the federal court, the federal appeals court echoing the sentiments of numerous other state and federal judges, who in the opinions i have read, reacting in an exasperated manner that the claims are even being brought. the court dismissing this challenge, spearheaded by rudy giuliani, and the three-judge panel responding with biding language. they said the campaign's claims have no merit, saying the number of ballots specifically it challenges is smaller than the roughly 81,000 vote margin victory. it never claims fraud was cast or any of course were cast by -- brooke, that is exactly what we have heard from other judges around the country, that this campaign has put no proof forward of widespread fraud, and they've been asking to block certification and throw out what could be millions of votes in some cases. these courts have been saying this is just too drastic for any courts to grasp. the trump campaign said when their claim was rejected about a week ago, they said they would speed toward an appeal all the way to the supreme court. we're hearing that from jenna ellis, another campai

>> reporter: it's a unanimous ruling by a panel of three appeals court judges all republican appointees, one appointed by president trump. the court said the campaign failed to offer any solid evidence that pennsylvania electio officials changed the rules to favor biden the ruling said calling an election unfair does not make it so. charges require specific allegations and then proof we have neither here it said. it concluded by saying voters not lawyers choose the president the campaign will undoubtedly appeal to the u.s. supreme court, lester. >> all right pete williams in washington, thank you. >>> despite the mounting legal defeats president trump still refuses to concede but tonight the clearest signs yet he is moving toward the inevitable. kelly o'donnell at the white house. >> reporter: from his virginia golf property, president trump headed to the seclusion of camp david today. his election transition becoming defiant acceptance. >> just so you're -- certainly i will certainly i will and you know that. >> reporter: last night making his first public commitment to move out of the

a federal appeals court tossing his appeal in pennsylvania. here's rachel scott. >> reporter: tonight, a judge president trump appointed himself handing him a searing defeat in pennsylvania. even as the president insists the race is not over. >> you're going to see things happening over the next week or two that are going to be shocking to people. >> reporter: but after weeks of trying to overturn the results of the election, his legal team has come up with nothing. no credible evidence whatsoever of widespread voter fraud. in pennsylvania today, the federal appeals court ruling his claims have "no merit." in a blistering 21-page opinion, judge stephanos bibas writing, "calling an election unfair does not make it so. charges require specific allegations and then proof. we have neither here." the judges rejecting the president's efforts to win in the courts, what he couldn't win at the polls, saying, "voters, not lawyers, choose the president." and voters chose joe biden. trump lost the election by more than 6 million votes. still, he's refusin

a federal appeals court saying bluntly the campaign's claims have no merit. but trump campaign lawyer jenna alice says now on to scotus. did you see in this tweet right here? is there any chance the supreme court could side with team trump here or is this simply prolonging the inevitable? >> it would be hard to imagine that they could. you have got trump appointee writing the opinion in the 3rd circuit. you had a conservative republican judge writing the district court opinion. neither of them found anything to do with it. as you know, pamela, one of the first things they teach new law school is that if you don't have the facts, pound the law. if you don't have the law, pound the facts. if you don't have the facts or the law, pound the table. we are in the table pounding stage. >> that's a really good way to put it. table pounding stage. president-elect biden is refusing to dignify the president's baseless claims of election fraud as i pointed out earlier letting his campaign and lawyers do much of the talking three weeks later. do you think that is still the

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a federal appeals court just denied the campaign's effort to revive a lawsuit challenging the election results in pennsylvania the three-judge panel saying, quote, the claims have no merit and that voters, not lawyers, choose the president. president trump himself is reversing course now saying president-elect joe biden can only enter the white house if he can prove he got 80 million votes but that is not true. despite the president's baseless claims biden is moving forward with the transmission and expected to name an economic team next week and get his first presidential daily brief on monday. let's get more with jm lee. we are expecting key announcements about the future biden administration, aren't we? >> reporter: that's right p.m. joe biden has spending thanksgiving weekend here in rehoboth beach, delaware. it's been mostly quiet today. we know there has been a lot of work under way ahead of when is expected to be a busy week. we expect more personnel announcements to come next week. and the start of classified briefings. >> we have had a long, long tradition of traveling in nant

an appeals court ruling the claims in pennsylvania. will the president ever admit that he lost? >>> and iran admitting that its top rule -- nuclear scientist was assassinated. we'll be back. oow. ♪ nuclear scientist was assassinated. we'll be back. before we talk about tax-smart investing, what's new? -audrey's expecting... -twins! ♪ we'd be closer to the twins. change in plans. at fidelity, a change in plans is always part of the plan. . >>> we are back. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. no claims of fraud. those are the words of the appeals court in pennsylvania who issued that today on trump's claims of voter fraud in pennsylvania. the opinion includes a straightforward dismantling fortunate trump team's central claim, quote, calling an election unfair does not make it so. charges require specific allegations and then proof. we have neither here, end quote. the court rejection is unlikely to sway this president. instead, look to the president's morning tweet just to get a sense of his current frame of mind, to borrow from u2, he's stuck in a moment and now can't get ou

what is next for the trump team now that we have a court of appeals throwing out the request to overturn the election certification in pennsylvania? >> reporter: yeah. a great question, alex. good to be with you and to hear the trump team say it, they're going to the supreme court. we heard from the president's legal team, jenna ellis and rudy guiliani, personal lawyer, calls this decision from the appellate court an activist judiciary machinery trying to cover up allegations of a massive fraud. so they vow they are going to fight on to the supreme court. it's worth noting the judges in this all nominated by republicans and the lead judge who wrote this pretty scathing opinion is a judge nominated by president trump in 2017. nonetheless, the attack on the judiciary system is being activists from the president's legal team and kayleigh mcenany spoke to this saying they're headed to the supreme court. take a listen. >> there is optimism. there will be a petition filed with the supreme court. it will be up to the supreme court whether to grant scirtior. and it's likely to succeed on the mer

and we have heard from a texas appeals court that the answer is "no." a group of restaurant owners and the texas attorney general challengeat shutdown, saying only the governor has the authority to do that. and we just heard from the court that, no, that that's over. and so the judge said he's not going to challenge it, and trying to figure out how to move forward and still protect lives. >> sreenivasan: so can the mayor or anybody impose things like curfews or can they-- what can they do to try to keep their population safe? >> no, this is really now, across texas, and we had so many counties and cities watching this closely-- it's totally up to the governor to set the standards. so, for example, el paso went back to 50% capacity, half-capacity, at businesses, when the goal was to shut down non-essential businesses. the curfew was also in place. that's over. an overnight curfew is no longer in place. so there really isn't that authority. now, there are some limitations triggered by hospitalizations that happen across the state, but they were not as str

for not lawsuit because the supreme court is an appeals court and that's how he would get it before the u.s. supreme court unlike in 2000 with bush and gore we don't have that state decision yet because there hasn't been any substance that any of his state lost engine so until that happens i see the supreme court so in a word tough tough. no i mean if you will even if he doesn't succeed there's a sizable segment of the electorate that now appears not to trust the system how dangerous is out for a democracy. i would hesitate to paint the entire system one presidential election it carries a lot of sociological impart political impact but keep in mind what we really should be focusing on right now i think is in senate races if we want to be looking at legal impact because as your previous speaker said if the senate stays republican party back to the situation of barack obama where he has to do everything by executive order which is not making a law it's only an interpretation of law you know wait for which he has discretion . i don't think that leg

court. now el plus says the trump team has ten days to appeal to the u.s. t. the president just tweeted about it. since it's only ten days, that means it's likely an application to the court justice alito could rule on the application itself to give the trump campaign more time to argue which essentially could delay the electoral process in pennsylvania -- i say delay, that doesn't mean it's going to overturn any results as biden won by several, several thousand, tens of thousands of votes. he could also get his eight colleagues involved which is leakily to hear what they have to say, or he could nix it altogether. now, this does not necessarily mean oral arguments in a traditional sense meaning what we saw with bush v. gore in 2000. now also on the supreme court dealing with justice awe lee toe, he also has jurisdiction over louisiana, the fifth circuit court of appeals. now, there was a case from louisiana, a pastor outside of baton rouge, eric, that i appealed directly to the supreme court arguing that the covid restrictions for louisiana governor john jo

appeals court in pennsylvania has thrown out donald trump's latest attempts to contest the presidential election results. judges unanimously dismissed the lawsuit that sought to challenge the state's role in voting. no, it was as a child, as well as failed to prove a single role in ballots, was fortunately cost or counted by who won the state by more than 80000 face. a time campaign has now lost all withdrawn dozens of similar cases. corona virus infections in the u.s. have doubled in november compared to last month. more than 205000. new cases were confirmed on friday. there are concerns that those numbers will rise significantly in the next 10 days following the thanksgiving holiday weekend. more than a 1000000 people transited through u.s. airports on friday and most in a single day since the start of the pandemic. as a hope grows on the prospects of a coded 900 vaccines. so to do the warnings of accessibility and availability in latin america, remote communities in the amazon jungle and andes. mountains have been hit hard by the pandemic, and experts are now facing further challenge

this afternoon, a federal appeals court shooting down the trump team's attempt to challenge the election results in pennsylvania saying their claims have, quote, most merit. and this ruling comes just hours after president trump admitted for the first time since the election that he will leave the white house in january if the electoral college votes for joe biden but the president stopped short of conceding, claiming once again without veoffering a proof there was massive voter fraud and those repeated denials are not stopping the bide n wit another round of cabinet announcements next week. president trump choppered up to meet his family to play golf and avoiding reporters as kaitlan collins reports. >> reporter: before joining his family at camp david, president trump spent the day at his golf course after claiming president-elect biden can't enter the white house until he can prove he got 80 million votes. that tweet came after trump confirmed he will leave office if the electoral office certifies biden's win. >> certainly i will. certainly i will. and you know that. but i think that

this was filed by a group of asian americans and what the district court found and what the appeals courtgreed is that harvard was within the narrow guidelines set by the supreme court four years ago when it said that colleges can use race as a factor in admissions in order to achieve a more diverse student body, as long as there wered fixed percentages or quotas and that's what the appeals court found. the architect behind this law, edward bloom, a financial adviser from maine, was behind the lawsuit that resulted in the earlier supreme court decision from the university of texas at austin. and he's behind this one, too. he's already said he's going to take it to the supreme court. here's the important thing, hallie. when the supreme court last ruled on this, "a," justice ginsburg was a member of the court. she's been replaced by amy coney barrett, who's even more conservative. and he, justice kennedy, who wrote the key opinions on affirmative action retires as well, succeeded by neil gorsuch, i think that the difference here is that -- succeeded by -- i can't remember now if it's kavana

appeals court has thrown out donald trump's latest attempt to contest the presidential election results. judges unanimously dismissed a lawsuit that sought to challenge the state of pennsylvania's malin voting law. they also say trump's lawyers failed to prove a single mail in ballot was fortunately cast or counted. joe biden won the state by more than 80000 votes. current virus infections in the u.s. have doubled in november compared to last month. more than 205000. new infections were confirmed on friday, which likely consists of both thursday and friday reports in some cases. now that pushes the total past 13000000. there are concerns, infections could continue to rise. following the thanksgiving holiday weekend, mike hanna, has more from washington d.c. . the pandemic is spread out pretty evenly throughout most of the united states. and certainly these figures are utterly horrific in november alone, there were $4000000.00 new cases of corona virus reported. now that is double the number in october, which in itself was an all time record for the month in all on average. some 170000 p

. ♪ emily: tiktok's owner bytedance is asking a federal appeals court in washington to intervene in thele of the popular video sharing app. emily: president trump issued an sell november 12 unless they were granted an extension. for more, i want to bring in tom mackenzie from beijing, where it already is november 12. what is the latest? is the sale going to happen by tomorrow? it seems that tiktok at their owner in beijing may get a 30 day reprieve to work on the final details of the sale but we are going to have to wake -- wait for what a federal appeals court finally says aired you remember that after the trump administration initiated this ,rder to selloff the business which has hundreds of users in the u.s., or face a complete ban. there was the scramble for how they would sell and microsoft was in the lead. then they dropped out and they had this agreement to set up the separate tiktok entity. it initially got the blessing of president trump but it was revealed that a lot of the data would still be controlled by tiktok and that caused a lot of pushback. beijing would have to have a

today, a federal appeals court, denying the trump campaign's latest effort to overturn biden's victory in pennsylvania. a trump appointee writing, calling an election unfair does not make it so. charges require specific allegations, and then proof. we have neither here. the campaign's claims have no merit. that ruling brought trump and his allies courtroom losses and withdrawals to more than 30. with not a single court, in any state, substantiating trump's claims the election was rigged. trump, also, refusing to commit to attending his successor's inauguration. a tradition upheld by every outgoing president, since 1869. >> i don't want to say that, yet. i mean, i know the answer. i'll be honest, i know the answer, but i just don't want to say it, yet. >> reporter: in georgia, where two runoff elections will decide the fate of the u.s. senate. georgia republicans are worried trump's baseless claims about voting. >> i said, listen, you have a fraudulent system. >> reporter: and his attacks on the republican secretary of state. >> he is an enemy of the people. the secretary of state. >> r

a federal appeals court has rejected the trump campaign at latest effort to stop the state from certifying election for president-elect joe biden. the case was argued last week in a lower court that the president's attorney rudy giuliani claims widespread voter fraud in pennsylvania but the third circuit court of appeals ruled today, quote, the campaign's claims have no merit. the number of ballots it challenges is far smile smaller than the 81,000 the margin of victory and never claims fraud or that any votes were cast by illegal voters. in response another member of the president's legal team tweeted the activist judicial machinery in pennsylvania continues to cover up the allegations of massive fraud. on to the supreme court but the three judges on the panel were all appointed by republican presidents and then georgetown university law professor jonathan turley noted the judge who wrote the opinion is a trump appointee. the district judge is republican federalist society member. this type of language is reckless and wrong. >> is going to be a hard thing to concede because we know there

a federal appeals court has rejected an attempt by u.s. president donald trump's legal team to block joe biden from being declared the winner of the pennsylvania vote count the state's certified baden's victory by more than 80000 votes. earlier this week, the ruling is another blow to trump's bid to overturn the results of the presidential election. spain's health minister says the country's population of 47000000 will be vaccinated against coronavirus by the summer. he said the program would happen in 3 stages, starting in january with the most bone and countries across europe are battling to contain a 2nd wave of corona virus infections. since the beginning of the pandemic, belgium has been among the nations hardest hit. scrambling to contain the virus that introduced new restrictions at the beginning of this month and ordered bars, restaurants, and non-essential shops to shut down. now belgium is trying to balance the need to contain the virus with allowing christmas and new year's celebrations. keeping patients alive from dusk till daw

a federal appeals court has rejected an attempt by u.s. president donald trump's legal team to block president elect joe biden from being declared the winner of the pennsylvania vote count state certified biden's victory by more than 80000 votes. earlier this week, ruling is another blow to trump's bid to overturn the results of the presidential election. hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of the chilean capital, santiago, demanding access to their pensions. they blocked the main roads and tried to reach the presidential palace as follows, the government's request to revoke a bill, allowing people to withdraw up to 10 percent of their pension funds. early french president has described the beating of a black man by police officers as an unacceptable attack that shamed his country. music producer was trying to enter his paris studio when 4 police agents started punching him. instead, it was caught on camera is comes amid a nationwide debate about a new bill designed to restrict the filming of police while on duty. it is a dist

today, a federal appeals court denying the trump campaign's latest effort to overturn biden's victorytefanos beas a trump appointee writes calling an election unfair does not make it so charges require specific allegations. that brought trump's courtroom losses and withdrawals to more than 30, with not a single court in any state substantiating trump's claims that the election was rigged. trump also refusing to the inauguration, a tradition held by every outgoing president since 1869. >> i don't want to say it yet. i'll be honest, i know the answer, but i don't want to say it yet. >> reporter: trump is committing to georgia. georgia republicans are worried trump's baseless claims about voting -- >> i said, listen, you have a fraudulent system. >> reporter: and his attacks on the republican secretary of state. >> he's an enemy of the people, the secretary of state. >> reporter: -- could depress voter turnout. today, trump doing damage control, tweeting the 2020 election was an absolute scam but we must get out and help david and kelly, otherwise, we're playing into the hands of some ve

." >> narrator: amy coney barrett, a 48-year-old nservative appeals court judge, mcconnell's way of securing control of the supreme court for years to come. >> to be able to say that, conservative court for another generation" is important to him. for mitch mcconnell, the court is everything. >> this is going to be a rough battle on capitol hill... >> narrator: mitch mcconnell's determination to transform the supre court had been his life's work. >> ...the dismay of several senators, u.s. supreme court nominee clarence thomas managed to elude... >> potentially ensuring a m conservatiority for decades... >> narrator: through bruising confirmation battles... >> ...democrats to keep an open mind about kavanaugh... >> narrator: a struger ideology and power... >> ...white house has been packaging clarence thomas like a political candidat.. >> ...expected to be one of the most contentious confirmation hearings in memory. >> narrator: ignited by a devastating defeat... >> ...rejecting the nomination of judge bork..... >>dge bork, the long public ordeal... >> narrator: and a promise to retaliate. >>

. ♪ ♪ tiktok's owner bytedance is asking a federal appeals court in washington to intervene in the forcedideo sharing app. president trump issued an order forcing them to sell. november 12 is tomorrow. i want to bring in tom mackenzie who is reporting from beijing where it is already november 12. what is the latest? tothis forced sale going happen by tomorrow in the u.s.? potentiallys that tiktok and bytedance may get a 30 day reprieve to work on the final details of this forced sale, but we are going to have to wait to see what the federal appeals court finally says. you will remember after the trump administration initiated this order to sell off the tiktok business which has about 100 billion users in the u.s. or face a complete ban to there was a scramble for how they were to sell the business off. initially microsoft was in the lead. then they dropped out. you had an agreement to set up this separate tiktok entity. when it was revealed a lot of the data would still be controlled by tiktok and bytedance, that caused a lot of pushback in the u.s. we learned beijing would have to have a

simply denied that it was a valid order even though i presented them a valid court order from the appeals courthe commonwealth court here in pennsylvania, and they said feel free to hold us in contempt. we will not provide you access. elizabeth: okay. so you're hitting on a number of things there. let's start with the first. how many examples deutch -- do you have to show that this problem with voter fraud, as you guys allege, is systemic? because you have to bring -- if you want to try to overturn the vote, you have to show it's sizable and that it's systemic if you want to get the votes set aside. how big is it, what you're seeing? >> it's clearly widespread. it is spread from western pennsylvania all the way to philadelphia -- elizabeth what's the proof of that? >> oh, we have -- elizabeth: how many votes, how many votes are you saying are fraudulent? >> i don't want to get in front of any potential litigation, but i can tell you we have secured numerous affidavits from individuals who have alerted us to the fraud that has transpired. we have secured after a davids from numerous individuals

perpetuate their career than maybe strike a blow in favor of our country's democracy. >> a federal appeals courtaid the push to challenge results in pennsylvania has no merit, as these court losses pile up, are you concerned, you know, that the trump campaign, some of their folks were saying today, the fact that they still have focus is something to be hold, but they were saying today they may take it all the way to the supreme court. does this worry you at all that this may go to the supreme court? >> it doesn't worry me one win bit. the court cases the president has brought haven't been bad cases. they have been laughable. the pennsylvania case that you were just talking about was decided by a trump appointed federal judge. and that judge basically did the judicial equivalent of laughing the campaign out of court. so no, i have no worries whatsoever that this supreme court will tolerate any shenanigans. >> even with amy coney barrett there because there are people who will say, and there are supporters of joe biden who will say that they're concerned that now that amy coney barrett is on the c

today a philadelphia appeals court, though, weighed in on the matter. the court rejecting the president's latest efforts to challenge pennsylvania's election results. the court calling it, quote, an election unfair does not make it so. calling an election unfair doesn't make it so. charges include specific allegations and then proof and we have neither here. now, if the campaign appeals the case could reach the u.s. supreme court as well. in wisconsin a recount in milwaukee county came to an end this evening. no fraud was found. the certified results confirmed president-elect joe biden won in that county. >> a recount is essentially an audit and process that verifies the accuracy of the balloting process that takes place on election day. i promise that this would be a transparent and fair process and it was. >> the republican vice chair of the milwaukee board of canvassers says the recount was, quote, exemplary, but added he expects the trump campaign to pursue moreitig lion. >>> the former ceo and visionary of zapos has died. she grew up in the bay are

the court ruled against him, and he filed an appeal to the state's court of appeals. as the case pended, the supreme court ruled that the eight amendment prohibited life without parole sentences "for all but the rarest of juvenile offenders, those whose crimes reflect permanent incorrigibility."

for not lawsuit because the supreme court is an appeals court and that's how he would get it before the u.s. supreme court unlike in 2000 with bush and gore we don't have that state decision yet because there hasn't been any substance of any of his state lost engine so until that happens i see you know the supreme court so in a word tough tough very slow and i mean if you will even if he doesn't succeed there's a sizable segment of the electorate that now appears not to trust the system how dangerous is that for a democracy. i would hesitate to paint the entire system one presidential election it carries a lot of sociological impart political impact but keep in mind what we really should be focusing on right now i think is in senate races if we want to be looking at legal impact because as your previous speaker said if the senate stays republican pretty back to the situation of barack obama where he has to do everything by executive order which is not making law it's only an interpretation of law you know wait for which he has discretion. i don'

thanks. >> thank you. >>> the courts have to not only deal with lawsuits over mail-in ballots. steve simon, his state decided not to appeal that could affect ballots arriving after election day from being counted. mr. simon, thank you for being with us. the way pennsylvania is handling voting, which is entirely legal, the president is saying it will induce violence in the streets or result in massive or high-level voter fraud. what do you say to that? >> well, i can't speak for the laws of pennsylvania, but based on what he's saying, it seems reckless and irresponsible. that's not the way it's going to go down in minnesota. minnesota is number one in the nation in voter turnout for a reason. we always find a way to vote and that's been something that's been embraced in the bipartisan basis. i'm very optimistic about tomorrow. >> in terms of the court ruling in minnesota, what's the basis behind not challenging it? >> we're going to challenge it, we're just going to challenge it after the election. what the judge said was that our postmarked rule, which allows voters to postmark it by november, kind of hit a snag. it means

nbc's pete williams >> reporter: score one for the trump campaign in pennsylvania where a state appeals court ruled that the vote counting at the philadelphia convention center was not letting observers get close enough the counting stopped for less than an hour then resumed when philadelphia appealed to the state supreme court. but elsewhere it was a day of setbacks and retreats republicans withdrew a lawsuit in the face of likely defea challenging montgomery county, pennsylvania's prescreening of mailed ballots and judges ruled against trump lawsuits of mail ballots in two separate cases in michigan and georgia in nevada the trump campaign said they saw evidence of ballots going to people who no longer live in the state or were dead. >> we firmly believe that there are many voters in this group of mail-in people that are not proper voters. >> reporter: but how many from where those announcing the lawsuit today offered no specifics or proof. >> we continue the pressure on them, too. thank you very much. >> reporter: election law experts say the time to make this kind of legal claim is before

in another major blow, the third circuit court of appeals affirmed last weekend's ruling dismissing trump's lawsuit in pennsylvania that was argued by rudy giuliani. earlier the president wrongfu y alleged that there was voter fraud in detroit, atlanta, philadelphia and milwaukee where joe biden saw massive turnlgo uppout. and we're inching closer to 13 million coronavirus cases nationwide. the president revealed that coronavirus vaccine distribution would begin for first responders as early as next week. but there are still concerns the situation could get much worse by winter as thousands gather for the holidays against the advice ever healof health offic. and a report from europe is ahead. plus we're following breaking news out of iran where officials in tehran are denouncing the p apparent assassination of a nuclear scientist. we'll go live to iran for the latest in a couple minutes. >>> but let's begin in washington this afternoon, joining me now is carol lee and peter baker and also with us is jonathan capehart. everybody welcome. so carol, the president is on his way to camp david, h

supreme court or a case where goes the federal system, trial court of appeals in u.s. upreme court. you would still need four pr every case to agree to take the case and then five members that would make it did decision favorable to president trump. i know it was important for him to have justice barreton the coint before the election case there was litigation. my two suspicions right now, number one i don't think there is the big litigation that reaches the supreme court. number two. i don't think there is a law that everyone that is appointed by president trump would vote in way thatwould get him a favorable outcome. this may sound nacve. there is a difference between having a conservative legal philosophy and wanting a publican political winey. don't map onto each other always. >> you are right when you say republicans didn't leave him despite his concerns abouhis behavior. we saw that through the vote and how split the country is. you have thoughts on why the polling, onceagain seemed to be so off it, especially when they were trying to gauge voters preferences for

trump's lawyers vowed to appeal to the supreme court. despite the judge's assessment that the quote campaign's claims have no merit. friday's ruling comes 4 days after pennsylvania officials certified there vote count for president elect joe biden who defeated trump by more than 80,000 votes in that state nationally biden and running mate kamala harris garnered nearly 80 million votes are recorded us presidential elections. a record number of women are expected to serve in congress this upcoming year almost a 140 women will be working across both chambers. >>this year the gop could have as many as 35 women that's an increase of 13 from 2018 and democrats could have more than a 100. those numbers are not set in stone as some races are still too close to call joe khaleel takes a look at some policy changes we could see this year as a result. >>100 decide to one based on her gender these one round because they're bad if 2018 was the year of the woman 2020 may be the year of the republican woman on the story starts and i approve this message

more setbacks for the president campaign today as philadelphia appeals court has denied five of its lawsuits claiming vote voter fraud legal experts say remaining suits have little chance of success and are unlikely to change outcome of the election. even as president trails joe biden by less than 1.of the votes in pennsylvania. brian is in philadelphia with more. brian. reporter: jon, good evening there's the public relations battle and then there are the legal battles being fought in courts here in pennsylvania. on that front trump campaign suffering a string of defeat yesterday. first, a philadelphia judge denying rejecting the attempt by the trump campaign to toss out some 8300 mail ballots over what they called defect. the judge sided with the philadelphia board of election it is that these ballots only had minor technical errors and should count some ballots had missing signatures others had missing printed addresses or writing dates then a federal appeal court rejecting trump campaign effort to block more than 9300 mail-in ballots that were postmarked by election day. but arrived in t

balance of power in congress natalie brand cbs news the white house and this just in a federal appeals court has rejected an intent from president trump's reelection campaign to keep alive its effort to undo the results of pennsylvania presidential election still ahead on kpix 5 news and streaming on cbsn bay area a century-old rival he comes to the berkeley hills today the carol sanford football game and the battle for the. >>> just call it retail therapy we take a look at the spending and the best time to buy. >>> look at those clear skies over the tri-valley and the entire bay area today sunny and mid 60s that covers afternoon, but we have something to talk there's no bad time to start at amazon... ♪ i like the flexibility. it also allows for picking up shifts. safety comes first, speed comes second. safety. safety. safety. we're making sure that somebody is getting their very important items. it makes me very happy. ♪ >>> with thanksgiving over americans are turning their attention to christmas and the kickoff to the holiday shopping season. the national retail federation expects sales t

they lost in the federal appeals court. it's only a matter of time before they ask the u.s. e court to step in. but i think it's doubtful the supreme court will do anything. >> michael kang, you and i were here a year ago. there was breaking news out of pennsylvania a different court, very much the same result, though. at this point is there any legal strategy that could work for the president? >> i agree with pete. i think it's all over now. i think, really, these two decisions today by the pennsylvania supreme court and the third circuit decision yesterday basically shut down these election challenges by the trump campaign by associated parties. i think donald trump has had this idea that the supreme court and his appointees will save him at some point in this process, but i'd be shocked if the court took this case and did anything that would affect the election at all. >> i want to bring back in melissa murray to get her take on this breaking news. melissa, i have to ask you, it is the understanding of a lot of people that the ultimate goal here is to get this to the supre

the vote counting which has been rejected both by an ordinary court, a basic court and also an appeals court the supreme court. so i don't think that the supreme court in the united states is going to ride to donald trump's rescue here. it's interesting that there are some republicans who are beginning to say quietly that they're concerned about the tone that the trump campaign is taking that we're no more than 2 weeks since the election. and donald trump continues to fuel the big divisions in the united states, and one or 2 are getting close to perhaps speaking out about it, maybe not in really stark terms, but they're beginning to talk about possibly going public and saying that the president has to concede and move on, they're not quite there yet. there's quite a few of them still concerned still what he did, but the power, the political power that donald trump has, and of course, the power of his political base. but they are getting there. and allen, in the meantime, the administration has suffered another setback this time in terms of immigration policy. that's right. back in march, the

officials told us here that the pennsylvania supreme court had overturned a commonwealth court, the appeals court here, the ruling about the trump observers being able to be inside and watch that count, and that is not correct, according to a spokesman from the supreme court, they say they have not taken action yet on that case, so a clarification there, we wanted to correct that right away. >>> president trump, meanwhile, ramping up his twitter attacks on joe biden's vote gains in key battleground states. he's not been seen in public since his 2:00 a.m. election into the appearance. ashley parker, white house reporter for "the washington post," peter baker, white house correspondent for "the new york times," and ben rhodes, former deputy national security adviser to president obama. ashley, what's happening behind the scenes at the white house? we haven't seen the president since 3:00 yesterday morning. >> we haven't. in talking to people just before election day, the president had in some ways come to grips with his own political mortality, as it were, the fact that he could potentially lose. y

because the supreme court is an appeals court. and that's how he would get it before the u.s. supreme court. unlike in 2000, with bush and gore, we don't have that state decision yet because there hasn't been any substance of any of his stated last engine. so until that happens, i see no power in the supreme court. so in a word tough, tough there is no, no, i mean if you will, even if he doesn't succeed, there's a sizable segment of the electorate that now appears not to trust the system. how dangerous is out for a democracy? i would hesitate to paint the entire system one presidential election. it carries a lot of sociological impact, political impact. but keep in mind what we really should be focusing on right now, i think, is in senate races. if we want to be looking at legal impact, because as your previous speaker said, if the senate stays republican party back to the situation of barack obama, where he has to do everything by executive order, which is not making law, it's only an interpretation of law in a way for which he has discretion. so i don't think that legally the

breaking in the last hour, an appeals court in pennsylvania dismissed the latest case argued by rudy an election unfair does not make it so. charges require specific allegations and proof. we have neither here, the vjudg. it poses the question when will the trump administration accept reality. the white house on thursday, he had this to say in a tense exchange. >> reporter: if the electoral college does elect joe biden, are you not going to leave this building? >> certainly i will. and you know that. >> reporter: i want to bring in our team of reporters. carol lee is covering the white house. ali is camped out biden transition team and joining us is ruth mark us. thank you for joining us on this. carol, i'm going to start with you on this one. talk to me first about the white house's reaction to this latest ruling from the appeals court. >> reporter: we haven't gotten any specific reaction from the white house. you can see where the president has been laying the ground work, saying these are judges that are not look agent the case. that's what he said yesterday when he said all we ne

as you mentioned, a district appeals court rejected that order. of course, against that order frustrated with lack of financial money they were bringing in. worried about further financial losses, but the judge was here at the hospital with us today where more refrigerated trucks were delivered to handle overflow of bodies to give you a sense how dire the situation is here. the judge says he's hoping that 12 trucks will be in place by some point today as we were speaking to him earlier, one truck was pulling up behind him to the office of the medical scamm examiner's building. here's what he had to say. >> i think if people understood where this could end up, that's what i need to get people's attention, that when you have a truck like this coming in because we need to fill it with more bodies, and we've got 350 bodies, under investigation at this time, it's a matter of time that we're going to see the 30s, 40s a day of, you know -- it's 1% of your total. so you've got 1,100 on one day. that means 11 people might die from that, from that that will

a federal appeals court has rejected an attempt by u.s. president donald trump's legal team to block president elect joe biden from being declared winner of the pennsylvania count, the state certified by victory by more than 80000 votes. earlier this week, the ruling as another blow to trump's bid to overturn the results of the presidential election. at least 6 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the somali capital mogadishu, according to local officials, the attack happened just hours after the acting u.s. defense secretary visit at the city to meet the u.s. ambassador to extremist group al shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack and president alexander lukashenko says he will step down from power if his country of dogs a new constitution, but he hasn't given details of amendments were a time frame. this follows months of protests after opposition, allegations that the country's presidential election in august was raped. and authorities in germany have taken action after they uncovered a group of soldiers suspected o

it was thrown out by the appeal courts with one judge seeing this group brought an action and they clearly didn't understand electoral law in michigan. so it's a minor delay. we still expect michigan to be called for joe biden. nothing's going to stop him being inaugurated on january the 20th. alan fischer, thanks for wrapping that up. alan fischer there for us at the white house. donald trump's legal efforts against the u.s. election come have had another setback. pennsylvania's supreme court has rejected the trauma campaign's, arguments that republican party observers didn't get close enough access to vote counting. president elect joe biden is projected to have won the state by more than 74000 votes. but donald trump has been contesting the result there. and in other battleground states his government says its troops have achieved significant victories in the conflict with forces in the northern tier, a region strikes have been launched at the regional capital is the main base for the people's liberation front or tee p.l.f. which governs there to grey and fighters have refused to comply