Lets dig in with pennsylvania right now. Joe biden has taken the lead right now. He has about a 6,000vote lead, just under 6,000 votes. Theres still 130,000 ballots that still need to be counted. If youre saying this race is very close, were talking about a 6,000vote lead. Theres 130,000 ballots that can be counted. President trump can catch up, maybe. Heres the problem for President Trump. At least 60 60,000 of those 130,000 ballots that have yet to be counted are coming from philadelphia, the surrounding suburbs up through the Lehigh Valley and joe biden is making eastern pennsylvania even more blue. Tom, let me stop you there. Through the night joe biden has been winning. Hes been winning the deep blue areas by 70, 80 . Yes. Because of the mailin vote, when we look at pennsylvania, look at the ratio right here, this is pretty much the breakdown. 80 are going to joe biden. I want to say 30,000 of that 130,000 still to be counted is coming from pittsburgh, a very deep blue county. Also overnight, joe biden pulled ahead in georgia. Right. At this hour right now, joe biden is on top with 1,000 votes. Still very, very tight. Theres about 8,000 votes still to be counted in georgia. The reason joe biden is on top is the vote is coming from places like gwinnett county. Hes up 58. 3 to 40. 4. Other counties are bigger for democrats, fulton and clayton. 80 of the vote going 0 joe biden. When the votes are coming from there, thats why joe biden is taking the lead. Lets go to georgia. Steve osunsami is there. This could still take some time in georgia, steve. Reporter it could. We expect to hear more from the secretary of state today. Hes holding a News Conference later today. George, i want to underline, there are a lot of georgians waking up this morning, democrats and republicans, wondering what georgia did they wake up in. Thats how significant this lead that joe biden has taken is. If hes able to hold on to it, he will accomplish something in georgia that president obama wasnt able to do twice. It is really breaking the conventional wisdom were seeing here. There are people on the left who are celibaebrating and saying people like Stacey Abrams had a lot to do with this lead and john lewis, part of his district is responsible for a number of these votes for joe biden. About the vote itself, the secretary of state who i will underline is a republican. Well get more to that later. He points out there are about 8 to 9,000 outstanding votes. Were going to be counting military and overseas votes today. About 17,000 of those i think or so have laalready 18,000 of those have come in and are already counted. The secretary of state believes there may be about 9,000 potential more of those ballots that have to be in by the end of the day to day. Thats where this lead could be adjusted and where the president could gain a few more votes. The other thing ill point out is theres a huge effort theres a new ground war taking place on the left and right with both democrats and republicans encouraging voters who may have had issues with their absentee ballots that can be fixed to do so by the end of Business Today. They called those cured ballots. Those ballots could make a difference. Tom mentioned gwinnett county. They finished counting most of their votes last night. Theyre planning to submit them today. We expect those votes to count. Thats a blue county. The latino vote there is big. That number could shift again. Steve, were within a margin for an automatic recount . Reporter we are. The secretary of state is already prepared for that. He has said that a recount this is what he said yesterday. A recount shouldnt change the numbers much. He got new equipment. He said it would take a week for a recount. Either candidate can order one. Something about the secretary of state that i keep saying and want to say again, for all these allegations about democrats stealing elections and some of these this notion that the election is being stolen, thats not going to play as well in this state where republicans control the legislature, the Governors Office and where the secretary of state who runs the elections here is not only a republican, but also a supporter of the president. Steve, thanks. Lets go to pennsylvania. Eva pilgrim is there. Joe biden in the lead with many more votes to come. Reporter it was that big ballot drop from philadelphia that put him in the lead. It was about 30,000 ballots that were counted. The people in this city celebrated that moment. You have to remember that donald trump pointed out philadelphia multiple times saying bad things happen in philadelphia. This city is really proud. Its a proud city. Proud of their history, proud of their people. They view joe biden as one of them. Dr. Jill biden is from this area. They are celebrating that this count from philadelphia is what put him over the top at this point. Jer george, were still watching to see as the ballots come in. Were looking for the magic number of about 34,000. That would put biden ahead of a possible recount here in pennsylvania. Hes not at that point yet. Eva, thanks. Lets go to pat toomey. Senator toomey, thanks for joining us. Joe biden has pulled ahead. Do you think the president still has a chance in your state . He does, george. Theres certainly still a path for the president. Its an extremely narrow lead. We have to remember this process goes beyond the first vote count. For instance, in pennsylvania we know there are some minor irregularities. Those will have to be litigated. Theres been a terrible lack of transparency in the philadelphia vote counting process. We have a rogue state Supreme Court that unilaterally decided to rewrite election law to allow ballots without a postmark to be counted days after the election. The Supreme Court ratified that, didnt they . They did not ratify that. They said by a 44 decision they would not impose an injunction at that time leaving the door open to adjudicate that. I think thats likely to happen. If it turns out its that category of ballots that create the margin of victory for Vice President biden i have no idea whether thats the case. That has to be litigated. I think weve got a long way to go. We have to finish the counting and all legal ballots have to be counted. That takes as long as it takes. Theres probably going to be a legitimate recount and then there will be legitimate litigation. I think thats the way its going to go. We need to let this process play out. The president said we should stop the counting. Number one, the ballots that have come in do not include anything received after november 3rd. Hold on, george. Im not away thats the case. I dont know how we could know that in philadelphia since observers have not been given the opportunity to get close enough to observe. The Supreme Court ordered those observers to come in. Weve been watching the count on television. I was talking to the Lieutenant Governor this morning. He said theres not been any widespread irregularities or fraud. George, i have acknowledged that. Im not aware of any widespread or systemic fraud. However, nobody can say with confidence that the ballots that are supposed to be segregated in philadelphia are in fact being properly segregated because, even this morning, i spoke with the republican whos responsible for overseeing that process and he continues to be denied access to the point where you can see whats happening. Theyre in the room. The room is the size of a small town. He cant get close enough to see whats going on. All im saying is there are some unnecessary problems and well have to get this resolved. One of the reasons its taking so long is because the state legislature in pennsylvania said you couldnt start processing the absentee ballots until election day. I do take your point. Lets say we go tlhrough the process, are you prepared to say once thats happened this has been a fair and free election . George, look, i voted for donald trump. I endorse donald trump. The person i want to be the next president is the person who wins the Electoral College legitimately. I think our system is absolutely going to enable us to do that. Im going to accept the results. Senator toomey, thank you for your time. Thank you for having me. Lets go to mary bruce. Shes with the Biden Campaign in delaware. Mary, i know that the biden camp has been having increasing confidence through the night. They believe they have this . Reporter george, they did. They believe this is inevitable and imminent. We heard joe biden come out yesterday and all but declare the race is over. Theyre extremely encouraged by what they see in georgia and all eyes are in pennsylvania. Theyre continuing to urge patience and urging everyone to remain calm. You heard joe biden keep the faith, democracy is messing and urging americans despite what the president is saying this is the process playing out as it should. That stark contrast with the white house is one that has been extremely notable, despite the president s remarks last night. Joe biden not responding directly to those. His team feels the more the president comes out and makes baseless accusations about voter fraud, they feel it underscores their argument theyre winning. Cecilia vega, are we getting a statement from the white house . Reporter its a statement from the campaign. The strategy is being laid out and theyre starting to carry what the president has been saying for the last few weeks which is raising questions about the integrity of the election. This statement comes from the general counsel for the campaign, matt morgan. Hes not someone we heard from. Let me read you some of the lines of it. Quote, this election is not over. The false projection of joe biden as the winner is based on results in four states that are far from final. Then they tick off each of the states. Georgia is headed for a recount. Were confident well find ballots improperly harvested. Theres no evidence of that yet. We have not seen any evidence. Weve been saying if thats the fact we would report that. Weve not seen any evidence of improperly harvested ballots in georgia. They say in pennsylvania there were irregularities. Volunteer observers were not allowed meaningful access. We heard from pennsylvania Election Officials who said the election has run smoothly. Campaign says in nevada there appear to be thousands of individuals who improperly cast mail ballots. This campaign has offered no evidence of that. The president mentioned that last night. Weve heard this from campaign officials. They offered zero evidence. Then they say the president is on course to win arizona out right and they are blasting the news organizations that called the results of that election there. The president said he wants to see this go all the way to the Supreme Court. Weve seen the Campaign File multiple this blitz of legal challenges, three of which have been tossed out by the courts. The strategy right now, george, appears to be one where theyre focussed more on influencing public opinion, rather than changing law or changing the case against them in the courts. Were starting to see cracks in the ranks, people are not coming out and saying this publicly, but privately folks are starting to question this legal strategy as to whether this is the way to go for the president. Well be keeping an eye on that. I want to go to nate silver from fivethiryeight. Nate, lets look at pennsylvania and georgia. Whats your read first in the state of pennsylvania, 130,000 votes out there . Joe bidens lead has climbed to about 5,800 hundred. How solid is that . Its very solid. I dont think theres a path back for trump. So far these are all mail votes. Theyve got 41, 31 to biden. If it continues, hell be up by 70,000 votes, 1 . There are provisional ballots in pennsylvania. If you ask for a mailin ballot and you say you dont trust that, im going to go and vote. Those have not been counted in the count so far and that will go for joe biden. Georgia much closer now. Still have votes out there, provisional and military ballots out there. Georgia is in the margin of surprise. It doesnt look like theres enough votes for trump to come back. You dont know how the military votes will go. There can be tabulation errors. It would be surprising if trump won georgia. Its reasonably to leave georgia uncalled. Its a very close race. Right now we have the secretary of state of georgia on the phone. Secretary, thank you for joining us. Can you tell us how your count is going . Have you seen any irregularities . When do you expect to finish . Right now at 9 00 a. M. We had 8,000 votes left in four counties. We have 8,890 military ballots outstanding that will be counted if theyre returned by the close of Business Today. Have you seen any widespread irregularities, any strong evidence of fraud in your state so far, any counting of illegal ballots . We are investigating every report we receive. We also have an open process to make sure we allow monitors into all elections so were open and transparent. How would you describe how your counting process has gone so far . We dont count. The counties do that. Theyre working diligently to get that done as soon as we can today. Obviously we understand the National Significance of georgia and we want to make sure we defend the integrity of our election. Has there been an election with integrity so far . Thats what we fight for every day. If we hear about any situations, we investigate them. Have you come upon anything in that investigation that concerns you so far . I would say its too premature to give a defined answer on that. Were so close. We understand because its so close that the candidate that comes up within a half percent can asks for a full recount. Well have a full recount if it goes the way we think. How long would that take . Its putting all the paper ballots together and running them through the scanners. Theres about 5 million votes cast and they have to all be tabulated. Do recounts change the recount . Whats the margin of error . Weve never done a full statewide recount. This is the first time in 18 years because we have the verifiable paper ballots. We brought that in in 2019. Secretary, thank you for your time this morning. Thanks, george. Let me go back to nate. We talked about georgia, thats likely to go to a recount. Lets more to arizona and nevada. In nevada joe bidens lead fairly solid at this time . Yeah. We have mailin ballots from clark county. Those have been very blue so far. I would expect joe bidens lead to grow there. Arizona . Arizona there has been decent news for President Trump. He has been almost at the pace he needs in the late counted ballots to catch up. Theres some evidence the remaining ballots wont be quite as friendly to him. Arizona is the most in doubt i think actually. If you put it altogether, youre seeing joe bidens the ceiling on electoral votes, 306, thats if he wins all these states. And theres also aska which uncalled technically. It is technically. Ive been reading some analysis suggesting that alaska may be a bit closer because so much of the mailin ballot hasnt been counted. The democratic senator made a bold snamt that he will catch up when the mailin votes are counted. Weve seen these gigantic splits between the mailin vote and in person vote. We cant say for sure. Its more important for the senate. If al gross won that race, democrats would have 49 senators going to the runoffs in georgia. Thats salien tt there. Your bottom line is joe biden will get the votes he needs in nevada and pennsylvania . Thats the problem, if we woke up and see that joe biden has failed to win in georgia and arizona, i wouldnt be surprised. Pennsylvania and nevada are problems for the president. Let me bring in chris christie. Chris, i was listening closely to senator toomey just a few moem moments ago. He was taking a different line from the white house. Yes, well use every legitimate challenge we have. We want more transparency in the process. Well go through the recounts, but not suggesting he has evidence that illegal ballots have been cast. No, because there is no evidence yet. It was what i was saying last night and throughout the night and this morning to people calling me. If there is evidence, we need to see it. If there isnt, we have to stop indicting the system. Thats my issue. I brought lots of indictments as a prosecutor. I didnt lose any of them and the reason is because i looked at the evidence first and convinced it was beyond a reasonable doubt and then brought charges. One of the things youre seeing is the absence of don mcgahn. This race was just as close in 2016 as it is now. There were recounts in 2016. You never saw any of this mayhem because there was a legal strategy. One of the ironies is if joe biden wins those four states, hell get 306 electoral votes. What youre seeing is the scrambling of the complaints being dismissed and not showing success, it doesnt appear that prior to election day they had somebody quarterbacking the legal approach, laying out a plan and having people on the ground to execute that. I know in 2016 don mcgahn had that plan and executed it. Hes one of the most qualified election lawyers in the country. He wasnt there this time. He left the white house and was distanced by people in the white house away from the campaign and the president. One of the things youre missing here the reason folks like me dont have confidence in whats happening is because we dont have anybody in charge of the Legal Process. Who is running the show . The answer is i dont know. U. S. History for 200. I dont know, george. What i will say is the absence of don mcgahn is being felt by that campaign starkly in the last couple days and underestimated over the course of time. Hes handled the Supreme Court nominations. He handled some of the difficult legal issues through the years. What we need to know is is there evidence . We have the democratic senator from pennsylvania bob casey. Senator casey, thank you for joining us. How do you see this vote going during the day . George, good to be with you. I think the lead will grow. I dont know exactly where it will end up. Ive been saying for a few days now i thought in the official count, which could be two weeks down the road, which is very typical, that i think hell be ahead by somewhere north or south of 100,000. That would be outside the scope of a rekouncount, or an automatic recount. On the issue of irregularities, what have you seen . Senator toomey was talking about transparency. Do you have any evidence that ballots that came in after election day have been counted . The allegations of fraud are just a big lie. We know that. We know that there are ballots