And morning welcome to the program facing possible defeat u. S. President donald trump is doubling down again making false and baseless claims that he was robbed of a victory in the u. S. President ial election which wrapped up just 48 hours ago meanwhile hes losing ground in counting in the 4 swing states that remain undecided lets have a look at that now the latest figures show biden with 264. 00 electoral votes to President Donald Trump 2 114. 00 now what are some of the states that are out there with those votes georgia for 116. 00 electoral votes up for grabs it is in intensely tight race both candidates biden and trump are neck and neck with 99 percent of votes counted the latest count has shown the democrat less. Than 2000 votes behind the republican and he is catching up fast then we have pennsylvania the big prize of the evening of this week 20 electoral votes there donald trump currently holds a narrow lead but that gap has been narrowing further still and the remaining mail in ballots are expected to favor joe biden out west we have Arizona Arizona is still being counted but the a. P. News agency which is our main source of election data has called that for biden though other Major News Networks have not there are 11 Electoral College votes out there in arizona we are including them in joe bidens count but that could yet change then we have nearby nevada joe biden is also currently leading there but it is a slim lead that state happens to have the 6 votes that he would need exactly to get over to the to 70 to become president theres still about 190000 votes left to count most in democratic leaning areas zoom out so the whole map of the country down trumps path to victory appears to be narrowing states in red and blue you see here are called by a. P. For trump or biden states in lighter blue and or pink are leaning towards biden or trump respectively and a reminder that any one of these states will give biden the win trump needs a combination of these yet to be called states to hang on. Now with a victory looking more and more difficult the Trump Campaign has launched legal action claiming fraud trying to stop the count in some states state Election Officials however say there is 0 evidence of any wrongdoing to the contrary they say the count is proceeding largely smoothly across the country still here is some of what the president had to say but challenge joe and every democrat to clarify that they only want legal votes because they talk about votes and i think they should use the word legal illegal votes we want every legal vote counted and i want every legal vote counted we want openness and transparency no secret count rooms no mystery ballots no illegal votes being cast after election day you have election day and the laws are very strong and that you have an election and they dont want votes cast after election day and they want the process to be an honest one and so important we want an honest election and we want an honest count. And we want honest people working back there because its a very important so thats the way this country is going to win thats the way the United States will win and we think we will win the election very easily we think theres going to be a lot of litigation as we have so much evidence so much proof and its going to end up perhaps that the highest court in the land will see what we think there will be a lot of litigation because we cant have an election stolen by like this and i tell you i would i have been talking about this for many months for all of you and ive said very strongly that mail in ballots are going to end up being a disaster small elections were disaster small very easy to handle elections were disasters this is a large scale version and its getting worse and worse every day were hearing stories that are Horror Stories absolute Horror Stories. We have Live Team Coverage of all of the. Joining me in the studio Michelle Stockman from our u. S. Election team and in washington. S if i mean 1st to you lets just say you know so much to get through but we can only probably get to a few of these things these assertions that trump has made is there any evidence of the Election Fraud hes alleging. Well its hard to fact check Something Like this if he doesnt point to a specific instance and say this happened here this happened here which he hasnt done he said multiple times on twitter in the past 12 hours that theres been Election Fraud that elections being stolen from and just look at the media thats what he said well that even the conservative media here is has come up with some examples of something that could be considered Election Fraud of polling places breaking the law by not allowing republican observers to come in and watch the vote count but those are largely anecdotal and theres no evidence that that would have any effect on the outcome of all of the election let alone be an advantage to his opponent joe biden and so there is a discussion on the mostly conservative media here media that supports donald trump in essence theyre having a discussion about the flaws in our electoral system but remember this is not what donald trump is alleging hes not just alleging that theres discrepancies hurting both him and job biden what hes alleging is that theres Something Like a democratic conspiracy to steal this election from him and on that account theres absolutely no evidence of that michel hes claiming that the fact that its taking so long to get these votes counted is evidence of some grand conspiracy against him whats the real deal behind the time its taking to get all these votes in the get the results right well the fact that its taking so long means that the states that are in charge of that though count are taking it seriously and are taking their time and are doing it methodically as state law dictates thats one factor which ill get back to a 2nd but another big factor is that the pandemic. Many many people an unprecedented number of americans decided to vote by mail because they wanted to avoid getting in these long lines exposing themselves to the virus and so were seeing that these states that already have mail in ballot voting process is in play. Yes it might just be theyre experiencing greater volume so thats why things are taking so long and this process is it isnt just like pressing a button and its done theres quite a big process and getting these ballots on. Their own lips and counted so its quite a job yeah complicated but they do seem to know what theyre doing lets just have a quick listen to Something Else that dollar from had to say in those statements that statement earlier but ive been talking about mail in voting for a long time its its really destroyed our system its a corrupt system and it makes people corrupt even if they arent by nature but they become corrupt its too easy they want to find out how many votes they need and then they seem to be able to find them they wait and wait and then they find. So talking about mail in ballots corrupt how so i guess that word corrupt to saying that the mail in ballot ballots is making these poll workers corrupt thats almost heartbreaking i mean these are people that are trained to go in and process these ballots. Its a bipartisan process so to as on his side call it fraud that he hasnt brought up any widespread evidence even really sporadic evidence that there is fraud going on and these mail in ballots again there is a strong verification process in place you have to verify a signature with the signature of this already on line or thats in a book that theyre verifying the signatures to there is also a look at the offload is this ripped up or torn. And so really to allege that theres fraud going on that this really is a misrepresentation absolutely and the courts are agreeing with that theyve been throwing out actually a lot of these claims of the termination has been filers are going to Trump Campaign has been filing trying to get some counts stop over to you there are people of course who support all of them who see fraud when there is an actual fraud see corruption when there isnt any actual corruption how are these allegations going down with the american public. Well because the allegations are not specific its created an air of mystery around a process that is inherently mysterious theres 140000000. 00 ballots being counted in this election and of course not every single ballot can be observed by someone whos curious so there is an air of mystery and of course the Voting System could be improved in this country to say that its perfect would also be false so hes creating an air of mystery thats playing well with his supporters and if his his strategy is to prepare them for a long battle in the courts over the next weeks or months then thats probably working weve already seen people go out in the streets in support of Donald Trumps message but on the other hand most americans did not vote for donald trump he lost the popular vote by a significant margin and weve also seen evidence that his accusations of fraud are on raging a large portion of the population here we saw protests and portland new york city chicago places in pennsylvania so a lot of americans are worried that trump. By claiming that the election is being stolen from him is himself trying to steal the election from joe biden thats right and even polling data thats been coming up the last couple days showing that a wide majority of americans rejecting this idea to claim victory for the results are in including many many many republicans lets throw it over to another quick bite from trumps statement earlier. Easily when and if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. The election from a so if you count the votes that came in late were looking at them very strongly but a lot of votes came in ive already to say surely one many critical states including massive victories in florida. Indiana ohio to name just a few we won these in many of the victors display historic election for a big media big money and big check. I mean what are we to make of this statement i mean the facts are so clear the numbers are there were counting the votes why is trump coming out making this statement. Well look william ive been looking into this i want to believe that theres some evidence of of wrongdoing on the democrats part just the journalist in me wants to know why so many people are believing this narrative but i think what it really comes down to is youre looking at a president who is very well liked by his supporters who is trying to send a message that hes in this fight that hes going to take this to the cords that hes not going to give up without a fight and i think that this narrative is the best that he can come up with right now and there might not be any evidence for it but it might be him saying were going to take this in the courts and were not going to give up easy. So. Republicans though you know its not just the party of donald trump as much as sometimes it feels that way there are republican senators other politicians what are they saying are they supporting trump and in his efforts here look were seeing a lot of republicans starting to break with trump i should qualify that not a lot but some republicans are starting to break with trump for example we have former trump a top ally former new Jersey Governor Chris Christie he said there is no basis to the argument that there is voter fraud in mail in voting and he says all votes have to be counted and we have a republican Maryland Governor larry hogan he is a president ial hopeful people are with making whispers about him for 2024 he said there is no defense for the president s comments tonight undermining the democratic process pretty strong words there from a fellow republican and we need to remember that trump is sowing doubt in the counts of states that are run by republicans arizona has a republican governor nevada has a republican secretary of state georgia has a republican governor and secretary of state so i think it is very concerning to many republicans from his party to talk about this democratic process is somehow invalid because you know its for a commander in chief thats very worrisome and a commander in chief who himself used a mail in ballot to vote in this group yes i feel stuck with our u. S. Election team here in berlin as if they are do you have your correspondent in our washington studio thank you very much both for being here. Now dont forget you can always get either of the units on the go just download our app from google play and from your app store ill give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and if you were part of a new story you can always use the interview after send us photos and videos to show us whats happening where you. Are watching you know the news all have more headlines on this nail biting us election at the top of the hour so if you want to stay tune for that coming up my colleague john ill do my own. Business for more news check out our website at g. W. Dot com and of course instagram and twitter actually get your news when blue cross in berlin thanks very much for watching. 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Business im going on in berlin thanks for joining us following its latest policy meeting of the u. S. Federal reserve has pledged to use what it calls its full range of tools to shore up the economy fed chair Jerome Powell also expressed concern about rising coronavirus cases describing the u. S. Economys outlook as extraordinarily uncertain the fed has already spent trillions of dollars this year to prop up the economy powell said more stimulus might be needed in the months ahead. Yans accord to joins us now from new york yes can you tell me what stood out to you there from the fed statement. Well maybe lets start what your own paul did not comment on and that was the current political situation what is quite understandable but he did hint that more has to be done from the fiscal side meaning the Federal Reserve can only do so much and tim he actually said there are 2 risk to the economy or the 2 biggest risks that he sees one is that the corona virus gets under control for the 1st time ever on wednesday actually we have more than 100000. 00 new cases and then the 2nd is that if Congress Stays divided that it might get more difficult to get this extra stimulus and that actually cochaired Economic Growth and the time to come now youve mentioned it there yes it might be hard to get stimulus through were looking at what could be a divided house in the u. S. So this means definitely that the fed will have to step in doesnt it. Well i mean the Federal Reserve will step in they will do whatever is in their power but what Jerome Powell keeps saying is lending is not spending so they can lend money or they can bring some liquidity to the market but actually the money that the Federal Reserve gives is yes its lending so it has to be repaid at a certain later point im so yes it would be crucial to get more of a fiscal stimulus and how likely that is after we know whos going to be the president if the 2 chambers come together if republicans and democrats finally can come to an agreement that is totally out in the air this fight all this however stocks still appear to be on fire whats going on there. All week long and actually we might be approaching or we are playing around was the best week on wall street since april to a quite astonishing and result the uncertainty is so washington is waiting all those battleground states are counting and wall street is celebrating so blue chips up by another 500 percent here but not percent points excuse me in the thursday session the nasdaq composite up by more than 2 and a half percent were toying around with a new all time highs and that despite all this uncertainty yes i know theres a lot of talk was the split congress there might be less tax increases less regulation but on the other side as we just talked about its also less likely that we will see get more aid for the country and for the economy and then also the coronavirus a virus cases going up approaching record levels so to me its a mystery why street is celebrating that much a mystery you will continue to plan with many many variables to thank you yes quite a there on wall street for us. As britain locks down again the bank of england is stepping up support for its economy the central bank announced today announced thursday it would wrap up its purchases of government bonds by 150000000000 pelts double Fund Government stimulus spending keeping businesses in business and cash flow going as the coronavirus wreaks havoc on the economy. Mandaeans london malaysian restaurant is empty yet again her business barely made it through britains 1st spring lockdown and its economic aftershocks in recent months her sales were often just 100 pounds a day. The u. K. 2nd lockdown could prove the fatal blow for many Small Businesses like hers i think this will force thousands of to close. Because how can you afford you know to be close for 4 weeks and have no inco