the maxwell school of citizenship and public affairs at syracuse university he is in washington mark jacobson we heard from donald trump saying that the democrats are trying to disenfranchise those who voted for him looks like we're heading into a whole world of litigation this is exactly the kind of scenario many were very frightened of has none. and i think one of the 1st elections i stayed up all night for was 2000 and are waking up every few hours where the lead had changed and you know you had a declaration of victory concession speech and then repudiation of those but this is fundamentally different what we heard from president shrum a little while ago will go down in american history as one of those volatile attempts at stealing an election. we've seen in our history i can't think of a time that's been more dangerous for the united states probably since the since 861 just before the u.s. civil war and i'm not suggesting any sort of violence or anything like that but what i'm just saying is that this repudiation of the whole idea of represented democracy that everyone votes and that you

at mark jacobson senior adviser to film a us actually have defense asked many thanks for speaking to us. on al-jazeera let's return to our breaking news story this hour the fact that the president has confirmed that his country has signed a deal to end the war in the go on account of back let's go to osama bin laden who is in the capital of azerbaijan i believe you may have some updates on the story what more can you tell us. in an extraordinary turn of events in a live address to the nation and the president of azerbaijan has confirmed that his forces are going to be taking over with the help of russian peacekeepers in nagorno-karabakh of the conflict according to. is over this is the. conflict zone which is the fight has been going on for the last 6 weeks and the conflict has been brewing for nearly 3 decades this is something that we saw on the other bridge on the state t.v. statement and a video conference was played out between the 3 leaders. from armenia from other very john and putin's from russia where the 3 leaders discussed the details of disagreement he's still speaking an

election market mark jacobson looking at nato donald trump called it obsolete before taking office he. almost pulled out of the alliance in 2018 before national security adviser that's on john bolton talked him out of it president trump has been effective in pressuring nato members to spend more on defense but can he continue along this path during a global pandemic money is tight. yes he can and this is a problem i agree with pretty much everything natalie is laid out there in terms of what a trumpet ministration brings donald trump does not believe in alliances he be skeptical of our allies he treats them as enemies constantly denigrating the value despite the fact that with that we've seen especially with nato over the last 60 years an incredibly important alliance one that's come to the defense of the united states wants that do i think you'll continue to see sort of the transactional you know where whereas trump is looking at everything from a personal game standpoint which autocrats and dictators do i need to have good relationships with in order to enhance my family's business

earlier we spoke with mark jenkinson, a scene or advisor -- mark jacobson, a senior advisor. he thinks mark esper termination -- >> he has to manage the transition to the incoming team. the first rule of presidential transmissions is to not create chaos and instability. make sure things stay steady. the white house has thrown that out the window and getting rid of mark esper. trump ego cannot handle the defeat and he is lashing out in a number of ways. it's problematic because you will have an incoming team who has to understand the trouble points in each agency. american allies on the rest of the world are craving the stability that will come with a biden administration and the worry is there will be instability in the next 60 days that dwarfs what we have seen in the last three years. changes at the top during transition do not impact the operations, investigations, deployments. those are steady. but the perception at the political level of tunneled -- trumult -- tumult is not the best luck right now. >> pfizer says that vaccine is 90% effective to treat covid-19. no serious

to quit so if i have to quit it better be over something really really big earlier we spoke to mark jacobson who was a senior adviser to former u.s. secretary of defense carter he thinks as pows departure is a bad sign for stability as the u.s. goes through a change in the white house. the one big thing that the secretary of defense has to do at this point is manage a transition to the incoming team and in fact the 1st rule of presidential transitions is don't create chaos don't create instability make sure that they can stay as steady as possible and the white house has just thrown all that out the window in getting rid of aspirin at this point secular leading that the president trumps hugo just can't handle this defeat right now and he's lashing out in a number of ways and again this is problematic because again you're going to have an incoming team who needs to understand what are the trouble points in each of these agencies and likewise you know as we've seen over the last couple of days american allies and frankly the rest of the world are craving the stability that's that's going to be

well this is still a lot that is unknown let's speak to mark jacobson who's a former adviser to defense secretary he's now assistant dean of the much well school of citizenship and public affairs a syracuse university joins us now from washington d.c. so 1st up we all know it seems in the midst of this contested election and you do wonder where it will end if there is no resolution in the court. previous previously contested elections have only been resolved when the green party has bought way i'm thinking of richard nixon in 1960 when john f. kennedy came to power and then also of course back in 2000 with al gore. yes in fact if you go back to the very dawn of the united states elektra of 800 was the 1st presidential election to be contested that actually had to go to the house of representatives resolution this is a the famous election you know for those in the us who have seen the show hamill's and this is where thomas jefferson and the same number of electoral votes as is democratic republican. i'm sorry opponent aaron burr but but there are traditions and some of those traditions a

mark jacobson who is the assistant dean of washington programs at syracuse university also served as an advisor to the u.s. secretary of defense ash carter was the deputy nato representative in kabul and in doha our senior political analyst marwan bisher and that lee let's start with you speaking of the european union joe biden has described it as an indispensable part of the 1st resort donald trump has called it a foe during his battle to prop up the u.s. steel industry what happens to transatlantic ties if donald trump is re-elected. well i mean very clearly we can expect another 4 years of the same and as you said you know sort of identifying the european union almost as public enemy number one almost on a par with with china and because fundamentally what the european union i would say more than europe to such represents but trump is every think that he stands against i mean you know this is about alliances it's about partnerships it's about multilateralism it's about integration i mean this is anathema to everything that trump believes and i on top of that he looks at the europe