republican poll watchers have not been granted access to polling locations where votes are being counted they say that michigan law requires this to happen so in both cases they are trying to halt the vote count in again pennsylvania and in michigan that is the very latest also in the last hour the state of wisconsin has gone into joe biden's column for the presidency now this according to the associated press that's 10 electoral votes they go to by them putting him right now at our count as to 48 donald trump with 214 electoral votes so obviously a lot going on here again the associated press projected that with 95 percent of the vote really a little more than 29000 votes that joe biden has won the state of wisconsin so a big win for biden there it's maybe what prompted the campaign to step up and attempt to block the counting in those other states but let's take a look at the map here and see what else is going on because in georgia the secretary of state says they will get their numbers today they say by the end of

the day today and then they'll be off everybody's radar right now president trouble with about a $100000.00 vote lead in the state of georgia also north carolina so this whole section the southeastern section of the country very important to the trump campaign right now troubling to around 80000 votes in north carolina the north carolina state board of elections official explain this afternoon that they stopped counting last night because there were no more ballots to count that were that's what we're told and that they are now counting absentee ballots ok up in michigan as we mentioned right now the drum campaign has asked to stop the counting there that's because joe biden leads 49 percent to trump's 48 percent but it's less than one percent a $30000.00 vote difference pennsylvania also where that lawsuit has been filed to try to halt the counting only 64 percent of the vote has been counted right now trump has a 500000 vote lead but many of the votes still to be counted are mail in ballots trump has about 53 percent of the vote there compared to 45 percent of the vote vote for by. by the way we're told that that vote will not be completed until at

least the end of this week also out here in the west biden right now he leads in the vatican with 67 percent of the vote confirmed 49 percent to 48 percent but biden only has an $8000.00 vote lead in nevada about 588000 votes to trump's 580000 so obviously as we said a lot going on here with the presidential map and of course wisconsin as we mentioned there is less than one percent difference in the vote tally between trump and biden there and already the trump campaign has said that they will ask for a recount which you can do under wisconsin law as long as the final total is within one percent now let's shift over to the senate races because a lot going on with the u.s. senate now keep in mind we've heard a lot about the u.s. senate over the last few weeks and about how democrats were going to pick up not only retain the house pick up the white house but they would also win the senate well right now here's our count falls republicans have 48 senate seats compared to

democratic control of 45 senate seats within the last hour the associated press has called the main seat for susan collins with 51 percent of the vote susan collins the incumbent in maine she was seen as vulnerable to democrats but she has retained that seat also in north carolina thom tillis he is the republican incumbent it looks like he is defeating right now calcuttan him by roughly 100000 votes there an interesting race is one in michigan you have a republican challenger by the name of john james he's african-american he has 810000 vote lead right now over the democratic incumbent gary peters so if republicans were to pick up that seat it would actually increase their hold on the senate in alaska you have dan sullivan he's a republican that race is still up in the air but not sure should be right now he has a huge lead of 63 percent of the vote without gross's 31 percent now in georgia there are 2 senate races david perdue he's leading john arse off by roughly 160000 votes looks like he's going to pick up or retain his seat he's the incumbent. excuse me

there's also a special election and that's going to go to a runoff between kelly loffler and the income she's the incumbent there and raphael warnock he is the democratic challenger that race though will not be decided in a runoff until january and also keep in mind folks you know we heard so much about the senate races mitch mcconnell democrats spent $100000000.00 trying to get rid of the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell they did not do so he cruised to reelection and so did south carolina senator lindsey graham so again all this talk of democrats who are going to take the senate that part certainly has not panned out it doesn't look like anything is really panned out just yet then given those numbers and given what you just said about them now trying to halter top administration trying to halt these count how likely is that to happen we have so many states still up in the air and question and whether or not we're even going to hear from those results today or tomorrow also up in the air well just kind of a 1st blush here it looks like the trumpet ministration excuse me from campaign may

have made a huge mistake by give the president coming out last night and saying that he had already won and saying that this thing was rigged because now it looks like they're looking for any reason to stop it as opposed to the very specific reasons they're sitting in these lawsuits which is that they don't have poll workers who are adequately able to monitor now one of the things they're probably citing here is there was a poll worker a poll watcher in the state of pennsylvania who was turned away you might have seen the video of that he was turned away when he showed up to watch the polls and told he couldn't come in eventually that was changed he says it was because he was a republican he says republicans were given one color card to show that they were a poll watcher democrats were given another color he says that's why he was forced out and something else is pretty interesting here so as we get all these numbers together i got to mention something the overall numbers for this election are absolutely staggering according to the associated press joe biden now has received more votes than any u.s. presidential candidate in history more than 70000000 votes have gone to. joe biden

and that's more than a 1000000 votes higher than the previous record set by obama in 2008 so joe biden right now sits at 70000000 votes donald trump sits at 67000000 votes nationally historical election that we're seeing at take place here but either way they say that their votes were halted or of the ballots not counting right now none of these candidates have yet reached that level of the number of to 70 that's going to end up at the house what are we looking at well that's that's the point right there the reason the campaign wants to stop the voting now is the excuse me the county now is if you stop the counts as they're coming in you potentially are able to block biden from reaching that to 70 if biden picks up pennsylvania he picks up michigan it's game over so that what the trump campaign is trying to do is halted and throw out ballots that they say are invalid and count the ballots that they claim are valid of course there's going to be a big disagreement between these campaigns as to what is invalid and what is valid but that's the goal here is to ultimately get control of that narrative before

biden hits to 70 because once he gets to 70 and by the way as we mentioned out in the in the vet of right now biden is leading potentially could pick that up but if you keep adding these totals eventually biden hits that to 70 and gets to declare victory and that's what the trump campaign is trying to hold they don't want to look like he's declared victory and now they're reacting to that would also be very interesting to see nevada flip hasn't happened in so long that's one stay with us. but the u.s. election results still in limbo global markets rally and surged on wednesday for the 3rd straight day to explain this let's go to bill that's co-host chrystia and you know of openness to having them around the ottavio we still don't have a clear winner we just heard what ben break all the numbers down at the market is rallying the nasdaq up over 4 percent today what's driving this and is this optimism really pretty premature. well it's quite a remarkable turn of events with this kind of contested election we were seeing a lot more volatility in the markets and our pressure and tech stocks are disparate

through the roof i think what's happening there is that basically there was sort of agreement amongst democrats and republicans that there was a need to regulate big tech more and do something about is one of the few points of agreement between democrats republicans because there was not agreement on how you should regulate what you do about something needed to be. with the democrats it looks like just a few days ago they were going to take the white house and the house and therefore be able to push through their bigotry gender and regulate big tech much more closely that's a battery so all these extra headwinds that it takes thought they were going to face are just disappear you also see that moral level proposition $2210.00 the formula was voted to allow. left to basically carry on aren't good as in and contractors of so i guess big tech is looking this is really sort of a sigh of relief in saying i'm not going to come off this and replace more

intensely and so this the ice is going through the roof of the coast as a result. there kristie i so that you know obviously we're sitting here looking at a presidential race that is inconclusive to say the least who knows how long this goes on is this going to impact even damper consumer spending this holiday season considering where the retailers are right now or is that going to be more of an issue do you think of coronavirus and what lingers there. it's going to play in to tell us have faced a tremendously difficult 2021st they had this rough a supply chain lines coming from china when china suffered from coronavirus then coronavirus hit our shores and all the retailers they had to shine or lay off and then attempt to reopen again then they had to board up again and hunker down during the george floyd protest so they went quite a lot this year and now they face another threat during the all important holiday season which is to create consumer spending in the face of this problem of the election so consumer spending has been pretty strong during this entire lockdown and coming out of lockdown but now we're starting to go into the holiday season

when it's supposed to really really pick up and so far everything has been put on pause then he has been put on pause until americans get some real clarity on who's actually going to with a recent survey from adobe analytics which tracks internet retailers they showed a drop in spending it's very likely you know as in 2016 online sales dropped 14 percent the day after the election and then they dropped 6 percent the day after the 2018 midterms so right now i'm currently 26 percent of consumers said that the presidential outcome will affect their holiday spending so the prolonged counting of votes and also the possibility of a court battle or civil unrest has prompted me to tell us in major cities such as the city of new york chicago and l.a. to board up their windows again so on top of that as you mentioned millions of americans are still out of work and regardless of whether or biden winning the president will likely lead a divided government which will make it all the more difficult to strike a stimulus deal for consumers and businesses. tabio the i assume services report

came out today that slim to the weakest since may job growth it's also showing some signs of slowdown how this is affect the u.s. recovery story in the 4th quarter a story that president trump had said was going to be the best story of the year. well i think there's a lot of very very slight. decrease to 56.6 from 57.8 percent and they are still in positive territory anything above 50 percent as opposed to so it looks like things that expanding and i wouldn't read too much into one single malts operation that will get i think overall things look pretty good we're not in the levels that we were. but we're all on the in that direction so i would expect to see the 4th quarter also showed very very strong growth strong growth this quarter but it's going to come out pretty strong and i think as long as there's no lock downs going us we're going to see a fairly strong economic shoot for this is a small but things are still looking to it doesn't look like there will be

a lock down for that for that reason i exactly for it not affect the already hurting economy but christi the night was full of surprises not just here in the united states but over in china the acro-bat i.p.o. was act halted it was also less than 48 hours before it was expected to be the largest i.p.o. in history what happen here. so this was completely unexpected and they left both bankers and global investors looking for answers because billions and billions of dollars have already been tied up into this i.p.o. especially the bankers looking for the 400000000 dollars payout with the successful listing so now the i.p.o. has been halted after the founder jack ma was summoned and by the regulators who said that they had discovered an a ray of shortcomings so chinese authorities didn't give many details about the issues behind the suspension so far saying only there had been significant changes in the regulatory environment and that this move was to protect the country's capital markets there and had created

a frenzy both in hong kong and in shanghai months both institutional and smaller investors so following that whole quarter alibaba plunged over 7 percent in hong kong so the i.p.o. is now expected to be delayed for about 6 months and the fund will be returned to the investors in the meantime but essentially this further reinforces the regulatory pressures building on these tech giants now in china and we've heard about what's happening with the tech giants in the us as well so all this means that it's good for banks bad for phantasy then tech companies like and they pose a major threat to traditional lenders regulators are now trying to tighten control in the country booming micro lending sector because right now and credit business is so huge that it now issues about 110th of all of china. and beijing sees that as a risk in the event of an economic slowdown absolutely all right very much both of you are going to go to former vice president joe biden is now taking to the podium let's listen in to what he's saying this afternoon just

a. minute. god bless you all may god protect your church. thank you. so he was wrapping up right there as we get you into him but apparently he did not claim victory but he also we obviously did not concede defeat there look right now if we're looking at the numbers and where they stand by the news in the strongest position in terms of moving forward he has the clearest path to 270 he's on his way to it the real question as we told you at the top of the hour really comes down to whether or not judges will grant a stay a hold if you will on the states of pennsylvania and michigan at the request of the trump campaign to stop counting right now so that they begin can begin to kind of survey the county how it's being done and have what the campaign says are republican poll watchers in the room then you and i were discussing this earlier and he also is looking for

a recount how likely is it that that's even going to happen that doesn't change things and doesn't usually change things so in wisconsin the recount absolutely will happen in the reason for that is because as long as you are within one percentage point which trump is in wisconsin he is at 6 tenths of a percentage point behind so yes he absolutely will get a recount in wisconsin what does it actually change that's a whole other question 29000 votes is a lot of votes typically a recount in a state like this with something like maybe 30025000 votes tops the chance of actually finding 29000 votes and are going to reorganize in this very unlikely or we knew that neither one of them really possible planted to concede at least and i'm sure election president now actually you know bringing out these these legal cases against these states i'm sure there are more to come as we continue to follow those numbers absolutely we'll keep you updated on it. time now for a quick break but hang here because when i return after hundreds of millions of dollars spent michael brown left california voters approved the proposition to keep

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go and the reaction has been exactly the same as it was way back then journalist not jealous not the world reaction is made of green cheese. well you should be before you but we wish you. luck with the. welcome back we've been talking all day about the presidential election results of the race well it continues to unfold but there are other issues that were on the ballot on election day you know one of the biggest is this so-called proposition 22 in california that proposition means that companies like lift and door dash will be exempt from having to reclassify their drivers as employees so what does that mean

for those good workers are joining us out of this gus is. professor richard wolfe thanks for being. professor wolf let's be clear goober left post mates insta card they have put collectively around $200000000.00 into that campaign to support prop 20 which means they don't have to follow state law there's an exemption made for them that requires that they treat drivers as employees correct that's the gist of it yes absolutely this is a longstanding veteran companies to basically get out from. a century in the hair of a labor of protection that workers for war over the opposition of all the companies axial rears want to try to get the protection not only for the workers who drive the cars and go on but also to the congress that sits in that call and risks wife's and we're writing there that what you've done is you know these companies want to

what would make you dollars name tells you how much they want to make out of is allowed to be exempted and that's where their profit is their profit comes from being able to treat their workers it ways that a century or hamper of all the efforts make it impossible if you require to do you treat your workers as an employee it's just that it's state mechanism for the company were foster the company is told voters that they would provide health insurance for drivers who work 15 hours are more a week occupational accident insurance coverage and even 30 fans for every mile they drive among other protections that were noted is that a compromise or is it just a promise that these companies no longer have to keep. it's a promise and has no legal standing whatsoever they can say whatever they want that they're going to do to get this vote actually they did that and make a promise to spend money by the fair and they don't want to die because if they had to do it for their workers what the workers won the over the years then their

profit would disappear and they wouldn't be any different from say a taxi company in terms of lift and so their prasad is how you move forward in their capital in the last sort by simply ignoring taking care of workers and then the tram is something they like insurance if you would believe insurance there's a 100 ways of doing insurance which you could end up doing is giving them an insurance policy that is next to a huge list rather than the kind that they want and that their unions win for them in the trunk tracts that's what this is all about but there is something deeper here and you know in recent months the right sharon delivery companies they blasted the ads and push notifications directly to drivers saying that only a fraction of them will be hired as employees fewer drivers would mean longer wait times what they were warning customers about they said that said all this and messages that were sent directly to mobile devices right the prices would rise

because of higher costs associated with reclassification did these companies find a new way to kind of bully their message and force it onto users and force it on to those drivers in a way that we're going to now see in this new kind of tech future. i don't think it's new frankly then i think this is very you want to scare people into thinking they have a vested interest in the way you want them to so you tell them how much better off they'll be able the where the company wants a much worse off they'll be if they don't and you hope that grabs well. you know a clever advertisement will get you through this difficult election i mean it's a tragic day for the working class of this. country so what are the rules protections for workers and leaflets against companies just like you were in and the list at least finally wanted now to have this legal move will get them out of having to observe what was literally a century and have struggled to reduce it's

a sign of going backwards in terms of the growing step of the working class vote per professor wolf florida mother say want to talk about here and highlight voted today to gradually hike the state's own wage to $15.00 per hour obviously joining a growing list of states and its policies also taking a step what are your thoughts on the. well i think it's very interesting and in my judgment very positive it's that even though the people of florida voted from as the trump over mr biden when it came to a real pocketbook issue what everyone can understand how all the fakery should you get this meaning dollars minimum program a wage for our everybody kind of knowledge what kind of life can you live even on so if being let alone last extends it was you know really worded and since it really will reach its being until i believe 2026 where the legislation

a proposal is written this is a moderate modest way to do something for the worst paid off of the working class and to the credit of the people in florida despite the effort of so many interests to push the weight over and live it on there for the majority of the holders of florida wanted to have some kind of compassion for the for those earning so little not only florida but especially those states that are areas that are obviously way more expensive to live in what a $15.00 probably do and how are those who are raising families even professor eternal thank you so much for your time today and breaking this down for us. thank you. you must on demand on the portable t.v. up available on your apple and android phone or simply check it out a portable about t.v. .

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protect its own existence as. i. will say to stop the ballot count and the allegations of fraud send angry crimes on to the street the 2020 us presidential election is going safe well creeping ever closer to the door the white house although he's not through them yet for the grand states. if still not being cold leaving the final result hanging on all sides to come away from the democrats on the republicans we do discuss the lack of real alternative choices to the big with a libertarian. i don't know if libertarians or other parties

ever consistently get high enough to win and.