the world, my 1st name was thomas newton children in there was charles, sure thing, hang on thing. the world news on the hello, on the side of hired us and we'll continue all special coverage of the selection in just a moment. but 1st is look at the days. news from elsewhere is riley prime minister benjamin netanyahu. her son who's defense, minnesota, you'll have car loans, have been publicly critical of netanyahu's management of the war on garza and called for new will goals. the prime minister's office has announced that foreign minister is wrong cause will re replacing him with the fema named over the past 3 months, corrected the pay between me and the minister of defense, significant gaps in the management of the military campaign. and these gaps were

accompanied by statements and actions that contradicted the decisions of the government and the cabinet. the people i've been protesting in several israeli cities against the defense minister psyche including in tel aviv wester's to them. and also heifer among the demonstrators were relatives of captives that were being held in garza. many 5th removal of y'all have gone, will make it harder to negotiate, to seize fight in the strip. or at least 61 people have been killed across the goal is the strip since tuesday morning is really a talks and bid law have forced many people to 3 areas in the north become a large one hospital that has been hit for a 3rd consecutive day and is ready for us is killed at least 3 palestinians in kubat see on the occupied westbank in a separate incident. cctv couch at the moment submitted 3 vehicle crashed into a call. so just reports of the shot to people inside and preventive ambulance from reaching the scene. a palestinian john list was also schultz and, and just and,

and his riley for, and striking 2 people into boswell. 2 others died during a rage engine in all of this, in the occupied west bank. these really minute years increase its rays on the tax. this is the thoughts of the war on gauze the last year. and his role has also noticed the strikes targeting central and southern areas of 11 on the latest attack was in the town of barza and mountains 11 on which killed 15 people. the lebanese national news agency says the bombing has destroyed 37 towns and more than 40000 houses in the south since september. in spain, more rain has caused further flood damage and once again disrupted road and as travel for su teams in valencia, arrow calling, looking rather for people missing since flash floods swept the region last week at least 217 people have died that well, that's it from the side of height, i'll be back with more of the day's news later,

but for now i'll hand you back to our us election team here in the the for them back to i'll just hear a special coverage of the 2020 for us presidential election, i'm fully back to both of my global headquarters here in doha. the 1st balls of close across the us, 7 battleground states are likely to be attending this election. arizona, georgia, michigan, nevada, north carolina, pennsylvania and wisconsin millions are still voting though, and the 2 candidates come to harrison. donald trump remain neck and neck that go straight to serial vanya data. well, with those 1st polls closing, i'll be getting some results. but we're getting some, so let's fire up the data while we're really entering the interesting part of the evening now. right, so we're in the thick of it now,

and some results are being called no surprise, so far. let's take a look. by the way, we're finding out you and i and all of us together, we're finding out at the same time whatever comes up in this wall that's live. so indiana has now been called for donald trump. donald trump is projected to win the state of indiana 11 electoral votes with 14 percent of the both reporting. here's what it looks like. the red text look out for this means he's won the state. 61 percent of the vote in indiana has gone to donald trump, kentucky is now being called for donald trump 8 the electoral votes. so right now, this is all pretty standard stuff. this is what we expect in those states a so read that can be called super early with 7 percent of the vote reporting. i know it's not very much at all, but again, we expected this state to go red, 71 percent of the vote for donald trump so far in kentucky with 8 electoral votes vermont. 3 electoral votes is blue. it goes to complet harris. also not a surprise, the democrats are expecting to get those votes in the northeast,

0 percent of the vote reported. what does that mean? it means that we knew vermont was going blue before the polls even close. okay, so right now those are the 0, but those 3 electoral votes have gone to complet harris so far tonight. here's the state of the race. we have 19 electro vote for donald trump. 3 for complet harris. look at the map, look at the math, indiana kentucky. okay, these are read, they were expected to go read the have gone read. so for donald trump for team trump, they're really taking the boxes on states. they were expecting to get for a month with 3 electoral votes. i know it's not many i know, but the democrats were expecting couple of hours. so right now, no big surprises. this is where we stand, right? well, we were really just jumping into the interesting part of the evening starting to get some numbers. no big surprises yet, but we are waiting for places like north carolina, and they could be surprised as to and georgia has just closed the best on our radar . north carolina closed in 30 minutes, of course we'll come back to you as soon as you get those results 0. thank you very much for the moment. well, let's not go to kimberly how kate was with the cat harris campaign in washington dc

. she's at the election. i've watched party at howard university for paris and alan fisher's also with us. he's uh, with the trump campaign. and in palm beach from palm beach, florida. we're going to island fisher 1st. right island. so uh, you know, 1st results coming in. no big surprises as sarah was just saying that what's the mood like in the trump campaign? i was very confident they think they're going to do incredibly well. the believe that states that when even considered part of the electrical map for republicans, me wellbeing, play and they're talking about places like new mexico and also virginia new hampshire to they think they can possibly flip those states that will be a few congressional races. who wants to see what the results are from them 1st, and that will give us an indication on whether or not donald trump this vote is rising in those areas, but they are very confident. but yet we still have donald trump, perhaps lane to go more for

a complaint that the election was unfair. we had that in 2016, we had it in 2020 that he said in the last hour or so in social media that he's getting reports of criminal activity in both pennsylvania and michigan. interestingly enough in pennsylvania there. so if you see that is new evidence that anything has gone wrong via and v of ask for evidence from the trump come. in fact, one of the states senior republican said as far as he can see, everything is going the way it should do. and there is no cause for consent. so despite the confidence, it appears that donald trump is essentially hedging is bets. and so if he does lose the election, as some people have predicted, then he is going to claim that it wasn't conducted fairly. and we've had that from him before we have that in the weeks before the election. that the only way he thought the democrats could win was if they cheated, because he believed that they were so far ahead in the polls, particularly. and there was something important swing states and alan, thank you very much out. and fisher live there in palm beach, florida. let's cross over to washington dc and kimberly healthcare with the how his

campaign, how much confidence is there in the house campaign can be the there's an enormous amount of confidence in the harris campaign. because not only is there this feeling of momentum because of a very successful election, the rally that took place until it now be over tens of thousands of people turned out. it was really a crowd size beyond expectation. but there was also this feeling that going into election day that their round game was really going to be the secret to success. what they have done is not only had a record fund raising points of a selection campaign, but that's translated into a really good ground game in terms of the volunteers knocking on doors, holding of bands holding different events to put out signs to make calls to

who organized rides to get people to the polls and they really believe that this is going to be the difference because what they say is that this is a stark contrast is donald trump's campaign and really no comparison. so the feeling is that in this tight race where there really has been a dead keyed and within the margin of error, this is going to be what is going to push calmer harris over the finish line and into the oval office. according to her campaign rights company, thank you very much for the moment. that's kimberly hawk. it would be harris campaign in washington dc. let's check in now on one of our big swing states of the evening, georgia john hendrick is joining us from gwinnett county near atlanta in the state of georgia. uh, we are expecting a press conference. i understand john from uh the secretary j, a secretary of state of georgia, broad rock and spider. about some concerns uh in georgia about voting there. how

has the voting gone there so far? of the well is his predictions the secretary of states are correct or we are expecting georgia to have his record numbers in turn out that he was expecting about 5000000 total, about 4000000 of them voted before today. and this is an example of that whole counting process. now remember that 3 years ago it was 16 days before they called the election here. well, if you see there, there's not much activity in the reason for that is the change of the laws to speed . everything up, if you see those black boxes, and those were the scanners that scanned the votes. the memory cards were taken out of those earlier in brought in to the tabulation area. and then right here, this area just behind me, this is where they were counting a mailing votes. and the reason they're not counting a lot is that they already tabulated all of those that came before today. what they've been doing here is just tabulating those that came in today. and the polls

have just close now at 7 o'clock local, down to by 8 o'clock. they expect to report as required by state was the results of everything that happened before election day. but it didn't go entirely smoothly. there had been a number of bomb threats at various pulling stations. those temporarily delayed those stations close them down. and some of them like one here in gwinnett county, are going to be open for a little less than an hour to make up for that time. so some of those votes are coming in a little late, but the secretary of state here says he expects all of the results to be tabulated by around midnight. that's about 5 hours from now. i should mention that those threats were determined to have been baseless. if they came from rushing email addresses and they're calling it an election interference. okay, thank you very much, john for the moment john henry, and george and, and again, we'll bring you that press conference from georgia, secretary of state when it happens here on alex's 0. well,

it's not speak to rick pro seen who's a call and is that the american prospect and is a historian. focus on the conservative movement is joining us from chicago. thank you very much for being with us. i wanted to ask you 1st about your initial reaction to these early projections. trump wedding, kentucky, and indiana as expected, projected to win, i should say. and harris, vermont. um, are you expecting any surprises? well, the system in america is rather strange. and then of course, we only have the 7 states that are really up in the air. the political map is so polarized in america, and the way we do it is not the popular vote nationwide, but each state gets a certain number of what they call electoral votes. right. so yes, states like indiana and kentucky can be expected to be overwhelmingly republican states like california and my own state of illinois. i can expect to be expected to be overwhelmingly democratic. and then we have the 7 states, for example, ohio,

arizona, georgia, that will decide the election and a so far, all indications are that, you know, these things are very close. but then again, it's very hard to pull all these days because you know, people don't answer the cellphones and the posters usually use these various domesticated assistance, the call models that involve a lot of subjective inputs. so it's even more up in the air. then we've heard it, certainly this election has been described as a unpredictable consequential. we keep hearing it about this vote as a historian, who knows what's been happening all these years. how would you describe this? get taken a vote. all right, so we're looking at a republican party that's become more and more ratcheted in the storage area and break language, anti democratic a direction each election going back several decades now. so you know, campbell harris likes to say democracy is in the ballot. joe biden said that before,

and that really does seem to be the case when, when republicans take over states when they take over the governor's office. and when they take over the legislatures, they do all sorts of things that make it harder for democratic constituencies like african americans and students to vote. and now we've reached this kind of a poppy osis in which the candidate donald trump literally says on tv every day. that the only way the democrats can when there's a face sheet. so he's really kind of setting up this scenario that if he loses, he can kind of weaponized his supporters with this kind of almost a passion spec rage. and in fact, you know, the ways of counting the votes that america right now, our air tight last selection was the most secure ever. and they're kind of trying to create this kind of fog of war that allows them to. so k i. so it's a very dangerous selection. it's very consequential because as you know,

they have in mind you're very extreme changes in how the american government does business, you know, against the tardy and a candidate, couple of harris and the democratic party. they're just pretty much a, you know, normal middle of the road, consensus party in the traditional american vein that they, as indeed being a lot of concern about the way donald trump is, is questioning the electoral process and what might happen if he, if he doesn't win and the fear has also been among many liberals, is that trump, if he were to, when will rule like a dictator, once he gets into office, his former chief of staff is long as running chief of staff. general john kelly described him as a fashion saying that he meets definition of a fascist, and that's how he would likely eval if you were to. when do you think those fee is justified today? always that just campaign rhetoric and i think that's absolutely justified sears. people like general kelly, general milli, these figures in the military take very seriously,

their identity is non partisan figures. so when they say something like that, you have to stand up and take notice they know how the world works. they know how donald trump works. so it's an absolutely legitimate fear and you don't even have to take it from any witness of donald trump. you can take it from donald. trump himself was said to be a dictator on day one and a few wins as promising the greatest ethnic cleansing. and we can only use that word in modern history. 12 or 15000000 on documented immigrants with the use of the military. so we're looking at something that could be quite historically terrifying and calamitous if he wins. but the us has a strong system in place. i mean, the god ray is that where they're in 2020 after january 16th think they will hold as well. um, but one of the guard rails has traditionally been, you know, the interest of corporate a lead, some kind of steady governance, right. contracts that are reliable, and those gar, rails seem to have fallen,

you know, a very middle of the road bank or like jamie diamond, you know, the head of jp morgan, our biggest investment bank, and our biggest consumer bank has thrown in for trump. they seem to be willing to trade the prospect of tax cuts for corporations and rich individuals for the possibility that the society itself is thrown into chaos. we have in the senate and the house of representatives in 2021. after going into january a 6, over half the republican members in some way, shape or form a see that to donald trump's demand that they call the election or fraud. so one by one, these guard rails have fallen by the wayside. so it really is a great, precarious situation. there is no um, you know, kind of grown up. so we're going to kind of raise to the rescue it's, it's really, um, it has to be kind of a bottom up movement of resistance, right? make pro, seem very interesting to talk to you. thank you so much for joining us. rick. charleston is a columnist of the american phosphate and

a story and the focus on the conservative movement. let's now bringing arshad and james, who are with me tonight reacting in and allies analyzing the election results as they come in before we get to these 1st results i just wanted to, to piggyback on what to his story. and rick was just saying that about the god rails arshad he believes and not there anymore. and that uh, you know, in that we could be in from a vet, for a very, to most us time. if donald trump were to reject the results. donald trump famously reject scarred rails. he will test, he will push at the cost of american into the institutions that keep america mostly on a on a career path on democracy. let's talk about examples. the 1st week of donald trump residency institutes of muslim band. the last week of donald trump's presidency, he refuses to see power in a peaceful manner. at last year he talked about the immigrants, were runing the blood of our country, the rhetoric that he uses. yeah,

is disturbing in a democratic system, but people is the 4 seventh's support and will say, oh, that's just donald trump talking. he's not going to do anything really. let's just talk well. so then let me ask, should we take this man who's running for president seriously or not to see if we take them seriously. i think we really have the problem here. if we don't take him seriously, then why should we vote for this man to be our president, right? change to be taken seriously when he says he would use the military, the american military, against people against these precedes adversaries? well, i talked about using the military and the earlier commentary here it was talking about like the illegal immigrants in our country. and what did he do? mass support stations. i don't know if that's like a feasible action to take and certainly there is a lot of concern in america about the legal immigration. we saw, you know, russian interference in georgia as an example, right?

well, of you have bad actors in the world. and so we, we have to start at our border to protect that in terms of the american people have faith in the american. people have faith in the system. you saw governor of my home state, governor kemp stand up to him in the last election. you solve vice president pins stand up to him in the last election, i believe, and i have faith in the system, it will jump loses donald trump loses, we turn the page, we go on to the uh to, to the harris administration, which has its own concerns right, well we're not there yet. let me get your reaction 1st. now then to the, are these early projections in indiana, kentucky as well going for trump, no big surprises there? no, nothing new that no big surprise so far. i would be if we're really to drug drug dunham . this is more states come in. i would like to figure out more about that composition to turn out are a young women turning out at rates that a line was 20?

222020. our young white man and turning out at rates that the trump administration once man, right. these are the questions that we can kind of start teasing out. but again, we don't really have enough information as it is right now. and the states that have come out are the states that we expect the right to names. we're hearing of a huge turn out in your home state of georgia, according to a corresponding day. what would that signal effect? well, typically that looks good for democrats. however, what we've seen in the early voting is that republicans have over performed their early voting total significantly, unloading totals in and rural areas are up significantly. and so i, you know, i'm confident i feel relatively confident that georgia is going to close as a republican when all right, i push back on it because we are looking at the same early vote data. yeah. and coming to different conclusions. when you say over perform, you're talking about 2020 numbers. nobody is building at the rates early as in

20202024, an hour and 2020. with a massive global pandemic that made people vote. most people vote early, and there's a difference of the composition of who voted early. about 3 quarters of democrats voted early and about 40 percent of republicans, but it early in 2020. in the early part, numbers are high, but the proportion of who we think are democrats, who we think our republicans are not where they need to be for. i think for republican, when there's a few percentage higher turn out for world looters. but there is a very high turn out for young women people of color, many of whom voted early, but many more are in lines at the polls. and many of the states right now on a democratic, when in georgia, would be a big upset. it wouldn't be, it wouldn't be for sure. and i stand by it because i've spent time back in my own state this past year and the, the hurricane helene had took

a major toll on my family right in the southeastern part of the state. we were without water and power, we were literally getting water from the pond and bringing water in from the pond to pour it down to the toilet. so you can flush the toilet, you were taking showers out outside with pon water, basically in washing off. i mean, they were doing extreme measures in the federal government was really slow to respond. so there are a lot of frustration pen up in georgia in, in north carolina and were around those issues. all right, well, wait and see what that trans frustration translates into. thank you very much, james and i shot for the moment. let's go back to now uh, jane space in washington, dc. and it states the science you fully and here the vantage point overlooking the white house, i am joined this uh by the i'm the casa who is an associate professor in the school of public policy at the university of maryland. i've also got elizabeth here who's professor with american studies and political science of george washington university, and steve simons from out to 0. how?

so the bottom line is with me now let's um, i think this time, remember that we're broadcasting the world and this is a huge selection, but the world is watching and they don't get about i'm, i can tell you steve, my own conversations throughout this year with a allies of the united states with senior diplomats that they are pretty worried about this selection, like allies or allies because they want america to be with them in their dark days . and if donald trump comes in, nothing political here, the donald trump comes in, that that equation may not work as well. and you're seeing many allies begin to hedge their bets, the beginning, who many europeans talk about national security autonomy from united states. you're seeing a lot of other ships around the world, you know, and i was last in europe and talk the very top european leaders there nightmare is that vladimir put in a rush. it gets a state dinner here in washington. so when you begin seeing that, where the best friends of the president, united states end up being essentially the rivals and enemies of our allies,

there's a real shake up in an earthquake and global foreign policy. and elizabeth, i assume the person who is most water it is lot of is, and let's see the president of ukraine because if you look at where things are in the war and you cry, and yes, he did that daring ventured into cool us getting in in russia, but actually in the don't bus in the east. he's losing ground every single week. yeah, i think, you know, ukraine is a really important issue in foreign policy because there's such a difference between the 2 candidates. we know that harris will likely continue. and kim and she stated she'll continue biden's policy of supporting ukraine. she might even be supporting it further with less restriction is on particular forms of military support. and we know that donald trump has said many times that he doesn't really care. he would support proven, he has said that he would either you know, resolve the issue quickly or let couldn't do what he will. and so there is a lot at stake, especially for ukraine here and the outcome of the election. you know, be what does the solving the issue quickly. i mean,

each team he says he's the great piece make it will move on. maybe in a, in a moment to, to israel's will wrong cause. i loved him, but he said he could solve the problem between israel and the palestinians. it was going to be this wonderful deal. what sort of deal do you think he can do? all of which are got to rush or new cat ukraine of, of an abandoning ukraine's claims if it was easy to sell brand territory. well, i mean, i think that's the answer to the question. i mean, he pretty much said that he is going to walk away from the cray in favor of light of air pollutant and allow him to essentially retake that country. he said he's not interested, and i think when he says i'm going to solve this before i even take office. what he's going to signal is that to russia, you now have free reign in this place. we will not offer the military support, we will withdraw our attempts to bring greater international pressure to bear on russia to leave the country. so i think donald trump has made it very clear where his allegiance is, are in this particular skirmish. and so i think if he is elected,

ukraine is in real danger. and steve, ukraine wants to be a member of nato nato itself. donald trump is not completely the completely started without leaving nato, and he takes credit for nato, you know, being the nato member nations of being their contributions to their security. that's lightning. the load somewhat, but look, i think, you know, donald trump has already said i'll get out of nato. we'll, we'll leave this alliance the most successful life. but i think it's very important to put on the table that a lot of americans strongly support. donald trump's view of the world, this brand of pug nation nationalism sells because they see america playing the role of global. com and the world hasn't gotten them. jobs hasn't solve their economic problems, and they see they fault the cold war. and somehow the china ended up coming out on top. and so in that world we have to figure out why is america playing the role it is around the world. and can someone sell that to americans right now. donald

trump's the 1st major lead a political leader to realize that that relationship was broken and he got huge support by saying we're pulling out of all these places. and if he were to pull out of all those places that what would that do? he cast a lot about trade. what would it do to the us is economic influence. and as you know, his trade policy is somewhat confusing. he is having a protectionist policy. he wants to pull away from a lot of our, by national multilateral trade agreements to really protect american industry, manufacturing, other goods and services. but of course, that causes huge problems for the economy and it can cause huge problems for foreign policy. so each different, you know, state i think he would like to negotiate different relationships with and that can cause a lot of problems, both for trade and the economy, but also for a lot of serious for, and issues you know, be we know what the bite and administration policy has been with regard to israel, it's being to allow israel to continue this bombardment in gaza 114-3000 more than 43000 people killed in gaza in what's coming up to 13 months,

many killed and 11 and as well. i mean, but with the trump policy be, we know he's friendly with ness and yahoo. would it be more of the same or is that perhaps of fantasy and donald trump, i mean we've had, have repeatedly talked about one thing the nobel prize that actually he might put some pressure on these res. i doubt that very much. i mean, he said he's been in constant contact with bridget with prime minister netanyahu. he's pretty much faith finish the job. i think that was the quote, which suggested israel should press on that the levels of military support that the united states is giving. israel will continue, perhaps accelerate that. he does not see withdrawal of israel from gaza, or any kind of piece process as part of the matrix or the for natalie of options that are available in that region. i think benjamin netanyahu would be very happy shit. donald trump be able to claim victory in this election because it essentially

means that the united states will back off and will not be trying to coerce israel to the table. um, to have some sort of piece process. i think donald trump will let them have it. we'll continue our conversation in a moment, but i'm watching the clock and we need to go to north carolina because the polls are closing right now. just closed in the swing state of north carolina, that's a cross over to fill it out in terry nose, color carolina. phil wants to turn out being like that you know, it is being very steady. a lot of people so to daddy like jays. so although we are holding stations out here today, and if i look fairly quiet, that's because the majority of people in north carolina i'd already voted before that i 67 percent of the people i talked to at these. i said, unless you said most of now close, say with north carolina, there are a couple of sites that have been accepted by hoffman hour and nothing major to ride home about. this happens during elections. i've been out in the technical issues to sites with somebody couldn't get a printer to walk out of and the day somebody get

a laptop to watch. so what they do is they just extend by hoffman hour to get people's extra time to get it. but in terms of whether it's right to be comfortable spots, and i think it's when you look at the demographics of north carolina, a side of this site lives in a rural area. rolling areas do tend to, but more republican side of the site is also even jealous of christian. they do tend to vote, will republican elbow conservatively. but also what you said sees in the densely populated cities, charlotte raw, they d'oeuvre, etc. they tend to vote more liberal lines. however, there has been a big shift because a lot of people, like many places in the country, they've been priced out of the cities. are they moved into the cell, both products, those mobile areas. so all of this put play into what we say at the end of the night, and this is a very, very tight race. here i'm going to speak to proceed is one vote. so here we just wrapped in the box. this is a big box party taking place. i'm not going to ask you who you've, i've hope it is quite clear. i dressed up for the occasion like myself. so you're telling me you're 22 years old. so this is your 2nd direction. yes. how different

has it be this year compared to when it was fine because last time we were told it was consequential as well. yeah. so i think, i'm sorry i have to interrupt you now because we have some important news. we're going through several of the dates of all several. james, thank you very much and this is going to have more and more as we start getting the results. and the results are going to populate directly to the screen. i'm finding out the same time that you are so west virginia has now been called for donald trump. he is projected to win the state of west virginia, and that means he will carry these 4 electoral votes. not a surprise. this is what the republicans were counting on. they wanted this, they got it, 2 percent of the vote reporting in west virginia. so remember what we said earlier about a bigger part in georgia. we've moved down to georgia. 16 electoral votes with 2 percent of the vote reported this has not been called. so this is what we have right now. 50 percent of the votes so far going to donald trump in georgia. remember, georgia is one of our 7 battlegrounds that we are watching very, very closely. we will keep coming back to it. we are expecting to get more

significant results from georgia in the next 3040 minutes. we'll keep you apprised that that this is the voting history of georgia by the way. so normally, georgia is in the south. it is reliably red rami wanted in 2012, a donald trump one in 2016. and this was a surprise in 2020 biden. just by a hair, razor thin margin, taking it from trump right, going into republican turf in the south and taking it and putting it in the blue column. it was blue in 2020 for the democrats. so that is something they come to. harris would love to do again so far tonight, this is where we are $23.00 electoral votes for donald trump. 3 for complet harris . can you draw any conclusions from that? no, you cannot. all of this was predictable. and throughout the evening, this is going to go up and down. well, it won't go down, but this will go up at varying speeds. $23.00 foot trump 3 foot harris. that is where we are right now. again, fully, i would caution our viewers and i would tell them to stay with us if only for the fact that we will get more significant numbers from georgia. we expect in the next

303040 minutes, georgia being one of our battleground states that could deliver the weight of sofa and donald trump in the lead in georgia, not so far with 2 percent of the vote for it, which is not a lot. yep, thank you very much, cheryl for now. well, let's check in now with our correspondence in those crucial battleground states. and the moment we'll get an update from terry simple who's in michigan and dave on michigan, that's the city which is home to a big our american population. but 1st we're going to mike honda in philadelphia, pennsylvania at the most crucial springs states of all pennsylvania. talk to us about what is happening, where you are, the latest fit. the low indications are that there has been heavy polling throughout the day in many areas of pennsylvania, particularly in an area like bethlehem at the university, the with weights was said to be up to 6 hours before people were able to vote. so

the voting has been study, it has been largely error free. however, i can be a country that was a problem with the voting machines in the course of the morning. the problem with the software votes and had to be tabulated by hand and food in by hand. the county election board has extended voting in cambria county for another 2 hours now in pennsylvania as a whole. polls are due to close in just on the hopper. now obviously we'll be waiting for the exit polls that may emerge some indication of what ways it's absolutely critical. state is going to go once again, we've said it many times. 19 electoral college votes on of the thing is the largest out of any of the swing states. so pennsylvania, oddly critical, in terms of what part is being forged to the white house, 19 electoral college, forceful pennsylvania. and this is a state that, that trend to blue for decades for that change with donald trump. what are the

issues that are most important to voters in pennsylvania? is that generally the issues that have be nationally positive that economy is on top of most of the photos mines. however, the, all of the issues that have emerged in pennsylvania just as the in other states, the issue of, of. busy ocean for example, has been very high among voters that we have spoken to and get at the end of roe v wade. we also have the issue all the time trumps, at the tire of proposals that's linked to the economy. but many voters that we spoke to concerned about tire of proposals, which they believe and he caught them and say, will be done to the consumer. so price is top of the list here in effect. and what ever action taken by the can to the tools ever show when that could lead to an increase in price is that is the major concern. but we've also heard repeatedly the

issue of civility, saying that what voters are looking for is a more civil disclose within the political next is something that has been remarkably absent throughout the duration of this campaign. all right, thank you very much, mike. mike kind of live in philadelphia, pennsylvania and let's now have to dave on michigan to reasonable is that the economy also important divorces? the but also of importance. and we saw this because michigan became symbolic of a nationwide backlash over present by the support for israel during the war. and guys are also important says foreign policy and, and the us support for israel is there as genocide in gaza, of the well, that's correct. so additionally, the state of michigan, it was part of the state until donald trump one here back in 2016. and then he was defeated by joe biden in 2004. when you put the question now is who is going to win this year? and traditionally,

people here voted for the democratic party. but that has started change in the past year, mostly because of the ongoing war and gaza when you talk to people that are leaving here many a very young re, very frustrated. many are in pain because they're struggling with seeing their relatives back home. not only in the palestinian territories but also in gaza and the situation that is ongoing there. right now, the polls here in the state of michigan have not closed. you have to end up also chosen about 20 minutes. some parts of this space are on central time, so it's going to be an hour later. but where i am right now is in the event a walk she bends where people are going to be waiting for the results as members of the arab american community. here that have organized this event, one of the organizers here is a half and show me how son i mean, or lies are on the arrow of american community right now that could help define who will win this state. i mean, what do you think happened? honestly, i don't know. there's so many people who are,

i know all 3 sides. what has come all? not too many have come all about. some are just protesting kamala, by going to a strong people like myself voted for signed as a protest. vote against the 2 party system is a lot of confusion because i think at the end of a day, although the watch party is not a sound impression because of who wins the american people lose. many of the people who have spoken to are saying that they as you voted for stein, but others are voting foot from don't you fear another trump presidency with what happened? you know, with a muslim band with moving the capital to jerusalem. i mean, aren't you concerned about that? was there to be concerned about after you witness 13 months of horror of a genocide, we watched a live document adjusted on our phones, the babies bolt up into pieces. how much gigs can get. so the people are voting for trump are just thinking, i mean, how much worst can i get? let's take our, let's take our chances with a wildcard dow though, i don't agree with voting for trump, i understand where they're coming from. they don't want us to come all up back in power. they don't want this administration here and you know, i can't wait. thank you very much. so this is the situation here on the grounds

that people would be coming here waiting for those results to start coming out. even though the arab american population represents around one percent of the registered voters in the united states bill. really important bolting block, especially in swing states like but she got again, as i said before, back in 2016 donald trump, one here later on. he was defeated by joe by. and the big question now is who's going to win this time? and of course, or lies are on the impact that the arab american vote will have on deciding who will make it to the white house back to you. thank you very much for that. so that's very simple. lives there in dearborn, michigan. well, it's not just the presidential race, of course, that we're watching very closely, but also congress. they are a number of races that are being going to be called to day for the house and the senate. we'll talk about those in just a minute. but i wanted to come to our shout in james 1st. we heard there from that

young man that theresa was interviewing in michigan about the under the frustration among the american community in places like michigan with the way that this administration has handled the war on guys. do you think that is going to translate into the democrats losing the state like michigan national? and i think that the us support of what's happening in gaza is a humanitarian disaster, a form policy disaster. and thirdly, but importantly, also politically, a terrible idea for this ministration. i spent the last month in pennsylvania talking to democrats and trying to get them out to, to go in and vote. and unexpectedly, just at dinner, i was having a conversation with some of my friends and the next people over. we actually started talking about this. and as a woman who was supporting harris and another woman who absolutely not just like this gentleman that we all saw on tv. and i'm not going to try and force people to vote one way or another. i get that ink or she said that she couldn't support

harris, i just saw a dirty post and it palestinians. and i appreciate that sentiment. but i asked her and i said, do you think a trumpet ministration is going to be better? and i tried to reason with her, and the anger is so much that that's not how we talk about it. but this is what i said and i think sort of works. i said the 1st week of trumps presidency was that most of them my parents are from bangladesh. they're immigrants to muslim. they also travel back and forth. right. if and the 1st week of perhaps the next presidency, there was another muslim band and my parents are traveling back and forth. the i won't know if they're secure or allowed to come back to this country, but he hasn't spoken about the muslim band this summer, or do you think i address them? okay, so i asked her, is this what she want for me? do you want me to worry like this because of a protest vote, and i don't know how she did vote, but she did tell me that gave her a lot to think about much and thought about that. all right, james, what, what would from do differently about the war and gaza if he were to be liked or

they history is the best predictor of the future and there was no conflict in the waste during that time. in fact, jerry custer, his son in law, brokered up, he's still in the middle east during that time. there were complex in ukraine and russia during that time. so, you know, donald trump is an anti war candidate that actually breaks from a lot of republican orthodoxy. right. one of the republican influencers that, that, that i know is a room activist in that space. he actually tweeted something that just caught fire . he said, you know, donald trump will in these forever wars. he will get us out of there and come all a couple of harris is out there campaigning with lose 20 who we the secretary of defense who sent our kids. but how is it going to end that? yeah, go go on. i sure that's cool. we don't know what lives jane he's going to do, or that's pure speculation. no one has said anything along those lines from the harris, the ministration. more importantly, what do you think trump ending wars looks like exact garza?

what do you think it looks like? can you come to crane? he'll be, or the aggressor netanyahu entered and rolling over with us support. there's no other indicate indication, otherwise, i'm not saying that electing come on here as well, and the conflict and gaza, me, i am certain that electing donald trump loan and the conflict in gaza. but when i think about candidates who i don't agree with all the time, which is most candidates, i think about the person who we have room to move to influence to reason. and the only candidate of the people who are running for president on this issue of guys that where you create or anything else is coming harrison this point come on here as did not stop the war and ukraine put in did come. harris did not start the genocide and gaza netanyahu that you cannot be not human leadership did. it was a leadership backend. then you also kind of let him that i'm coming harris. i do have a lot of criticisms about what she did and did not do right. same with bite. and i've been very clear about that. but you can't say that trust for years

a piece was something that he accomplished. i think it happened despite himself. we were and then there were some in around the country around the world during that time. that was the lack of leadership. okay, we're there, smith. now we're in embarrassment now. got it really is a shame. like there's no leadership in either conflict. is that what you see, you see? well, i don't believe i don't see any leadership i so what were reasonable people i knew and i can disagree and i can totally respect you. and i understand the sense that you were expressed and about your family in the muslim band. i appreciate that. it doesn't get to the heart of what the young man who is at this uh watch party is talking about. he's talking about how he voted for jill stein. that was his protest . but yeah, he's talking about how others are switching and voting for trump. and then some are voting for comments. that should have been a block. they the what are those 3rd party candidates like jail? stine, how much is that going to hurt the democratic party? there's always worry. yeah. every presidential cycle of the one 3rd party, another, i think, were traumatized by neater in 2000. i remember that one of those candidates,

whether it's our a or jill stein, have really taken off a great deal. i am worried about what's going to happen in michigan with that block of voters there. but just fine has not been a substantial or very serious candidate and not amongst the american public at large. but not even amongst progressives. she comes once every 4 years out of the woodwork. she doesn't run for any other office. she's never won anything substantial. and many of her positions are on serious. so she doesn't really catch fire, except sometimes you'll have some groups of people casting protests about something to think about something to worry about, but not something that is a systemic, large scale worry. all right, let me get your reactions and to the early results were getting from places like georgia, not definitive a force, but donald trump in the late that not a big surprise maybe. or do you think we could be in for a surprise and joyce? well, we got to take a look at what's coming in. you'll see this dynamic off, and it will come in state after state after state urban areas urban core as well.

awesome, well sometimes report later. and that's where many of the democrats are and as a, as we've discussed earlier, a lot of the rural voters are in the smaller counties. right. so it matters the 2 percent that have reported in i can pretty much guarantee that's not atlanta and the suburbs is probably not the black belt in southern southern center, georgia, savannah athens. those are where the democratic voters are. so 2 percent, you can't really do anything with that information that yes, james, what do you think your state is headed? i think that they're entering toward a trump victory there. but i would, i would caution that you can't make projections based off of these early numbers is a good indicator for trump, because it actually, inc, looks at, you know, some of the early low tallies and something on a level. and, you know, get off the boat for it for him so far, but that will get closer as you do count in, you know, cobb county and all of the central counties around atlanta, savannah, augusta, macon,

the windows votes come in. it typically narrows my early days to write fairly gentlemen. thank you very much for the moment. so as i was saying earlier, so much of what any president can do in the white house depends on congress and their congressional races. also happening today. uh, i already, i spoke to melanie sounds very, who's a us house democrats seeking re election to mexico's new mexico's 1st congressional district. that's new mexico, not mexico, the country. she expressed confidence that americans were ready to turn the page on the trump era in the white house as well as in the us congress. yeah, well it's important to understand that not only is there a democracy and our national election with respect to the presidency on the line, but control of our legislative branch. so we believe that we will take back the houses, democrats, and we will make speaker jeffreys the 1st speaker of the house to serve our great nation who comes from african american heritage. and that it will be

a huge waterside for a country because it not only means we can restore roe vs wade and voting rights and address the issues that so many americans care about. but that we can partner with the white house when calmly harris becomes presidents. a health may occur agenda or reality, whether that's how it was in dealing with income inequality or helping working families. well, i think that most americans, every day issue is kitchen table as to the, the costs of housing. that's the cost of groceries. but what is driving people to the polls and to vote is our democracy or fundamental rights and freedoms. our ability to make the decisions about our own body. it's about the future of this country, whether or not we'll have an autocrat, really the united states, or whether we'll continue on the path of having strong leadership like we've had with president biden. and i think it's very clear that the american people are

poised to reject donald trump and his autocratic message. all right, let's not go live to georgia. john henderson is in gwinnett county near atlanta for us with the latest edge on i understand that there was a press conference a short while ago about the voting in georgia. what did it reveal? that's right, and your, your election officials say there were 32. i'm threats over the states and that they responded to them. they were apparently, according to the secretary of state, russian election interference emails. they came from russian addresses and calls. so they've determined that none of those threats were credible. and so they closed down a number of precincts where there was voting for a short while just some of those precincts are staying open about an hour or so late in order that people can get their vote. see if it hasn't really disruptive the process at we are also expecting that they might have hit

a record in the state of georgia. that's what the secretary of state's office was saying earlier today. 4000000 people voted before the election about 1200000 more were expected to voted today at oregon, and they are mailing ballads in, so that would be a new record for georgia. and i talked to the election supervisors act manifold. right here in gwinnett county, which is in atlanta suburb. he said they definitely get a record here. he said there were 419000 people voted here and that the previous record was 4164 years ago. so there's been heavy voting activity, some efforts to disrupt the election by all accounts. very, very high turn out. and there are no major problems here in georgia. we expect to get the 1st results in as few as 10 minutes by law. they are required to report those votes that came in before election day. and remember that's about 80 percent

of them we if we think by an hour after the close close. so that could come very very soon and we expect to give you a little more. ready in the next hour. okay, we'll check in with you, of course, when those results start to come in, in georgia, john henry and for the moment, thank you very much and speaking of results, let's go to our data wall with sales on you. because you might have some more info in the next hour, you're going to be hearing for more than john. you're going to be hearing from very many of our correspondence because 19 polls are closing in the next 9 minutes, right. at 19 votes. 19 states carrying a collective $171.00 electro both. so that's massive, not only because it's 19 states out of 50 plus one, but it's also a $171.00. electro bows out of 538, both in the electoral college and out of 270 that you need to get to the white house. so you will, you do want to be watching your tv in a night minutes. when those polls close will start getting numbers for some states pretty quickly, some states will be called immediately, other states,

it's going to take a little longer among those, the most important, of course, the one we're watching most closely. everybody really is pennsylvania 19 electoral votes. it is one of our 7 battle ground. it is the biggest of the battle ground. so we definitely are interested in hearing from pennsylvania as soon as they start providing numbers. georgia, where are we in georgia, another battle ground state polls closed there, a little under an hour ago, 3 percent of the pool of the votes reported. and that explains why these numbers so far. they don't really tell us where the state is headed, but we're gonna want to keep looking at them right now. donald trump has 60 percent of the 3 percent of votes reported. right. okay, we're going to keep looking at this 16 electro votes that play in georgia. that's very important. we'll keep going. pennsylvania, as i just said, opens and i'm looking at the clock in the close is rather in 7 minutes. okay. so i wanna explain to you why pennsylvania matter so much and give you a few facts and figures about pennsylvania that you want to have in mind in a couple of minutes time. pennsylvania is right up here. it is part of the democrats, so called blue wall. it is worth 19 electro votes that makes it this year's biggest,

electro, pri, as among the swing states, many observers believe that it could be the tipping point state. the place at either side must when, in order to claim the white house of pennsylvania was blue for decades. but that changed with donald trump. in 2016 trump smashed the democrats so called lou will winning pennsylvania by a margin of 0.7 percent. just 44000 bows out of nearly 6000000 costs, so yes, it was a small margin, but he took all 3 states, and the blue wall in 2020 joe biden slipped to back. the margin remained razor stained about 80000 votes and you can see 50 percent of trump's 48.8. let's get familiar with the math because we'll be looking at it throughout the evening and 2020. the math looked like this right 2020. the map looks like this. the big blue areas in the east and west or philadelphia and pittsburgh all the red in the middle is mostly rule, much more friendly populated, and a lot more. as you can see,

republicans in the state as a whole. in 2012 voters from these 3 counties, eerie loser north hampton switched from voting for democrats to vote for donald trump, who eventually won the presidency on election night. keep a close eye on erie county up here in the northwest corner. this is the definition of a sweet county. it is the swing is county in the entire country, right? blue, red, blue. it could offer an early clue to the statewide result. so we will be looking at, at the options your results team will be looking at it. last thing for now, pennsylvania election officials cannot process mailing votes until election day, but now most counties are required to work around the clock at to count those ballots without stopping after poles close. so fully, that's where we are looking at the clock again. 4 minutes. yeah, 4 minutes before we get it. so down your close is also the biggest thing for us to remember. pennsylvania is the biggest price, $19.00 electronics. we might not know when the pulse cause of course of any and my

towards that it will start to know as the so thank you very much, sarah, for the moment. i'll shut in, james, let me come to you now. anticipation building now as we get to uh, what is one gmc and those 1st falls starting to goes in those big states. crucial states like pennsylvania arshad 1st. what are you looking out for? what are you waiting to hear? turn out. yeah, i want to know who is turning out. we're not going to know that right away. still, but we get an idea. uh, based on does philadelphia turn out, does it hit the numbers that we need? and as such as philadelphia, recently puerto weekends, of which there are nearly half a 1000000 more than half a 1000000 puerto weekends, i believe it is in pennsylvania. that's a huge voting bloc. puerto ricans have been incense by comments from down donald trump's last rally. now we have valley where a lot of them are located. this is a region that doesn't always have the highest turn out, but this is the kind of thing that takes people from an edge. maybe they're going to vote, maybe they're not going to vote to come on and vote as

a show of support for their community because they see that the presidential candidate is attacking their community for it is okay with that being attacked. and that's a pattern of behavior. sometimes donald trump will motivate to turn out communities just by what he does, what he says. so we'll see some of that possibly in pennsylvania. and of course, we've got huge communities of color and philadelphia as well as pittsburgh. if these groups of the democratic coalition turns out, we can turn pennsylvania blue, we can keep it right. all right, james. our shot is looking at the turn out in places like pennsylvania. what are you looking out for as these bolts close in just a few more, 1st of all, the economy, and that is the top issue. i believe it's affecting all the constituencies across the board. everyone can see inflation, everyone can feel it. everyone can feel the rise in energy prices. pennsylvania is an incredibly important state for energy as well, because they said on a pipeline site, it could be valuable jobs. and it could be, you know,

domestic production. instead of sending dollars to vladimir putin and buying oil from russia and other bad actors around the globe, we can have a pipeline to piece. the binding ministration has blocks that people were upset about that you gotta look at the jewish population. so you've got the governor there who uh who a snob, the bed. and part of the reason why he was not josh repair. who is going to be cuz picks may be as a part of this as repeat, but that didn't have part of the calculation. there was truth purely around the idea that, hey, you know what it's going to bring up because the issue much more than look at the college protest missile getting it was ground 0 for a lot of profit protests around this. i think a lot of students are really frustrated and not happy with the leadership that they seen on this. and then the last one i would note for you is, you haven't ahmed, she boat, which is very quiet. they're disconnected. they're not, they don't have a um connections to tv or social media. so they're missing a lot of the commentary that happens all the time. but they're turning out in

droves from my understanding from the early building past. i do agree with that, which is just at the ash i inches. yeah. i, i spent almost a month, it's like a site in pennsylvania and one of the places i hate as my alma mater university, pennsylvania. and these are students that are motivated to turn out. i stopped by an early vote place, which is sort of deeper in the community, west philadelphia. and you still saw these students turning out right now in pennsylvania. i'm hearing of course that there are lines. there's lines long lines, even though there was quite a bit of early, but it turn out. those lines are in philadelphia, right. is exactly what this is also state. what kind of harris has struggled a bit on the issues, especially an issue like cracking, she slipped, going back and forth. so it might not be a done deal for it that i produce. and i'm not particularly happy. what do i slip on on fracking guys? i, i, i would say that we, we produce actually so much energy that we don't buy any oil from russia, especially right now we produce more energy than we consumed through fossil fuels.

that's not necessarily where our future is headed. i do wish harris will a bit stronger on that issue, but it's not an actual substantial difference because and the do candidate might weigh more weight and see what happens in pennsylvania. thank you. german both for the moment, james and our shots. thank you. the it is one g m t and you are watching ology or a special coverage of the 2020 for us presidential election. i'm fully back to your life, my global headquarters here in bill ha. the 1st result was, have been voting in and they have been no surprises. so far vermont has gone to come. the how is while west virginia, kentucky, and indiana have gone to donald trump. poles have just closed in the.