Transcripts For FOXNEWSW The Daily Briefing With Dana Perino

FOXNEWSW The Daily Briefing With Dana Perino November 12, 2020

Lunch with the Vice President. The two are meeting today im sure the election and challenges are a big part of that conversation. This hour the Trump Campaign will be back in courting back in court delay because of technical difficulties. Arguing over maricopa wrongly rejected ballots that would be ostensibly in favor of the President Trump. They asked the Trump Campaign to seal its secretary of defense evidence but the judge dislowd that the president tweeting about the results in arizona as they stand right now how the margins have narrowed the president saying 200,000 votes to less than 10,000 votes if we can audit the total votes cast we will easily win arizona also. Later on today the Trump Campaign will be filing new affidavits in the case in pennsylvania. The argument there there was illegal precanvassing of mailin votes in democratic counties and the people who had mistakes on their ballots were encouraged to cast a provisional one. Kayleigh mcenany on that earlier. Listen here. In seven counties, democratleaning counties, if they received your ballot in advance, its illegal to open those ballots until election day, the mailin ballots. Somehow they were determining which ballots were not accurate, which were not properly done and telling voters to fix them in advance. In georgia Trump Campaign officials are pushing to start the recount there by the end of the weekend. In nevada new allegations that Signature Verification Software was in effective. Here is what senator Lindsey Graham said about that earlier today. In nevada, they have a machine to verify mailin ballot signatures. If you dont have a signature on a mailin ballot then its useless. The machine was basically turned off. So they ran millions of ballots through this machine, voting machine in nevada and the signature component of it was almost literally turned off. Trace by the way you can add senator grahams voice to that of oklahoma senator James Lankford who said that joe biden should be getting classified intelligence briefings. Senator graham saying that he should be getting those as well. Now, for all of President Trumps efforts, dana, to try to overturn the current vote count, there are also indications that he is preparing for a possible exit. He is preparing executive orders on things like tightening up restrictions on h 1 b immigrant visas. Also coronavirus funding for school choice. There is the possibility as well of a new coronavirus stimulus. And the president is also strategically placing loyalist National Weather Service Positions in certain agencies that would be difficult to remove them from in hopes of continuing his agenda. He is also getting a briefing from his Campaign Team today and he will be getting a briefing on the Georgia Senate race. And its 14 03. 2 03 in the afternoon, thats all i got for you from now but well be back. Dana you always have a lot for us and we appreciate it so much. Thanks, john. Sometimes too much. Dana we are all good. We love it. Okay. Team coverage continues now with Jonathan Serrie he is live in atlanta where and everybody is looking at atlanta, jonathan. Yeah, everyone is watching atlanta. We are anticipating a News Conference shortly by georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger who says he wants to begin this recount in the president ial race in georgia before the end of the week. He says hes confident that it will confirm the accuracy of the original machine count but election workers will have to count by hand every single ballot in the state not just a random sample. When you have 5 million votes and the margin is so close 14,000, if we pulled out 10,000 votes, all of a sudden it could say well this is the. Pull out says this person won. Pull out a million this person won. Thats why mathematically you actually have to do a full handbyhand recount of all because the margin is so close. The hand recount with will provide georgias final and official tally in the president ial race. It does not effect the states two u. S. Senate races which are heading to january 5th runoffs. Republicans Kelly Loeffler and david perdue defending their seats against Raphael Warnock and john as notify. The run off will determine the balance of power in the u. S. Senate. Both are sending heavy hitters to georgia. Pete buttigieg is holding an online fundraiser for candidate warnock for the democrats and tomorrow florida senator rick scott will be stumping in suburban atlanta for both of the republican senators here in georgia. Dana, back to you. Rick scott will be the National Republican senatorial chairman for 2022 that cycle. Thanks for the update, jonathan. Certainly. Dana lets bring in Fox News Contributor karl rove. We will try to run the gamut here. John roberts reported President Trump will be getting a briefing today from his campaign on the challenges hey has ongoing and the georgia race. What do you think they will be telling him today . Well, i dont know exactly what they will be telling him. I suspect they will be focused in on the legal actions. We have important deadlines coming up at which time the Trump Campaign has either got to get in court and begin to prove their allegations of widespread fraud or they are going to run out of time. Georgia, where he is trailing by 14,108 will certify its vote on the 20th of november. When they certify the vote they say this person won and if its a president ial candidate, their electors have been selected and it gets the legal threshold to overturn that gets a lot higher. We got pennsylvania on the 23rd and michigan on the 23rd behind by nearly 50,000, 146,000 in michigan. Arizona where the count last night was about 12,000. It certifies on the 30th. And then wisconsin and nevada on the 1st of december. The president s legal challenges have to be either well developed and well along in those states or if certification comes, the difficulty of overturning it becomes even more substantial. Dana what is your take on the hand recount in georgia the way thats being set up . Well, i think its going to be a reassuring thing for everybody. I think he is right. Have you got to recount everything. As long as you are recounting it and they have sufficient time to do it before the deadline on the 20th, why not do a monday count so that everybody gets comfortable. Because you have got observers, partisan observers. Democrats and republicans, watching people literally count those ballots and every one of the states 157 counties. So at the end of this process we will have a pretty definitive understanding of how it came off and if there is a close agreement between the number in the recount and the close number in the machine count, then i think its going to give people a greater confidence in the outcome. Dana what happens if there is a challenge to one of the ballots . There is a republican and a democrat that both looks at it . Is that vote then set aside. That vote is then set aside and adjudicated right then and there. Dana yes. So if there is a question they said lets put that in the stack to be considered here and then we will adjudicate it when we are finished of with everything else. Dana i see. On the Georgia Senate races of course the Senate Candidates are waste nothing time and Kelly Loeffler who is the incumbent. She was only appointed just last year. She had to run right away. Here is a snippet of an ad that she is running. He is antiisrael, antisecond amendment. Sympathizes with marxists and socialists and wants to make your neighborhoods less safe. Dont let him full you with pizza and puppies. Dana of course running against reverend raffaele nor walk this is going to be a pretty couple of months in georgia as they slug it out. Full disclosure im the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee fundraising effort to raise hard dollars for the Loeffler Campaign and the Perdue Campaign in the nrc. Im not completely objective observer. I think this is going to be a heck of a contest. Two very different sets of candidates. One a pair of conservatives the other liberals, really radical. Reverend warnock has posted i believe fidel castro at his church. The controversial preacher reverend Jeremiah Wright defended wright when wright was revealed to have made antimet particular comments. He is really way out there on the fringe of the Democratic Party. Its going to be interesting to see how that goes down in georgia. Is he not well known statewide politically but he is about ready whether he likes it or not to get wellknown. Dana indeed. Last question to you, i know that republicans usually win these runoff races. Because republicans will turn out on offyear elections even if its not a president ial election republicans turn out. If is there any possibility there t. Could be different this time around so the democrats are as motivated to vote . Well, they could be because of Stacey Abrams has spent several tens of millions of dollars of sort of getting georgia democrats committed to voting by mail, which happened this year. Both perdue led by 90,000 votes. The republicans had more votes than the Democratic Candidates in the other race, the judge gel primary that Kelly Loeffler was. In republicans cant take anything for granted and they have got to get their votes. In they have to bank them early. Vote early. Vogt by mail. Avoid having a snow storm in january 5th in north georgia and keeping republicans from getting to the polls. Dana all right. Karl rove, have a great rest of your day. Thank you so much. Thanks, dana. Dana next as mulls over cab netanyahu making their pitch to be a big part of it. This message is for spouses of veterans with a va loan. With just one call to newday you can cut your familys mortgage payments by 3000 a year. The va streamline refi is a benefit your spouse earned. It shortens the refi process so veteran families can save money by refinancing. There is no income verification. No appraisal. No out of pocket costs. All time low Mortgage Rates have now dropped even lower. 1jyx28x7i are you managing. Using fingersticks . With the new freestyle libre 2 system, a continuous glucose monitor, you can check your glucose with a painless, onesecond scan. And now with optional alarms, you can choose to be notified if you go too high or too low. And for those who qualify, the freestyle libre 2 system is now covered by medicare. Ask your doctor for a prescription. You can do it without fingersticks. Learn more at freestyle libre 2 dot u. S. Dana Vice President elect biden puts together his team two of the biggest names on the far left putting them selves in the running for key cabinet positions. Peter doocy has more he is live in rehoboth beach. You moved down a little bit from wilmington. We did. The president elect is on his way down here to row hobby both beach where he keeping a weekend house. He spent the morning were told on the phone with the pope and the Transition Team tells us that the two of them spoke about climate change. Integrating immigrants and refugees into communities and caring for the poor and soon enough biden is going to start making calls to people interested in cabinet jobs. Bernie sanders is saying he wants to run the labor department. If he asks to you join the cabinet as labor secretary, would you say yes . If i had a portfolio that allowed me to stand up and fight for working families, why do it . Yes, i would. Well, a few minutes ago on capitol hill republican senator mike rounds said it would be a challenge for Bernie Sanders to be confirmed by a Republican Senate. Elizabeth warren so far has been slightly less focal in public. She is reportedly pitching herself behind the scenes as a treasury secretary nominee. And now writing in an oped nut the Washington Post that says this we know that washington insiders and their establishment allies are ready to declare that unity and consensus mean turning over the governing keys to giant corporations and their lobbyists. The exact opposite of what voters want. Democrats must resist this pressure. And, remember, as all these prominent democrats and progressives start pushing themselves forward during the primary season, biden said that if he was elected his cabinet would look like the country. It would be very diverse. Dana. Dana also, peter. And im going to bring this up with the panel next. They also said that they did not intend to have any senators as cabinet secretary so i think this is all a little interesting. Very interesting. Were going to keep talking about it. Peter doocy, thank you so much. Wanting to bring in our panel Richard Fowler and katie pavlich. As peter was talking about biden and warren saying oh, sure i would be honored of course it would be great if i had the portfolio. If you just remember it was like three weeks ago, katie, that the Biden Campaign let it be known that they werent interested necessarily in having senators there. And, in particular, with Elizabeth Warren if she were to get a cabinet position and leave the senate, she would then be replaced by Governor Charlie Baker who would appoint somebody and Governor Charlie Baker is a republican. And if you are looking at these razor thin margins not to have a monologue im guessing why would warren and bernie keep doing this . Also i believe that the governor of vermont is a republican as well it. Would be two Republican Senate seats essentially that democrats would then have to defend in a special election that they are when they are going to have to be defending keeping the house with these razor tight margins. I think this is maybe i dont know what Bernie Sanders was thinking other than he wants his far left policies to be represented in a Biden Administration. You have to remember if he does not become a cabinet secretary and the democrats take the senate through these georgia seats, he will be in charge of the budget and Banking Commission in the senate. And you will have maybe, you know, Elizabeth Warren will be able to willing her wa wilg hery chairmanship. Either way they will be represented. Of course the cabinet will depend on Georgia Senate race and whether Mitch Mcconnell is vetting cabinet nominees or whether schumer is going to push those nominees through. They will be very different nominees based on how much leverage they are going to have in the senate. Dana i feel like any segment i do always reverts back to these runoffs in georgia. Richard, even if i did another segment. Im sorry. Dana no, dont be sorry. Its absolutely true. Because, thats where all the if we did a story right now about murder hornets, somehow it would come back to be about the Georgia Senate runoff and i can see that actually happening quite easily. Elizabeth warrens oped that she wrote she said this is what biden and harris should prioritize on first day and im sure biden and harris warn has things she wants to do. Give us your take . I know im sounding skeptical here. Im a little tired. Its been a long couple of weeks. Whats your take on all of this. Listen in the words of Gladys Knight washington is going to be leaving on the Midnight Train to georgia because i agree with you. Everything comes down to what happens on this january 5th senate race. That determines who thats revolutionary who joe biden can pick it. Who can pass Mitch Mcconnells senate and who can pass Chuck Schumers senate. When joe biden said he is the leader of this party and hes the one that is in control of the levers of this party and he plans to be a president for all americans, he meant that and as the president elect, i think you will see a cabinet from him that looks like the entire country. There will be republicans in his cabinet there will be some centrists in his cabinet. There might be one or two progressives in this cabinet. This cabinet will look less like the Progressive Left or less like the far right and more like the American People which is diversity in political views. Diversity in getting ways to get things done. But, once again, it all comes down to what happens in these two senate races and thats why all trains are leaving to georgia. Dana they are going to georgia. They are. Business katie are concerned with the thought of Bernie Sanders as labor secretary. I dont think they have to worry about that given how we set this up. Let me give you the last word on this thursday afternoon. You know, Bernie San

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