could it be that some people feel that mr trump is my attitude is damaging the republican campaign ingeorgia? possibly the latter, but i suspect president trump is not terribly concerned about that, i think it probably is the case that he has been embarrassed by his legal team. chris christie, a long—term advisor to trump, came out over the weekend and said it was a national embarrassment, the way his lawyers have been approaching it, is something that has embarrassed the president. he had this lawyer, sidney powell, he made these bizarre claims about what she suspected had happened in the election, without any evidence whatsoever, to the point fox news, which always goes out of its way to be sympathetic to president trump as my arguments, was unable to present her case as being legitimate, that is the sort of embarrassment he does not want. as peter said, he has lost an election, he doesn't like ascertained but he also doesn't wa nt to ascertained but he also doesn't want to be seen as somebody who furthermore embarrassing himself on top of that. just briefly, if you could, what mess

so mr trump. may therefore not be releva nt for mexico. that may therefore not be relevant for mr trump's performance in wisconsin, where we just work, or pennsylvania, ohio and so on. so there is some context. let's cross to christian fraser at the bbc board. i think you're right, i would be feeling good if i were in donald trump's camp about florida. it is a 200,000 vote lead. he won it by 100,02016 and they are counting the on the day ballot, which tends to be more republican. they like to vote in person. so this lead is stretching. when andrew was talking about miami, looking back at my research for the 2018 senate race in florida, which bill nelson, the democrat senator, lost to rick scott, he put vote share on in counties that hillary clinton had won, but he lost vote share to republicans in miami dade. it went 8% more republican and he lost by 0.2%. but it was in miami dead where he lost it. a senate race is not a presidential race but there are echoes of that war we are now seeing in the a

if i we re more likely to be mr trump? ey are very nervous, they think they are very nervous, they think the former vice president spent too much time in the bunker, could have spent more time going to key battle ground states and they think they could lose. amanda, let's look at the rust belt states. ifjoe biden will win the white house, it has to go through the blue wall, wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. if we don't know them for three or four days, how much momentum does the campaign lose? what is the strategy for the next three days as they wait for the next three days as they wait for the next three days as they wait for the results? that'll be the hard part, making sure to keep everyone in line, waiting to count all these votes. what i will say is the campaign has always said we might not know what will happen on election day and now they will need to say over and over again. the other thing, when you look deeper at the numbers, you are seeing there are still questions about atlanta, and the biggest county where

first, ontojoe from mr trump in a moment but first, onto joe biden. from mr trump in a moment but firstasting no time at all, is he? cracking on with the transition which he is very well suited for, i guess. he has been in public life for so long to stop he served as vice president, of course, for eight years and has a team around him, many of whom are former staffers for president 0bama who had been there and know how the executive and federal government works was not they are cracking on and of course they have the imperative of letting a grip on the covid—i9 pandemic which continues to surge many parts of the us getting a grip. 0n surge many parts of the us getting a grip. on monday, he will announce who will form the personnel in his covert task force will stop we will go a better idea on what he wants to do —— get a better idea on what you do when he is in office on the 20th of january next year. he wants governors across the us to work letter, particularly around enforcing of wearing of masks. there needs to be more federal relief to states that are struggling. 0n federal relief t

just expense was why you are so supportive of mr trump. i'm supportive of mr trump.p. i'm supportive of policies. arms of pa rt supportive of policies. arms of part of of policies that speak to building a firewall against socialism. 0ne to building a firewall against socialism. one of the fire early my primary reason white latinos represent in my opinion the most measurable outcome of this election. it's eight massive electoral shift of the second logic ethnic group in america, latinos. voting for president from, that's pretty amazing. and it saying no to socialism. the latino vote has now emerged as a quintessential firewall against the advanced advancement of socialism in america. i support that. we come from venezuela, nicaragua, cuba we know what socialism looks like first hand. the second hand is latinos have a strong faith process very pro—life according to pew research with the most pro—life community in america. and the democratic party left the reservation no longer the party of barack 0bama of 2008, it's the party of late term abortion. latinos are like wai

relationship between the two men we saw between mrtrump and mr between the two men we saw between mr trump as for the palestinians, they too have send congratulations to mr biden and city look forward to working with his administration. that in itself is significant. it signals the start again of relations between the palestinian leadership and the americans, because the palestinians cut diplomatic ties with the us administration, eversince cut diplomatic ties with the us administration, ever since mr trump said he would recognisejerusalem as israel's capital, there would be no ties since that point, a palestinian boycott but that also seems now set to change. tom bateman with the view from the middle east. what is striking about all of those comments, our little trip around the world, was how much us policy may or may not change now thatjoe biden will be at the helm. because don't forget, the 0bama administration was criticised by a lot of these same nations for its policy, and the big question now is, will there be a reset, will we get a reversion to the 0bama policy, or willjoe biden br

country first, it's time for you to do the same thing. >> reporter: the former president also compared mr. trump to richie rich calling him the complaining, lying, doesn't take responsibility for anything type of figure. former first lady michelle obama also weighed in writing that she warmly welcomed melania trump to the white house during the 2016 transition despite being angry at donald trump for spreading racist lies about my husband that had put my family in danger. mr. trump's national security advisor became the highest ranking official to acknowledge mr. biden publicly as the next president. >> if the biden harris ticket is determined to be the winner, you know, obviously things look that way now, we'll have a very professional transition from the national security council, there's no question about it. >> reporter: there is a stunning allegation in the georgia recount. the state's top election official says he's coming under increasing pressure by some republicans, including south carolina senator lindsey graham to throw away legal absentee ballots to reverse president trump's loss in t

mr trump very popular there but i think there might‘ve been a feeling that his attitude was affectings they thought that his only interest is president trump and south. nothing to do with what's happening in georgia with the republican party. thank you very much. 0ur washington correspondent, nomia iqbal is back with us. several people pointing out that the statement from the general services a ministration never uses the phrase president—elect. never uses the phrase president-elect. that's right. it really stands out. just dear mr biden. when you read the whole statement is clear the emily murphy is a trump loyalist, she was appointed by donald trump. interesting that evenin donald trump. interesting that even in the statement she has a bit of a quibble about the gsa's terms and guide on setting this document in the first place suggesting that it needs updating. there is a sense of reluctance with even signing off this document, but i don't think in the end it matters to the biden transition team. this is the document they we re team. this is the document they were waiting to have si

because mr. trump, in 2016, by getting largely evangelicals, in an increasingly secular people, by getting rural in an increasingly urbanized country. 87% of his vote in 2016 was white, he spent four years making no attempt to broaden his base. the strategy, therefore, this year, was to get an even larger portion of an ever smaller slice of the american electorate. that is not a recipe for sustainable political prosperity on the part of the republicans. >> in a demographic change you are talking about, it is in fact one of the things that motivates the anger of some trump voters. and is racism at the base of it? >> i don't think it's racism. it is some of that. i think it is more understandable, admirable, i'm not saying it is acceptable, but it is understandable when a country people are used to is changing rapidly. if you don't like rapid change, you picked the wrong country. this country has been changing rapidly since the founding era. proposedamin franklin the almanac should be printed in german a

biden with the white vote there upset about how mr trumpge turnout of black voters. this has been particularly important in georgia, as we have been hearing. that has been related to domestic local politics there surrounding the realm of a comma in the governors race two years ago, they registered a lot more black voters, so these kinds of things have been favouring their campaign. kinds of things have been favouring theircampaign. i kinds of things have been favouring their campaign. i have to say that there has been some question about how they run the campaign here, the biden campaign, because mr biden has been very much out of sight, not doing the kind of public events that mrtrump did, saying doing the kind of public events that mr trump did, saying this is because of the coronavirus, but also not having people go door to door knocking, registering voters, asking them to come out and vote which is what the republicans are doing so they had been a question all along whether they were miscalculating there. again, we were told this week b

mr. trump's taxes and all of this, that can go forward. but that is of no concern to president biden. >> cheryl want to know, what are your thoughts about a new stimulus package? mr. will: well, one is coming. it is very clear. we can argue about the sums, and this is not the time. you're looking at the last deficit hawk in washington. but even i say this is not the time for that kind of economies. we have to keep the american people who are suffering enormously through no fault of their own, millions of small businesses, mom-and-pop restaurants, grocery stores -- through no fault of their own, they are being wiped out. this is where we act as a community and help one another. so another stimulus is coming. sooner or later, however, we have to face the music. in the music is this -- we are now heading into the national add to the national debt by trillions at a time. trillion is a big number. a trillion seconds ago is 31,000 years ago. we invented agriculture 10,000 years ago. trillion is a big number. economists argue, at what point, when

it puts increasing pressure on mr trump to admit defeat.as the man who ran the brexit he was the man who ran the brexit campaign in 2016. infighting at the heart of the government spilled out into the public eye this week as downing street's director of communications lee cain resigned. tory mps have urged an entire government relaunch.

it is trump is on 53, mr biden is on 45. it i5a trump is on 53, mr biden is on 45. the other 40% are counted that is likely to narrow. the state is still in contention. it could go either way. and that of course is to do with those votes that were mailed in. when you have a vote that comes in by post, it is complicated, time—consuming, labour—intensive. you have to open the envelope, sometimes another envelope, you have to flatten out the piece of paper, you have to get it scanned and then you have to get it scanned and then you have to check the signature. no one person is allowed to be alone with that ballot at anyone time. there have to be two people. all of this can take time, which is why we are not getting those results as quickly as we might do from the ones where you vote in person and it is scanned automatically and registered automatically. let's go to detroit, michigan. janet from cbs news is there. michigan 16 electoral college votes, that could prove essential to joe biden if he is going to win the white house. do we know when we will know whether or no

mr trump also wants a recount in wisconsin — his lead there just over 20,500. in arizona that it says were incorrectly rejected. joe biden‘s lead there is 18,550 with 97% of the ballot counted. arizona's secretary of state, says the president is "grasping at straws". if the election result is challenged — it would require the president‘ legal teams to begin their fight in the state courts, before it got anywhere near the supreme court. and so far no evidence has been provided for the alleged voter fraud. in the past few hours, the former republican president george w bush issued a statement congratulating joe biden on his election victory. president bush said... the statement will increase pressure on senior republicans to recognise the projected result. senior figures in mr trump's republican party have remained largely silent, but one report in the us media suggests his adviser and son—in—law, jared kushner, has tried to persuade him to concede. speaking on nbc‘s meet the press, utah republican senator, mitt romney, said mr trump was within his rights to ques

trump. on his first full day as president—elect, mr biden goes to church in delaware. rmer republican president george w bush congratulates biden — saying the election was "fundamentally fair" but that donald trump has the right to request recounts and legal challenges. last night the president—elect told his supporters he aims not to divide the nation — but unify it. to all those of you who voted for president trump, i understand the disappointment tonight. we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. they are not our enemies, they are americans. kamala harris will make history by becoming the first female, the first black and the first asian—american vice president. she says voters have sent america's children a message — to dream with ambition. while i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last. because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities. once again donald trump heads for the golf course — the president has continued to assert on twitter that he won tuesday's poll. away from the us — the queen

biden and mr. trump. mr. biden: after a long night of counting, it is clear that we are winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. i am not here to declare that we reportt i am here to when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners. tos. trump: we will be going the u.s. supreme court. we want all voting to stop. we don't want them to find any ballots at 4:00 :00 in the morning and add them to the list. we will win this. tom: the two candidates and i'm sure we will hear from both of them today as well. futures up 69. we began in the trenches. martin is that the train terminal in philadelphia which was saved after the disgrace of penn station going down in new york city. within the shed of the reading railroad is the pennsylvania convention center, philadelphia convention center ice should say. he joins us this morning. mark, first of all, you must describe the tension seen at the convention center yesterday. protest it like to see as people in yellow vests c

mr trump does not have to concede, ithink. at mr trump does not have to concede, i think. to confirm the result, don't they? absolutely. these are things that would happen on december 14. that was when the electives from the state convene in their respective state capitals, when they formally vote for whomever carried the popular vote of that state and then, come january the 6th 2021, that is when congress meets in a joint session and basically opens up these electoral certificates which have been mailed to them by certified mail, and they count them and then they actually announce the winner of the electoral college vote officially. this administration has been chaotic, of course, in so has been chaotic, of course, in so many ways, but it has been very efficient in getting a solid conservative majority on the supreme court and below that, hundreds more conservative leading judges appointed to the lower courts. is there something to be said for getting mr trump's claims, all of them, however outlandish, tested in those courts before judges appointed by him, if only to get

that puts mr biden on 51% and trump on 48%. voted republican all the way back to george w bush in 2000, but looks like it could be going mr biden‘s way. and let's have a look at the state of the count in nevada. there it's a lot closer. each candidate is on 49% — and mr biden leads by fewer than 10,000 votes. there are around 15% of ballots still to be counted, but the biden campaign is optimistic they will retain it. the state went with hillary clinton in 2016. mark lobel wraps up all the latest developments. could the 77—year—old be on course for victory? he and his supporters are growing more and more confident of it. i'm not here to declare that we've won, but i am here to report, when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners. that's because the much predicted blue wave, though slow in coming, and smaller in size than many predicted, may now be breaking through. buoyed by a projected democrat win in his state of michigan, and with both wisconsin and perhaps pennsylvania and georgia swinging towards biden, it

the moment many feared has arrived, apparently, as mr. trumps throwing his weight around unable to accept the results of last week's election. >> reporter: 72 days left in power, president trump is lashing out from his social media bunker appearing desperate to show the world he is still in charge. tweeting he has fired the secretary of defense mark esper has been terminated. i would look on thank him for his service. for months the president is stewing over what he sees as a lack of loyalty for esper who joins any in june after federal forces gassed and pummeled protesters near the white house. esper made it clear he wasn't on board what went down. >> what i was not aware is exactly where we are going when we arrived at the church and what the plans were once we got there. >> reporter: in an exit interview with the military times, esper said he was no yes manner for mr. trump adding, quote. esper's firing could be the beginning of what may become a dangerous lame duck period as the president refuses to accept defeat. as what mr. trump could do

mr. trump's refusal to concede the race an embarrassment, saying republicans who won't acknowledge his win are intimidated by the president. he says that won't stop him from taking office in january, even though tonight the trump administration is still refusing to start the transition process. there's a lot of new reporting to get to. we've got our team of correspondents standing by to cover it all. cbs' janet shamlian is going to lead off our coverage tonight from el paso. good evening, janet. >> reporter: norah, good evening to you. coronavirus is out of control in so many parts of the country tonight. here in el paso, at hospitals like this, they set an all-time record today, not just for hospitalizations but for the number of people in i.c.u. also tonight, there is a new development on the search for a vaccine. breaking news tonight: the nation's top infectious disease expert, dr. anthony fauci, says he expects the pfizer vaccine to go through the f.d.a.'s emergency authorization process in the next week and a half. >> by the time we get into december, we'll be able to have doses avai

in fact think, thanks to mr trump, that he stole the presidency.earfrom a biden administration, what you need a biden administration to do to somehow heal the country? i'm going to love my butt off every day thinking about it, if he's concerned about 73 million people thinking it was an improper election, because the reality is, he and the other democrats spent the last four yea rs democrats spent the last four years claiming that president trump was everything from a traitor, a foreign spy, russian collusion and put in place by vladimir putin, so for them to come around and now say for trump to follow the legal process a couple weeks after an election, and spying on a president and accusing him of being a traitor is not a concern, i think we all know is just political drama one way or the other. good to talk to you, thank you very much. the asian financial markets have already reacted to news that the transition is under way — the bbc‘s sharanjit leyl is in singapore for us. how's it looking? it is looking good, most markets are higher on that new

mr trump was seen as the president—elect from the next day. he even went to the oval office! ct — that's because hillary clinton conceded. that was her choice. donald trump has chosen not to concede, but let the process play out, and he is legally and allowed to do that, and he had 73 million voters who supported that position and he is fighting for those voters as well. well, i mean, what he wants to do is largely irrelevant. everything happens without him at this particular stage. so let's move on. why do you think, looking at all of these projections, that he lost, that he got fewer votes — i beg your pardon — fewer electoral votes than you did last time? let's look at that. yeah, absolutely. if you look at it on the face of it as of now, putting the two recounts aside in georgia and wisconsin, he has less electoral votes. one of the dynamics in this election that we did not have in 2016 was the sheer number of physical mail—in ballots and that has become the crux of the issue for a lot of republicans, where they believe fraud has occurred. crosstalk. i will stop you there.

critics and some reporters took that to mean mr. trump was finally admitting he had lost. >> i expect joe biden to be the next president of the united states. it's good actually to see president trump tweet out that he won. >> but the president soon followed with a another tweet stating he, biden, only won in the eyes of the fake news media. i concede nothing. rudy guiliani heading the team challenging the election results totality fox news mr. trump is not backing down. >> is the president in this tweet conceding this election? >> no, no, no. far from it. what he's saying more, i guess you'd call it sarcastic. obviously he's contesting it vigorously in the courts. >> several lawsuit filed by the president and supporters have already been dismissed by the courts an the election oversight team and homeland security found this election is the most secure in american history. >> that's just the reality joe biden won this election. >> chief of staff said because mr. biden would be president during a pandemic the transition must be seamless, i

mr trump also wants a recount in wisconsin — his lead there just over 20,500. st on election day in arizona that it says were incorrectly rejected. joe biden‘s lead there is 18550 with 97% of the ballot counted. arizona's secretary of state, says the president is "grasping at straws". if the election result is challenged — it would require the president's legal teams to begin their fight in the state courts, before it got anywhere near the supreme court. and so far no evidence has been provided for the alleged voterfraud. senior figures in mr trump's republican party have largely remained silent, but one report in the us media suggests his adviser and son—in—law, jared kushner, has tried to persuade him to concede. speaking on nbc‘s meet the press, republican senator, mitt romney, said mr trump was within his rights to question the results and he would remain an important influence in the republican party, irrespective of the outcome of the election. he has every right to call for recounts, because we are talking about a recounts, because we are talking abouta m

but i don't think there's any illusion here that mr trump himself would concede defeat. wanting to ta ke think they're very much wanting to take the initiative when they feel confident and try to set the agenda, because i don't think they believe that mr trump would be prepared to follow suit. barbara, would you expectjoe biden to respond to directly to the president when the president says that the counting of these boats that came in by mail is somehow illegal? he referred to them basically as illegal votes. would we expect the biden team, or would it be mr biden's lawyers or to have some kind of response to that? welcome i don't know that we would expect them to respond nowjust after mrtrump has them to respond nowjust after mr trump has spoken. they haven't really been approaching it like that. they have been kind of keeping a low profile with a sort of stuff, basically waiting to see how the boat count comes out. but they have beenin count comes out. but they have been in daily press conference giving a general response to mr trump's strategy, and ron was referring

the city's mayors says mr. trumpmustit to feet. >> i think what the president must do is frankly put his big boy pants on, ackwledge the fact that he lost and >>r. biden's lead over the president is also increasing in arizona and nevada. a recount has been called in georgia where george -- joe biden has overtaken president trump. >>al the fally in georgia at this point has huge implications for the entire country. >> i'm at black lives matter plaza in washington, d.c. where people have gathered, patiently awaiting the results of the election. >> as for the candidates themselves, mr.iden is expected to speak to the nation in the next few hours. he has called for calm and patience and says the process is working properly. >> eacd. ballot must be coun is finished, senator harris and i will be declared the winners. >> but mr. trump's camp have not given up. he has made accusations of electoral fraud but offered no >> if you count the legal votes, i easily win. if you count the illegal votes, they canry to steal the elect

a week after americans voted, mr biden has been continuing to build his administration despite president trump's to concede defeat. mr biden said that was an embarrassment that would reflect poorly on mr trump's legacy. our north america correspondent, ben wright, has been looking at the current state of the transition process. this time four years ago, donald trump was meeting president obama at the white house for initial discussions on beginning that process of cooperating to ease the transition. none of that, of course, is happening, certainly not at that level. it doesn't seem there have been any discussions whatsoever between president trump and joe biden, but the work of transition continues despite the unorthodox circumstances of all of this. of course, in the last 24 hours or so, president—elect biden has revealed the names of his covid task force which will be the number one priority of his administration when it takes power and when he was asked about this earlier in delaware, joe biden said that the work of transition would continue even though they were not getting the normal sort o

this is how mr trump's acceptance came, in a tweet that says it's in the best interests of the unitedfor his team to co—operate with protocols. joe biden has unsurprisingly welcomed the decision, saying: today's decision is a needed step to begin tackling the challenges facing our nation, including getting the pandemic under control and our economy back on track. in the days ahead, transition officials will begin meeting with federal officials to discuss the pandemic response, have a full account of our national security interests and gain a complete understanding of the trump administration's efforts to hollow out government agencies. i've been speaking to our north america correspondent peter bowes. he said that up to a few days ago, most of us had never heard of the general services administration. yeah, and if it hadn't been for this stand—off between the white house and joe biden‘s team, we probably wouldn't have heard of it during this transition period as well. it goes on behind scenes, the process, during or post normal election periods, but of course this was an election like

what does mr trump do with this level of support? ill longer be president? this is something that is going to be an interesting dynamic. i think the first thing is, president trump has always been a fighter so he will exhaust all legal options. in georgia, they certified their results at a local level on their results at a local level on the 20th, then the 23rd in pennsylvania. at that point, that's when you have official results and thatis when you have official results and that is where i think the page will begin to turn. so president elect biden will end up holding the smudges. so then i believe you will see the transition and as it pertains to the republican party, i think florida is the model. one of the great ironies for me, we are so used to be in the melting pot of the melting pot itself and we were the outlier in florida. president trump won florida by a margin that was nearly three times what he did previously. republicans have greater control of the state legislature —— met legislature than ever before stopped so i believe

for his performance in thejob, not mr trump for his performance in the job, not taking mr trump for, not taking it seriously, perhaps ridiculing the president in a way we don't really see joe biden the president in a way we don't really seejoe biden doing. so i think it was a powerful performance by both men and of course, stevie wonder was there as well to provide some entertainment for that particular crowd in michigan, which is, as you have been sang, one of those crucial states that both candidates need to win. and the president himself in pennsylvania. could you sum up for us the importance of pennsylvania, please? pennsylvania is in what is often described as the rustbelt of the united states, it is to the east of those midwestern states, again, crucially important, an industrial heartland and important because there are a significant number of electoral couege significant number of electoral college votes at stake, and it seems to be on a knife edge. it seems to be on a knife edge. it seems from some of the opinion polls, joe biden has the edge, but it is one of those states

a week after americans voted, mr biden has been continuing to build his administration despite president trump'sal to concede defeat. mr biden said that was an embarrassment that would reflect poorly on mr trump's legacy. let's speak to our north america correspondent ben wright who is in washington. so, the transition goes ahead. mrtrump is not so, the transition goes ahead. mr trump is not conceding, but also the general services administration is not helping with the transition and that really makes a difference. yes, it does. the general services administration is responsible for freeing up federal funds to help with their transition in opening access to agencies which, of course, is vital during the 70 days that president—electjoe during the 70 days that president—elect joe biden has to prepare for taking the reins of office on the 20th of january and that's how the process should be working, but this time for years ago, donald trump was meeting president 0bama at the white house for initial discussions on beginning that process of cooperating to ease the transition. none of that, of course

president of the united states after defeating donald trump the us president elect addresses supporters for the first time since his election win. mr biden says he aims not to divide — but to unify. to all those of you who voted for president trump, i understand the disappointment tonight. we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. they are not our enemies, they are americans. kamala harris will make history by becoming the first female vice president. she says voters have sent america's children a message — to dream with ambition. see yourselves in a way that others may not simply because they have never seen it before. but know that we will applaud you every step of the way. donald trump has yet to concede — or to speak publicly — but he has continued to assert on twitter that he won tuesday's presidential poll. it's time to stop treating our opponents as our enemies — that's the message from us president—electjoe biden. he delivered a speech to cheering supporters near his home in delaware after it became clear he'd won the bitterly contested election against president donald trump. mr trump, who has still not conced

. >> reporter: biden's former partner in the white house told scott pelley on "60 minutes" that mr. trump needed to think beyond his own ego and concede. >> my advice to president trump is if you want at this late stage in the game to be remembered as somebody who put country first, it's time for you to do the same thing. >> reporter: the former president also compared mr. trump to richie rich calling him the complaining, lying, doesn't take responsibility for anything type of figure. former first lady michelle obama also weighed in writing that she warmly welcomed melania trump to the white house during the 2016 transition despite being angry at donald trump for "spreading racist lies about my husband that had put my family in danger." mr. trump's national security advisor today became the highest ranking official to acknowledge mr. biden publicly as the next president. >> if the biden-harris ticket is determined to be the winner and, you know, obviously it is being looked at that way now, we will have a very professional transition from the national security council, no question about i

has caused in the us i think beijing is starting to see mr trump as an accelerator of u.s. decline ok so beijing hasn't said anything about either candidate i'm curious about whether china has said anything in regards to the democratic process this past week anything on that well the u.s. media has reported on u.s. elections a little bit not much but when they do report on that and one day do comment it's mostly about how chaotic the u.s. election has been and you know that mr trump has claimed election fraud and that he's taking it to court there's lots of mockery and shot in front of really once one commentary from thai campolo for example it's a newspaper in hong kong controlled by beijing writes that u.s. style democracy is a joke with clear double standards another one from state funded global times writes why is the west becoming more and more discontented with its democracy so what's happening in the u.s. right now really is supporting china's favored argument that the u.s. is an utterly fundamentally unstable place and that democracy doesn't work ok so that state me

experienced mr. trump selected some good people early, but he ran through the my mile a minute -- through them a mile a minute. i think what mr. biden is trying produce communicate and discontinuity, stability, calm -- adult supervision has come back to washington. >> at to you feel about john kerry being introduced as the climate long boy? notpresident -- you are a climate denier, but you are skeptical about the whole idea, on the change. the havoc that it might wreak. and what your take on the importance of climate to john kerry's appointment and this cabinet. mr. will: the democratic party is deeply concerned about this and the president is responding to that. i'm not a climate change denier. the one thing we can all agree tapehis is where the begins, not ends, it never is not changing. it is a very complicated, dynamic system. activities can make a difference. it is controversial. the question then becomes, what do we know for sure? how much should we wager on these predictions in terms of our freedom,

and it's not limited to mr trump to them evidence doesn't matter they have a fixation that no matter what like those who believe in conspiracy theories of life that he couldn't possibly have lost in unless there were some gremlin who changed the vote you know in the ballot box or on the electronic machines so they will never be convinced even if you had evidence is clear is newton's laws of motion that mr trump lost the election that's how they're psychologically made up but going back to your larger point say we have courts of law and wish are staffed by both republican and democratic judges and indeed a majority of the u.s. supreme court are republican and at present they have uniformly rejected these claims of fraud or illegality that are presented by mr trump's lawyers now he only not all the legal battles have concluded but i've seen nothing in my own examination of the complaint that suggests that there's a single vote cast that was improperly counted or a single vote cast that was improperly refused to be counted we still have some overseas ballots from the military that under

mr trump's former national security advisor, hr mcmaster, said mr trump's corrosive actions were sowingr a judge in pennsylvania dismissed a lawsuit from the trump campaign that sought to invalidate millions of mail—in votes, alleging irregularities. the president himself first started tweeting allegations of fraud as far back as april, and has mentioned rigged elections or voter fraud more than 70 times. they are trying to steal the election, rigby election, and we can't let that happen. kelly hyman is a political analyst and democratic strategist and she joins me now from south florida. thank you so much for coming on the programme. thank you so much for having me on the show, nice to see you. what you make of this dribble of senior republicans coming out and saying to donald trump that the game is up and he should stop this tactic, but still not an overwhelming majority of republicans are calling for that by any means? you make a really good point but i would say that it is about time. us in the us, we believe in democracy and donald trump has every right to proceed in legal battle i

former deputy has now added his former deputy has now added his voice to the growing criticism of mr trumphis false claims of election fraud. they appeared to be motivated, in part, because the president does not like to lose, and never admits loss. i am more troubled by the fact that other republican officials who clearly know better a re republican officials who clearly know better are going along with this, are humouring him in this fashion. it is one more step in delegitimising, not just the more step in delegitimising, notjust the incoming biden administration but democracy in general, and that is a dangerous part. senior democrats are urging the white house to acknowledgejoe biden's win, saying the president—elect should be given access to the security briefings that mr trump gets every day. the speaker of the health, nancy pelosi, said the absurd circus meant that the coronavirus pandemic was being neglected and the leader of the democrats in the senate in this message with senior republicans. stop denying reality. stop deliberately and recklessly selling doubt about our democratic

this time there seem for mr trump. this time there seem to be fewer undecided for him to reach?rubbed just as they were in 2016. a lot of scepticism across wisconsin about the polls. joe biden has been leading in most polls from the very beginning of this campaign. we really will have to see what happens in the coming days but, if you ask people here, they are still sceptical about those polls. for the moment, thank you very much indeed. to turkey, where rescuers are continuing to search for survivors of friday's powerful earthquake in the resort cit of izmir. at least 90 people are known to have died. but there are extraordinary stories of survival, including that of a three—year—old girl, pulled from the rubble on monday. from izmir, here's our international correspondent orla guerin. almost hidden from view, caked in dust, three—year—old elif perincek. she lets out a little cry. "i swear she is alive," someone shouts. joy and relief for rescuers who say they never gave up hope of finding elif and, buried beneath the rubble for nearly three days, she never gave up either. did

mr trump's former national security advisor, hr mcmaster, said mr trump's corrosive actions were sowingpeared at a series of media events to argue for president trump's claims of widespread voter fraud appears to have been sacked. sidney powell spoke at a news conference last week with trump lawyer rudy giuliani, claiming that electronic voting systems had switched millions of ballots to president—electjoe biden. well, the president himself first started tweeting allegations of fraud as far back as april — and has mentioned rigged elections or voter fraud more than 70 times since then. i've been speaking to kelly hyman, a political analyst and democratic strategist, to get her reaction. i would say that it is about time. us in the us, we believe in democracy and donald trump has every right to proceed in legal battle in the court, however there has been no evidence, no showing of any type of fraud, and trump has been tweeting about this for months, so in an abundance of caution, people have made sure, belt and suspenders, that the election was secure and the people voted and over 6 mill

and it has to be said that in georgia, and in michigan, judges have dismissed cases that mr trump's lawyersated to voterfraud. trump's lawyers filed related to voter fraud. what he did trump's lawyers filed related to voterfraud. what he did get trump's lawyers filed related to voter fraud. what he did get was an order in pennsylvania to allow the trump observers to stand closer to election counting, but that hasn't stopped the election come to get so. we do understand though that mr trump is going to pursue this line it to say that even ifjoe biden claims victory, not to concede, but in the states where he claims victory, to continue to challenge and say, "this is voter fraud, victory, to continue to challenge and say, "this is voterfraud, the election is being stolen." and to continue to apply the courts with lawsuits, even if they are done on thin evidence, as we have seen before. that evidence was not stated as one of those press conferences. mrtrump is set as one of those press conferences. mr trump is set to speak very shortly for the first time since election night. so we will wait t

critics and even some republican supporters took that to mean that mr. trump was finally admitting that he had lost. >> i expect joe biden to be the next president of the united states. it is good actually to see president trump tweet out that he won. >> but the president soon followed up with another tweet stating he, biden, only won in the eyes of the fake news media. i concede nothing. rudy giuliani who is heading the president's team challenging the election results told fox news mr. trump is not backing down. >> if the president right now in this tweet conceding this election? >> no, no, far in it. what he is saying is more, i guess, you would call it sarcastic. obviously he is contesting it vig rowsesly in the courts. >> but several lawsuits filed by the president and his supporters have already been dismissed by the courts. and an election oversight team in the president's own department of homeland security found this election was the most secure in american history. >> that is just the reality. joe biden won this election. >> ron klain named by presid

it puts increasing pressure on mr trump to admit defeat.to the public eye this week as downing street's director of communications lee cain resigned. now in a few minutes it'll be time for newswatch.

latino voters appear to have played a decisive role in mr trump's victory. western university in illinois, is the author of the hispanic republican, the shaping of an american political identity from nixon to trump. hejoins us now. it's a very complex vote the latino vote in florida. how did it break, what did you see in a? it's not homogenous at all. i think florida is latino population is one of the more diverse in the united states was up more diverse in the united states was up we more diverse in the united states was up we hear a lot about cuban—americans in south florida and puerto ricans in central florida but there are large populations, significant populations of venezuela and colombian, mexican, puerto rican. so many. they play an outsized role in different parts of the state. for sure miami—dade cou nty the state. for sure miami—dade county it was the area that got the most attention because joe biden his margin of victory was just much lower they are compared with hillary clinton's and certainly compared with barack 0bama. in 2008 and 2012. so flo

mr trump still hasn't conceded the election, but the transition is gathering pace.scotland, wales and northern ireland have agreed on broad nationwide rules, which struck a balance between allowing people to meet loved ones

i think that's the start of an acknowledgment. >> reporter: but mr. trump later tweets he conceded nothing and falsely claimed he won. >> donald trump's twitter feed doesn't make joe biden president or not president. the american people did that. >> reporter: john bolton, president trump's former national security adviser, says republicans need to tell their supporters, some who protested over the weekend, that the president lost. >> if the republican voters are only hearing donald trump's misrepresentations, it's not surprising that they believe it. >> reporter: president-elect biden is moving forward with the transition process without the president's help. today he and vice president-elect kamala harris will deliver remarks on an economic recovery. >> we need action during the lame duck. there's a lot of things that are going to have to wait until joe biden is president, but this is not one of them. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci, who has worked with six administrations, says a smooth transition is necessary to fight the coronavirus. >> it's almost like