Tonight, even though we dont have totals he is expected to speak he tweeted out earlier tonight basically saying that he won. And he accused the well he didnt name anybody in particular, but said that they were trying to steal the election. I think he said they are trying to steal the election. But we just saw a moment ago the crowd, this in front of the podium there kind of waving their hands. Waving their hands in the air they had yellow wristbands on which is part of the apparently the covid procedures so that at one point they were trying to get a crowd of about 400 i think they pared it down to maybe to 50 years to get inside they may of course we saw during the joe bidens several crews coming up before he came out to just wipe down the podium and make sure everything has been cleared. In this pandemic election is grant called were now waiting for President Trump to come out. Grant youve been following the numbers all night to listen to something just seeing where we talked about georgia moments ago. Yeah, well im just reading now bunch of articles have come out. About a pipe that burst early this morning of water pipe where a bunch of absentee ballots were being stored this is in Fulton County home to atlanta and that guilt is so. All reporting is that none of the were damaged. But that it delayed the counting of them by, at least 4 hours. Likely ruining any hope that we will have a final result out of georgia tonight i as well so you know you can talk about the pandemic and how that affects us all you want, but then you have a a freak accident. We hope its a freak accident and nothing more malicious. That delayed georgias and likely is contributing to bidens resurgence in georgia as they work their way through all of those mail in ballots again in Fulton County, which on the map is a biden stronghold and talking about mail in ballots were just discussing pennsylvania, where they cannot even begin to count the mail in ballots until election day to day so most of the votes that were counted today. Where the people that went into the polls and voted in person. Now theyre going through the process of counting those mail in ballots. And according to the New York Times he requests for absentee ballots was 80 to 13 in favor joe biden so according to this story. The pennsylvania vote count would tend to favor mister trump all day long until they started to get into those mail in ballots which could turn the tide but they have a limited amount of time that theyre allowed under the law to continue to count those ballots or so 5 states were talking about that are still up for grabs in terms of those key swing states arizona pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan and georgia as grant was just talking about what happened in Fulton County. The screen is split because we are waiting for President Trump to come out the podium set waiting moment of addressing his supporters there at the white house and we see some action here and there people checking mikes checking the podium of the people in the audience there. It will be interesting to see exactly what tony does decide to take tonight in light of the fact that so many states in so many ballots have not been counted are talking about how earlier in the day when he appeared on fox and friends in the morning. And then later on camera giving some brief remarks how he seem so subdued completely out of character from the mister trump we have been seeing over the last 4 years and lot of speculation that maybe he is bracing himself for a potential loss. But then as his numbers started coming out through the night and it looked like he was gaining momentum in some of these key battleground the tweets came out and then we saw the president were used to seeing with these tweets where he was being very vocal about where he stood and now i would guess pam that were going to see a more energized. Comes to the podium tonight and grant earlier you know there was talk of you know with texas swing in favor of President Trump high i mean in terms of joe biden would ohio swing to Joe Biden States stay comfortably with donald trump, yeah, ohio establishing itself free emphasizing itself is a true bellwether state. If you win ohio. You win the presidency at least since 1964. Can your mentioning how pennsylvania has until friday to count their ballots. Well iowa has until next monday. Minnesota and nevada have until next tuesday, North Carolina has until next thursday in ohio has until next friday. So you have all these states with all these different rules about the ballots and when you have to count them by it just it goes to show how they are you know this this might be a national election, but we dont go by the popular vote and we have all these different states with all these different rules that it can create for when you have such a claim these contests confusion and even in states you have counties that have different rules its just a its a its a crazy system, but. In many ways it is a good system because its decentralized which. Tends to favor. Getting rid of Monkey Business it might on a the networks maybe go out on a limb and theyll call the race, but the kid, the ballots are still being counted. Telling me just we got a picture on saying as we look at the the Midterm Elections when theyre talking about the blue wave everyone is was expecting Election Night it didnt materialize and people you know the republicans said there was no blue way as the votes counted in the days that followed it became apparent there actually was a blue wave a lot of seats flipped in the Midterm Election in 2018 and more women than ever were left and of course people have been voting for several these are people whose votes. Theys voted early because they wanted to make sure that the votes were counted and if there is some kind of legal challenge to that im sure those people are not going to be happy and some of them of course are going to be Republican Voters as well so republicans and democrats who decided to vote early because of the pandemic you dont want your vote to not get counted because of an arbitrary. You turn your voting, its postmarked when its supposed to be in and you know because of some deadline but it is said and i say yeah its different plus 3 your vote doesnt count if were going to call this the covid election how no were the is it that so much of the discrepancies relative to who votes how and when is based on how you feel about the pandemic so many of the president s supporters have been at these rallies so many not Wearing Masks and a lot of them show up in person to vote and then you have a lot of you know biden supporters who have been more cautious and you know listening to the scientists more in terms of their guidance on how to slow the spread a lot of them chose not to show up in person well were looking at people sitting that looks like pretty close to each other right here. I dont see any masks here at the white house. Lets check in with while were waiting for President Trump to come out and make a statement. Lets check back with vicky whos been looking at the balance of power in the United States senate which of course is also a very important vote indeed it pm yeah things are shaking out at this hour. For many of the senate seats that were up for grabs right now the balance of powers about even democrats. At republicans at 47 course all that could change on some of the races that are still being tallied arizona that really is one to watch tonight. Its the seat thats currently being held by Martha Mcsally she is of course the former Fighter Pilot thats in the fight the astronaut mark kelly right now the force it seems to be with kelly. Although the looks like its going to go well into the night and into the morning and they have him leading by 8 points with 77 of the count there then lets go to maine, the other side of the country there. A republican Susan Collins, she was consider of the vulnerable. A democratic challenger sara gideon apparently though not making the kind of inroads that she had hoped, Susan Collins at this hour. Leading by 8 points. It is still in the pale pink, so theyre not calling this race yet and it is really an interesting one here is georgia. That one is in a state of flux the state of georgia. Pairs they are headed for a runoff there. Republican senator Kelly Loeffler shes going to. Be facing off against democratic challenger rafale warning. Thats not going to happen. Until january 5th. So go the entire picture of the balance of power until but 2021. And all right vicki, thank you for that again were standing by waiting for President Trump to. Come out on stage and addressed the nation as well as his supporters who were there at the white house were kind of used to this where of a trump event is about take place and then we kind of feel like were like hes going to come out and we are stretching as they say in the business until. He takes the podium and we hear what he has to say, but. Based on his tweets that were put out. Hes hes going to Say Something pretty powerful tonight. All right catherine just entered im hoping that were going to be talking with our analysts soon catherine as you enter you just standing by waiting for that to like all of you want us to look through some props propositions while we wait all right, lets look through some of the state propositions this is from 14 which is the Stem Cell Research by isnt it. Is still close and good to see how many votes are in but it was leading with 52 15 the tax on commercial property controversial one. Actually a surprisingly no 5149 in favor of it was 65 of the vote in proposition 61 in californias ban on affirmative action and its leading the no vote are leading with 55 . That yeah that says no they dont want to have the affirmative action ban. Yes, aldwych they just had. Right we want to check in now with Catherine Heenan to get some perspective on. Ok and you can just give us youre a fan, you know youve been talking with your analysts all as you know were stretching away for the president love turning i see 3 people behind there i was i was going to try to wing it alone. But this is much better. As we are waiting for the president to speak one of the things i read a few minutes ago as michael yaki David Mckeown jonathan madison. Someone pointing out that this election is highlighting how debates and divided the nation continues to be america growing more red. Blue america growing more blue. I mean its not exactly the picture of a nation coming together. Your thoughts michael. I mean i think with the president. Has done for the past 4 years has accelerated. That addition theres been no real unity call for unity. Call for national. Togetherness i mean like a better word. You know were were were different people. We have different views. We can respect those views and we can risk id like for example jonathan i run to lead to political parties. But we can talk to each other and we can disagree we can do it with respect with honoring each other and understanding that okay well have well find out in the competition of ideas in the marketplace. But in the end were still both americans and thats what really counts. David do you agree perhaps a nation more divided than ever. Yeah, i think were facing a number of obviously polarization has been one of those pressures but youre also seen some other divisions that have developed nations rapidly the Republican Party is changing it faces some pressure is moving forward as the demographics of the country shift for democrats they also face some of these pressures and if you think about it if joe biden is unable to pull this off democrats of last 2 National Elections and so their search for message moving forward is going to be also important but the nation is changing in those Younger Voters who are voting for the first time and making voting a habit they stick around in 2020 to 2024 and on and on and on that changes and that is changing and moving things from the rust belt to the sun belt and in addition challenging both parties in the process and given how things have been stood on their head. This particular Election Year it will be very interesting to watch whats going to happen and as we progress to kate and think about the implications of those things moving forward. Jonathan our red americans getting more redblue americans more blow. Well if youre a lot of the polls nate silver the New York Times other like minded polls. I think youre expecting the country to be a lot more blue than it appears to be right now. I think that weve learned something valuable tonight. We can also take a reminder less than 2016. That the real polls, the most valuable incredible polls are the voices of the american people. And that your question gather in i think its unquestionable that the left has become far more left in extreme and the right has also become more extreme and so you find fewer and fewer moderates. Want to speak up for whats right irrespective of party lines and i think time for people to adopt a perspective. That says were less concerned with whos right and more concerned with whats right and i believe it was doctor cantu said the time is always right to do whats right. So i wont make everybody guess what the president is going to say, although we have some idea i mean he is suggesting its about a big win that part of what he was tweeting maybe i should ask what should he say jonathan if you were advising him what would you tell. If i advising the president id say its time for unifying message. You know we know what the numbers we we dont need a History Lesson we needed to be a leader tonight we need you to address the concerns american and we need you continue to be present United States. And to lead us in a direction. That is that adopt a unity. Doesnt adopt divisive nature of any kind up and to speak up for for all sides speak as a leader speakers present United States. Michael yaki any expectations you choose to share with the president might say. I mean i know im a little concerned about how long its taken for him to get to the podium. And im wondering if thats all because his advisors and he are struggling over what exactly he wants to say because i think we all know with the president. We like to say its basic going to be a rehash of his Campaign Speech and accusations of a warning against voter fraud and everything like that are claiming victory and his advisors are probably trying to tell it like jonathan was just saying you know take a step back. So were going to go home spend a long night. Well let the process take care of itself, but you know i every time i think that the president could rise to that occasion he is he sorely disappointed thing. Sorry producers talk to me my we likely to end up in some kind of messy court situation. Grace class and respect those 3 entities those 3 kind of attributes are hugely important and the president doesnt always exhibit any element of those things joe biden tried to talk about that but i think this is where jonathan and michael are both spot on exhibiting grace, whether you win or you lose class and respect what you might think of his decency those things are in short supply in our politics and that is something that we should see otherwise were just going to fight this out in the courts and that could last for a better part of a month. We forget that i have like when the most bitterly contested elections was john Kennedy Richard nixon. And there was serious accusations that may be. There was some election there were some Election Fraud in illinois and people are cynics and contest said and he said. No im not going to do it for the good of the country. Speaking you as we figure which rejects inquiry was later on it seems a little interesting but he did that he made that step thats the kind of going outside of yourself on behalf of democracy on behalf of our country that all politicians need to aspire to and lead by example. We heard joe biden of course speaking briefly roughly an hour or so ago so the contrast might be interesting david. That would under or whoever walks for whoever wants to react one way or the other is probably going to be and we are speechless catherine were understatement might be happen very often lot of adjectives are going i mean keep in mind go ahead to your present United States youre always getting involved everything you say is going to be twice as evaluated. More than any other candidate. Any other person. The degree and the level of attention and scrutiny is on you that much more. And i do think theres something to be said about the medias perspective with regard to the president. And id say just like weve been talking about the president and his ability display leadership. The fact that he should display leadership. I also think that the democrats should be held just as accountable. You look at nancy pelosi look at people who are making representations and people should lead by example, you you know not to bring up anything from the past but you know weve seen it. Nancy pelosi in recent tell people to wear a mask and she was saying recently, im here so on where she wasnt wearing a mask at all you know its lisa and i think there i mean im just saying its job to job and youre missing misrepresenting. The truth but i guess is that she has she had it off for the distance between. For like 15 feet which this is someone who where who practices what she preaches so lets lets get into the fox news trap of. Oxygen tank all its facts pictures exam. Course i did and i also know the context of the entire story so you know need to go into that i mean we needed we can agree that the president needs to tighten the dirty that leadershi