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good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. as the biden transition enters a new critical phase, the president-elect and vice president-elect both receiving their first top secret presidential daily briefings today. weeks after they were declared the election winners because president trump unprecedented refusal to concede the race. it will be joe biden's first chance to learn about the current threats facing the nation as tensions mount with iran and the coronavirus surges. the intelligence briefing coming as biden continues his transition with big announcements. officially unveiling more members of the economic team led by treasury nominee janet yellen. and the rollout last night of the first all-woman communications team led by kate bedingfield as communications director. and former obama white house communications director jen
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psaki as the new nominated press secretary. those positions not having to be confirmed. the president-elect is on the mend after a c.t. scan last night confirming several hairline fractures in his right foot. an injured suffered saturday while playing with his dog major. >> president trump tweets his hopes that mr. biden gets well soon. after a holiday weekend that the president spent ramping up his false claims against joe biden after the election in a new live interview on fox. joining me geoff bennett in wilmington. and jen palmieri, and stephanie cutter, deputy senior adviser to president obama. what a great way to start off. geoff bennett, first, take us through the president-elect's day, what we know about the expanding team. and the big economic team
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announcement today. >> well, andrea, in addition to nursing his hairline fractured foot, the president-elect, as you mentioned today, is receiving for the first time since winning the election the president's daily brief. and for those who are unfamiliar, the pdb is a highly classified top-level collection of national security information and analysis. and i suspect that. db and joe biden ands have president-elect kamala harris is looking a lot different than joe biden grew accustomed to in 2007. in large part because this pdb was changed to suit president trump it's shorter and less nuanced. and the report is that when joe biden gets sworn in he basically gets to form the pdb to his own liking. the president-elect is forming the upper echelon of his
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economics and history making team. for the first time, the senior white house team responsible for crafting the white house message and speaking on behalf of the president, they will all be women. jen psaki named press secretary. beyond that, as you mentioned, he's naming, formally naming his economics team to serve alongside janet yellen. miura tandon, and dr. rouse agency the chair of economic advisers. already, there's been early talk about how republicans and how some progressives aren't thrilled with tandon as joe biden's pick to lead omb because of remarks she made on twitter and elsewhere. i'm told the reason she was selected for that role is the wealth of lived experience. in large part because as a
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child, her family was gedepende on big government programs that he will be responsible for overseeing and helping to implement. her family was on food stamps. her family used section 8 to pay for the rent. this is the diversity of lived experience beyond race and gender that joe biden is trying to amass in his top picks. andrea. >> also having a south asian background from indian immigrant family as well. jen palmieri, you've had one of these top communications job. what are kate bedingfield and jen psaki bringing to the table? a few years, let's put it kindly, of false and incorrect statements from the trump press team and from the white house podium. >> yeah, that is why kate and jen are such a pick, because they both have so much experience already in the administration. sa jen psaki was the spokesperson
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for state department spokesperson and has a lot of foreign policy experience and not to mention the white house communications director. there is not anyone more prepared in the history of the country to take the podium than jen psaki. she has a lot of credibility with reporters. long-standing relationship. really respects the work that they do, they respect her. and she's protected that through her career which goes back a couple decades now. she has a lot of credibility with them. and kate bedingfield, kate and jen and i started working together in the 2004 election. i worked with her on the john edwards campaign and two or three presidential campaigns and in the white house when she worked for vice president biden. she's someone who understands president biden. really relies on her.
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she's a very trusted adviser. the press know that about her but she also has a lot of experience in figuring out how you best communicate it all. the communications job of the president, not just the staff, is a big responsibility. there's a credibility that biden has to restore. and this team understands what that charge is and has a lot of experience in doing it. it's an all-female pick but an all-star pick. and the best people for the job just happen to be women. >> you know, i think it's fair to say that having dealt with all of these people for years and years, you're absolutely correct in all of this. the credibility with reporters is really important. and the knowledge of the principle who is, of course, the president of the united states, bedingfield could not be closer and have a better working knowledge of what works best for him. because she's got the fit for communications strategy. and jen psaki, might i say, mike
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mckrcurry -- she's had a lot mo experience than mike mccurry. to are that experience to know what to say and whatnot to say in critical moments of foreign policy really helps add to the luster that jen psaki brings to that. stephanie cutter, you've worked with all of these people well. the biden team may still be dealing with the majority of the senate. we don't know what's happening on january 5th, of course. which takes some of these confirmation battles, like nery tandon does need confirmation. and they're not shy coming to bat for neera tanden. >> yeah, it's interesting to see republican staffers early start challenging this nomination, even when it was made over
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neera's tweets which essentially hold republicans accountable. this after four years -- or four-plus years of donald trump using twitter as a -- you know, personal retribution platform. where he says some pretty nasty things coming from the president of the united states. society hypocrisy is very real. here is someone who is fearless in calling people out for their hypocrisy. calling people out for not doing their jobs, for not standing up for the american people. and in particular, not standing up for working americans. she's spent her career crafting policies, implementing policies and ensuring the role of government is to help all americans, not just those at the top. so, if they're going to, you know, pick a fight over neera's tweets, it's really showing the weakness of their arguments. and that's, you know, if i were on the transition, that would be a fight i would be willing to have.
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>> indeed, they are already. carol lee, we heard from the president, i think it was the first interview since the election. fox business yesterday morning. he was given an open forum to air more false claims about the election. let's watch. >> they say we don't have proof. i wanted to file one suit, donald j. trump, president of the united states, against -- you know, put everything into one simple suit. they say, sir, you don't have standing. i say i don't have standing, you mean as president of the united states, i don't have standing? what kind of a court system is this? >> what kind of a court system is it? it's a court system that was created by the founders. carol lee, the president lieulelie clueless really about how the court cases work. the federal courts, state courts, any courts. anyway, will you take it from there as to what he's doing today? >> well, look, what you heard from the president there also,
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andrea, is some frustration with the limits of the powers of the presidency. he wants to be able to force his will on these checks and balances that are built in so that the president can't just do whatever he wants. and it all came after he had several defeats including some pretty stinging ones in court in pennsylvania. where the judges there issued some pretty harsh decisions knocking down the president's legal efforts. including a judge that was nominated by president trump himself who said that his lawsuit had no real serious allegations and no evidence of any sort of fraud that the president and his team have been alleging. that hasn't stopped the president. he's continuing on with his claims, and rudy giuliani, his personal lawyer, is in arizona currently -- giving, making the case of allegations of fraud, none of which has been substantiated to try to pressure republicans there to somehow overturn the results in that state which are certified today.
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you heard the president himself also in that interview saying he's taking that all the way to the supreme court. although, interestingly, he had doubt in his voice, about whether or not not that is going to be successful saying it's a hard thing to do. one of the notable things that the president said in the 45 minutes interview yesterday, even after all this is said and done, he's not going to change his mind. in six months from now, his mind will be changed, he still thinks there's fraud, andrea. >> aneesh, going back to the president-elect and the injuries suffered. he fell with his dog major on saturday. it wasn't until sunday that the white house knew he was going somewhere. then it turned out to be a doctor for an x-ray and imaging for ct scans. they weren't as forthcoming as you would hope they would be with the press pool that's supposed to cover it?
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>> well, andrea, the thing that we have to focus on with history-making appointments to be made with this all-female staff this is a press that's going to be pressing and asking the same questions which you just posed, how forthcoming can you be, how can we get information realtime. there's already been some tension when we called it a lid and president-elect biden ended up going somewhere, so essentially the white house -- i should say, the transition team wasn't giving the reporters the heads-up that they needed to cover that. we're going to be pushing. we're going to be pushing for answers there are questions facing president-elect biden, like how are you going to look for the separated children? and how are you going to do all that president trump rolled back in court?
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this president was still without evidence claiming he won the election. but there's a lot of questions from the media at times was oppositional. at times criticizing the media, and still taking questions and engaging in a way that other presidents have not done. i think there are going to be a lot of reporters pressing saying how transparent is the biden administration going to be. we're told they're going to be very transparent. we're told that they're going to tell the truth, if there are people that want to interact in a real way. but we've started to see with the questions, how transparent is biden going to be. >> geoff, just to housekeep here, we still don't know who is going to be attorney general or the defense secretary and that was announced at the national security team last week. and who is the cia director as well? >> yeah, and our team reporting on that, tom donovan, the former
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obama director has taken himself out of the running to be the oba biden cia director. on top of that there's been push to have an african-american hold a position. and he's on the short list to be a.g. then also jeh johnson, the highly regarded former director of security in the obama administration, also on a short list for a number of positions, an agr andrea. >> to be continued. thank you all for getting us started. the race for a vaccine, a second drugmaker now applying for emergency use authorization from the fda. as experts warn we could soon
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with covid cases in the u.s. now topping 13 million people, dr. anthony fauci warned on "meet the press" of a dangerous spread after thanksgiving. >> what we expect, unfortunately, as we go for the next couple of weeks into december, that we might see a surge superimposed upon that surge that we're already in. we know when you mitigate with masks, with distance, with not having crowds in congregate settings, you can actually see that the curve starts to do this. >> this as moderna today is
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asking the fda to green-light its vaccine after pfizer asked for approval last week. the pfizer vaccine has to be stored in ultra cold freezers which moderna does not. over the weekend, there was news that essential united airlines chartered flights were already flying some vaccines from brussels to chicago pending fda approval. jacob soboroff joins us live outside of l.a. the pfizer, jacob, let's talk about what's happening in california, setting an all-time record in hospitalizations over the weekend. why did they choose cedar sinai how to store the vaccine? >> reporter: it's a great question, andrea. the simple answer is logistics. cedar sinai has had experience with what they call ultra cold storage here. 180 below zero farren.
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80 degrees below zero, celsius. it's a technology that we we talked about is necessary for the pfizer vaccine which requires a first dose and then a second dose. and this could not have come at a more critical time and bleaker tame for california and county of los angeles. the county of los angeles is the most populous county in america. with 12 million people. there are seven all-time highs in the state of california, 2800 of them were here in california. many of them here at cedar sinai. los angeles county, as of today, this morning, is under a new stay-at-home order. no one is able to gather with people outside of their immediate family group or family unit. except for certain circumstances here in los angeles. as i said, while the vaccine is not here yet inside these ultra low cold storage freezer, the logistic, the centralized
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logistics here in cedar sinai will make the vaccine, 200,000 of them, able to be stored here the minute they get them. andrea. >> jacob soboroff. thank you. joining us dr. schake from johns hopkins. thank you for joining us. we've got two vaccines awaiting the fda approval, first pfizer and now moderna. cdc advisers are going to vote on who gets the vaccine first. what are your biggest concerns about the rollout? >> well, i think it's a lot to happen very quickly. you'll get the recommendations from the cdc, but probably in the risk groups there's too many people compared to the amount of vaccine we'll have. so the states will have to figure out how to portion that vaccine within the groups and how to logistically pull it off. it's going to happen rather
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quickly and may go better in some states than others. >> and you also have not too much coming through the pipeline because astrazeneca had that setback and had another phase of trials because of concerns that they had. they were producing a lot of single dose vaccines that were much more portable, easier to roll out. they were being pre-produced in india in great volumes. so you're going to have to decide between front line health workers. we're told over the weekend that the fire department is going to get access in new york city, for their front line emergency responders. then you've got senior citizens, you've got senior citizens in congregate groups. how do they make those decisions? they're playing god. >> well, i think we'll get some regulate from the food and drug administration that they're going to do and the commentary that will come from the independent experts because we
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when the president-elect finally gets his first presidential daily intelligence brief today it's likely it's going to be the escalating crisis with iran. after the assassination of iran's top nuclear scientist that iran is blaming on israel. today he's being buried after being assassinated on friday. new claims that he was killed with a machine gun, iran is vowing revenge. neither the u.s. or israeli officials commenting. joining me now john brennan, former director of the cia during the obama administration. his book is called "undaunted." tell me what the president-elect will be getting?
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>> it daily brief will include everything that the president and vice president will get that they deem is necessary to protect national security interest. i'm hoping that joe biden is going to receive the same pdb, certainly it's going to look different than it did during the obama administration because it's usually tailored in terms of format to cater to the interests of the incumbent in the oval office. but it's critically important that joe biden have the ability two months in advance, so he understands the dynamics at play on the full range of issues that the president of the united states needs to deal with including on day one of his presidency. >> and he can ask questions or ask to look at backup material, can he not? because we know president trump rarely getting the intelligence briefing in the first place. does not read very much. but even if it's bare bones and highly visual, pictorial for his
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benefit, joe biden can ask questions of his briefers? >> absolutely. i think donald trump does not meet with an intelligence briefer. joe biden i think will insist that an intelligence briefer be there so president-elect biden can ask questions, he can make comments. he can see clarification from the briefer. i do think it's going to be an interactive session that he's going to have with the briefers. and to ensure he has full grasp that remains there terrorist threats to relations between the united states, china, russia and the full range of other p proliferation and others. >> you called the assassination of the iran nuclear scientist totally reckless. tell us as it is with iran and israel who has done this before? >> andrea, i don't know who carried out the attack or
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authorized this but i have two main concerns, one is if a country had authorized or conducted the attack i think it's beyond the norm that states should engage in, in terms of assassinating officials of senior government. israel and iran are not at war. just the way we would condemn any type of assassination carried out by russia or china, we should do it when there's a senior official of a sovereign state assassinated. secondly as we're going from an important transition from one administration to the other, we want to make sure there's not going to some type of escalation in the middle east that could lead to some confrontation. that clearly that the trump administration has a different approach to iran than the biden administration. but in the waning days of the trump administration for them to do something is that could provoke a retaliatory iranian strike that could lead to
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tensions we don't know where that would mind up. i think it's in the best interest of the country not to have any provocations. i don't know who started it but we need to tamp down the tensions as opposed to try to escalate them. >> you know, we don't -- we don't know who did it. but we do know that mike pompeo, bibi netanyahu and the crown prince of saudi arabia, mohammed bin salman were together in the kingdom, just a week before this operation took place pipe would speculate, i don't know if you would, that it's highly unlikely that this would not be discussed or some aspect of it. how common would it be for israel to pull something off without notifying the u.s.? >> i'm glad that israel and the
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on sovereign state are having talk. and if israel conducted any type of assassinations during the obama administration, we would have raised immediately our objections and concerns about it. and so, i don't know what has transpired in terms of what might have been shared between secretary pompeo, mbs and netanyahu. but the timing of this may just be incidecoincidental, but also concerning in terms what might have been shared with u.s. tolerance. >> certainly, the iranians are looking into that as well. mike mullen, the former chairman of the joint chiefs told chuck todd that he's concerned about the loyalists at the pentagon, what they may do in the next 49 or 50 days. >> well, i think we should all be concerned about it, because i think mark esper was standing strong against trump's efforts
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to do certain types of things. so, i do not believe that the current senior leadership of the pentagon has the same spine and willingness to speak out and push back against some of these activities. so, over the next number of weeks that trump remains in the white house, i don't know what will he might have planned, in terms of using the u.s. military either on a domestic front or on the international arena. but i do think he has, trump has demonstrated a tendency to be impulsive and not to take the best interest of the country at heart. only see what is in his best interest as he continues to, i think, be a lame duck, during these last two months. >> john brennan, former cia director, thank you so much, as always. >> thanks, andrea. and the trail blazer joe biden picking another first for treasury secretary, with a growing economic crisis including unemployment, potential eviction crisis coming
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♪ joe biden has announced his nomination for his economic team. a diverse group of former obama administration officials and others who play key roles in the aftermath of the 2009 financial crisis including janet yellen as treasury secretary she'll be the first woman to hold that. yellen tweeted for the first time today, saying we face great challenges as a country right now. to recover, we mutt restore the american dream, a society where each person can rise to their potential and dream even bigger for their children. as treasury secretary, i will work every day towards rebuilding that dream for all. also anned now, wally adeyemo.
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and nery tanden, the nomination is receiving flak from republican senators. and the incoming white house press secretary jen psaki. and cecilia rouse. if confirmed the team will inherit a devastating crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated by republican senate blocking bills. joining me now, jason furman. jason, first of all, your reaction to the team. >> it's a dream team, andrea, a great group of people, each individually and together, so focused. i believe janet yellen.
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>> janet yellen's academic career was rooted in labor markets. she's presumably going to focus on exactly what joe biden wants to do. the wage inequality. the disparities that have been only exacerbated by covid. >> absolutely. i mean, this is something she spoke to as chair of the federal reserve. it's even more relevant, for the treasury secretary, who has a broader overview of the economy as a whole to care and focus on inequality, how workers are doing in our economy. >> you just authored a piece in foreign affairs, with the crisis opportunity. you highlight the differences between then and now, the obama and the growing financial crisis now that biden is dealing with is another crisis. let's talk about the key differences. one is low interest rates. they can afford to do more,
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right? >> that's absolutely right. the dead is higher, but what matters is how much interest you're paying on the debt and family. and right now, can you afford your mortgage payments. right now, the american public can't afford those but what we can't afford is to scrimp on those. and the nomination is still in flux this week, one more democrat is going to be sworn in, mark kelly, from that special election in arizona, as soon as it's certified in the next hour or so. he's going to be sworn in on wednesday giving one more democratic vote. senator grassley was out because the covid is coming back as well so that may balance out. right now, there are two open g openings. one having a qualified. >> yeah, judy shelton is one of
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the worst nominees to the fed in my lifetime. she was condemned, the national review on the right to every publication i know of on the left. i hope that slot is open for president biden to fill with the types of excellent candidates for the fed in the past. >> we should point out that mitch mcconnell is showing no reluctance towards the white house to nominate people in the last couple of days, the boards and to rush through the confirmation in closing days. unprecedented to do this during the transition that is already this brief. jason furman, thank you so much. we'll be talking to you often, i hope as time progresses as we watch this economic team get into shape and kick off. and the ex-trump administration official in charge of keeping the election safe is slamming the president for pushing conspiracy theories
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president trump's fired head of election cyber security is speaking out for the first time since he was, quote, terminated in a trump tweet. chris krebs, the lifelong republican flatly rejecting the president's false claims of fraud on an interview on "60
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minutes." and defending officials around the country including republicans for standing up to the white house. >> and it's in my view a travesty what's happening right now with all of these death threats to election officials to secretaries of state. i want everybody to look at secretary boockvar in pennsylvania. secretary hobbs in arizona, all strong women that are standing up, that are under attack from all sides, and they're defending democracy. they're doing their job. look at secretary rapperappensb in georgia. there are heroes out there. there are real patriots. >> the next hour, arizona's governor and secretary of state republicans are set to certify the election results.
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joining me now democrat mark warner, first of all, the president continues to make the false he undermining confidence public confidence in the election? >> first of all, let me just say that chris krebs you had on is somebody who stood up and did his job very well. clearly, mr. trump is undermining democracy, but let's take a moment and step back. if we were looking 60 days ago, a month before the election, sitting at vice chair of the committee we were afraid we would see foreign interference. we were afraid of violence on election day or people trying to be intimidated or maybe americans not being able to
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vote. around election it, we kept out the foreign interference. americans voted in record numbers for both joe biden and donald trump. both presidential candidate supporters performed i think peacefully. and even in the aftermath when the president tried to call the supportive tweets, it was not violent. then in the -- after the election, we've seen state after state the recount system work. the judicial system work, and i actually think from record turnout to no violence to foreign interference being precluded, this is a celebration. and the only exception to that has been behavior not only self-serving but frankly -- >> on another subject, let me
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ask you about iran and what are your concerns after this assassination of their top scientist? >> the scientist was clearly the leader of the iranian nuclear program, and i hope and pray that we do not see any efforts in the administration in the remaining days of a conflict. the iranian government is obviously -- they are definitely on the militant side. they are not friends of america. the idea that donald trump might try to stir a conflict would be outrageous, but nothing is beyond the thought train of possibility with this administration. we've seen already in being willing to undermine all our allies in afghanistan by
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arbitrarily taking down the troop level. i am worried about them, especially leaving us in a weak spot. >> there's also, of course, another crisis facing joe biden, and that is co-vid relief. we're running out of money. the deadline is december 11th for the government, and co-vid relief funding is forcing -- about to force people to not have their relief on rental, the waivers on rental and mortgage security. all these things are expiring now. what can be done to try to get some co-vid relief? sources are telling us there is a bipartisan group of senators and you are one of the members of this group trying to come up with some kind of breakthrough on the stalemate. >> it would be stupidity on steroids if we -- if congress didn't act before the holidays.
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the idea that people are going to be pushed out of apartments january 1st, or that we're not going to give adequate funding for testing or vaccine distribution, it would be the worst self-inflicted harm in recent times. we need to get back to the notion of stepping up in march. we need to do more. and i think people of good faith are working together to see if we can get a meaningful package. both sides are going to have to compromise. the democrats aren't going to get what they want with their plan, and clearly the so-called skinny plan is not nearly enough to provide a bridge. >> and i haven't been able to talk to you since donald trump pardoned mike flynn. are you expecting a lot more pardoning, a flurry of pardons from this president, including
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potentially himself? >> if you can predict with donald trump and his followers are going to do, you're better than i. remember, michael flynn was somebody who pleaded guilty not once but twice. potentially ep gangaging with foreign agents and lying to the fbi. good willing, this will soon be all a footnote in history. >> mark warner, thank you very much. thank you for being with us, and a programming note. chris krebs will be on "today" tomorrow morning, his first live interview. make sure you're catching up with that. that does it for this post thanksgiving edition of "andrea mitchel reports" follow the show on facebook and on twitter at mitchel reports. kasie hunt is in for chuck todd
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if it's monday, vaccines are on the horizon, but right now this country is facing a co-vid nightmare before christmas with record case numbers and record hospitalizations as health experts in the white house and with the biden transition brace for yet another spike after the thanksgiving holiday. plus president-elect biden gets his formal briefing from
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the white house as the biden transition announces more key staff and cabinet picks while preparing for some brutal confirmation battles ahead. and the president and his allies keep fighting with false claims of voter fraud and new attacks on republican officials in georgia where control of the senate hangs in the balance. welcome to monday. it's "meet the press daily". i'm kasie hunt. the biden transition kicks into high gear and the pandemic is raging out of control. today for the first time both the president-elect and the vice president elect will receive the presidential daily brief from the white house. biden announced the white house communications team, economic team and

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