jonathan fisher for talking to us about this. jonathan fisher is head of the international development department at the university of birmingham. thank you for your time. thank you very much. scotland's 1st minister says she wants to hold a 2nd independence referendum as early as next year. nicolas sturgeon says she wants the vote to take place near the beginning of the next, on a mentor, a 10 with sati. may surgeons, national party is expected to perform strongly in those elections. scots voted 55 to 45 percent against independence in 2014 in that referendum. then, but recent polls suggest a majority and now aims support of independence. south korea's yonhap news agency is reporting the nation's intelligence agency has stopped a north korean attempt to hack. it's called the $1000.00 vaccine development. politicians briefed by south korea's national intelligence service say the pharmaceutical industry was targeted, but they didn't say how many companies were involved. earlier this month, microsoft said russian and north korean h

jonathan fisher is an especially is a specialist on international development and head department at the university of birmingham in the u.k. . jonathan, good to have you with us. the u.k. has just about an increase announced an increase in defense spending. what sort of message discussing its aid budget send to the world? well, this is part of the, the issue really here. it's a question of priorities really. clearly lots of difficult decisions need to be made with regard to you know, the state's finances in terms of spending in response to cope it. but this decision about the reduction in aid as you say, is coming at the same time as an increase in defense spending. and i think it's sending some mixed messages about what our role in the world is meant to be. prodded ourselves over the last decade or 2 on being a development superpower, if you like. and this seems to cut across that without there being much of a clear, strategic or humanitarian basis for that. what impact would a concert of that size? how much money are we talking about here? what impact would it have on what britain

fisher, thank you. at the white house. jonathanerrie is in atlanta where they're looking at a third georgia account talking to the secretary of state. may be some details about what is going on here. >> we are becoming experts at ballot counting. more on that in a moment. they are campaigning for the states to republican senators. she helped defend the majority rally in griffin, small town south of atlanta, while senator kennedy quarantines as she awaits test results. >> for our seat, they will determine the next 50 or hundred years. i'm not going to overstate it. that's the turning point that we are at right now. >> they face january 5th runoffs against democratic challengers. they are campaigning on the premise that winning these two senate seats will protect of the affordable care act and help joe biden accomplish his agenda. after a hand audit of ballots confirmed joe biden's narrow victory, president trump has requested a recount, his legal right to do that because he has within that half of a percent margin. this will be a ma

jonathan turley on the president's legal push. garrett tenney on breaking developments out of michigan, but we begin at the white house with kristin fisher. good afternoon, kristin. >> good afternoon, bill. well, a lot of the claims that we heard during that news conference we have heard before. and, in fact, many of them have already been thrown out in court. but there were two that were new. and they are out there. i really don't know any other way to say it. rudy giuliani claimed that there was a centralized plot involving widespread voter fraud in big cities that are controlled by democrats. and then another member of the trump campaign's legal team sidney powell, she says that that plot came -- is communist in origin and came from venezuela. now, to be very clear, the trump campaign has not come anywhere close to proving those final last two claims in court and listen to what karl rove thought about it just moments ago. >> these are serious, i think, somewhat strange accusations but serious and now both mr. giuliani and ms. powell have an obligation to go to court and prove them. because we're -- these are questioning the fundamenta