leland? we had a democratic analyst on earlier who said he he thought president trump's visit would also juice democratic turnout down there in georgia. back to the supreme court, because you've got a couple of different rulings from them as it relates to religious freedom. we a had the ruling against new york state in favor of religious institutions, now this ruling down in louisiana against the pastor who have been outspoken against coronavirus restrictions. how do you square those? >> reporter: first of all, in new york just a few days ago the supreme court ruled against an order that governor andrew cuomo put in place that basically limited the amount of people that could meet and worship together. cuomo said it was for safety concerns, but the supreme court ultimately ruled 5-4 that religious liberty is more important at this point. but in louisiana justice samuel alito ruled on his own and basically decided not to hear a case from a louisiana pastor just outside of baton rouge, louisian

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leland? leland: charles watson, thank you. amazing to watch the in-fighting right now in the republican party on this. you had kelly loeffler on "sunday morning futures" calling for the republican secretary of state of georgia to resign. kind of stunning. he'd be the question coming out of the white house that you cover. vice president pence has been down there a couple of times, how important do they view bold holding those two seats as. kristin: president trump, the fact that he's going there next saturday shows he not only thinks he's important too, but i think it's safe to say nobody cares about georgia more than senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, right? leland: yeah. kristin: but january 5th, that is such a critical date for both parties because it determines who holds the senate. >>> meanwhile, a rise in violent crime across the country as burglaries and homicides pecking up. whew some cities are seeing such large increases, up next. ♪ ♪ insulin injections can make diabetes complicated. meet omnipod - it delivers in

leland: i'm leland vittert. we're going to bring you that live, 16 minute from now and tell you what that satellite is going to do. but first, president trump is meeting with world leaders today in what they're calling a virtual g20 summit. mark meredith live on the lawn of the white house and the president is at his golf club and we'll put that together, mark. >> good afternoon to you. the coronavirus would top the g20. and they're looking for a vaccine just like in the united states. we've seen a screen shot of the president participating in a zoom meeting with world leaders. very 2020. the president is at his golf club. we've seen him saying he won the election claiming victory even though there hasn't been voter fraud around the country. we heard from the press secretary who says the results they have a result to question at this point. >> it was not an orderly transition that he was given and now, it's voters simply ask questions about a fraught lent mail-in ballot system we're told we're crazy and subverti

leland: warm winter, thank you so much.e battle for the control of the senate is raising millions of dollars and getting poured into the georgia runoff, the state is in a recount of ballots also going on at the same time, steve harrigan is in atlanta with the inside scoop. reporter: some of the hand count going on behind me all of crossed georgia, their hand counting 5 million presidential ballots, it is a simple operation, two election officials at a table they read the ballot out loud and then count the stacks, the state has to certify the balance by november 20, this point joe biden has a 14000 vote lead, that is .3% lead in the two senate runoff races in georgia are in full swing that is for a january 5 runoff, both sides seem to agree on how crucial the two senate runoff races are for the future of the country. >> six and a half million americans have pulled themselves out of poverty, that will all get undone if we lose both of the seats in georgia that's why we know where the last line of defense and were fighting har

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leland: is at a reasonable fear? >> it really depends on where you are, if there's a huge spike, they might want to consider, i have elderly parents, were not going to put them in a large crowded area. but in places where the penetration so to speak or the outbreaks pace so to speak is low, people should get together, let's face it, where a species so to speak that likes to get together and get our fellowship from our friends and family. those are emotional needs that have a health impact. i would say go with the local area, whatever the guide says in your local area. leland: congressman you been consistent over the past ten or so months which is been a hallmark of your time in congress, we appreciate it on this issue and others. happy thanksgiving to you and yours, hopefully you can get a little bit of time together as a family. >> you to. alicia: joining me now is democratic ohio congressman and member of the house appropriations committee tim ryan, also biden campaign arrogant. thank you so much for being here tod

leland, do you want to lead on that? >> sure.think of us leaving the planet and flying in space and looking back at our blue marble, ann, you talk abo this blue dot, the voyager looking back at this blue dot millions of miles away. having this view of our planet and thinking of a the people that been involved with helping just this very sll subset of people get off the planet, live and work together this space station, this spaceship. we are looking back a our spaceship earth, and to think the colors of the ocean. i think about new definitions to describe the colors of the ocean because i distinguish allhe colors i know when i see all these different cues. and that tapestry of color and shape and form -- hughes. it's making you be an artist or poll to discover and that's why writers go into space are so needed t ensure that we can capture what we see. we get this perspective shift, we call the oracle perspective. we look back athe plan and you see no political borders. there are just geograpcal borders and we're all on this plane

leland vittert is live with the latest on that. leland. leland: hey, trace.h of the white house. the president walks up to the second floor residence and looks out over lafayette plaza, this is the crowd he would see. it's sort of a street fair atmosphere out here. people are popping champagne bottles while wearing masks and then drinking out of the same bottle. so make of that what you will given the fact that d.c. is in the middle of a massive covid spike. a lot of people are wearing masks, not necessarily practicing social distancing. take a look around, you can see the big signs up here, you're fired. this is along h street which runs parallel there to the front of the white house. we haven't seen any kind of violence or the anger that we saw back in june here on black lives matter plaza. that might having something to do with the fact that there's a very, very pungent smell of marijuana here in the air. god bless the usa, ymca and sweet caroline, which are all being blasted by some boom boxing that everybody brought here for everybody to sing along to. w

leland, thank you. tonight, supreme court justice samuel alito has gotten directly involved in the legal disputes in pennsylvania. accounting boards of elections were supposed to be segregating ballots received after 8:00 p.m. on election day and securely locking them down over the time being. at the fight over whether they should be counting continues. they asked for an emergency order. after it was unable to get at least 25 of the county boards to confirm, they actually have been doing that with these votes. and of ordered every county election board in pennsylvania to segregate out and secure them for now. it the pennsylvania g.o.p. asks that the county boards ordered not to do anything further for the ballots like tally them. they did not address that in the emergency order, but did say he is referring for a request the full-court and asks the opposing side to file something no later than 2:00 p.m. tomorrow. we got it tonight. if they waste any time. they say there is no proof that they aren't compl

leland vittert outside the white house. thanks leland. >> meanwhile west coast people are gathering on the streets of los angeles to mark joe biden's win that is where we find christina coleman good evening christina. >> hi shannon yeah it feels like something between a parade and a festival. there's so many people that have been several people marching throughout downtown. all long getting miles in. i want to get out of the way so you can get a shot and see just how many people. they have been walking for hours and hours. now, this was not planned as a big celebration, but several thousand people and initially two groups one called united stand, other reduce fascism and protest against after he called for votes being counted but after social media outlet declared biden president-elect today people came out to celebrate some chanting this is what it luges like. others chanting black lives matter. many voters here tell me coronavirus and racial injustice for some of their main topics during this election. also here in califo

leland, thank you. hopefully obviously none of that is actually needed. in washington. we're getting ready. "fox business alert" came from connecticut. the governor ned lamont in connecticut is rolling the entire state's reopening back to what they're calling phase 2.1 as of friday. restaurants back to 50% capacity. they closed them up by 9:30 p.m. salons 75% capacity. so this whole idea, not of a lockdown but of a rolling back where we were in the progress of opening up after the covid-19 lockdowns is now in effect in connecticut. that is as of friday. we'll watch for news out of other states as well. the 2020 hurricane season logging another milestone. hurricane etta, the 28th named storm. the 12th hurricane of the season ties the record 15 years ago of a most storms in a hurricane season. they say it could strengthen into a major category 4 before it makes landfall in central america that will be early tomorrow. ♪ $5, now anyone can own companies in the s&p 500, even if their shares cost more. at $5 a slice, you could own ten companies for $50 instead

>> mike: thanks, leland. republicans want to prevent some of what they're calling discrepancies in the presidential election from happening in georgia during the senate run-offs january 5. >> we demand complete explanations for all discrepancies identify so that our citizens will have complete confidence in our elections. in the run-off election, we cannot have lost memory cards or stacks of uncounted ballots. >> let's dig in to all of this election intrigue with john brasso. good evening. >> good to be with you. >> mike: let's play a clip from vice president pence today. >> going to keep fighting until every legal vote is counted. we're going to keep fighting until every illegal vote is thrown out. >> senator, you know very well there's a huge difference in being the majority party in the senate versus being in the minority. president trump is unhappy about the election as are his supporters. do you worry about that hurting republican chances in the critical senate run-offs? >> i think when we look at what i

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leland, thank you.o a critical focus of the trump campaign legal team is, fittingly enough, what we expected to be one of the biggest battleground states heading into election day, pennsylvania. in philadelphia earlier today, eric and lara trump, some of the president 's most trusted advisors raised what they are calling red flags about alleged improprieties in vote counting there. >> this is beyond anything i've ever seen before. this comes when you think you have so much power and you own the media that you can do anything you want. do you think we are stupid? do think we are false? you know something cannot the democrats do think you're stupid and they do think you're full's. and that's why you get called deplorable and chumps. >> shannon: correspondent aishah hasnie has the latest tonight. she is live in philadelphia, we check in with her now. good evening. >> shannon, good evening. it does look empty right behind me but i promise there are people in his convention center that are still counting tho

welcome to "america's news headquarters" from washington i am leland. to be with everyone. the president is tweeting a vengeance, going full speed

leland vittert is around all of this, and i told you a little bit there's a possibility so there's a possibility that they could see some disturbance. >> of the united states secret service is pushing the perimeter, and that's normally allowed to. and that's the perimeter of the white house. the banks and office buildings, have all been boarded up here in d.c. police across the country have canceled their days off, and they are talking about shutting down rodeo drive. not only that vehicular traffic but also any pedestrians trying to prevent the repeat of june looting that they saw. it's very clear that the cost of boarding up and lost business for a couple of days pales in comparison to the cost of a full-blown riot. >> it's cheaper to put up a piece of plywood then it is to lose a window that could cost thousands and thousands of dollars. >> i talked to the head of one of the major security firms here in d.c. that tracks social media among these protest groups and says that if president trump wins reelection, they believe it is a a very real possibility that things could get "extre

good evening, leland. >> good evening to you and dara going on in a number of states. late tonight the president turned to the tax towards the media saying we are reporting about republican poll watchers barred from doing their job in key states and said that accounts for hundreds of thousands of ballots in michigan and pennsylvania. quoting the president, "i easily win both states." undeterred he is now by the narrowing path to victory. >> embrace that label. >> we will win, president trump tweeted with this video of a pre-election rally. late tonight's campaign released this picture an obituary of john grant hand, who died in 2019, but the cam camping says he votn the 2020 election. >> every time we take a step along this process, we believe we are getting closer to our goal, and that is the president winning these states and ultimately being reelected. >> the campaign celebrated news from georgia where the secretary of state announced a hand recount of ballots that currently have mr. trump down about 14,000 votes. >> because we now have that verifiable paper ballot

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. >> leland: fox news alert. president trump saying the first coronavirus vaccines could be delivered as early as next week. the promising news comes as one drug maker prepares to go before the fda and another one goes back to the drawing board after an error in its clinical trials. good morning, i'm jon scott. >> i'm julie banderas in for sandra smith. president trump making the announcement yesterday to u.s. troops overseas. the president reiterating hope is on the horizon. watch. >> president trump: during a pandemic, the whole world is suffering this tremendous pandemic, not just us, the world. and you wouldn't know that to listen to the news reports but the whole world is suffering. and we're rounding the curve. the vaccines are being delivered next week and the week after. >> as fda regulators will review pfizer's request for an emergency use authorization for its vaccine december 10. astrazeneca has a dosing error and will likely force another clinical trial. >> casey stiegel is live in arlington, texas. w

they had discussed, you've got a very talkback, thus president will win arizona and -- >> shannon: lelandou. not unlike the rest of the country, the bed and campaign on edge tonight i went in calls from pennsylvania, account ongoing in arizona. separated by razor-thin margins in a lot of places tonight, jacqui heinrich reporting live from wilmington delaware. hey. >> hey, shannon, joe biden is confident he will hit 270. the campaign chose his win will be sizable in pennsylvania and confident about arizona and nevada but they consider georgia to be a toss-up. as the totals trickle in, the former vice president is urging americans to sit back and let the process play out. >> sometimes democracy is messy and requires patience. but it's been rewarded now for more than 240 years. a system of governance that's been the envy of the world. >> the campaign think president trump is seeing the same data prompting his allies to aggressively litigate which of the biden campaign sees as an effort to create a cloud of confusion and cast out on the of the result. but there campaign months ago in response

leland: i'm leland vittert.ing you that live, 16 minute from now and tell you what that satellite is going to do. but first, president trump is meeting with world leaders today in what they're calling a virtual g20 summit. mark meredith live on the lawn of the white house and the

leland: good to be with you, and flouting the restrictions in louisiana. i'm leland vittert.he

we begin with leland vittert looking at these electoral pathways open to both candidates tonight. good evening, we will end. >> good evening to you. in terms of getting to 270 vot votes, barring the lawsuits that you talked about or a change of the current map, president trump has one path with a variation. former vice president biden has a number. 264 votes right now is where the former vice president stands which means any of the undecided states except alaska puts him over the top. president trump needs to run the table almost. as it stands, the reason georgia has tightened considerably. the "los angeles times" reports there is at least 150,000 votes left to count there. you can see president trump with a slight win. 30,000 votes. president has the lead in north carolina but that's also too close to call. the president's lead is less than 100,000 votes. for your chance of reelection the president muc must close oue southeast. pennsylvania, they are counting hundreds of thousands if not a million plus ballots. the president enjoy the lead but its ranking. lawsuits and pennsylvan

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leland better, thank you very much.t the polk county continues and drawn out west, the campaign announcing a lawsuit in nevada over thousands of alleged illegal voters same people who don't live in the state were voting there and they are insisting they will ultimately come out on t and arizona alicia acuna is live, where the vote count and continues tonight. good morning. >> yes, good morning, shannon. that federal lawsuit filed in nevada happen when th within tht few hours, highlighting voter disenfranchisement and voter fraud. in addition to that, the number and the g.o.p. party is now asking the u.s. justice department to investigate any tweet writing "our lawyers just sent a criminal referral to attorney general barr regarding at least 3,006 due to instances of voter fraud. we expect the number to grow substantially. of thousands of individuals have been identified who appeared to have violated the law by casting ballots after they moved from nevada. back here in arizona, we are in the parking lot of the election o

leland picks it up from there. >> a bit of a victory lap for the president on the vaccine. breaking tonight, we don't know how much how or who will get th first doses of the vaccine, but it's coming in a manager of weeks and in his first public appearance this week, the president wants some credit. >> no medical breakthrough of this scope has been achieved this rapidly, this quickly. it was imperative work speed, but that was an unfortunate representation. that's why they gave them the $1.5 billion and it was an unfortunate mistake they made when they said that. on a crisp friday afternoon, th president addressed reporters i the news guard impaired. >> for political reasons the governor decided to that he wants to take his time with the vaccine, he doesn't trust where the vaccine is coming from, they're coming from the greates companies anywhere in the world greatest labs in the world, but he doesn't trust the fact that it's this white house spread. >> to he uses his government as a retaliatory tool, that's what he does. >> this week bars and restaurants across new york sta

leland: president trump speaking exclusively on "sunday morning futures" today for his first interviewction. marine one landing, the president and his grandkids walking off to the white house after spending the thanksgiving weekend at camp david.

shannon: leland: up against mandatory vaccinations? we have a debate coming up. the president's legal team is putting some money where its mouth is, paying wisconsin $3 million to recount 800,000 votes in milwaukee and as the hand recount in georgia nears a end the focus of the peach state is shifting to the contrast between the two senate runoff elections. kevin cork is tracking the latest election aftermath. >> reporter: it is a nationwide effort but so far produces a major shift in the outcome of the 2020 election but that doesn't mean the trump campaign strategy of for lawsuits and rehab won't pay dividends down the line given cause to courts and voters about the general election and maybe a senate race yet to come. from lawsuits and investigations to canvassing and recounts the trump campaign's nationwide strategy to contest the 2020 election continues unabated, latest move paying for a recount of ballots in dade and milwaukee counties in wisconsin and acosta the campaign of $3 million. with a 20,000 vote lead for biden it is unlikely the recount in select c

leland: thanks very much. amid spikes in crime to major american cities, potentially costly gun-control strategy, president-elect joe biden picks his pick to be deputy chief of staff, went all in on beto o'rourke's plan to ban assault weapons during the democratic primary campaign. >> reporter: in an already challenging year for america violent crime is rising in cities across the country. president-elect joe biden will have a full plate when he takes office early next year. chaos in chicago, 23 people were shot just on monday. the windy city is poised to cross the 700 homicide mark this year. in texas governor greg abbott is sending state troopers to dallas where a violent spike in crime continues to be the trend. officials report 7 homicides in 24 hours, with 200 since january. >> we need a more significant presence in hotspot in our city where crime is frankly out-of-control and people need to know that if something happens the police are going to be there and respond. >> the surge in violence comes as pres

correspondent leland taking a look at. >> we should know about a few more. there's new fractures in the democratic caucus here on capitol hill laid bare by that red wave of freshman congressmen and women picking up house seats from incumbent democrats. >> the only seat the democrats won was an open seat and they claim to have won a redistricting in north carolina were republicans didn't even run. i heard the speaker call it a mandate. it was a mandate against socialism. kevin mccarthy has reasons to celebrate while fox news correctly projected on election night democrats would keep the house, republicans would pick up seats rather than lose them. from california, new mexico, and the west to florida and new york in the east, conservative women regained much of the ground lost by republicans in the 2018 midterms. women account for eight of the ten republican pickups including nancy mase, the first woman graduate from the citadel military academy, cuban-american elvira salazar who beat former hhs secretary. democratic congressman max rose march with a black liv

>> well you know, look the leland the legal landscape is incredibly difficult.a high standard to get a temporary restraining order but the recounts are as a result how close the races have become and i'm starting to think that may be where a lot of the surprise comes if there is a surprise and that is in the hand recount, for example in georgia. they may be successful in pennsylvania as well. so liz, i think, you know, you've been on top of this issue and i think, many of us are looking at it saying it seems like an uphill battle but it is gaining some momentum. elizabeth: in arizona i think joe biden's lead is 0.7. if it slips below 0.5, there will be a recount in arizona. so we've seen, we've been doing the math and talking to, and looking at the vote count. the trump team would have to overturn 275,000 votes over spread across pennsylvania and where the counts are going on. that would effectively finding 75,000, each of those votes are individually fraudulent, 57,000 dead people. that is the issue. that is at stake? is that how you see it? >> yeah it is. they

leland:-- once we got to theedwf the buggy. i live in the world of politics. knew what was going on with the snowden stuff we were over niagara, we were in a new phase where journalists were going to be challenged in a lot of different ways about a lot of different kinds of information and its sourcing. and i was right. we were all right. things got a lot harder and a lot more complicated. i have no idea how the intercept runs its operation and i'm quite frankly okay with that. howie: the intercept editors you accused greenwall of showing him a temper tantrum and saying they asked him to document some of the things he was saying about biden. in recent days, last week or two, president trump has harshly criticized for example cbs' lesley stahl, he walked out of the interview and posted the interview prematurely. he said she has anger coming out of his eyes and talked about hatred from savannah guthrie over the town hall interview. do you think singling out individual journalists are going to -- this helps him at all? >> well, it's the broader issue. with donald

bret: thanks, leland. let's bring in katie pavlich. who else do we have? mark thiessen and karl rove. bret: excellent. katie, let's wrap up your thoughts of this night. we have a few months before an inauguration. this is biden's night. but we are not through the trump administration. >> i think monday morning will tell the story about how far the trump administration can push on the legal proceedings. they continue to say they have evidence of voter fraud. i think monday will tell the story how long this goes on or whether president trump will concede sometime sooner than that. in terms of the battle ahead. the senate races, the runoff in georgia are key here. it's a difference of mitch mcconnell having the majority. or chuck schumer becoming the next majority leader. holding the line in the senate being a check on joe biden. so you had a number of republican senators saying all hands on deck. you had fundraising asking for money. the left is emboldened as they believe joe biden won this race. they would love to take georgia away from the republicans desp

leland vittert takes a look for us tonight. good evening. >> shannon, good evening to you.tional security official tells me the last time america was this divided during a presidential election was 1864 during the beginning of the end of the civil war. the area around the white house looks very much like a city ready for violence. through the night of the election eve, crews worked to erect no climb fencing grading a defensible area for the secret service walks away from the usual fence line. former chief of staff at the department: security. >> they can't guarantee that they're going to have the ability that they're going to stop large crowds if they were to overwhelm any particular part of the perimeter. so i think it's not a good sign in the sense that it clearly shows they are concerned. >> business owners aren't taking chances either shutting down and boarding up. >> it's a gamble. it may get lucky and nothing happens. >> the cost of lost business pales in comparison to the cost of looting and it's not just in d.c. across the country from new york to los angeles, plywo

dana: leland vittert is outside the white house.ou were there a few months ago with another crowd. reporter: a very different crowd. but black lives matter crowd just showed up along with the black panthers demanding reparations. this is the group the president would see if he looked out the second floor of the residence. we have american flags and black lives matter signs. people also popping champagne bottles. people are wearing masks, and drinking out of the same bottle and passing it around. make of that if you will. there is also a pungent smell of marijuana out here. a lot of people bringing their kids out. saying they believe this is an historic moment, they want to show their kids how change in democracy in america works in just four years. people have boomboxes out here playing "ymca" and "god bless the usa." you might recognize all those songs which are the playlists from president trump's rallies. perhaps there is a bipartisan hope in front of the white house if nothing else in musical form. a lot of people out here would

. >> happy thanksgiving to you and yours, i'm leland vittert.le who can attend religious services, but the supreme court in a 5-4 rulings that it violated constitutional protections for freedom of religion, with the new associate justice amy coney barrett and

. >> leland: fox news alert. and another one goes back to the drawing board after an error in its clinical trials. good morning, i'm jon scott. >> i'm julie banderas in for sandra smith. president trump making the announcement yesterday to u.s. troops overseas. the president reiterating hope is on the horizon. watch. >> president trump: during a pandemic, the whole world is suffering this tremendous pandemic, not just us, the world. and you wouldn't know that to listen to