and if the commonwealth -- it is the commonwealth that denies him the right to vote, not the county. >> you don't allege that she personally rejected the plaintiffs votes or had any authority to do so, so could you explain how the secretary of the commonwealth's actions caused lancaster or free of counties to deny the plaintiffs the right to vote? 'sw did secretary bookckvar actions affect these individual voters in lancaster and fayette counties? review ouror, if you motion for temporary injunction, you will see that the secretary -- she is not an elected official and does not have the authority to interpret the law or change the law. periodically, she would put outside, in not all counties it appears might have followed that advice, in the night before the election, apparently and a mill went out to the counties from the secretary of state's office went outntly an email to the counties from the secretary of state's office, telling the counties during the pre-canvas the next day. is one anyone who is counting ballots can look at them. that was the first time anyone would -- was ever

pennsylvania's secretary of the commonwealth give an update on election results, telling reporters that pennsylvania was in the home stretch of counting votes. several thousand ballots remained. she also responded to questions about tweets she posted about the president before she was elected to office. this is 15 minutes. >> i have no pockets tonight. good afternoon, everybody. thanks for joining me here yet again. we are coming in the home stretch here. the counties have been working incredibly, incredibly hard. hundreds of thousands of ballots have been counted so far today, and we are in very good shape, that there is still -- still some to count. they are working incredibly hard. they are going to keep counting into the evening. you know, stay tuned. so let's see. been reaching out. we have been very closely in touch with all 67 counties, making sure they are reporting on as regular a basis as possible. now all of you, everybody around the country, around the state, are eagerly waiting, and i can tell you the counties are really taking their time making sure that every single voter

we have a great commonwealth, a rural diversity from very counties to urban counties. it is not a one-size-fits-all assessment. we talked to the counties and issued guidance and directives on security of the voting systems and the locations and all of those things. i think the physical security of the staff, i would differ to the counties on. >> what about from your staff? >> yes. . we make sure we are safe. we make sure where operations are are secured. aboutas going to ask you -- based on these questions, i get a sense of you don't know. >> again, it is a lower -- significantly lower number than we thought. we have heard from -- i apologize, i forget how many counties. it is not a full picture yet. it is a fraction of what we saw in the primaries. in the three days following the primary. it will not be anywhere near that. once i have the full -- i think i have maybe two thirds of the counties and i want to make sure before i give -- what i said was true. there are some counties that have zero the day following and some counties that got in the hundreds. that is the r

you have disparate treatment of voters across the commonwealth. second, we had an unprecedented number of provisional ballots. by their very nature, provisional ballots are people that had problems, maybe they were not on the rolls, they have requested a mail-in ballot and -- and never got it. all of those ballots are individually reviewed in the adjudicator. that will likely take some time. our department of sit was not fully compliant with the u.s. supreme court decision to segregate the ballots. she issued conflicting that is to the counties which resulted in the county handling these ballots and the way they were being tallied, differently. in the last case, it was literally hours before the polls that the inconsistent guidance was issued. chaos and confusion for many of our county officials. the representatives were not permitted to witness all of the canvassing and pre-canvassing taking place here in this commonwealth. that is a clear violation of the law. the election process must be open and transparent to the public. anything but complete

making sure that every single voter in the commonwealth who has cast their ballot is having those ballots accurately and securely counted. so, you know, as you know, we're going to keep counting. military and overseas ballots, i think are coming in. those will continue to be accepted through next tuesday. there are provisional ballots after the initial round of ballots. and you know, i think whatever -- whatever the outcomes are, i can tell you that i'm so proud to work with the 67 counties and the election officials who are just doing an amazing job getting these counted accurately and securely. so i am happy i think with that to take your questions. yes. >> the integrity of election has certainly been tested quite a bit over the past several days. it seems to be intensifying now in these final states that we're waiting to hear from. what is your message about the way things work here in pennsylvania? >> so, you know, as we've been talk about for months, pennsylvanians have more choices on how they've been able to vote this year than they've ever had in the history of the commonwealth. a

and if the commonwealth -- it is the commonwealth that denies him the right to vote, not the county. >> you don't allege that she personally rejected the plaintiffs votes or had any authority to do so, so could you explain how the secretary of the commonwealth's actions caused lancaster or free of counties to deny the plaintiffs the right to vote? 'sw did secretary bookckvar actions affect these individual voters in lancaster and fayette counties? review ouror, if you motion for temporary injunction, you will see that the secretary -- she is not an elected official and does not have the authority to interpret the law or change the law. periodically, she would put outside, in not all counties it appears might have followed that advice, in the night before the election, apparently and a mill went out to the counties from the secretary of state's office went outntly an email to the counties from the secretary of state's office, telling the counties during the pre-canvas the next day. is one anyone who is counting ballots can look at them. that was the first time anyone would -- was ever

today by your television provider. 6:15 eastern, pennsylvania's governor and the secretary of the commonwealth gave an update on the vote come from election day as mail-in ballots are in the process of being counted. votes at 26 electoral stake in pennsylvania. according to the associated press, it's one of five states that has yet to declare a winner in the presidential race. >> thank you again for joining us this evening, everybody. as you know, pennsylvania has made important progress in counting millions of mail-in ballots. that continues as we speak. across the state, thousands of volunteers, election officials, worked last night, most of today already, to open process and count ballots. their work is not easy, and i want to say thank you to everybody in all 67 counties who have been working so hard and so diligently. i know this is something we do every election and is part of the election process, but they .ave really worked hard the eyes of the world are on pennsylvania, so it is especially important. an important thing we all do is protect our democracy, and that is to make sure we ha

the electoral laws need to be applied uniformly across the commonwealth. the first thing is we need to find out how many counties did and didn't do this. we have to ask the governor to follow through and ask why that occurred because since we are a commonwealth wealth, lot of does county level. we understand that because we live here and i recognize not ever be listening here this afternoon does because there's a large decentralization in the commonwealth where a lot of these functions are carried out locally. in this particular one, it's important it's not only carried out locally but consistently. >> to give you an example, my the county, steve durham, chair of the elections board come of this process started without his knowledge. they went forth and tried to correct some of these ballots without his knowledge. without any kind of vote or any kind of process to say this is what we are going to do. it continues to put a cloud on this process. juste secretary would have followed the law, this would have been easy. lastly, the important part, that processi

the electoral laws need to be applied uniformly across the commonwealth. you are correct. we need to find out how many counties did or didn't, and as the governor to understand why that occurred. a lot of this activity does happen at the county level, which is different than many states. we understand that because we live here, and i recognize not everybody listening does, because there is a large decentralization in the commonwealth where these functions are carried out, and this one is important it is not only carried out locally, but consistently. county, the minority commissioner is the chair, and this process started without his knowledge, trying to correct ballots without his knowledge, the chairman of the elections board, without vote or process. this has had a major impact, but it puts a cloud over this project. if the secretary would have followed the law, this would have been easy, but she didn't. lastly, that processing part is cold pre-canvassing. both sides should have been able to have their people there to witness that. that was carried out without the abili

the word commonwealth signifies a group united by common interests. but equally significant is the fact that in the political realm, a commonwealth as mister webster defines it has come to mean generally if not always an association based upon free choice. tonight, i shall try to apply to some aspects of the world of international affairs the founding principles of this organization, that each state suffered because of some failure of one element to cooperate as effectively for good as others did for evil. no group no matter how well intentioned can cooperate successfully unless there is first established a firm basis of commonunderstanding . this the founders of your club recognized by noting that one of the great difficulties was that different groups incalifornia did not know each other . they were separated at that time but wide areas and they also distrusted each other. just as the california of 1903, the year your club was founded was a far cry fromthe commonwealth of california today , so the world as we turned into the 20th century is scarcely

[applause] [music] >> welcome to the commonwealth club, i'm george hammond, chair of the commonwealth club. this tech staff is helping to put together these online programs. we've done dozens and dozens of them since the crisis began and it's my great pleasure to introduce susan eisenhower who is with us today. she's the granddaughter of president eisenhower and she's written a great book, how ike led . it's like a u2 spy plane overview of his whole, the principle that led his presidency but with a young girl's point of view on the man himself and it's quite a combination. it's a nice combination because it's also a combination that you lift your life in, susan because you're a political analyst and you've lived your life this way and in addition to that you knew him personally for many years. that was interesting, he didn't pass away until you were in college or around the age . so welcome everybody and we are going to get started to talk about president eisenhower. those of you who aren't familiar with him, he was president from 1953 until 1961, jfk was the president afterward and h

the hrarltlaw enforcement officers in bowling green and serve members stationed across commonwealth are all going to 10 to have a voice -- to continue to have a voice in every important that the decision the i'm the only one of four congressional leaders not from new york or california. i look out for middle america. i have been september pack to washington -- sent back it washington so the working people had make things an grow things condition mine things an raise families in our smaller cities and towns and teach or kids our values aring if to keep their voice, keep tv -- keep their influence and help our nation come back. the trust of people of kentucky has changed 43 life. when i witnessed dr. martin luther king's speech i dreamed about doing beg things to heplp our state and kuhncountry. i never manualed i would be longest serving senator or my fellow that republicans would make me the long esest serving republican leader. together we have used kentucky's front row seat for the good or state and our nation. we have made hasselbeck risk progress rebuilding the screw -- share and co

. >> thank you for the opportunity to be back at the commonwealth club.t is a wonderful opportunity of presenting two in years past, great to be back and talk about this and the question is a very interesting one, part of the disclaimer this evening. as a kid i was raised to compartmentalize what i knew about his politics, government about the issues that he dealt with and on the other side my relationship with him as a grandparent. it was quite an experience, i was continually struck by how we were doing certain things as a family, dealing with these crises. the impetus for why to do it now, would revolve around 3 events. one is at the end of world war ii, certainly v-j day is about to occur and the 70 fifth anniversary of the end of the war in europe in may of this year. secondly the eisenhower memorial in washington dc dedicated on september 17th. much more scaled-back version of its original self. it is open to the public after that date, there's a lot of thinking about the presidency, the most important four year election occurs, so i can't something

our commonwealth and country thrive when people freely exercise this franchise and that is why it isritical that every eligible vote is counted in this election and every election. we have seen efforts across the country to undermine this election and to block the counting of votes. this afternoon, trunk campaign filed a lawsuit to stop the counting of ballots in pennsylvania. that is simply wrong. it goes against the most basic principles for a democracy. it takes away the right of every american citizen to cast their vote and choose our leaders. our officials at the state and local levels should be free to do their jobs without fear, without intimidation and attacks. these attempts to subvert the democratic process are simply disgraceful. we will fight every single attempt to disenfranchise voters and continue to administer free and fair elections in pennsylvania. to be clear, every vote is going to count. i will fight like hell to protect the vote of every pennsylvania and do everything in my power to make sure that inry vote counts because pennsylvania, every vote matters. now go

host: how many people have voted so far in the commonwealth? what is the potential for turnout today? guest: more than 3 million mail-in ballots have been requested. it is my understanding that more than 2 million have been returned. i can tell you i went to my polling place this morning, i had to turn around because i never would have made it in time for this interview because the line was so long. i have never seen a line like this at my polling place. it was stretched around several blocks. and then you had full parking lots at the church and nearby communities i was stunned. host: thank you for showing up. if turnout does become a large factor, who does that benefit? guest: it depends who you ask. mightcampaign thinks it benefit them, the trump campaign thinks it benefits them. by and large, the mail-in ballots that have been returned so far have been democrat voting. trumpre expecting all the supporters to show up today, but there are still plenty of democrats who have not voted yet. at all. they are going to go to the pulse today too. we

that would be gravy if he could hold the commonwealth of pennsylvania. he's trailing right now but the president's lead has been shrinking every time we get votes. and many of them, most of them are in blue counties, philadelphia and the suburbs around it. this is why it's so important because if biden can do this and if biden can hold here and hold here not only is he winning but in the ballpark of 300 electoral votes. that was trump's total in the electoral college four years ago. biden thinks he can get there and match it. the rest of this looks to be out of reach, north carolina, alaska and maine's second congressional district. this is the biden campaign's best case scenario right now in their world. doesn't mean it's a guarantee. we're still counting votes here and here, still counting. if you come back to this map here, president trump must win pennsylvania, must win georgia, must hold north carolina, that would get him in place and then he could get there even that would get him knocking on the door. you see that. president trump if he wins penns

there's a thing of the other 60 counties in the commonwealth. this does not establish standing for the individual voters or the campaign. in your honor's case, and the trump campaign versus the boockvar district. this is all dismissal based on standing. going to faithfully apply these principles. he explained that this was a quote. if the injury claims does more specific harm to you, or if it depends on a heart never happened, -- a harm that never happened, you may seek -- from federal court. the premise is that the right be a delusion of other votes they were cast in the state. it is none a concrete and particularized injury -- that is not a concrete in particular is injury. the injury is not particularized to the voters or to the campaign, and i submit the proposes plans to submit that claim. the court circuit held the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring equal protection claims alleging vote dilution because such a claim was neither concrete nor particularized. specifically, the court held it .s not a concrete harm that the further held allege

biden campaign is expressing confidence to capture commonwealth of pennsylvania. be game over. the president can win without some other pieces, the president can't win without pennsylvania. let me give you a scenario, what if. doing some what ifs. the president leading in maine's second congressional district. say he gets that. if he can hold pennsylvania, he is leading in north carolina, what if joe biden comes back and wins georgia. in a calculation like that, especially if western states took longer to count, the president, we expect him to carry alaska. waiting for vote count there. this is where it gets interesting. if the president comes back in arizona, president can take nevada, 269 to 269. election that goes to house of representatives. not saying that will happen. both campaign war rooms, that's what they're doing. when they see 300 votes here. 4,000 there, sitting around the campaign war room, electoral college chess board, trying to figure out who is getting what, what are our chances. biden campaign -- >> goes to the new house of representatives, not

in the commonwealth we're not really seeing that.gher turnout by both sides i mean, in a state as diverse and as competitive as yours are you learning from this election? >> no question that i think the democrats have learned, and joe biden's campaign not only learned but implemented the lesson you have to try to get votes everywhere. he got there ahead of the president, and that's interhe went to eerie, he went to westmoreland county, and you have to have a message for every part of the state. i think that that lesson has been learned. even when you do that, you have to accept the fact that sometimes the margin won't change. for example, emery county, so as far as at least, not all the votes are counted, but so far joe biden is behind there as much as secretary clinton was. if he didn't expend effort there, would the margin go higher? we can learn a lot from how the rural numbers in a lot of places changed a little bit, but even a point here, a point there, by 3,000 votes there, 5,000 votes there in a state we lost by 44,292 last ti

along with the staff at the commonwealth club.ext aphis help helped to put together these online programs, we have done dozens and dozens of them since a covid crisis began. it is my great pleasure to introduce susan eisenhower who is here with us today preaches the granddaughter of president eisenhower. she has written a great book, how like lead. it is like a u-2 spy plane overview of his hold -- the principles that led his presidency. but with the young girl's point of view on the man himself. it is really quite a combinatio combination. it is a nice combination because it is also the combination that you lived your life at susan. because you are a political analyst et cetera pretty live this life this way and you knew him personally for many, many years. i bet that was interesting. he did not pass away until you were already in college or around that age, right? >> guest: yes. >> host: so welcome everyone. we are going to get started to talk about president eisenhower. for those of you who are not familiar is president from 19

the attorney general of the commonwealth of pennsylvania, josh shapiro. greatly appreciate you making time for us this afternoon, and good luck. up next for us, ballots continuing to be counted. joe biden continues to gain ground in his path to 270. we will have the very latest from the states yet to be called. plus, how the democratic ticket has already made election day history, and the legal fight brewing in the trump campaign as the president prepares to throw down and challenge the election results in several states. a lot to get to. we are just getting underway on "deadline: white house." rs who have turned into their parents. i'm having a big lunch and then just a snack for dinner. so we're using a speakerphone in the store. is that a good idea? one of the ways i do that is to get them out of the home. you're looking for a grout brush, this is -- garth, did he ask for your help? -no, no. -no. we all see it. we all see it. he has blue hair. -okay. -blue. progressive can't protect you from becoming your parents, but we can protect your home and auto

historians, it shows the largest concentration of indians in the commonwealth of virginia. years later, i myself lived to witness his separation of my family as they were forced out of the commonwealth of virginia to get a high school education. three of my family members went to oklahoma. in college right there. i served on the board for years. my family members had to leave the commonwealth of virginia to get a high school education in the 40's and 1950's. several family members of mine are forced to go to michigan to complete high school. another piece of the whole puzzle is this racial integrity act. this also caused a serious disruption in virginia among serious communities. general assembly approved a law indicating you are not white. what it did was it just ripped the hearts out of people and said basically, you cannot even document on not even your records. birth certificates, marriage license. you cannot document you are a native american in this state. because of that, my uncles and grandparents and great uncles documented on the draft certificate, the draft certi

club i'm george hammond which is put together today's program and along with this staff at the commonwealthlub. we are happy to put together all these online programs we've done dozens and dozens of them since the covid crisis began and it's to my great pleasure to introduce susan eisenhower who is a granddaughter of president eisenhower and has written a great book "how ike led". it's like a you to spy plane overview of the soul consoles that led his presidency but with a little young girl's point view on the man himself and is quite accommodation and combination because it's accommodation that lived your life and political analyst et cetera but in addition to that you knew him personally for many, many years. he didn't pass away until you are already in college or around that age, right? >> yes. >> so welcome everybody and we will get started to talk about president eisenhower for those of you who aren't familiar with the dates he was president from 1953 until 1961 and jfk was a present right "after words" and he was the supreme allied commander during world war ii. susan, first of all, t

we created 7 million good paying jobs, 200 thousand right here in the commonwealth. you know, when joe biden was vice president, america actually

million good paying jobs, including 200,000 jobs right including 200,000 jobs right here in the commonwealth.

what is going on in your commonwealth tonight?at's going on, i mean, really the same thing that's always going on. with the election. you know, this amway convention/carnival snake handling at the ramada doesn't change any facts about joe biden winning it and there's no additional voter fraud aside from the two cases that i have been talking about for the last three weeks. there is actually nothing new under the sun. joe biden won and what's curious is that if the rest of these down-ballot races aren't certified by november 30th we will have a house -- a house and half our senate. because the terms expire on november 30th. so there really is no end game for getting these results turned over. >> when you -- this is regarding your state, your commonwealth. you took an oath of office to hear a guy like rudy fly in to your state and make claims of sweeping massive voter fraud. it must piss you off at a deep level. >> yeah. i don't take it seriously because no one real takes mr. giuliani seriously. everyone knows how this movie is goin

rebuke of the supreme court that he helped shape after a decision that in pennsylvania's case the commonwealth gets three days beyond tuesday to count mail-in ballots. >> this is a horrible thing that the united states supreme court has done to our country. and i say it and i say it loud and i say it proud. >> reporter: the president is trying to repeat a victory here.

so just a moment ago the appellate court in pennsylvania, this is what's known as the commonwealth court in pennsylvania issued an order saying that all provisional ballots that were cast on election day where the elector's absentee ballot or mail-in ballot was received have to be segregated until basically we can decide whether the provisional ballot can be counted. so it's telling all the counties, even though this litigation only initially

i do also wa nt to state of the commonwealth.to point out to our viewers how significant philadelphia is. it is the birthplace of american democracy. this is where the declaration of independence happened in 1776. this is also where the constitutional convention happened in 1787. so, the fact that democracy is being played out here in pennsylvania is incredibly significant. that was yalda hakim live in pennsylvania in the latest reports we are getting a saying that joe biden is ahead there. you're watching bbc news. just an update on where we are at the moment. counting is still continuing the key battleground states in this us election and we understand that a recount has been confirmed to be taking place in georgia and, as yalda just laying there, in pennsylvania it has been very close indeed but every single vote does indeed but every single vote does indeed count. now, donald trump has released a statement in the last few minutes or so, saying that he is going to continue, vowing to continue, with his legalfight. we have got

india became an independent republic in the british commonwealth. millions of indians led by the prime minister celebrated the independence of this great nation. the new dominion took over the charter membership, which india, under british rule, had held in the united nations. the new republic of pakistan consisted of two zones in the northwest and northeast corners of the subcontinent, separated by 1000 miles of india territory. the territorial limits of pakistan were determined on the basis of the islamic faith of the majority of its people. led by muhammad ali jenna, pakistan celebrated its independence on august 15, 1947. at karachi, capital of the new state, the joyous people hailed their new nation. the partition of india led almost immediately to disputes, the first centered around two independent states, which had claimed -- the dominion of india sent troops into kashmir and there appeared to nr a threat to international peace. pakistan denied the charges and questioned the legality of kashmir's secession to india. the dispute was brought to

he not the commonwealth made a mistake. >> this is an overreach of the prosecution.til this day i sit here i don't think a crime was committed. >> reporter: massachusetts has no law against encouraging suicide. >> right. and so it's troubling that they would bring up manslaughter. >> reporter: the basis of his argument. prosecutors misinterpreting massachusetts law. to him, this was clearly a suicide. that's why he wanted a judge, not a jury, to hear the case. >> i thought the judge would apply the correct law on the facts that conrad roy was just so suicidal that michelle carter did not cause his death. >> reporter: and that's how he began his opening statement. >> michelle carter was not present. michelle carter had been texting with him. she did not physically see this individual for over one year. >> reporter: to bolster his case, michelle's lawyer introduced a set of text messages that the prosecution had not mentioned. ones where she tried repeatedly to help conrad -- have you thought about getting professional help? like i think i'm going to go away to a place

. >> hello, everyone and welcome to today's virtual program at the commonwealth club of california. my name is linda mendoza, , a senior partner in there does of mckinsey & company a member of the commonwealth club board of directors. today i will be moderating the program. we would like to thank our members, , donors and supporters from making this and all of the programs available. we are grateful for your support and hope others will follow their example to support the club particularly during these uncertain times. today i'm particularly pleased to be joined by john lithgow, an award-winning actor and author of a new book, "trumpty dumpty wanted a crown: verses for a despotic age." he is best known as i'm sure you all know or his contributions in the theater, television and film industries throughout the years, with roles and things have been read as the crown, my personal favorite, the world according to garp. after receiving degrees in history and literature from harvard, john wood on to study the performing arts at the london academy of music and dramatic art on a fulbright s

commonwealth of virginia were growing things like tobacco and cultivating cotton. you can see how intense and how populous the slave people were here in va at the time. let's go through georgia. you can notice where they were growing rice and different things here. once again we had a concentration of enslaved individuals. the mississippi river valley is the same thing. they're growing cotton and other cash crops that allow whites to capitalize on that. once again look at the concentration of enslaved people. in the mississippi river valley. in may of 1861, there was a perfect storm. several things came together to create what we call today the contraband decision. the first thing is that abraham lincoln promoted and assigned major general benjamin butler to take command of fort monroe. on the heels of that, the commonwealth of virginia was some sitting on the fence. adjoining united states are joined the confederacy. that decision they would join the new confederate government and invite the national capital to be removed to the city of richmond, virginia. butler

thank you for being with us, what in you know what is going on in your commonwealth tonight?> what's going on, i mean, really the same thing that has always been going on with the election. you know, this amway convention/carnival barking and snake handling at the ramada doesn't change anything. there was no cases of voter fraud aside from the two cases i've been talking about. joe biden won, there is nothing new under the sun. and if the rest of the downballot races aren't certified, we won't have a house or senate. because the terms expire on november 30th. there's no end game for getting the results turned over. >> this is regarding your state, your commonwealth. you took an oath of office. to hear a guy like rudy fly in to your state and make claims of sweeping, massive voter fraud, must piss you off at a very deep level. >> yeah, i don't take it seriously, because no one really takes mr. giuliani seriously. everyone knows how this movie is going to end. like i said, it's just this weird pyramid scheme marketing thing at a ballroom at the ramada. and this wasn't an offici

most counties in the commonwealth are expected to sign off on final election results today.ally a routine, administrative task. but nothing of course is normal or routine these days. president trump's legal team is doing everything possible to overturn the result which has joe biden winning by 80,000 votes now they're appealing a judge's scathing decision from over the weekend which threw out the lawsuit seeking to invalidate hundreds of thousands of votes in in the commonwealth. a bipartisan show of force joining me now, al schmidt and john fetterman. gentlemen, thank you for being here. today is a huge day. lieutenant governor how is today going to end? >> well, the way it started, with joe biden winning pennsylvania. our electoral votes are going to go to him. and the trump campaign is going to perhaps continue to lie about the conditions on the ground. but it's not going to change anything. you know, everyone knows how this movie is going to end, up to and including the president. >> commissioner this giuliani effort is one effort, then there's another state effort to st

as you might imagine, we have a great commonwealth, a part of diversity from very rural counties to urban it's really not a 1—size—fits—all assessment. we certainly talk to the counties and issue guidance and directives on security of the voting systems and the locations and all of those things. but i think the physical security of the staff, i would defer to the counties on. what about you and your staff? any special precautions? yes. we have security. we make sure that we are safe and we make sure that we are, our operations are secure and safe. thank you. i was going to ask you about the late arriving ballots if you have any kind of idea of how many there are but based on the question i get a sense you don't know. you did tell cnn that it was anywhere from zero in some counties to hundreds in others. can you be any more specific? again, it's a significantly lower number than we thought. i think we've heard from, i apologise i forget exactly how many counties. it's not a full picture yet. but it's a much less significant number. it's a fraction of what we saw in the primaries. i think w

at this is not extending election day until today and the commonwealth of pennsylvania.s a matter of when those mail and ballots were postmarked by election day whether they are going to count. we're going to see this adjudicated over the next couple of days. i think the biden campaign is out there saying that, we likely won't need those ballots. we won't need those provisional ballots. the margin will hopefully be as large as necessary to ensure a biden win in the commonwealth. >> shannon: justice alito said tonight, all county boards segregate these folks, if they do count them, count them separately. he added the scum of the application received today, the filing by the pennsylvania g.o.p. says, informs the court that neither the applicant or the secretary has been able to verify that all boards are complying with the secretary's guidance, which it is alleged is not legally binding on them. they say they're already doing this, he says, we've been told not even the secretary of the commonwealth can confirm these people are doing it, and even if she had given them direc

>> so, as you know, pennsylvania is a commonwealth.unning them incredibly well. philadelphia, like every other county in the state, has staffed up, has best practices in place and are working furiously to get the votes done. obviously a county that has hundreds of thousands of ballots is going to have more staffing equipment than a county with a couple thousand ballots. i want every single qualify voter's voice to be heard and ballots to be countsed, i don't care where they live in the commonwealth. >>> so, let me ask you, secretary, the trump campaign says they're requesting a recount in wisconsin. obviously you're doing your first count, you have over a million ballots left to go. are you preparing for a recount? do you think it's inevitable for you as well? >> i don't think it's inevitable. we are definitely tracking it. in pennsylvania there's an automatic recount if the race is within 0.5% difference between the winner and the person in second. so in 2016, i believe the final results were 0.7%, so there was no automatic recount. t

that's what we've seen all day long across the commonwealth.ercentage would be very high. it would be roughly 80. >> that's lehigh, roughly 80. you say 36,000. that's one county you get a basket of votes, that would cut it. philadelphia city itself, obviously they're at 89% now. but 11% in the city of philadelphia would be a ton of votes. what do we think the number is there now? >> the best number i have now is a little over 70. >> so, if you're thinking about 70,000 votes there where the former vice president is getting 80% or higher, just do it yourself. there are votes in philadelphia alone, wolf, that are more than enough. and you say there are other counties in the philadelphia area. we're still looking. do we think there are more in bucks county. >> yeah, some in bucks. the best estimate we have is about 22,000. >> 20,000 lehigh, 22,000 bucks. well excess of that, three times that in philadelphia. there's more than enough votes. the reason we're going through this exercise, and we appreciate your exercise, just to show the math that the

the commonwealth of virginia certainly was growing things like tobacco, cultivating cotton and you can see how intense or how populist the slave and enslaved people were here in virginia at the time. let's go down to georgia. you can notice where they're growing rice and different things down here. once again, we have a concentration of enslaved individuals. the mississippi river valley, same thing. they're growing cotton and other cultivating cash crops that allow whites to be able to capitalize on that. once again, look at the concentration of enslaved people in the mississippi river valley. in may of 1861, there was a perfect storm, several things came together to create what we call today the contraband decision. the first thing that occurred is that abraham lincoln promoted and assigned major general benjamin butler to come and take demand of ft. monroe. almost on the heels of that, the common health commonwealth of virginia who had been sitting on the fence finally made a decision and that decision was indeed they would join the few confederate government and invite the national

india became an independent republic in the british commonwealth. millions of indians led by prime minister nehru celebrated the independence of this great nation. the new dominion took over the charter membership which india under british rule had held in the united nations. the new republic of pakistan consisted of two zones in the northwest and northeast corners of the subcontinent, separated by 1,000 miles of dominian of india territory. the territorial limits of pakistan were determined on the basis of the islamic faith of the majority of its people. led by mohammed jinna the new dominion of pakistan celebrated its independence on august 15th, 1947. and in karachi capital of the new state the joyous people hailed their new nation. but the partition of india led almost immediately to disputes. the first of these centered around the independent states of jammu and kashmir, which had declared its adherence to the new dominion of india. protesting that pakistan was aiding tribal disorder in kashmir, the dominion of india sent troops in to kashmir a

back at the commonwealth lab, i met with the ceo. -- commonwealth lab, i met with the ceo. —— cornwallwall be the answer to our battery problem ? easterby cornwall be the answer to our battery problem? easterby all lithium came from mind, walter created the lithium could be extracted from the salt left behind but all that is changing. they cannot keep up, they take 10—20 years to get going so the world has switched over to ha rd going so the world has switched over to hard rock with western australia leading the charge and now we are coming in with unconventional hard rock, like tesla in nevada, in mexico, the czech republic and. the first stage of exploration is we need to drill some diamond holes to see what is in the ground. these holes are about 300 metres each. this is what it produces. you could crush it down and get an analytical test. what is the difference between the lithium here in cornwall and that in australia? in australia it is twice the great but here we get 120 metres of continuous lithium. so they were on top of each other. we are going down the whole this way and thi

. >>> former vice president joe biden trying to drum up support in the final few hours, the commonwealthritical to biden's map to the white house. he will hold a canvass kickoff event there. jessica dean is following this for us. what is biden's strategy? >> reporter: his campaign is holding a briefing in the last hour, telling everyone they feel really good about the fact that they have many pathways to victory in their mind, that they can put together a whole different combination of states and get to 270. pennsylvania plays an absolutely critical role in vice president biden's strategy. they really see that they can bring out a coalition of people here all across the state, and to that end, vice president vice president biden, his wife jill biden, his running mate and doug emhoff are sent to all four corners of the commonwealth of pennsylvania, and they're pitching that are message to a whole collision of people. they're talking to voters that ryan nobody else was just talking about who maybe voted for president trump in 2016, but are willing to vote for vice president biden and kamal