it's a nail biting post election day in the u.s. team biden claims victory is in that site well donald trump thank you says the democrats of fraud. the bottle now is for several key states but the vote count could potentially drag on for days or even longer especially with child threatening to take matters to the supreme court. so we'll be going to the u.s. supreme court we want to. voting just. so you're prepared for any effort you make in any court and. to advance the absurd theory that the president is supposed to last night.

9 pm here in moscow welcome to our national glad you chose this hour we got up to talk about starting with how the fate of the u.s. presidency rests in the hands of a dozen states still counting votes right this minute results that hung in the balance and could still go either way president joe biden is ahead of donald trump in the race for the white house but still doesn't have enough to be counted sixteenths well joining me live now is caleb moore penn who is a new york frost. everything to play for still it seems and while team biden's feeling pretty confident they claim victory in the sites don't trump has demanded a recount in one of the battleground states and wisconsin is not is not right. indeed we are seeing that the trump campaign is saying that the margin is close enough that they would like a recount and as we look at the states remaining we have wisconsin and

michigan those are the 2 states where the vote counting is not officially concluded but it's being reported that that biden has a pretty solid lead in both of those states in both wisconsin and in michigan we're also looking at pennsylvania now pennsylvania is not expected to release its results until possibly thursday due to the fact that a federal judge required the inspection oh they u.s. postal facility where mail in ballots are being sent to but we now have donald trump on social media sounding the alarm that he suspects that there is some foul play this is a tweet from the president of united states saying last night i was leading often solidly in many key states and almost all instances democrat running controlled then one by one they started to magically disappear a surprise ballot dumbs were counted very strange and the pollsters got it completely in a storage the wrong how come they didn't how come every time they count mail in

ballot dumps they are devastating in their percentage and power of destruction trump has raised concerns about pennsylvania arguing that perhaps there is somehow going to be another fraudulent ballot dump in his perception in pennsylvania now these tweets from the president united states have been labeled by twitter as disputed and might be misleading about an election or civic matter and actually just see these tweets you have to click on a disclaimer twitter as it has decided to basically suppress these messages from the president of the united states. however the biden campaign is expressing quite a bit of confidence they seem to believe they are on the road to victory they say things are looking good for them now biden is expected to address the nation shortly we're waiting to hear from biden donald trump continues to speak up on social media donald trump as you already heard last night alluded to some kind of legal challenge in court cases the campaign is now talking about

a recount so it appears just as many feared it is the day after the election in the united states we do not have a clear winner and while the national guard has been deployed in many places around the country there is not a clear winner we have you know contrasting statements and contrasting claims coming from different sides looks like this is a contested election with not a clear result many people are nervous and the whole country seems to be watching and waiting as votes continue to be counted in wisconsin and in michigan but it looks good for the biden campaign but the trump campaign says they smell some valid claim. you just look at the results it looks like biden's leading by about $21000.00 and wisconsin which a cruel fate is about the margin. managed to win from hillary back in 2016 so i'm going to be a long day i had many thanks that was capable penn reporting from new york. well neither donald trump nor biden seemed willing to concede as we just heard from kate

abound accusations of failure to forward on threats to take them out to to the supreme court only placing thought the stress on the already existing deficiency in american society and i discussed the current political climate with mark asked if. well the claiming that they would get with an election this close with an election this close with where you've got to wait until the final hours to see who voted for whom who is actually leading you need to set a precedent create few rules you need. make noise to make sure that when when it comes when it comes the time for a recount perhaps or a challenge to the supreme court you can say that over remember i was shouting about this or i was i was screaming about voter fraud there were this was unfair it's all about setting in creating a precedent these this was an ugly campaign the situation the streets in america is

ugly people are completely divided and it's a 2 cabs and this wasn't a blowout as polls indicated out tool this was a much qusay election suggesting that there's still a lot of america despite everything that the united states has been through this year that support and they're all b.s. the good to be very unhappy if there's a blue president in the white house so now trump is creating all this noise shouting and screaming about the fraud and you know illegal activities and errors in vote counts and you had him tweeting about 128000 votes magically appearing for biden 1st of all it's worth segued sick of balance that was likely a reporting error to twitter immediately sense of the comment but but it's everywhere now and this is this has been trump's tactic you know if you create new is then in the future you'll be able to point out that this was you know trouble point and here we have a situation in which there's all sorts of crises in every state as you know

something that either side is unhappy with and now they're claiming that they're going to go to the supreme court we want. to be used in a proper manner so we'll be going to the u.s. supreme court we want all voting just. we don't want them to find any ballots at 4 o'clock in the morning and them to the list ok. so you're prepared for any effort republicans make in any court in any of the states to advance the search fieri president last night. yeah there was such a mixed reaction to trump speech at 2 am when he came out all smiles by saying this is far from over and it's not the blue wave as many we're protecting as you're quite right and sad but i mean still a lot of people for you know what pre-election this is just a lot of people saying all that we're going to fight about but they didn't maybe

expect it to actually get to this point are we surprised that actually got to a point of 2 presidential candidates saying we're going to go to court well 2020 and all that of course there was a new put it this is the worst case scenario if one of them had more than a blue at the polls indicated you know i would be fired it would be the sword the new president the other would be forced to concede the clues through these the mall worst case scenario it is because there's no room to contest the election i mean there were 50 o.s.c. observers for the entirety of the united states though there was no you know there's no outside observers who you could then ask unbiased people who have you knew bush neutral you you could ask is this fair with business for i mean some of these allegations if this election was in ukraine or in russia that be shouting and screaming about how unfair and unfree it was 'd here it's completely different the mail in ballots as well the early voting it all skewed the balance of what was

expected and what wasn't with with the with the letters being counted obviously they favor biden because he had called it as worthless malin rather than a ted with trumpet it was the opposite and with different states having different regulations you know different vote counting mechanisms and procedures it's just all sort of confusing to the point where you can say anything which is what both candidates have been saying you know you like and you can tell the people anything you want anything you want your supporters they'll support you just because of the color of the of a hat you've got on your head other. supporters you'd of stabbings it from the white house to the wideouts to the i mean people taking out their disagreements says it all money another i mean this is this is completely and president and he just pushed issue how cool rise than how divided the united states is more so than

at any point in living memory and this is something that. is reported on significantly that the united states now is as divided as it's never been before. it was all promises back in 2016 when donald trump took his place in the white house the nation was already divided by race gender class you name it and the country needed a hero now it's time for america get behind a division have to get together. republicans and democrats and independents across this nation i say it is time for us to come together as one united people turned out trump never came to be that knight in shining armor.

20 twentieth's presidential election seasons looks more like an all out war on the streets more than anything mishandling of the pandemic response and the economic crisis but most significant was the brutal killing of george floyd that sparked outrage across the nation and even calls to de-fund the police all together. and instead of trying to unite people america's dividing lines became part of both parties political strategies on the one hand biden and the democrats sold themselves as allies of the so-called peaceful protests what's let's be honest we're not so peaceful. problems citizens. peacefully protest.

not a bad way to dip your toes into the more radical left and black voter pools but on the other hand you have trump who decided to play the tough guy calling anti racism protesters vandals and anarchists trump sent federal troops to put down uprisings in cities a move that one support from a number of police unions and people who didn't want to see their white picket fence neighborhoods ruined now the law and order doctrine also in bold and some of trump's more radical supporters so that seeing armed right wing militias and tea for freely walking around the streets of american cities became a new reality and what have both candidates done to fix all this point the finger it is what it is is there a z what's going on and he doesn't want to say law and order because he can't because he'll lose his radical left supporters proud about who is stand back and stand by but i'll tell you what i'll tell you what somebody has got to do something

about anti fair and the left because this is not a right as we move them is there is a direct this is a guy about what it's about this is the radical left would you she was on both sides of the political spectrum we've got armed groups white nationalists proud boys right wing militias and tea for the whole bunch so what exactly will happen when the election is over weld everyone just sit down and decide to accept the results. well with the world still waiting on tenterhooks for the results europe's been reacting to the situation of course with us all my colleague andrew farmer discussed the response with italian london sonnet to penske in paris and you're very lucky as well peter all of us in berlin. we've heard from a few senior figures within the e.u. bush notably the prime minister of slovenia of all places yet is has said that he's already called it basically for donald trump and mike pence. his tweet was followed up with one from the chief spokes person of the e.u.

commission who said that the democratic process was still underway yet in that there was still chances things could change but we've also heard from munford verba who's one of the most senior peas in the european parliament saying that we should look here in europe towards the united states and if we don't sort out our problems in the e.u. we could end up as divided as america while your said the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs has been keeping it as diplomatic as you would expect from the e.u. top diplomat that's been pretty much the message as well for mayor in germany from one of the country's main tabloid newspapers good look mr president whoever it is on the front page of build saying that this was the most important vote in the world right now that was going on what we've heard from senior figures though here in berlin from angela merkel's cabinet is that whoever is in charge of the united states following this election the problems that are in existence between berlin

and washington they aren't going to go anywhere. like the german government and defense ministry we have to deal with any reality on the ground in the us regardless of who gets to point the administration points about the need for more german and european defense spending north stream to relations with russia have also been brought up by the democrats the time is different but imprints. the demands are just as tough from that party try it to the presidency germany have been one of the united states' closest allies politically economically and strategically some of those issues have been spawned in a new way. with berlin in washington it polar opposites when it comes to nato spending trump isn't the 1st president to tell germany that it leads to contribute more but he's the 1st 'd one to do it so publicly and so often when it comes to north stream 2 a pipeline bringing gas from russia directly into germany well trying to say it's

a new start everything you can to try and shut that down including putting in place sanctions against german entities involved in it something that would have been on thinkable in the past then it's the relationship between donald trump and chancellor angela merkel it clearly well it's clear they don't get on a lot of senior figures in germany in berlin in the political sphere. would really rather a biden presidency not because the problems would go away but because donald trump has demonstrated time and time again he's willing to air the dirty laundry in public that perhaps would be done behind closed doors under a by presidency. the u.k. has this special relationship is it keeps a with the united states what it said given that the election is hanging in the balance in the united states so-called special relationship between the former imperial power of the. sun if you will the united

states and that's what was called in by winston churchill many years ago and it has survived. in the relationship recent years perhaps some strains creeping in on the donald trump you've seen differences on things like the 5 g. system here in the u.k. with trump pressuring the u.k. to lessen or completely kick out chinese influence in the 5 g. system differences with regard. adds to the iran deal and perhaps all of those reasons why the foreign secretary told me that rob was somewhat circumspect saying that it's not really important who the president is because he believes that special relationship will overcome any ups and downs depending on who's in the white house they're always slightly different controls of the opportunities and the relationship but come what may i'm very confident the bedrock ties all security cooperation and shared values will mean that the friendship the strength of economic ties cultural ties the shared interests i'm very confident that the

relationship will go from strength to strength all of these don't exist in a vacuum the united kingdom itself is really how cling to wars and no deal breaker the coronavirus because when. enough as it is the u.k. were banking on a trade deal between the u.k. and the usa but we've seen previous democratic president barack obama saying that the u.s. is priorities would be a trade deal with a big block like the e.u. the u.k. would be to the back of the line remains to be seen whether biden would take a similar stance to that of his democratic colleague but then on the other hand you have donald trump saying that he does want to strike a trade deal with the united kingdom but at what cost there are many here in the u.k. that fear that any trade deal would mean essentially the asset stripping of the united kingdom and selling off public assets and utilities like the national health service the n.h.s. many people here watching those election results very closely to see what it means

for the future of the united kingdom behaving pretty much diplomatic responses with the election hanging in the balance is that the story too in france president mccall has been incredibly tight lipped on twitter today in regards to this election but we did have one slip from the minister of the economy he's tweeted in the last few hours that what ever happens in the united states states europe must. and politically and economically in the face of not just the united states but also china so a sense that regardless of the outcome of the election over the other side of the atlantic france in europe will be more to their own tune when president michael was elected hey back in 2017 trump was already in office in the u.s. he invited trump to come and spend basti day here in france and it did seem as if the choose genuinely go sold with each other but that quickly soured and there have been big problems in the relations over the last few years let's start off with the

paris climate accord president trump said he was going to leave the paris climate accord which might present was very unhappy about there was also the iranian nuclear deal which again trump said he was going to leave now president mark owen was trying desperately to keep that to rein in nuclear coolant life there's also been the trade rules between the countries the u.s. has hit products in europe including french products such as wine and cheese with these massive taxes europe is looking at retaliatory taxes for that but it is holding on holding on until there's a result of this election to see who they might be dealing with in regards to that trump is the winner of this election we can expect that there will be a bumpy ride over the next year is now if biden is the winner of this election perhaps doesn't change too much over some of the issues but biden has been clear

that he would take the u.s. back into the paris climate accord this ingestion that he would like go back to the negotiating table over the iranian nuclear deal and as i said the e.u. is holding off on those retaliatory tariffs because they think if it's a boy done presidency they might be able to open those negotiations and smooth over the issues but let's be clear if biden is the winner he is going to have a lot to deal with on his own. domestically so regardless of whether this is a trump or a point when of course she'd ministration here in france who work with that new administration in the u.s. but it doesn't seem like it's going to be easy sailing. while let's get some more reaction to this now and speak to form austrian foreign minister karen consoled karen always good to see you thanks for coming on. first of all let's just start generally how far do you think that these elections tensions were already running high after the riots in the summer. how far do you think these elections are going

to make american society even more polarized. when it has been polarized various reasons and i remember. the days of the counting between. during the bush election campaign 20 years ago so we have seen a gap that has only. there has always been some sort of polarized nation within the us american society the ideal that we have of one america and way of living that you can make this rather. your life picture but it's not happening i want to also ask you specifically regarding the e.u. if biden was to come. to the white house how likely do you think american or how much would american follow foreign policy towards the bloc change. well we when we remember we in the european union remember why president biden asked the

why president of the obama administration and so wallace definitely a very strong sense of honeymoon in a transatlantic relationship despite the fact that the horse and the obama administration older kept turning away created and new national security talks freend us was having more to the pacific area so i think where taking a certain new stance such biden is of course the wise president of the obama presidency sion and there was a the was a different mood june happening between the european union and the united states but we are in a different era to date we all have to be a war competitive in a world where china takes the place from number 2 to number one as an economic power and old as a geopolitical actor so there is competition and this new sense of competition will

also be felt with joe biden we've also seen under the trumpet ministration such a new european powers including francais have sort of stake in a step back from nato t. think that that trend could be were fast or actually it sort of quite suits them and i just going to stick with that in about to watch. well in-between inside the european union the has been a fresh debate about a european pillow within nato that's again an old debate that goes back to general shall go on. president mccall sees himself like many presidents as the heir to the very specific role that the gold took for france so. it's an ongoing debate always will but again also here i think that it has come to mind each and every. effort was it something that.

we also i think in recent years particularly since bret's it has been a lot of european discussion among citizens about foreign policy and often that determines how europeans do you think that that's the same with americans as well although they are much more focused on what's happening within america's borders. well i remember 1st i wrote. saying what's good for kentucky is good for the world i also think you're through thick skin and i'll always be irritated i said to myself oh my god you know as americans only care about their own national character or you talk about. having old you have to tell. you which of them at all you all hate them for well this. war. and particularly. what it looks like to look.

at that card that was. completely lost my mind it's already the american election chaos that's left me befuddled as well that was current case before the austrian foreign minister thanks for giving us the european perspective for that. well let me ask you a clock now at the latest situations we've got all different kinds of reports that coming in from key. states now these are the ones that you're going to see in just a 2nd these are the great ones coming out now now so far does have the edge over and not simply a victory for him might come up from the states again like i said picture the great ones these are the battleground ones that might swing the way now to all of those wisconsin on michigan that the ones. now in recent hours they have edge towards blue with biden taking the lead he's ahead in michigan by almost one percent of the boy at this point one results are expected that surge and while those are new a small number of states up for grabs that still chaunce have both been counted that's what we were telling throughout the coming hours so do check and back with

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