nations had jointly negotiated thehe closing months of obama administration. then, of course, you have the syrian civil war still underway, still exacting an incredible humanitarian toll on the region, and the spillover of the syrian refugee crisis, which we have seen less of in the news in the last year, but that does not mean the crisis has abated. in some ways, the middle east is apparently more secure today, in some ways the middle east is still treated -- still deeply troubled and deeply insecure. i think one of the areas you will see joe biden take a different path is confronting saudi arabia as a regional power there. remember, saudi arabia during the trump administration killed jamalan journalist khashoggi and faced very little cost to that. i think you are going to see joe biden attempt to reset some of that relationship with saudi arabia. host: let's go to ron, west chesterfield, new hampshire. the craddick -- democratic caller. caller: thank you very much for your time and this program. make two quick statements in question. obama congratulated trum

tony lincoln served in the clinton and obama administrations but once he left the obama administrationcofounded an organization consulting firm that helps companies outsource their jobs to china. the exact opposite of what donald trump is doing in office. >> let me show our viewers the statement from the biden folks on these nominations, their accomplishments in diplomacy are unmatched, we can't meet the end profound challenges with old thinking and unchanged have a tour without diversity of background and perspective but what we know is basically on day one they are going to reinstate the paris climate agreement, start working on a new iran deal as well as perhaps stop the us withdrawal from the world health organization is aren't we just going back to the way things were before donald trump was in office? >> exactly right. to say these people are pushing goes forward and not taking us backwards is just not reality. jake sullivan helped broker the iran nuclear deal that gave iran $150 billion, look at john kerry, he was the architect of the paris climate accord which put america on th

they ran the obama administration outgoing officials even ran a joint tabletop exercise with the incomingh administration counterparts -- the incoming trump administration counterparts, in order to try and prepare them for a pandemic. we know the trump administration took none of those lessons or in the extensive but when youbook look at what the lessons are, they give you a moments pause about what we are living through right now and geopolitical threats we are not talking about between the outgoing administration and the incoming administration. in short order, without getting thereep in any of them, are a handful of top geopolitical threats president-elect biden will be focused on in the first months of his administration even beyond the pandemic, stalling economy, and one is the rising , which has been one of for theconsistent areas trump administration's forceful policy, probably a policy that in many ways, president biden would pick up and continue. the trump administration spent in a norma's amount of time focused on iran with nothing to show for it. betteris in a than when the tru

instead, a lot of familiar faces from the obama administration so many that some are calling it the obama administration 2.0. the choice is signaled biden's intention to return to a more traditional way of doing business and interacting with other countries' biden's choices or veterans with many years of experience like his longtime adviser, antony blinken, named for the position of secretary of state. he will be tasked with steering the country back towards the paris climate agreement, the world health organization, and they run a nuclear deal. the best known of the nominees is former secretary of state john kerry, who is poised to become biden's climate change. and boy. from our federal reserve chair, janet yellen says to serve as treasury secretary, if confirmed she would be the 1st woman to take over this pivotal role and would face the difficult task of shaping u.s. economic policies. at a time when the country is facing both a pandemic and recession biden also named avril haynes as the 1st woman to become director of national intelligence. a question is whether this was a wise actio

victor victoria, you've served not just in the obama administration as assistant secretary of europe, but also in several other administrations in both parties as a foreign service officer, very senior levels. picking up where eric left off, if we are likely to see sort of a continuation of trumpism in the republican party and in the senate, would you still have some of those internationalist elements there and you have a president biden who is sort of naturally inclined to bipartisanship. what do you think the best prospects are to sort of recreate, if not the bipartisan concensus, at least sort of a strong bipartisan view, maybe not shared by everybody in each party on america's leadership role internationally? >> welcol, thanks, tom, it's great to be with everybody on this morning and patriots and served their countries so well. listen, biden came up, along with most of the senior members of the senate, in a period where the fundamental underpinning was that political fights ended at the water's edge and when you went out into the world, you went out as a unified and ideally a bipa

the obama administration did that a lot. the treaty, or the agreement with iran is an example. but that may only have the shelf life of your administration. so if you really want it permanent, you need to make it bipartisan. and that's hard. >> sreenivasan: what should president-elect biden's first priority be? >> i think the reestablishment of relationships with allies is a top priority. he also has some campai promises that i think he will implement very quickly. for instance, that the southwest border, you know, you have military activities going on down there. i think he will pull those back. there are some personnel issues. for instance, on transgenders, that the democrats have, you know, vowed to lift the restrictions. so i think he will do a bunch of those early on. >> sreenivasan: one of the disagreements that we hear, that defense secretary esper had, was on whether and how to withdraw troops from overseas. are there any things that we should be concerned about, in terms of where america is engaged right now and the consequences for that during this transition? >> well,

>> the obama administration was very tight with google in particular.hose were not what they are today which is extremely big, extremely powerful, and able to use that power in a way that is anticompetitive, in a way that sometimes promotes hate speech and violent speech. these companies collect so much data from us that not only is our privacy be in compromise. you will not see the same relationship that the obama administration has with tech. i think the folks who will be working with joe biden will be much more skeptical and much more willing to act in a more regulatory power and use antitrust law, advocating restraint and antitrust law but also using antitrust law. her authority, her cloud, going after amazon and google. leading the charge here. -- it is notable that mark zuckerberg has time and again set, sure, regulate me. look at gdpr in europe, he is talking about section 230 being reformed. >> i think the first thing that needs to happen is we need a national privacy bill. we need to confirm what they give to these companies and what they don't

spoke with christina romer, one of the chairs of the national economic advisers during the obama administrationone of the things she did during the obama transition was to advise there be more stimulus. flashforward 12 years later and we are having the same washington debate about the need for more stimulus, something former fed chair janet yellen has been at getting four -- has been advocating for. you know what it takes to strike a deal with leader mcconnell. how can president biden do that with more fiscal stimulus? jim: i think christina is exactly right in her comments, which means we will have to take a deal. i was white house deputy chief of staff when we cut the first bill on the economic stimulus deal in 2009. good deals have both sides saying i wish i would've gotten more. the other thing is we will need to have the business community and the world all on the same page, saying to democrats and republicans, get this done. do not play politics. jamie dimon was right last week when he said both sides were acting childish. get to the table and get this done. that kind of spirit is what jo

said his one major goal was for the barack obama administration to be a one term administration. pulled the plug on emergency lending programmes. how much more difficult does this make life? and including, it's being reported that janet yellen will be incoming treasury secretary. reported that janet yellen will be incoming treasury secretarym makes it very difficult because it means the fed, the central bank, has less wiggle room. that treasury backing gave the fed the ability to doa backing gave the fed the ability to do a lot of buying of corporate debt, buying of state and local debt, buying of state and local debt, basically acting like its own backstop. without that and without the treasury or that programme, their hands are tied. this is not a very good thing for the biden administration, but what you see is across the board, the trump administration trying to make life as difficult for the administration, burning all the bridges as they leave. we have an emergency, coronavirus emergency. this is not time to play politics. on the side forjoe biden, if we get a coronavirus v

so it seems like some familiar faces, from both the u.s. mainstream media, and the obama administration will now be once again in the white house serving the executive branch as we head towards a biden harris administration. this january. while familiar faces. of course, the chief being that joe biden himself obama's, former right wing man. that was thought he's kind of moped reporting from the make up. united arab emirates has condemned last friday's assassination of iran's top nuclear scientist. the gulf want to called it a threat to regional peace. the emirates condemns the crime of the assassination. it cosa no sides to practice the greatest possible restraint. so as to avoid dragging the region to new levels of instability and threats to peace. terror on has blamed the killing on israel and the us senate spog days of writing terror on with people binding the american and israeli flags and torching portraits of donald trump. i'm joe biden now has what's known about the assault so far with terror on vowing retaliate, and there are fears of deeper hostilities with the u.s. on its rout

andi during the obama administration and i think he will be ready to jump and i think he will be readyexpressed concern about possible war crimes ahead of a threat by the ethiopian army to start an assault on the northern tigray region's capital. fighting between ethiopia's central government and forces in tigray has been going on for almost three weeks. ethiopia's human rights commission has accused a youth group from the tigray region of being behind a massacre earlier this month in mai kadra, in which it says more than 600 civilians were killed. david campa nale reports. a day of reckoning for ethiopia's tigray province. government forces have advanced deep into the region. the leader of the tigray people's liberation front has admitted that towns have been captured. federal forces say their artillery and tanks are closing in on the regional capital, mekelle, and are just 60 km away. on sunday, the ethiopian army said there will be no mercy for its residents when their soldiers encircle the city of half a million people. tigray‘s leaders reject claims their forces are close to defea

before that during the obama administration, what was she, head of the fed. that clinton administration she was head of the economic advisory. these folks have been around. they understand government. and because of that it's going to be much easier transition. >> we see it with keri and the same thing. there are critics that say it will be obama administration part two. and there's also the balancing act of trying to appease moderates and progressives. >> look, i don't think it will be obama administration part two. because if nothing else the world changed. for example we had a much better relationship with china before than now. and it goes the other way with russia. they cozied up with president trump. and obama it was an adversary. the administration will adjust. and deal with it. four years can mean a lot. on the other hand there will be some things that the obama administration biden administration does differently from what president trump is doing. for example we are probably going to get back into the paris climate accord. that is something the demo

necessarily to execute on it, or to negotiate on it, but were there things maybe that the obama administration could have done more of to generate leverage? what is sort of your thinking on how a biden administration might be able to create leverage of its own that it can use, you know, over the subsequent four years? and i just mean that in terms of, we often hear about reinvigorating diplomacy, diplomacy is personnel, it is resources, it is the buildings. it is also strategy, and you've got a lot of experience negotiating with some pretty tough characters. how do you think about sort of revitalizing diplomacy across the spectrum of all of those areas? >> well, first of all, you know, i, and i think a lot of people, subscribe to the adage that diplomacy doesn't work unless it's backed by strength. and that means, as we were talking about before, being increasingly strong at home, recovering fast, but also rebuilding this alliance structure so that regardless of the adversary, whether it's china or russia or iran, or any force around the world that wants to undercut the liberal world order run

he was deputy of homeland security in the obama administration.ake sullivan who was national security adviser to then vice president biden will serve as president biden's national security and his long-time friend and senate colleague former secretary of state john kerrey will serve as special presidential envoy for climate with a seat on the white house national security council. and nbc news has confirmed that president-elect biden plans to nominate former federal reserve chair janet yellen to serve as treasury secretary, which since alexander hamilton first held that position has always been considered the second most cabinet position. and joining us now is ambassador wendy sherman. she was an undersecretary of state in the obama administration. she is an msnbc global affairs contributor and director of the center for public leadership at harvard's kennedy school. ambassador sherman, thank you very much for joining us tonight. we're very lucky to have you in this discussion since you know everyone who i just named. let's begin with the 71st sec

took too long >> obama administration field to deliver immigration reform which was a key promise duringtration and presided over record deportation and family detentions at the border before changing course why should voters trust you with an immigration overhaul now? >> made a mistake, it took too long to get it right, took too long to get it right as i will be present, not vice president. >> joe biden says his presidency will not be a third obama term. former president barack obama expressing frustration with latino voters. >> a lot of evangelical hispanics, the fact that trump sues racist things about mexicans or puts detainees, and documented workers in cages, they think that's less important than the fact that he supports their views on gay marriage or abortion. >> we are back with our panel. susan, jeff and jason. since we've cut you short on the other side with leadoff with you. >> immigration reform is tough. it's going to need buy-in from both parties and that will be joe biden's problem. the american people seem to have given democrats the white house but want to congress to c

it's a black, the obama administration, the only one. i don't know, not saying that that's one of my points that they didn't do anything about it, but biden was, of course, vice president. he did have an influence obama could if i was in the end he did wasn't the guy would to seduce issues. that clearly was a president that is different now. and of course also in the last few years or so, you merican statements have looked for what is going on in that part of the world. how to start troy has become how terrible the human cost has been. so i would expect to reverse that course and not too soon for saudi arabia or yes said so, and of course us, no god, these are critics issues and they say things during combat. it's therefore up when these statements, but i would expect a bite to do so. it clearly is more in favor of human rights, for example, in general. then for example, president trump, who never even use a term of human rights. well, you didn't hear my next question, and i think it's partially time that ties meant that my questions abou

is this a throw back to the obama administration? >> that's what a lot of people are saying because of people that were on that stage. what you're looking at is people that biden rolled out in the first slate of nominees for cabinet positions are people with depth and breadth of knowledge that comes from in part time spent in various roles in the obama administration. some of the nominees were former deputy secretaries, in the agencies that they're nominated to lead, and certainly it shows that the premium has been placed on having been in these rooms before, having experience in diplomacy or the international community or in the intelligence community and that that's where the focus is going to be provided. we heard from so many of these nominees today who said things that both spoke to their bios and diversity of life experience and the kinds of thinking they'll bring into the roles, that's the biden team way of i am pressing the idea this is a slate of people with fresh perspectives. at the same time, it is return to normalcy in t

jeh johnson was a homeland security secretary in the obama administration. lisa monaco a senior adviser for counterterrorism under president obama and sue gordon the principal deputy dni director so those are some of the picks for cia. we're also getting word there are three finalists for pentagon to lead the pentagon at the department of defense. we're told they are michelle flournoy, also jeh johnson as we just saw, and lloyd austin, a retired four star army general who was the head of the central command under the obama administration and left in 2016 in private, in the private sector right now. those are some of the names of the rest of the national security team the president-elect is settling on. so by the end of december which starts tomorrow we're told most of these cabinet picks will be announced. >> very significant developments. stand by. we'll get back to you in just a moment. i want to go to the white house right now. there are new blows to president trump's brazenly false claims about the election. let's go to our chief white house correspondent

recollectiont -- there was no smooth transition from the obama administration to the trump administration. of fact everything humanly possible was done to disrupt the trump administration. you are talking about the biden administration wanting peace and safety for the american people. the democrats weren't worried about peace and safety over the last several months when we had the rioting, the looting, in these various cities across the country. transition goes you are talking about the government transitioning. what you are not understanding is that trump people are a special group of people, morally, legally, and spiritually and we have nothing in common with the biden people. they don't know what they are going to be in for if over the next few weeks this election does not lean towards donald trump. host: several things there. we will hear from our guest. max: i am so glad you raised that point about the early transition planning. say, historically, most campaigns were very leery about doing early transition planning because they were worried about being accused of celebrating early. t

walter: i think they will be greener than the obama administration. or they will try to be.hey see, this comes out of stuff sullivan has written in conversations he and i have had. i think they see, in some ways, climate as an issue that can unite the progressive wing of the democratic party more closely to the obama, sorry, the biden wing. they're going to count on, they are going to see environmentalism at home leading to a big green infrastructure program degree new deal but the biden new deal and internationally they are going to sue be key to the american leadership, they will use it to push china into different positions to rebuild bridges with the europeans so i think a lot more emphasis on climate and i think i see that is a different. i think it is real. paul: let's talk a little bit here briefly about iran. go back to the iranian nuclear deal but president trump piled on sanctions, iran has backed away from its earlier commitments, far beyond the terms of the deal. is biden going to be able to return as quickly as they think to the status quo before trump? walter:

this started under the obama administration. number two, president trump is for gay marriage. iage in the beginning and double trumdonald trump doue for lgbqt. so to dana's point, they will revert to this hammer, this tool they use no matter what issue comes before them in this administration. >> geraldo: the reason numbers, doubled, inherit template conservative and i don't mean to generalize but i am on the insight on this one. faith-based family oriented and entrepreneurial, natural republicans but they have to recognize that fact. but emily, you know what is interesting to me also, the biden team is saying they will be back at the head of the table in this international community with the world health organization and nato and so forth. do you think the american people want the united states to abandon america first and embrace, re-embraced the paris climatic core and these other international agreements, emily? >> emily: i don't think the american people want their interest their interest depleted in any way, regardless of what you call it or where you are saying that we a

a chief of staff to vbt biden in the obama administration.e also led the obama administration's response to the ebola crisis in 2014. he will be a central player in the coronavirus fight as well. we are told this announcement could come as early as tomorrow. it could always possibly slide back to friday but i'm also told that other senior advisers in the white house also could be named this week. all of this is coming before any announcements for people to serve in his cabinet. i am told by several officials that these cabinet nominations will not be announced until after thanksgiving. likely early december. now that is a normal schedule for this. in fact, 12 years ago during the obama administration they did not name any cabinet members until that period as well. so the focus on those cabinet members are secretaries with an economic portfolio, with a holt portfolio and with a defense portfolio and health portfolio i'm told and others could be named later in january. of course, after those runoffs in georgia that is so important. if republica

administration. so lots of familiar faces from the obama era and from us mainstream media will be moving into the executive branch and working in the media team of joe biden's presidential administration. let's bring in the us the libertarian party's arvin vote. he's a former vice chair of the libertarian national committee. thank you very much for being with us here in our 2 international as always. so, joe biden, he's chosen an all female senior communications team. again, lots of familiar faces. we were, we've known them here on our team for quite some time. now, these are all from the obama era. why is biden going in this direction? i mean, this is an obvious distraction tactic. the idea i assume is to create such a highly noticeable identity shift that the content of the message is different. so the idea is that if you have an all female communications team saying yes, the united states is continuing perpetual war. yes, we're going to keep our keep the drug war going. yes, we're going to keep our failed welfare policies ranging from food stamps, a government schools that have kept the american people

administration. so lots of familiar faces from the obama era and from us mainstream media will be moving into the executive branch and working in the media team of joe biden's presidential administration, while still had to iran seeks retribution if they can acknowledge that top scientists while regional power as fair a new crisis, but what about it officially? the foreign policy team of a potential buy in ministration is being touted by the liberal media. we'll tell you why all this should be 4 or 5. also, there's a lot of talk of a great reset and build back better looking back for bode well for the future. the world is driven by shaped by those great sinks. we dare to ask joins me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics, sport, i'm show business. i'll see you then. welcome back. the united arab emirates has condemned last friday's assassination of iran's top nuclear scientist. the gulf want to keep called it a threat to regional peace. the emirates condemns the crime of the assassination. it kosher no science to practice the greatest possible restrai

joining me now john brennan, former director of the cia during the obama administration.ook is called "undaunted." tell me what the president-elect will be getting? >> 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 ben

liberty. >> the obama administration did fail key reform. over record deportations and family tensions at the border before changing course. why should voters trust with you overall now. >> made a mistake. took too long to get it right. took too long to get it right. i will be president of the united states, not vice president of the united states. >> joe biden says the -- his president will not be a third obama term. meanwhile former president barack obama is expressing some frustration with latino voters. >> there are a lot of evangelical hispanics who the fact that trump says racist things about mexicans or puts detainees, you know, undocumented workers in cages, they think that's less important than the fact that, you know, he supports their views on gay marriage or abortion. >> mike: and we're back with our panel. susan, jeff, and jason. jason, since we cut you short on the other side, let's lead off with you. >> well, you know, immigration reform is tough. i think it's going to need buy-in from both parties. and that will be joe biden'

the obama administration, withdrawing into thousand 11 and then going back into iraq? lt. gen. mcmaster: that's exactly, we have to be capable until our most recent history. i think the trump administration's foreign policies have fallen short mainly in areas where they doubled down on the deficiencies of the obama administration policies. this was in afghanistan and particular. i know americans are frustrated. endow weather is a call to the endless wars across the political spectrum. but i think this is a failure of leadership across multiple administrations. i don't think president trump did, i don't think president obama dead, make a big effort trying to explain to the -- president obama did try to make a big effort trying to explain to the american people why we need to care in dayton, ohio or peoria, illinois about afghanistan. i think we can make that case. we can say, we are prioritizing our security here. we will prevent jihadist terrorists from ever again gaining a safe haven support base they can use to commit attacks on the scale of 9/11. but the second question to ha

administration. so lots of familiar faces from the obama era and from us mainstream media will be moving into the executive branch and working in the media team of joe biden's presidential administration a couple and a straight a how they launched a needle challenge off to that child was taken into calf following the parents refusal to allow to reassignment therapy. we'll be discussing that story with our panel off the break. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person with those words. thinks we dare to ask anyone else seemed wrong? why don't we all, just don't all get to shape out these days become active and engaged because the trail when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. welcome back. now a couple in australia are appealing against a court decision to take that teenage child into a cab. the parents have refused the teenage daughters request to change gender and faith that being bullied by the authorities into giving their consent. the authorities say we will not allow her to change gender, so it's dangerous for her to come back to our house because we w

we saw that with the obama administration.a members went to work for the obama administration. we saw the reverse after trump took office, james comey becoming a media darling, gets two books, book tours, showtime series. he is supposed to be apolitical. one of staunchest critics president or andrew mccabe actually was fired for leaking to the press and then get as contract from cnn to talk about ethics in the intelligence communities. it is stunning, gerry. gerry: joe, can they go on like this? there is journalists, a sense of obligation to, there should be a sense of shame by journalists they will not make any effort to hold the administration accountable? do you think they can do this just briefly? >> absolutely not. i will leave it with this, gerry. mr. biden during the rare press conference as staffer to call on reporters, a predetermined list. this is the person who will be leader of the free world? i think china and russia taking note, he can't even call on reporters on his own because they're afraid, the campaign is, n

he was deputy homeland security in the obama administration. jake advisor.mer john kerry will serve as special presidential on envoy for climate on the white house national council. president-elect biden plans to nominate janet yellen to serve as treasury secretary. that position is considered the second most important cabinet position and joining us now is ambassador wendy sherman, she was the secretary of state in the obama administration. she's the director of the center of community at harvard school. >> thank you wendy for joining us tonight. you know everyone who i just named. let's begin with the 71st secretary of state, tony blinken. >> tony is extraordinary. i have known him since i was a speech writer at the beginning of his career with the clinton administration, you know he's been by joe biden's side all through his tenure and the foreign relations committee. how it helps you understand the political process as well as foreign policy and whatever subject matter you have to face. he's smart, engaging and he knows everybody around the world. he gre

in ministration into bashedmp administration obama administration into the trump administration. it is one line of activity that has been relatively consistent. it was under the obama administration that major indictments of chinese nationals were cyber attacks were brought. and more of those plus the russian indictment, the indictments of russian officers for 2016 election interference happened under this administration. it has been consistent. i expect it to continue as a twill. in terms of its value, the government does not really expect these individuals to sit for trial in the united states but what it does do is communicate to the world and the adversary and to the public what is going on behind the scenes. there really is a significant transparency value in addition to adjust the value of bringing or using our justice system in toer to bring consequence individuals. and there are some marginal effects and terms of the individuals affected and their ability to travel and things like that. i'm sure this is something that the biden-harris admini

seems where biden is going with some of these picks frankly are people he worked with in the obama administration. these are people who are known quantities in washington, generally speaking. you don't see virtually anyone on this list who is someone out of left field. so it suggests that the biden administration is preparing for either possibility that either there will be a narrow democratic majority in the senate or continue to be a republican majority and they need to get some votes across the aisle. so i think it's probably more so the issue with senate confirmation making sure they can get votes on the republican side because i think democrats still, by and large, right now, are pushing privately but publicly are kind of holding their fire on most of those picks with a few exceptions, one of them you saw there neera tanden will be nominated for the office of budget position. >> one key position that has yet to be filled is defense secretary. tell us some of the names under consideration. >> this is a big one. it looks like joe biden, according to sources, is considering a couple of names. a

like we said with the obama administration.ferent candidate now and an entirely different presidential campaign. he is now the president, not the vice president. but there are progressive forces that you almost want no border control. so how is he going to handle that? very easy for president trump to have that tough border control stance because that is what the republican party wanted to. so it will be interesting to see how he handles things if there are caravans of people that come over the border. will he prevent those from happening, or will he cater to the progressive wing? >> gillian: sean come i want to make a point because carley made a great point the senate runoff january 5th. how do you think that will impact the race is when voters know that potentially on the ballot? >> sean: i think on the ballot as well in the senate and top the progressive movement but i look at the question at hand. joe biden if he offers amnesty to 11 million americans that will incentivize more caravans of people to come to the southern bor

she is certainly not the only figure in this new communications team that came out of the obama administration, the white house communications director, as well as the 1st lady communications director, also came out of the administration of obama working with biden, when he was vice president. and when he was a u.s. senator, the deputy press secretary is someone from the obama cabinet as well. the individual worked with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. there is a senior adviser to vice president camila harris. she will be the vice president under joe biden, who did work with bernie sanders, but that individual is the real exception. now another interesting thing to note is that many of these individuals who are working for the white house communications team and have been named by the upcoming biden administration, have direct ties to american mainstream media. for example, corinne jean pier, she worked as a political analyst for n.b.c. and m s n b c. we've had psaki herself for a long time. worked as a c.n.n. contributor simone sanders. she also has had ties as a c.n.n. political commentator,

now actually to be hyper aggressive on the part of the, of the, of the obama administration. and because russia stood up and said, no look, crimea is not created, be turned into a nato base. that was considered to be cardinal, sent. the question is for biden, and a team, do they accept the fact that russia actually has legitimate national in regional interests? and will they accept that or not? or do they want to continue down this path of hyper aggressive demonization? maybe perhaps because america needs big enemies like china and russia to justify the looting of the national treasury, which is actually what's going on by the continued increase in military spending. you know, max might seem like we already heard it from brian here. i mean, when i, when i look at american foreign policy makers in the media that there is this run for, or i don't, the top that russia has no legitimate security interest of its own. it's almost taken as a given. and i played it so bizarre because everything, every country, every nation state has interest in it will obviously pursue it. but russia