those concerns ended up with an elect girl college system. -- electoral college system. the electoral college did not achieve anyone's ideals for what the election of the president would be, but it did reflect key concerns on the previous slide. he gave each faction something they wanted, a popular vote and allocating the states empowered to give congress a final say. no one was fully happy with it, but it was something that no one was upset enough about to walk away from the convention. plenty of delegates walked away from the convention. you had a good number that refused to sign the final document. walk away over the electoral college, they walked away over broader issues. on to running through how the electoral college works from start to finish, does anybody have any questions that they want answers to, in terms of clarification or otherwise? i have a quick question. fathers -- which group was in favor of the direct popular vote? prof. curry: it's hard to categorize them in any way other than saying the ones who are more committed to direct democracy. they did not c

have the electoral college in the first place? a lot of that stems from a desire among many of the delegates at the constitutional convention to compromise and come to some sort of resolution regarding what the terms would be for their new constitutional government. we talked about this earlier in the semester. one of the overriding concerns for delegates was they needed to come to a compromise and produce a new constitutional document. all of them were somewhat inclined to a compromise. there was a real fear at the time that if the convention failed to produce a reformed political system for the united states, the country would splinter into regional parts and be more easily reconquered by european powers. essentially sitting across the atlantic and eyeing the united states, ready for political dysfunction. that inclination to compromise led to a clear acquiescence of certain states including smaller , state interests. they wanted to ensure that those smaller states as well as the slave states wanted to ensure their voices were a

, that so-called electoral college. in the original constitution and in any of its amendments, there is no right to vote. people think they have a right to vote, they don't. it is not in the original constitution and all subsequent age arets on race, sex, all phrased negatively in terms of what the states absolutely cannot do. and the only directly elected national representative under the original constitution until the early 20th century were members of the u.s. house of representatives. the president was selected by electors and the u.s. senators were selected by the state legislature. the other thing of course is that the electoral college is intimately tied to slavery. would not leave the popular vote to the president because then the slaves will count for zero. and of course, the free states did not want the slaves to count for anything. so there was this notorious 3/5 compromise that the purposes of congressional representation and the electoral college, slaves would count as 3/5. even though they were treated as

alexander hamilton made a proposal about something like the electoral college, but an electoral college that would choose a president for life and pick a new one when the president died. there were a lot of different ideas about who would be the president and how would we get to the president. there were certain concerns that drove the tenor of these debates. there were certain things that many of the founders were concerned about achieving, or avoiding, through the method of presidential election. we will run through some of these. one of these concerns was avoiding what they referred to as legislative intrigue. the concern was making sure there was presidential independence. legislative intrigue was a term at the time for kings among members of congress to select certain presidents. to select a president that would empower those specific members of congress rather than selecting a president who would do a good job or achieve certain policy aims. this ties into presidential independence. there was concern that if the election of the president was driven by congressional injury, you wou

college tended to look like. next time we turn towards arguments about pros and cons of the electoral college and sort of consequences for the electoral college for how candidates campaign and how the presidential elections tend to shake out. today all i want to accomplish is how to fully understand the system where it came from and how it works because it tends to be more invoofrled than people think. okay. why do we have the electoral college in the first place? well, a lot of that stems from there just being a desire among many of the delegates at the constitutional convention to compromise and come to some sort of resolution regarding setting out what the terms would be for their new constitutional government. if you recall we talked about this earlier in the semester, some of the overriding concerns from the delegates is they needed to come to a compromise and produce a new document, a new constitutional document by the time they were done in philadelphia which meant all of them were somewhat inclined toward

colleges.ven though at morgan state, which we know now he was initially a private institution. his last institute to provide options for black residents of the state of maryland. would assume is georgia or alabama through that. purchased by the state and converted in the process. i didn't discuss this in the book, it's a long time white president, which ultimately to the title of the book because it talks about white man holding the campus color line in the sense that the color line, there were competent black contractors to do improvements oftentimes they are there instead. you can have a black college but they still adhere to the usual white supremacist ideas about black students and intellectual ability. >> if you have more, type them in the chat. i'll go back to the question about activism, this is important. one of the best interventions of the book is that most of us look at the movement from students moving up but very few people look at what the birds eye view looks like looking down on

on to this electoral college in the first place. many of the founders of the electoral college never produced a majority winner after george washington, the house of representative would be selecting the president every time. there were also concerns of slave states. they worked really hard to ensure that they were over represented in the new government in other parts of the constitution, as you know. there are the three fifths compromise that went into the constitution, that counted each slave within as slave state as three fifths of a purpose as fires allocating congressional seats. slave states we're going to lose that boost if there was direct popular vote for the president. they were really concerned seeing a system that reflected -- so they would have a larger voice. and finally, the short term concerns, there was fatigue, the convention delegates wanted to get out of there with a new system, they were concerned that failure was the worst possible option, and that led to a lot of people who wanted a different outcome to acquie

and morgan college at the college at the time holding the campus color line. in the sense that the color line that they were competent black contractors looking to do improvements. but oftentimes they went to white companies instead. that is one example of how you can have a black college but it was run by the white individuals. with the ideas about black students and black intellectual ability. good question. >> if you have more we will just type them in the chat. let's go back to the question of the student activism. one of the best interventions of the book. they do look at the movement from students moving up. but very few people look at what i it must look like. one of the things on the college campuses. it is an epicenter of black power. not only is this a place where the you find leaders whether that is the black society. but often it is a place that you see them writing a lot about racism and is important to emphasize that. i wonder if you might tell us a little bit about how the college presidents help us see different parts of student activism in tha

the president of southwest tennessee community college in memphis a mostly minority community college told me three ars ago that he loses 1500 students a semester because of the complexity of filling out the fafsa. imagine how much less unmotivated anybody else to fill out this fafsa. this is difficult for students who are homeless, in foster care who are living with parents. it's hard for them to complete it. momentless students have to prove they're homeless. foster students may not have all the information and students -- g with grabbed parents grandparents. this is exactly the kind of economy in which a college education proves its value. it's not that senator murray and i and others are not trying to help fix the fafsa. when four of today's witnesses appear before this committee almost seven years ago, they universally agree that the fafsa was an obstacle to students attending college. they said we could award pell grants using two simple variables. family size and income. senator bennett and i then had the same reaction. well, if there's that much agreement on how to make it eas

so, again, i know people want to keep talking about the electoral college, but the electoral colleges not the problem. the founding fathers gave states the right to decide how to award these votes. if they want to change it from winner take all to national popular vote, count all the votes in all 50 states, and that is your winner, they can do that under national popular vote. the current system does not permit that. host: does congress have any type of say on whether states go to national popular vote? the u.s.s, constitution, again, provides "shallate compacts receive the consent of congress." that is not required before we get to the 270. the interstate compact can go into effect. once we reach 270, you will see two things happen. congress will approve the compact. secondly, the u.s. supreme court litigation will occur. we started this progress -- project in 2005, we fully anticipated this would be challenged and go before the supreme court. litigatore court resides in your city, washington, and was part of the drafting process of the interstate compact, so we are bullish on the f

m -- electoral college map. stream live or on-demand any time on election night at c-span.org/election. debateer: law professors whether to keep or eliminate the electoral college. held by the federalist society, this runs an hour and a half. >> thank you. thanks so much, anthony, and thank you to the federalist society for hosting this debate at its annual faculty conference. i'm delighted to be here with two distinguished scholars to moderate this debate on the question should the electoral college be -- as you are aware, the constitution establishes an electoral college for choosing the president meeting in their respective states, the electors vote by ballot for the president and vice president. alexander hamilton wrote in federalist 68 that the electoral college will provide a practicable obstacle 2 -- intrigue and corruption, he said that it would impose capable discernment for deliberation over the selection of the president. hamilton thought the system best designed to vent, and -- disorder. as we head i

you know, the electoral college was made for man, not man for the electoral college. so if you're going to have a system that tries to protect state interests, you wonder does it actually succeed in that effort? judge rao: you think that is the principle behind that? protecting state interests? prof. sachs: i think it is at least part of that effort. i think that's the reason why electors were designed to be states and not by -- they didn't have many other mechanisms available in 1787 but they could have come up with one, and one reason that they didn't was because they wanted the states to be able to speak in some sense as states. it is the state legislatures that decide on the method of appointment of the electors. those were the units of government they had. and again, if you were assembling the eu today, you would probably want a substantial amount of power to rest with the member states in shaping what the central government would look like. that means for me that it is not obvious that the principle of equal representation, which i do do recognize and which i do

in my view, this is the problem, of the electoral college. not the one out of every nine presidents problem that has produced presidents who are not actually chosen by the majority of voters. not the one out of nine problem. the every election problem. because in every election, the dynamics of this system drive the candidates to focus on an unrepresentative slice of america in order to get them elected as the president of america. ok. so, how would you fix this? well if these are the elements that need to be fixed, the easiest fix is something called the national vote compact. it is where when 270 electoral votes have agreed to this compact. they agree to pledge their electors to vote for the winner of the national popular vote. that compact would solve the winner take all problem. because it would essentially be one-person, one-vote. and everybody would have an incentive to campaign wherever they could get a vote. it is not any more important in swing states versus any other place. i think it likely solves the electoral freedom problem beca

if a state's electoral college votes are rejected, then those electoral college votes are excluded from candidate totals. my second speech in this series covers what happens if, because of rejected electoral college votes, neither candidate has the majority of electoral college votes needed to be elected president of the united states. mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from south carolina, mr. wilson, for five minutes. thank you, mr. speaker. president donald trump was extraordinarily successful in south carolina, overcoming the bias fake news and to have a tremendous victory. the voters appreciated record job growth for african-americans, hispanics, and asian americans along with record job growth to women and youth, along with their restored military with peace through strength, protecting our allies like israel, as he stood for law enforcement to protect american families. there is true love and affection for donald trump in south carolina. democrats wasted the largest onslaught ever of cash with over $200 mi

usually, minorities do not graduate from even a community college.here's a lot of dropouts from high schools. and there's a lot of community college students, hispanics and minorities, that do not get to retire-- i mean to graduate. so, as a mason, we give scholarships and also we have a program that is called to to raise a reader. so, for that reasons, i was interested in helping professor celso to accomplish what he had, his goal in bringing students from a--not high school, but from middle schools because when he tried to do it with high school students, he wasn't successful. so, he approached me, and i told him that i will bring students, minority students to the program, and that way there would be a better chance that the parent--that the children, the youngsters will have a better chance of continuing their path to education starting at a community college level. that's what we intend to do. damian: well, that's--it's fascinating that--i mean, it is true, you have to start at a very early age. again, this is at evergreen valley college, they d

you get an argument against the electoral college.

one could argue that a college athlete why not offer money to college athletes as part of their sports would that have to get in the way of the scholar athlete? >> you want to take this, john? go ahead, you start and i will chime in. >> i think this whole pay for play thing has spiraled somewhat out of control. that's our perception of what's going on. there's a couple of points here entirely overlooked in the bandwagon atmosphere with the college players. first of all, how many are we talking about? very likely or probably reliable estimate we are only talking about between 250 and 350 athletes nationwide so they are going to get under the current proposals the get the ability to license their name and the soul so called in il get the money to start to be hinging out of compensation, they are probably going to burn through it very quickly, they are going to leave school without education. so it's not a solution. john and i are adamantly in favor of compensating the college player but the compensation needs to take the form of an education. that's what is needed. how do we do that? we

one of our community college partners was very helpful to us. not certificate they can take to requalify no one in my family went to college and until a beak went to guardian i believe i can do this. that the corporations can do anything at the expense and then to change their families life it's important but it takes a little more time and planning. in terms of rescaling. so any parting words of advice? and those that we should focus on today? thank you to john and barbara. anybody who is thinking about doing this and then to solve one problem. so expect failure and will commit. and if you are senior executive and then to try new things. >> any insights into what is next for you? but i would say looking ahead for the outline today is in whatever form that might take and those discussions we all need to take charge of. >> thank you this was a terrific conversation and with that learning journey and thank you to both of you for participating participating. >> good evening everyone. welcome to this evenings virtual conversation. by doctor robert p

in fact our leads is doubled in nevada we're on track to have over 300 electoral votes electoral college votes and look at the national numbers we're going to win this race with a clear majority of the nation behind us we've gotten over 74000000 votes let me repeat that 74000000 votes that's more than any presidential ticket has ever gotten in the history united states of america and our vote total is still growing we're beating donald trump over 4000000 votes and that's a margin is still growing as well kenneth bae straight to washington now and counting at him why his standing by carolina president. joe biden looking more and more confident there have we had anything from president trump to reaction to that speech. as we anticipated donald trump reacted by tweeting of course and he tweeted a video of republican congressman jim jordan he is a strong supporter who had an interview on fox news and to falsely claimed fraud he said that voters are being counted after election day in pennsylvania but that is the rule in that state ballots are allowed to be counted up to 3 days after election

so, again, i know people want to keep talking about the electoral college, but the electoral collegenot the problem. the founding fathers gave states the right to decide how to award these votes. if they want to change it from winner take all to national popular vote, count all the votes in all 50 states, and that is your winner, they can do that under national popular vote. the current system does not permit that. host: does congress have any type of say on whether states go to national popular vote? the u.s.s, constitution, again, provides "shallate compacts receive the consent of congress." that is not required before we get to the 270. the interstate compact can go into effect. once we reach 270, you will see two things happen. congress will approve the compact. secondly, the u.s. supreme court litigation will occur. we started this progress -- project in 2005, we fully anticipated this would be challenged and go before the supreme court. litigatore court resides in your city, washington, and was part of the drafting process of the interstate compact, so we are bullish on the fac

we assume that's how the electoral college works. at the founding, a lot of states, the lawmakers chose them as electors. they didn't involve the people at all. most states converted to the popular election method that we all know today. yes, california, if it shows tomorrow for the next election could award its electors by congressional districts or any other method it chose. >> you mentioned the freedom that the electors have. i know some people will worry about that. you just need a couple of electors to flip, if you will. can that perceivably happen? some people call them rogue electors or perhaps under the direction of a legislature that's controlled. could that happen? >> let's separate those questions out. there's twoishes there. the issue of whether or not the legislate sure can step in and change things around is its own issue. the electors have been with us since the beginning. it ties back to what the framers thought. alexander hamilton wrote that electors would be these thoughtful deliberative men and sat down and figured

over the past year protesters as a college administration has laid off union leaders, cut faculty wages and walked out of a bargaining session. >> we are out here to protest a adversarial and uncooperative listen ship with their college administration. both unions are in the middle of bargaining new contracts and we are not making headway. we are just finding a lot of decision-making about us is without it. >> reporter: received a statement from the california college of the arts on today's demonstration, it reads negotiations are continuing between the cca and union bargaining teams including a productive meeting last friday. the college is committed to negotiate in cold good faith that prioritizes the health and safety of our faculty, staff and students. >>> i hope you had a nice

guest: these electoral college meetings happen on december 14 in public. it is not as if it is tried it in secrecy. if there are any issues that sure c-span will be there too, if there are any issues or controversies arose. it's not like we wouldn't know that until january 6. but that is the process that unfolds. host: we are seeing some of the video, and i believe this is pennsylvania that the legislature in pennsylvania counting the votes in 2016. let's get our callers. christopher is in north highlands, california on our trump line. good morning, christopher. caller: good morning. rebecca, withk the variations from state to state that we currently have, can we expect realignment on some federal voting level to set federal laws to mandate new set oned procedures to standard in voting, to a -- to avoid the dilemma we are currently in? guest: the constitution does authorize congress to pass federal law that would standardize more aspects of our elections process. there has been resistance in the states. they sort of guard jealously their ability to set the

so that will kind of fuel calls for changes to the electoral college system but if biden wins well what we've seen from donald trump today is an attempt to deal with just my eyes the result and so if a president biden did come in you would have substantial proportion of the pie. elation believing that he's not legitimate tell us a little bit about the process fill if you will because you know we mentioned the electoral college we mention the fact that you can win the popular vote and you could lose the electoral college you could lose the election that happened with clinton that also happened with gore back in 2000 as well there have been calls to reform that system what are the main problems well so the idea behind the electoral college originally was that it would compel a presidential candidate to speak to the whole country so you would have to go to low urban low population states and you couldn't just campaign in new york in california or texas 2 to win a popular vote and you have to move you have to battle for those what's what's in your country what is in each state what has happ

, that so-called electoral college.iginal constitution and in any of its amendments, there is no right to vote. people think they have a right to vote, they don't. it is not in the original constitution and all subsequent age arets on race, sex, all phrased negatively in terms of what the states absolutely cannot do. and the only directly elected national representative under the original constitution until the early 20th century were members of the u.s. house of representatives. the president was selected by electors and the u.s. senators were selected by the state legislature. the other thing of course is that the electoral college is intimately tied to slavery. would not leave the popular vote to the president because then the slaves will count for zero. and of course, the free states did not want the slaves to count for anything. so there was this notorious 3/5 compromise that the purposes of congressional representation and the electoral college, slaves would count as 3/5. even though they were treated as property

ok the electoral college it gives a voice to the voice lee does it not how this power to small states that generally see themselves as being ignored if it was just the popular vote no counted it would bother trying to win them over what they were why should the vastly populated coastal areas dominate the entire nation. well it's very simple you know you said it in your intro one person one vote it's pretty simplistic we have to remember that the look toward a college what they designed at the 12th amendment during a time when we did not have the technology that we have today the process of counting votes took much longer than it does today now we have the ability to have each presidential candidate be counted by their vote so the idea that the electorial college was made initially to make some type of fairness between the states make it proportional based on the number of congresspeople which is based on your population and the number of senators which is to from each state however what we've seen is in the elections that were just previously described by the other viewer we're seeing

nevada and arizona he seems to have the clearest path towards $270.00 electoral college votes you talk about a clear path but it is a system that doesn't really appear to work for europeanize why is it so complicated. we have to look to the firm as the constitution for that i think but we have an electoral college system. that for whatever reason is weighted toward parts of the country that are less populous and so it often does happen that. the greater number of people vote for the candidate who has the fewer number of electoral college votes and we've seen that in previous elections i think i just want to run the question by you why you know why is this is them still in place the electoral college nobody really understands it's in the postal vote isn't it is a sort of an opportunity to coal for old you know well i think a couple things 1st of all i would argue that the electoral college system does work and has worked for over 230 years it has happened in the past it happened in 2000 and it happened in 2016 that the candidate who won the most votes did not win the election but the po

able to declare and report very early as well massachusetts is next on our list with 11 electoral college votes to joe biden we're also looking at new jersey i believe new jersey is our next state with 14 and then one more for the blue column at this stage it is rhode island with 4 so a bunch of blue states there projected for joe biden and a bunch of red states for donald trump 9 in alabama go to donald trump the state of mississippi as well with its 6 is with donald trump as is oklahoma with its 7 we will also look cat 10 a see 11 electoral college votes will go to donald trump there as well so we can really going to be able to build the board up in a moment as well. we have gone to the district of columbia to bring in and that is to call it the stage actually but again that would be expected blue later on maine is too early to call with its 4 and remember those are not winner take all they would be split between the candidates possibly missouri is another state which is too early to call at this stage with its 10 electoral college votes as is new hampshire one of the states of course w

the greater number of people vote for the candidate who has the fewer number of electoral college votes and we've seen that in previous elections i think i just want to run the question by you why you know why is this is them still in place the electoral college nobody really understands it's in the postal vote isn't it sort of an opportunity to coal for old you know well i think a couple things 1st of all i would argue that the electoral college system does work and has worked for over 230 years it has happened in the past it happened in 2000 and it happened in 2016 that the candidate who won the most votes did not win the election but the point of the electoral college system is to have a regional balance in the country and it's important to remember that the united states is twice as big as the european union in terms of its geography it's a country of 300000000 people more than 300000000 people and they wanted to avoid a system the framers didn't i think that they could sort of sense this was going to happen back then even that the country was going to expand westward and they wante

his rival joe biden says he still believes he'll win and is currently $32.00 electoral college votes shy of al broad victory. votes are still being tallied but trump is threatening to go to the supreme court to stop the counting. and in other news the ethiopia's prime minister or his troops into the 2 prayed region following a deadly attack on a military base. and joining us go with the sports argentina football hero diego maradona has had successful surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain. welcomed news oh it is $1500.00 g.m.t. 10 am in the east of the united states and as the new day begins the country is waiting on a handful of results which will decide who will be the next president with 43 states counted results are neck and neck that leaves. 7 states to decide the direction of the country and most of them could go either way while other states polls for the night counting continued in wisconsin we're expecting to hear the results there in the coming hours and counting has restarted in other areas we will be getting you those updates as soon as they come in this hour we wi

fact our lead just doubled in nevada we're on track to have over $300.00 electoral votes electoral college votes and look at the national numbers we're going to win this race with a clear majority of the nation behind us we've gotten over 74000000 votes and repeat that 74000000 votes that's more than any presidential ticket has ever gotten in the history of united states of america and our vote total is still growing we're beating donald trump over $4000000.00 votes and that's a margin is still growing as well. president trump has vowed to challenge the results of the election blaming biden's games on what he calls illegal ballots trump's supporters have turned up at counting centers to demonstrate earlier i spoke to our correspondent carolina chinmoy in washington about that and asked her if there's anything in particular we should be concerned about at the moment the narrative of donald trump we should become certain about that because he is still dividing this country and we should not forget he has really a large support behind him and there are a lot of people who blindly believe in h

house has become incredibly tight after the polls closed no candidate has secured enough electoral college votes to win but that hasn't stopped both candidates being confident of victory despite millions of votes still uncounted donald trump has threatened to go to the supreme court something that biden's team said they are ready to challenge the total vote count could yet take a day. we have a team of reporters for you this reynolds is monitoring developments from los angeles tamala shell as in biden's home state of delaware. is standing by in washington d.c. the 1st let's head now from a rose in jordan who takes a look back at how the last few hours have unfolded. shortly after 2 am on wednesday president donald trump told his supporters and the nation that democrats were trying to steal his election day victory and trump said he was suing to hold on to the oval office so we'll be going to the u.s. supreme court we want all voting to stand but with the vote count still unfinished in at least 10 states trump's claim a victory was dubious earlier in the night trump's democratic rival joe b

it's about keeping city college a community college, a college of and for the community. >> hi. i'm dr. vic trolgary. i'm a former senior university administrator with 15 years of experience in higher education. i i am grated to the united states when i was 12 years old. my parents never even finished high school. i struggled through the e.s.l. system, and we were quite poor. i know just what our students are experiencing because this was my old life. i worked hard to transfer to a four-year school. i worked hard by earning pell grants, and scholarships, and taking out some student loans. i went onto get a ph.d. in political science. i taught at a university level, and i game the chief of staff at the university of california riverside, and since then, i've helped manage universities, i've guided campus master plans. i've helped hire some of the diverse faculty members across the state of california and directed budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars. this is everything that city college desperately needs to be doing right now. i'm still a professor of political science,

bush and again in 2016 donald trump they think the electoral college system is unfair to them because a person like say george bush could win florida by 500 votes it's a state with about 20000000 people they could win florida by the attorneys margin in the get all the electoral votes there are a lot of proposals to change it but you would have to do that by changing the constitution and that's a difficult process so we know that of course he managed to get past the 270 electoral votes last time this is a very particular election not only has it been incredibly controversial but we see this enormous number of all of postal votes of people that have voted before polling day i had to ask for your prediction i guess you know we'll know soon enough but what do you make of the way the election has gone. well we don't have any results of course they'll be exit polls a little later tonight my guess is that biden will win certainly have at least a probably majority the only 2 candidates biden win a majority of the popular vote and i believe he'll win a majority of the electoral vote because ma

wasn't claiming victory but believed he would win the fight and is leading the all important electoral college votes with final vote counting still going on. welcome to the program. it's been 24 hours since voting ended in the u.s. presidential election and there remains no clear winner democratic challenger joe biden and president trump along with america and the rest of the world are waiting for results as ballot counting continues in a few key battleground states this election is demanding patience and call from everyone but the president has already claimed victory and he's alleging voter fraud without presenting any evidence joe biden has called for patience but his supporters are confident that he's on track to win so let's look at the results that are significant at this last hour our figures are showing that vice presidential democratic candidate joe biden with 248 electoral votes to incumbent president donald trump's 214 electoral votes that puts joe biden just 22 electoral college votes away from the 270 that one of these men needs to win to claim the presidency now counting is done

what threat do college students pose for it now, what have colleges been doing about it? now, a professor at davidson college, founding director of the college crisis initiative which tracks how colleges are responding to the pandemic. chris, testing is a key factor, of course, here. how many colleges you're looking at are actually doing testing? >> so most colleges are doing some sort of testing, but colleges that are doing the best kind, the highest quality, the tests that test every student at least once or twice a week is only about 7% of colleges and universities in the country. when you look at thanksgiving, prethanksgiving exit testing, testing students before they go home so they know whether or not they're infected before sitting across thanksgiving dinner table from grandparents, that's around 15 to 30% of institutions total. >> those stats are really troubling. 7% are testing weekly. for the schools that don't have these robust programs at this point, what do they tell you, why don't they? >> well, quite frankly it is a matter of cost. high quality tests, testi

nevada and arizona he seems to have the clearest path towards $270.00 electoral college votes you talk about a clear path but it is a system that doesn't really appear to work for europeanize why is it so complicated. we have to look to the firm of the constitution for that i think but we have an electoral college system. that for whatever reason is weighted toward parts of the country that are less populous and so it often does happen that. the greater number of people vote for the candidate who has the fewer number of electoral college votes and we've seen that in previous elections i think i just want to run the question by you why you know why is this is them still in place the electoral college nobody really understands it's in the postal vote isn't it is a sort of an opportunity to coal for old you know well i think a couple things 1st of all i would argue that the electoral college system does work and has worked for over 230 years it has happened in the past it happened in 2000 and it happened in 2016 that the candidate who won the most votes did not win the election but the po

the greater number of people vote for the candidate who has the fewer number of electoral college votes and we've seen that in previous elections and i think i just want to run the question by you why you know why is this is them still in place the electoral college nobody really understands it's in the postal vote isn't it sort of an opportunity to kohl for old you know well i think a couple things 1st about i would argue that the electoral college system does work and has worked for over 230 years it has happened in the past it happened in 2000 and it happened in 2016 that the candidate who won the most votes did not win the election but the point of the electoral college system is to have a regional balance in the country and it's important to remember that the united states is twice as big as the european union in terms of its geography it's a country of 300000000 people and more than 300000000 people and they wanted to avoid a system the framers didn't i think that they could sort of sense this was going to happen back then even that the country was going to expand westward and the

i want to talk about restarting college basketball or any college sport for that matter.honest about this. this is not whether or not your kid can play little league or soccer. it's big business. it's big business for the school and potentially for the players who may want to go pro. if we're just looking at this from a health perspective, is college basketball or any college sport restarting a good idea as we enter the pandemic's dark winter? >> good morning. good to see you again. you know, all of these activities, no activities we take part in during this pandemic are without risk. and the trouble is the risk, any businesses, they're all tied into community transmission. there is a great amount of community transition in cases, all the layers, the testing, creating a bubble, you know, making sure that everybody is keeping away and keeping healthy as much as they can in terms of interaction depends on how big and how sort of widespread the transmission is elsewhere. so the worry here is what we see in schools in particular is that as numbers in the community go up, it b

is formed, they meet on december 14 college is formed, they meet on december14 and college is formed, they meet on december 14 and declare who they have their... who they're going to give their votes for. and those votes are passing to congress and the new congress is sworn in on generate 12. so this should be a steady process — — generate 12. so this should be a steady process —— january 12. in some places, the airspace overjoe biden has been cleared for military reasons. he is having his secret service detail steps up, there are bits of the american state which are outside donald trump's control which will automatically start to move towards joe will automatically start to move towardsjoe biden will automatically start to move towards joe biden in will automatically start to move towardsjoe biden in the next interregnum period. but there are some ways in which this path can be disrupted. those are selected to the electoral college, it could be in some states both republican and democrats send representatives to be pa rt of democrats send representatives to be part of the electoral

what happens next is that the various states choose and nominate their electoral college candidates, on december the 8th, and then on december the 1ath, they are supposed to meet and confirm who they are voting for in the electoral couege they are voting for in the electoral college from those particular states. now, there are some rules for those who are part of the electoral college, they don't have to go with the popular vote if they feel that it's not correct in some way, if there is some flaw in the voting process, then even if you do get those voting, they go to congress when it sworn in and the new year, the start of january commanded for example in a particular states, say in pennsylvania, georgia, it's so close, that you have democrats and republicans both sending their own electoral college representatives to congress, and they can't decide who it should be, then the senate has to count those votes and confirm them, and the senate is run by the president, which is bike to vice president mike pence, it's been up to them to decide which electoral couege to them to decide whic

elections in memory and even though trump initially trailed biden he quickly picked up electoral college votes there's no clear winner yet we have just learned that arizona is going to joe biden let's cross over to rob reynolds in los angeles in california he's following the returns on the west coast and rob we were speaking 56 minutes ago about the importance of arizona and then moments later the flip happened tell us more. yes and the important part is one of the important aspects is that this is a flip this is joe biden taking away a state that was won by president trump in 2016 and it's all the more remarkable because arizona has always been one of the most rock ribbed republican states in the union it is the home state of barry goldwater who considered the founder of the modern conservative movement although some of the developments of that movement would probably shock the former senator from arizona the late senator from arizona barry goldwater. this state has gone democratic twice in its history once in 1988 when harry truman beat thomas dewey the 2nd time when in 1906 when bill

, and this does not bode well for the college basketball season which is underway.a a -- gonzaga. jalen sugs, career off to a start. kansas fighting back from a 14-point deficit. couldn't hold off the zags who ended up winning by 12. and lastly, we are hours away from the match three. all eyes will be on charles barkley's swing this holiday weekend. his teammate phil mickelson sharing some pro tips off the tee. win or lose against payton manning and steph curry, you know this is going to be entertaining with those four guys. watch today at 3 eastern on our sister channel, this is a great cause, proceeds benefitting historically black colleges and universities. i know i'm looking forward to it, and i know you're sa sports f -- a sports fan, what are you doing, a turkey sandwich? >> i'm not sure. i don't have leftovers from yesterday. it looks like charles has been listening to phil because his swing looks a lot better than i remember it. it used to be like a three part sort of mechanical thing. it's a lot smoother now. >> it's getting there. he's no tiger woods. we m

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