WEBVTT 00:05.238 --> 00:06.006 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: ON THIS EDITION 00:06.006 --> 00:08.274 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FOR SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7: 00:08.274 --> 00:09.242 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> MY RESPONSIBILITY AS 00:09.242 --> 00:11.544 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT WILL BE TO REPRESENT 00:11.544 --> 00:13.313 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE WHOLE NATION. 00:13.313 --> 00:15.115 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I'LL 00:15.115 --> 00:16.683 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WORK AS HARD FOR THOSE WHO VOTED 00:16.683 --> 00:18.518 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AGAINST ME AS THOSE WHO VOTED 00:18.518 --> 00:19.486 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FOR ME. 00:19.486 --> 00:20.220 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: JOE BIDEN IS 00:20.220 --> 00:22.022 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DECLARED THE 46th PRESIDENT OF 00:22.022 --> 00:23.790 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE UNITED STATES; PRESIDENT 00:23.790 --> 00:25.492 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DONALD TRUMP PROMISES LEGAL 00:25.492 --> 00:27.427 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CHALLENGES AHEAD; AND A 00:27.427 --> 00:29.329 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% STILL-DIVIDED COUNTRY CELEBRATES 00:29.329 --> 00:31.131 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND PROTESTS ON THIS HISTORIC 00:31.131 --> 00:31.898 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DAY. 00:31.898 --> 00:36.970 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NEXT ON PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND. 00:36.970 --> 00:39.072 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >>PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND IS MADE 00:39.072 --> 00:40.607 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% POSSIBLE BY: 00:40.607 --> 00:43.810 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SUE AND EDGAR WACHENHEIM III. 00:43.810 --> 00:47.080 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE ANDERSON FAMILY FUND. 00:47.080 --> 00:50.116 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BERNARD AND DENISE SCHWARTZ. 00:50.116 --> 00:51.751 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE CHERYL AND PHILIP MILSTEIN 00:51.751 --> 00:53.586 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FAMILY. 00:53.586 --> 00:56.189 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BARBARA HOPE ZUCKERBERG. 00:56.189 --> 00:57.991 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE LEONARD AND NORMA KLORFINE 00:57.991 --> 00:59.426 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FOUNDATION. 00:59.426 --> 01:01.928 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CHARLES ROSENBLUM. 01:01.928 --> 01:03.530 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WE TRY TO LIVE IN THE MOMENT, 01:03.530 --> 01:04.964 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO NOT MISS WHAT'S RIGHT IN 01:04.964 --> 01:05.865 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FRONT OF US. 01:05.865 --> 01:07.734 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AT MUTUAL OF AMERICA, WE 01:07.734 --> 01:09.669 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BELIEVE TAKING CARE OF TOMORROW 01:09.669 --> 01:11.237 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CAN HELP YOU MAKE THE MOST OF 01:11.237 --> 01:12.005 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TODAY. 01:12.005 --> 01:13.339 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MUTUAL OF AMERICA FINANCIAL 01:13.339 --> 01:15.508 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GROUP, RETIREMENT SERVICES AND 01:15.508 --> 01:17.243 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INVESTMENTS. 01:17.243 --> 01:18.645 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ADDITIONAL SUPPORT HAS BEEN 01:18.645 --> 01:19.746 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PROVIDED BY: 01:19.746 --> 01:22.916 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CONSUMER CELLULAR. 01:22.916 --> 01:26.453 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND BY: 01:26.453 --> 01:27.787 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND BY THE CORPORATION FOR 01:27.787 --> 01:29.923 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PUBLIC BROADCASTING, A PRIVATE 01:29.923 --> 01:31.391 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CORPORATION FUNDED BY THE 01:31.391 --> 01:33.059 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AMERICAN PEOPLE. 01:33.059 --> 01:34.694 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND BY CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUR 01:34.694 --> 01:36.429 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PBS STATION FROM VIEWERS LIKE 01:36.429 --> 01:37.263 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YOU. 01:37.263 --> 01:39.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THANK YOU. 01:39.566 --> 01:40.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: GOOD EVENING, 01:40.266 --> 01:41.501 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. 01:41.501 --> 01:44.037 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DEMOCRAT JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR. IS 01:44.037 --> 01:45.672 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NOW THE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE 01:45.672 --> 01:46.806 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% UNITED STATES. 01:46.806 --> 01:47.941 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND 01:47.941 --> 01:49.142 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MULTIPLE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS 01:49.142 --> 01:50.543 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CALLED THE RACE FOR THE FORMER 01:50.543 --> 01:51.945 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% VICE PRESIDENT THIS MORNING 01:51.945 --> 01:53.813 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AFTER NEW BALLOT COUNTS EXTENDED 01:53.813 --> 01:54.948 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MR. BIDEN'S LEAD IN 01:54.948 --> 01:56.549 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PENNSYLVANIA, GIVING HIM AN 01:56.549 --> 01:58.451 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ADDITIONAL 20 ELECTORAL COLLEGE 01:58.451 --> 02:00.487 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% VOTES, PUSHING HIS TOTAL ABOVE 02:00.487 --> 02:02.255 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE 270 NEEDED. 02:02.255 --> 02:03.389 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PENNSYLVANIA'S VOTE PUT 02:03.389 --> 02:05.859 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN AT 284 02:05.859 --> 02:07.227 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ELECTORAL VOTES WITH CURRENT 02:07.227 --> 02:10.330 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AT 214. 02:10.330 --> 02:12.232 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WITHIN AN HOUR, THE A.P. ALSO 02:12.232 --> 02:14.067 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CALLED NEVADA FOR MR. BIDEN, 02:14.067 --> 02:16.202 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BRINGING THE COUNT TO 290. 02:16.202 --> 02:17.670 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT, KAMALA 02:17.670 --> 02:18.505 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HARRIS, POSTED HER 02:18.505 --> 02:20.006 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CONGRATULATORY CALL TO HER 02:20.006 --> 02:28.948 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RUNNING MATE ON TWITTER: 02:28.948 --> 02:31.417 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% (CHEERS) 02:31.417 --> 02:32.886 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IN WASHINGTON, D.C., LARGE 02:32.886 --> 02:34.354 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CROWDS GATHERED OUTSIDE THE 02:34.354 --> 02:36.022 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHITE HOUSE, AND IN TIMES SQUARE 02:36.022 --> 02:37.490 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IN NEW YORK CITY PEOPLE CHEERED 02:37.490 --> 02:38.591 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE NEWS. 02:38.591 --> 02:42.395 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> ♪ LET FREEDOM RING. ♪ 02:42.395 --> 02:43.062 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: IN LANSING, 02:43.062 --> 02:44.597 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MICHIGAN, AND IN OTHER CITIES, 02:44.597 --> 02:46.099 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TRUMP SUPPORTERS DEMONSTRATED, 02:46.099 --> 02:47.834 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WAVING FLAGS AND PROTESTING THAT 02:47.834 --> 02:49.335 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE ELECTION IS TOO CLOSE TO 02:49.335 --> 02:51.371 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CALL. 02:51.371 --> 02:53.039 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THOUSANDS OF BALLOTSARESTILL 02:53.039 --> 02:54.874 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BEING COUNTED IN MANY STATES, 02:54.874 --> 02:56.342 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BUT THE MARGINS OF THE VOTE 02:56.342 --> 02:58.611 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COUNTS TODAY PUT MR. BIDEN FAR 02:58.611 --> 03:00.880 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ENOUGH AHEAD TO PRECLUDE A TRUMP 03:00.880 --> 03:03.116 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COMEBACK, ACCORDING TO THE A.P. 03:03.116 --> 03:04.851 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MR. TRUMP WAS AT HIS VIRGINIA 03:04.851 --> 03:06.252 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GOLF COURSE WHEN THE CALL WAS 03:06.252 --> 03:06.853 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MADE. 03:06.853 --> 03:08.054 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HE QUICKLY ISSUED A STATEMENT 03:08.054 --> 03:10.290 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT SAID: "THE SIMPLE FACT IS, 03:10.290 --> 03:12.258 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THIS ELECTION IS FAR FROM OVER," 03:12.258 --> 03:13.826 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND ALSO SAID, "BEGINNING 03:13.826 --> 03:15.361 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MONDAY, OUR CAMPAIGN WILL START 03:15.361 --> 03:17.830 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PROSECUTING OUR CASE IN COURT." 03:17.830 --> 03:19.599 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN WAS AT 03:19.599 --> 03:20.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HOME IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, 03:20.833 --> 03:22.035 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHERE HE ISSUED A STATEMENT THAT 03:22.035 --> 03:23.503 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MIRRORED HIS CALL IN A SPEECH 03:23.503 --> 03:25.572 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LATE LAST NIGHT FOR AMERICANS TO 03:25.572 --> 03:26.639 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% UNITE. 03:26.639 --> 03:28.741 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> NO MATTER WHO YOU VOTED FOR, 03:28.741 --> 03:30.743 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I'M CERTAIN OF ONE THING: THE 03:30.743 --> 03:34.214 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% VAST MAJORITY OF THE 150 MILLION 03:34.214 --> 03:36.349 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AMERICANS WHO VOTED, THEY WANT 03:36.349 --> 03:37.650 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO GET THE VITRIOL OUT OF OUR 03:37.650 --> 03:39.552 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% POLITICS. 03:39.552 --> 03:40.320 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WE'RE CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO 03:40.320 --> 03:42.455 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AGREE ON A LOT OF ISSUES, AT 03:42.455 --> 03:44.190 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LEAST WE CAN AGREE TO BE CIVIL 03:44.190 --> 03:45.892 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WITH ONE ANOTHER. 03:45.892 --> 03:47.427 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WE HAVE TO PUT THE ANGER AND THE 03:47.427 --> 03:49.929 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DEMONIZATION BEHIND US. 03:49.929 --> 03:50.697 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT'S TIME FOR US TO COME 03:50.697 --> 03:53.032 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TOGETHER AS A NATION TO HEAL. 03:53.032 --> 03:54.534 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT'S NOT GOING TO BE EASY, BUT 03:54.534 --> 03:55.735 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WE HAVE TO TRY. 03:55.735 --> 03:56.469 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: NEWSHOUR'S 03:56.469 --> 03:58.204 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DANIEL BUSH IS IN PHILADELPHIA 03:58.204 --> 03:59.639 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND HAS MORE ON THE MOMENT THE 03:59.639 --> 04:01.374 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RACE WAS CALLED AND WHAT THE 04:01.374 --> 04:03.042 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT'S LAWYERS SAY THEY ARE 04:03.042 --> 04:04.510 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PLANNING NEXT. 04:04.510 --> 04:06.980 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DAN BUSH, YOU'RE IN PENNSYLVANIA 04:06.980 --> 04:07.947 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ABOUT THE TIME THAT THE 04:07.947 --> 04:09.716 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ASSOCIATED PRESS CALLED THE 04:09.716 --> 04:11.651 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ELECTION FOR JOE BIDEN. 04:11.651 --> 04:13.519 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YOU WERE GETTING READY FOR A 04:13.519 --> 04:15.655 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESS CONFERENCE FROM THE TRUMP 04:15.655 --> 04:16.222 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CAMPAIGN. 04:16.222 --> 04:17.924 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHAT DID THEY HAVE TO SAY? 04:17.924 --> 04:18.791 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> HARI, IT WAS A LITTLE BIT OF 04:18.791 --> 04:20.159 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% A CHAOTIC SCENE HERE. 04:20.159 --> 04:21.427 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN SCHEDULED A 04:21.427 --> 04:23.863 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESS CONFERENCE JUST AROUND THE 04:23.863 --> 04:25.031 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TIME THAT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 04:25.031 --> 04:26.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FIRST CALLED PENNSYLVANIA FOR 04:26.933 --> 04:28.301 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% JOE BIDEN, WHICH PUT HIM OVER 04:28.301 --> 04:30.870 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE 270 THRESHOLD FOR VICTORY. 04:30.870 --> 04:32.305 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEN THEY CALLED THE ENTIRE RACE 04:32.305 --> 04:33.339 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FOR JOE BIDEN. 04:33.339 --> 04:34.874 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SHORTLY AFTER THAT, RUDY 04:34.874 --> 04:36.542 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GIULIANI, A CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF 04:36.542 --> 04:37.543 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT TRUMP'S, AS WELL AS 04:37.543 --> 04:38.711 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COREY LEWANDOWSKI AND SOME 04:38.711 --> 04:40.780 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OTHERS, CAME OUT HERE, AND RUDY 04:40.780 --> 04:42.649 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GIULIANI RAN THROUGH A LITANY OF 04:42.649 --> 04:44.651 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CLAIMS OR ALLEGATIONS AROUND 04:44.651 --> 04:46.586 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHAT HE IS CLAIMING AS 04:46.586 --> 04:48.288 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY RELATED TO 04:48.288 --> 04:49.255 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE ELECTION. 04:49.255 --> 04:51.357 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RUDY GIULIANI SAID THAT THIS IS 04:51.357 --> 04:52.025 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OUTRAGEOUS. 04:52.025 --> 04:53.293 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HE SAID THAT MAIL-IN BALLOTS 04:53.293 --> 04:55.895 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WERE "HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS." 04:55.895 --> 04:57.196 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HE SAID THAT NO REPUBLICAN GOT A 04:57.196 --> 04:58.765 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CHANCE TO INSPECT BALLOTS. 04:58.765 --> 04:59.732 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT IS NOT TRUE. 04:59.732 --> 05:00.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HE SAID THAT THERE WAS ZERO 05:00.733 --> 05:02.502 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SECURITY AROUND THIS VOTE 05:02.502 --> 05:03.202 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COUNTING PROCESS. 05:03.202 --> 05:04.737 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT IS NOT TRUE, AS WELL. 05:04.737 --> 05:06.372 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I SAW THAT SECURITY, AS WELL AS 05:06.372 --> 05:07.407 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE REST OF THE PRESS DID, WITH 05:07.407 --> 05:08.841 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OUR OWN EYES WHEN WE TOOK TOURS 05:08.841 --> 05:10.209 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OF THE FACILITIES WHERE THEY'RE 05:10.209 --> 05:11.411 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COUNTING THESE BALLOTS. 05:11.411 --> 05:12.345 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I SHOULD ALSO NOTE, AS WELL, 05:12.345 --> 05:13.980 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEREISNO WIDESPREAD EVIDENCE 05:13.980 --> 05:15.815 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OF VOTER FRAUD EITHER HERE IN 05:15.815 --> 05:17.483 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PENNSYLVANIA OR ANYWHERE ELSE IN 05:17.483 --> 05:18.251 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE COUNTRY. 05:18.251 --> 05:20.586 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BUT EVEN AFTER THE ELECTION WAS 05:20.586 --> 05:22.889 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CALLED, THERE WAS RUDY GIULIANI 05:22.889 --> 05:24.324 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MAKING THAT LEGAL ARGUMENT. 05:24.324 --> 05:25.525 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN HAS ALREADY 05:25.525 --> 05:26.726 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FILED SEVERAL SUITS AROUND THE 05:26.726 --> 05:27.427 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COUNTRY. 05:27.427 --> 05:29.162 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RUDY GIULIANI SAID MORE ARE 05:29.162 --> 05:30.830 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COMING, SO YOU CAN SEE THE TRUMP 05:30.830 --> 05:32.598 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CAMPAIGN DIGGING IN ITS HEELS 05:32.598 --> 05:34.701 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HERE FOR WHAT THEY THINK COULD 05:34.701 --> 05:35.968 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BE A LONG LEGAL FIGHT. 05:35.968 --> 05:36.636 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: WHAT IS THE 05:36.636 --> 05:38.671 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIKELIHOOD OF THE VOTES BEING 05:38.671 --> 05:40.406 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RECOUNTED IN PENNSYLVANIA? 05:40.406 --> 05:42.909 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND IS THAT LIKELY TO PROVE THE 05:42.909 --> 05:44.377 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TYPE OF RESULT THAT RUDY 05:44.377 --> 05:46.079 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GIULIANI WANTS? 05:46.079 --> 05:47.747 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THAT ISTHECRITICAL 05:47.747 --> 05:49.148 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% QUESTION, HARI. 05:49.148 --> 05:50.516 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% UNDER PENNSYLVANIA LAW, THE 05:50.516 --> 05:52.018 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SECRETARY OF STATE IS REQUIRED 05:52.018 --> 05:53.453 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO ORDER A RECOUNT IF THE MARGIN 05:53.453 --> 05:56.789 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IS WITHIN 0.5%, HALF OF 1%. 05:56.789 --> 05:58.691 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AS OF TODAY, JOE BIDEN WAS UP BY 05:58.691 --> 06:00.326 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ROUGHLY 30,000 VOTES. 06:00.326 --> 06:01.461 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT NUMBER MAY HAVE ALREADY 06:01.461 --> 06:03.296 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GONE UP SINCE THE LAST TIME THAT 06:03.296 --> 06:04.797 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WE LOOKED AT IT CLOSELY. 06:04.797 --> 06:06.499 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT IS BECAUSE AS MORE MAIL-IN 06:06.499 --> 06:07.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND ABSENTEE BALLOTS ARE 06:07.500 --> 06:08.868 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COUNTED, THOSE ARE BREAKING AT 06:08.868 --> 06:12.271 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% UP TO 75% IN JOE BIDEN'S FAVOR. 06:12.271 --> 06:13.773 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RIGHT NOW, HE'S ROUGHLY ON THAT 06:13.773 --> 06:15.975 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BUBBLE OF WHAT WOULD BE A 0.5% 06:15.975 --> 06:16.976 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MARGIN, HARI. 06:16.976 --> 06:18.678 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BUT AGAIN, AS THESE NUMBERS COME 06:18.678 --> 06:19.912 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IN, HE'S GOING TO GO UP. 06:19.912 --> 06:21.381 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE EXPECTATION IS, HE WILL 06:21.381 --> 06:22.915 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EXCEED AND THAT THE MARGIN WILL 06:22.915 --> 06:25.818 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NOT BE WITHIN THE AMOUNT THAT 06:25.818 --> 06:26.853 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PENNSYLVANIA WOULD HAVE TO 06:26.853 --> 06:28.488 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PROCEED WITH A RECOUNT. 06:28.488 --> 06:29.922 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RUDY GIULIANI WAS ASKED ABOUT A 06:29.922 --> 06:32.091 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% POSSIBILITY OF A RECOUNT TODAY. 06:32.091 --> 06:33.993 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HE JUST SAID, "STAND BY, MORE 06:33.993 --> 06:34.927 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LAWSUITS ARE COMING." 06:34.927 --> 06:36.195 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, WE ARE FOLLOWING THESE FINAL 06:36.195 --> 06:37.597 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NUMBERS VERY CLOSELY FOR THAT 06:37.597 --> 06:38.931 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% VERY REASON. 06:38.931 --> 06:39.665 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: DAN, WERE THERE 06:39.665 --> 06:42.535 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ANY SPECIFIC GROUPS THAT HELPED 06:42.535 --> 06:44.537 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% JOE BIDEN CROSS THAT LINE IN 06:44.537 --> 06:46.239 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PENNSYLVANIA? 06:46.239 --> 06:47.507 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> WELL, HARI, JOE BIDEN COMING 06:47.507 --> 06:48.708 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INTO THIS ELECTION IN THE FINAL 06:48.708 --> 06:50.176 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WEEKS MADE A VERY STRONG PITCH 06:50.176 --> 06:52.378 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO A COUPLE OF KEY GROUPS: BLACK 06:52.378 --> 06:54.213 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% VOTERS IN PHILADELPHIA AND 06:54.213 --> 06:55.148 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PITTSBURGH, OTHER PARTS OF THE 06:55.148 --> 06:56.549 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% STATE; AS WELL AS SUBURBAN 06:56.549 --> 06:58.151 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% VOTERS, THOSE SAME VOTERS THAT 06:58.151 --> 06:59.886 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT TRUMP WENT AFTER IN 06:59.886 --> 07:01.087 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE FINAL WEEKS WITH HIS "LAW 07:01.087 --> 07:01.854 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND ORDER" MESSAGE. 07:01.854 --> 07:03.156 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THOSE SUBURBAN VOTERS TOLD ME 07:03.156 --> 07:04.857 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT MESSAGE DID NOT RESONATE 07:04.857 --> 07:06.325 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WITH THEM FOR THE MOST PART. 07:06.325 --> 07:07.427 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TRUMP DID GET SUPPORT IN THE 07:07.427 --> 07:09.195 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SUBURBS, BUT IT WASN'T ENOUGH TO 07:09.195 --> 07:11.764 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HOLD OFF ABIGTURNOUT FOR JOE 07:11.764 --> 07:14.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BIDEN IN CITIES, IN SUBURBS. 07:14.000 --> 07:15.468 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND IN THE END, THAT "GET OUT 07:15.468 --> 07:17.203 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE VOTE" OPERATION GOT HIM OVER 07:17.203 --> 07:17.937 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE TOP. 07:17.937 --> 07:18.638 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: ALL RIGHT, DAN 07:18.638 --> 07:19.439 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BUSH JOINING US FROM 07:19.439 --> 07:20.273 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PHILADELPHIA. 07:20.273 --> 07:21.107 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THANKS SO MUCH. 07:21.107 --> 07:22.675 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THANK YOU, HARI. 07:22.675 --> 07:23.376 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: NEWSHOUR WHITE 07:23.376 --> 07:24.444 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HOUSE CORRESPONDENT YAMICHE 07:24.444 --> 07:25.411 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ALCINDOR JOINED US FROM 07:25.411 --> 07:27.079 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WASHINGTON, D.C. FOR MORE ON THE 07:27.079 --> 07:28.247 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT'S REACTION AND HIS 07:28.247 --> 07:29.816 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PLANS. 07:29.816 --> 07:30.983 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YAMICHE, WE HEARD FROM DAN BUSH 07:30.983 --> 07:32.952 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IN PHILADELPHIA THAT RUDY 07:32.952 --> 07:34.487 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GIULIANI, OTHER MEMBERS OF THE 07:34.487 --> 07:36.322 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TRUMP CAMPAIGN, REGARDLESS OF 07:36.322 --> 07:37.723 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHAT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAYS, 07:37.723 --> 07:39.926 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REGARDLESS OF THE CALL, THEY ARE 07:39.926 --> 07:41.561 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INTERESTED IN PROSECUTING THIS 07:41.561 --> 07:43.696 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FURTHER. 07:43.696 --> 07:44.230 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THAT'S RIGHT. 07:44.230 --> 07:45.264 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE PRESIDENT PUT OUT A 07:45.264 --> 07:47.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% STATEMENT JUST MOMENTS AFTER JOE 07:47.233 --> 07:48.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BIDEN WAS DECLARED THE 07:48.100 --> 07:49.469 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT-ELECT BY A NUMBER OF 07:49.469 --> 07:50.837 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NEWS AGENCIES, AS WELL AS THE 07:50.837 --> 07:52.772 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% A.P., SAYING THAT THIS ELECTION 07:52.772 --> 07:54.273 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IS NOT OVER AND THAT HE PLANS TO 07:54.273 --> 07:55.441 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PROSECUTE THIS CASE. 07:55.441 --> 07:56.476 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NOW, I'VE BEEN TALKING TO PEOPLE 07:56.476 --> 07:57.276 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHO ARE CLOSE TO PRESIDENT 07:57.276 --> 07:59.245 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TRUMP, AND THEY SAY THIS: THE 07:59.245 --> 08:00.680 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT WILL AT SOME POINT 08:00.680 --> 08:02.548 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT HE MAY 08:02.548 --> 08:03.483 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HAVE LOST THIS ELECTION. 08:03.483 --> 08:04.617 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT SEEMS LIKE HE WILL LOSE THIS 08:04.617 --> 08:05.284 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ELECTION. 08:05.284 --> 08:06.786 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BUT HE'S REALLY SET UP TWO CAMPS 08:06.786 --> 08:07.320 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OF PEOPLE. 08:07.320 --> 08:08.287 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THERE THE PEOPLE LIKE RUDY 08:08.287 --> 08:09.555 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GIULIANI, LIKE COREY 08:09.555 --> 08:10.490 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LEWANDOWSKI, HIS PERSONAL 08:10.490 --> 08:12.091 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ATTORNEY AND HIS FORMER CAMPAIGN 08:12.091 --> 08:13.826 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MANAGER IN 2016, WHO WILL 08:13.826 --> 08:15.528 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CONTINUE TO REALLY WANT TO 08:15.528 --> 08:16.863 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FIGHT, CONTINUE TO TRY TO EDGE 08:16.863 --> 08:17.864 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HIM ON. 08:17.864 --> 08:18.764 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BUT THEN, THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE 08:18.764 --> 08:19.899 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIKE JARED KUSHNER, HIS SON-IN- 08:19.899 --> 08:20.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LAW, WHO ARE GOING TO HAVE TO 08:20.933 --> 08:22.468 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REEL HIM BACK WHEN IT'S TIME TO 08:22.468 --> 08:24.070 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REEL BACK, TO SAY, "LOOK, YOU'VE 08:24.070 --> 08:24.971 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LOST THIS THING." 08:24.971 --> 08:26.038 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LET'S ALSO JUST STEP BACK EVEN 08:26.038 --> 08:27.073 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FURTHER AND SAY THAT THIS WAS A 08:27.073 --> 08:28.341 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT WHO RAN AS A POLITICAL 08:28.341 --> 08:29.609 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OUTSIDER, WHO HAS NOW BEEN 08:29.609 --> 08:31.844 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OUSTED BY A RECORD NUMBER OF 08:31.844 --> 08:32.278 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% VOTERS. 08:32.278 --> 08:33.613 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YES, THE ELECTION WAS TIGHT, BUT 08:33.613 --> 08:35.414 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% JOE BIDEN HAS MORE VOTES THAN 08:35.414 --> 08:36.816 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ANY OTHER PERSON WHO HAS RUN FOR 08:36.816 --> 08:37.550 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT. 08:37.550 --> 08:39.452 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND THIS REALLY IS A REPUDIATION 08:39.452 --> 08:40.653 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OF PRESIDENT TRUMP AND ALL OF 08:40.653 --> 08:42.288 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE THINGS THAT HE'S BEEN DOING, 08:42.288 --> 08:44.624 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE RACIST LANGUAGE, THE-- THE 08:44.624 --> 08:46.726 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DOWNPLAYING OF THE CORONAVIRUS, 08:46.726 --> 08:47.326 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE SCANDALS. 08:47.326 --> 08:49.262 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HE-- HEWILLLEAVE OFFICE-- IF 08:49.262 --> 08:50.429 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THIS ALL GOES THROUGH, HEWILL 08:50.429 --> 08:52.064 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LEAVE OFFICE AS AN IMPEACHED 08:52.064 --> 08:53.699 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT, AND HE WILL JOIN ONLY 08:53.699 --> 08:55.902 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NINE OTHER PRESIDENTS IN HISTORY 08:55.902 --> 08:57.036 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO NOT WIN A SECOND TERM. 08:57.036 --> 08:57.837 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: LET'S ALSO TALK 08:57.837 --> 08:59.639 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ABOUT THE HISTORIC NATURE OF 08:59.639 --> 09:01.307 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% KAMALA HARRIS BEING THE 09:01.307 --> 09:02.842 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESUMPTIVE VICE PRESIDENT. 09:02.842 --> 09:03.743 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THIS IS A LITTLE BIT OF 09:03.743 --> 09:04.911 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% POLITICAL POETRY HERE. 09:04.911 --> 09:06.178 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT TRUMP BEGAN HIS 09:06.178 --> 09:08.714 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% POLITICAL CAREER QUESTIONING THE 09:08.714 --> 09:10.516 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BIRTHPLACE OF THE FIRST AFRICAN 09:10.516 --> 09:11.517 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AMERICAN PRESIDENT IN THAT 09:11.517 --> 09:13.853 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RACIST THEORY OF BIRTHERISM, AND 09:13.853 --> 09:14.921 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HE'S NOW GOING TO BE LEAVING 09:14.921 --> 09:17.523 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OFFICE AND WITH A BLACK WOMAN 09:17.523 --> 09:19.058 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COMING INTO OFFICE AS VICE 09:19.058 --> 09:20.459 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT, SOMEONE THAT HE'S 09:20.459 --> 09:22.528 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MOCKED FOR SAYING HER NAME WRONG 09:22.528 --> 09:24.063 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 09:24.063 --> 09:25.097 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THIS IS, OF COURSE, ALSO A 09:25.097 --> 09:26.132 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HISTORIC FIRST. 09:26.132 --> 09:27.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SENATOR HARRIS, NOW VICE 09:27.833 --> 09:29.502 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT-ELECT HARRIS, HAS HAD 09:29.502 --> 09:30.970 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO MANY DIFFERENT FIRSTS IN HER 09:30.970 --> 09:32.605 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIFETIME, BUT NOW SHE IS THE 09:32.605 --> 09:34.373 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FIRST WOMAN TO BE ELECTED VICE 09:34.373 --> 09:35.274 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT-ELECT. 09:35.274 --> 09:36.542 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SHE'S THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN, THE 09:36.542 --> 09:38.077 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FIRST ASIAN WOMAN, THE FIRST 09:38.077 --> 09:39.712 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GRADUATE OF A HISTORICALLY BLACK 09:39.712 --> 09:42.114 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY, THE 09:42.114 --> 09:43.616 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FIRST MEMBER OF THE DIVINE NINE. 09:43.616 --> 09:44.817 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THOSE ARE THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN 09:44.817 --> 09:45.318 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SORORITIES. 09:45.318 --> 09:46.786 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SHE'S THE MEMBER OF ALPHA KAPPA 09:46.786 --> 09:48.454 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ALPHA-- ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA 09:48.454 --> 09:50.022 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SORORITY, INCORPORATED. 09:50.022 --> 09:50.957 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT 09:50.957 --> 09:52.325 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FIRSTS HERE, AND IT'S HISTORY- 09:52.325 --> 09:53.759 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MAKING FOR HER TO WALK INTO 09:53.759 --> 09:55.461 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OFFICE JUST A HEARTBEAT AWAY 09:55.461 --> 09:56.262 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FROM THE PRESIDENCY. 09:56.262 --> 09:57.330 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I'VE JUST BEEN TALKING TO BLACK 09:57.330 --> 09:58.497 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIVES MATTER ACTIVISTS AS WELL 09:58.497 --> 10:01.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AS BEN CRUMP, AN ICON IN SOME 10:01.100 --> 10:02.068 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WAYS-- THE CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY 10:02.068 --> 10:03.202 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHO HAS DONE SO MANY DIFFERENT 10:03.202 --> 10:05.071 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CASES, FROM TRAYVON MARTIN TO 10:05.071 --> 10:06.806 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AHMAUD ARBERY TO GEORGE FLOYD-- 10:06.806 --> 10:08.774 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND HE TOLD ME THAT HE FELT HOPE 10:08.774 --> 10:09.175 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TODAY. 10:09.175 --> 10:11.577 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HE FEELS AS THOUGH HIM-- THIS 10:11.577 --> 10:14.113 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ELECTION OF KAMALA HARRIS PUTS 10:14.113 --> 10:15.247 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WHO HAVE 10:15.247 --> 10:16.515 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BEEN THE BACKBONE OF THE 10:16.515 --> 10:18.150 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DEMOCRATIC PARTY INTO AN 10:18.150 --> 10:19.452 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR THE FIRST 10:19.452 --> 10:20.419 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TIME IN HISTORY. 10:20.419 --> 10:21.654 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND THERE'S REALLY BEEN THIS 10:21.654 --> 10:23.889 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FEELING OF EXCITEMENT, THIS 10:23.889 --> 10:25.124 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FEELING THAT THINGS MIGHT BE 10:25.124 --> 10:26.325 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DIFFERENT THIS TIME AROUND AS WE 10:26.325 --> 10:27.627 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LOOK AT ALL OF THE DIFFERENT 10:27.627 --> 10:29.428 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WAYS THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS FACE 10:29.428 --> 10:30.863 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INJUSTICES AND INEQUALITIES IN 10:30.863 --> 10:31.664 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THIS COUNTRY. 10:31.664 --> 10:32.398 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: AND THERE ARE AT 10:32.398 --> 10:35.368 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LEAST 70 MILLION VOTERS WHO DID 10:35.368 --> 10:37.003 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NOT VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN, AND THIS 10:37.003 --> 10:39.238 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IS A COUNTRY STILL DEEPLY 10:39.238 --> 10:40.006 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DIVIDED. 10:40.006 --> 10:41.273 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT'S A LOT OF WORK THAT JOE 10:41.273 --> 10:42.208 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS HAVE 10:42.208 --> 10:43.009 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AHEAD OF THEM. 10:43.009 --> 10:43.676 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> I'VE BEEN TALKING TO 10:43.676 --> 10:45.511 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DEMOCRATS WHO ARE DOING A LOT OF 10:45.511 --> 10:47.680 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SOUL-SEARCHING AND WONDERING WHY 10:47.680 --> 10:49.248 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THIS ELECTION WAS SO CLOSE. 10:49.248 --> 10:50.416 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YOU'RE RIGHT TO SAY THAT THIS 10:50.416 --> 10:52.852 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WAS AN ELECTION THAT REALLY PUT 10:52.852 --> 10:55.154 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INTO CLEAR FOCUS HOW POLARIZED 10:55.154 --> 10:56.355 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AMERICA IS. 10:56.355 --> 10:57.623 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND I'VE TALKED TO SO MANY TRUMP 10:57.623 --> 10:58.924 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SUPPORTERS AS WELL AS BIDEN 10:58.924 --> 11:01.127 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SUPPORTERS WHO SIMPLY CANNOT 11:01.127 --> 11:02.795 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% UNDERSTAND WHY SOMEONE WOULD 11:02.795 --> 11:03.696 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE THAT 11:03.696 --> 11:05.331 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ISN'T THEIR CANDIDATE OF CHOICE. 11:05.331 --> 11:06.465 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BUT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT 11:06.465 --> 11:08.634 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS HAD SUCH A 11:08.634 --> 11:10.102 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PROBLEMATIC HISTORY WITH TRUTH. 11:10.102 --> 11:11.003 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HE'S BEEN SPREADING 11:11.003 --> 11:12.104 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DISINFORMATION FOR SO LONG. 11:12.104 --> 11:13.506 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WE TALK A LOT ABOUT FOREIGN 11:13.506 --> 11:14.640 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INTERFERENCE IN ELECTIONS, BUT 11:14.640 --> 11:15.675 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WE RIGHT NOW HAVE A 11:15.675 --> 11:17.643 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN GOING ON 11:17.643 --> 11:18.844 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HEADQUARTERED AT THE WHITE HOUSE 11:18.844 --> 11:19.545 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP. 11:19.545 --> 11:20.880 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, A LOT OF THAT POLARIZATION 11:20.880 --> 11:22.348 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IS GOING TO BE HAPPENING THERE. 11:22.348 --> 11:23.049 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I SHOULD ALSO SAY THAT 11:23.049 --> 11:24.483 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REPUBLICANS ARE FEELING VERY 11:24.483 --> 11:25.785 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESSURED RIGHT NOW TO STICK 11:25.785 --> 11:26.852 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WITH THE PRESIDENT BECAUSE THEY 11:26.852 --> 11:28.287 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REALIZE THAT THE PRESIDENT'S 11:28.287 --> 11:29.689 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BASE IS GOING TO BE THE BASE 11:29.689 --> 11:30.456 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO 11:30.456 --> 11:32.825 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TURN OUT IN 2022 AND 2024. 11:32.825 --> 11:34.226 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, IT'S ALSO AN INCENTIVE FOR 11:34.226 --> 11:35.594 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REPUBLICANS TO CONTINUE TO BE 11:35.594 --> 11:36.796 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% POLARIZED AS THEY BACK THE 11:36.796 --> 11:37.763 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT. 11:37.763 --> 11:38.397 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: ALL RIGHT. 11:38.397 --> 11:39.799 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PBS NEWSHOUR'S YAMICHE ALCINDOR, 11:39.799 --> 11:41.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THANKS SO MUCH. 11:41.000 --> 11:42.601 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THANKS. 11:42.601 --> 11:43.402 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: NEWSHOUR'S JOHN 11:43.402 --> 11:45.004 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YANG IS IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, 11:45.004 --> 11:46.238 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHERE THE PRESIDENT AND VICE 11:46.238 --> 11:47.473 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT-ELECT ARE PLANNING AN 11:47.473 --> 11:49.275 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% 8:00 P.M. EASTERN TIME SPEECH 11:49.275 --> 11:51.277 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND CELEBRATION TONIGHT. 11:51.277 --> 11:54.346 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, JOHN, CERTAINLY NOT AS FAST 11:54.346 --> 11:56.449 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AS THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN WOULD HAVE 11:56.449 --> 11:59.719 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EXPECTED, BUT THE RESULT CAME 11:59.719 --> 12:00.453 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TODAY NONETHELESS. 12:00.453 --> 12:01.754 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHAT WAS THE IMMEDIATE REACTION 12:01.754 --> 12:03.355 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FROM THE BIDEN CAMP? 12:03.355 --> 12:04.657 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> I THINK THEY EXPECTED THIS TO 12:04.657 --> 12:07.493 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BE A LITTLE LONG AND DRAWN OUT. 12:07.493 --> 12:08.828 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEY EXPECTED IT TO BE LIKE 12:08.828 --> 12:10.629 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THIS, BUT NOT AS LONG AS IT WENT 12:10.629 --> 12:11.230 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ON. 12:11.230 --> 12:13.432 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AS ONE SENIOR ADVISER TO THE 12:13.432 --> 12:17.536 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CAMPAIGN TOLD ME LAST NIGHT, THE 12:17.536 --> 12:19.872 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ADVISER SAID THAT NOTHING ABOUT 12:19.872 --> 12:22.441 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THIS CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN EASY, SO 12:22.441 --> 12:23.909 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHY SHOULD THE ELECTION BE ANY 12:23.909 --> 12:24.944 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DIFFERENT? 12:24.944 --> 12:25.911 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: YEAH. 12:25.911 --> 12:27.613 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, WHAT ARE THE CAMPAIGN'S 12:27.613 --> 12:31.016 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PLANS AS IT PERTAINS TO THE 12:31.016 --> 12:32.718 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RECOUNTS THAT ARE LIKELY TO 12:32.718 --> 12:34.019 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HAPPEN IN GEORGIA AND 12:34.019 --> 12:35.521 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PENNSYLVANIA, AND THE LEGAL 12:35.521 --> 12:36.489 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CHALLENGES THAT THE TRUMP 12:36.489 --> 12:39.125 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CAMPAIGN IS PLANNING TO CONTINUE 12:39.125 --> 12:40.226 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO MOUNT? 12:40.226 --> 12:41.594 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> BOB BAUER, WHO'S THE HEAD OF 12:41.594 --> 12:42.962 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE LEGAL TEAM FOR THE BIDEN 12:42.962 --> 12:44.764 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CAMPAIGN, SAYS THAT HE DOES NOT 12:44.764 --> 12:47.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EXPECT ANY OF THESE LEGAL 12:47.533 --> 12:49.502 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CHALLENGES TO MAKE ANY 12:49.502 --> 12:50.102 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DIFFERENCE. 12:50.102 --> 12:51.003 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND AS YOU'VE SEEN, A LOT OF 12:51.003 --> 12:52.071 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEM HAVE BEEN THROWN OUT AT THE 12:52.071 --> 12:53.572 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% STATE LEVEL. 12:53.572 --> 12:55.207 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HE SAYS THAT IT'S POLITICAL 12:55.207 --> 12:56.675 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEATER. 12:56.675 --> 12:58.778 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HE SAYS IT'S A STRATEGY DESTINED 12:58.778 --> 12:59.812 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO FAILURE. 12:59.812 --> 13:02.148 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND THEY ALSO SAY ABOUT THESE 13:02.148 --> 13:03.382 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NARROW MARGINS, NUMBER ONE, THEY 13:03.382 --> 13:04.950 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SAY A WIN IS A WIN NO MATTER HOW 13:04.950 --> 13:05.951 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SMALL. 13:05.951 --> 13:07.720 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND ON THE RECOUNTS, THEY DON'T 13:07.720 --> 13:09.255 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SEE ANYTHING IN THESE RECOUNTS 13:09.255 --> 13:11.190 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT CAN OVERTURN THE RESULTS, 13:11.190 --> 13:15.194 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT THEY EXPECT TO HAVE ENOUGH 13:15.194 --> 13:16.796 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ELECTORAL VOTES THAT THEY CAN 13:16.796 --> 13:18.497 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AFFORD-- NUMBER ONE, THEY CAN 13:18.497 --> 13:19.598 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AFFORD TO HAVE SOME STATES GO 13:19.598 --> 13:20.032 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE OTHER WAY. 13:20.032 --> 13:20.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BUT THEY DON'T THINK THAT'S 13:20.866 --> 13:21.801 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GOING TO HAPPEN. 13:21.801 --> 13:23.702 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YOU KNOW, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 13:23.702 --> 13:26.272 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SAYS THAT SINCE 2000, THERE HAVE 13:26.272 --> 13:29.441 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BEEN 31 STATEWIDE RECOUNTS. 13:29.441 --> 13:31.977 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IN ONLY THREE OF THOSE RACES HAS 13:31.977 --> 13:34.180 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE OUTCOME BEEN REVERSED. 13:34.180 --> 13:36.649 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND IN EACH OF THOSE THREE, THE 13:36.649 --> 13:40.252 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MARGIN WAS LESS THAN 300 VOTES. 13:40.252 --> 13:41.887 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND I THINK YOU'RE NOT GOING TO 13:41.887 --> 13:43.389 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SEE THAT-- THAT CLOSE OF A 13:43.389 --> 13:45.291 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MARGIN IN ANY OF THESE STATES. 13:45.291 --> 13:46.058 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: JOHN, I DON'T 13:46.058 --> 13:46.959 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY REPORTING 13:46.959 --> 13:48.394 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ON THIS, BUT THE ONLY OTHER 13:48.394 --> 13:49.728 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THING THAT REALLY PIERCES 13:49.728 --> 13:51.764 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THROUGH THE NEWS CYCLE TODAY IS 13:51.764 --> 13:53.098 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE FACT THAT WE ARE STILL 13:53.098 --> 13:55.568 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BREAKING RECORDS WHEN IT COMES 13:55.568 --> 13:56.836 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO THE NUMBER OF COVID-19 13:56.836 --> 13:58.470 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INFECTIONS AND HOW MANY PEOPLE 13:58.470 --> 14:00.573 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ARE ACTUALLY DYING FROM THIS. 14:00.573 --> 14:02.975 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I KNOW THAT THE BIDEN TEAM KNOWS 14:02.975 --> 14:04.009 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE 14:04.009 --> 14:05.010 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT, OR HE'S NOT GOING TO 14:05.010 --> 14:06.412 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT 14:06.412 --> 14:08.214 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% KAMALA HARRIS, UNTIL THE 14:08.214 --> 14:09.548 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SWEARING-IN CEREMONY. 14:09.548 --> 14:11.016 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BUT WHAT ARE THEY DOING NOW TO 14:11.016 --> 14:11.951 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TRY TO PREPARE? 14:11.951 --> 14:13.219 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHAT KINDS OF POLICY DECISIONS 14:13.219 --> 14:15.721 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COULD THEY BE PLANNING FOR? 14:15.721 --> 14:16.755 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THIS HAS BEEN THE MAJOR 14:16.755 --> 14:18.157 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CONTRAST THEY'VE BEEN DRAWING 14:18.157 --> 14:19.725 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP IN THE 14:19.725 --> 14:21.827 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CLOSING DAYS OF THE CAMPAIGN 14:21.827 --> 14:23.262 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ABOUT HOW PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS 14:23.262 --> 14:26.932 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BEEN TREATING THIS PANDEMIC. 14:26.932 --> 14:29.268 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THIS WEEK, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT 14:29.268 --> 14:32.972 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BIDEN AND-- AND SENATOR HARRIS 14:32.972 --> 14:34.273 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HAD A BRIEFING WITH MEDICAL 14:34.273 --> 14:36.242 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EXPERTS ON THE CORONAVIRUS. 14:36.242 --> 14:37.776 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEY'VE BEEN HAVING THINGS LIKE 14:37.776 --> 14:40.112 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT ALL ALONG, BUT EVEN AS THEY 14:40.112 --> 14:41.447 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WAITED FOR THE RETURN. 14:41.447 --> 14:42.748 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, I THINK THAT YOU'RE GOING TO 14:42.748 --> 14:44.416 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SEE THIS AS BEING SOMETHING 14:44.416 --> 14:47.419 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FRONT AND CENTER IN THE 14:47.419 --> 14:49.255 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT-ELECT'S TRANSITION 14:49.255 --> 14:49.855 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NOW. 14:49.855 --> 14:50.589 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: ALL RIGHT, JOHN 14:50.589 --> 14:51.790 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YANG JOINING US FROM WILMINGTON. 14:51.790 --> 14:52.758 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THANKS SO MUCH. 14:52.758 --> 14:54.560 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THANK YOU. 14:54.560 --> 14:55.194 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: THE LEGAL 14:55.194 --> 14:56.195 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CHALLENGES IN THIS ELECTION 14:56.195 --> 14:58.264 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BEGAN WELL BEFORE ELECTION DAY 14:58.264 --> 14:59.698 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WITH LAWSUITS OVER MAIL-IN 14:59.698 --> 15:01.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% VOTING, WHAT BALLOTS WOULD BE 15:01.600 --> 15:03.068 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COUNTED, AND MORE. 15:03.068 --> 15:04.536 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE PRESIDENT AND HIS TEAM HAVE 15:04.536 --> 15:06.305 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SAID DESPITE JOE BIDEN BEING 15:06.305 --> 15:07.706 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DECLARED THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF 15:07.706 --> 15:09.575 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE UNITED STATES, MORE LAWSUITS 15:09.575 --> 15:10.976 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIE IN WAIT. 15:10.976 --> 15:12.244 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I SPOKE WITH GUY CHARLES, 15:12.244 --> 15:13.545 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PROFESSOR OF LAW AT DUKE 15:13.545 --> 15:15.147 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% UNIVERSITY AND CO-DIRECTOR OF 15:15.147 --> 15:16.749 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE CENTER ON LAW, RACE AND 15:16.749 --> 15:18.517 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% POLITICS. 15:18.517 --> 15:20.986 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THIS ELECTION, EVEN THOUGH IT 15:20.986 --> 15:25.190 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HAS BEEN AN ELECTION UNDER A 15:25.190 --> 15:27.459 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GLOBAL PANDEMIC, HAS ACTUALLY 15:27.459 --> 15:29.261 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BEEN RUN FAIRLY WELL. 15:29.261 --> 15:31.397 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND SO, IT'S REALLY HARD TO FIND 15:31.397 --> 15:32.831 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PLACES IN THE ELECTION THAT YOU 15:32.831 --> 15:36.402 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CAN SAY ELECTION ADMINISTRATORS 15:36.402 --> 15:37.803 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WERE COUNTING VOTES THAT WEREN'T 15:37.803 --> 15:38.971 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SUPPOSED TO BE COUNTED, THAT 15:38.971 --> 15:40.472 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ENABLED PEOPLE TO VOTE WHO 15:40.472 --> 15:41.473 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SHOULDN'T HAVE VOTED. 15:41.473 --> 15:42.741 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND GIVEN THE MARGINS OF WHERE 15:42.741 --> 15:44.209 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WE KNOW THEM IN THE VARIOUS 15:44.209 --> 15:45.744 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BATTLEGROUND STATES, IT'S GOING 15:45.744 --> 15:47.880 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO BE VERY HARD TO FIND EVIDENCE 15:47.880 --> 15:50.883 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OF WRONGDOING AND THEREFORE TO 15:50.883 --> 15:54.887 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OVERCOME THE ADVANTAGES THAT NOW 15:54.887 --> 15:57.990 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN HAS IN 15:57.990 --> 15:59.358 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THESE BATTLEGROUND STATES. 15:59.358 --> 16:00.125 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: SO, IT'S NOT 16:00.125 --> 16:01.961 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% JUST ABOUT FINDING THE KIND OF 16:01.961 --> 16:03.929 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ANECDOTAL CASE WHERE THERE MIGHT 16:03.929 --> 16:05.564 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BE FOUR BALLOTS MISSING, OR 10 16:05.564 --> 16:07.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BALLOTS MISSING, BUT SOMETHING 16:07.733 --> 16:09.735 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT WAS SYSTEMATIC ENOUGH TO 16:09.735 --> 16:12.972 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OVERTURN THE 20,000-MARGIN LEAD 16:12.972 --> 16:14.807 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IN A STATE, OR THE 50,000-MARGIN 16:14.807 --> 16:17.176 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LEAD SOMEWHERE ELSE. 16:17.176 --> 16:17.876 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THAT'S CORRECT. 16:17.876 --> 16:20.145 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, WHAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO SHOW 16:20.145 --> 16:22.715 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IS EITHER A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER 16:22.715 --> 16:26.685 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OF BALLOTS-- 50,000 OR 20,000, 16:26.685 --> 16:28.187 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% 30,000 IN PENNSYLVANIA, FOR 16:28.187 --> 16:30.656 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EXAMPLE-- AND THOSE BALLOTS 16:30.656 --> 16:32.358 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN COUNTED, 16:32.358 --> 16:34.626 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SOMETHING WENT WRONG, THERE IS A 16:34.626 --> 16:36.895 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TABULATION ERROR, THERE'S-- 16:36.895 --> 16:39.231 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THERE'S SOME MISTAKE OF LAW THAT 16:39.231 --> 16:40.265 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HAPPENED. 16:40.265 --> 16:42.968 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND THAT WOULD OVERTURN THE 16:42.968 --> 16:43.402 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RESULTS. 16:43.402 --> 16:45.971 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT WOULD LEAD US TO BELIEVE 16:45.971 --> 16:47.339 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT THE RESULTS AND THE 16:47.339 --> 16:50.275 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ELECTION-- WOULD UNDERMINE OUR 16:50.275 --> 16:51.610 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FAITH IN THE RESULT. 16:51.610 --> 16:54.246 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, FINDING A STRAY VOTER WHO 16:54.246 --> 16:56.548 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WAS NOT EITHER ABLE TO VOTE OR 16:56.548 --> 16:58.584 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SOMETHING WENT WRONG IN ONE OR 16:58.584 --> 17:01.253 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TWO INSTANCES, THAT IS WILDLY 17:01.253 --> 17:02.187 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INSUFFICIENT. 17:02.187 --> 17:03.055 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND YOU HAVE TO PUT YOURSELF IN 17:03.055 --> 17:05.591 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE POSITION OF A JUDGE. 17:05.591 --> 17:07.693 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE JUDGE WOULD HAVE TO OVERTURN 17:07.693 --> 17:10.429 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AN ELECTION ON THE BASIS OF ONE 17:10.429 --> 17:11.463 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OR TWO THINGS THAT WERE WRONG. 17:11.463 --> 17:12.698 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND THEY ARE EVEN HAVING A HARD 17:12.698 --> 17:14.867 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TIME FINDINGTHAT,MUCH LESS 17:14.867 --> 17:15.534 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE 17:15.534 --> 17:18.437 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THOUSANDS AND TENS OF THOUSANDS 17:18.437 --> 17:20.873 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SYSTEMATICALLY ACROSS THE 17:20.873 --> 17:21.440 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COUNTRY. 17:21.440 --> 17:23.075 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, YOU COULD START WITH 17:23.075 --> 17:23.742 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PENNSYLVANIA. 17:23.742 --> 17:24.810 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DO HAVE IT THERE? 17:24.810 --> 17:25.544 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WELL, IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT 17:25.544 --> 17:26.879 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THERE, IS IT GEORGIA, RIGHT? 17:26.879 --> 17:29.515 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT'S THE CHALLENGE THAT THEY 17:29.515 --> 17:30.149 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ARE FACING. 17:30.149 --> 17:31.316 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND IT'S-- TO SAY THAT IT'S 17:31.316 --> 17:32.751 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% UPHILL, I THINK, IS AN 17:32.751 --> 17:34.219 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% UNDERSTATEMENT. 17:34.219 --> 17:35.587 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: BUT ONE THING 17:35.587 --> 17:37.423 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT IS, 17:37.423 --> 17:39.058 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HOW MANY OF THESE THINGS MAKE IT 17:39.058 --> 17:41.560 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO THE SUPREME COURT AND DOES 17:41.560 --> 17:43.062 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE SUPREME COURT WEIGH IN, 17:43.062 --> 17:45.864 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SIMILAR TO 2000, WHERE THE 17:45.864 --> 17:47.099 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DECISION TO STOP THE COUNT IN 17:47.099 --> 17:49.301 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FLORIDA AT THAT POINT WAS 17:49.301 --> 17:50.402 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SIGNIFICANT? 17:50.402 --> 17:52.938 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AT THIS POINT, WE HAVE A 17:52.938 --> 17:55.774 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE BASED ON ALL 17:55.774 --> 17:57.076 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OF THESE COUNTS THAT HAVE BEEN 17:57.076 --> 17:58.077 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HAPPENING IN ALL THESE DIFFERENT 17:58.077 --> 17:58.944 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% STATES, BUT THERE ARE LEGAL 17:58.944 --> 18:00.879 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CHALLENGES IN MULTIPLE STATES 18:00.879 --> 18:02.147 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT THE ADMINISTRATION-- OR, I 18:02.147 --> 18:03.715 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SHOULD SAY, THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN-- 18:03.715 --> 18:05.350 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HAS MADE. 18:05.350 --> 18:05.984 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THAT'S RIGHT. 18:05.984 --> 18:08.720 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, THE-- THIS CASE IS NOT 18:08.720 --> 18:10.556 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COMPARABLE TO BUSH V. GORE. 18:10.556 --> 18:13.959 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, IN 2000, YOU BASICALLY-- THE 18:13.959 --> 18:16.361 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ELECTION CAME DOWN TO ONE STATE, 18:16.361 --> 18:18.063 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A VERY 18:18.063 --> 18:19.598 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SMALL MARGIN. 18:19.598 --> 18:21.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND REALLY, THEN, THERE'S A 18:21.400 --> 18:24.036 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SIGNIFICANT QUESTION AS TO HOW 18:24.036 --> 18:26.438 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE BALLOTS WERE BEING COUNTED, 18:26.438 --> 18:28.607 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND WERE THEY BEING COUNTED IN A 18:28.607 --> 18:30.409 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WAY THAT WAS UNIFORM. 18:30.409 --> 18:32.144 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MOREOVER, AS THE PROCESS WENT 18:32.144 --> 18:35.481 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ALONG AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE 18:35.481 --> 18:37.015 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CERTIFIED A WINNER, THEN THE 18:37.015 --> 18:39.651 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% QUESTION WAS, CAN YOU-- WHAT IS 18:39.651 --> 18:40.853 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT THAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO TO 18:40.853 --> 18:42.888 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OVERCOME THAT PRESUMPTION? 18:42.888 --> 18:45.457 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND WILL CONTINUING THE PROCESS 18:45.457 --> 18:49.528 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMACY OF-- OF 18:49.528 --> 18:50.562 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE ELECTION, ESPECIALLY IN 18:50.562 --> 18:51.430 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT THERE 18:51.430 --> 18:53.632 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DIDN'T SEEM TO BE SIGNIFICANT 18:53.632 --> 18:55.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EVIDENCE OR ANY EVIDENCE OF 18:55.100 --> 18:56.335 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WRONGDOING. 18:56.335 --> 18:58.203 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND SO, YOU HAD A WINNER WHO WAS 18:58.203 --> 18:59.471 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TRYING TO PRESERVE-- THIS WAS 18:59.471 --> 19:02.841 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BUSH-- TRYING TO PRESERVE HIS 19:02.841 --> 19:03.976 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MARGINS. 19:03.976 --> 19:04.743 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IN THIS CASE, YOU HAVE THE 19:04.743 --> 19:07.112 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT WHO IS BEHIND, 19:07.112 --> 19:08.881 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SIGNIFICANTLY BEHIND AND IN A 19:08.881 --> 19:11.183 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NUMBER OF DIFFERENT STATES. 19:11.183 --> 19:12.584 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND WE DON'T HAVE THE SAME-- 19:12.584 --> 19:13.719 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ANYWHERE NEAR THE SAME SET OF 19:13.719 --> 19:15.654 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% QUESTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE 19:15.654 --> 19:17.756 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COUNTING OF THE BALLOTS. 19:17.756 --> 19:19.358 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AS FAR AS WE KNOW, ALL OF THE 19:19.358 --> 19:21.293 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EVIDENCE THAT WE HAVE IN ALL OF 19:21.293 --> 19:23.262 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THESE VARIOUS STATES IS THAT THE 19:23.262 --> 19:25.197 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BALLOTS WERE ACCURATELY COUNTED. 19:25.197 --> 19:26.765 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND SO, THERE'S REALLY NOTHING 19:26.765 --> 19:28.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FOR HIM TO POINT TO, RIGHT? 19:28.400 --> 19:29.568 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, IT DOESN'T COME DOWN TO ONE 19:29.568 --> 19:31.670 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% STATE HE'S BEHIND, HE DOESN'T 19:31.670 --> 19:32.738 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HAVE THE EVIDENCE. 19:32.738 --> 19:34.873 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND IT JUST IS NOT A COMPARABLE 19:34.873 --> 19:35.374 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SITUATION. 19:35.374 --> 19:37.409 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AS MUCH AS ONE WOULD LIKE FOR IT 19:37.409 --> 19:39.611 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO BE, THE FACTS JUST ARE NOT 19:39.611 --> 19:40.879 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THERE. 19:40.879 --> 19:41.547 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: GUY CHARLES, 19:41.547 --> 19:42.381 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PROFESSOR OF LAW AT DUKE 19:42.381 --> 19:43.282 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% UNIVERSITY, THANKS SO MUCH FOR 19:43.282 --> 19:44.082 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% JOINING US. 19:44.082 --> 19:44.816 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING 19:44.816 --> 19:46.185 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ME. 19:46.185 --> 19:47.786 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: AS JOE BIDEN IS 19:47.786 --> 19:49.688 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PROJECTED TO BE PRESIDENT-ELECT, 19:49.688 --> 19:51.056 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE UNITED STATES IS REPORTING 19:51.056 --> 19:53.292 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RECORD NUMBERS OF NEW COVID-19 19:53.292 --> 19:55.160 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INFECTIONS, INCLUDING THE WHITE 19:55.160 --> 19:56.662 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF. 19:56.662 --> 19:58.530 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MARK MEADOWS TESTED POSITIVE FOR 19:58.530 --> 19:59.731 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE CORONAVIRUS, SENIOR 19:59.731 --> 20:00.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS 20:00.966 --> 20:02.367 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CONFIRMED YESTERDAY. 20:02.367 --> 20:03.902 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THERE ARE ALSO REPORTS THAT 20:03.902 --> 20:05.270 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SEVERAL OTHER WHITE HOUSE 20:05.270 --> 20:07.506 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% STAFFERS ARE ALSO POSITIVE. 20:07.506 --> 20:08.740 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE NEW POSITIVE CASES IN THE 20:08.740 --> 20:10.175 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHITE HOUSE INNER CIRCLE COME AS 20:10.175 --> 20:11.910 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE U.S. RECORDED MORE THAN 20:11.910 --> 20:15.714 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% 126,000 CASES IN THE LAST 24 20:15.714 --> 20:17.916 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HOURS, A NEW RECORD ACCORDING TO 20:17.916 --> 20:19.885 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RESEARCHERS AT JOHNS HOPKINS. 20:19.885 --> 20:21.420 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE DAILY DEATH TOLL, WHICH IS 20:21.420 --> 20:23.655 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SEEN AS A LAGGING INDICATOR, WAS 20:23.655 --> 20:26.992 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MORE THAN 1,146 IN THE LAST 24 20:26.992 --> 20:27.593 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HOURS. 20:27.593 --> 20:29.761 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT'S THE FOURTH DAY IN A ROW 20:29.761 --> 20:31.830 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT HAS BEEN ABOVE 1,000. 20:31.830 --> 20:33.599 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IN TOTAL, THE U.S. HAS RECORDED 20:33.599 --> 20:36.902 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MORE THAN 236,000 DEATHS. 20:36.902 --> 20:38.303 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GLOBALLY, THE NUMBER OF DAILY 20:38.303 --> 20:40.239 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INFECTIONS ARE ALSO AT RECORD 20:40.239 --> 20:42.474 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LEVELS WITH MORE THAN 600,000 20:42.474 --> 20:44.810 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NEW CASES RECORDED ON FRIDAY. 20:44.810 --> 20:47.012 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IN TOTAL, THE NUMBER OF CASES IS 20:47.012 --> 20:49.081 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% APPROCHING 50 MILLION, WITH MORE 20:49.081 --> 20:52.017 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAN 1.2 MILLION DEATHS. 20:52.017 --> 20:54.119 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IN ITALY, A PARTIAL SHUTDOWN OF 20:54.119 --> 20:55.887 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NONESSENTIAL BUSINESSES STARTED 20:55.887 --> 20:57.789 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YESTERDAY WHILE IN THE U.K., A 20:57.789 --> 20:59.224 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LOCKDOWN THAT INCLUDES ALL 20:59.224 --> 21:00.726 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RESTAURANTS, GYMS, AND 21:00.726 --> 21:02.527 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NONESSENTIAL RETAIL STARTED ON 21:02.527 --> 21:03.462 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THURSDAY. 21:03.462 --> 21:04.997 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND IN GERMANY, WHICH RECORDED A 21:04.997 --> 21:06.164 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RECORD NUMBER OF CASES 21:06.164 --> 21:08.467 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YESTERDAY, A FOUR-WEEK PARTIAL 21:08.467 --> 21:10.168 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LOCKDOWN BEGAN EARLIER THIS 21:10.168 --> 21:12.971 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WEEK. 21:12.971 --> 21:14.106 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FOR MORE ON PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE 21:14.106 --> 21:15.407 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BIDEN AND HIS ROAD TO VICTORY, 21:15.407 --> 21:20.779 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% VISIT www.pbs.org/newshour. 21:20.779 --> 21:21.513 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: ONE OF THE TOO- 21:21.513 --> 21:23.215 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CLOSE-TO-CALL STATES WHERE THERE 21:23.215 --> 21:25.217 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WILL BE A RECOUNT IS THE 21:25.217 --> 21:26.818 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS 21:26.818 --> 21:27.586 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GEORGIA. 21:27.586 --> 21:29.888 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THERE ARE ALSO TWO U.S. SENATE 21:29.888 --> 21:31.456 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SEATS WHERE NO CANDIDATE 21:31.456 --> 21:33.058 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RECEIVED 50% OF THE VOTE. 21:33.058 --> 21:34.693 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT MEANS THERE WILL BE A RUN- 21:34.693 --> 21:36.561 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OFF ELECTION THAT WILL DETERMINE 21:36.561 --> 21:38.397 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHICH PARTY CONTROLS THE SENATE 21:38.397 --> 21:39.998 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DURING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. 21:39.998 --> 21:41.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I SPOKE WITH RICKEY BEVINGTON, 21:41.400 --> 21:42.668 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SENIOR CORRESPONDENT FOR GEORGIA 21:42.668 --> 21:43.935 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PUBLIC BROADCASTING, WHO JOINED 21:43.935 --> 21:45.237 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% US FROM ATLANTA. 21:45.237 --> 21:46.405 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RICKEY, IT'S SURPRISING TO A LOT 21:46.405 --> 21:48.106 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OF PEOPLE THAT GEORGIA PLAYED 21:48.106 --> 21:49.675 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SUCH AN INFLUENTIAL AND A 21:49.675 --> 21:53.612 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CRITICAL ROLE IN THIS ELECTION. 21:53.612 --> 21:55.947 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GOING FORWARD, REGARDLESS OF 21:55.947 --> 21:57.716 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHAT THE COUNT IS AT THIS VERY 21:57.716 --> 21:59.985 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MOMENT, THERE'S GOING TO BE A 21:59.985 --> 22:02.154 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RECOUNT, RIGHT? 22:02.154 --> 22:03.288 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> ABSOLUTELY, HARI. 22:03.288 --> 22:05.157 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, GEORGIA WILL FIRST DO AN 22:05.157 --> 22:06.925 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AUDIT NEXT WEEK. 22:06.925 --> 22:07.993 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GEORGIA HAS A BRAND-NEW 22:07.993 --> 22:09.227 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ELECTIONS AND VOTING AND 22:09.227 --> 22:10.595 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BALLOTING SYSTEM. 22:10.595 --> 22:11.897 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, THERE WILL BE AN AUDIT, 22:11.897 --> 22:13.098 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHICH IS NOT A RECOUNT, NEXT 22:13.098 --> 22:14.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WEEK, SIMPLY TO MAKE SURE THAT 22:14.733 --> 22:17.169 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE NEW SYSTEM WORKED, RIGHT? 22:17.169 --> 22:18.870 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND THEN, AFTER THE AUDIT, IN 22:18.870 --> 22:20.706 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ABOUT TWO WEEKS, IT WILL BE AN 22:20.706 --> 22:22.574 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ACTUAL RECOUNT OF THE NEARLY 22:22.574 --> 22:24.743 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FIVE MILLION BALLOTS CAST IN THE 22:24.743 --> 22:26.678 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% STATE OF GEORGIA IN 2020. 22:26.678 --> 22:27.813 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: AND THEN, AS 22:27.813 --> 22:29.915 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WE TURN THIS PAGE--IFWE TURN 22:29.915 --> 22:33.085 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THIS PAGE EASILY-- GEORGIA IS 22:33.085 --> 22:36.088 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GOING TO HAVE TWO SENATE RUNOFF 22:36.088 --> 22:40.158 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ELECTIONS COMING JANUARY 5, AND, 22:40.158 --> 22:41.460 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FIRST OF ALL, IT'S NOT USUAL TO 22:41.460 --> 22:43.528 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HAVE TWO SENATE ELECTIONS AT THE 22:43.528 --> 22:44.830 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SAME TIME. 22:44.830 --> 22:46.365 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BUT THEY'RE INCREDIBLY 22:46.365 --> 22:49.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INFLUENTIAL THIS TIME. 22:49.000 --> 22:50.936 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> IT'S PRETTY EXTRAORDINARY. 22:50.936 --> 22:52.237 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GEORGIA REALLY IS GOING TO BE 22:52.237 --> 22:53.739 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE CENTER OF THE AMERICAN 22:53.739 --> 22:55.540 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% POLITICAL UNIVERSE BETWEEN NOW 22:55.540 --> 22:57.275 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND JANUARY 5, WHICH IS THE 22:57.275 --> 22:59.244 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RUNOFF ELECTION DAY. 22:59.244 --> 23:00.779 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN DAVID 23:00.779 --> 23:03.915 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PERDUE IS SEEKING A SECOND TERM. 23:03.915 --> 23:07.419 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HE DID NOT GET THE 50% THRESHOLD 23:07.419 --> 23:08.920 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO AVOID A RUNOFF AGAINST 23:08.920 --> 23:10.522 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGER JON 23:10.522 --> 23:11.757 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OSSOFF. 23:11.757 --> 23:14.126 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND INCUMBENT APPOINTED SENATOR, 23:14.126 --> 23:15.360 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ANOTHER REPUBLICAN, KELLY 23:15.360 --> 23:17.796 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LOEFFLER, ALSO DID NOT GET ABOVE 23:17.796 --> 23:20.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE 50% THRESHOLD TO AVOID A 23:20.966 --> 23:21.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RUNOFF. 23:21.533 --> 23:23.502 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NOW, THERE WERE 20 CHALLENGERS 23:23.502 --> 23:24.302 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AGAINST LOEFFLER. 23:24.302 --> 23:26.238 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THIS WAS AVERYUNIQUE SPECIAL 23:26.238 --> 23:27.205 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ELECTION. 23:27.205 --> 23:28.807 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RARELY WOULD WE SEE TWO 23:28.807 --> 23:30.242 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SENATORIAL ELECTIONS IN ONE 23:30.242 --> 23:30.842 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YEAR. 23:30.842 --> 23:32.811 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HOWEVER, OUR FORMER SENIOR 23:32.811 --> 23:34.446 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SENATOR, JOHNNY ISAKSON, HAD TO 23:34.446 --> 23:36.882 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RESIGN, RETIRE ABOUT A YEAR AGO 23:36.882 --> 23:38.083 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DUE TO HEALTH REASONS. 23:38.083 --> 23:39.751 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, LOEFFLER WAS APPOINTED. 23:39.751 --> 23:41.686 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SHE TOOK OFFICE IN JANUARY, AND 23:41.686 --> 23:43.155 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO THAT'S WHY WE CALLED IT A 23:43.155 --> 23:45.457 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "JUNGLE PRIMARY," AND ANY 23:45.457 --> 23:47.359 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CANDIDATE COULD RUN WHO WANTED 23:47.359 --> 23:47.659 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO. 23:47.659 --> 23:49.428 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LOEFFLER WILL FACE THE REVEREND 23:49.428 --> 23:52.063 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RAPHAEL WARNOCK ON JANUARY 5. 23:52.063 --> 23:54.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HE IS CURRENTLY PASTOR OF 23:54.266 --> 23:55.434 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING'S FORMER 23:55.434 --> 23:56.768 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CHURCH, EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH 23:56.768 --> 23:59.237 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IN ATLANTA. 23:59.237 --> 24:00.338 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: AND THOSE TWO 24:00.338 --> 24:02.674 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SENATE RACES COULD VERY WELL 24:02.674 --> 24:04.543 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DETERMINE THE BALANCE OF POWER 24:04.543 --> 24:07.979 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IN THE U.S. SENATE, AND, REALLY, 24:07.979 --> 24:09.815 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHAT KIND OF POWER JOE BIDEN 24:09.815 --> 24:12.417 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WOULD HAVE IF HE IS PRESIDENT. 24:12.417 --> 24:14.119 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> IT'S PRETTY EXTRAORDINARY, 24:14.119 --> 24:17.689 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HARI, AND THERE'S NO WAY TO KNOW 24:17.689 --> 24:19.391 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHO'S GOING TO WIN. 24:19.391 --> 24:21.893 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IF BOTH DEMOCRATS ARE 24:21.893 --> 24:23.128 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SUCCESSFUL-- WHICH WOULD BE 24:23.128 --> 24:24.663 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ANOTHER HISTORIC EVENT-- IN 24:24.663 --> 24:27.232 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THESE TWO SENATE RUNOFFS, YES, 24:27.232 --> 24:28.934 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE DEMOCRATS WOULD TAKE THE 24:28.934 --> 24:30.068 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SENATE. 24:30.068 --> 24:32.304 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IF ONE WINS-- THIS IS WHAT I 24:32.304 --> 24:34.039 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MEAN WHEN I SAY THAT GEORGIA IS 24:34.039 --> 24:34.806 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GOING TO BE THE CENTER OF THE 24:34.806 --> 24:36.074 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% POLITICAL UNIVERSE. 24:36.074 --> 24:36.942 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT'S EXTRAORDINARY. 24:36.942 --> 24:37.776 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND, OF COURSE, THERE'S KAMALA 24:37.776 --> 24:39.444 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HARRIS, WHO WOULD BE A 24:39.444 --> 24:42.113 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TIE-BREAKER VOTE IN THE SENATE 24:42.113 --> 24:43.949 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IF IT'S JUST THAT CLOSE IN THE 24:43.949 --> 24:46.084 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TERMS OF THE BALANCE OF POWER. 24:46.084 --> 24:49.921 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NOW, WE ARE EXPECTING IN GEORGIA 24:49.921 --> 24:51.890 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 24:51.890 --> 24:54.693 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO BE SPENT BY A LOT OF GROUPS 24:54.693 --> 24:55.727 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TRYING TO GET OUT THE VOTE FOR 24:55.727 --> 24:58.530 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEIR CANDIDATE COME JANUARY 5. 24:58.530 --> 24:59.097 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: RICKEY 24:59.097 --> 24:59.931 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BEVINGTON OF GEORGIA PUBLIC 24:59.931 --> 25:01.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BROADCASTING, THANKS SO MUCH. 25:01.700 --> 25:13.445 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THANKS, HARI. 25:13.445 --> 25:14.379 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: FINALLY TONIGHT, 25:14.379 --> 25:15.714 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN AND VICE 25:15.714 --> 25:16.882 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT-ELECT KAMALA HARRIS 25:16.882 --> 25:18.416 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WILL SPEAK TO THE NATION AT 25:18.416 --> 25:20.519 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% 8:00 P.M. 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