Of the most closure of the National Topics in this election on to host stopped into a heated debate on the issue. Theres a long history in this country of suppressing the black vote and i dont think the facts can be created by anything theres no unity and you know you think youre having me on your own small number in pennsylvania working with the doctors we all do battle with all the were tracking up that were talking of boating right back and laying out a long history in america of suppressing the black vote. Thank you for joining us here on r. T. International i knew karyn and well be bringing you all the latest throughout the day and what is so far proving to be a nail biting election as america decides on its future. Well all eyes are on america as ballot counting is in full swing the 2020 race for the white house printed preliminary results indicate a tight race though Democrat Joe Biden spoke just minutes ago insisting he thinks hell win. Our nurture united we believe run track to win this election. We know because of the our pressure down early vote in the mail in vote was a good target while were going to have to be pretty sure until the hard work of talent vultures fruition and then over to our voters carry every bowl of this ground. Lets not take a closer look at americas choices on a state by state basis the final say rests with the Electoral College each state has a fixed number of electors based on the number of People Living that whichever candidate secures a simple majority of votes in each state wins the only exceptions are maine and nebraska which allocate electors based on local district votes and democrats joe biden has struck a triumphant tone. Well meantime election protesters clashed outside the white house with pockets of other unrest around the country also reported on tea for groups gathered around black lines not applause in washington d. C. Wearing all black large black banners with white letters red remove the trunk and trunk lies all the time just a block away the object of their anger is waiting for the results in the white house extra fencing has been installed around the residence amid fears of postelection violence. R. T. America hosts have been following the events from outside the white house and the capitol. Right now behind me you probably have a. Lot fewer people than there were the last time we talked to you the reason for that is probably 5 minutes ago or so there was a lot of hopping going on it sounded like firecrackers being set off. And about half of that crowd took their flags and they began walking down that way right now that we havent heard any more noise we started. Back in order. It doesnt look like it was anything but there is this popping out of reoccurring popping and starting to go on. For lack of a better term. Here a little bit. Very frustrated. With everything thats going on right now so thats kind of whats happening right now more and more people. Are kind of situations devolving a little bit. You know violent its not been tremendously messy people dont. Keep an eye on whats happening out here though as the night goes on no question about it more and more people are. Frustrated its not what they thought it was going to be lets put it that way at this time of night at this point. What is what is transpiring so far is not what they expect last week really you saw a lot of the Big Chain Stores the big corporate conglomerates stores you know they were really quick to put boards up probably coming down from the from headquarters but then you saw them then later you saw a lot of little mom and pop shops and more independent Business Owners putting boards up today around town and definitely in places that you wouldnt normally expect like you kind of expected downtown but even when you got out into some of the like outer ring suburbs and things like that you saw a lot of the gas stations c. V. S. Is pharmacies places like that putting boards up one of the things that was interesting is i talked to the election official this week who was you know worked in the polls more and taken peoples votes and put in the ballots and they told me that surprisingly. There wasnt a lot of there was no incidents whatsoever during the voting process here that they could that they saw or could report on and they also told me that even today as the big day smaller crowds than expected and here tonight in downtown d. C. Again apart from more ben swan is out of black lives matter plaza in front of the white house the rest of the city very quiet very dark even the Police Presence here in Freedom Plaza as really disappeared in the last hour or so not very many squad cars going by with the lights on so things are real quiet on this side of town. Oxys and dont know of course now whether in the past 4 years that donald trump of monies to unite the nation i think promised you would. It was all high hopes and big promises back in 2016 when donald trump took his place in the white house the nation was already divided by race gender class you name it and the country needed a hero now its time for america to find a division have to get together. Republicans and democrats and independents across this nation i say it is time for us to come together as one United People turned out trump never came to be that knight in shining armor. 20 twentieths president ial election seasons looks more like an all out war on the streets more than anything mishandling of the Pandemic Response and the economic crisis but most significant was the brutal killing of george floyd that sparked outrage across the nation and even calls to defund the police altogether. And instead of trying to unite people americas dividing lines became part of both parties political strategies on the one hand biden and the democrats sold themselves as allies of the socalled peaceful protests wets lets be honest were not so peaceful from us citizens for instance peacefully protest. Not a bad way to dip your toes into the more radical left and black voter pools but on the other hand. F. Trump who decided to play the tough guy calling anti racism protesters vandals and anarchists trump sent federal troops to put down uprisings in cities a move that one support from a number of Police Unions and people who didnt want to see their white picket fence neighborhoods ruined now the law and order doctrine also embolden some of trumps more radical supporters so that seeing armed right wing militias and anti freely Walking Around the streets of American Cities became a new reality and one of both candidates done to fix all this point the finger the raese whats going on and he doesnt want to see a lone order because he cant because you lose his radical live supporters proud about who is stand back and stand by but ill tell you what tell you what somebody has got to do something about the left because this is not a right there is a direct this is. Not what its about this is the rational left would you she was on both sides of the political spectrum weve got armed groups white nationalists proud boys right wing militias and tea for the whole bunch so what exactly will happen when the election is over well everyone just sit down and decide to accept the results. Not legit Voter Suppression is once again a highly controversial theme they selection on the house got into a heated debate with questions about whether 13 paul its all the electorate were particularly targeted. We didnt see extremely long in crazy lines today thank the lord but we did see a lot of those voter purge as we do know that there are people who were told to build in one place and that polling place did not exist we know that you know in georgia right now in county the largest county in georgia is going to be reporting 4 hours behind what we initially thought was going to happen because there was some type of water leak just in time for the election the ballots to be counted in the most diverse county in the state of georgia theres a lot of hanky going on but i got to we need to balance this out though because you look in pennsylvania to. There are videos time and time again republican pollsters poll Republican People wanted to go in and vote in pennsylvania and were denied and turn around its across the board this is something that both parties charges. And i marry you i hear you got it but theres a long history in this country of suppressing the black vote and i dont think that this can be negated by anything theres no unity and you know you think youre having a number of pennsylvania were talking with doctors we all do. With all due respect were talking a boating rights act and. In america of suppressing the black vote and that is not equal. You know i was not agreeing in pennsylvania just so you want to vote for tennessee girls i happen to remember memphis there is a reason to go through voter rosters when people move i live here in d. C. I live in nashville i voted national i got them attention i got a voting thing here in d. C. In my condo said to my condo ok there is a reason to make sure that our voting rosters are legitimate actually going to voters there is corruption within those its not a republican or democrat issue it happens on both sides youre Voter Suppression i agree theres no you know we dont know that. We need to make sure that it led to one person and i do remember to many. Different. Things lets not get into a lot about it and i wouldnt you know going on with air and look at but ill tell you the story i dont know what they need a. Country there has been work to stop africanamericans from voting and trying to equate that to anything that is episodic in pennsylvania its actually you know what to everything the civil rights leaders and africanamericans im not going to do that were there to get only a fight right now theyre only going to be allowed to go that i want to thats that comparison does not make since it isnt only. Why do you want to. Get laid thing. Lets not take a closer look at americas choices on a state by state basis the final say it does rest with the Electoral College it each state has a fixed number of electors based on the number of People Living there which i can. This secure with a simple majority of those in each state the only exceptions are nane and nebraska which are like a selective based on local district. Court traditionally from states i think is Republican Party strongholds while others have long supported the color associated the Democratic Party however is not always the case in a number of socalled swing states both parties are thought to have relatively equal chances of victory from of those are regarded as a bellwether state whose preferences could show a nationwide trend well im joined now in the studio by our taser. Thank you for coming in this morning i am its not necessarily the simplest system to understand is it one of some states seen as holding most wait and well essentially again as youve already said it boils down to the Electoral College so essentially each state has a number of delegates who are forced to vote the way to give their votes the way that the population of that or another state. Voted in cost of their ballots and show their favor to so for instance like you have 1. 00 of the one of these bellwether states that you just talked about is wisconsin and it has a 10 electoral votes so essentially whoever wins that state and right now the projections are shown with 92 percent of the ballots of the ballots counted it shows that trump might have schooled a victory there then all these 10 people will have to formally go to washington d. C. And their votes in favor of trump so its a complicated system but basically the idea behind this system of electoral and Electoral College is to give voice to smaller socalled flyovers states not large ones like california or new york but those who otherwise could be brushed aside there are a lot of critics both critics and supporters. Those who have been saying for instance donald trump and 2016 he did win the Electoral College but he lost the popular vote by some 3. And people buy some 3000000 votes to Hillary Clinton so its a highly divisive and controversial issue in the american politics but speaking of todays election of tonights election it has really been a nail biter this is no way of saying as to whos winning joe biden is in the lead but again some of the key states are still to announce still to give the official announcement as to who won that or another state and i mean theres a lot of states like this and because of the situation with the coronavirus and with the mail in ballots and with the early voting some states are not even expected to give results until wednesday morning for instance American Time some have some states have said that they need at least until friday to announce the official vics is so but there are some projections and some of them have already come from both candidates really both have already announced that the feel good about about where things are heading for them donald trump has been very blatant in his signature manner here is that hes going hes an announcement to his supporters saying that well hes going to announce a big victory a big win thats the way he put it on twitter joe biden the one thing he has beaten trump tonight is giving an early giving an early speech. Biden has been trying to giving the 1st announcement of the night and he has said that he feels good hes he says that he feels good when it comes to those states that marked as undecided yet have not yet announced their official official results biden has he feels comfortable about them i feel like maybe he was compelled to speak because biden supporters getting a little bit nervous is not like exactly what they expected to see in this election so i feel like he needed to speak out cautiously optimus. They can just remind people that this vote like you said would take a long time it seems that that was the sole purpose of that particular statement because when you say that theyre a bit uneasy that would be an understatement if you look on twitter democrats and you know like die hard democrats not you not not some moderate ones but those who hate trump with the bottom of the hearts they are in a melt down just because they did not expect this election to be so close and it is incredibly close it again it is a nail biter of an election they expected a blue wave which obviously didnt happen so far the only state that has flops or that has been that have switched sides and that went from republicans from donald trump to the democratic ticket is arizona and so because biden seems to be winning arizona but i just wanted to go back to would biden had said literally just minutes ago for instance he had said that he feels confident that he and his ticket will win pennsylvania and that is a very interesting projection because according to the figures we have right now with 64 percent of the ballots counted and thats a lot thats normally thats enough to tell whos whos in a Comfortable Lead trump is winning this state with more than a 10 point lead so my question would be to joe biden is to where hes getting his figures from and maybe he knows something that isnt being announced maybe he knows that the majority of the mail in ballots or the or the early or the early excuse me the early votes maybe he knows something about that that they will be overwhelmingly in his favor but and so far but so far if you look at the at the figures at the statistics that is available on multiple on multiple websites it doesnt look good for biden at all because in Wisconsin Trump is enjoying a 4 point lead with with 92 percent ballots counted pennsylvania with weve been through it in michigan. With 60 percent of the ballots counted trump again is enjoying and comfortable 9 point lead and a North Carolina hes some 32 percent hes up or 2 points with almost all ballots counted so im not sure im not sure again where biden is getting his figures from but obviously its still too early to cooler to cool the results and to call anybody victor which both candidates seem to have done already another interesting detail is if we look at the bookies at those people who are making money essentially for them to predict the outcome of this or that event it means how much money they make and whether or not they stay in business so the outlook is very interesting because trump when it comes to multiple bookmaker web sites trump started with only 33 percent with a projection that he would win the election was only at about 33 percent overnight it switched essentially the odds the odds swapped and now trump sits at 67 percent so most bookies are giving about on average theyre giving 67 percent of the trump will win this election but again well see how right the might be because speaking about the polling speaking about all these predictions we know how terribly terribly wrong and out of touch with reality they were back in 2016 when Hillary Clinton was up 97 percent or something and then trump trump well we know what happened with it weve learned anything in the 2016 election is not to have any expectations 2016 by this time we already knew that donald trump was the president elect this time its going to be a more drawn out process a lot of people i think everybody is kind of shocked at how this has turned out to be a real nail biter i think we all expected either one candidate to have their as quite decent. Lead over the other and a lot of eyes have been trained on these swing states pennsylvania wisconsin of course we now we know that trump has won pennsylvania and wisconsin are looking fairly red as well although the counting is still going on so big yet we cant really call anything until we all votes are counted as biden said himself absolutely but i mean again if you draw parallels with the 2016 election that was crazy in terms of in terms of the amount of heat the amount of hate even i should say between between from democrats towards the republicans and from and and vice versa so this years election cycle was no different so its just we just have a look at how the run up to this particular vote looked like. Our work by unless. There was less. For 4 years we had trump in office and we made the most of it but we finally got somebody that could be an office to give us a chance to have Home Ownership im talking to all of you. See that this in effect is a way we can do Something Like injection. Almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs of all started profits shifting production. We tried it in iraq is not working for an hour and a try i mean in iran and hes may be trying to ukraine. Like a regular one in the last 25 years not because i wonder why does he do it ok as your president sure things up Everybody Knows hes a liar theres nothing smart about you joe what are you sure i dont excuse the one who saw your number 2 hes putins puppy to get any word it was clear. That the. So with the very run up to the vote so hax well is it really that much of a stretch to expect more or less the same from the voting day itself. Yeah i think its right i mean it was done off thank you for joining me in a studio this morning American Television and media analyst lionel sais the media play a key role in how the vote develops. People cant sleep people are just Ready Reserve here in new york and around the country people are waiting for to the riots start theyre boarding up the banks whats going to happen and the overarching number one issue that everybody is talking about and i love this are the media what is the media have done the corruption the fed in the speculative raid world of the Mainstream Media we are going to feel the results of this not because of biden or trump but because of this cataclysmic societal change for the next 25 years this is we are we are setting the rules setting the foundation for changes that are going to be felt in every aspect of our life the way we think about politics how we run things even this notion this archaic and to the lluvia notion of this this mythical left right paradigm that theres this different view to left or right democrats are i dont recognize democrats i dont know who the republicans are this is this breaks all rules this is this has no this is no corollary so i am fast and either way no matter what happens nobody who wins or loses everything changes permanently. While full donald trump the last 4 years have seen unprecedented hostility towards a u. S. President both from the political establishment the last the mass media reports. However it ends the election trump will go down in history his vows to drain the swamp build the wall and make America Great again theyll remember him what theyll write about him will depend on the book the author the perspective if they loved him or hated him hes the greatest failure in the history of the United States and the worst with resumes america has ever had. The worst and most dangerous president where are you in 2070 when we had the worst president i would even argue that he is the worst worst president in American History hes the worst president the countrys ever had 4 years of trump was 4 years of bitter conflict at every level he and his opponents for it was a time when grownups behaved like children in the white house and congress in the streets todd when democrats and republicans seem to put aside everything that they agreed on and focused entirely on everything that they despised about one another. The 252. 00 congressional votes under trumps presidency 104. 00 resulted in disputes and clashes some of the initiatives that congress voted on would to block trumps initiatives they voted to prevent votes on things that trump wanted and were not talking here about things like the wall or deporting Illegal Migrants were talking about politicians who supported trumps ideas like pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal when he was a businessman suddenly reversing their positions when he became president seemingly out of spite i believe iran will not change and under this agreement it will be able to achieve its dual goals of eliminating sanctions well ultimately retaining its nuclear and nonnuclear power at this time and this place for so many reasons pulling out precipitously without our allies involved does not achieve any of the goals we need to achieve and hurts americans in different ways but politics is politics right they fought under obama too if a little less nothing new about the media then specifically them losing their mobs and throwing away any semblance of balance out the window. Digging up tax records or leaking calls to even investigating trumps foreign ties its journalism thats what journalists do its normal know what they outdid themselves on is outright and somewhat petty smear campaigns about how awful trump is for drinking too much diet coke about how much of a cheat trump is that golf about how bad he is at it about how his own wife doesnt want to hold his hand all cheap all dirty and for trump easy to dismiss you are shake do is we are fighting the fake to use people in your profession that great fake news you do. And the resonator your fake is the net result has been a collapse of trust in the media the news it isnt news when the publication has an evident interest in maligning someone. Never in living memory has the establishment tried to sink a president elected by the American People from before he took office with sabotage with leaks with set ups they did everything to make people believe in the trump russia collusion sham the kumi investigation the steel dossier about prostitutes and urination the Mueller Report all to make impeachment possible the impeachment of the president of the United States impeachable conduct impeachment nonetheless we should begin proceedings to impeach the president move forward with impeachment on this president theres parters on impeachment this impeachment process cost a reported 11000000. 00 trying to impeach trump 32000000. 00 for the Mueller Report countless man hours wasted and they couldnt pull it off at the end of the day trump will be remembered if differently he was a tyrannical megalomaniac a man who drank too much. Who sucks at gulf and whose hand even his own wife didnt want to hold he was also a man of the people the underdog who rules to drain the swamp that is washington and costs down the corrupt elites whatever version they read in the future the agree on only one thing was a long and savage fight went downstairs reporting that but for the host of our teeth on contact chris hedges this post being as much about his against i think the anger on especially on the part of the White Working Class towards the Democratic Party is not misplaced after now after realisation. And this was the you know clinton of course was the architect of that the Democratic Party continues to