the pennsylvania supreme court a short time ago rejecting an election challenge spearheaded by pennsylvania congressman mike kelly. it argued that the law permitting a no-excuse mail voting violated the state constitution. the court also unanimously wiped out a lower court order that blocked state officials from further carrying out this week's certification of the election results. the lawsuit sought to invalidate millions of mailed-in votes or direct the state legislature to choose the presidency electors. all those motions denied as the transition is finally in full swing. emily murphy and the general services administration have given the biden administration and green light, meaning our next president and vice president can begin receiving intelligence briefings. on this small business saturday, vp-elect kamala harris addressed where she and biden plan to aim their focus once they take office. >> the american people deserve that the incoming administration focuses on what's important and what is important is getting a handle on this virus, opening back up our small businesses, and focu

supreme court justices who i think would believe it was improper for the pennsylvania supreme court todo that. but that's, you know, that's only if it's really close in pennsylvania, but you can't rule it out. >> and in fact, i believe the court left it so those late-arriving ballots would be segregated in the event that the court took up that issue. but i know there was a little confusion around the table about that. i think -- rich, i'm sure you're familiar with it, i think you're a lawyer, too, that the ballots have to either be postmarked election day and can arrive no later than friday or there just has to be no evidence that they were sent after election day. so the bottom line is you cannot send a ballot after election day under any ruling of the court and expect it to be counted. correct? >> right. i'm not a lawyer but my understanding -- >> well, i just appointed you one. >> i don't know whether that's an honor or an insult. but some of the potentially prepaid envelopes don't have a postmark. pennsylvania said we're going to presume that they were sent prior to the election, u

well, trump has also suffered another legal setback in pennsylvania court threw out 5 republican lawsuits alleging voter irregularities. clear finkelstein is faculty director of the center for ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania lol school. she says the lawsuits were empty efforts from the starts. the legal challenges could not have made a difference to donald trump, even if all of the legal challenges and all of the states had prevailed. donald trump could not have won this election, and indeed the number of electors that joe biden won the election with was the same number of electors that donald trump characterized as a landslide. in his own case, donald trump would have to reverse pennsylvania and all the other swing states in order to reverse that decision here, and that will not happen. it cannot be done. what the supporters believe about these decisions is almost up to donald trump because many of donald trump, supporters seem to believe what ever he tells them. so if he says that these decisions were corrupt, unfortunately, they may believe that, but one ho

by the way, and the pennsylvania supreme court said you can't do under pennsylvania law. but common sense, your honor, will say that you can't do it. based on this complaint. can you imagine anybody understanding a court order canceling 680,000 -- 1.2 million votes? based on nothing? can you -- the idea of that we're being asked to do that, honestly, your honor, i'm in court a lot, it is disgraceful that we would be asked to do that. whatever.not -- that's it. woo talk about standing, we don't know anything that's in this complaint. i just looked through all of them. and fundamental about this. nd that is this. is complaint is at its core, at its essence, a small complaint about a certain kind of procedure that the secretary says is available to counties. a limited procedure that if -- that if the ballot wasn't completely -- come in and sign it, and then we'll put you into the system for canvass. how did that come about as a matter of state law? here's how it comes about. for the tate law there is an activity that happens, mr. giuliani idn't -- that activity is that e -- s

so just a moment ago the appellate court in pennsylvania, this is what's known as the commonwealth court in pennsylvania issued an order saying that all provisional ballots that were cast on election day where the elector's absentee ballot or mail-in ballot was received have to be segregated until basically we can decide whether the provisional ballot can be counted. so it's telling all the counties, even though this litigation only initially

so now you have this other court case that the president and his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani argued in pennsylvania and that's the one they're looking at to take to the supreme court, and that tries to do the same thing but, again, a judge in that case on friday said that there was no evidence whatsoever that the legal team had been able to put forward to show there was fraud, and it was a pretty scathing opinion from this judge who was nominated by president trump in 2017, and so you have a chorus of individuals from the secretary of state who is a republican in georgia to the judge in pennsylvania, multiple judges, who are saying there's no evidence here and yet you have the president and his legal team saying there is evidence, the president was tweeting again yesterday after this latest pennsylvania decision saying that there is widespread fraud and people are just ignoring it but they haven't put it forward in court and this is more than 2 dozen cases the president and his legal team have brought have been dismissed. this is the latest. the legal path just keeps getting narrower yet the presid

results while there lawsuit makes its way through the legal process, all of that while the pennsylvania supreme courtided tonight that 12000 absentee ballots that missed information on their outer envelopes, like a date or a signature while the pennsylvania supreme court decided those ballots should all count. that was decided a couple of hours ago. lou: thank you very much, very interesting court in pennsylvania it does not seem to matter what the rules are, everything goes. thank you so much for being with us. in michigan state legislators hold a hearing into election irregularities this coming wednesday, fox news correspondent garrett tenney with the latest. >> that hearing is likely part of an ongoing investigation the gop controlled state legislator shortly after the election looking into allegations that the election process was mishandled. that process took another step forward just a few minutes ago when the state board of canvassers voted to certify the election results cementing joe biden's victory in the state, the board which is comprised of two democrats and two republicans voted to cert

supreme court weighs in on the pennsylvania supreme court's disregard of following the u.s.stitution. the foundation of what we are talking about, again, is grounded in the constitution, where it sets the time, place, and manner by the legislatures, not the state courts, by the state legislatures, for the holding of federal elections. and with no matter what the pennsylvania court did was basically disregard the u.s. constitution. in fact, i would submit those supreme court justices on the pennsylvania supreme court may have violated their own oath by not upholding the u.s. constitution in that sense. and so, our position is to actually have the supreme court weigh in and basically help resolve this dispute, and basically allow the votes to be counted based upon the way the pennsylvania general assembly set the rules. >> martha: so, would not invalidate anything that came in after 8:00 on election night? >> well, that would. a simple reading of the text would tell you that all ballots -- the pennsylvania assembly was very clear in this, martha. this is not a very complicated

the trump campaign is also channeling the pennsylvania supreme court -- channeling the pennsylvania -allenging the pennsylvania supreme court decision that required mail-in ballots be counted up to three days after the election. noted constitutional attorney kenneth starr says that ruling is a constitutional travesty. >> to count every vote may be a crime. it a may even be a crime under federal law. it's definitely a crime under state law. if that is, and here's the keyword, an illegal ballot. and it's shameful that vice president biden's people and the vice president himself are saying count every vote and selling a lot of t-shirts. that is a potential and an invitation for absolute lawlessness. lou: lawlessness seems to have been a precondition for this election. supreme court justice samuel alito ordered all county election boards in pennsylvania to keep those late mail-in ballots separate from others while legal challenges make their way to the full supreme court. a record start today as the wall street just boomed. the dow jones industrials rallied an extraordinary 800 points. th

needed to be received by election day even mail in or absentee votes to be counted the pennsylvania supreme court however failed that under the pennsylvania constitution that's a higher authority than the state legislature in pennsylvania that there was a 3 day window after election day that was required in order to accommodate a fair franchise exercise in light of covert 19 and the pennsylvania supreme court decision has prevailed so far when it got to the supreme court the 1st time they divided 4 to 4 on deciding whether to disturb it as an interim measure so it stands . but we still have the possibility i think it's remote that the u.s. supreme court could marshal 5 votes to say oh it's the state legislature that has the final word not the pennsylvania supreme court as to how the votes ought to be tabulated and counted ok remember this that in the u.s. supreme court you need 4 out 9 justices simply didn't get a case heard it's not clear that you could marshal that 4 votes amy komi barrett who has not participated in any of these election cases and was nominated and confirmed just before electi

in pennsylvania, the appellate court said sure. you can watch from six feet.here was a claim in georgia that there was combing wing of ballots. that was dismissed. claims ofeen potential errors. not something that the courts are going to take seriously unless there is real evidence. ,ven if these cases were to win it will not change the outcome of the election. it is not getting to the heart of counting votes. the claims that the votes should stop being counted, those have not gone anywhere. there is no federal authorities or federal judges or the president -- for the president to come in and near fear with the states prerogative. this notion of coming in and stopping vote counting, there is no way to do that across the country. the: there is an article in wall street journal, taking a look at pennsylvania's courts when it comes to the extension of ballots for mailing votes. i want to see what your reaction is. the pennsylvania supreme court said it violated the state constitutions free and equal election clause. it also dismissed hand arguments that the u.s.

but today a pennsylvania court of appeals said no, you've got to do better. and based on that decision, then, as you know, the county has decided to appeal that decision and suspend the count for now. i think those are the two lawsuits that have the most potential to upset the vote. there is one in georgia where the republicans are saying, we can't watch the vote process carefully enough, we want to make sure that no ballots are improperly counted, we ask you to suspend the count until that's fixed. there's a hearing going on right now about that. and in these covid days, these telephone hearings sometimes are a technological disaster, and this one is not working out very well, so that one is still in progress, andrea. >> thanks for that. and we were told here that the pennsylvania supreme court set things back in the other direction, overruling the commonwealth court, which is the appeals court in the state. but it remains to be seen how that is playing out. so, pete, what are you hearing now on the merits of these challenges as you look at all these cases?

the pennsylvania supreme court has been very clear on this. nnsylvania has been very clear on how they insure that to happen. by the way the trump campaign has known this process for weeks. this is not new. so when partisan hackery comes out to try to undermine the counting of the vote, i hold no value in what they're saying because we know that every vote is being counted. we know that things are being double-checked and that independent observers are participating and even more importantly, different groups of people double-check these counts. so, you know, just ginning up -- neil: ethan, what they're saying that different groups people aren't doing that i don't know who is right. there is really no adequate polices of this. now i do remember distinctly in palm beach county 20 years ago, that is big issue. who is overseeing this? who is standing in the room? it got to be its own legal challenge but are you concerned or at all in doubt, especially as this race tightens up, if it is close enough there could be a recount anyway? >> i think anyti

courts. the latest defeat in the state of pennsylvania. the supreme court ruling against the allies this evening. yesterday we saw the latest blow against the president to have millions of votes thrown out essentially. happened by a trump appointed judge. this is judge sta fannos bibos. he wrote this. calling an election unfair does not make it so. charges require specific allegations and then proof. we have neither here. the campaign's claims have no merit. and the president's campaign is also coming up short as it relates to recounts. the president's campaign paid $3 million to have a recount conducted until two counties in wisconsin. milwaukee county one of those two certified their numbers. jiefd came up ahead with a net gain of 132 votes in a county he had already overwhelmingly won in the 20 o 21 election. how long does the president keep up this attempt to overturn the election and delegitimate highs president-elect joe biden. in that federal case in the state of pennsylvania, the president faces the prospect that the conservative ma

is also suffered another legal setback, courts in pennsylvania threw out 5 republican lawsuits alleging voting irregularities. what's wrong for speaking publicly for the 1st time since joe biden was named, president elect cheering. his press conference, trump updated americans on his response to the coronavirus pandemic. according to some estimates, a national lockdown course $50000000000.00 a day and hundreds of thousands of jobs every single day. ideally, we won't go to a lot. i will not go, this administration will not be going to a lockdown. hopefully, the, the, whatever happens in the future, who knows which administrator will be, i guess time will tell, but i can tell you this administration will not go to a lockdown. the united nations says it's concerned war crimes may have been committed in ethiopia's, northern tigre, a region government troops are battling local fighters, but said they conflict has already killed hundreds of people. thousands have fled to sit on. rival factions in libya have agreed to hold nationwide elections in december of next year. the date is considered a

twice and ordered them to protect certain ballots in case the court rules that what the pennsylvaniame court did may be unconstitutional but what am i talking about? article two, section one, clause two of the united states constitution. each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislator, specifically say the legislator. you won't find that many places in the constitution where they specific about that but the legislator there may direct a number of electors equal to whole number of senators and are presented gives to which the state may be entitled in the congress. in other words, the state legislator makes election laws and i can tell you for my own research way, way back there is no way the framers of the constitution or the ratification conventions would have approved this constitution if the legislators themselves weren't in charge of the voting systems. you need to understand there was no federal government. they created this federal government. the states had to buy into it and in one of the areas where the states said we will only buy into it if you protect our author

>> that's a very good question and the first instance it falls to the pennsylvania courts and the pennsylvania supreme court, but there are federal issues involved here and, indeed, there was an order by federal judge emmitt sullivan that will also become an issue in pennsylvania, ordering a sweep of the usps to look for absentee ballots. now, i have just heard that usps says they have complied with the order but has not revealed what the results are. and so there's an instance in which a federal judge has been willing to get involved and there were problems with the compliance with the order, which could generate more federal action so, it really depends whether or not the courts think there is a federal legal issue here with the pennsylvania case, despite the changing composition of the court, i really would be surprised if the supreme court decided to step in on this issue. as we know from 2000, the court was very willing to step in to halt a recount, but i think a recount is quite different from getting involved and whether or not votes should be counted in the first place when those -- th

president trump loses another big challenges in pennsylvania but it could end up in the supreme courtn as his options to salvage his own job >> good evening. donald trump loses another big challenge to election results in pennsylvania but this one could end up in the supreme court even as his options for salvaging his own job continue to dwindle the president is presented and involvement in the georgia senate runoff that will determine the balance of power in the chamber for the next two years. kristin fisher starts us off tonight from the white house. >> reporter: donald trump will involve as the campaign tries to exculpate its fighters up in court after receiving another setback in a pennsylvania court room this afternoon. a federal appeals court has rejected the trump campaign at latest effort to stop the state from certifying the election for president-elect joe biden. the case was argued last week in a lower court that the president's attorney rudy giuliani claims widespread voter fraud in pennsylvania but the third circuit court of appeals ruled today, quote, the campaign's clai

he's former republican state senator from pennsylvania bruce welcome to the program thanks for taking the time to speak to us now we know that the supreme court allowed to state starts pennsylvania and north carolina to count ballots cost before the election but received days later why did they allow it and why specifically those 2 states. well that's not exactly what happened is to pennsylvania in pennsylvania despite our law which clearly states that the ballots cannot be counted if they got received by 8 pm on election day our supreme court changed the role of the republicans challenge that it went to the u.s. supreme court and the u.s. supreme court voted 4 to 4 is before amy. barrett became a justice not to change that ruling but they have indicated that they're willing to reconsider that ruling after the election and they have ordered or that it's been ordered that the ballots that are received after 8 pm today the segregated so that if the supreme court rules that it was unconstitutional for the pennsylvania courts to change the law in those ballots will not be counted and so we're waiting on pins and needles here in pennsylvania to se

now, notably, she did not participate in that key supreme court ruling on the pennsylvania supreme court ruling upholding the pennsylvania court ruling that they could take three more days to count votes that had -- ballots that were mailed in and postmarked by election day. but she said not that she was recusing herself. she said, because i have not had time to read in on these briefs. >> you can only use that so many times. >> because the republicans had challenged it too quickly. as pete williams was pointing out at the time, if they had waited until she was confirmed to make their application, but they jumped the gun. and she said, i haven't had time to read in. but she has not said she's going to recuse herself. she certainly could now say that any application to the court in the next couple of days is something that she will have as much time to read in on as the others. >> i think the word really is premature because the fact of the matter is we don't know who won this election. we don't know. donald trump may well have passed the 270. joe biden might as well. the votes have to be

them -- on the one that i think is the more or most likely is that the supreme court will now do its duty. in the pennsylvaniae because it was very clear from the outset that what the governor did and what the state supreme court did was utterly unconstitutional. so it is a lawless act. and at this stage, the supreme court has a duty in light of the nature of the issue, and the stakes at hand has to take the case. i think, by the way, the earlier determination by justice alito to call a halt if that had begun to those i view as illegal they're just illegal. they don't and should not count. his determination to do that is a signal not assurance that a majority of the supreme court would uphold what justice alito has done we'll see that's a guess but reasonably educated guess. mark: i hope you're right i'm concerned about chief justice who made some distinction between a federal state court and does the constitution as we read it -- aloud as i read it aloud is there any language between state and federal courts? >> absolutely not. so i must say, i did not admire that distinction that chief justice roberts was v

should be absolutely unanimous and i think it has the potential to be unanimous, for the court to say to the pennsylvania court, you acted unconstitutionally, governor, so did you. it's the legislature. we all know this. it's the legislature that counts, not the state supreme court. >> martha: it's clear that justice alito was very impassioned by this and it appears disturbed that they didn't take it up before the election and deal with it then. ken starr, thank you very much, good to see you tonight, sir. >> thank you. >> martha: so despite nearly 72 million votes for president trump, as we've said, cancel culture is out to get those who worked for him or who supported him. deroy murdock and richard fowler up next. ♪ this is my body of proof. proof i can fight moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. proof i can fight psoriatic arthritis... ...with humira. proof of less joint pain... ...and clearer skin in psa. humira targets and blocks a source of inflammation that contributes to joint pain and irreversible damage. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infection

in this ruling came down by the court saying well let me count the votes for the next to the pennsylvania court and this. side of that should have been followed we should still be without the present trying to 2 in the supreme court which she just passed recently with 3 because it's yeah it was going to be very interesting to see how this develops the time being thanks very much indeed matthew's joining us from los angeles let's go to texas big states with a lot of it toral electoral votes it was considered neck and neck but it has ended up in donald trump's column let's join hiding here castor who's in houston for a sense yes 38 electoral college votes were up for grabs and as i say they went to the president. that's right and this really comes as no big surprise here in taxes given that this is a state that has supported only republican presidential candidates for more than 4 decades but sure was has this come close with joe biden. ending up about 6 percentage points behind president of course not all of that but it's happening counted yet and that is a very narrow margin of victory for presi

this time in the pennsylvania supreme court. the keystone state top bench ruled that there was nothing that required ballot observers to stand within six feet has been argued. this undercuts what the president was saying on twitter, that they were being unfairly discriminated against and in pennsylvania where biden won by thousands of votes should be invalidated. >>> now to senator lindsey graham who has found himself embroiled in controversy after an apparent intent to cast doubt on the election or to overturn it. the south carolina republican and trump loyalist says he called election officials in nevada, arizona, about procedures of mail-in ballots. listen to brad raffensperger talk about how the call from senator graham unfolded. >> just an implication to look hard and see how many ballots you can throw out. i think they're looking at that as part of the court case. >> senator graham calls raffensperger's statement ridiculous. a staffer who was on that call confirmed raffensperger's version to cnn yesterday. graham said he w

and in pennsylvania, these were all republican legislatures overruled by courts, by these voting advocatesmocrats are bringing these cases. and in pennsylvania, not only will mail ballots that are postmarked on or before 8 p.m. on election day and received by 5 p.m. the friday after it be counted due to a ruling from the state supreme court. any ballots that arrive within that time frame without a postmark. or with an unreadable postmark will be presumed top of sent before the cultoff point unless evidence indicates otherwise that is a violation of the federal constitution. state law did not provide for that. in minnesota -- ballot pose mark by election day received within a week after the election will be counted -- both massachusetts and kentucky allowing postmark ballots receive by november 6th to be counted in new jersey, those on and on changes taking place notice this i don't know of a single newsroom that put a chart on the monitor to show you all of the changes that occurred in the last year or so even in last 909 days. in these states -- by court order by decisions and secretaries

he's also suffered another legal setback, a pennsylvania court threw out 5 republican lawsuits alleging voting irregularities, speaking publicly for the 1st time since joe biden was named president elect. alan fischer reports from washington d.c. incredibly. this is become a real thing. public remarks by donald trump. his 1st since the election, and this was about protecting his legacy. but ministration has initiated the single greatest mobilization. in u.s. history, pioneering developing and manufacturing therapies and vaccines. in record time, there was no talk of the election result. this was an update on the fight against corona virus, the hope provided by a vaccine. but there was almost the slip almost an acknowledgment. his time in the white house was coming to a close. ideally, we won't go to a lockdown. i will not go, this administration will not be going to a lockdown. hopefully the, the, whatever happens in the future, who knows which of ministration will be, i guess time will tell. but i can tell you this administration will not go to a lockdown. the president has been adaman

the pennsylvania g.o.p. came to the courtay and said, you have to give us an order mandating this because we tried to confirm with the number of county boards, they say at least 25 of them would not confirm if they're actually doing this. where are we denying? >> this is a case that's been sitting at the supreme court since before the election, and the basic question is the state legislature said election day is the day which ads are due. the supreme court changed that date until today, three days later, friday. the constitution gives that power to state legislatures alone. at the constitutional question is, could this pennsylvania state courts move that deadline? i think it's important that justice alito issue that order on behalf of the supreme court, otherwise the ballots would've gotten mixed in, supposed in the end they said, no, you can't extend election day a few more days, how would you actually remedy that if the ballots all got mixed together? it's important -- i think it's important that the court may intervene and

that doesn't leave time for the pennsylvania court to do all the things they might need to do. y tight timetable. the federal law says state court should be the principle place for adjudicatie ining any issue involving ballots in an election. that's the principle that should be followed here. >> dave, final thoughts to you. have you seen anything out there from the trump campaign that you think has merit that could impact the outcome of this race? >> absolutely not. this race was over a while ago, and this whole farce is being perpetuated by people like rudy guiliani who has his own personal motivations. i thought it was interesting that he apparently is trying to get $20,000 a day for his legal services. after three days he would make more than most of my prosecutors make in an entire year and my prosecutors are in court all the time, unlike giuliani who has not been a practicing trial lawyer in about 30 years. that why he keeps losing badly in court. it's one thing to spread conspiracy theories to the public on his maga channels and another thing to say in court, which he's no

but the supreme court of the commonwealth of pennsylvania and the supreme court has disregarded the constitution making the decision in the domain of the pennsylvania legislator. a reasonmay be there's the secretary of state keeps substituting her will for that of the legislature in a completely unconstitutional fashion. perhaps she has motive. she shows her partisan hatred tweeting this, using the title card president before the word trump disputes office of the presidency. we see where her motive stands. a mere survey shows voters in blue counties were giving -- given certain privileges like voters and drive counties were not afforded. the equal protection clause requires uniform standards but democrat election officials created disparities dependent on where citizens lived and where they voted in the states. some counties set up satellite offices for backdoor early voting where some other counties did not. some counties allowed pre-canvassing. voters in some counties were allowed to cure their ballots were as voters and other counties were not. what pennsylvania has done is provide a case stu

it went to the supreme court the supreme court said because of the narrowness of time it would not allow the motion by the republican committee in pennsylvania so it pushed it back to the court and allowed to the counting of votes after election day to go ahead but 3 of the justices on the supreme court at that point said it's something they may have to revisit and indeed now the trump campaign has petitioned the supreme court the supreme court has now sent a letter to the pennsylvania secretary of state instructing her to respond to the trump campaign's requirement to be added as a successful petitioner by 10 pm tomorrow night now whether this is significant or not we'll see basically it would open up that case again in the pennsylvania supreme court should the tram campaign succeed. in its attempt to be put on as a petitioner so it could indeed go back to the supreme court at some stage however and this must be stressed there is a legal position here so which is very very important in this and was mentioned in the original supreme court decision and that's called reliance interest basically that is a legal concept that the supreme court is

pennsylvania. he tweeted and the tweet contained a warning of possible violence. the supreme court'sion on voting of pennsylvania is very dangerous one. it will allow rampant and unchecked cheating and will undermine our entire systems of laws. it will also induce violence in the streets. something must be done! >> what's royour reaction on th president's tweet? >> i have no idea what he's talking about. we want to make sure every qualified voter has the right and opportunity to vote and i can't imagine what he's talking about. >> the president has also said before he got off the plane a few moments ago having all these ballots waiting to be counted is a recipe for cheating and recipe for high level and cheating at a high level and it is going to be fraudulent. >> you know, anderson, this is the kind of thing that we have been fighting this information. pennsylvania has a strong process in place. it would be hard to do any kind of fraud or cheating. the president knows that. before that the pennsylvania should be the decision that came down and before the supreme court, we were in fe

court by the president's attorney. rudy giuliani who claims widespread voter fraud in pennsylvania. but the third circuit court of appeals will today "the campaign's claims have no merit. the number of ballots specifically challenges is far nmaller than 81,000 vote margin of victory and it never claimed fraud or that any votes were cast by illegal voters." in a response the member of the legal team, the activist continues to cover up the allegations of massive fraud. on to the supreme court. but the three judges on the panel all appointed by republican president and georgetown university law professor jonathan turley noted otthe judge who wrote the opinin is a trump appointee. the district judges a federal society member and this type of language is reckless and wrong. >> it will be very hard to concede because we know there was massive fraud to. >> during the first q&a with reporters since the election, he thinks the electoral college would makeak a mistake to vote r joe biden but if they do, the president says he will leave the white house on january 20th. >> certainly i will and y

pennsylvania court ruling which dismissed an attempt to invalidate millions of malin votes. it is the latest setback and trump's bid to overturn the results of the u.s. presidential election. opposition parties have rallied in pakistan, calling for the prime minister to step down. government opponents accuse the military of rigging the election that imran khan won 2 years ago. the demonstration was called in defiance of a ban on public political gatherings. protesters say the government is using grown a virus as an excuse to stop them. well, those are the headlines. the news continues here on al-jazeera went off to al-jazeera walt season by some of the currency journalist all for academic and political activist was killed in a car bomb attack outside his beirut times. in 2005, while lebanon was his home, cacio claimed palestinian heritage and was educated in front's. his writings were highly critical of syria's presence in lebanon at the time. in response, lebanese officials confiscated his passport and unidentified security men followed him or run a root canal. and then the

matter of time however there are other states where it's going to be much longer pennsylvania is delayed due to a court decision that required that postal facilities that are processing mail and ballots be inspected so because of that pennsylvania's results are going to be delayed as well nevada has announced that they won't be giving results until thursday so nevada also up for grabs we won't be hearing the results until thursday so at the moment the country is on edge it's not clear who the winner is it's still possible that the election could go either way we heard what was said by both candidates and 87 electoral votes are up for grabs at this point now we know that there were clashes in the streets of washington d.c. in the early hours of the morning people were injured people were taken to the hospital now around the country there have been some interesting results in local races for example the state of mississippi for a long time it had a flag a state flag based on the confederate flag but that was voted down the residents of mississippi mrs. he voted to get rid of that flag get a new state fla

it cited a temporary injunctions issued by a pennsylvania court last month as the reason for the movee trump administration has claimed that the app collects data that could be misused by the chinese government. the department of justice has appealed the injunction. washington has also ordered the operator of the app bytedance to sell its u.s. business. bytedance has reached a deal with oracle to launch a new company operating the app in the u.s. but the chinese firm says it needs more time to finalize the deal. >>> meanwhile, president trump has banned americans from investing in firms he says are linked to china's military. trump signed an executive order on thursday blocking investors from buying shares in around 30 chinese companies. they include china mobile communications group huawei and state-run firms involved in the country's space program. the order kicks in on january 11. trump says beijing has been forcing chinese civilian companies to support the military. he says that directly threatens u.s. armed forces. american media say trump could ramp up pressure on china as the c

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even after a court ruling allowed poll watchers closer access, philadelphia officials actually appealed the order to the pennsylvania supreme court. why would local election officials make the process blatantly more restrictive to poll watchers? some of whom resorted to using binoculars to do their jobs. this, too, actually happened. an estimated 687,000 ballots were counted during this time of no lawfully required poll watchers. such actions, mr. speaker, raise very legitimate doubts surrounding transparency and accountability of the presidential election. further adding to the frustration and distrust felt by millions in pennsylvania, the media projected the outcome while such valid disputes are outstanding. before due process took place it and well before judicial rulings were made. in pennsylvania, the cases before the courts could involve tens of thousands of ballots of votes. an amount if unlawful would mandate an automatic recount n a close election counting all legal votes takes time. yet it is absolutely essential to assure to a candidate. but more so to the voters that the vote count be honest, lawful, and