A federal judge and also significant because of the extremely scathing language he used. He likened the trump appeal to a frankenstein monster which had been put together. Have hazard lee. He made very clear that he believed there was no grounds for the trump claim whatsoever. And this makes it very unlikely that it can go on an appeal given that there are no grounds. Nevertheless, trumps lawyer says personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, who argued the case before the judge says he wants to take it to the next level, the 3rd district and from there to the supreme court. But very difficult to see how he is going to achieve that. And very significantly to the senate for pennsylvania. Pat toomey has issued a statement saying that the judge in this particular case, matthew brand, is a lifelong republican, with no legal bias whatsoever. He considers the whole matter. Now closed the legal position over and he congratulated president elect joe biden, and his administration looking forward. He says,
Of about 14000 votes. Now it is possible that that lead could be reduced even further because there has been some reporting that there were some uncounted votes that were discovered in georgia. But the just general consensus has been that this still wont overturn the narrow lead. The joe biden has over donald trump, that it may reduce it from 14212800. So still not enough to undo the result that has been projected, as donald trump has claimed. So were watching for that very carefully in time is of the essence for the truck campaign. If it was to try and challenge these results because once released, if it is very close, they could and do have the opportunity to request one more recount unclear if theyre going to do that or not. But the votes are to be certified in that state. The u. S. State of georgia on friday, so its a very tight timeline for any sort of recourse should the trunk campaign choose to do so. My palm bay has become the 1st us section of state to visit an illegal israeli
The 25th on december, the 1st it will have to hand over the lot in district, and that includes the important corridor connecting the corner. Kyra back to armenia. Thats now under the control of russian peacekeepers, azerbaijan will keep all of its territorial gains, including the corner kind of box 2nd city shock. Horror abdelhamid has more from election. There are very few people here at the moment weve begun. Weve barely seen any civilians. Weve seen some of the armenians who had stayed here to defend their area. You probably see behind me, theres also the russian peacekeepers. Theyve been deploying mass. Weve seen huge convoys of them along the road. Now. Theyre lachine district is the last one, handed over. It was actually the 1st one to be captured by the armenians back in the early 1990 s. Simply because it is the lifeline. Now gorno karabakh of the is this one road that goes all the way from armenia, from gori, is the border town all the way to stick by my character. And that on
Im David Rubenstein coming from the library of congress, the Jefferson Building and its part of our National Book festival and have a pleasure of interviewing richard hoss who is the president of a foreign relation and ive written a new eczema book called the world a brief introduction by richard hoss, thank you very much for coming today. Great to be with you. For those of you that dont know your background, i want to talk a little bit about the bo book, you are native of new york and went to college in ohio and became a Rhodes Scholar, what did you do to become a Rhodes Scholar and for those of you who are not aware there is only 32 people picked every year in the Rhodes Scholar and youre one of the top 32 students, what did you do to be one of the top 32 students when you graduated. My children would claim it was an administrative error i did nothing to confuse the scholarship, i could also answer i was one of 32 people who peaked young and peaked at the right time, my own guess i h
Backgrounds of the nominees as examples of the american dream. Linda thomas greenfield, nominated as u. S. Ambassador and 100 by all costs, are latino immigrants nominated to lead the department of homeland security. And avril haynes, the 1st female director of national intelligence. If confirmed mr. President like, you know that i have never shied away from speaking truth to power. But for all the talk of diversity, this is a National Security team that symbolizes the return of the washington Foreign Policy establishment after 4 years in the cold. None more so than secretary of state nominee tony blinken, deputy secretary of state under president obama, and a long time Foreign Policy adviser to biden. Hes known to be far more of an advocate for u. S. Military intervention around the world than the president elect. Lincoln has spent the last few years consulting for weapons manufacturers and big tech america at its best. Still has a greater ability than any other country on earth to br