vinjamuri, good morning from new york. dr. vinjamuri: good morning. tom: thank you for starting this morning on this most interesting thursday. dr. vinjamuri: [laughs] to: leslie, i want you discuss for the guardians worldwide the disparity of a recount, because what i think is a web and here -- the audience worldwide the disparity of a recount, because what i think is important here is where a recount is typically a percentage discussion, and, to be direct, we are nowhere near ensysmall, teensy we percentages that have led to a of the past. dr. vinjamuri: no, we are not. the numbers are significant. if you listen to people who are talking about this very clearly, the state level individuals in charge of conducting elections, they are simply not seeing the irregularities or any of the allegations substantiated that president trump has levied. and the numbers don't bear out the need -- this is a president who is very distressed. he has been distressed for some time. the most extraordinary thing about his or marks, of course, were, on the one hand, he c

leslie vinjamuri is at chatham house.t is about the big states, the medium states, but also the little or states. we forget that nevada is really contested right now with six electoral votes. mr. biden has some form of number of 50.2%. 47.9%, withp at almost 80% of the vote in. maybe we will get an update on the votto as well, as the contestedd midwestern states. the support of our military for their next president -- jane street us in the 6 -- james stavridis in the 6:00 hour. stay with us as the election evening unfolds. this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: the presidential race is still too close to call, but president trump's claim he won. earlier at the white house he denounced several battleground states that are still counting votes. pres. trump: we will be going to the u.s. supreme court. we want all voting to stop. we don't want them to find any ballots at 4:00 in the morning and add them to the list. we will win this. ritika: it is unclear what the president meant. it is routine for states to keep counting votes after e

vinjamuri: my sense is slightly worse than that. we are in campaign season.n't know who is going to control the senate. january 5 is when it falls out. some interesting arguments coming up saying there is too much focus from across the nation and across the republican and democratic parties on georgia. leave this to the people in georgia. but nonetheless, it seems like the country, certainly the political parties and the senate , remain in campaign mode. we all know how important fiscal stimulus is. we see leaders across the business sector calling for fiscal stimulus. americans needed. it is a grim week ahead. it couldn't be more important to so many -- it is thanksgiving next week. it can be more important -- it couldn't be more important to many americans. they appear to be not standing up to their response ability right now. jonathan: that is why this transition is so important. i admit, i did not know who the administrator of the u.s. general services administration was. i am sure many people shared that. going forward, what is it that emily murphy is do

programm vinjamuri. when you look at this transition, you have the biden camp basically trying to take charge, going ahead. you still have people in government saying we need recounts, this is not done. how does a common person deal with these two sites? -- sides? leslie: at some level, it's probably what people expected from president trump. it's clear quite how decisive the electoral result has been. recounts for slim margins are not uncommon. we are talking about 20,000 in wisconsin, something shy of that in georgia. team is biden campaign, doing now is very widely moving forward, trying to communicate. tom said the number one story right now is the pandemic, the devastation it is wreaking. the biden team is clearly communicating its commitment to moving forward, to giving a steady message on masks, appointing the coronavirus task force. ron klain dealt with ebola for president obama, really understands the significance of this and has worked with biden, has helped him for 30 years. he's very well kno

nextine: coming up in the hour, leslie vinjamuri. i know that she will be great.h everything to do with the mail-in ballots. we will talk wisconsin, we will talk michigan, and we will talk pennsylvania. that is coming up shortly, and this is bloomberg. and mosts in 2020, curious, and most original election, as francine lacqua mentioned in london. we are looking at which states are undecided. the future is hugely volatile. dow futures now up 50 points. they were read on the screen when we went to break. nasdaq 100 as well. and off the tweets we see off the new york times as well -- nate cohen says reminiscent of 2016. that is a good segue, talking to a market expert, mark cudmore joins us live from singapore. have tattooed to your brain the nine days down in 2016, the lift off from all of your market coverage and expertise. did we see a lift off start two days ago? >> i'm not sure i reached that conclusion. there is price action this morning. at the start of the day it was very -- even futures were trading with a positive correlation to biden's chance at the presid

vinjamuri: ron claim as his chief of staff. his leading role during the health crisis of the obama administration leaving the white house in the 2014 ebola outbreak. is stomping out dissent in hong kong, disqualifying lawmakers it deems are not loyal enough. opposition politicians are residing in solidarity. presidentssage to that no pressure will tolerate defiance in the former british colony. iskey's president erdogan signaling a cease-fire with international investors. supporting market friendly policies, a u-turn from lower interest rates promoting inflation. still, there are doubts about how long it will last. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and at bloomberg @quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am laura wright. this is bloomberg. francine? francine: laura, thank you so much. now, it has been a huge week for news and markets. joe biden became president-elect on saturday, we had the vaccine trial, and now the global stock rally showing signs of stalling. that after

joining me now is leslie vinjamuri, director of us and the americas programme, at chatham house. news. we have talked to you throughout the campaign about some of the policy initiatives that might be pursued and the impact on some policy decisions president trump had already made, notably on climate change and the iran nuclear deal. where do you think president—elect biden‘s priorities will lie when he ta kes biden‘s priorities will lie when he takes office on the 20th of january next year? first of all, it is an historic day, it was quite extraordinary to watch, not only the people on the streets and the speeches, but the reactions from the rest of the world. the rest of the world is waiting to see whatjoe biden will do when it comes to america's role in the world. he has signalled very clearly, his intentions. he understands the greatest challenge for the united states is to tackle and defeat the pandemic and to restore america's economy. but he sees these two challenges is integrated with foreign policy that looks beyond america's borders, works with europe, with america's eur

thank you very much, leslie vinjamuri from chatham house. let's return to that breaking news.ainst the foreign office over whether their son's alleged killer had diplomatic immunity. harry died last august when his motorbike and a car that was being driven on the wrong side of the road by anne sacoolas were in collision. 0ur correspondent damien, joins us with the update from the courts. at the minute we just have to basic outline, their legal challenge has failed, desperately disappointing for harry dunn's family. they were challenging the uk government, the foreign office, they were saying, had acted unlawfully in agreeing that anne sacoolas had diplomatic immunity, and the basis for that, they were saying, was that she was not herself working at this raf air base, she was the wife of an american worker the and therefore predation should not have extended to her. the court has said she did have diplomatic immunity was entitled to his leave, but at the same time the family argued in court that the foreign office had kept the local police in the dark anyway and obstructed the

let‘s speak now to leslie vinjamuri, director of the us programme at the think tank chatham house.lems with the line. u nfortu nately, we having some problems with the line. unfortunately, we cannot go over just yet so we will go to another story in the meantime. a "witch hunt" — that‘s how influential union leader len mccluskey has described labour‘s decision not to allow jeremy corbyn to return to the commons as a labour mp — even though he‘s been reinstated as a member of the party. mr corbyn was suspended because of his remarks about a critical report on anti semitism in the party. if this is keir starmer‘s idea of unity, then he has a different perspective than i do. the reality is that we were told that a process needed to be gone through. that process went through, through various stages, and an nec panel, a unanimous nec panel of five individuals made a decision. and let mejust make individuals made a decision. and let me just make this clear, out of the five, in case there is only due piety, there are only two out of those five who could be described as corbyn supporters,

leslie vinjamuri from chatham house, good to have you with us today, thank you very much.h 20 electoral college votes — if president trump is to be reelected, pennsylvania will be key. let's have a look at some of the other states that are still counting. in arizona, joe biden is leading. he has 50.1% of the vote. donald trump has a8.5%. 91% of the votes have been counted in the state, which is worth 11 electoral college votes. in nevada, joe biden is leading with a9.a% of the vote. trump has a8.5%. 89% of the votes have been counted in the state. it's only worth six electoral college votes, but in many ofjoe biden's projected routes to the white house, nevada is the state which tips him over to victory. in north carolina, trump leads with 50%. biden is on a8.6%, with 96% of the votes counted so far. the state is worth 15 electoral college votes. there will be a test later, i hope you were paying attention! students at the university of manchester have torn down security fencing that was put up around parts of the campus accomodation on day one of england's lockdown. the u