society talks about the presidency and rule of law at 4:15. on tv or listen on the free c-span radio app. wilford coddington, brooklyn law school at distant -- assistant professor of law. listen to c-span weekly wherever you get your podcasts. >> it is republicans only for the question. we will open it up tomorrow for democrats only in our first hour of the program. welcome to washington journal. one of those former supporters is karl rove, fox opinion commentator and opinion writer in the wall street journal. this is his piece in the wall street journal. the result want be overturned.

change in the margins but never in the tens of thousands. he writes it has been an unsettling year, a virus struck without wanting and claimed over a quarter of a million of lives. lockdowns left us gasping formality. there was snatched prosperity from many families. rocket like recovery lifts up some but gives many on the launchpad. why not finish out 2020 with a miscast election as a finale? he writes that trump is now pursuing legal challenges in pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, arizona, and nevada and there will be a recount in georgia given biden's 2.9% lead. mitch mcconnell is correct that trump is 100% in his rights to go to court over concerns about fraud and transparency. the president's efforts are

likely -- unlikely to move a --,le state from biden's, -- column. the 1974 to half your senate race, 2000 four washington governors contest, and the 2008 minnesota senate election. this, tv by saying networks showed jubilant crowds in many cities celebrating mr. biden's victory. they didn't show people who mourned trump's defeat. u.s. politics remains polarized and venomous. closing out this election will be a hard but necessary step to restoring and equilibrium. the present should do his part to unite the country by leading a trip -- a peaceful transition and letting grievances go. the opinion of karl rove in the wall street journal. republicans only this first hour, should president trump concede?

202-748-8001 if your answer is no. the headline about georgia, georgia announces a hand recount. 202-748-8000 if your answer is yes, 202-748-8001 if your answer is no. [video clip] >> my office will continue to investigate each and every instance of illegal voting. double voting, fellow voting -- phelan voting, people looking at the state. if reported, we will investigate it. every legal vote will count. the next step in the current election process is getting the final certifications in. we will then move to the risk audit or rla.

will makem. today, i the official designation of which race to be the subject of the rla. i would designate that the rla will be the presidential race. with the margin being so close, it will require a full by hand recount in each county. this will help build confidence, it will be an audit, a recount, and a re-canvas all at once. host: that is brad raffensperger, secretary of state in georgia. in the washington post, they write a quote from him. "people are just going to have to accept results. i believe in fair and secure elections. " hasput their swirl that followed trump's defeat, the pushback comes from the little-known but hugely influential state official in georgia.

now he is on the republican firing line on two fronts, a confluence of events. he must provide -- preside over andure's election system, in just eight weeks a runoff for two u.s. senate seats in's which his party's majority is at stake majoritych is party's is at stake. should trump concede? just republicans. 202-748-8000 if you say yes, 202-748-8001 if you say no. go ahead, charity. thing: i think the whole -- i don't think he should and seen i think the whole thing was a fraud. how about the news media dictating to us what is going on? is thet believe this true count. i think the mail in has led us

to a fraud. weak.k joe biden is if it falls into his hands, he will fall into the very left part of his party. this country will go down the drain. believelicans do not this election was on the up and up one bit. i think the whole thing should be redone. never mind recounted, i think we should start all over. people should get up and get out and -- vote. if you can go to the food store, you can go vote. voting by mail has done nothing but make it their way. chris in maryland, good morning. should the president concede? caller: i don't think so. i guess you're asking that on

the premise there are 270 electoral college votes that have been granted to biden. i haven't seen 270 have been granted to him yet. until that happens, i wouldn't concede. on the asking that premise that 270 have been confirmed for by the? because are asking that yes, major news organizations have called the election for joe biden. there are some organizations out there, and i look at real politics, they seem to have a makes of votes. they have them at 259. they have not granted him pennsylvania. that thet ironic battleground states are the states that are having the problem. problemot having a

counting votes in california or oklahoma. it seems to be these battleground states that could go both ways. it seems they are having difficulty getting their votes counted, getting votes -- it just seems very lucky for biden and very suspicious. david in texas says the president -- host: david in texas also says the president should not succeed ceceed.ed -- caller: i find it ironic. 95%same news media that is been vilifying president trump since the moment he was elected. we are talking about the only president in the history of the country that did not get a honeymoon time. the average honeymoon time is

seven months, obama got 11 and that is being generous. the democrats knew this was going to happen. this was never not going to happen moving to unsolicited mail-in ballots. i know there is a handful of states that mail ballots to everybody but they spent years cleaning up voter roads before -- voter rolls before they did that. that is how you get all the dead people, all people who moved and they knew that. like the cares act, that is one reason it didn't pass. they tried to have things like not having signature matching. the democrats are all about doing things that are going to be impossible for it to have a fair election. it is easy for them because they can control voting in the city centers because they are all blue. they are many visiting votes like in philadelphia or pittsburgh. --t in pennsylvania

host: have they shown any evidence of manipulating the votes in the cities? caller: there are hundreds of whistleblower affidavits. forget about that for now. alitoennsylvania, judge has set aside supposedly -- they were setting aside votes that came in after 8:00 on the night -- it isection because only the state legislatures that can make the election law. the state justices can't do it, the state governors can't do it, the city officials can't do it, nobody. they changed a lot of that stuff. pollen that and the watchers refusing through republican the writer to watch the vote, there are hundreds of thousands that fall underneath that category. nonetheless hundreds of whistleblowers.

there is tons of voter fraud. one of the biggest allies pushed by the american media is there is no voter fraud. in this case because of the way the democrats manufactured a case where it is guaranteed to happen, they were out in the streets ready to go and party the day after the election. millions of them out there. no mask, no nothing. were masks but there were a ton of people out in the streets. the at pfizer, they had results and could have announced that a week earlier. host: you're talking about the vaccine? caller: the results of the pfizer drug. host: i appreciate hearing from you, we have a lot of calls. we -- mark says no in maryland. caller: no he should not give in. there are too many irregularities. we don't know how many of them

are proven fraudulent voting. the whole process has been tainted. as the previous caller said, pennsylvania going around the constitution and the and governor resetting and eliminating safeguards for mail-in voting. oughtes of the news media to be what is going on with these court cases. >> good morning everyone. it is an honor to welcome the democratic leader in the senate, chuck schumer. -- ockham, leader mr. leader. -- welcome, mr. leader. words have power, when the president speaks, his words have power. he has set things recently that