we will speak with flexjet's coo megan wolf.stnd biontech will emergency use authorization for their vaccine today. we will look at the regulatory hurdles they will need to overcome. look at thetake a markets, a real sense of caution. it's been a pretty eventful week in terms of news about covid-19, both in a surge in cases around the world, new restrictions, but also vaccine optimism. you wrap it all together with the news that we had at the end of the day yesterday with lending programs, the trump administration and an apparent with the fed. the nasdaq and tech stocks showing strength. strength ingot some our mining sectors. let's go back to that curious rift. times likege in these, the trump administration moving to and emergency pandemic lending programs from the federal reserve. the federal reserve didn't like the sound of that and a rear bit of tension between the two of them in public. we heard from the atlanta fed president. i was a bit surprised, and i have to say, after that announcement, they came up with a statement

but you saw that megan wolf is just being very defensive of the election officials who are underneath she's being protective of her colleagues and all who work for her, and that's understandable. mike, appreciate it. and, well, philadelphia could talk a lesson from mull waukee. milwaukee. mike tobin, thanks so much. let's go back to the legal fight in pennsylvania to try to stop the radical dems from, well, any kind of irregularity e in this election. joining us tonight from philadelphia is corey lewandowski, 2016 trump campaign adviser, senior adviser to the 2020 trump campaign, great american. corey, it's a mess in philadelphia. the president is insisting no matter what it takes that these, a all of these areas which are questions, that it be thoroughly reviewed and recounted where appropriate and get to the bottom of what's really going on. he sounded, when i talked to him today, he sounded very committed to demanding rigorous, rigorous attention to the law and electoral integrity no matter where it is in the country. >> lou, you're absolutely right. look, i'm here in philadelphia

my name is megan wolf. i am the administrator of the wisconsin elections commission and the state of wisconsin's chief election official. accounting and reporting of unofficial results has gone according to law. our municipal and county clerks have worked tirelessly throughout the night to make sure that every ballot has been counted and reported accurately. today,

>> i would agree with that and i would also agree megan wolf and her oue colleagues with the wisconsinion commission and the different counties, they kinda knew this was coming, they seem to take great pains to not only be very careful of what was going to go on with the vote but to be very public they held aha number of zoom conferences, they took questions from reporters, they also went over the fact that they are have gone through hypothetical scenarios they sat down and did their tabletop discussions in the worst case scenarios what a bout a cyber attack, one of about a miss count, megan wolf is being very defensive of the officials underneath her. lou: i understand she's been protective of her colleagues and all who work for her, that's understandable, mike, i appreciate it in philadelphia could take a lesson from milwaukee, mike tobin, thank you so much, let's go back to the legal fight inin pennsylvania to try to stop the radical dems from irregularity in joining us from philadelphia is corey lewandowski 2016 trump campaignn advisor, senior advisor to the 2020 trump campaign, gr

electionsin administrator megan wolf held a briefing.he said the numbers were the highest ever seen. she corrected some of the misinformation that was circulated online and explain how a potential recount would work. meghan: election law is complex. it's our job not to just understand and implement the law but do it in a way that's approachable. we don't write a lot. we can't change the law. the process. that can only be done by your elected lawmakers. administrators, we're the referees. we have to follow the rules

my name is megan wolf. i am the administrator of the wisconsin elections commission and the state of wisconsin's chief election official. accounting and reporting of unofficial results has gone according to law. our municipal and county clerks have worked tirelessly throughout the night to make sure that every ballot has been counted and reported accurately. the wisconsin elections commission staff will be standing ready to assist clerks, as a start the process of triple checking the results. the statutorily required canvass process reinstated. before we can certify the results. this includes the random selection of 5% of voting -- thatt that is used was used in the selection, which must be audited to make sure the paper tally is the same as the voting equipment. although things have to happen before we have certified results. anderday's voting process election night counting was very well done in wisconsin and across the country. despite more absentee ballots, in a normald fashion. our election was execute

announcement from the trump campaign that they are going to seek a recount here in wisconsin, that puts megan wolfstrator of the wisconsin election commissions in the hot seat. she has already responded to that late-night allegation from the president that the process is riddled with fraud. >> there is no opportunity to add additional votes to the tally, write? because you have to make sure everybody is registered to vote, that they have absentee requests on file, that they show their photo ids. there is no opportunity to count the ballots that did not go through that incredibly meticulous process to make sure it was issued correctly, to make sure it's counted correctly and again, it also has to go through those three -- >> the trump campaign went into wednesday morning leading by more than 100,000 votes. but there were 169,000 absentee and early ballots to be counted in the city of milwaukee, a democratic stronghold. those votes were expected to go in favor of joe biden and they did. they were ultimately loaded onto a flash drive, the city clerk handed them under police escort to the county and t

. >> reporter: meganing wolf, the administrator for the wisconsin election commission, says if theree more absentee ballots than requests for absentee ballots, that would have shown up in the canvass which was just completed, and it will show up in the recount. the recount starts at 9 a.m. tomorrow. there will be 134 counting stations, two counters per table. three observers, plexiglas are separate them. any of the machines are not dominion. the bill for the recount is estimated at $2.8 million, just shy of $3 per registered voter. lou? lou: mike tobin, or thank you so much. mike tobin reporting. election officials in georgia are expected to release a report tonight, a report on the state's hand recount results. the recount has produced 6,000 previously uncounted ballots in four counties. president trump gained 1400 votes among those and now trails joe biden by fewer than 13,000 votes. president today tweeted: almost zero ballots rejected in georgia this election. in years past that number was close to 4%. not possible. must have signature check on envelopes now. very easy to do, dem

megan wolf, the administrator for the wisconsin election commission, says the need for additional space to covid, the additional absentee ballots, the need for security all contribute to the extra cost. but a statewide recount is estimated at $7.9 million, almost $2.50 per ballot in wisconsin. banking instructions have been forwarded to the trump campaign. one wisconsin republican says the campaign has staff in place to move forward with the recount. however, the campaign has not decided whether the recount is worth it. trump legal adviser jenna ellis says the legal team continues to explore the irregularities in wisconsin and are leaving all legal options open including a recount and an audit. a partial recount is one of the options. they could target counties where they think they would perform well in a recount, they could even target individual wards, but the clock is ticking. if that $7.9 million comes in at 5:01 central time, the recount is off. lou? lou: mike, thank you very much. mike to bin reporting. well, our first guest this evening is an election security expert, a national

electionsin administrator megan wolf held a briefing. she said the numbers were the highest ever seen. she corrected some of the misinformation that was circulated online and explain how a potential recount would work. meghan: election law is complex. it's our job not to just understand and implement the law but do it in a way that's approachable. we don't write a lot. we can't change the law. the process. that can only be done by your elected lawmakers. administrators, we're the referees. we have to follow the rules prescribed by those you elect, and we have in obligation to show you how we're doing that. so to that end, i wanted to answer questions that we had been receiving in our office the last few days and updates. namely, let's discuss the unofficial turnout numbers, election day registration, and the mechanics of a recount. we have alao put out a press release with this information and encourage you to share the facts with others who may have questions or concerns about the election process. so when it comes to voter recount, uno

however the administrator of wisconsin elections commission, megan wolf, has said that all the ballotse indeed been counted in wisconsin, all the ballots have been counted. it seems as if they are waiting for some of the counties to post those results on their websites. we should be getting some clarity out of wisconsin in the next few hours. but we've got some new reporting involving the u.s. postal service right now. nbc's tom costello is following this for us. tom, what have you learned? >> reporter: in five minutes a federal judge will be holding a hearing specifically as it relates to how much and how well the postal service has been processing mail-in ballots. you may recall earlier in the week the postal service admitted that 300,000 ballots had been -- had gone through its system but had not yet been scanned for deliver delivery. the question was, where were those ballots. the judge ordered the postal service to sweep two dozen offices in districts throughout the country looking for those ballots. the postal service declined to do that, declined to, essentially, go along with t

in the meantime, megan wolf, the administrator for the wisconsin board of elections is pushing back atsident's late-night criticism of the election. >> i think that it is insulting to the local election officials to say that anything but -- yesterday's election was anything but an incredible success that was a result of years of preparation and meticulously carefully following the law. >> and the president went into wednesday morning 100,000 votes up. however there were more than 160,000 early and absentee votes in the city of milwaukee. a democratic stronghold. those were totaled and loaded onto a flash drive, city chair with a police escort hand-delivered the drive to milwaukee county. as expected, milwaukee voters favored biden. green bay early votes, also by sunrise, the president's 100,000 vote lead had dwindled to a 20,000 vote deficit to joe biden. late in the afternoon, and willow wisconsin was the final count posting the results when that was done. richmond county, wisconsin showing a 949 vote favor to president trump, not enough to make a difference. back to you. >> martha: l

. >> and that was megan wolf, administrator of the wisconsin elections commission.t to thank shaq brewster, who has been following this all along, and it looks as though wisconsin, and i leave that of course up to the wizards at the decision desk who make the decisions at nbc news, but it looks as though certainly wisconsin is not very much in play. now we turn to delaware democratic senator chris coons who won reelection last night, congratulations, senator. obviously you've been in close contact with joe biden. how concerned is he about the president's attacks on the process? >> well, andrea, we're very optimistic. given what you just heard from wisconsin, given what we likely will hear today from michigan about joe biden's prospects to be the next president of the united states, to win not just overwhelmingly the popular vote but to also win the electoral college. and as you heard in that interview you just finished, our state and local election officials are meticulous, are thorough, are detailed. in our country it's voters and then it's state and county commiss

i'm joined by megan wolf. thanks for being with us.reme court ruled wisconsin can't accept mail-main ballots past election day? >> thanks for having me. thanks for that question. we have really been focused this year on voter education. in this case, advising voters it could take up to a week for their ballot to be returned by mail. our local election officials expanded the return options, including drop boxes and drive-thru options. as we get closer to election day, voters are utilizing the alternatives. we also work closely with local post masters and election officials to coordinate the delivery of ballots to get them to the polls as quickly as possible. if voters still have a ballot at this point, they should return it to a drop box or directly to their local election official to ensure it is returned in time to be counted. >> >> so at this point if you're in wisconsin and you have a ballot at home, do not put it in the mail, you're saying. >> yes, right. exactly. return it to your local election official. >> so if less than 90%, i

tell you with 2 1/2 hours to go until the polls close, the head of wisconsin election commission megan wolfike most of the nation, with all the attention wisconsin received, wisconsin is looking at record numbers in terms of voter participation and turnout. here at central count in milwaukee, they're counting early and absentee ballots. they have 162,000 of them to go through. you have 400 volunteers who are busy counting them. they're expecting to work until the wee small hours of the night across the state. 2.1 million ballots were requested. 1.9 million were returned. it will take time to in two counties, calumet. there was a problem with the printing. 13,500 ballots will need to be redone by hand. all of that adds up to things moving along quickly. there is no indication the integrity of the process is compromised. it will just take a while. lou? lou: mike, thank you very much. we'll be back to you through the evening. mike tobin. thank you. >>> up next, another nobel prize nomination. another nobel peace prize nomination for president trump. it is his fifth if you're counting. we take

. >> let's bring in megan wolf, the wisconsin commission's director with us on the phone. and we are waiting with bated breath of when the wisconsin's numbers are coming in. when do you expect? >> well, good morning. the votes have come in from elections offices, and so how it works in wisconsin and other states is that the unofficial votes are reported by other individual offices and so now we are in the process of looking at the local canvas and that is what we are working on now. >> and so the outstanding votes, director wolfe, are you breaking down the mail-in vote, and the day-of vote, or more simply, have you counted all of the day-of vote that you have gotten and now you are doing the mail-in votes? >> yes, so all of the ballots have indeed been counted and the ballots are back from the local precincts and every ballot that arrived by 8:00 p.m. yesterday was counted at the central count facility or at the polling place yesterday. >> because our numbers are showing that we have 3% outstanding. and what are your numbers showing? >> so, you know, we are not seeing the

. >>> we have the top election official in wisconsin, megan wolfe.campaign says they'll immediately ask for a recount. have you formally heard anything from the trump campaign, and are you going to conduct a recount? >> well, thank you so much for the question. i will spell out exactly how a recount would be conducted. we haven't seen the official filing, but the law does allow for an aggrieved candidate, if they're within 1% margin of one another, the aggrieved candidate can file for a recount. they do have to do that by the third day after the counties in our state certify results and submit to the office for certification. we're in that certification process, so that timeline is fluid. >> that's just a term of art. it can be any candidate. it doesn't have to be any evidence of mall m-- malfeasanc. is that even necessary in order to ask for a recount? >> thank you for that as well. no, it just is a matter of whether or not the top two vote-getters are within 1% of the margin of victory from one another. they don't have to make any specific claims.

wolf. >> really glad they're testing all of those thousands and thousands of people in l.a. paul vercammen at dodger stadium for us. thank you very much. >>> let's bring in cnn medical analyst meganization. thank you for joining us. cases are soaring, not just in big cities like l.a. but across the united states. right now we've seen 12 straight days of more than 100,000 new coronavirus infections. the latest record just yesterday. get this, more than 184,000 confirmed cases just yesterday. how do you get people to hear what is going on and understand how serious things are right now and they need to take action? >> you know, wolf, i wish that i could bring every american into my emergency department right now. i wish they could see how full we are, how exhausted the health care workers are, and truly how sick the patients are. yes, you may catch covid-19 and be okay, but you also might catch it and get really, really sick. if you get to the point where you are coming to my er for treatment, you are not in a good spot. you are coughing, you are having trouble breathing. you have blood clots in your lungs or in your heart or in your brain. you are needing iv fluids and oxygen. you