stefan simons, thank you very much.o doubt about it, 2020 has been a difficult, traumatic year for the united states and for most of the rest of the world. president donald trump may have started 2020 hoping that his reelection was a foregone conclusion, but as time has passed, it did not work out exactly as he had planned. reporter: for president trump, this election year was supposed to be great. pres. trump: the best is yet to come. reporter: but it did not take long for 2020 to turn into something quite different. lives lost, jobs lost, a virus that shut down much of america. covid-19, not the democratic hoax that trump alluded to. pres. trump: it would disappear. one day, like a miracle, it will disappear. reporter: in the middle of a pandic, a black man pinned to the ground by a police officer who has his knee on his neck. minutes later, george floyd is dead. [chanting] america, erupting in protest. anger that yet another black present has died in the hands of the police. -- that yet another black person has died

combination of states to win following the tight race for pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes is stefan simons he's in philadelphia at this point stefan what's the latest. well the latest is that as you pointed out to joe biden took the lead here by about 6000 votes according to the latest numbers and the latest count don't forget counting is still going on at about 140250000 votes to be still counted in all of pennsylvania not just. in philadelphia they're still about like $40000.00 votes to be counted and they're counted right there they never stopped counting here at the convention center they went all through the night and hour shifts rotating rotating rotating there still counting there will be more data released to us and to the public. throughout the day and as you can see here let me fill you in quickly where are in right in front of the pennsylvania convention center here in philadelphia and trucks are common in our people are filling in the 3 in the same as we had yesterday here there will be music playing this is the count all votes crowd here on the other side through new not to se

while for more on this, that's cross over to washington, where our correspondent stefan simons is standing by for us. our staff on joe biden has nominated some political veterans of walkin we expect from his administration. as mentioned in the report, you can absolutely expect the counter process and the counter design of what you believe donald trump and all trumps policies, as well as administration stood for. so i think the bottom line is, is the difference that america is as mr. blinken said bank at the table and that means basically that the us is going to want to lead again. and that also requires, of course, that this administration, the incoming administration, understands that america actually needs to lead again. this is something, of course, arguably the trump illustration in the eyes of many experts and observers here never acknowledged they didn't want to lead. they want america 1st, focusing on domestic jobs and economy. and with that, leave everything else in front of the door. speaking global terms, this is going to change absolutely dramatically, but make no mistake. to pu

our correspondent stefan simons is outside the convention center where the vote is taking place. welcome. how is it looking. >> well, nothing change from the last hour. having said that, as i said before, we seencreasing numbers of trump supporters showing appear throughout the day but they are drowned out by this massive crowd over there having basically a party. weee all of these posters and flags wriggling and drowning the trump supporters and they have no chance of being heard. the grievance as they say the election in pennsylvania has been stolen from donald trump. what they mean by this is that the count is ongoing of the mail-in ballots. it is 20 electoral college votes at stake here. philadelphia and the counties around here, they are counting ballots which were sent in. this is as they say, not legal. which is not true. it is legal. this is the process and votes have to be counted and it is a problem for trump supporters and the trump campaign's joe biden leads with about 30,000 votes. if he keeps this and if the trajectory of the votes counted still have him at 75% stak

the presidential election., are let's take the story now to washington d.c., our correspondent stefan simons, joins me now from our bureau of to you stefan high level pressure from outside for the president to give up his challenges. and we've got high level implosions taking place within the president's own legal team. talk to me about how bad the infighting is rights president trump going to trace it under huge pressure to actually allow a transition. because again, as you pointed out in this, quote, national security is at stake here in the eyes of many, many, many, and then you have on the other side, as you called it, rightfully so. the implosion of the legal efforts and the legal team, basically trump, and this is the elite strike force team. who is the elite strike force team? that is rudy giuliani, jenna alice and sydney powell and apparently sydney powell is not part of the team anymore. yeah, the legal team distancing itself from sydney, powell will reportedly be cause for conspiracy theories when to for even for the whites of rudy giuliani. this is what powell said at a press conf

for some analysis i'm joined by our correspondent stefan simons good evening to you stefan donald trump there sounded like a president who has seen the writing on the wall what do you say when you sounds tired cracked voice a little bit i mean the last 2 weeks the president went on a really frenzy 34 rallies a day in the last week alone that takes a toll even on donald trump and of course yeah everybody expects him to be keen on driving in accepting speech a 2nd acceptance speech and not a not for him to hold a speech right after conceding to joe biden taking his office so that it's clear now is he more subdued and offering some conciliatory told c.n.n. yes somewhat yes but. i can guarantee you that is true supposed campaigns they are hearts of campaign lawyers ready to go if they if the slightest inkling of something going wrong or if they see the chance to change the outcome of something which they don't think was properly done or is not properly done so that has to be said both sides are ready to fight this out here yet voters there mobilize their inner johns we saw incredible turnou

our correspondent stefan simons joins me now from our bureau to youth chiffon high level pressure from outside for the president to give up his challenges. and we've got high level implosions taking place within the president's own legal team . talk to me about how bad the infighting is. right. president trump going to trace in under huge pressure to actually allow a transition. because again, as you pointed out in this, quote, national security is at stake here in the eyes of many, many, many. and then you have on the other side, the, as you called it, rightfully so. the implosion of the legal efforts and the legal team, basically trump, and this is the elite strike force team. who is the elite strike force team? that is rudy giuliani, jenna alice and sydney powell. and apparently sidney powell is not part of the team anymore. yeah, the team distancing itself from sydney powell reportedly because for conspiracy theories went too far even for the likes of rudy giuliani and this is what powell said at a press conference just last week. take a listen, dominion voting systems, the smartma

the presidential election., are, let's take the story now to washington d.c., our correspondent stefan simons, joins me now from our bureau. good evening to you, stefan high level pressure from outside for the president to give up his challenges . and we've got high level implosions taking place within the president's own legal team. talk to me about how bad the infighting is rights president trump is going to trace it under huge pressure to actually allow a transition. because again, as you pointed out in this, quote, national security is at stake here in the eyes of many, many, many, and then you have on the other side, as you called it, rightfully so. the implosion of the legal i fers and the legal team basically trump and this is the elite strike force team. who is the elite strike force team that is rudy giuliani, jenna alice and sidney powell and apparently sidney powell is not part of the team anymore. yeah, the legal team distancing itself from sydney, powell will reportedly be cause for conspiracy theories went too far even for the wife of rudy giuliani and this is what was said of t

correspondent stefan simons good units used to get the u.s. president there is not is sounding as upbeat it as at least the donald trump that we're used to do you think that trump will cling on to power is he preparing us for that or is he preparing us for the reality that he may have to concede defeat. given this performance of the presidents of the last few weeks or so the last 2 weeks where he went on a mad dash across across the states critical states for him florida pennsylvania wisconsin minnesota and so on it's not to be expected that the president is actually really putting a focus on the concession speech and when he said like oh he would you know he doesn't really want to prepare one of the other i know everybody knows the president wants to prepare the the succession speech of course now will it be the case that he is only he is the best advice but only really preparing for success for winning this election no he's not and why is that because as you mentioned in the intro here 100000000 plus people already have voted in they pass ju

correspondent stefan simons good evening to you steph i get the u.s. president there not as sounding as upbeat it as at least the donald trump that we're used to do you think that trump will cling on to power is he preparing us for that or is he preparing us for the reality that he may have to concede defeat. given this performance of the presidents of the last few weeks of the last 2 weeks ray went on a mad dash across across the states critical states for him florida pennsylvania wisconsin minnesota and so on it's not to be expected that the president is actually really putting a focus on the concession speech and when he said like oh he would you know he doesn't really want to prepare one of the other i know everybody knows the president from wants to prepare the the succession speech of course now will it be the case that he is only he is the best advice but only really preparing for success for winning this election no he's not and why is that because as you mentioned in the intro here 100000000 plus people already have voted in they pass judgment

we're going to bring in detail you correspondent stefan simons in philadelphia which is in pennsylvania that grand prize that has pushed joe biden over the edge to the magic $270.00 electoral college votes that he needs jeff i understand you've been speaking to some trump supporters and some biden supporters there. all told you. this side of the street here is keenly aware of. the philadelphia on pencilling that did it. that they pushed joe biden over the top. prompting all the networks agencies to. call joe biden called a mess the next 46 president of the united states president elect so to speak now what's going on between those 2 groups here so i'll shout 1st singing contest sometimes in a dance off to all of us. if you have all viewers maybe you will see. all the loss of form here in a few days ago or even today that misuse changing a little bit it's not all happy anymore it's we're getting a little bit more press than a bit more tense nothing really dangerous but also. a little bit more unpleasant so those 2 sides and i'm asking my cameras to turn around to see this like the almost

well, for more on this, let's cross over to washington where our correspondent stefan simons is standing by for us stefan. now joe biden has nominated some political veterans and now walk away expect from his administration you know, as mentioned in the report, you can absolutely expect the counter process and the counter design of what you believe, doll trump and all tribes policies as well as administration stood for so i think the bottom line is, is the difference that america is as is the blink is said, bank at the table. and that means basically that the us is going to want to lead again. and that also requires, of course, that this administration, the incoming administration, understands that america actually needs to lead again. this is something, of course, arguably the trumpet was rationed in the eyes of many experts and observers here never acknowledge they didn't want to lead. they want america 1st, focusing on domestic jobs and economy. and with that, leave everything else in front of the door. speaking global terms, this is going to change absolutely dramatically, but make n

our correspondent stefan simons, joins me now from our bureau. good evening to you, stefan high level pressure from outside for the president to give up his challenges . and we've got high level implosions taking place within the president's own legal team. talk to me about how bad the infighting is. right. president trump going to trace in under huge pressure to actually allow a transition. because again, as you pointed out in this, quote, national security is at stake here in the eyes of many, many, many. and then you have on the other side, as you called it, rightfully so. the implosion of the legal efforts and the legal team, basically trump, and this is the elite strike force team. who is the elite strike force team that is rudy giuliani, jenna alice, and sidney paul and apparently said need, powell is not part of the team anymore. the legal team distancing itself from sydney powell, reportedly because for conspiracy theories went too far even for the likes of rudy giuliani. and this is what was said at a press conference just last week. take

correspondent stefan seem uncertain. simons in washington. hi, stefan. joe biden has started naming his top team. now. what more can you tell us about them? yeah. param be aiming for a lot of diversity, a lot of people with solid backgrounds and experience in what they're doing means career diplomats career. finance experts, korea, this korea that, that is something joe biden seems to be very keen on a few names as you of course know. anthony blinken, a next secretary, secretary of state, foreign minister here in the united states. a guy, a person with tremendous experience to be secretary of state in the obama administration, as well as national security adviser in the obama administration. so in every foreign ministry around the world. 'd and to the blanket rings a bell, so who is around knows them. so that means also that biden, and this is what he's trying to do with all his nominations today. few of them historic is that he wants to really portray that he's about to when it comes to foreign policy repair. these scorched earth, which in his mind, don

wilmington delaware as we cross it now to debut of course on spondon stephan simons who weighs in at philadelphia and sylvania stefan what can you tell us. all i can give you a little bit most here and bring this whole presidential election a little bit on the street all the state as. well those people here they think that's a historic day that's more pillow but i talked to one of them. was celebrating a little. oh now that's enough. that's cool to somebody you know personally. now how do you think i'm saying something off thing this is a little bit symbolic here this is this separation from the other crowd right time what is your hope for paul on bringing this country together necessarily because those guys over there they're not really liking what they see on this side here i'm hoping that this divide between us shrinks and shrinks insurance until the father my dad to get shit done. you think that's reasonable i just. do biden knows how to. doing and you just have to have the republicans into the white house and have a lot of talk. that the time was her. right. place setting listening listening back live now liste

very much want to win pennsylvania stuff and simon is in philadelphia where it is a neck and neck race in that county is happening right where he is stefan what is going on there seems to be so many people there i'm assuming they're not all vote counters. or no vote counters here right those are well there's a just a chinese tiny tiny little group of trump supporters still left and maybe this room innocent to what's happening in the big picture in philadelphia in pennsylvania actually to donald trump and his comfortable vote lead which he had just 3 days ago he led 550-0000 half a 1000000 votes now it's down 278000 votes in the lead and i'm telling you this because why because there's still 250000 votes to be counted here that happens right here where we are at the pennsylvania convention center in philadelphia and right behind me are biden harris supporters and call count all votes supporters facing off all day long all a bunch of and now it's just a bunch it was a sizable crowd earlier bunch of trump supporters and this is exactly where i am and what is happening here and again counting is still going on right next to me here in other

very much want to win pennsylvania stuff and simon is in philadelphia where it is a neck and neck race in that county is happening right where he is stefan what is going on there seems to be so many people there i'm assuming they're not all vote counters. they're not go caucus here right those are well there's a just a tiny tiny tiny little group of trump supporters still left that maybe this room innocent to what's happening in the big picture in philadelphia in pennsylvania actually to donald trump and his comfortable vote lead which he had just 3 days ago he led 550-0000 half a 1000000 votes now it's down 278000 votes in the lead and i'm telling you this because why because there are still 250000 votes to be counted here that happens right here where we are at the pennsylvania convention center in philadelphia and right behind me are biden harris supporters and call count all votes supporters facing off all day long all a bunch of and now it's just a bunch it was a sizable crowd earlier bunch of trump supporters and this is exactly where i am and what is happening here and again counting you still going on right next to me here in oth

s chiffon simons is joining us he is in front of the convention center where the ballots for the entire state of pennsylvania are now being counted stefan i understand you are not alone there tell us what's going on. yeah well a little bit my of history or for me here less numbers here the pennsylvania convention center this is where the counting happens full philadelphia for all those votes the time campaign expresses various says does not want to have counted anymore and the crowd here one staff counted let me take you with you a little bit here you see on this side there this is the crawl count every vote crowd to dancing it off so to speak and now switch change to the other side. will try and come out smaller now that was a big get out there were 5060 people earlier today now it's just like a stalled ward so to speak now we had a chance to talk to a few people here let's listen in what they have to say i'm here because donald trump has been fighting for 4 years to keep the democrats from stealing the election both 2015 they try to steal 2016 and they try to they're feeling 2020 as we speak right now i live in north philadelphia i vo

very much want to win pennsylvania stuff and simon is in philadelphia where it is a neck and neck race in that county is happening right where he is stefan what is going on there seems to be so many people there i'm assuming they're not all vote counters. they're not here right those are well there's a just a chinese tiny tiny little group of trump supporters still left that maybe this room innocent to what's happening in the big picture in philadelphia in pennsylvania actually to donald trump and his comfortable vote lead which you had just 3 days ago he led 550-0000 half a 1000000 votes now it's down 278000 votes in the lead and i'm telling you this because why because there's still 250000 votes to be counted here that happens right here where we are at the pennsylvania convention center in philadelphia and right behind me are biden harris supporters and call count all votes supporters facing off all day long a fun show and now it's just a bunch it was a sizable crowd earlier bunch of trump supporters and this is exactly where i am and what is happening and again county still going on right next to me here in other counties surrounding

that's where the dubuque chiffon simons is joining us he is in front of the convention center where the ballots for the entire state of pennsylvania are now being counted stefan i understand you are not alone there tell us what's going on. yeah well a little bit my focus here for me here less numbers here is the pennsylvania convention center this is where the counting happens full philadelphia for all those votes the time campaign expresses various says does not want to have counted anymore and the crowd here one staff counted let me take you with you a little bit here you see on this side there this is the troll count every vote crowd to dancing it off so to speak now speech change to the other side. will trump crowd smaller now that was a big get out there were 5060 people earlier today now it's just like a stalled ward so to speak now we had a chance to talk to a few people here let's listen in what they have to say i'm here because donald trump has been fighting for 4 years to keep the democrats from stealing the election both 2015 they try to steal 2016 and they try to they're feeling 2020 as we speak right now i live in north philadelphia i voted for d

combination of states to win following the tight race for pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes is deja stefan simons he's in philadelphia at this point stefan what's the latest. well the latest is that as you pointed out to joe biden took the lead here by about 6000 votes according to the latest numbers and the latest count don't forget counting is still going on at about 140050000 votes to be still counted in all of pennsylvania not just here in philadelphia in philadelphia there are still about like 40000 votes to be counted and they're counted right there they never stop counting here at the convention center they went all through the night and hour shifts rotating rotating rotating there still counting they will.