code. shop dot foxnews.com. >> dana: katie. >> katie: tomorrow, national parks and forests, free entrance for veterans. lifetime pass. >> dana: katie, you are the best at "one more thing." that's it for us. "special report" is next. >> bret: veterans are great. thanks, dana. welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. breaking, president trump is sticking to his tradition that he will be reelected once massive ballot counting abuses exposed. he says his efforts to challenge a election totals are seeing big progress. we haven't seen the details from the cases the trump campaign insists will lead to massive vote changes and states needed for the president to win. federal prosecutors are becoming involved in fraud investigations while president-elect biden is taking congratulatory calls from world leaders. we will talk with secretary of state mike pompeo about all of it in a moment.

chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off as he often does on the north wall on. >> growing calls tonight from democrats and some republicans for the president to concede the election and allow a transition to begin. for the moment, the president and some very powerful allies are saying patients. president trump stink out of public view again today but making his president tromped staying out of public view again. "like the early vaccine. remember i told you so. vice president mike pence brushing off questions as to whether president trump should concede. >> is it time to concede? >> overturning the vote count might be a big hill, his efforts are getting support from senior members of his party. >> i think we ought to quit the hand-wringing.

not like act like it's extraordinary. we will get through it and we will swear in the winter just like we have every four years since 1793. >> the trump campaign collecting affidavits and sworn declarations from election workers detailing what it is to start . bill barr has instructed investigators to examine. saying such inquiries and reviews may be conducted if there are clear and credible allegations of irregularities that if true could potentially impact the outcome of a federal election in an individual state. barr cautioning attorneys saying while serious allegations should be handled with great care, speculative, fanciful or far-fetched claims should not be a basis for initiating federal inquiries. the guidance did not sit well with the director of the election crimes branch.

richard pilger stepping down. having familiarized myself with the policy and ramifications i must regretfully resign from my role. he will stay at the doj. the trump campaign launch a new legal action, this time in michigan alleging unequal treatment of republican voters, harassment of certified vote calendars, irregular ballots, counting of illegal votes and possible widespread software problems the campaign says could change the current vote count. the newly reelected senate minority leader today insisting there is no path for president trump to claim victory, that this is not a single state narrow margin like in the year 2000. >> many states where there are tens of thousands of votes difference. the republicans have no legal case. >> trump supporters who were so vocal in their support for the resident during the election are firm in their belief that the president does have a path to

claim another four years in the oval office. they plan to show that support with what they are calling a million maga march in washington, d.c., this coming saturday. >> bret: john roberts live on the north lawn. we are following it. we will have stories coming up. president-elect biden standing up for his old bosses signature legislative achievement. biden saying the trump administration supreme court challenge to obamacare is a matter of life and death. correspondent peter doocy has details. >> the president-elect thinks very little of republicans arguing in court against obamacare. >> this case represent the latest attempt by the far right ideologues to do with they have been repeatedly failing to do for a long time. >> far right ideologues was missing from the victory speech. >> we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. they are not our enemies. they are americans. take a handful of phone calls have been coming into wilmington.

one from french president emmanuel macron. >> congratulating you and congratulating kamala harris. >> biden says he's heard from great britain, ireland, and turkey. >> i feel confident we are going to be able to put america back in a place of respect that it had before. >> he hasn't heard from president trump. >> mr. president, i look forward to speaking with you. >> and they connect, it should be quick. >> he is never going to see donald trump again. donald trump is going off the stage on january 20. who cares? >> the president-elect's sister has long been one of his closest advisors. >> what role you play when your brother is in the white house? >> sister. >> you expect them to run for a second term? >> absolutely. >> filling up a cabinet could be complicated if republicans hold the senate. >> i take mcconnell at his word. i understand he will make it clear who he is prepared to support and not support.

that's a negotiation. >> one democrat is already warning the incoming president not to take a hard left turn. >> you're talking about basically green new deal and the socialism. that's not who we are is the democratic party. it's not how i was raised in west virginia. it's not the democrats i know. yet we have been tagged. if you have a d by your name, you must be for the crazy stuff and i'm not. >> gsa, federal funds and a formal transition. he said he could do without the classified residential beating. >> it would be useful but not necessary. i am not the sitting president. >> the president-elect argues the longer trump weights to concede, the worse it will look. >> it's neuber and embarrassed d quite frankly. >> i was in the front row for that event and the way it works. first advice president-elect spoke. then a staffer came and took away the stool she was standing

on that and it was biden's turn. he also took five questions from reporters who were called on by an aide offstage who had a list reporters to call on. bret. >> bret: peter, thank you. as peter mentioned, the supreme court is considering arguments tonight about the future of the affordable care act, obamacare. republican attorneys general in 18 states and the administration want the entire lot to be struck down. that's what they are are growing. several states and house of representatives are urging the court to leave the law in place. republicans succeeding now up 1 in the battle for the u.s. senate. democratic challenger cal cunningham has conceded his race to north carolina incumbent republican senator thom tillis. correspondent mark meredith has the details from raleigh. >> good evening. republican thom tillis has won a second term and six more years

in washington. he faced a tough challenge from cal cunningham, former state senator and iraq war veteran. tillis has maintained a lead since election night but coming and had hoped outstanding absentee provisional ballots would reshape the race. north carolina is giving its 100 counties more time than it normally does due to the pandemic to count its votes. republicans have made it clear they are frustrated that this process is still going on. as new numbers came out today it became clear to the cunningham campaign winning was no longer on the table. cunningham releasing a statement writing "the voters have spoken and i respect their decision. while the result of the election suggest there it remains deep political divisions in the state and the nation, the more complete story of our country lies in what unites us." tillis' win is a big boost for republicans to hope to maintain their majority in the senate. republicans have 49 seats. three seats still undecided. one in alaska and the two georgia senate seats. tillis said today all eyes

really are on georgia. >> nobody is talking about my race because they know we have won. >> do you expect... >> i expect a lot of us are going to be going to georgia next week. >> the presidential race here in north carolina still has not been called. president trump has been leading. he's up by about 75,000 votes. with absentee counting still ongoing, the race is simply too early to call at this point. bret. >> bret: mark, thanks. north carolina has been very slow. we expect friday for north carolina, possibly alaska. the runoff that mark talked about in georgia already drawing massive interest. huge amounts of money and resources. they are also serving as an early testing ground for potential 2024 g.o.p. white house hopefuls. florida senator marco rubio will be in marietta, georgia. vice president pence has indicated he will be there next week campaigning for senators

tom cotton and ted cruz. former south carolina governor and former u.n. ambassador nikki haley also expected. president-elect biden said he will do anything he can to help the democrats in georgia. republican michele steele has defeated first-term congressman harley rouda to earn a house eat from her southern california district. it's only the second time in more than two decades that i g.o.p. candidate in the state has defeated an incumbent democrat. president trump's top demo mat expressing confidence that the president is not going anywhere. i will ask him about it next. >> i am the secretary of state. i'm getting calls from all across the world. people are watching the election and they understand we have a legal process. they understand this takes time look limu! someone out there needs help customizing

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leaders as they are congratulating him on his election. joining us now to talk about foreign policy now and in the future, the secretary of state of the united states, mike pompeo. mr. secretary, thanks for the time. >> thinks for having me on. >> bret: what do you say to world leaders who are reaching out to joe biden, now president-elect, leaders from all kinds of countries. belgium, canada, estonia, france, germany, greece, the list goes on, even saudi arabia which was president trump's first stop. what do you say to them? >> there's an awful lot of work to do. we are reminding everyone that all the votes haven't been counted. we need to make sure the legal processes complied with and america will do what it does best. we will have a leader in the white house at noon on january 20 and we will execute

american foreign policy. president trump wants to make sure our entire team does all the way through every day. that's what we are focused on. that's what i have my team focused on. there's a lot going on in the world. we are pretty focused era on her own election. there's a lot going on in the world. >> bret: you are asked about the concerns about a smooth transition and you said there will be a smooth transition to a second trump administration. were you being serious? >> we will have a smooth transition and we will see what people ultimately decided when the votes have been cast. we have a process in the constitution lays out how electors vote. it's a detailed process. need to comply and i'm very confident we will have a good transition. we will make sure whoever is in office on noon on january 20 has all the tools readily available so we don't skip a beat with a capacity to keep americans safe. that's what i was speaking to. i thicket support for the american people and the whole wr

adversaries. >> bret: understanding we are following the legal ongoing's in various states and you're right, the electors are chosen until december 14. but there has been a concern in the past about transitions that have been delayed and that somehow on a national security front that makes the u.s. weaker at some point. do you disagree with that? >> i'm not worried about that at all. i was part of a position on the other side. i came into an administration when i was the cia director. we did it very efficiently. it didn't take as much time as some might be pretending that it's going to take. i am very confident. all the things that need to be done will be done in an appropriate way. we will deliver that. i wouldn't think for a moment if i was an adversary that this was the moment they might have an opportunity. it's not the case. president trump and our team are on watch. >> bret: back to my first

question, is it improper for foreign leaders to be reaching out to joe biden? >> if they are just saying hi, i suppose that's not too terribly difficult. make no mistake. we have one president, one secretary of state, one national security team at a time. it's appropriate it will be that way. one of the things i have observed with almost four years in my time in this administration is that folks refuse to get off the stage. they talk about healing into additional things. i have watched ben rhodes, susan rice and john kerry and wendy sherman the active on the world stage in ways that weren't consistent with the trump administration wasn't doing. i regret it wasn't in america's best interest that they chose to behave that way. >> bret: for all the focus at the beginning of the trump administration on incoming national security advisor michael flynn and his phone calls and they talk about the logan act, are you worried that that is happening now?

>> i'm always worried when people are engaging in activities, speaking with foreign leaders in a way that might be representing things that aren't true or might be attempting to influence american foreign policy in ways that are inconsistent with what the law requires. i know the logan act. i hope those folks out there having these conversations aren't violating out. i'm sure the department of justice will be keeping a good eye on it for us. >> bret: foreign policy didn't get a ton of coverage in the presidential election. a little bit. what's your biggest concern with a joe biden foreign policy? >> i think america's biggest concern ought to be that we will return to a policy of appeasement. i think the administration used the term "leading from behind," the antithesis of what president trump has done. we have been realistic. moving the embassy to jerusalem or taking down qassem soleimani or reducing the threat from iran or recognizing for the first time in 40 years that the chinese communist party presented in a normal threat to the security of the american people and frankly jobs and arty

american economy. i think that things that the obama administration did put americans into worse place. i think people's jobs and lives were less secure than they had been for these past four years and i hope that a president who comes into office in the middle of january next year will have a much more robust, marketable, more confident national security approach than what they have for those eight years. >> bret: which is the more imminent threat? iran, russia, china? >> those are hard questions to answer and when i think about the challenges that america is presented over the next five or ten years, the chinese communist party is the central threat. they are here. they are influencing the way we think about the world. they have technologies that are very capable. they have stolen intellectual property that's destroyed millions of jobs in places like kansas, iowa, michigan. we cannot let that continue to happen. president trump has made real

progress getting the world to recognize this threat. >> bret: should joe biden be receiving the presidential daily brief, the classified version? >> i will leave that to others to sort out whether it's appropriate or not. >> bret: when you say it's going to be a second trump administration, the president has tweeted out that this is a corrupt election, the democrats are trying to steal the election from him. does it make it harder for the state department in dealing with other countries where we have tried to say to them a democratic republic and our way of voting is the way to go. >> that's a great question, bret. i don't think that's the case at all. in my time with the state department, we worked hard in countries all over the world to help them build election infrastructure to make that they had transparency, to make sure they follow their own rules, their own systems. that's all we are asking for, to make sure we follow our own rules, our own constitution, our own law. we have a system that we need to keep pressing on and we need to

make sure every vote that was legal is counted and those that might not have been legal aren't counted. that's what we ask in countries all across the world. i think they see is doing it. i think other countries reflect on how america is proceeding and i think they are encouraged that the rule of law is something that matters. that's what we encourage every nation across the world to do. >> bret: some people were surprised that your west point classmate, secretary esper, was fired. were you? >> mark is a good friend and mark has served this nation. when we were cadets and his time in uniform, i wish him well. the president gets to choose the folks he wants to serve. i will leave it there other than to say i'm proud of the work that the entire team that the president has had for my four years has accomplished. hopefully we have more time to continue to work to keep americans safe. >> bret: you fought to have gina haspel at cia. the fbi director currently. do you think the president is going to make changes there as

well? >> i will leave those decisions about people to the president. i'm focused on the mission. i am focused on working with the team to make sure we deliver on behalf of the american people. >> bret: okay. last thing, 2024. do you have aspirations politically either at the highest office in the land or a certain kansas senate seat that may come open? >> bret, you know me better than that. i appreciate you asking. i am focused on what i'm doing today. i'll keep at it. >> bret: mr. secretary, we appreciate your time and we will check back in before january 20. >> that sounds great. thank you. >> bret: up next, we go live to philadelphia where the trump team intensifies the efforts to challenge election results in pennsylvania. here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering. fox 22 in houston. police veteran is killed in a shooting in north houston. the police chief says sergeant

sean rios was killed following a gun battle. police are searching for suspects. south florida residents deal with extensive flooding from tropical storm eta. fort lauderdale officials say they have deployed several pump trucks in an attempt to alleviate some of the standing water in one neighborhood where more than a million gallons of water have already been removed. this is a live look at philadelphia from fox 29. one of the big stories night, gas prices decline due to decreased demand among the coronavirus pandemic. aaa mid-atlantic says the average price of a gallon of regular gas in new jersey is $2.18. down $0.41 from a year ago. the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is around $2.11. that's the lowest point to start november since 2004. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back.

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♪ >> bret: president trump's focus on challenging the results of the election focuses in on pennsylvania. there are other legal battles but the legal struggle ramping up in pennsylvania as counting

votes moves on his intense. senior correspondent eric shawn has the latest on that battle and others around the nation. >> alleging a slew of voting problems and irregularities, president trump campaign is doing five states to stop them from certifying a win by joe biden. razor-thin arizona where about 15,000 votes separate the two candidates in the counting continues. the campaigns has some votes were improperly included. trump campaign advisor boris epstein believes the legal push will help the president pull out a win. >> there still votes from maricopa county. about 25,000. it has been great for the president and still may be 18,000 or 20,000 votes out of pima county which is moving strongly for president trump. we feel very good about the release of the numbers. i think we will win on the numbers. >> and pennsylvania the campaign wants to bounce 682,000 male and votes democrat rich philadelphia

because it claims g.o.p. watchers could not properly see them being counted. state house republicans. >> our constituents are demanding concrete action and it's our conviction that we must take the steps and ensure public trust in our electoral system. >> philadelphia election officials reject those claims, saying there are no illegal votes being counted. that every malin vote is double checked. republican watchers observed alongside their democratic counterparts. "the observers have been in the room since the beginning." in michigan the trump campaign claimed unregistered people voted. election officials doubt that the legal strategy will work. >> no systematic widespread voter fraud. if folks have concerns of irregularities we need to look into them. >> tonight the u.s. postal

service whistle-blower who claimed in erie, pennsylvania, that a supervisor ordered backdating of ballots to commit voter fraud has recanted. that according to the agencies inspector general. bret. >> bret: eric shawn live in philadelphia. thank you. we will look into all of these. republicans controlling the senate have unveiled a governmentwide $1.4 trillion spending bill that contains funding for the presidents border wall and other provisions opposed by democrats. top leaders in both parties are trying to pass a coronavirus relief package and the annual defense policy bill. the current continuing resolution expires december 11. stocks were mixed. dow was up 263. s&p 500 lost 5. nasdaq down 160. moments ago the associated press reported the u.s. has surpassed 1 million new confirmed coronavirus cases in the first ten days of november. experts say the surge in cases

appears to be much larger than the two previous ones and it's all but certain to get worse according to the experts. they also say there are reasons to think that the nation is better able to deal with the virus this time around. in california, san diego, sacramento, stanislav counties being ordered to reverse their reopening plans to go back to the most restrictive category of regulations and slowing the spread of the virus. the mayor of washington, d.c., is exempting herself after attending president-elect's speech in philadelphia, mayor miriam bowser claiming it was essential travel. lsu not playing this weekend because of coronavirus concerns and issues. so far three southeastern conference games for the weekend have been postponed. the former deputy director of the fbi says he said not have pursued the warrant for surveillance on a key member of

the 2016 trump team. that admission by andrew mccabe today came during a senate hearing on the russia collusion investigation. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel shows us what happened. >> the question is who is responsible. >> i am certainly responsible as a person in leadership. >> former fbi director andrew mccabe on the hot seat in front of a senate panel digging into the origin of the russia probe including surveillance of a then trump campaign aid. >> if you knew then what you know now what you have signed the warrant application in june of 2017 against carter page? >> no, sir. >> finding that the fbi's request for surveillance on carter page numerous factual errors by the fbi did not open the case because it liked one candidate and dislike the other. >> we open the case because it was our obligation and our duty to do so. we did our job. >> president trump urged g.o.p.

members to be tough, writing "republicans don't let andrew mccabe continued to get away with totally criminal activity. what he did should never be allowed to happen to our country again." fight for justice. the judiciary committee has heard from former fbi director james comey, former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, and former deputy attorney general sally yates about the fbi's actions. prominent democrats say it's time to move on. >> i think mr. chairman, it's time to turn the page on crossfire hurricane. >> it's time to stop relitigating issues of the last election. >> chairman graham defended digging into the issue. >> you've got to make sure those involved in investigating campaigns haven't even handed out it and whatever vices they have don't -- biases don't seep into the system so one candidate gets treated differently. >> graham criticized the fbi for taking a conversation with

george papadopoulos and turning the country upside down for two and half years. when the cia said hillary clinton had okayed a plan to link president trump to russia to take the heat off her, graham says the bureau never did. bret. >> bret: mike, thank you. up next, one famous biden supporter wants trump voters to now "suck it up." we'll tell you who and why. as we had to break, we wish a happy birthday to the u.s. marine corps celebrating its 145th anniversary. semper fi. age is just a number. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein... -with 20 grams of protein for muscle health- -versus only 16 grams in ensure® high protein. and now enjoy boost® high protein in café mocha flavor.

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♪ >> bret: a vatican investigation into a former cardinal had found that a series of bishops, cardinals and popes downplayed or dismissed reports that he slept with seminarians. the panel determined pope francis merely continued his predecessor's handling of the situation until a former

altar boy alleged abuse. the vatican took the extra nurse tip today of publishing its two-year, 400 plus page internal investigation. some media personalities are urging trump supporters to now make peace with election results. whoopi goldberg of "the view" wants trump voters to in her words, "suck it up." some hillary clinton supporters never seemed to do that after the 2016 election. the story tonight from fox news media analyst and host of fox news' media buzz, howie kurtz. >> as joe biden assumes the role of president-elect it might be a celebratory time for liberals but some are frustrated and angry at president trump's voters. whoopi goldberg called doubts about the election ridiculous. >> hillary clinton didn't say wait a minute, stop account. she didn't say this isn't right. she didn't say any of that. all of you, suck it up. suck it up like we started out.

speaker republicans taking their lead from the president, disputing the projection of a biden victory by the major networks and his unproven allegations of widespread voter fraud and that has sparked a backlash. former msnbc cohost telling trump voters "i hope the pain and anxiety you feel that was excruciating. he voted against america." sonny halston denounced trump supporters. >> i'm not going to say that 50% of americans are racist and sexist and homophobic, but i will say that that tells me that they will look the other way, and that i think is despicable. it's un-american. >> when it came to trump's election, some democrats didn't exactly suck it up. >> he knows he is a illegitimate president. >> trump didn't win the election in 2016. he lost the election. >> even biden responded last year to a woman calling.

>> the media are taking note of a few democrats are urging employers to shun ex-trump staffers. jake tapper tweeted that while he sympathizes with those laws they should consider the benefits of a peaceful transfer of power and how future employers might see your character. he backtracked, writing blackballing seems the exact opposite of biden's calls for unity and healing. some liberal pundits risk being seen as sore losers. it hardly seems un-american that 71 people voted for donald trump as their preferred candidate. 71 million people. >> bret: thank you. the panel on the fight over the election results and what comes next. you work hard for your money. stretched days for it. juggled life for it. took charge for it.

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♪ >> there will be a smooth transition to a second trump administration. we are ready. the world is watching what's taking place. we are going to count all the votes. >> bret: are you being serious? >> we will have a smooth transition and we will see what people ultimately decided when the votes have been cast. we have a process. the constitution lays out how electors vote. it's a detailed process. we need to comply with all of it and i'm very confident we will have a good transition.

>> bret: that's secretary of state mike pompeo earlier today and then our interview here on "special report" about the transition in the process. let's bring the panel. former tennessee congressman harold ford jr.. mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist." guy benson, political editor at townhall.com. host of the guy benson show on fox news radio. what about the secretary today and what the administration is saying right now, digging in its fuels as the legal challenges move forward? >> i think the initial comment that got so much attention was probably pompeo being a little bit tongue-in-cheek and playing with the media and the people who ask him the question. you can make the case maybe that's not something that a high-ranking government official should be cavalier about. his responses to you i think this is just a wait-and-see mode. they are in a holding pattern waiting to see what happens with some of the challenges popping up across the country any set

said ultimately he's confident that there will be a smooth transition. to whom or to what, unspecified but i think everyone sort of understand with the likeliest outcome is here and it's one that's been projected is the true outcome by our decision desk. >> bret: harold, we heard hillary clinton weeks before election day say to joe biden's whatever happens, do not concede concede. don't concede. if it was reversed, if the situation was reversed and the biden team was fighting legal battles in various states, do you think there would be a concession? how would it be handled? >> thanks for having me on. i don't know the answer to that. my sense is that there would not be what is happening right now. i would remind everyone that in 2016 then donald trump, now president trump won wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania by 77,000 votes. he declared it a landslide although he lost the national vote by 3 million votes.

two days after the election, president obama invited then president-elect trump to the house. today joe biden has won wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania by 225,000 votes. it appears he will end up with a 5 million national popular vote advantage and we are faced with the challenges were faced. i think the president has every right to exhaust every option. i was most pleased to see today secretary pompeo, and i would agree it was probably a little tongue-in-cheek. as impressed as he joe biden when asked by a reporter that very few republicans are calling you mr. president. are you bothered by that question ricky said at some point they will and he smiled and walked off the stage. it's a kind of transfer of power i think the country is hoping for. >> bret: president-elect is what he was talking about. >> we will remember four years ago when donald trump won the obama-biden administration spied

on his incoming administration. many people refuse doing knowledge the legitimacy of his election including 60 some members of congress. they refused to go to his inauguration. they spent the entirety of the first term refusing to knowledge it. we have a really serious issue with a voting system we've never quite done before. we had a rushed move to mail in balloting. it's very controversial. a lot of americans have been saying for months they didn't think there would be appropriate amounts of checks on it. this is not an idle concern. election fraud is something that happens all the time. earlier this year you had a former democratic member of congress sentenced along with the election judge in philadelphia who he bribed to stuff ballots over the course of many elections. a couple years ago in new jersey they had a revote for election irregularities that weren't deemed to have change the outcome of the election. when you move to mail in

balloting the opportunities for fraud ramp up quite a bit particularly when you're not doing checks on signatures. when people aren't allowed to observe vote totals. the more distance you put between people voting and the vote being counted in terms of time and distance, it makes things ripe for systematic fraud. telling americans that they don't need to be worried about it when they have been worried about it is not something that's going to lead to confidence in the system. >> bret: right, and you have to let the legal challenges play out. the pennsylvania situation, there is a legitimate thing about transparency, about being able to be where it was counted. plus the segregated ballots and provisional ballots that a judge said that you had to put aside and count separately and whether those districts did that, we don't know that's what will be adjudicated. so far we haven't seen these cases that are going to overturn tens of thousands of votes in these states for the president to win. guide. >> correct. i am totally on board with

looking into every single major allegation especially those that are backed up by some evidence like legally sworn affidavits, et cetera. some lawsuits are definitely not frivolous to think it's completely fair to have an exhaustive process we were making huge this can like this as a country. i also don't have a problem with the attorney general. there's a lot of hyperventilating. he said let's look into big, substantial examples if there are any back to have by might turn a result in a state here or there. let's look at those the doj and try to give people confidence one way or the other. i think that's fine and i think it's appropriate. >> bret: let's listen to the center. senator durbin and senator kennedy. >> what he did yesterday is unprecedented and unforgivable. a day will come and it will come soon when bill barr stinks out the back door at the department of justice. >> i thought it was perfectly

appropriate. this is where we are in my opinion. we have to get this right. see what i wanted to get that in there. go ahead and finish. >> i tend to agree with senator kennedy on this point. i can understand why democrats would be upset about it. i think given this environment and the questions people have, if some of those questions can be looked into by credible people and put to rest that would be a healthy thing. >> bret: harold, we have a decision in north carolina. cal cunningham conceding to tom tellis, the republican incumbent. that is a victory for tillis. a yellow check mark that we like to put on the screen. that means the senate balance of power is 49-48. it seems like alaska eventually, once they get the ballots counted, dan sullivan looks poised to win. you're looking at 50-48 with two runoffs in georgia. we have kind of looked at it

again and again and again. my question to you is how much does each party put into that georgia fight and do democrats really campaign, can they get those two seats over the finish line? >> there is no doubt congratulations to all who have been declared victors. i would point out that the trump campaign has lost all ten lawsuits filed thus far. we will see if there's something. i would agree both pundits. one of my good friend said control of the senate would come down to georgia and it's going to come down to that. democrats have to hope they can follow the leadership of joe manchin who was on your show last night reminds us what seriousness and leadership looks like in the u.s. senate. or will they follow a set of talking point and end narrative that a majority of the country is not for. it's clear on election night a week ago the country rejected radical socialist message and wanted to embrace a centrist get things done message. the more democrats do that, the

more likely it is we will succeed in georgia. >> bret: all right. harold, guy, mollie hemingwa mo. i am robert strickler. i've been involved in communications in the media for 45 years. i've been taking prevagen on a regular basis for at least eight years. for me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that prevagen seems to help me recall things and also think more clearly. and i enthusiastically recommend prevagen. it has helped me an awful lot. prevagen. healthier brain. better life.

♪ >> bret: finally tonight, the element of surprise. >> open the door! >> bret: took a break from training to give 90-year-old mary lassiter a birthday surprise, probably scared her a little bit. several officers celebrated with presents and balloons on her special day. happy birthday. and after being with the air force in afghanistan, deputy sheriff clint thomas planned a special return, in morgan county, missouri, pulled over the vehicle his son was in, deputy thomas surprised his son before the turtle embraced.

look at that. welcome home. i can see those again and again. this week is very special, because guess what? it is masters week in the fall. i may masters a big fan. thank you for inviting us into your home tonight. that is it for tonight's "special report" fair balance and unafraid. martha, this weekend is sacred in my high school. >> martha: my favorite time of the year. enjoy every minute of it, bret, you deserve it. thank you so much. good to see you tonight. good evening to you, everybody. i'm martha maccallum, and this is "the story." one week after the election, there are postelection world going on, and two completely different foreign policies emerging, joe biden says he is done with america first. secretary of state mike pompeo saying "not so fast." >> there will be a smooth transition to a second trump administration. we are ready. the world is watching