings and a lot. yeah. town in the north of the gaza strip,

at least according to the latest it gets released from gardens, health ministry, 60 and kind of funny and have been confirmed, killed wild people, and civilians in the neighborhood that has been subjected to intent is really a tax. how long have brung completely 8 to dislike of the strike in order to stop looking for anyone who could be life in that area. this is a very dramatic reality that we know that civil defense work is on april to great with full capacity and below that policy cause i do see that usability repeated attacks on their a cruise on the ground and they hit cool. it says even deviate, goes about. yeah, been using for transportation and now only simple. you have to cope with the situation that is public schools in to a think right now on targeting tbd, densely populated areas that with somebody has been speaking rescued after this. talk to the military operation in the valley and now they are passing you wanting sports if we can set up an order to leave, like not families of order to just point that out for all of us so that everyone

who used to lead big law here will be killed out of it in the criminal attack areas, by the way, that testing totally times the account. i wanna make sure i understand what you're saying. say that again, people who are inmate law here. can you repeat that to me? and i wanted to ask you whether they're able to leave and you dress a dresser. the people in big law. yeah. are refusing to leave a big lot. yeah. because they have no what else to do. and even if the 22 fleet had gone to city, they might be attacked by is there any quite cool controllers or even a drone jet that did not leave? usually just call it a big bag and they and finally it worked with the count and these areas by the way . so that had been targeted within the past 24 hours. the main, a consensus with affiliates have been seeking work is we know that the army had to bend over the decorations, including the value. and this started to expand that to the law here. so those upon the books and these houses up 10 to the graveyard for families. and they are unable

even to get a, any sort of help a list civilians can get to the side destroyed as soon as the attack to take place . and by the way, the looks of peoples has completely killed come to the wants because they were unable to be your skewed even the bicycle going to have been using very primitive rescue tools including homage i'm using sally hams in order to look at both the victims from under the police will be used to houses. we say we did very distressing video coming from big la here for the white support destruction resulted from the strike. and this is a very escalate thing is kept now attacking the sensory populated areas with that military momentum. that is what it all me is trying to intimidate families to leave their houses and never it tend to back again while they're twins, trees, and pushed to buildings. to, to kansas city in order to completely announced that they know that part of the gaza strip could be a close ministry zone as conflict patients that had not yet come on any sort of end

in sight. atari, thank you very much for bringing us all this reporting is very important that we continue to tell our viewers what is happening in the northern part of gauze of the northern most part of the slip that has been under a very tight military siege for more than 3 weeks, and i will say this bring this to our viewers because you said that palestinian civilians and bait law here. some of them do not want to leave because they think it's on safe to do so under international law. even if you're given a warning by a military force to leave your protection that all civilians in the world enjoy under international humanitarian law is not listed. they do not become military targets under law just because they choose to stay in their homes. um tarry couple is zoom reporting from darrow by in the central part of district. thank you so much for that or that many of the now this thing is were injured in those attacks were rushed to the nearby hospital come out loud. one were doctors say they are struggling to treat patients,

spots and such with the social come out at one tomorrow at one hospital. and the entire facility is a, was on the hospital is left with no results is no medical supplies and no medical stuff. this is because many of our specialized doctors and sessions have been contained. it has only meet together with a single pediatrician, to kind of perform any surgery to the wounded that i left inside the hospital. above all patients, i'm the injured a strand, all over the hospital floor. we appeal to the entire wall type of safety. monetary and passage opened immediately. and without any delay, we need specialized medical stuff and we'll major disciplines to be allowed and i received the wounded child who is in dire need of abdominal surgery to stop his internal bleeding before he loses his life. how many children have that bone sticking out of their bodies? requiring an orthopedic surgeries many a suffering from brain injuries and required delicate procedures swap up. had this now in gaza city and it's really a strike has targeted the also how about market the as palestinians were trying to

get their hands on the little food and water that is still available. at least 4 people were killed and dozens of others were injured. some in critical condition was 0 is abraham absolutely reports from allows the baptist hospital where many of the wounded were take as i'm right now. c inside the hospital here in northern central does the city is really drones have targeted rules of the, of the market? as you can see, this is the seeing here is arriving to the hospital and transferred out of the hospital. here have arrived in a critical condition place here the hospital has turned into a scene of a tragedy, like the way a month to get to boost that was really occupation forces targeted innocent civilians in the open market while they were trying to find food to survive dozens were killed and injured. they were taken to the baptist hospital. our teens are still working using their bare hands for covering the dead in searching for survivors under the degree they were gathering to parents is the basic necessities

and also how the market this, this the populated market located in northern central because of the city where, where many people and many shops are open and still in basic necessities, in basic goods for the people of northern garza, they ended up being targeted and improved to be killed by it is really direct missile, which resulted in many fields and does is injured arriving thought at the hospital, but i am sending you all northern gods all by this time. so at this point, northern guns it has been under is really military siege. the 25 days more than 1000 people have been killed. food and medical supplies prevented from reaching the area by israel. now the us ambassador to the you when says washington rejects any efforts to actually put a store of palestinians one year into this conflict. israel must

address the catastrophic humanitarian crisis in gaza. is that the united states rejects any, is really efforts to star palestinians and job aliya or anywhere else. and that is rules. words must be matched by action on the ground right now that is not happening. this must change immediately. the us to state it clearly that israel must allow food medicine and other supplies into all of gaza, especially the north, and especially as winter sets in and protect the workers distributing several health stake, or is the project coordinator and gaza for doctors without borders. you're joining us now from our milwaukee in gaza. sorry, thank you for your time today on this very important issue. i want to ask you how your teams are doing your staff are doing a specially in northern gaza just before i do so. however, i'm going to quote for,

for our viewers and you and report that was published earlier this month. it specifically addresses israel's treatments of health facilities and gaza. and this report will be presented later this month that the un general assembly. okay. this was 10 days ago, quote, israel has perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy gauze as health care system as part of a broader results on gaza. committing more crimes and crimes against humanity with relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities. tell us what the m assess what the experience has been for m. s f and your stop your staffing gaza, specifically northern gaza. a thank you very much for having me. like all other medical actors in, in gaza, the situation has been extremely challenging for the past year. at this point in time, we would say 17 out of 36 hospitals remain functional. but with the loss of the 3 in the north that would go down even further by another 3. so this has decimated

the capacity of the health care system that we have systematically seen on several occasions that health facilities have not been respected. we've seen raids on health facilities. as a result, we've seen that more and more patients are crowns. policies that didn't no longer have the capacity to take on board these patients. as m a soft, we've been forced to move 14 times ourselves from health facilities due to the conflict. and currently we're extremely worried about the north and says you mentioned previously and was your point of there are 3 hospitals that have no medical supplies, have no staff because a bunch of them have in pain. they are running out of fuel. they don't have doctors, it's an absolute catastrophic situation at this point in time. it's all right. so there are 3 hospitals. sorry. it's a uh, there are 3. you said 3 hospitals, is the indonesian hospital colored one a hospital and allowed a hospital in northern garza, you just said there, there are. many of them are out of stuff out of facilities,

but we also report in the top to show that the injured the patients are still being taking their so how do they treat them the absent extreme, even leave difficult question and they are doing the best that they can with what they still have, as has been reported by the director of colored one. it's an absolutely disastrous situation where they don't have people to treat the increase that they have. they haven't had supplies for a long time, especially allowed that has been taking on patients without receiving any aid. in the past few weeks. i'm told you have colleagues or a colleague in northern gauze. it was disappeared. a doctor tell us what happened. we currently still have 3 colleagues of ours that are in big loss yet and job aliya . and we do indeed have an m, a sub surgeon that disappeared from come out at once. and as far as we understand, he was detained by is really forces. this has been communicated to us by israeli forces,

and currently we remain unaware about his worry about when did this happen and do you have any line of contact with is really forces to find out how he's doing currently, we have no information about the exact circumstances all that we know is that he was working in camella at one at the time when the hospital was rated and all the medical staff were detained. currently, i personally in the field and gaza, i do not have any line of communication with is there any forces that i am sure that our colleagues in headquarters are, are trying to have this conversation with with those are all this points in time? sure. look, that's very alarming because if i read from that same report that i read from earlier, again, this is this month from the un independent international commission of inquiry on occupied palestinian territory. it says, quote, the report found that is really security forces have deliberately killed detained and tortured medical personnel and targeted medical vehicles. so in light of that,

of course we, we hope that your colleagues will be returned to him and stuff and to their families immediately. and safely listen, thank you very much for your time. sorry. they'll sticker project coordinator and goes if a doctors without borders, thanks for your time today. correct? now israel's decision to band, the un agency for palestinian refugees has been condemned worldwide. the un secretary general antonio gutierrez says he is deeply concerned by the band, which he says could have devastating consequences for policy and refugees. let's take a closer look at what the want is and does its mandate is to help the nearly 6000000 registered palestinian refugees worldwide from israel has prevented from returning to their land. more than 487000 live and 11 on about 581000 in syria and more than 2000000 live in jordan. and there are around 901000 in the

occupied west back now, 2 thirds of guns as population are refugees. that's about 1700000 people. israel has cut off the streets and the rest of the world through a decades long blockade palestinians. and guys that had been reacting to israel's ban on law, which has been a lifeline for them for 75 years. the most uh how come up with this catastrophic it contains the gaza strip and the rest of the cheese for receive aids to a slow destruction. and today i know people who copeland, i know it's so wrong, but it's because in real helps cause that with age that it's given to all palestinian people that vote is wrong regarding this you voted for it. they want to stop the people, i'm depriving them of all of that, right? the school is up to give this mind doing that. it's a countries of the whole, well don't stand together with us against this decision. israel will freeze everything for us or institutions and close up the people benefit greatly. and the only benefit comes from one more step here. these really military says 4 of its

soldiers have been killed in northern gaza. the casualties occurred in the jamalia area for the 5 had been wounded and fighting across the strip. and another 7 is really soldiers were injured in 11 on. let's go to nor all day in the jordanian capital, nor you are covering this from amount because these really government has banned out as euro from reporting in the occupied west bank. and from inside israel, tell us what you are learning about these new is really casualties. well sarah, this is the latest announcements from the is rarely minute military about casualties in a gaza. and remember, these are announcements that these really military controls. we know that $367.00 is where the soldiers and officers have been killed since the start of the ground invasion of gaza. and this is quite significant, given the fact that just since the start of the assault on 11 on 900 soldiers have

been reported injured, many also killed. it's a very contentious issue in israel. one that a you know, involves a lot of emotions intentions, especially because the is randa, cannot set the parliament is discussing a controversial bills for the draft of the military. the is really prime minister or needs to appease his right when coalition and they want the religious right to be exempt from military service. of course, the more secular parties don't want that exemption to, to be in place, and they make the point that these really are me, is overstretched and they need as many draftees as possible. so these numbers will play into that discussion which will continue for a few days to come, nor de reporting from amman. jordan, thank you very much in your in just a short while ago and is really, you're a strike hit the suburb of higher ed side. that's on the outskirts of sight and in

711 on the attack killed at least 7 people. ambulances can be seen rushing to the scene to attend to the injured. so let's bring indorse jabari and bear with on their store. so what can you tell us? well, this was a residential building and how that site is that was targeted to earlier this evening. a 3 story building and according to the lebanese health ministry, at least 5 people have now been confirmed that and at least 33 injured. but the health minister said these are initial seiger's and they expect those numbers to rise in the coming hours. we have to remember this attack, the latest attack in this area near the southern city upside and came without any warning or any of the usual force. evacuation threats that these really military has been issuing for different areas in the country before they strike. but this

particular area is now the 2nd time that is. 5 has targeted had upside on sunday. they also targeted a residential building, cooling at least 8 people and injuring at 25. so this is now the 2nd time that this area has been hit. it is about 40 kilometers from the capital bay roots and israel, claiming that they're continuing to target what they say are, has the lot personnel and military positions and command control centers in residential areas without providing of any evidence. what we have seen over the past few weeks is an escalation of these attacks, not only in the southern parts of the capital, but across the country in various points where it is believed that has the last stronghold exists in various cities and neighborhoods. your sister barbie reporting from the 11 east capitol they were thank you very much doors and has the

law has appointed a new leader after israel assassinated has on this role the 11 on last month named cassette. and that's his name is a veteran figure in the movement. he served as deputy secretary general since 1991. and we're on con reports from they were born in the south and 11 on in 1953 as well as and you need it. and i've got some steps up from his previous role as deputy to secretary general. inherits significant challenges will domestic political pressure and risk of assassination of by israel. the timing of the announcements, however, is significant, actually is more important than the selection itself. secondary, impulsive in himself, a recent speech said that we are going to elect as a credit general sooner rather than later. so it appears that this is a very, very eminent to emergency situation for has the law to show that there is no leadership. the let known, based as bullet is an organization,

is brutally divided into 3, a political wing, a charitable and a power minute truthful. in many ways, it's more powerful than the states that his power ministry false is said to be stronger than the lebanese army. named golfing is a respected choice amongst hezbollah, supposes but internationally is only seen through one land. and that's the war with israel. and everybody will be closely watching to see what he does next. clues as to his thinking can be found in his speeches, which have been fiery and find. and that may will define his tenure in. we'll tell him how the looks it's left and the solution is a ceasefire. well, not speaking from a position of weakness, if these rate leaves do not one vodka, we will continue the war and almost done. the foot would cease by torques progressing slowly. the questions for the international community are clear, well named carson, who's known for his political and diplomatic skills,

be able to negotiate and then to the conflict. and what will that mean for the future of lebanon and his beloved israel has targeted several senior hezbollah officials in recent months, cousins, predisposed to husband this ro luck was assassinated and loved them last month. and these really government has made clear its goal of the total destruction of the group. and these leaders in wrong con, which is 0. they route the southern owns back on the valley, and the east of the country is clearing up after being subjected to his really air strikes which killed at least 60 people on monday buildings were leveled to the ground in the attack and civil defense teams are working to remove the debris, tobacco valley has been one of the regions targeted repeatedly by strikes since is really intensified. is compartment of level not last month was a to hold or has more from a lot that's in the district about they can eastern level the district of vall book and the car reach an, an eastern 11 on has been repeatedly targeted and is ready strikes since the major

offensive was launched 5 to 6 weeks ago. we are at one of these locations. this is really a very strategic area for has the law. it is um, has been described as an operational base. it is bordering syria, which is really a lifeline for the group. but as of late people here are telling us that as well as focusing, it's a, it's strikes on civilian infrastructure. it's part of a strategy cause disproportion of damage in order to turn the people against the group. so the strategy seems to be conflicts. pain on has the law, but inflict pain on its supporters. the muslim shall community and that's why we have been seeing the strikes concentrated in areas like southern living on eastern lebanon and the southern suburb of bay route. but people here will say that the, this is not changing or eroding supports for hezbollah. people here believe

hezbollah is the only group that is defending them. so this is a community that feels it is under attack, or israel, no doubt, controls the skies. and there's little that has the bullet can do to stop attacks like this. but the arms group is focusing on what is happening along the border, where there is fierce fighting. and hezbollah believes that it's, if it is able to prevent, is ready troops from making, from advancing until 11 on and from making military games. this will give it a leverage and potential ceasefire. negotiations that include their else as ita ball back the to sudan where the humanitarian crisis continues to escalate. the international organization for migration says more than 14000000 people have now been displaced. the bulk of those are still in sedan trying to find safety, but some 3000000 people have fled to other countries. houses there was have

a morgan has more on this from car to the ongoing violence between the signees army and the power military rapids support forces means more and more people here in saddam continued to be displeased. over the past week, hundreds of thousands of families fled from more than 50 villages into zeta state and central sedan, and then in special ed local responders, they says dozens of families have also been displaced. as a result of continued artillery strikes by the parent military are a stuff on the state to open flash, and that's the last remaining armstrong cold in that are for region in western sedan. now fighting is ongoing between disabilities, army and the recipient of the parts of the country as well. so just in the south east, in some not states where the army was able to retake more territories from the recess . now, so down has the world's largest displacement prices and over the past month alone, according to the united nations, more than $50000.00 people across the border intern, neighboring chad from the dark for region because of the ongoing violence,

the current displacement figures tense, at $13000000.00 people display since april last year. that's the largest number of displaced people in the world. and many of them are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. the to for funding how to 8 organizations such as the united nation. and because of the inability of aid workers to reach those in need because of the continued violence, many of those according to the united nations, have been displaced more than once because of the expanding conflict. but despite the fact that civilians remain to be caught up between the hours of i'm the student needs army. slicing does continue here in the capital, have to and elsewhere around the country. he but morgan ologist era cartoon. a russian attack on the ukrainian city of har. keith has left at least 4 people that the mayor says 6 others were wounded and a medical center damaged. our cubans, ukraine's 2nd city and lies around 30 kilometers from the russian border. it has been frequently targeted by airstrikes, is still a head on alpha 0. helpless is the pole security expo in dover. i'll be telling you

whilst if she intelligence is now central to innovations in law enforcement and security, the the furnace terms of data focusing on medicare. i don't know why in particular, but there been significant setting in the city and just outside in the last 24 hours. and it's a repeatable event. in fact, there's a line of shares that stretches, not just from mecca in line, but across the other side, into every tre, possibly pull it, sit down, and you'll notice shelves developing in the normal society in jordan. i'm probably in syria as well. that will carry on, i think of the next day onset of the shows may be quite substantial in eastern saturday with the it's quite a strong winds, blowing down through cuts out in particular with temperatures and headed down to

where they should be. for this time the, there's a federal breeze coming out of the gene into the north of egypt. and those shells going to be slow moving as a drift through syria slurry, tropical showers. at this time the should be going south and they are so sort of public bronco dmc, there's been some fairly heavy weather when you've gotten to recently, these are still the shows up in a few p a and to some degree in somalia and it's been action to the south of that, if you go to south africa in particular, it's been stalling me ahead of it didn't quite well, but that won't been white time from those on beat. now, nothing extreme about this, but hopefully you're going to enjoy the results of that cooling trend, which is cloud and significant right. the marion shaheen and has been making films about since 2006 when i moved there in 2005, since we recovering from the 38 your occupation by israel. people were hopeful that

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you're watching the ultra 0 reminder of our headlines. at least 109 palestinians have been killed in 2 is really your strikes on faith. na here in northern gaza, get tax targeted residential buildings. people are scrambling in the dark to find survivors trapped some of the rubble and is really a strike hit the suburb of higher ed side, and that is on the outskirts of sight and in 711 on the attack killed at least 5 people. ambulances can be seen, russians have a scene to attend to the engine, a name cassandra has been announced as the new secretary general of hezbollah. he had been the deputy leader of the party since 1991. cassandra has been acting head of the organization since the assassination of her son. mister, are locked in september. a 160000000 americans are expected to

vote in this year's election, but the number, the matters for the winter is 270. in a moment i will explain what that means, why the electoral college not the popular vote is what you will need to watch on election night. first though, that's bringing out. sure 0 is james base and a team in washington dc. they are leading our special coverage of the us selection 2024. james. yes. several. hello, and welcome to our rooftop studio in the heart of washington dc. you can see the white house up behind me a week to go now until the photo earlier on today. we explored why the votes of americans living and 7 swing states seem to matter more than the rest of the country. now will examine why some states all by toll grounds, while others have clear widows. that's because of the electoral college system unique in the world. you can get more votes overall than your rival, but still lose if you don't have a majority of of actual college boats. we'll discuss this further with all panel of guess i'm dropped by laura brown and robinson would would when's in

a moment. but the serial i think you've got a little bit more for us now on how the electoral college works. in most democracy's elections are pretty simple, voters vote the candidate with the most votes wins or the party with the most votes wins. and a point is leader to government, but that is not how it works in the united states. instead of voting directly for a president, the americans picks their leader through what is known as the electoral college. and every 4 years we have to remind ourselves of how that actually works. so here goes, there are $538.00 electors for electoral college voters representing all 50 us states plus washington dc. these are people that are appointed by the political parties. a candidate needs house of that plus one to win the presidency. that's 270 electoral votes. that is the key number. what americans are rarely voting for is their state electors. the group of people who will vote for the presidents on their behalf. states have electors based on their population size. so look at this, take

a big state like california this year. it has 54 boats in the electoral college, texas as 40, remember you need to 70 to win. so that's a big chunk. small states, on the other hand, like wyoming, like vermont, have just 3 votes each. most states have a winner tape, or policy electors are chosen based on who wins the states popular vote. and let's take an example of state texas huge state big population in 2025 point 8000000 voters. chose donald trump. more than 5200000 people chose job i'd because texas is when it takes all those millions of votes for biden did not matter. trump on all, 38 electoral votes bite and got nothing out of texas. one other thing to note, every state has to have at least 3 electoral votes, regardless of population size. and this means small states are hugely over represented in the electoral college example. wyoming has one elector for roughly every 142000 voters, texas. if you do, the math has one for around 466000 voters. or what does all of this mean?

it means that throughout history, on 5 occasions, candidates who did not win the popular vote have actually ended up carrying the presidency. that includes famously george bush in the 2000 presidential election, who got fewer votes than his rival, l gore. and most recently, donald trump in 2016, became president with fewer votes than hillary clinton. in every close election, the presidency boils down to just a handful of states around the country. there are 244000000 people eligible to vote . yet it is. these 7 yellow states swing states here, only about 18 percent of the total population who ultimately decide to win the system of state by state winter take whole contest where candidates can win the popular vote, but still lose the election is deeply unpopular. more than 6 out of 10 americans want to see a president when is the most national votes, but that would require changing the us constitution,

which is hard to do an unlikely to happen anytime soon. i as well, we'll discuss the impact to the electoral college. now with all pen lucas to join us and i have laura brown, political scientist and former direct to the graduate school, the pinnacle management of the george washington university. and robinson would, would buttons as an associate professor and the political science department of howard university. let's start with you loud because around the world, there are normally 2 ways that the democratic countries choose that leaders. they all either have a president who's directly elected by all the voters who. busy they vote for political party and a parliament, and whoever would have a political party gets to the top in the election. they have the prime minister. they appoint the prime minister. but us, does it a completely different way away? no other country does take us back to the days of the founding fathers. why did they come up with this very old system? well, so what we have to realize is that the entire us constitution is

a series of compromises. and in fact, the discussion about how to select a chief executive came up 30 different times during the summer convention. they eventually landed on a compromise that looked to balance populous states with small states. what that means today is that we have in the electoral college a balancing of what we also have in congress. a house of representatives that represents people by one vote equals one person and a senate that gives 2 senate votes to each state. so when you look at the electronic college, you combine those, congressional delegations, and that's how you get to the electoral vote number that each state has. so for instance, pennsylvania 19 electoral votes. that means they have 17 members in the house of

representatives. they have 2 in the senate together, they have 19, what this does is mean that individuals, their votes are important through their state, not nationally. and this makes all of our states, the sovereign places of casting, counting and certified the actual popular vote. so robinson, i mean, it doesn't stay the same, does it of the electoral college votes they based on the census and not understanding. now the current figures are based on the 2020 census, but small states us still over represented all day. not that's absolutely correct. the, the us constitution mandates at the samuel census. and on the basis of that just samuel census, we reallocate us house of representative seats and also electoral college seats which follow that same rule for apportionment. it creates an odd situation in which small states, like wyoming, for example, have a per capita

a higher rate of representation than texas. as we just saw. the total college also creates other kinds of dysfunctions or, or male, a portion of political importance. states that have high electoral college vote like pennsylvania and other naturally divided our swing states, which candidates spend an inordinate men, a norton and the amount of time or disproportionate amount of time in. and so there's this sort of creates these hyper local politics. we're democrats and republicans will compete on just a handful of of counties, often suburban counties that are competitive in just a handful of states, and those are the battleground states. i want to bring up one of a little complexity in the system with you lot because most of the states, for example, california is the biggest one, if you wouldn't california and you get all of it. so electoral college folks page 54, but there are 2 of them of probably one more like me to put in this. there are 2 of bull states on that. there is nebraska in maine, where it splits where, where it's not all of us go to, to one person. why is that?

could that be significant this time around? you think so, this is actually about historical development. the framers left it to the states to decide how they would like to choose or allocate their electors in as early as $1800.00. thomas jefferson said, well geez, massachusetts is going to give all of its electors to john adams because that was his home state. i don't want to see virginia give any electoral votes to john adams, so i think we should change to a winner take all allocation as well. should put these 2 states that i've mentioned, the press going main. is there a scenario where they could be important this time around? well, there's a scenario, but it's unlikely. what we have in nebraska is a situation where the uh, congressional district that overseas alma hall is

a democratic meaning district. that is a district that is likely to cast its electoral vote for vice president harris. and what that means is that even though nebraska will give it's other electoral votes to former president donald trump because she will gain one that helps her when the electoral college. if she only secures michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin, in addition to that one vote in nebraska, very, very complicated system. you've laid it out both of you clearly why it exists, but it's not popular. is it? i mean, and we've seen what has happened in recent political memory out. cool, 2001 the most folks, but george w bush. we know it was the amount of ended up there in the white house um, more recently in 2016 and it retents and got almost 2900000 move ups and donald trump. and yet he became the 45th president. i. so one of the survey that sits 63

percent of people at the recent uh, the impulse would like to see this change of the wind up of the popular vote. brothers, why? if people don't like the system, why is it not been changed? that's a great question. you're pointing to a trend of video think receive that emerges may rightful college in which the candidate who wins the most thoughtful college both becomes president or uh, in some cases a plurality. that could be resolved in the white house fairly. but it is not the case that the candidate wins the most votes cast or balance cast across the country actually wins. sometimes we get inversions in which the candidate with the most boot actually loses. this happened in 2016 that happened in 2000. and it's unusual, but it's increasingly popular. mal apportionment of voters across the electoral college gives republicans a slight edge. and the electoral college such that if a democrat is only one percentage point or perhaps 2 percentage points are heading the popular vote, they can still, on average the more likely to lose the electoral college. there's

a slight picked an advantage to repel. for republicans there. this also is why it's hard to change because the republicans are the stake in maintaining a system which makes them more likely to lose. it's possible that donald trump to become president again, winning the electoral college for a while, losing the popular vote. republicans are unlikely to push for such a change, and even so it would require state by state approval, which is difficult. so it's, it's unpopular but it's also really baked into our system. laura, i mean, we talked a little while and you talked about the swing state. so how many folks this would you estimate? we're actually going to decide this selection given this vast country. well, it's very well could be another 150 or 200000 people across all 7 battleground states that make that determination. but i think it's important to go back to something that you said, yes, it is true. we have had situations in 202016 where the person who won the plurality a one of the most votes. they 148 percent. both hillary clinton and al gore. and

it's important to realize 2 things. 152 percent of the popular vote voted against them. so to talk about making a plurality winner, just the winner when the majority actually rejected their canada see is i think important to point out. it's also true that they each only $121.00 states. the electoral college works in such a way that if you do not win a majority of the popular vote, if you do not get to 50 plus one, what that means is it tends to favor the candidates who wins the most states, because each state should be thought of as a separate game, and you must and indeed, when the majority of states, as much as you must win the majority of votes. and so when you have al gore and hillary clinton each only winning $21.00 states when there are in fact $51.00

jurisdictions, if you include the district of columbia, you can see that even if they were the choice of a plurality of the populace, they were not a majority winner robinson, i mean we talked about the swing states and all the attention on them and the candidates spend all that time in the swing states, the media spend all that time this, this almost way, the political discourse and the fact that focusing on the states and the other, no one else in the country get to look at in terms of better issues. i think it does. there are a handful of states, right. and this election probably 7 that will decide who becomes president and the sorts of policy issues that matter and the states have disproportionate importance . michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania, 3 states, formerly predominantly industrial states, republicans have targeted over the last few cycles and done fairly well with lower education. lower wage voters, especially white voters, republican policy, as during campaigns and even after campaigns has favored these voters. for example,

by pushing tariff something that the republican party, a party of free markets used to oppose a is because a handful of states will give disproportionate power to a handful of voters. parties will seek out these motors and move their platforms to meet these voters in the way so it doesn't really reflect the national electorate. it's a kind of videos in craddick system which creates these sorts of just functions. i'm not going to mention one more. laura, i mean, i don't know why they came up with an electoral college number that was an even number, but that is, is that not a posted but i see an outside pull this possibility. but this could be a toy while they yes, there is a possibility, but no one came up with the even number. the even number is an artifact of us having 50 states, which then gives us a 100 senators. and then also having kept our house boat at 435 representatives, so you get to 538 because you also add 3 for the district of columbia. were we to

expand, to make puerto rico or the district or the puerto rico a state you would actually see larger total electoral votes and maybe not an even know very quickly though on that very quickly. what does happen just so i'll be result that is not less hanging that very quickly. what does happen if it's 269 for trump to 6 my the solution put step decision at the house of representatives. but let me just say that we're reaching, having national popular vote that was federally counted. that also means that the president, trump maybe would not have left the last presidential election because he would have been in charge of the final vote. he would have been able to tell his secretary of state mike pon pail to find the votes you need as he attempted to tell governor bryan 10th of georgia. so there is much more security in the system we have now where it requires multiple actors in multiple jurisdictions to certify the

final ballots. robinson and laura to political scientists, but they've explained very, very clearly for us today. out is there a little have comprehensive special coverage on election nights to make sure to join us from 22, g m t on november the 5th? that's 5 pm. east coast time here in the us will have live coverage from across the country with guess and discussion both here in washington dc. and in though ha, that's here on out, is there a 22 g m t on the election day, november the 5th? a bye to several, james, it is great to see in front of the white house. thank you very much for that discussion. was really interesting. listen to all of it was hanging on your every word you a james and the rest of our else 0 team and washington will be leading that part of the coverage on election night. there's more head on this else is 0 news our and will be back after a very quick bring the

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that is definitely going to have to month this impact on iranians daily lives here . this will set it up to 0. data artificial intelligence is the center of attention at the annual milli pulse security expo being held here in the ha or defense editor alex good populace went along to find out about all the latest innovations in security and law enforcement. and how ai is being used a guide to the future of security, and that it's set to auto official intelligence. like humans, a our models uh toward what to look for. the nice thing about i always been that is, you know, you're trying to, to do everything and also it does it very, very well. the mode i'd say you give it the bathroom becomes, it's a bit like humans. you learn from your environments and you know, from what you see here and touch big data, how big gathered, and how this vast amounts of information will be crunched or presenting the previously you told me citizens is now the fine line. many of these companies have to hook,

and it's not just security companies use it. the bad guys i to be using the i as well. so i'm sure you've heard about the fix scans and all these things. and even that for a minute, i using ai to get victims, right. and ultimately in future we bought them up on the most vehicles the vehicles can be used to ship really sick books and so on all even as a weapon. so this is why e, i like any technology, egypt source, secure to applications of multiplying to the rapid evolution, developed efficient intelligence in an effort to keep up with criminal enterprises . now, increasingly high tech, from the cutting edge of law enforcement, the crowd control to predicting crime and gathering evidence a has become a central to. the question now remains will be information the cap is becoming the most powerful weapon novel. alex was helpless. how to 0 minute poll. so that wraps up is news. our own alpha 0 and that's it for me. serial then. yeah, there's more information on our web sites up next to me to bill. it will be here in

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