the, the, the rest of the, the news alive from the land. we're covering the us elections, obviously a boat sofa leading to donald trump and other republicans. and very hopeful that we're going to have not only a larger majority in the house to make my job easier, but we re take the senate and the white house as well. the so is that what is really going to happen in the next few of it's going to be

interesting. i'm going to expand it to welcome to the especially the coverage and helping us answer this question and look at the next few was providing perspective and context. and john, as the table by us who pub panel, they call the police to my life is going to be paying particular attention to the results that are coming in. exactly. i'll be keeping an eye on the numbers as they come in right now. everything hinges on the battle ground state of pennsylvania. of course, whoever takes that has pretty much the only chance to make it to the white house at this point. and i'll also be keeping an eye on the questions coming in on youtube. so if you're watching this on youtube, feel free to pose your questions in the comment sections and i'll make sure to raise them to our panel. i'm just mentioning that be, follow the associated press when it comes to declining the results and effects are guidelines. exactly. that's what we do and to my left is a steven a betsy who is part of the us election team here at dr. vela and over the past few months a year been following every tristan tongue in disclose me for a relationship and keep up with them in this not all we want and all waiting the

stage in which it looks like uh the res frivolous. donald trump, but it is when a full blown confusion said, of course, we can't say that it's a foregone conclusion. nothing is a foregone conclusion. they're still counting states. we wait on a p, as you mentioned through declare that a state has one. we know that other networks in the us have declared that pennsylvania has gone to donald trump, and that would essentially seal it for him. we know also that he's leading in the states, that's kind of a harris considered her blue wall states that she really needs when pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, it doesn't look good for her there. so nothing is a foregone conclusion, but we can make a pretty strong educated guess. about where this is going, we're going to bring up a map and just sort of at all to these potential combinations. but before we do that, it's just web app pointing out that we have another x pad on up. i mean, literally providing us context, the historical context and putting these rays within the context of modern us connections. jessica, you know, hatched from the free university head,

berlin and your chair of history over there. so be interesting to hear your tags on the historical context over here, but maybe we just put up a map and see where we are at the moment they would exactly. let's look at where the country stands at this point. many states have already a count called the race. we can see the map of the united states, their real quick let's see of our technical team can pull that up, but you're becoming a focus over exactly there we see it. well, that's not the map of the united states, but it is where the re stands right now. the e p has called 247 electoral college votes for donald trump that put them significantly closer to the magic number of 270. we're, we're, you know, it's 538 votes that, that, that are up for grabs. and $270.00 is of course, the, the, the halfway point there. and it is what the candidates need to get the majority and

to secure their path to the white house and fully increasingly difficult for complet harris to actually get to that to that number she would have. and stephen already mentioned that there she would, i have to get all of those uh those rust belt stays the blue wall as a so we need to be really good of the technical team can put on the headway map with the internet. so we can talk through what the rust belt is, is essentially the states in the, in the northern part of the country right uh, with all waiting and waiting for it for this not to go off. and there it is, actually the former industrial heartland of the united states, pretty much in decline since the fifty's. and that is when we seen those, you know, the, the demographic shift and also voting behavior shift. it's what you see in, in light red of there, right? now is because with the vote count as it stands, it is leaning republican in those 3 very crucial battleground states of pennsylvania. michigan and wisconsin. come on here is would need those 3 states really to get above the 270 threshold without pennsylvania,

especially there is no way for her to make this right. and the reason it looks like read is because in the accounts of the moment, correct me if i'm wrong, the republican body seems to be in need. but this is justin need. it hasn't been called as yet. and it's interesting and this maybe i can bring you in on this jessica. we're talking about these roster of states, but they're also called a the blue water. and with a reason, because since 1992, these 3 states, pennsylvania and michigan, wisconsin b a. m i w i as initials on the map, they have generally gone the democrats way, but uh and donald trump done them in 2016, but then joe biden won them back last time 2020 this time it could be a different story. i will see, i mean, one of the things about the states as of course, that there are more diverse and we tend to believe not only in terms of make up, but also in terms of living lot of people in rural areas and a lot of people whom we would consider swing voters because they often don't vote

or they were a little bit. and that extra liked to hear your opinion on this as well. um, but i mean, this is all i can really say about this. the russ spelled, used to be for historians kind of this solid entity that you wouldn't even have to double check and provo, why it wasn't solid democrat? well, for one thing, for one reason it is, is because of its location and, and because it's, it was, it used to be working very much run by working class. it was the industrial part of the united states and, and for another because there was a lot of poverty in the states. people who identified more with the democratic party and, and believe more in federal government on a more, a stronger federal government than it used to be the case of my republican voters. and so i think these, these, this pretty much used to hold for a long, long time until the end of the call or when kind of everything got touched up in the air and drove lasers and came into the station and security. the economy took

a turn and many other things as well, but it's, it's really like and so many other things that we've been talking about here tonight since the 19 ninety's. a lot of things have gone completely different way and much as much as we have said that foreign relations never, never matter to americans when they go to war, but it is the end of the cold war. there is something happened in the 1990s on your flo position. so yeah, as we really know, it didn't have known it for the past to be able to assist the irony of this whole economy argument. right. and we talk about it as if it was kind of conserved within the borders of the united states. when really we're talking about a global economy and everybody's gas tank and everybody's wallet is affected by over concerns. i'm it just, that's not talk much about and decently computer system is, i mean the aspect of globalization because that in 2020 as well. but then these 3 states went to a to bite. and so what was different then? it's hardest single any one topic out or any one area and say,

well that's really what made it or that didn't play such a role. it could be that other issues play the major role or more important role that time around. but what we do see, as just was saying, is that there are trends that do stay the same for these kind of states and their concerns that generally have really come to the forefront over the past few election cycles. and with these states i would add, especially with michigan, you have a strong union vote of union labor which is traditionally aligned with democrats. and that's why they've been able to count on michigan in particular. and also pennsylvania to a degree, wisconsin, very rural. as you mentioned then you have these blue spots of milwaukee, which is the capital, very big city. and then you have madison, which is home to the university. we often see university college towns as blue spots and otherwise red fields. so it's never, it's never been a blue sort of washed blue kind of field in the states. there are a lot of traditional conservative voters. and then you also have maybe traditional democratic voters who now feel maybe

a bit more disappointed in the politics are disappointed in globalization. and donald trump, trump speaks very much to that. so you've seen that democrats have struggled to get those votes that they used to get that kind of uniform union vote that at one time could count on. it's not really there anymore. okay, just to jump in there for a 2nd. because i think the role of unions here is, is very interesting, isn't it? do you think the fact that that units don't have the, the weight anymore to pull people to the polls for the democrats is because the working class has turned away from democrats, or because unions don't have that social standing in, especially those, those rust belt states anymore. yeah, it's a really good question. i can't speak to it. exactly. it is a, it is a fascinating question. i would argue, or i would imagine the union, the leadership, we often see them still a lining, or there is a strong pull towards democratic politics. but that doesn't mean that they're going to carry their voters, as you alluded to, doesn't mean they're gonna carry them, perhaps as solidly as they once did to one particular candidate. and we see that there is a very strong appeal, actually for donald trump is

a candidate amongst many of these workers because he speaks to that, the real gripping concerned that this heartland manufacturing, that's a concern that speaks to develop nations everywhere here in europe as well. that manufacturing is disappearing, manufacturing is disappearing. there's something very emotional about that. and so many voters, they, they, uh, they hear that from donald trump and they may not heed the cause of their union. in this case, we have seen other unions that have supported him or that have stayed out of races because they know that their membership is torn and they don't want to put themselves in a difficult position. can i talk to them before and just just just sort of view as no, they're watching the the visuals on the, the top the they've got those visuals off from the trump watch spotted in palm springs where we are expecting donald trump to speak at any moment oh, we do have a correspondence in the area and we hope to sort of bomb in palm beach. sorry. uh, i said, palm springs uh incorrectly. we do hope to be able to speak to our correspondents

who is in the vicinity of that. but then uh, back to uh, the discussion here jessica, you want to just sort of yeah, do things. um, one is talking about the states, your original question going back and forth. what matter is increasingly in these selections, i think we really have to rep or a heads around that. it said it doesn't really have matter. always what happens, but what people believe happens. and in these particular states, i think people turned to the democratic party because they felt that the things were not going their way and know they've been disappointed by the democratic party. and so they go back to forwarding, right. the other thing i wanted to say is in terms of, you know, working class behavior, there is not really a working class. the transition in, in, in the, among these constituents, they overturn in terms of make up and in and, and age. and, and as mississippi is tremendous,

that is to say somebody whom you would call work in class in 2020 would not necessarily be in that group anymore. 4 years later or they wouldn't be middle class with me. i mean, middle class concerns. they wouldn't be, but that might also change the way they vote. because as soon as they call themselves a see themselves not as lower middle class and more, but as middle class that might seriously impact where they're going politically. and they can go both ways because they would come to come to an interpreter or business person who liked this person in florida. and we just started about, um, believes in his own power to kind of shape his live or they can go democratic because they become an educator or because they feel very strongly about the international economy based on what it is that they sell or produce. i'm just interested in a particular issue is difficult about that, but that determine which way people are voltage and in this thing and they're all spelled in pennsylvania. for example, if i'm not wrong pennsylvania, have you just have the highest increase in groceries, grocery prices in the country? is that something that is

a typical kitchen table issue that the cuts across the middle class or the working class as one related literally a kitchen table issue. yeah. the that is we often refer to this, you write, we offer for these kind of kitchen table discussions that families have. it's kind of ideal voter sits down with their husband or their wife. and they say, well the bills are, how are we going to make ends meet? can we say these are the t, as in other figure, bread and butter terms that people really talk about when it comes to elections? who's going to lower my bills? who's going to make things more affordable? and i do think that did play a major role this time and a lot of economists, they look at the, at the us economy, they say from the figures, everything looks really good. it's improved far more than other developed economies . how far more than germany has, which is his own special case. but the, if you look across here, if, if you look across the you, if you look across develop patients, the us has really bounced back strongly, wages have gone off after a couple of hard years. but that's not necessarily uniform. and there's also a felt as jessica mentioned as well, there's

a kind of felt expensive in this to life. right. so maybe your wages are caught up . you also lost a bit in the past 2 years. have you caught up to that? did your rent go up? is that also included and allowed is macro of figures that economists are looking at say, well, actually, you know, the economy is doing pretty well. but if at your kitchen table, you said, you know, i used to pay this much warrant using, i'm paying this much, then it hasn't really done that. well, another point, boeing, if you look at the stripe is just been going on. they just agree the union agreed to a deal. now they're getting a whopping pay increase on paper 38 percent over 4 years. their wages are going to go up in any one of us is going to look at that say, well, 38 percent. that's amazing. they were not accepting 35 percent like a month earlier and 25 percent because they looked at the past 10 years and they said we lost so much that 30 percent looks good on paper. but look at what we lost as prices were going up in our pay, wasn't doing anything. so they were still kicked off about that. and i think there is still that kind of feeling in the electorate of we lost a lot even if we come back a little bit we,

we continue this because our focus is now turning to donald trump and the republican party. donald trump is expected to address his supporters at the convention center. now his home in palm beach, florida. that's live visuals. are you seeing the from palm beach? this is where the trump campaign has been holding its election watch faulty, as both accounts continue to come in from across the country. and trump has already won 2 of the coastal swing states of georgia and north carolina. u. s. broadcast, as are also saying now that from pres one, the state of pennsylvania. right? but we're still waiting on confirmation from ac before we call it. richard walker, chief, it's less than editor, is at the trump watch spots. let's go across to or richard. you can don't see us yet, but we can hear you. we can hear the excitement behind you. does that. we're going to try and get to richard. i've been told that we are going to be able to decide this is the way that you all reject the we all we can finally see you

a side front at the front porch. bossy. is that a fair way to describe it? i've been here on um yeah, so this is basically, this is turned into a huge celebration to face event. so we're in little havana in miami to close the main city in florida. donald trump is about an hour and a half off up the road in palm beach, but he's going to invite you to the international media. there's a lot of domestic media and one or 2 international media that, but mostly is. and that's what we do on the outside. we came down to miami. we've down seen here in the to have on a, this is what's turned into a huge celebration at a local cuban restaurant by the roadside. and the mood here is being kind of like on the only main added time really properly accessing within the last 10 or 15 minutes off to fox news. so the conservative tv channels didn't just cool pennsylvania from uh,

but it was so just told the entire election as in sand full down. the top of that is just said the move here pretty much into the stratosphere people being driving past home from the chance of usa usa increasing through the evening. so that's the mood here on the streets a little have and the right number s. and you've been talking to people that what today is cry, but this performance by donald trump to of the well, i think, i mean, we can pick up a little bit. i was just listening to you guys to hear about the economy. and i would agree with stevens assessment, that installation is very much, i think, one of the core issues that is driven face victory over time. and it's something that everybody here pretty much mentions the fact that prices have increased so much in the last few years. and even though inflation has tapered down in the 66

in the last year in the hospital, so still people every day they go shopping, they find something that costs more than you used to. and these types of sensors sticker, so he's and hook pick up on the fat expression. you guys are using to sell your dinner table conversation. a 100 percent. that did people go home every evening and they talked to very significant other women saying, did you see how much x coast these days? do you see much and how much, why costs these days? and i think what then makes these even more of a kind of a, a, an issue that ignites the frustration is when they hear the administration saying, well, the us economy is doing so much better, and so much better than the other economy. they look at those prices and things, well, you're just not being honest with us. so they didn't feel that there is a kind of a disconnect between what the government is saying and what they feel as a daily reality. and i think that is something that you hear not just to me at

miami, among republicans, is something that is fueling frustration across the united states. and i think is a big positive terminal, a big 3 here. and i think it's something that you're seeing in many countries that are being affected by this high inflation. that was a close probably to take it during the pandemic. i think you're seeing as a n t incumbency political partly or so in germany, another country that is being hit by that in place of ritual. thanks very much for that. i'm showing and come back to us through the course of the evening. but let's just take our view was to washington, where washington bill to j e. n. s. bone joins us on the line is i don't know if you've got much of what we were talking with the richard the but the rest of us talking about inflation and price rise. and how uh, when it comes to ordering both those, they particularly feel the pinch of the price rising, but it's something that potentially is working in the republicans favor. what does that say about the harris campaign?

why has it not been able to convey, but the economy generally is better and therefore voters and potentially vote for the democrats. yeah. as much as i just explained and also your guess at the table. you know, you don't feel good when you go shopping. when you pay the bills, it's skyrocketing everywhere. so that was really a problem of the bite and administration kind of to really bring this good news across and the way so that people believe them. and i, i think what analysts will say, tomorrow morning when the united states wakes up to president a to the next president, donald trump said, come a lot. harris wasn't able to distance her emails from the by it. and why tell us which was seen highly critical by many, many americans also actually by many democrats, of course, you only had like 106 days to kind of a stablish her own. take her own

a policies. but she was very careful, very kind, especially in the beginning to not come across as to critical this, her former boss and that of obviously really backfired to date. would have made any difference if she had been in this campaign from day one or the other issues, thoughts they didn't, didn't matter when she started campaigning. well there's, you know, um, i think it was has been totally different. uh is joe biden would have said also the mid terms, 2 years into his presidency that he would not run again. and then the democratic policy was if at a time and a profit process a to find the next presidential candidate was proof of primaries and not just kind of announce kind of the harris as a joe biden successor as many people so many democrats of and of course many republicans think this is not really

a fair and transparent democratic process and that definitely was a problem for come with a hers is coming to hers, which has been picked up as the presidential candidate after the midterm. she of course, would have had time to develop her own strategy. she would have had time to find better answers to the other. a huge topic which is immigration. it's on the one hand, inflation and the economy. but on the other hand, it's really the topic of integration, which we heard of people talking over and over again. but indeed she did just not have enough time to develop her own program. i just want to take a step back and let me ask you about the mood in a d, z. i generally don't like asking questions about mood, but this is all about more today. is we assume that the race has it originally been gold and it'd be hasn't get called a pennsylvania in favor of from so we have a seat waiting and officially the word of that. but is that a mood developing in washington dc that the democrats have lost this to?

yes, of course, because there is no pos to win for come with harris. i mean, i don't call it, we wait of course until if he calls it. but it is absolutely clear that donald trump warehouse coconut phrase that bearish without calling it a win. but it's very, very likely that donald trump will become the next president. i was at howard university, the recommended coming to her as was supposed to give her victory speech. and the newest bro with that is going to be very unlikely that she will, of, in this election and people left people cried students cried, we talked to them, they said, how can this happen, that someone who kind of is so race is done. so mazata is that he will, that he will be winning this election. so the more the, at least in the democratic part of this town. and in this whole country i shall say is of course, wary. very dock is not just the presidential race that belong in the united states

and today it's also the senate and the house raises. it does appear that the senate has been called in favor of the republicans. republicans have a majority then now. and when it comes to the house, the republicans are leading that as well. we're looking at the republic and clean sweep now. very, very likely. uh indeed, and i'm glad that you're asking about that because we have a tendency to focus a little bit too much on the presidency on the question. who will own the why tell us, but it is very, very important for president to be able to govern really, to bring his leg his politics afford to have the support of the senate and the house, or at least one of the chambers. it's donald trump, not only when suspended, but also how the house and then he has like the majority of, uh, rather conservative judges in the supreme court. he has a lot of power. he,

his power is nearly unlimited in this country. so, but at the moment, just indeed it looks like that, you know, thanks very much for the time being. i'm sort of going to come back to you soon. i are right. if you're just joining us, the, this is the, the news, especially the coverage of the us collection. and we can see donald trump is that f is once poverty, and we're expecting he will address the crowds in a moment. it's worth pointing out. they've come to her as was also expected to address her supporters in dc, but then that was cancelled. and that was spotty of best to have wrapped up maybe just quickly before he actually takes to the microphone because we talk about pennsylvania. and it has just just been being called by the associated press. and that does not put him across the threshold of $270.00, but once the state of alaska, with the 3 electoral votes,

it's called you will officially across that magical threshold and be declared. the president elect the united states, just 3 electoral college votes away from the presidency. and you can look at that together. you have on our springs and the top, but right on that the have is most haven't moved in a while. and trump has just interest closer to 270 s 267. and we are expecting donald trump wind speeds in a moment to see his family. there are gatherings around him. it's important to highlight things to work on nature of this moment. this would be the 1st time a convicted felon would become president of the united states of america. and donald trump, destiny as well. i mean, this is the president who was nearly on the margins of the republican party off the 2020 loss and the of the interaction at the capital. nice started way back to the head, the country most likely because they're still not pulling the race. we're still

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we're thank you all very much. this is frankly, this was, i believe the great is the political movements of all time. there's ever been anything like this at this time. i know it's going to reach a new level of importance because we're going to help our country hills that help our country here. we have to be very badly. we're going to fix our borders, where i gotta fix everything about our country. we mean history. and the reason is going to be just that we overcame opposite goes that nobody thought possible. and it is clear that we've achieved the most incredible political say, look what happened is that

the country is never seen before and nothing like that. so i want to thank the american people for the extraordinary honor of things like 4745 for you, for your family. use your every single day, i will be fighting for you and with every breath in my body, i will not rest until we have delivered this drawn safe and prosperous america that our children deserve and that you deserves. this will truly me the golden age of america. that's the only house

that will allow us to make america great again and stay, says north carolina. i love these places, georgia in wisconsin. we are now waiting in michigan, arizona, and nevada, alaska, which would result in us getting at least $350.00 in elect drove us. but what is which is you doing what the networks did or whoever called it because there was no other path. there was no other past eviction. we also have won the popular vote. that was great.

the popular vote was very nice, very nice. i wrote a great, a great feeling of love. we have a great feeling of love in this very large room with unbelievable people standing by my side. these people have been incredible. they've made the journey with me and we're going to make you very happy. we're going to make you very proud of your vote . i hope that you're going to be looking back some day and say, that was one of the truly important moments of my life. what i voted for this group of people be on the president. this group of great people america has given us at home. presidents is

a and powerful mandate. we have taken back control of the cell as well. and this is raises the mountain, nevada, texas, ohio, michigan, wisconsin, the great commonwealth of pennsylvania. the mac got moved with a how do those cases, every one of them we worked with the senators, there were tough races and i mean that the number of victories and the said it was absolutely incredible. and we did tell her rallies. we did tell her rallies with each one of them and sometimes we did 2 or 3 for and it was amazing to look at all of those victories. nobody expected that nobody. so i just wanted to thank you very

much for that and we have you have some great senators and some great new senators . and it also looks like we'll be keeping control of the house of represent the one thing mike johnson. i think he's doing a terrific job. terrific job. i want to also thank my beautiful wife maloney and 1st of the who has the number one best selling book in the country. the see is the great job works very hard. works very hard to help people. so i just

want to banker but i want to thank my whole family, my amazing jewels and then they are amazing children. how we all think everybody, intakes, and that's a good thing when you think they are put down their evocative for the baron. lar, jaron. kimberly my the, my father in law victors, tremendous. and we missed very much a lot of his mother. i might have. yeah. we miss them. i, you know, yeah. she would be very happy, right. the standing of the stage of yourself route. she was a great woman at one beautiful inside and out. she was a great woman. i want to be the 1st to congratulate our great, now i can say vice president deluxe.

the is absolutely remarkable and beautiful lives. osha. this is a feisty guy, is going to the enemy can and you know, the end of the camp is certain networks. a lot of people that like there sir, do i have to do that? it just goes ok. which one? cnn m. s. dmc. no say, all right, thank you very much, extra elizabeth. who's that like the only guy that was a really looks forward to it. it really just goes and absolutely help. illiterates that

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great and 2nd nomic come back in american history later. this turns out to be a good choice. i took a little he at the beginning, but he was, i knew i knew the brand was a good word about as good as it gets ad we loved the family and we're going to have a great for years and we're going to turn our country around making something very special last plus that little at last that little that little thing called special. we have to make it say we're going to make this so great. it's good. it is the greatest country and potentially the greatest country of the world by far and right now we're going to just work very hard to get all of that back. we're gonna make it the best it's ever been. we can do that. we just, if we had to wait longer, i don't know, it was going bad. if it was going bad fast. we're gonna have to seal up those

borders are going to have to let people come in. so we want people to come back in. but we have to, we have to let them come back in, but they have to come in legally they have to come and legally let me also express by a tremendous an appreciation for susie and chris, the job here. chris usually likes to stay sort of in the back. let me tell you the ice. the susie likes to stay in the background. she's not in the background. this was unexpected, but i just want to think obviously president trump, for this journey, it was a great one. and he's a hell of a candidate is going to be a hell of

a great 47 president and this team that we had the best team. and of course, even my boss susie was the best. thank you. thank you. and this is, i've never seen a be shot before. susie, they've been very great. everybody up here is great. everybody who's very special. but uh the problem. yeah. who did you say? oh, let me tell you, we have a new star or stars born need on the now is an amazing guy. we were sitting together. you spent 2 weeks in philadelphia in different parts of pennsylvania campaigning. you know, it's just a rock it up 2 weeks ago. and i saw that rock adviser german down, i saw it,

it was when it left, it was beautiful, shiny white. when it came down, it didn't look so pretty. was going 10000 miles an hour and was burning like hell. i said, what happens? your paint job, he said, we've never made a paint that could we stay in the car? the heat and but i started coming down and turned around and it was just like 22 story. so by the way, it looks a little smaller than that, but it's big and it came down and down and you saw that fire burning and, and i'm generally 11 to do this. it must be any line that i tell the story. i told it last night i had a man on the phone. i had disagreeing, muted, no sound. i started a very important man, happens to be here. that very important guy, one of the most important people, and i would say the country actually. but you know, i was president and now it looks like i was going to be may be president again. so

i figured i could ask him to so i asked him to because especially because you're going to be present again the old. so i took the phone down and i'm looking at the screen. i'm seeing this crazy thing that's going around and coming down. it looks like it's a very crash into the gantry. and as oh no, and i should do me a favor. do you mind holding for a government that want to see this? i did. it was a space age movie or something. i put the phone down bed but i didn't pick it up for 45 minutes and he was holding. but this spaceship came down and i saw those engines firing and it looked like it was over. it was going to smash and then i saw the fire pour out from the left side and i put it straight and it came down. so gently admitted wrap those arms around it and it held it and just like you hold, you may be at night, you little baby. and it was a beautiful thing to see, and i called the city alarm was that you? you said yes it was. i said, who else can do the good rush or do it now?

can china do it? no. to can the united states do it other than, you know, nobody can do that. i said, that's why i love you a lot and that's great. and you know, and we had the tragic hurricane kelly and it hit particular in north carolina, they were really diverse to the water. this was a big water as big as we've ever seen. what a hurricane had built lake side of nothing feels became like sense and the danger was unbelievable. and the people from north carolina came to me and they said would it be possible at all possible for you to speak to. elan must, we need star, like i said, what star link, it's a form of communication. so i call this and i'll tell you what he had and it was very dangerous. people die, they had no communication. all the wires were down. i called elan most guy said eli, you have something called star lake. is that right? yes, i do. what the hell is it? he said it's

a communication system that's very good. i said here and they need it really, really badly in north carolina. can you get it here that they are so fast? it was incredible. so, and it was great. it saved a lot a lot. she saved a lot of what is the characters, especially the guy is a super genius. we have to protect our geniuses. we don't have that many of them. we have to protect our super geniuses. i want to fax everything to, you know, we have a peer to the us open champion is a fantastic over slightly longer than minutes of a little bit longer, but just a little bit price in d. champeaux is up here. so what happened to 1st, where is the price is saw your wishes. he's sitting boss, he's on the way. he's hitting balls, pricing for

the a degree. he's got a great career. good. great us open bryce and it's a fantastic job. and we also have a man dana wide who has done some of the to do. so did you ever see and gave to me, do you mind if i use your and nobody wanted to give him or is because they said it's a rough sport, a little rough. and i helped a bad a little bit and i went and they said this is the roughest sport i've ever seen. but i began to like it and he loved it and nobody's done a better job in sports. and, and, you know, he's a very motivational kind of a guy. what he does, he gets these fighters and they,

they really go additives become one of the most successful sports enterprises anywhere at any time sewing. so well, i'd like to stay in it just to say a couple of words because people love to hear from nobody deserves more than him and nobody deserves this more than his family does. this is what happens when the machine comes and do you. what do you see? you know, the last several years, this is what it looks like. the staffing keeps going forward. he doesn't quit. he's the most resilient home. the, my wife is family are part of the people. this is called the ladies and gentlemen. the the best to know points of the best of what the boys last but not least

the picture. oh good. good deal. that is a piece of work. now is it amazing is really an amazing guy, but most of all, i want to thank the millions of hardworking americans across the nation who've always been to the heart and soul of this really great moving. so we've been through so much together and today you showed up in record numbers to deliver a victory. like really, i'd probably like no other. this was something, this was something special in. we're gonna, we're going to pay you back. we're going to do the best job. we're going to forget to turn it around. it's gotta be turned around. it's gotta be turned around fast and we're going to turn it around. we're going to do it every way with so many ways . but we're going to do it in every way this will forever be remembered is the day

the american people regains control of their country. so i just want to say on behalf of this great group of people, these are hard working people. these are fantastic people and we can add a few names like robert f, kennedy junior, and he's going to make good healthy again. the now is a great guy and he really means that he wants to do some things and we're going to let him go to it. i just said, but bobby, leave the oil to me. we have more liquid gold, oil, and gas. we have more liquid gold than any country in the world more than saudi arabia. we have more than russia. bobby stay away from the liquid gold other than that, to have a good time,

but we are going to be paying down debt. we're going to be reducing taxes we have, we can do things that nobody else can do. nobody else is going to be able to do it . china doesn't have what we have. nobody has what we have. but we have the greatest people. so maybe that's the most important thing. this can induce campaign has been so store again, so many ways we've built the biggest 7 broaders the most unified coalition. i have never seen anything like it in all of american history. they've never seen any young at all men and women, rural and urban and we had them all helping us today when you think, i mean i was looking at it. i was watching it. they had some great analysis of the people that wrote it for us. nobody's ever seen anything like that. it came from, they came from all foreigners union, non union, african american,

hispanic american, asian, american, arab american, muslim, emerge, and we had everybody and it was beautiful. it was a historic realignment united citizens of all backgrounds around a common core of common sense. you know, where the party of commonsense we want to have borders. we want to have security, we want to have things to be good safe. we want great education, went to what a strong and powerful military and ideally we don't have to use it. you know, we had no wars for years. we had no wars except for we defeated isis. we defeated isis in record time at, but we had no wars. they said she will start a war. i'm not going to sort of work with the stuff wars, but this is also a massive victory for democracy and for freedom. together we're going to lock americans glorious to us today we're going to achieve the most incredible future

for our people. yesterday, as i stood at my last for the campaign, shall never be doing a rally again. can you believe it? i think we've done 900 rally is a fracture valley from the 90901, something that arise. and it was said to everybody was that many people i said, this is our last rally, but now we're going on just something that's far more important because the rallies where use for us to put the put in this position where we can really help our country that's what we're going to do. we're going to make our country better than it ever has been. and i said that many people told me that god spared my lives for a reason. the reason was to save our country and to restore america to greatness. and now we're

going to fulfill that mission together. we've got to fulfill that vision. the task before us will not be easy, but i will bring every ounce of energy spirit and find that i have it myself to the job that you've entrusted to me. this is a great job the, there's no job like this. this is the most important job in the world justices. i did it my 1st term. we had a great 1st. my great, great 1st and i will govern by a simple model. promises made, promises kept. we're going to keep up right now, i think most of the from keeping my word to the people we will make america save strong prospers power home and 3 again that i may ask you to every citizen all across our land, to join me in this snowball and right, she has endeavor this what it is,

is time to put the divisions of the past 4 years behind. so it's time to unite and we're going to try, we're going to try, we have to try and it's going to happen. successful. bring us together. i've seen that i've seen that i saw that in the 1st or when we became more and more successful people started coming together. success is going to bring us together and we're going to start by all putting america 1st. we have to put our country 1st, or at least a period of time. we have to fix it. are the guys together. we can certainly make america great again for all americans. so i want to just tell you what a great honor this is. i want to thank you, i will not let you down. america's future will be bigger, better baldor, richard shafer and stronger that it has ever been before. god bless you and god bless america. thanks the,

on the speaking to his supporters at a palm beach in florida promising a golden age of america. also asking for healing in the country and promising that success will bring people together, also phrasing the efforts of the loan. most of us open goals jump in the the us, the president didn't know why and also thinking uh, joe rogan of icons of the american culture at the moment uh, being signed in that speech. and also saying that god saved him for a reason. and that was to keep the promises made to the american people don't drop is claiming victory victory. he is within the use of the receipt of frequently, it hasn't been announced yet. but at the moment it doesn't look like there is any

path for the harris campaign to resubmit it and figure out of $270.00 because we've been looking at some results to sort of that to be, let's say that her right? exactly. a, b, a p has just called the state of minnesota. also part of that is source of blue wall. but that does not help come on. harris gets any closer to victory any more. because if we do the math here, maybe we can, when we're done looking at the trump family, they're leaving the stage. take another look at the general ellis world math and see how that is pending about right now. because after pennsylvania, it was called by v. a p for swing states are still up for grabs. that however, will not be enough to get come on harris across the finish line. even if she won michigan, wisconsin, nevada, and arizona, she would be 4 votes, short of $270.00. now alaska has 3 electoral votes,

has 3 electoral votes and um, and those are believes because it's just a solid republican state to go to donald trump in that with then the numbers as they stand right now for them across that line here. yeah, steve and i wondered what you made of that speech? i mean, where do we begin with thought fit the golden age of america? that has been promised donald from what is his golden age going to comprise of yeah, i mean, brush, i think it's very typical for donald trump to use that kind of language. what stuck out to me is that he said that he has a powerful mandate and it's a very important assertion here because we think this election is essentially certifying the plans that he had for america. that is the things that he wants to do. and he has some very strident, some very big plans when you look at what, what he wants to do, for example, with the department of justice with these big institutions. if he wants to put robert f. kennedy junior, in a leading health in any sort of facets in america,

that would be very dramatic for your vaccine skeptic who has said that he wants to look at the data, potentially make some big changes. those it remains to be seen if that's the mandate that the american people want. that's the question that's going to come out of this. was this essentially the us punishing incumbents here saying price is a prison against it again, goes back to this kind of kitchen table discussion. or if we look at other races, when we see that actually, democrats did better and some other area, they could still win the house, right? they could still hold the house. and then you might say, okay, this is more of a punishment of the president for maybe the candidate didn't do enough cala harris here. the question is, does he have this mandate? because in 2 years there's going to be another election. and from his 1st term, he knows that you can be punished for what he's done in 2 years before. so this is an assertion that presents often make when they, when, or presidential alexis will, i guess what we call him. now once it's confirmed, the president elect does that, they would say they have a mandate to follow through. what's it campaigns on? does he have that, or is this about again, punishing an outgoing a presidential candidate,

a presidential ministration that in many people has failed, but it would be amended, wouldn't it? i mean, the senate easy and republican control that's already been called. it looks like donald trump is going to be indeed the president, the leg. and the republicans are kind of neat leading in the house. those are the republicans walked up to the house. that wouldn't be a members have flipped some seats already in the house. that means they've taken seats that were already in republican control, so it's not a complete wipe out. and even if republicans take control, it's going to be very, very slim majority. it's the same in the senate, it's likely to be very slim. so we talked about this earlier, there will be, there could be full control by the republicans. that does not mean that legislation is going to move effortlessly through both chambers and move to his desk. it does put him in a much better position and one can make the argument that there is a mandate. but again, i would question how much of a mandate there is? this is what we're gonna have to figure out later. and maybe what jessica is going to sort of work out as a, as a story into was this a mandate or was, is punishing the current president? we've come to jessica in a moment, but forgive us,

we're just joining us. donald trump has claimed the victory in the us elections. we're still waiting on the official confirmation of that victory, but it does look like there is no conceivable way in which to have his campaign can reach that magic figure of $270.00 elect total college votes and nicole, you've been looking at the results. so fine, you're going to have to have to look at understanding. i believe we can now actually see that map are the united states and that would make it a lot lot less abstract. for those of you watching us from home, maybe we can pull them off of the united states and then we can go through of the results so far. exactly. so what we see in dark red are the states that have already been called same with dark blue stays. we still have 4 of those crucial battleground states that now after pennsylvania was called, are a lot less crucial, but a still needed for donald trump. maybe to take this across the line. minnesota was just called for com la harris a couple of minutes ago that are 10 that is

a 10 electoral votes. that is a little boost for her, but it's not going to be enough to take her across the finish line. now, why have other news outlets like fox news, for example, you know, historically very, very close the republican party called a selection already for donald trump. well, the state of alaska has 3 electoral votes and those have been solidly read for, you know, many, many, many, many years. and those are 3. those would take him across the finish line right now we can look at minnesota that result that was just recently called by the a p with 90 percent of votes counted, comma harris has a 52 percent advantage there. again, that is not going to help or there is virtually at this point, no way to get her across the finish line. wisconsin is probably going to be the next stay to be called with 90. 1 percent of votes counted at this point in there to donald trump right now has an a 4 percent lead. if i'm reading that correctly.

yeah, that is wisconsin. and was that also? he would be, of course, over the $270.00 threshold with a significant margin. so really there is no way for calmly. harris at this point to turn this around, essentially many routes to official victory for donald trump and none of cumberland harris at this point. that it just just sort of us know what they're looking at. that's the visuals from the trump watch spots here at palm beach. florida that's playing in the corner of the screens and you can see the joy, the present from what i'm sorry, but perhaps president electronic level system is this uh, was there a while back uh, thinking his family and his campaign and others who helped him uh on this uh, on this, on his journey on this performance. uh, let's go straight to uh, washington dc where the dm new uh, the chief en espanol, is standing by this. uh,

a standing uh come back of thoughts from donald trump. the what can we expect from uh, a new from the administration to this page suggest delivered was quite remarkable. bearish, when do you remember the speech he delivered 4 years ago when he kind of claimed victory, then you didn't win the white house. it didn't do that. tonight, of course, the way he approached his family and his audience, his assurance, those and that he will win the election. but you didn't go that far and everything it basically said about the election is true. he said that he won the young, the old voters, women and male like the nose, african americans, asians. why it's so that was in my understanding because i followed many offers. riley's kind of remarkable. it's a he spared us with a lot of kind of a false claims. it's also telling,

and this is also kind of a little bit of a look into the future. how much time you spend talking about a l in moscow. and most definitely will play or bigger role in his government is all the implication when it comes to regulation of big tech firm. so if this is something which will definitely change, and then of course he talked a little bit about migration but also for him in a humble way. he said, we let people come back in, but on a legal way. i think um, what stood out for me here is uh that's uh he kind of painted a picture of someone who wants to heal america. who wants to make america off, quote course great. again, but also bring it together. that's a classic typical for someone who won a presidential election to also reach out to the other side. and he also did that at the very end of the speech at the heat seems to have the one the talk to the,

the votes as well. i mean, i'll be looking at a protest, fulcher, from americans, or if there's indeed of both for donald trump, because different, even though i think it's actually both. i mean, we have talking a lot about the fact that life is because this is became so expensive here. i mean, everybody feels that every day in the pocket we discussed throughout the whole night that kind of really the things which the biden administration did develop for its people didn't really come across. and people definitely protested that and this board. but i don't think they also believe in some basics. donald trump stands for . they want someone whom basing can stand up to other foreign leaders. that obviously a different understanding of masculinity than the approach becomes. i heard as

a team put out, there are many latino as many african american voters, many aero voters, obviously once is a traditional kind of strong man effect in the house. and then of course, um, as people have the feeling that under the leaders sort, the shape of donald trump, the world was a safer place. we now have the war in ukraine. we have the crisis in the middle east and many americans. i talked to, they really do believe that this would not test happened on the dawning. so i'll be of course, we'll see what he does once he is in the why tell us, but that's definitely also is playing a role here in the united states. this is a person me talking about n s who has experience of a governance now he has been the president before and the in 2016 when the there, there was no transition team in place, but example, it was really chaotic. there are, there are lots of findings,

people being hired by end and the scale to do you think it's going to be different this time around? this is more experience and he has other people also surrounding him. i mean, he has no 20 transition team in place yet, but this will change right tonight. i think we will see really what kind of also a problem is that he will take over a governing from day one on especially when he also has the majority in the senate and maybe even in the house. we will see major policies within the 1st couple of weeks when it comes to climate politics. when that of course comes to migration in politics, when it comes to attribute to q plus rights, you will see a tremendous shift to the more conservative aside. and we, in europe, germany will definitely also see a very, very different approach to this support of ukraine. and then it shall be

interesting to see how donald trump tries to change his support the support of the united states of nato. and then of course, also of the united nation. so the world federal gods prepared for major major changes in europe, federal goods prepared to kind of guide its act together to get more independent from the united states. because this is also something better as we heard over and over a, during our reporting here, over the last couple of months. and many americans are tired to, that's in their understanding are paying so much money to other countries to support ukraine. and they think that europe, especially germany, should they pay more, and this will be something donald trump will be changing very, very fast once he's back in the white house on january 21st. yeah, we'll have to see how that sort of appends of being older. i've already been told that i've had expecting a press conference from jeremy's foreign minister and then

a bad book at any moment now, but they call you at a points to make about the vote. i want to do some, some fact checking here because donald trump, when he took the stage, said that he had won the popular vote. that is not yet clear. states like california, you know, the nation's most popular state. only 48 percent of both. there have been counted, the election was called because california is of course, the traditional, the democratic state. there are still millions of votes that have not yet been counted. and we do need to wait until we know for sure how the american public voted to make these kinds of assumptions. that's the fact checking we can do on donald trump on the flight. there's plenty more we can do later. i'm sure, but uh that is as far as the co at this point is it is still a claim to election victory. it's not been officially certified. it's not been officially declared, at least by the associated press on the following full odd results. and if you can see on the, on this particular that we have the region that we have of that still the 3 will throttle there. he's claiming that the,

the trump campaign will be able to reach at $315.00 boards. we'll see in the coming if you was jessica, you are listening to this page. lot of things and donald trump said, i just wonder, i'll be on the verge of an e book co shift in the way america deals with the world. and america deals with himself, so we're seeing the rise of a regime that is going to be very different from 2016, 17, in particular when it comes to foreign relations. and donald trump has said as much this is going to signal and move away of the united states from in liberal internationalism. the idea that as a liberal democracy, america has a function to interact with the rest of the world. and in post not only for its own interest, but also consider the interest and the security of others, which of course, in the end will also benefit the united states. donald trump has said in so many words that that's not what he is going to be and is going to do. and i want to say

one more word out of the speech because we spend so much time looking at it right now. this was in many ways, very typical trump stream of consciousness, rambling on, you know, people starting to look at their iphones because you know, what is it where he did that he has a but at the same time, i think he was very clear in the sense that when he talked about foreign relations, it's all about borders and security. this is not about going, is not going to be about interaction. it's not going to be alliances. it's not going to be climate accords or anything like this. and the other thing that i thought was really interesting is the kind of non verbal language that we got there . here. she tried so hard to get a lot of people on stage and make this a family event in bo, to what he's going to go to any way, which is people in high places like 8 on mosque and then play. i don't know whether you picked up on this play, why m c a young man as he was coming on stage. and then afterwards, america a very,

very clear symbol of what his policy is going to be about. not only in terms of, you know, non famine is but also international relations. so i think yes, this is going to be a water said, yeah, i know lots to talk about here, but just for view as well. joining in just as a recap, donald trump has claimed victory in the us election of to a winning in pennsylvania, georgia draft, and north carolina. these are 3 of the crucial spring states that determine the outcome of the us selection and from his address to 4 times in his hometown of palm beach, florida. they promised a new coat, golden age, sort of america and said he would help the country to votes us to being counted. but tom swim in pennsylvania, leaves camelot, harris with no cost to the presidency, is drops. republican party has also seized control of the sentence. slipping 2 seats to over time, a narrow democratic majority because we're going to so don trump has already

declared victory. and here to some of what you have to say, if there is a voltage in palm beach, florida, it is clear that we've achieved the most incredible political look what happened is that the country is never seen before and nothing like this. i want to thank the american people for the extraordinary honor of being 47, president, 45 for you, for your family. i give you your every single day, i will be fighting for you and with every breath in my body, i will not rest until we have delivered the strong,

safe and prosperous america that our children deserve and that you deserves. this will truly mean the golden age of america. that's all the golden age of america. let's head across to achievement today. as an editor, richard walker, who is an ad, i forgot somebody, you are richard, but you're definitely through. it's a man. come supporters and you've been speaking to them. what is the mood like? that's right, so we're in a little have, i know in miami, so this is the heart of the cuban american community in florida. and this is being a celebrate 3 nights, a republican to gather the effort for a potty and to celebrate here on the intersection. and that speech of donald trump claiming victory really kind of tapping this night and celebration. so people here, i can't tell you how many of these flags are flat to my face in the wind tonight, at this melody ga, smoke sort of puffing around uh,

as cuban american st here and celebrate of what is being honestly, a very big victory for donald trump, in the advertising, you know, whether he turns out to of ones the popular vote or not. this is very much the biggest victory that he has won it in his 3 presidential campaigns. so people here really celebrating teaching that wants to stay go past and reading that are in teams. we've had an awful lot of very loud truck engines here in miami to night as well. of course we've been talking to people here getting that take on what has happened tonight. i think we can rotate that and check it out. the the great, i think we've been brain big window from

2024. we did it. we did. we won the losers. here 2 years later by to induce years with these big i think the economy plus or may make a big difference in the destination of other people, the us the lifestyle section of uh yeah. and so that go ahead. yeah. that you get

a little taste for the rest, your opinion, ca, right in miami. and i mean going back to what we were saying about donald sounds, speech from palm beach goose tonight. he was talking about it saying that he would heal america. and of course, so many that will sound completely implausible. many people blame donald trump for these kind of poisonous politics that we've seen in america for the last several years of school. the political divisions at the intense colorize ation of politics here. good people and you suppose you just don't know from here really do. i think, genuinely by into that idea that, that he is somebody who can unite america. and a lot of the people here have pointed us through the fact that, you know, this is a diverse crowd. we've had spoken to a lot of people with, he's fired in fact, brands here, of course. um and uh,

people from not just the cuban community but other latino communities based here in the united states. so i think a lot of people here also saying, look, donald trump's attitude towards latino americans has been misunderstood. but i think, but those on the other side of the they will be deeply worried now about what a 2nd is from the time is going to mean for the american unity and what's the next 4 years will mean for communities and particularly minorities around the united states, you know, judy vance was also talking uh in uh, palm beach at that event. and he was talking about the greatest you can nomic comebacks. we had lots of things in those sound. most people talking about increased prices and that'd be a difficult thing on a day to day basis from your conversations with the people behind you. how do they believe donald trump, when bring about these a great economic come back,

how would he be able to rationalize price is what is the magic formula that yeah, well i think, i think essentially people trust in donald trump is somebody. so i assume the economy is always being a part of his brand. so, you know, he's always had this page that he's a business man. say he knows how to run an economy. and they think back to donald from mass ton and to they think that, you know, this was a time that was economically more successful economically comets and just situation has been in the last 3 to 4 years. of course, the democrats have always talk you the inflation that is really being the killer problem in the us economy in the last few years, has been a global phenomenon that this was something that was pretty good in many, many countries around the world. as a result of that time to make a note of the supply stocks that, that took place then. but republicans counted the to the they say that the bike knew ministration over stimulates of the economy and responsive that in fact contributed to inflation. but anyway,

i think the bottom line is donors from supporters. look at him as somebody for whom the economy is part of his brand. uh, and they think that is the administration that he had a few years ago was a better time for the economy. and they think that that helps to pay expect tomlin harris had on the economy, which of course, was a page that she pretty much had to rush in the last couple of months as she's suddenly a much to as the democratic candidate. so she didn't really have time to home that one, but it was always going to be a tough cell. so the democrats are trying to run as a pseudo incumbent, which is essentially what combat harris was. it was having the vice president, which essentially means running on, on the administration's record, what the ministration. but of course now say is that donald trump's economic inheritance is actually pretty good. the growth rates in the united states did set a bc live rate, jealousy by most european countries. um, so you know,

if the us economy does go forward towards a more prosperous space, donald trump will probably get lot of the credit for the democrats would probably say, well, they laid the grounds. let richard, i'd like to chime in there for a 2nd because florida is of course, also a very diverse state, especially in urban areas. donald trump and his speech now said that he was going to fight for he said, i'm going to fight for you. is there a sense where you are that he's actually going to fight for all americans who sent me in the crowd to they? they absolutely buy that, but not everybody in florida buys that. the certainly not. and so i mean, last night we were up in palm beach and i was speaking to a couple in the restaurant where we had dinner last night and an elderly couple. one who is more on the republican sides, the other who was more on the democrat side, the republican was deeply uncomfortable with donald trump so that he was, i think the web,

80 years was ball good. that he did not stand in the republican tradition as he saw it. um and uh, the, the gentlemen's wife who was a, is a democrats, were saying that she was genuinely worried. she said, i think the quite this was that it gives her the tools to think about what the next 4 years will mean for women in the united states. so i think, you know, that feeling will be replicated, noticed in florida, but in many parts of this country. but here on the streets of little have an up. you don't see anything. now that you mentioned women of florida was one of the 10 states where were abortion was on the ballot. but that proposition failed. why do you think that is because we were hearing again and again that especially for women who were such, you know, they're, they're the strongest demographic in the us really. and they're the more reliable

voters. why do you think the here is campaigns failed to actually get those motors out of not only on a pro, uh, pro, choice platform but you know, on a, on a platform that exactly is what you were talking about. you know, a platform that is more pro pro women more liberal when it comes to these issues and i buy okay, so that's right, and i think, i mean this is something that is gonna take some time, longer time analysis. and then the things that we can't necessarily kind of snap analyze tonight, but that is definitely gonna work in the study, but it is a sign that the um, the, the, the highways campaigns simply didn't quite manage to mobilize people, to the extent that they had. and of course, in the republican side, to try to accurate, i don't know from and by these campaigns to try just sorts in the image on abortion. donald trump trying to mean to so, you know,

i want to leave it to the states is up to go straight to where these things out, trying to tight. so take it off the table as, as a national issue. and you know, it's quite possible that they were possibly successful in doing that. donald trump, even you could, you could see through 2 events, we just had to referee referring to that in his speech just tonight, referring to the fact that his wife, milan you had written a book that he was holding up is the best seller, milan. ja trump, in that book, talks about a different opinion on the subject to both of abortion from a husband. and i think that was also seen as positive based strategies to try to soften donald trump's image on the question of a boss and uh, to try to minimize any potential losses to the higher his campaign on that subject . so maybe that was also a factor in how that play that richard and students being pressed. and you can stay

here and i was just by those high pitched celebrations a around do, i don't know how you doing it, but i, i do have one question for you. or donald trump keeps talking about, and medic of fast and focusing on the medical a lot of people in depth of that to be an international isolation is. and i mean, you have the chance and some escalated that a bunch of other, you speak to a lot of people in a number of countries. and there is a significant american influence of various parts of the world. donald trump, supporters believe that america will retain the same influence. if america withdraws in words under donald trump. yeah, well, i think a lot of people who we speak to you, we've been speaking to and i've been here a few weeks now in the us. a ahead of this election night and i think he has pretty much 10 of one. i would say one of the arguments within the republican party about the, the, the,

the direction of the americans place in the world. so we say that is moving away from this idea as he frames it, that the united states needs to be the policeman of the world and j. the vance is also a strong proponents of this idea that the united states can no longer do that, that it is too great to drain on its results is that it needs to focus its results is partly inwardly on as they would see it repairing their industrial base would create, recreating base this american greatness, which is very much attached, i think, to this idea of industrial production and, and a, and this kind of yeah, economic vision as the united states but, but also focusing the united states more on its, its foreign policy and security policy priorities rather than trying to do everything and, and business strain within the republican party. this become known as the

prioritize is essentially saying we cannot simple obtain the sleet support ukraine to the extent that they've been doing israel to the extent that they've been doing . and also similar tamia is lee put the a 9 to result is that they need to put into the indo pacific region to stand out to china, which they see as the dominant and the absolute, the prime threat to the united states position in the world. so these prioritizes are essentially saying they needs to be a stronger shift. the result is from these other theaters towards a towards asia and the prime target for trying to come back is 0. right? and that is one reason why politicians in germany, politicians in the rest of europe, all very concerned about what this new trump administration will mean. and of course, the leadership in ukraine. it has now existential concerns about whether a trump administration may slash support for ukraine to the extent that it gets

forced into an extremely detrimental deal with that to be approved into, to end the war that is raging. so i think that is the kind of the, the dominant sense that you get from the inside is in the republic and sign them in a back up in washington dc. and it's something that i think really times with people here on the ground, also in republican groupings in florida and other parts of the country that the us cannot do everything anymore. allies need to step up and contribute more to their own security. so that's definitely my looking at gemini and other countries in europe, and that it's time for the united states to focus on what they see is the prime threat, which are china. richard walker, chief international editor. we leave it there, but the time being you've had a very long day and even longer night i hope you can get some rest on this very historic day. thanks so much for joining us from looking have on it in miami. i

know now where you were talking to us from. thanks so much richard. all right, jessica. if i can just come to you based on what richard was saying in terms of america fast, essentially implying america cannot be everywhere in the world. to look at different crises, i mean, that sounds like a reasonable thing to say, right? i mean, well, it's not new. i mean, ever since what bill clinton entered offers in nearly 19 ninety's, he very much was expected to pull america out of a lot of commitments and scale down the role of the united states internationally and have america focus on itself. i mean, we've been having this discussion over and over again and even dividing that ministration. that's remember at this policy of, let's get our people out and leave the resources may be in, but not totally. it's almost like richard nixon in the vietnam ization of the vietnam war. i know these people put to fight. there was themselves, we should not support them, at least not by mantle. so this is not really new. at this, the language is much more drastic. and the,

the kind of chain of events will be more drastic, but for your opinions to wake up today and be concerned and worried is actually not quite appropriate because we have seen this coming for a long, long time. and that's actually the concern is more why nothing has been happening. we've been talking about this tonight before. it's not like this. i think it's a good moment to bring in the questions that we have seen coming in on youtube because it really links into what you've just been saying. lots of people are commenting on trump and his relationship with vladimir putin. they say fruit and has one. so is a trump when also effectively a when for food and one use or asks? it's a bottom line. i think it is a comp, trump has been very clear on how he's going to approach the war in ukraine. we've talked about this earlier. he said that he wants to, in the war as if america could end this war, which really means that he is going to pull out resources. and i don't think the

pump is going to leave nato or leave the europeans totally to themselves. but he is going to down scale and he is going to have a friendly, a 10 year if he's of you put in, i think what's going to happen. he's, he's going to have to attend the don boss essentially and say you can have it. you can kind of keep face by doing this and i can keep face to if, if we, if he can agree on this. and then he's going to hope that this is going to be the end of it, which most people in europe, of course, think it's not going to be. uh huh. i heard you guys talking about this idea. i mean, is it really that straightforward? because you haven't your up involved as well. and most people have been countries. yeah. in germany, they've said that they will be with you quinn, however long it takes whatever it takes the phrasing that's being used. can donald trump affectively make this d? and if it's what a deal with 14, without you out of 10 and up and saying, well that's not ok. so it's, it's hard to say, i mean the us is the main resources provider for ukraine and then germany comes 2nd in germany has increased its, um, you know,

its provisions for ukraine. more recently. but the politics here also more difficult and they're getting only more difficult. so both countries are moving germany and the us internally, their politics are moving in the same direction, which is a growing skepticism of this conflict. we've seen this come up even before this election, even before the state elections in germany, there really cast this issue into a new light. so it's not necessarily new flooding. mental lensky, the present of ukraine knows that there was increase pressure on him to negotiate here. this is one more stone and quite a jolly at one on that scale. actually because the us is going to have the material, the, the war material is going to have the financial power to really make a difference if it wanted to. in this conflict, which it has done so far, ukraine knows a lot of what it's accomplished due to the help from outside. so the idea that the us with and say, no thanks, not interested any more. that is quite significant. of course,

it can't settle piece on its own that is up to the ukraine to, to ukraine and russia. but it will have an outside influence. and may i just after that, it's not just about the united states, down scaling or pulling out. this is also about the fact of it on other allies. it's going to make it more acceptable to distance itself as one sales from the conflict. so it's whatever the ramifications will be driven has definitely needed cover politically, often times from the us to make very hard choices about providing more material for certain tank certain missiles. it's look to the us to provide some of those materials 1st or provide similar materials. because obviously there are threats that come from russia every time that it considers new provisions from the west to be a prob, occasions. so if germany is standing alone and doing this, is it ready to take that heat? and given the political situation here, i would say it's less unless capable of withstanding the brand are obviously used. jeremy is, are, is germany really standing alone? i'm, you're talking about the order for not be surprised that this is happening because

this has been in process for the past few years. europe has taken a few steps to try and be, i don't know, i call it self sufficient intelligence to go to police and look at the things about what $23.00 up to $32.00 nathan nations are going to be crossing the to the, to present of judy being special this year, including germany, there is a growing awareness and there is a growing discussion, particularly in the last 2 years since then. you can war broke out of the european security and europe supporting itself. do you not think the best going to be accelerated and maybe europe will have an initial shock, its head in the cord bucket of water, but then it can maybe support itself not fast enough as far as the landscape in the larger picture, this is maybe the wake up call that we have been talking about earlier, and it's overdue and needed, but not fast enough for zalinski. and we also want to talk not just about alliances among european powers. we want to talk about constituents with in individual countries. and i had a son in the army that the german army is very,

very small. we're now talking about a draft having those are long, unwieldy discussions that have been settled and that now, and this was the point i think you were making. so astutely. we used to shield with a necessity, encouraged by an outside ally, that is not there anymore. so all of a sudden germany would turn from somebody kind of flying in the shadow of somebody else to a leadership position that maybe even its own constituents are not going to go for assuming out from the military perspective. also very interesting leaving nato secretary general. margareta has already congratulated donald trump on his as of now unconfirmed victory in this election. but we hear some comments on youtube about your being upset at this result. europe is crying now when user said by a you, it was fun knowing you. one of them says, as, as military issues decide, what will a trump victory mean for europe? i mean, it will. i think it's jessica, so that it's,

it's something that they should have been preparing for for a while, not just in the military and security arena. they've seen this coming trade is obviously a big part of this as well. right? he's threatened to raise tariffs, import tariffs, that has the taxes on goods that are coming in from other nations. he's threatened to raise them significantly. and because europe has never come to a free trade agreement with the us, that means that it has import tariffs already of us does on those codes and they're going to to potentially go up if he sees that through. that's a huge issue for economy. economy has been struggling economically anyways, and it could encourage more firms to resettle, to put, to resettle in the us, to put more of their, their capital in the us instead of trying to do their business here. and so that's a, it's a huge threat here. and it's been talked about for awhile over the past few years. and yet there hasn't been an effective solution to it. and much of that as a structural because the was very different from the us when it comes to economic incentives, things like that. another aspect of this goes beyond trade, and if you look at the actual breakup of, you know, the, you,

there are countries that will be emboldens by this hungry stands out. for example, you know, they did euro skeptics, poland, it's neighbor will not be a courage by this, right? anyone who is going to be on friendly terms with russia is going to have a problem with poland immediately. so those are 2 neighboring countries we're going to, i would expect have a very dramatically different view of what this means for us to what this means for their personal security as well. just just on the security question i do, i don't want to talk about optimism because you button hungry very. but just on the security question, dionte, a scenario in which donald trump used as the threats to withdrawal or at least less than involvement in europe and security to 7 trade issues trained schools as well. it's a certainly an option and a very creative one. um, i would rather not come down on one or the other side of it. it would align with his ability and his pension to make deals. this is what he's so good at and across

the topics. he's done this before. whether he would go as far as putting up security for that, which also would entail that if europe complies the united states would maintain a larger role in europe, which he doesn't one, i'm not so certain about it. you know, it's interesting we're, i was talking to uh, alexandra phone uh, brussels bureau chief and we were talking about the impact of trump on a job, in case he wins, which does look like he's on his way to becoming a president. and that's, i'm definitely will speak to alexandra at some point. she said something very interesting to me. she said she talked about this trump task force desktop, the official name, because she talked about a trump task force has been set up in brought those to try and look at what this could look like. and i and i, and i also thought about, you know, these so called trump, we split as in new york, if uh, people like micro the wisconsin, a monk, some of those drunk please press. we can go and talk to donald trump, not necessarily make a deal, but i don't know,

flat out of him into getting the kind of concessions one wants. is that going to be your ups in terms of vision and moving forward? i mean, i could, i could see heads of space like what to try this. but again, i'm not, i'm not convinced that this is an efficient, efficient solution, because donald trump will then have to turn around and sell it to his own constituents, as will be the european heads of states. and that might be a bit tough. doesn't america lose a tool in any of these or yeah, that's, that's the bigger question, right? i think this point, really, the constituencies feel very differently then the political alvarado is, the government's around them is very important to you. yes. for those who spend their lives studying this issue for those who look at the historical aspects of this and say, this is what the security relationship means. they would probably have a definite answer of absolutely, it does. and it definitely deviates from the long understanding and long, i mean, probably the last 8 decades, the understanding the postwar understanding we have of america's role in the world . that is the,

the political lead there have understood america's role as being at the forefront leading. so america 1st meant that america leads through alliances. and now america 1st means you take care of your own stuff. you sort of put up a bigger borders and you let the world's worth develop on its own. and those things don't really make sense. we've learned through time that the world has a way of grabbing you when you don't engage in the world. and so that always seems to be the lesson here. and it's also paradoxical because we know that china is rising. for example, as an economic and military power, even if they're having a very difficult moment right now economically, as republicans, conservative doctrines still is very much anti china. so how does it answer that will also answering this need to sort of wall itself off from the rest of the world? these will be paradoxes that this, this, this new administration will have to deal with in some way. and the questions that they have an effective plan, it's something that trump hasn't always been good about real quick to this idea of, you know, sort of trump whispers in the you. that's what the con thought that he was right. and what did you come away with? not

a whole lot. so it will be interesting to see what an orb on what role he plays, what maloney you know from us are in italy, what role she plays. these are figures who have over much further rights. the many here in europe and whether, excuse me, whether they have a larger role to play and being that kind of bridge to trump one about them being a bridge and the other about the bus. how a trump and what is constituents want in the united states having an impact. so within your up, especially when it comes to writing populism. so yeah, i mean, uh, you know, i, i think that will be, i think, gonna be the question going forward as well. in terms of what's, what are they gonna want in terms of right wing populism? i it's hard to say, i mean, this is definitely a win for european right when populism, i would say that as well, they look at this, they can point to, you know, the growing movement in the us as well. we've seen that's the right wing party here . the far right we can party here is already congratulated. trump, we've seen that oregon has congratulated trump. we know this, this will emboldened them. but we've also found that sometimes there's not

a whole lot of overlap between these kinds of parties as well. so conservatism, conservative populism, in general, as a kind of, you know, umbrella state, but yes, this is a win for that, but is it going to encompass populace movements everywhere else? i don't know. and after that is to say 2 things. one thing you asked is this the last for the united states? i think it is because of the reason why the united states became a trans atlantic power was not just security, but the understanding that american prosperity was dependent on international trade that was less than one and by implication of world war 2. and so we're just throwing that conviction out of the window now in a matter of a few years. the 2nd thing in regard to right wing is for his part. i think there's more corporation than you think. there's a wonderful book, but an apple phone book talks about a talk receive inc. this has become a kind of transnational firm where offer a terry and states and even under burden the united states and to buy in the united states was already a flock. democracy, right? it wasn't a pure democracy. we're also tearing a portable author, terry,

and regimes, increasing the cooperate in terms of surveillance in terms of exchange of information. and it's in terms of how to guide and run the students really. so if there are, there are a lot of tentacles, or really points of notes of connections where these resumes actually to cooperate very strongly. we do have a user questions just very quickly because we're talking about, you know, other inherent or authoritarian leaning regime. and there was a user comment, my friend action china takes taiwan in the next 2 years. max will a trump, when emboldened china horse? i mean, that's a very so if, if that was going to happen, that will in bold in china because that's a loss of control in the pacific. and, and then the whole idea about japan in the military alliance will have to be re fob because where is the united states been going to stand on south korea and japan

with the us. let that happen though. yeah. that's that. i think trump has been very adamant about making confusing statements about this. um, and it's very hard for me right now to say which one was his latest, but one of which i saw was i don't care about taiwan. how do you say, i think i want to say, i think china has a lot more to fear from a trump presidency based on the task from last time. there's a lot of speculation around around trying to no one really knows, right. we know that it's a country from past experience that will put political preference before it's economy. and yet we know that it's economy is really struggling right now. is it willing to risk a real rupture with the rest of the world to do something in taiwan? if trump tries to settle something with ukraine, pull support from ukraine, will that send a signal to china about what it can get away with if, if the us doesn't want to engage, if it's reluctant to engage in the world, if it's reluctant to engage with its allies, what kind of signal does that sense? but i think they also see trump as a bit of

a wild card and someone who's very hard to protect. and there is a general bi partisan skepticism. just going to say against china that you see across the board. so yes, this is someone who said let's, let's board ourselves off from the rest of the world. but there is a strong antique china and the china sentiment in the us. the shared on both sides of the aisle, if there was anything that, that you might have both campaigns that put this tanza in china just in terms of the actions that they would have taken would be different. but the, yeah, the bipartisan consensus was there just for all of us who are tuning in a quick recap as to where we are right now in terms of the us elections. donald trump has claim victory in this election. after winning in pennsylvania, georgia, and north carolina, 3 of the crucial springs states that determine the outcome of the us selection from has addressed support as in his hometown to palm beach, florida. the promised a new quote to receive golden age for america and said he would help the country he'd most of the being counted, but trumps. when in pennsylvania,

leaves camelot harris with nope off to the presidency trumps. and republican party is also seized control of the senate slipping 2 seats to overturn a narrow democratic majority because we're going to so trump has already declared victory. and to show it is a bit of what he had to say to support us in palm beach, florida. or we're going to help our country hills will help our country here we have to be at a diesel very badly. we're going to fix our borders where i gotta fix everything about our country. we made history very easy tonight, and the reason is going to be just that we overcame opposite goes that nobody thought possible. and it is out clear that we've achieved the most incredible political look what happened is that

the country is never seen before and nothing like this. i want to thank the american people for the extraordinary honor of being 47 president, 45 you for your family and your future every single day, i will be fighting for you and with every breath in my body, i will not rest until we have delivered this drawn safe and prosperous america that our children deserve and that you deserves. this will truly mean the golden age of america that so i have the

people that will allow us to make america great again and that was being said and those results were coming in and, and from victory look to ever more likely hope was fading among supporters over at the harris campaign, and this is a full series of howard univer states in washington dc where organizers put on a loud watch volunteer for the vice president and democratic presidential candidate council of hers. but the crowds there began to disappear to a couple of hours ago, anticipating the powers would not address the proud supporters thoughts of leaving in droves as spokesmen. then confirm paris would not be taking to the stage. next is the name to one of harris and campaign ships. from a short time ago. we still have boats to count.

we still have states that have not been called yet. we will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is counted. that every voice has spoken. so you won't hear from the vice president tonight, but you will hear from her tomorrow. she will be back here tomorrow to address not only the h u family, not only to address those supporters, but to address the nation. it's just about pointing out that the that statement came just before pennsylvania was originally called by the associated press, one of the following, as a guide on this. uh so let's just look at why uh, the foster victory has essentially evaporated for the had his company exactly. harris all passed to victory, basically went through the battleground, state of pennsylvania. if we can pull up the map, we can show you how that is played out because it hasn't played out well for her.

at all. donald trump took that state with 50.9 percent of the vote that has a significant margin. um some 2.5 percent over we're looking at the electoral college vote here. of course donald trump at $267.00. that is just 3 short of that threshold of 270. that would secure him the presidency a some a, some, and outlets are already calling the selection for him because alaska holds 3 electoral votes and is widely believed to be called sometime from now for the republican party. because historically, people there have voted republican. now if we can look at pennsylvania, we can see on the margin by which donald trump was able to impose himself 51 percent versus 48 percent. still very close. that is with 96 percent of votes

counted there and the i'm just an hour ago, approximately called pennsylvania for donald trump. that leaves virtually no past for com la harris. maybe we can look at the map of, of the entire country now. that leads virtually no path for her to the presidency. we still have 4 battleground states. that's wisconsin, michigan, nevada, and arizona that need to be called the most likely candidate to be called sooner is wisconsin. they have a 93 percent of their votes counted right now you can see them there. and i think what the previous crew called salmon color. and so they're leaving republican that could be as for the experience that we have from the previous election cycles, a red mirage, as it's called, that has to do with. 6 vote counting dynamics that people who vote in person tend to be more conservative, tend to be more republican. those votes are counted before absentee and male in

balance. those tend to be and have historically been more democratic leaning. so we might well see a surge in democrats and the democrats numbers in those states in the rust belt as well as in the sun belt. but it will not be enough for come on here is to get this race across the line, simon color. i like someone, it's a, it's a, it's a streaming name to have full of these color. and as this map shows, it all began with assembling colorings and now it turned red for most of the united states, leaving open the question, what went wrong for the harris campaign and the volunteers for us to take this one? i'm not even sure there's something went wrong for the harris campaign period. i'm going to have, as we talked about this earlier, she had just a tad over a 100 days to kind of established ourselves and had you had more time this might have penned or different the been really with the issues at the time we were friday . so i mean, this is what we call if history, right?

i don't really that really we really do not know, but i would say that she hasn't had much time to establish himself as a convincing candidate parent in the eyes of many people. the other thing i think that went wrong is, this is the 2nd a tight time in the history of the united states, where a woman has tried to become president or has run for president. and he has failed once again. so from the time in his perspective, gender place, you troll this as an opposite, go right there, and then period. so we can do if history again to say, well, maybe bided would have one who knows. but we, we look at what has happened but, and so apparently her gender is an issue here as well, but then she didn't make it an issue. right. and it's not my talking about the exactly, exactly, and i think she took some queue there from, from hillary clinton. yes. and she very much ran on the historical nature of her candidacy. being a 1st woman to maybe make it to the white house. it was all about shattering glass ceilings and she seemed to take more cues from, from brock obama, you know,

not really making identity politics. yeah. center of her campaign. why did that work for obama and not for her? um, i wanna turn this question around and say, you know, was it a problem of her taking this queue from hillary clinton because almost a decade has passed since then and, and the profile voters have changed. but also the challenge of donald trump has become a different one. now, maybe it would have been much more advisable for her to push this up in the face of his blade and anti feminist statements for the last 8 years. not to pick that up, may have actually been a problem in order to sway these 55 percent of photos of the american among the american constituents that we will never know. but you, we can't deny that having a woman run as person. and for the 2nd time in failing is an issue in and of itself . clearly this country is not ready for that yet period. so i think it's tough to

say, i hope that you can see the results for elections rights um these, these are also personalities in their own right. these are political figures in their own right. and they will either attract voters or they will potentially repel them, or they will just not somehow gain traction. and it's hard to say, we know that hillary clinton had a bit more of a reputation for a lot of voters coming in. whether that was right or wrong, we had a couple of harris was not seen as the most magnetic candidate going into this campaign. she ended up with the candidacy. but at the beginning there's a lot of browsing that perhaps would've been better to bet some others. in fact, a lot of people said anyone, but consulate to be honest because she didn't have that kind of presence. this was the thinking at the time she ended up putting together quite a nice campaign. in many ways, she was solid. what she as risky. she should have been. should she have done more interviews with um, sort of more republican outlets. i don't know that will be debated but what's interesting is she's spent whole lot more money and she supposedly had a much better ground game in many ways than donald trump that he's knocking on doors. really talking to voters. she had a bigger staff in

a lot of ways working there as well, if i'm voting day, but also the kind of money advantage that shows that it wasn't enough. so there's going to be a lot of head scratching about this and, well ginger, she may not have made such an issue about your gender play a huge role role in the selection. you know, the, the issue of reproductive rights. they really stick so much on that that, that further divide this gap that we're seeing between, you know, the genders in, in, between men and women in the us. we see more men for trending towards republican. we see more women trending towards democrat. did that make this somehow even more likely that men would vote for donald trump? it's hard to say, but these are things that you can't not notice when i look at that's not to forget the gender is not just about women. donald trump very clearly around on a ticket of ultra masculinity. and a lot of people like that, he declared himself the protector of women, even though so didn't want to be protected due to his anti abortion stands and others. if that is part of what made, what may have made selection very difficult for her, this isn't something there's not anything you can measure. whether people will even

tell you impulse. we may have not even asked that question, but it was clearly on the table for everyone to see. i want to ask you something because we saw there take the stage, dental wife, the president of the usc, he talked about joe rogan, he recently endorsed him. it was a huge deal when, when donald trump came to, to his podcast, they talk for over 2 hours. but that, that hyper masculine platform. why does not speak so much specifically, to the younger generation of mostly white men in the united states or white men in the united states are very diverse crowd right back to what we talked about earlier . right? i mean what, it would be nice if we could simply label them as sort of that, but a lot of white men are very scared of any type of feminism. and even that includes female position or female leaders in high places. and so this probably grouped with

a general discomfort or completely anxiety of complexity at gender relations. i think for a lot of men added to going for the know and going for the familiar going for the strong leadership who heard that a lot about in the context of diplomacy, of foreign relations security, the economy. and so, and we need a strong leader and she can deliver on that and we don't see her as a strong leader. me. we leave it there for the moment. i know jessica, you have to leave. thanks so much for coming and spending all this time with us. jessica, do you know hey, just from the feed university in berlin, talking about the historical perspective off the selection of thanks so much for being a pleasure on chatting with me. thanks so much for privilege. and we can head over to brussels now, where alexander phone number and we spoke about sounding while, but is standing by alexandra, any initial reactions coming out from brussels. oh, yes, quite a lot of them. oh,

we have to say, of course, the 1st uh the, the that i took to facebook actually to congratulate donalds, trump, that was the hon, gillian prime minister victo all by. and it's of course, not a surprise that's he, quite early in the morning, was talking about a beautiful past to victory on his facebook page because he is known as a real trump fan actually. but then we have already seen other leaders and long that emanuel mccall and the french president, and also the funder lion, the president of the u. a. p and commission taking to x and expressing their congratulations was about fund a lie and stress the that it is, or how important it is for the you and us to work together. and that was also the message expressed by the french president. however, he also stated on in his message that he is willing and determines to work together

with donalds trump, with as he said, your convictions and mind. so stating he clearly that he understands that. but he stands for 4 different opinions, issues, and preferably values as well. so a lot of food i, we actions out there. and that is of course, telling us that you leaders in you that something like that might be coming. so it was a not, at least it is my interpretation of a big shock there for the europeans. it may not be a big shock, but that is certainly not the result that you are wanted. right. i mean, we've talked about this before. alexandra, what is your plan if i can call it that? this is, this is colossus of a grouping. what is your reps plan moving forward as well? i think that the plan is 1st and foremost to of course say hey,

we needs to work together. it's for the goods of europe and the you as a to keep those close cooperation alive. but you mentioned that before the europeans were preparing for a potential trump presidency in the last months and weeks to set up here and brussels. a special body to prepare for, for a potential fall out of the u. s. election. and the so called trump task force. they once it's to see their options. if trump, which really go ahead and push through with the he sweats on off imposing. can you tell rips on for an imported goods is bought at the same time? i know from many capitals across the continent that governments are there and government officials were also reaching out to the trump cam to make sure that they

know the people who are there, that they have people, they can talk to, to figure out what kind of pos for what, what kind of cooperation would be potentially possible in the future. so we see this 2 fold approach here for us to prepare for whatever may come in terms of the full out of the election, potential terrorists and other issues and, and at the same time, reaching out to make sure that they know who are dealing with the potential trump camp and also making sure to bring this message across that to rob is of course, ready and willing to work with donalds trump together to, to face the big challenges that both the u. s. and the you are facing right now, and i don't know if i can just ask you to sort of stay on the line because i'd like