pact long one thing at lecture at department of politics at the university of bath thank you for finding the time to join us on the program today thank you. that's a pandemic could be a sign of things to come judging by the latest warning from the world health organization but the prospect of more deadly outbreaks around the corner w.h.o. emergencies chief is urging all nations to ramp up their health care. but this pandemic has been very severe it's been spread around the world extremely quickly and is afraid to get requirements but this is not necessarily the big what we live in an increasingly complex global society the stress will continue if there's one thing we need to take from this pandemic could all of the tragedy in los is that we need to get our act together we need to get ready for something that may even be more severe in future it's been almost a year since the w.h.o. declared covered 1000 a global health emergency and sense then 80000000 people are known to have contracted the virus and an estimated 1800000 lives have been lost globally microbiologist simon clark says this

chairman of the department of politics and international relations at youngstown state university.hk world's catherine kobayashi spoke with him earlier. >> americans take part in an exercise in democracy, a prolonged one from the priermd to election day and beyond. how significant is the meeting of the electoral college? >> well, within the american presidential election system this is arguably the most important event. we talk a lot about our election dayn november, but technically this is election y. this is when the voters, the voters whoctually count under the u.s. constitution, are able to cast their vote. and if you think about it in terms of, again, a prime ministerial system, something i've talked about before when we've talked about the electoral college in e united states, this is when the lislature would actually elect the prime minister. so this is the day that we actually elect our president. votes aren't counted today, but this is the day the votes are cast in each state according to the constitution. >> yes, and americans will have to wait until january 6th when cong

for more on this story, we can speak now to a representative from the department of politics and internationaldies from the school of oriental and african studies in london, who joins us now from lagos. thank you for being wettest on "france 24." -- thank you for being with us on "france 24." boko haram says it was responsible for this attack but we still have no official confirmation of that. one of the boys today says his captors asked him to describe them as being embers -- as being members of boko haram, but that he suspected actually they were just armed bandits. what is your view on this? >> it is absolutely not surprising at all. there has been growing influence of boko haram, not just in the northeast but north-central, and now moving down. so thais a lot of collaboration between boko haram and the bandits and kidnappers we see in the northwestern part of nigeria. so i think that level of cooperation, partnership and association, gives the bandits the confidence to have a certain label of identity. and therefore they are not even afraid to be identified as nubbers of boko haram. becaus

s department of political and peace-building affairs and peace operations. e ethnic strife in the former yugoslavia has continued for years over the independence of kosovo. a u.n. mission is operating in kosovo to help promote its autonomy and achieve peace. yamashita joined the united nations in 1990 and has worked in several nations. she also serves as deputy head and director of the peace-building support office and director of the u.n. information center in tokyo. >>> china says it has launched a new carrier rocket as part of efforts to develop reusable launch vehicles. the country is accelerating its space development efforts to achieve a goal of becoming a major space power by 2030. china's space agency says the long march 8 rocket made its maiden flight from a launch site on the southern island of hainan on tuesday. the rocket uses liquid fuel that is said to have relatively low impact on the environment. reports say it is capable of carrying a payload of 4.5 tons to an altitude of 700 kilometers. china reportedly aims to develop reusableockets le thos

all the details of this complicated situation is donna crane cheese with san jose state's department of political science donna thanks for being with us. it was a painstakingly slow process to get to the point where congress could agree on this bill and the surprise last night from the president really rocked everyone's boat. so what do you think happens now if you're an average american you here maybe i get 2000 set of 600 you need the money you think that's great. >>nancy pelosi endorsed it right away. but what do you think ends of actually happening. >>well that really very much depends on mitch mcconnell who is now stuck between a rock and a hard place. you know cut the republican principle is low spending small government and they spent several months negotiating this legislative package based on that principle. the president never weighed in. and now after it's been passed and sense to him now he weighs so mitch mcconnell has to decide does he want to go along with this populist message. that's just come out of the white house. and anger, the fiscal conservatives in his party or does he wan

biden do it well to discuss that i'm now joined by martin jakes former senior fellow at the department of politicsnd international studies at cambridge university and author of when china rules the world mr jakes it's good to see you thank you very much for taking time to talk to us. now your bill has been in publication for more than a decade now it's been reprinted to me she is quiet at an achievement in this day and age when and now it is often gets all of dated before it hits the printing press and i would attribute your ability of your book to the fact that you were among the 1st in the west you. cast doubt on this assumption that as china was more denies it with all sorts westernized how did you convert to these realisation old the way back and delay to thousands. yet what did it actually. reason the books have jura bitchy is the 2 reasons that exactly the reason you just said i mean i i at the time everyone assumed or not most of the west the ship that as the proposition that as china modernized it westernized because modernization messina's synonymous with western eyes a ship and. i reject

biden do it well to discuss that i'm now joined by martin jakes former senior fellow at the department of politicsnd international studies at cambridge university and author of when china rules the world mr jakes it's good to see you think you very much for taking time to talk to us. now your bill has been in publication for more than a decade now it's been reprinted which is acquired at.

biden do it well to discuss that i'm now joined by martin jakes former senior fellow at the department of politics and international studies at campus university and author of when china rules the world mr jakes it's good to see you thank you very much for taking time to talk to us. now you will has been in publication for more than a decade now it's been reprinted to me she is quite at an achievement in this day and age when and now it is often gets outdated before it hits the printing press and i would attribute your ability off your book to the fact that you were at among the 1st in the west you. cast doubt on this assumption that as china was more denies ing it would also westernized how did you convert to these realisation old a way back in delayed to thousands. yet what did it actually the reason the book should have jura bitchy is the 2 reasons look exactly the reason you just said i mean. at the time everyone assumed or a lot most of the worst. that the rope was issued. modernized it westernized because modernization was so you know synonymous with westernization and. i reject this. becaus

let's speak to dr paul poast, associate professor in the department of political science at the universitys of war. thank you very much for coming on the programme. thank you for having me on the programme. so the firstjob i think is to explain why does donald trump wa nt to explain why does donald trump want to get these troops out of somalia? welll want to get these troops out of somalia? well i think there's really potentially three explanations. the first explanations. the first explanation can actually be strategic, that may be the us is going back what we would call and over horizon policy, move the trips back, put them into us bases that are in the region so that that way they are more flexible. that is a possible explanation but i'm not sure that's the main explanation. i think a better explanation. i think a better explanation might be more political domestically. this is in some way of filling a campaign promise that he made to withdraw us troops from quote endless wars, whether that was involvement in somalia, syria, yemen, afghanistan, iraq, all of these various walls throughou

biden do it well to discuss that i'm now joined by martin jakes former senior fellow at the department of politics and international studies at cambridge university and author of when china rules the world mr jakes it's good to see you thank you very much for taking time to talk to us. now your book has been in publication for more than a decade now it's been reprinted species quiet at an achievement in this day and age when and now it is often gets updated before it hits the printing press and i would attribute your ability off your book to the fact that you were.

then get to cast the tie breaking vote to undergo less because an associate professor in the department of political science at emory university she's joining us by skype from atlanta georgia thanks very much indeed for being with us i want to talk to you about the impact of the voting we have on the senate in a moment let's talk about donald trump 1st of all there's a lot of speculation that donald trump is not going to stick to the script and he is not going to be concentrating on supporting the 2 republican candidates for the senate instead he's going to go off and start talking about the the election and his allegations about that if that happens what impact do you think that is going to have on voter turnout. the concern that republican operatives have about president from going off script is if he goes so far off script to suggest that people sit and vote in the next election because it's rained and the outcome has already been determined that could depress turnout of months the most rabid trump supporters whom senators producer lefler want to return to the polls on january 5th to help them ou

they were complaining about the lack of cooperation from the department of defense's political leadership, unlike the help they're getting from professionals in the homeland security department and other key agencies dealing with national security, but not from the department of defense. you heard the president-elect there clearly say this is in his view nothing short of irresponsibility. this is an intentional raising of the alarm on the part of the biden team to this concern, especially when you heard biden talking about what needs to be briefed for their team. he talked about the solarwinds hack, the very clear intrusion across the cyber infrastructure of the united states and his concern that they aren't fully aware of exactly the kind of challenge they'll be inheriting on january 20. another interesting note among the many points we heard from the president-elect, ayman, that we should touch on, he addressed what we saw on christmas day, the suicide bombing in the city of nashville. it's not surprising that the president-elect of the united states would choose to address this. it is

department of defense. we encountered obstruction in the political leadership of the department target and the truth that any of the agencies that are critical part of the security have incurred an enormous damage. any of them have been hollowed out . the personnel, capacity and mrl. in the policy processes, the atrophy or have been sidelined in the despair of our alliances in the disrepair of those alliances. interactions in the key institutions of matter to the welfare of the american people. and in general, disengagement from the world. and all the makes it harder, grow government to protect the american people. to defend our people in a warmer threats are constantly evolving. their adversaries are constantly adapting. and rebuilding the full set of our instruments of foreign policy and national security is a key challenge is a vice president elect harris and i will face upon taken office freighted starting with our diplomacy. today, we heard from the leaders of the state in usc review teams, about the critical early investments that we will need to make in our diplomacy. in our development efforts in a r

it's important for politicians on both sites do not try to dragged the military departs of politics. also the dueling of admirals and generals for it i've got these guys and gals signed up for me, my list is longer. i respect the rights of those retired flag officers to sign up, do whatever they want say whatever they want. by think they have to recognize that could come with a cost. serving our military should be rewarding, challenging, fulfilling for you no matter what political party were from, nobody cares. you know what, when you are fighting in, you're not look at the man or woman next to sing with the color of their skin? what's the religion? was her political party? you're all in it together you are down together by mutual trust and respect. you become a family. you become a family with the man or woman next year is willing to give everything come included their own lives for you. we have to remember that as americans. we got attacked on september 11, al qaeda did not attack democrats or republicans, they attacked americans. we become so divided from each other it's incumbent

from others, most notably the department of defense, we encountered obstruction from the political leadershipd the truth is, many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred enormous damage. many of them have been hollowed out. in personnel. in capacity. and in morale. in policy processes that have atrophied or have been sidelined. in the disrepair of our alliances. in our absence from key institutions that matter to the welfare of the american people. in a general disengagement from the world. and all of it makes it harder for our government to protect the american people, and to defend our vital interests in a world where threats are constantly evolving and our adversaries are constantly adapting. rebuilding the full set of our instruments of foreign policy and national security is a key challenge that vice president-elect harris and i will face upon taking office, starting with our diplomacy. today, we heard from the leaders of the state and usaid agency review teams about the critical early investments we are going to need to make in our diplomacy, in our development e

of power. in delaware he singled out two departments for special criticism. we have encountered roadblocks from the politicalhe department of defence and the office of management of budget. right now we're just not getting all the information we need on the ongoing and outgoing administration in key national security areas. it's nothing short in my view, of irresponsibility. mr biden has repeatedly claimed he was blocked from receiving key intelligence briefings and essential and normally routine pa rt essential and normally routine part of the presidential transition. these are hard issues, but the current administration has made it much harder by trying to erode our capacity. following biden's remarks, acting defence secretary christopher miller said officials had been working with the utmost professionalism to support transition activities. the department of defence has conducted 164 interviews with over 400 officials, providing over 5000 pages of documents, far more than initially requested by biden‘s transition team, he said. although donald trump refuses to accept defeat in november's election, mr bide

think, their perception is that it would only continue to create the sense of vitriol and political nature of the justice department. >> political vengefulness. >> exactly. >> of course, there is the great irony there, rid? if you don't pursue something that you should pursue because you don't want to have that perception. look, it's complicated. thank you both very much. i do want to say, though, whatever the biden justice department does, even if trump pardons himself, right? and makes it so there's no federal issue for him, that will not protect him from new york's attorney general. no pardon can protect him from her. so what is she investigating? leticia james is my guest next and the demand on food banks in this country growing tonight. >> times are so tough right now. i have a 4-year-old at home and i have a 4-year-old at home and it's horrible.or a trade. why don't you call td ameritrade for a strategy gut check? what's that? you run it by an expert, you talk about the risk and potential profit and loss. could've used that before i hired my interior decorator. get a strategy gut check from our trade desk. ♪

of defense, we encountered objection from political leadership of the department. >> reporter: biden laying out some of the most urgent foreign policy challenges his administration will confront come january, seeing major federal agencies have been handicapped under president trump. >> many of them hollowed out in personnel, capacity, and in morale. in the policy process is at trophied or side lined, in despair of alliances and disrespect of those alliances. >> reporter: this as the country braces for post christmas spikes in covid-19 cases across the country. dr. anthony fauci saying he agrees with biden's earlier prediction. >> our darkest days in the battle against covid are ahead of us, not behind us. >> reporter: that the worst of the pandemic is still to come. >> we very well might see a post seasonal in the sense of christmas, new year's surge. i share the concern of president-elect biden that as we get into the next few weeks, it might actually get worse. >> reporter: a little over three weeks out from inauguration day, biden building out the rest of his a

cooperation, from career staff and agencies, from others, most notably, the department of defense, we encountered obstruction from the political leadership of that department. >> reporter: biden laying out some of the most urgent foreign policy challenges his administration will confront come january saying major federal agencies have been handicapped under president trump. >> many have been hollowed out in personnel, capacity is in morale. in the policy process, either atrophy or have been sidelined. in the despair of our alliances and disrepair of those alliances. >> reporter: this as the country braces for post christmas spikes in covid-19 cases across the country. dr. anthony fauci saying he agrees with biden's earlier prediction. >> reporter: our darkest days in the battle against covid are ahead of us, not behind us. >> reporter: that the worst of the pandemic is still to come. >> we very well might see a post seasonal in the sense of christmas, new year's surge. i share the concern of president-elect biden that as we get into the next few beeweeks, might actually get worse. >> reporter: a little over three weeks out fro

charges being investigated right now our tax charges, investigated by the i irs, the department of justice politicald to sign off on tax charges being brought against somebody so there are a variety of interactions between political figures and u.s. attorney. not so with special counsel. jon: republican congressman, ken buck of colorado. thanks. we'll have you on again soon district attorney in california with a 180 after fierce opposition against roles have critics saying this prosecutor is planning to be more lenient in the war on crime. that story, next. ♪ new district attorney for los angeles county is reversing course after facing intense criticism. george gascon proposed new rules that would shorten sentences for some violent criminals. christina : is live with more on the. report l.a. county's new va is backtracking on his blanket order for sentence enhancements and apologizing for this, he made acts he was being shouted at by a group of people including the family of a murder victim. >> it's unfortunate we do not have enough people -- anyway -- >> my son will never speak again because he was

from others, most notably the department of defense, we encountered obstruction. from the politicaldership of that department. the truth is, many of the agencies that are critical to our security, have incurred enormous damage. many of them have been hollowed out, in personnel, capacity, and in morale. >> now, in the past few minutes, the pentagon has put out a statement from the acting secretary, christopher miller, suggesting that this is not the case, that the pentagon has been providing all of the assistance and guidance and access to information that is required to provide under existing federal law. and it is also making the argument that it is doing so him and that more than 60% of its staff are not actually allowed to physically be at the pentagon right now because of the pandemic. but, considering that joe biden and kamala harris essentially have been running their transition from behind closed doors and on a number of secure teleconferences, i am not sure how credible that argument is going to be with them and their transition team. >> russell jordan, thank you for that re

>> the department of justice gets dragged into politics. there's probably not another agency more devoid of internal politics that the outside world is trying to view or look at the department of justice in that lens? the u.s. attorney has all the authority, is not going to care who's in charge of the senate. is going to continue to pursue this. when i was the u.s. attorney, i went through the bush administration and then i went to a year into the obama administration. we continued our investigation, did not care who was in charge of the senate or whether the president would weigh in. it's very taboo to have a new incoming attorney general to go in and ask for an investigation to be stopped. >> harris: it'll be interesting to see how you biden administration would handle it and who he will choose as his attorney general, all important things. brett tolman, thank you for being with me today. we watch the press secretary kayleigh mcenany on this republican lawmaker demanding answers over democratic oxman eric swalwell and his ties to a suspect

that was the weaponization of the department of justice in a political presidential campaign against the president. so bill barr did the right thing here. the failing is the media. there were all kinds of flags. that's their job to get that information out. and they didn't do it. >> dana: good point. when i worked at doj i learned 101 ways to say no comment. it was very useful at the time. ari fleisher, kim strassel, thank you very much. have a good weekend. >> you, too. >> dana: governor cuomo announcing major changes in new york city. next meet the restaurant owner who said he just destroyed her life. if your dry eye symptoms keep coming back, inflammation in your eye might be to blame. looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes over-the-counter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. ha! these drops probably won't touch me. xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. what is that? xiidra, noooo! it can provide lasting relief. xiidra is the only fda approved treatment specifically for the signs and s

from others, most notably, the department of defense, we encountered obstruction from the political leadership of that department. the truth is many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred enormous damage. many of them have been hollowed out in personnel, capacity, and in morale. >> so, when he talks about certain agencies having their morale hollowed out, what is he referring to? >> you know, it was really striking, the distinction that joe biden went out of his way to draw between career professionals and political appointees. he referred to some of these career folks as patriots who have been fully cooperative throughout this transition process. and then, he turned to some of these folks, particularly, he said, at the dod, political appointees who have been engaging in obstruction when he talks about sort of the morale being hollowed out, morale being low at some of these agencies. clearly, he is talking about the politicization of the transition process. you know, don, there are people who go into this kind of line of work. who are committed to doing this kind of wo

from others most notably department of defense we've encountered obstruction from the political leadership of that department. we need to make sure that nothing is lost in the hand-off between administrations. we've encountered roadblocks from the political leadership at the department of defense and the office of management and budget. right now we just aren't getting all the information that we need with from the outgoing administration in key national security areas. it's nothing short in my view of irresponsibility. >> the acting defense secretary chris miller responded with this quote. the department of defense has conducted 164 interviews with over 400 officials and provided over 5,000 pages of documents. far more than initially requested by joe biden's transition team. dod's efforts already surpass those of recent administrations. president trump's nearly two-month long campaign to try and reverse the presidential election is now focusing on his allies in congress. he's pushing them to challenge the certification of joe biden's electoral college win on january 6th. telling twitter f

from others, most notably the department of defense, we encountered obstruction from the political leadership of that department. the truth is, many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred enormous damage. many of them have been hollowed out in personnel, capacity and in morale. in the policy processes have add trophies or been sidelined. and the despair of our alliances of our alliances. in general disengagement from the world and all that makes it harder for our government to protect the american people. to defend our vital interests. in a world where threats are constantly evolving and our adversaries are adapting. rebuilding the full set of our instruments of foreign policy and national security is a key challenge that the vice president-elect harris and i will face on taking office starting with diplomacy. we heard about the critical early investment we have to make in diplomacy and rebuilding our alliances: when we consider the most daunting threats of our time, we know that meeting them requires american engagement and american leadership and none of them can be

department of defense. i want to listen, mj and your response. >> for some agencies, our teams received exemplary cooperation. from others most notably the department of defense, we encountered obstruction from the political leadership of that department. and the truth is, many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred enormous damage. many have been hallowed out in personnel, capacity and in moral. >> so when he talks about certain agencies having their moral hallowed out, what is he referring to? >> you know, it was really frightening the distinction that joe biden went out of his way to draw between career professionals and political appointees. he referred to some of these career folks as patriots who have been fully cooperative throughout this transition process and then he turned to some of these folks particularly he said at the dod, political appointees who have been engaging in obstruction when he talks about sort of the moral being hallowed out, moral being low at some of these agencies, clearly he is talking about the plitsization of the transition process. don, there are people who go into this kind of line of work, who are committed to doing this kind of work regardless

departments for criticism. we've encountered roadblocks. and the political leadership at the department of the office of management and budget. right now, we just aren't getting all the information that we need from the outgoing administration in key national security areas. it's nothing short in my view of irresponsibility. these are hard issues, and the current administration has made them much harder by working to erode our capacity. it's going to take time to rebuild the capacity. we're going to work purposefully, diligently, and responsibly to roll back trump's restrictions, starting on day one, but it is not as simple as throwing a switch to turn everything back on, especially amid a pandemic. mr biden noted that security agencies had suffered enormous damage to their capacity under donald trump's presidency at a time when they're facing challenges posed by both china and russia. the president said it was important for his administration to get a clear picture of budgets and planning in order to avoid confusion that america's enemies could exploit, and he stressed the importance of m

from others, most notably the department of defense, we encountered obstruction from the political leadership of that department. the truth is, many of the agencies that are critical to our security, have incurred enormous damage. many have then hollowed out in personnel, capacity and in morale. in the process they have been atrophied and sidelined and despaired in our alliances. in our key institutions that matter to the welfare of the american people, and in general, disengagement from the world. and all of it makes it harder for our government to protect the american people, to defend our vital interests in a world where threats are constantly evolving and our adversaries are constantly adapting. rebuilding the full set of our instruments of foreign policy and national security is a key challenge that the vice president-elect harris and i will face upon taking office, starting with our diplomacy. today we heard from the leaders of the state and usaid teams about the critical investment we'll need to make in our diplomacy, in our development efforts and in rebuilding our alliances. to close

department of state political and military affairs and worked throughout africa and central asia, south asia. he has served in the government for more than 20 years both as an officer and commander in the air national guard and as a white house fellow working for the director of the u.s. office of personnel management. he is the author and editor of over a dozen books on religion and foreign policy and ethics. political science in santa barbara and politics in whales. delighted to introduce dr. patterson and dr. morrison to join us for this conversation. >> thank you. >> to pick up from where dr. morrison dropped off, the mayflower compact was a declaration of religious independence and by crafting a civil body politic, the community created this space for religious freedom in law in the future. dr. morrison, would you like to elaborate on that statement? >> yes. i would be happy to. thank you. the mayflower compact is not a constitution. occasionally you might hear it referred to as such, but it isn't. in that it creates that social contract, that civil body politic as they refer to th

despite the public, his north star from the beginning has been to keep the politics out of the justice department and get the justice department out of the politics. the fact that we're still talking about the durham investigation without knowing what durham has uncovered shows that he wasn't pushed by politics in to making prosecutorial decisions. >> bill: what does your get tell you? is he thrill until january 20th? you believe he fulfills that term? >> i sure hope so, bill. i think -- if he doesn't, his deputy will be there. you'll have stability. but the longer he's there the better. >> bill: thank you, andy. nice to see you. see you later in the week. plenty discuss. andy mccarthy. waiting to hear from the leaders in the senate as congress tries to pass covid relief and keep the government open, a big week for that. some american forces leaving afghanistan. benjamin hall talked to people on the ground about how that decision will affect their lives and their future. >> many of the people that we speak to here say it's too dangerous to be seen talking with us because the taliban control so mu

saying that he's not getting the help that he needs particularly when it comes to the department of defense said that political appointees are getting in the way he's not criticizing the career diplomats the career civil servants or all of these places it's political appointees and particularly in defense he says that there is a problem and he's concerned about that because the department of defense has taken the lead in combating this cyber attack that happened over the last couple of weeks he's one of the 2 about there being a risk to americans and not just here at home but abroad and feels that the department of defense is a key to that as well so he's really saying to the trump administration look you've got to do this for the benefit of the country we know you think you've lost the election but you need to do this for the country the problem is donald trump is still fighting the election just in the last few hours he released on twitter what can only be described as a campaign video where he says he's the best thing that america could hope for but of course he lost the election back in november he hasn't

from the career staff of those agencies from others most notably the department of defense we countered up structure from the political leadership of that department the truth is many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred enormous damage many of my been hollowed out in personnel capacity and in morocco when all the stories are following a saudi court has sentenced a prominent women's rights activist to 5 years and 8 months in prison drawing international condemnation the chain of her fluid has been healthy as 2018 after being arrested along with at least a dozen other women's rights activists relatives say she's been sexually assaulted and tortured while in prison she campaigned against a ban on women driving and for an end to saudi arabia's male guardianship system well the national security adviser for joe biden has responded to the sentencing jake sullivan tweeted saudi arabia sentencing of the chain of how fluid it is simply exercising for simply exercising the universal rights is unjust and troubling as we've said the biden harris administration will stand up against human rights violati

. >> from others, most notably the department of defense, we encountered obstruction from the political leadership of that department. the truth is, many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred enormous damage. many of them have been hollowed out in personnel, capacity and in morale. in the policy processes that have atrophied or been sidelined, in the despair of our alliances and the disrepair of those alliances. in our absence from key institutions that matter to the welfare of the american people. and in general disengagement from the world and all of it makes it harder for our government to protect the american people. to defend our vital interests. >> acting secretary of defense christopher miller denied any stonewalling toward the biden team, writing in a statement, quote, our dod and career officials have been working with the utmost professionalism to support the transition activities and they'll continue to do in a collegial manner. quote, the american people expect nothing less and that's what i remain committed to. here's more of what biden had to say.

from others most notably the department of defense we encountered obstruction from the political leadership of that department. and the truth is many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred enormous damage. many of them have been hollowed in personnel, capacity and in morale. >> and just more broadly speaking about foreign policy and national security biden really emphasizing that these international alliances with other countries have really been weakened under president trump and that rebuilding foreign policy is going to be one of the biggest and most important challenges for him and vice president-elect kamala harris. jake. >> speaking of vice president-elect kamala harris we have some news about her. she's going to get the coronavirus vaccine tomorrow. >> that's right. she's going to be receiving the coronavirus vaccine tomorrow in washington, d.c., and importantly she's going to be doing it in a public setting. this is, of course, the same as what we saw president-elect joe biden do last week, receiving his vaccine in front of the cameras. you know, one of the

of the trump government, he is seeing obstruction. here's what he said. >> we have encountered road blocks from the political leadership at the department of defense, and the office of management and budget. right now, we just aren't getting all of the information we need from the outgoing administration. in key national security areas. it's nothing short, in my view, of irresponsibility. >> now, some of the transition concerns aside, this was also a revealing foreign policy speech from the president-elect. he talked about how some agencies have been hollowed out. international alliances have been weakened under president trump, and he said that the go it alone approach from president trump simply will not work to address some of these global challenges, including something like climate change. i also just want to note that the focus on tuesday for the president-elect is going to be covid-19. this as a lot of experts are concerned that we are going to see massive spikes in covid-19 cases after the christmas holidays. christine and ryan, back to you. >> thank you so much for that, mj. today, the vice president-elect kamala harris and fut

that showed william barr to be the attorney general who most closely aligned the department of justice with the politics of the white house in a very detrimental way. you know, maybe he has realized that the president has through all that managed to drag him and his personal and professional reputation down a pretty dark hole. >> and you just mentioned just a sliver of the things that could be covered in the grand scheme of things. and i wonder if that really is the motivation or not. we've been reporting the president is still, in all of this, is still trying to overturn the election. and a lot can happen, as you know, between now and january 20th. so will the new acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen, now hold the line, do you think? >> we're about to find out. as you and i both know, the deputy attorney general is probably one of the toughest jobs in the entire federal government, right. over 100,000 employees in the department of justice, $30 billion budget, 93 federal judicial district. they run the d.o.j. and rosen so far has been able to do that without attracting any major attention. those days

transition team are facing — what he called — irresponsible obstruction from the political leadership at the department ofce. mr biden said his staff were not getting adequate information and briefings on key national security matters. a prominent saudi human rights activist who campaigned for women to be allowed to drive has been sentenced to almost six years in jail on charges of spying and conspiracy. the un human rights office has called the sentencing of 31—year—old loujain al—hathloul ‘deeply troubling'. in the uk, the daily number of confirmed coronavirus cases has passed 40,000 for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic. there were 41,385 new cases — with 357 deaths in the last 2a hours, further increasing pressure on hospitals across the uk. now on bbc news, another chance to see robotics company ceo xu jishui and software entrepreneur huang tiesen fight to establish their start—ups in wuhan‘s fast—growing new technology sector. wuhan — china's economic heartland and the epicentre of a global pandemic. the city at the heart of a public health crisis in china is shutting its public tran

from the very beginning been concerned about restoring, in his view, the department of justice's independence from the political apparatus of the white house, which has characterized the trump years. and so, i think all along, frankly, this has been a top concern. it's probably even more so right now. and if you look at the two top contenders, according to our reporting, you know, judge merrick garland and also the alabama senator, doug jones, you see in those two potential candidates people who are believed to be actually fairly even-handed, who are respected across the aisle, and are not flame-throwers. they're not bomb-throwers. they're not necessarily ideologues in that way. and i think that reflects biden's desire to signal that he wants to stay out of this issue. the question is, will biden decide to actually say that, himself? will he say, you know, i'm going to insist that there is no political interference in this investigation? i'm not sure that he wants to go that far, but i think he will certainly signal it with his a.g. pick. >> abby, paul, thank you both very much. >>> and next, trump considering

transition team are facing — what he called — irresponsible obstruction from the political leadership at the department ofce. mr biden said his staff were not getting adequate information and briefings on key national security matters. all three major us share indices have closed at record highs after donald trump signed into law, a massive coronavirus stimulus and government spending package. the rollout of more covid—19 vaccines and a post—brexit trade deal are also helping to drive up investor sentiment. in the uk, the daily number of confirmed coronavirus cases has passed 40,000 for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic. there were 41,385 new cases — with 357 deaths in the last 2a hours, further increasing pressure on hospitals across the uk. now on bbc news, it's hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, over stephen sackur. no one better epitomises the strong man style of political leadership than president rodrigo duterte of the philippines. he has a visceral dislike of independent journalism he has a visceral dislike of independentjournalism and no—one knows that better than my guest today. maria

from others most notably the department of defense we encountered obstruction from the political leadership of that department. and the truth is many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred enormous damage. many of them have been hollowed out in personnel, capacity and in morale. >> reporter: you know, these transition concerns aside, this was also a pretty revealing foreign policy speech from the president-elect. you heard him there talking about agencies being hollowed out. he also talked about international alliances being weakened under president trump and basically said, look, foreign policy is going to be one of the biggest and most important challenges of rebuilding foreign policy for himself and vice president-elect kamala harris. he also just said that the sort of go it alone approach he has seen from president trump just simply doesn't work when you're trying to tackle global issues like climate change. so clearly another area where he's drawing a stark contrast between himself and a sitting president, jim. >> m.j., we want to bring back cnn white house cor

you have department of justice attorneys assigned to the case with a special counsel it would be insulated from the politicaltax charges and other types of charges have to be approved by political officials at the department of justice. i think it would be a good idea to have a special counsel f they don't have a special counsel they have to make some other arrangements to make sure there is credibility in this investigation. the worst thing that we can have is this kind of cloud hanging over the the biden administratin for years pause of the corruption his son engaged in. edward: so do you think that we might see the designation of a special counsel within the next 20 days or so? >> i don't think so. i think the attorney general has said that he does not believe a special counsel is necessary. if the acting attorney general who replaces bill barr decides that there needs to be one i suppose he could put one in. i think president biden should seriously consider, president-elect biden should seriously consider appointing a special counsel to make sure this investigation moves forward. edward: you're on the fo

from the career staff in those agencies from others most notably the department of france we countered up structure from the political leadership that. the truth is many of the agencies that are critical to our security and incurred norma's damage many have not been hollowed out 1st and now capacity and in morale. now this is something that biden was well i had planned to say it was announced on sunday that he was going to have a date meeting with members of his transition team that deal with national security issues and that includes foreign policy intelligence and the military and so it was expected that joe biden was going to have some very blunt things to say about how the transition is going and it's important to underscore the fact that usually in a transition process there's everything is on the table everything is discussed because of the importance of sending a message globally that just because you have a different person sitting in the oval office doesn't mean that you don't have the u.s. government trying to take care of critical issues such as national security right reporting from washington rosen thank