The next 30 minutes donald trump demands a recount and files lawsuits in key states as his path to victory narrows also the outcome of the election hinges on 4 states where mainly postal votes are now being tallied. And in other news the u. N. Calls for an immediate deescalation of tensions as ethiopias Prime Minister calls in troops into tikrit province following an attack on a military base. Welcome to the program democratic candidate joe biden is now just 6 Electoral College votes away from the u. S. Presidency after flipping michigan and wisconsin which donald trump now really won 4 years ago by now has a total of 264 Electoral College votes while donald trump has 214 now remember the magic number to become president is 270 here in yellow you can see the state still in play nevada in the west and georgia North Carolina in the south and theyre up in the north pennsylvania donald trump has launched legal action in several states over the votes being counted well lets look at georgia
Forward today. I think lisa is going to talk about it. The last moment i saw as we wait for washington to awake this morning with the president nudging away from the republican reticence more towards the place of Speaker Pelosi. I have no idea what that means. After what we went through yesterday, we are littered literally we are literally monitoring when does the president wake up and advance his campaign through any actions throughout the day. Jonathan we understand there will be an interview at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on fox news. 1 3negotiations for me, the of the negotiations that really matters and has hardly moved, Senate Republicans and leader mcconnell. Where are they in this . Weve heard from mnuchin, from the president , from Speaker Pelosi. Mcconnell is on the sidelines. Hes the guy that finalizes that deal. Tom this is really important, and it goes to what axios said about the republicans really fighting for their lives, having to do with attorney general barr and all of that.
The nasdaq was lower but it is catching up. And the dowup. 9 up by about as much. The dollar index is stronger. Still below 93. Two of the better performing stocks, brownforman which is the topperforming stock primarily thanks to a surge in spirits and of course, the Michael Jordan news. Rally,g with the equity citigroups Tobias Levkovich recently raising his target on the s p 500 to 3300. He joins us now by phone. Thank you for joining. We are a little bit higher than that right now. There is going to be a leg lower to this market. It is still going to hold up somewhat into the end of the year. We are not going to see a crash according to you. Tobias the best way to put this is the fed is going to prevent it in many respects in terms of policy initiatives where there is this fascinating feedback loop phenomenon where stock prices go down, he will start getting very worried. People will start getting very worried. It will ebb and flow. It is unlikely for the markets of the you about 40
Begin with the latest figures on covert 19 the Global Pandemic is into a new month confirmed cases are still soaring 3400000 there is some hope though 1100000 people have recovered but the grim number you can see fatalities more than 243000. Well the brazilian president is being blamed for not doing enough to stop the outbreak of corona virus as the death toll in the country goes postes 6000. 00 shy of all sonora earlier dismissed the virus as being nothing more than a little flu and on friday a Brazilian Court gave the president 48 hours to release his covered 19 test results something he hasnt done yet hes kind of open as the details new cases of corona virus are turning up in brazil each day the numbers are mounting the death rate is estimated to be much higher due to limited testing weve got brazil preparing big graveyards anticipating lots of victims brazils president has been reluctant to acknowledge the threat of coronavirus now with over 6000 deaths this is his response. So i w
Good morning im the director of the middle east program and we are delighted to welcome you to what i think will be a fascinating program on us policy and strategy after the Qassem Soleimani strike. First in the unlikely event we need to evacuate the building i will tell you where to go. I dont think that will be a problem but i will direct you. Also thank you for those who have supported todays activity. They have done it in a way that is exemplary for the way a policy discussion should do so to set up a conference so there is no responsibility for what we say but but it is an issue of significant broad interest we are grateful for the support. Looking at what has happened in the gulf there is a broader National Debate if the us should be digging in or pulling out. Iran is perceived to be a threat. Even within the chump Administration Even how the us should deal with that threat the us increasingly has been facing asymmetrical threats and responding with conventional tools that has be