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six of his cabinet appointees have already been announced. or four that could be announced in the days still to come. john kerry has a cabinet role as a leader on this climate change, the envoy or czar, but he-a very prominent -- he will have a very prominent role in his administration. let's sort of pick apart who he has chosen and why he's chosen them and a cabinet that the vice president-elect was minute to be representative of the diverse american public. marie harp is with us right now, served with, of course, obama. brian brenberg, kings college of business and economic professor. brian, ended with you, so if i could begin with you, your thought on the folks who are going to make up this cabinet right now. you know, republicans have said, all right, this is back to a traditional cabinet, one that emphasizes the values of the prior president not the current president. your thoughts. >> well, they're familiar faces and names if you've paid attention to the foreign policy establishment, and i think's really going to be the issue here, what

, clearly a majority in the cabinet for a uk cabinet, there clearly a majority in the cabinet fora ukis a clearly a majority in the cabinet for a uk cabinet, there is a strong desire on the part of the eu not to let it go, not to walk away from talks, even though they think the british have been very intransigent. but nevertheless, the time is very, very short. which is why i think what we may end up seeing quite soon as suggestions of some of those extraordinary eu tricks, like stopping the clock, or in some way coming up with a form of transition thatis coming up with a form of transition that is not a transition. something, both in the short term to ease the ratification process through the european parliament and national parliament uk, because people are even talking about having to come to a conclusion by the european side the week after this coming one. well, that really leaves very little time. so increasingly i think people will start to look at, can we avoid falling off the cliff edge of trading relationships by extending, in some way? and also i think it is conceivable that

make sure they are not in the cabinet and to make sure , they're not only in the cabinet, but at critical places across the administration. there are a lot of positions that have to be filled and those folks have a lot of influence, even if they're not of the cabinet level. we are looking for progressives in the cabinet, all the way through the administration, and let's win first, bob,but obviously that is very important a signal to the progressive movement that joe biden is committed to what he said in the campaign and that he will deliver justice and equality and opportunity for working families, for the most vulnerable, for folks of color across the country. robert what about speaker : pelosi? will you support her for another term? rep. jayapal: obviously, it depends on who is running. robert she is most certainly : running. rep. jayapal: the question is whether or not anyone is running against her. speaker pelosi, i will support the most progressive candidate. i can't see a challenge to speaker pelosi that maybe there is someone planning to run that i don't know. again, let's get thro

cabinet rank, we have broken the cabinet rank ceiling here. former deputy national security advisor and former advisor to the n.s.c. he is someone who has sat at the nexus of foreign policy, u.s. politics and communication and he knows a little something about northeast asia as well. the pride of stillwater, minnesota, he currently is a professor at notre dame and i , think he microing mores the st. john's university athletic department from afar. i see the football helmet in the background there, an institution alum.ch he is a proud he holds a master's degree from georgetown university and most, i think, notably for those with follow entertainment, played by john hamm in the movie "the report." not many people can say that. welcome, mr. mcdonough, to the excellent. great to be with you. been looking forward to this conversation and happy to see victor too as well. >> finally, someone using my usual title. let's go to our usual panelist, victor cha. professor at georgetown, former bush n.s.c., welcome back victor. how did notre dame get , mcdo

there will be republicans in his cabinet there will be some centrists in his cabinet.ht 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 that's 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 don't 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 sanders cited bread lines in nicaragua as a model of economic success and wealth. so i would also be worried about that. but, also, you know, they keep saying that joe biden is the head of the democratic party now. and that may be true. but let's not forget that the house, congresswomen like alexandria ocasio-cortez, ilhan omar have been able to

czar will see a cabinet who has cabinet level authority probably sitting in the white house initiallyworked in the white house, we set up the department of homeland security. the governor came down and was a senior advisor for homeland security working out of the white house and that grew into this enormous department of homeland security so we will start off with a climate czar we think is someone like tom steyer who ran for president against joe biden but has really made climate change the hallmark of his career in the last couple of years and who would come to washington to try and coordinate and lead u.s. government efforts to tackle climate change. one of the top agenda items is going to be trade, trade with europe, trade with china. whether america moves back towards multilateralism as we understand that, top of the agenda perhaps i executive order. be theyour estimate will trade representative with the clout to bring america in china and europe back onto perhaps a mode -- more even keel? stanleyd a morgan representative who worked in the clinton administration and also fred, wh

loyalists on this cabinet. if you look at his picks so far, these are people who have a relationship with joe biden dating back many years. i think he is most comfortable with people he can put out in the foreign policy arena and foreign leaders know they are speaking with the ear and the voice of the president. i think we see a lot of biden loyalties on the cabinet. taylor: on the point of improving relationships with allies to take on china, is it enough? some critics have said the rise of trumpism and america first was because the eight years under obama was not enough? how do you think about that? jeanne: i have a concern as well. this is one of the things i was frustrated by in the campaign. i never felt like i got an answer to what joe biden was going to do vis-a-vis china beyond restoring relations with other countries so they could join together and pushed china in certain directions, which very much seems to be harkening back to a obama approach, which had led to many people feeling underwhelmed and fr

that is more reflective than we're used to seeing in a cabinet. there are a lot of women, there are minorities in this cabinet pick and we're not nearly done with it yet. what are your initial thoughts? >> well, i think that the president-elect has selected people with extraordinary experience, a track record of leadership, subject matter expertise, and whose stories reflect the american story. each one of them particularly when we just heard recently from the foreign policy and national security team, each one of them described their background, and why they have the values that are right to meet the challenges of this moment and i think the president-elect hit the ground running with the coronavirus task force, with announcing those who were going to be in the white house initial group including his chief of staff and now we've seen the foreign policy national security team, and we just could not ask for better people to meet the daunting challenges that lie ahead and i'm confident that the rest of the cabinet will stay true to the commitment th

cabinet picks. biden is leaning toward people with a long track record in government. people can see how they stack up. how they look against the trump picks over the years. aligning with biden's aligning with alliances. how difficult is it to rejoin the agreements after four years of trump who took the opposite approach? >> i think it's a really tall order. it's a big task. part of the reason why he has i think chosen some of the people who have real experience in the trenches of policy making on these issues is because he knows that there is so much ground to make up, given the four years that we've just seen. there's no question that this cabinet that he's filling out here looks a lot like what we've seen in the past, a lot like the people he's worked with in the past, the people in the obama administration. if you look at the national security team, the deputies, committees and hash out the policies we've seen rule out under former president obama, it's a lot of those same people. so their exper

president-elect joe biden today announcing his first cabinet nominees.ocusing on his on foreign policy and national security teams. the picks rolling out ahead of biden's meeting of conference mayors. among the choices is tony blinken to serve at secretary of state. he served as deputy secretary of state during the obama administration and is national security adviser to biden when he was vice president. >> the greatest public servant i know, the vice president of the united states, joe biden. >> reporter: that selection welcomed today by former president barack obama. >> he was part of our inner circle in all of our key meetings throughout my presidency. he is outstanding. smart, gracious, a skilled diplomat, well regarded around the world. >> reporter: biden's other picks including alejandro mayorkas to serve as homeland security secretary. a former deputy secretary of dhs would be the physician latifirs immigrant to serve in that position. avril haines would be the first woman to lead the u.s. intelligence community. linda thomas-greenfield to serve a

of this week, if you want to know what cabinet agencies they are, who's going to be in those cabinetncies you will have to wait for the president-elect to say himself on tuesday. eric: who couldn't be, jacqui heinrich live in wilmington, delaware who covers abiding transition for a set fox news. reporter: a member of i enter biden's transition team tweeted tuesday is the date because they don't want to mess with anyone football or turkey signaling hope for quiet thanksgiving on the news front but there will be plenty of buzz before we get there, progressives have been vocal of wanting inclusion in the biden a administration. bernie sanders morning it'll be enormously insulting if they are left behind after helping him get elected. sanders is buying for labor secretary and they want warren heading up the treasury. biden already made his choice for that post but the nominees names have not been leaked. janet yellen is thought to be the front runner in progressive told fox business they would still yellen a victory, lail brainard is also on the short list and if biden picks the women fo

the population of a cabinet is a shared responsibility. the president should get significant deference in putting together his team, even though most democrats in the senate were not willing to do that for president trump, i was willing to do that for president obama. and i think that is important. having said that, especially when you have divided government, when the american people speak as they have, expanding the number of republicans in the house, probably giving us a majority still in the senate, growing republican majorities in state legislatures across the country, we have got to recognize we have a responsibility to advise and consent. people who are well outside the political mainstream don't bel ong in important senior-level cabinet posts. ongoing discussion between a republican senator and joe biden should he get sworn in as president. bob: remind me, did you oppose any obama nominee for his cabinet? sen. toomey: i certainly opposed some obama nominees. i don't remember whether i opposed specific people who were cabinet nomine

that will likely be a cabinet position as well. clearly the president-elect is moving forward, despite what we see in michigan. nia, also learning next up for cabinet picks, next week will be treasury secretary. i am told he is eyeing a history making choice in that regard. strongly considering as leading contenders two women. has not been a woman serve as treasury secretary in the u.s., and two top contenders are janet yellen, and layle brainard. current governor on federal reserve. she also worked with the obama administration. i am told that will come next week. tomorrow we believe secretary of state and other picks here in wilmington as well. >> jeff, we'll look for the formal announcement. thanks so much for the report. joining me now, washington bureau chief of "daily beast" and katherine lucy, white house reporter with "the wall street journal." thank you both for being here. jackie. we have seen more republicans urging this president to give up the game, start the transition. chris christie called the trump legal team a nat

he has announced some of the members of his cabinet, a cabinet that includes a lot of experts that already served under barack obama's administration. and that's terms of all the stories making news this hour. shares in tokyo, open champlain hieron news of the u.s. presidential transition, going ahead in only trading the nick i rose to levels not seen in almost 3 decades like other international markets. tokyo was also boid by new vaccine news. the strain is largest in line qantas has suggested it could make a coronavirus vaccination. a requirement for international air travel is its c.e.o. says qantas would implement the as a soon as a vaccine was made available. and he thought the room could become common practice among airlines. there are more encouraging signs in the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine. drug maker, astra zeneca and oxford university have announced their vaccine is up to 90 percent effective in preventing cove at 19. the next saying was most effective when patients were given a half dose followed by a full dose one month later. crucially, this new vaccine does not req

to his cabinet that he wants to make sure that they're taking the ethos and the premises he made in context of the campaign, which is overwhelmingly to reinvest in the alliances that are so important to the u.s. and obviously, none more important than the two critical alliances in northeast asia. with korea and with japan. he'll really be pushing on his cabinet representatives to get out there to make those promises real and so, when you think about the fact, well, is this going to be, you know, on the president's to-do list every day, not necessarily. i mean, in all candor, he's going to be dealing with the pandemic and dealing with the economy. but it's going to be on his agenda every day inasmuch as he's directing those cabinet members to make real his promises to the alliances, and to the allies on behalf of the alliances, to reinvest and reinvigorate, you know, the priority in those. >> that's really helpful and interesting, and just follow up on one piece and perhaps it's to suggest, also, be and tell me if i'm wrong, it's also going to be something that it's incumbent on the

as he refuses to officially concede, president-elect joe biden will announce several of his first cabinet picks today. theme here really is years of experience and also diversity. >> the fact is it is crucial that biden's new cabinet will be hitting the ground running. they face, of course, a raging pandemic in this country, sadly getting worse each day. a key model now projects 20 million infections in the u.s. by inauguration day. for perspective right now the country has already 12 million plus infections and that experts say under states the number. we're covering a lot of headlines. let's begin with arlette saenz in delaware. they've been doing this quietly the last several days now you get things are accelerating. >> reporter: that's right. now the biden transition can work full steam ahead as they have access to key transition resources. that letter from the gsa administrator emily murphy allows for the official transition process to begin. the biden team will now have access to millions of dollars in funding to fund its operations. it also has access to things like office space an

the senate has to approve all of joe biden's cabinet nominations. if mitch mcconnell chose to he could just not have hearings on any of them or not bring them to a vote which would require then incoming president biden to have his cabinet sort of serve in temporary or acting positions. but you know what? this may not happen. the country has sort of made a decision here that they want to just change presidents, and mitch mcconnell knows where the wind is blowing, and he also knows that there is a pandemic in this country and an economic crisis. and at some point all of these members of the senate are going to want to stand up and do something for their constituents. it is the best way for them to be on a path to be reelected in 2022. and given that is going to be mitch mcconnell's main priority, whatever he needs to do to get those republican senators, to get some relief to their constituents and take some credit for acting and maybe working with the new administration could be good politics, too. >> does that include health care? >> you know, it's r

president-elect biden already filling key positions in his cabinet.ff: is the biden camp jumping the gun? we have a live report, next. >> the cabinet and the team will look like america. that means diversity of ideology, diversity of background and he wants to have a range of views of people at the table. but he wants to have a diversity of voices at the table because he fully understands that's how he's going to move an agenda forward. jillian: president-elect joe biden moving forward with cabinet picks despite the president's ongoing claims of voter fraud. team trump says they're aiming all the way to the supreme court. griff: so will their strategy work? joining us now is constitutional law expert, mark smith. good morning, mark. how are you? >> good morning. griff: let's go right into what president-elect biden we expect from the cabinet announcement. there's three names here, tony blankin for secretary of state, jake sullivan, un ambassador and linda thomas greenfield, ltg as she's known, at the state department. it's interesting because three na

you've been paying close attention to as he names his cabinet. ha stands out from this new team that he's assembled? >> on national security this group reflects joe biden's philosophy. he believes in strong diploma si, robust alliances. all of them spoke to that today. secretary was the deputy at the department of homeland security that he will now lead. i think that sends a strong signal to the rank and file. al linda thomas greenfield. these have been pillared by the president for four years and the career people have been battered and here you have people who have a deep appreciation for those agencies. that's important. this is a historically diverse group. has oversight over our immigration enforcement. it was just a very, very diverse group. the president-elect is sending a strong signal there that he will follow through on his commitment to have the most diverse cabinet in history. >> on that point, laura, the president-elect promised a diverse cabinet. he's made history with some of the officials as david just pointed out that he's naming

the cabinet advises the president on matters of policy. the president and his helpers are limited, for this is a government not of men, but of laws, based upon the constitution. congress makes the laws. it is a parliament which, unlike many democratic parliaments, has no direct connection with the executive branch. this branch of government is made up of two houses, the senate and the house of representatives. a law may originate in either house, but must be approved by both of them. when a bill is passed by both houses, it is sent to the president. if the president also approves the bill, he signs it. it then becomes law. the president may veto a bill passed by the congress, but congress may still, by a two thirds majority, make the bill law. although the chief responsibility of congress is that of making laws, certain other responsibilities are delegated to the two houses. in the senate, or upper house, as it is called, each of the 48 states of the nation is represented by two elected members, making a total membership of 96. small state

>>> the cabinet will look like america. >> the position of secretary of state. the leading contender for that job is tony blanken. >> the president's legal team now says that sidney powell is not a member. sidney powell has been ra trafficking in conspiracies about the 2020 election. >>> the president's legal team has been an embarrassment. >>> you see people trafficking. those are the things we've got to realize are going to get us into even more trouble. >> i would expect day two, hoefully the first week will be immunized. >> we're going to need about 225 million people vaccinated. it's going to take a long time to do that. >> this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is "new day," it is monday, november 23rd, 6:00 here in new york. and breaking overnight, cnn has learned that president-elect joe biden will nominate longtime foreign policy adviser tony blinken to be the next secretary of state. it's seen as a sign that the incoming administration is trying to re

the cabinet is meeting to agree a tougher three—tiered system of local restrictions to come into forcen england when the lockdown ends early next month. they'll also finalise a relaxation over christmas across the uk. pubs and restaurants in england could be allowed to stay open longer, with an easing of the 10pm curfew. as new infections continue to slow, scotland, wales and northern ireland are all being consulted on shared arrangements for the festive period. the nhs in england is to get an extra £3 billion, but the chancellor warns of tough times ahead for the economy, as the country deals with the consequences of the pandemic. the economy is experiencing significant stress. we've seen that particularly in the labour market, with people'sjobs. we know that three quarters of a million people have tragically already lost theirjobs, with forecasts of more to come. a usjudge has dismissed president trump's latest challenge to his election defeat as a "frankenstein's monster" of a case. and... ..a moment she'll never forget — a baby elephant is rescued — afterfalling down a well in indi

he has promised his cabinet will look like america. i asked political analyst michael yaki for his thoughts on how. >>biden is doing on that. >>he's done a pretty good job and when you look at when you look at it was put in there and the fact that you have the first warming director of the national intelligence when you have janet yellen the former fed chair as the search or the treasury, the first woman to have that up you've all 100 majorca at dhs this is a good national security which is not only by diversity and balance and looking like america, it's right sending a message to the rest of the world where america's going to be come january 20th 2021 no partisan warriors as somebody put it these are mostly trusted establishment figures. >>well progressive spill happened certainly with the janet yellen appointment that's that's a very good sign. for the progressive side, this is someone who in her career at the federal reserve bank in san francisco. i might add. really a ground breaking study and on wage disparity up based on gender a

people were like, i shed tears, i'm like, over a cabinet appointee announcement?ange world we live in. stewart, did you have a similar reaction before i ask you the other question i want to ask you? >> you know, as someone who worked for a lot of republican candidates, it's an extraordinary sensation to feel a great sense of relief, as a lot of the democratic picks come in to take control of the country. i felt a tremendous sense of -- of relief. these are professionals. somehow it's become a negative thing to call people careerists. i don't get that. when i go to a doctor, i want someone who made a career out of medicine. it's a good thing that it's serious people, doing serious work. >> yeah. it's funny. i was having a conversation with a friend tonight, and he said, yeah, i want my doctor to know more than me. i want my president to know more than me. i want the secretary of defense to know more than me. not that, you know, some of those folks didn't in the other thing. but you want people running the country to be smart. stewart, i have to ask you this. it's b

>>> plus, president-elect joe biden set to begin announcing his cabinet picks this week with veteran diplomat tony blinken expected to be named secretary of state. with the state department depleted and many of our alliances fractured, the question is, what message is biden sending to the agency and to the world? >>> and millions of americans are traveling for thanksgiving, despite health officials urging everyone to stay home. with covid cases already surging, the question is whether we're setting ourselves up for a nightmare before christmas? it's "way too early" for this. good morning, and welcome to "way too early," the show that deserves, along with all of you, seconds and maybe even thirds this thanksgiving. i'm kasie hunt on this monday, november 23rd. we'll start with the news. >>> the u.s. surpassed 12 million cases of covid-19 on saturday. it followed two straight days of record-breaking highs that drove the united states to a million new cases in the last week. on thursday, the cdc recommended against traveling and gathering for thanksgiving, but the tsa says it processed

in the meantime, as joe biden vets cabinet candidates for cabinet positions i should say progressivesr representation. senator bernie sanders is warning the incoming administration against freezing out the far left telling associated press, quote, it would be for example, enormously insulting biden put together a team of rivals which might include republicans and conservative democrats but which ignored the progressive community. let's bring in our beltway panel peter is investigative journal ition and contradicting writer for american thinker and kevin walling democrat media campaign advisor kevin is it so far fetched to think that joe biden might put a republican in his cabinet? >> i think not at all jon, and it is good question. you know there's 15 cabinet departments that vaccinate and president-elect have to see coming down this week at least indications from the campaign are, that they're gong to release the name for their treasury secretary. their hs secretary with covid-19 and economic situation. and there are likely to be republicans as part of those. i think we've got some r

if the obama cabinet was primarily centrist moderate democrats, is it a goal that the biden cabinet wille more progressive democrats than that one, than the original obama cabinet? >> well, jake, president-elect biden and vice president-elect harris were elected by a coalition of people across the country that included people who are progressive and moderate and republican, although most americans don't think of themselves by those definitions. that's sort of a washington definition, and their cabinet and the team will look like america. so that means diversity of ideology, diversity of background. and he wants to have a range of views of people at the table. so i would encourage people to wait to see who he announces and nominates in the weeks to come. of course, there will be some this week. more in the weeks following, but he wants to have a diversity of voices at the table because he fully understands that's how he's going to move an agenda forward. >> can you confirm the first cabinet announcement will come tuesday? >> i can confirm it's going to come this week. as you know, thanksg

we will have more on biden's cabinet picks after headlines. while the formal transition has begun, president trump is still refusing to concede the election. on tuesday, trump gave a roughly one minute news briefing at the white house where he boasted about the dow jones industrial average topping 30,000, but he took no questions and made no reference to the election. while trump took credit for the dow, many economists say stock prices spiked due to reports that biden would tap former federal reserve chair janet yellen to be treasury secretary. in the latest blow to trump's effort to overturn the election, the state of pennsylvania, nevada, and minnesota certified biden's victory tuesday. trump and his attorney rudy giuliani are expected to travel to gettysburg, pennsylvania, today to meet with republican state lawmakers who are holding an unofficial hearing about allegations of voter fraud at a hotel. gettysburgcivil war, was the site of a major confederate defeat that marked a turning point in the fall of the confederacy. in afghanistan, at

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is expected to be cabinet level in this administration. you'll remember that under the trump administration, initially that's a role that was at the cabinet level. then, after nikki haley left it was demoted out nacht we see that change with every president. one of those roles they can delineate whether it's at the cabinet level. but really, this is the beginning of the biden cabinet taking shape here. it's a transition that is controlling the things it can, pushing forward on things like staffing, even as on an information flow level, it still remains stymied by the lack of ascertainment letter from the general services administration. a lot of advisers, though, talking this weekend about the things they can press forward on, specifically on the personnel front. listen. >> you're going to see the first of the president-elect's cabinet appointments on tuesday of this week. meeting the pace -- beating in fact, the pace set by the obama/biden transition. beating the pace set by the trump transition. >> the cabinet and team will look like ame

. >> if he asked me to join the cabinet as livery secretary, would you say yes? >> if i had a portfolio that allowed me to stand up and figh for working families, what i do it, yes. >> in nomination is one thing a nomination is quite another. >> bernie is a friend, but most certainly i think he's going to be significantly different in his opinion about what a labor secretary should do that and a lot of the members in the unite states and that. >> elizabeth warren is interested in being treasury secretary saying we know that washington insiders and their establishment allies already taken to turning over the governing keys to giant corporations and their lobbyists . the exact opposite of what voters wants. they must resist this pressure. but warren comes from a state where the republ republican gov could replace her with the republican watering down democratic numbers in the senat congresswoman marcia fudge want to be the agriculture secretary saying i been loyal to the ticket and i will remain loyal to the ticket. during the primary, biden promised it to diversit

it's interesting to look at not just who he is choosing for the cabinet, but how he'll compose the cabinetfaced and all the uncertainties that he might be expanding the cabinet with new faces. it would not be surprising if he used the envoy position like we see if john kerry, likely a pandemic czar, but someone who would focus on technology and innovation, focus on education, focus on economic problems going forward beyond commerce and the small business administration. >> evan, you wrote the book on joe biden quite literally. in terms of the choices he's made so far in national security he is clearly choosing people in large part who he knows well. >> yeah. these are people who he trusts. most of all he trusts their experience. they've been through hard problems. some have been involved with decisions they regret. the involvement in iraq or the decision to go into libya. they have scar tissue and that's because they know these jobs. they know how to go into an office on day one and make a difference. there's another key piece to this. we talk about the diversity we're seeing in some of th

he promised the most diverse cabinet in history, he's delivering that. janet yellen the first treasury secretary of the united states in the history of the republic, you know, avril haines over as the dni, that's historic. as well. but i think we shouldn't lose in my i don't rememb mayorkas the new dhs secretary is a cuban-american immigrant, also historic and symbolically important, but we shouldn't love in the historic nature of these picks the fact that as a group they're very coherent, they reflect biden's governing philosophy and they are manifestly experienced and component. and in that sense distinct from some of the appointments that we've seen under the current administration, in terms of the coherence, you know, as a group on the national security side they favor robust diplomacy, they believe in strong alliances. this is a big shift in our foreign policy, it's one that biden has fore shadowed throughout his campaign. on the economic side yellen broadly respected, also has emphasized what biden did, a focus on jobs and wages and not just contro

joe biden announces his 1st key cabinet choices. it's a team that reflects the fact that america is back ready to lead the world. not retreat from joe biden is moving quickly to fill all key positions in his administration. now that donald trump has stopped blocking the transition, also coming up germany prepares for a stricter lockdown as head of christmas. regional leaders reach consensus. new measures aimed at slowing the search in new cases of conflict, 19 and scotland votes to give all women free access to sign a free product becoming the 1st nation in the world to do so on pablo foley, s. welcome to the program, u.s. president elect. joe biden has introduced 6 key members of his cabinet and each has decades of experience in their particular field. he said, diplomacy and multilateralism are back and his new team will lead by example. the transition to a biden white house is picking up speed after president trump cleared the way for a transfer of power. 3 weeks after the election, the trumpet ministration has finally given presi

for the trump cabinet. we have experts in the running for all these positions. so, president-elect biden is an expert. he's surrounded by experts. and that gives him an advantage. but he doesn't have access to intelligence right now. his team does not have access to the white house covid-19 task force. and the message to the world is that president trump is trying to kneecap the incoming administration in more way than one. there is a degree of catch-up the team will have to play on january 20th. i think president-elect biden can surmount that. he'll hit the ground running. but it does signal globally we're at a disadvantage on january 20th. >> not a good position at all. sam vinograd, thank you. have a safe and healthy holiday. >>> across america, a crisis with no end in sight. more than 12 million coronavirus cases and more than 83,000 people expected to spend thanksgiving in the hospital. the cdc now warning the holiday could amplify the pandemic to new levels. >>> plus, we'll take you inside a hospital

you have been in a cabinet and you know how it works.ct to see it as a unit? >> i think it is going to be a great team. these folks have experience and it is not their first rodeo as we say here in texas. they have the ears and the support of the president and vice president which is very important. i expect the rest of the cabinet picks to look like this and reflect the country, the sound experience of the ones who have been named so far and the ability to get up and going immediately because we need it in this country after what we have just experienced. i will say also, four years ago trump said that he's going to hire the best people and that is a lie. joe biden is hiring some of the best people so it is good to see that. >> secretary castro, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> julian castro gets tonight's last word. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >> good evening, 58 days until inauguration day. 16 days since the 2020 presidential race was called for joe biden. and today may mark the first da

this for the first time as a cabinet level position. going to find people to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to know. embedded in all of this, he is not going to be like president trump. speaking of that, mr. biden was also asked in the nbc news interview if he plans to investigate the president and he says, look, i will not use the department of justice as a weapon as president trump has against his adversaries, but he did not say -- of course he cannot control state investigations in probes. as you know, laura, those are the ones we're keeping our eyes on next year. >> it was interesting to see how he made that distinction. the new york attorney general's office, the da have important investigations going. jeff, before we let you go, a part of the transition is biden receiving the presidential daily briefing, obviously a compilation of all of that sensitive intelligence information coming from all of the different agencies. when do we expect biden to actually receive that briefing? >> laura, that could come as early