and when the previous administration reversed the obama-biden vehicle standards and picked big oil companies over american workers, the biden-harris administration will not only bring those standards back, but set new and ambitious ones that our workers are ready to meet. we see workers building and installing 500,000 vehicle charging stations across the country as we modernize our highway system to adapt to changes that have already taken place. we see american consumers switching to electric vehicles through rebates and incentives. and the residents of our cities and towns, bringing -- breathing cleaner air, and fewer kids with asthma, and dying from it. today's executive order combined with the buy american executive order i signed on monday, are going to harness the purchasing power of the federal government to buy clean, zero-emails vehicles that are made and sourced by union workers right here in america. with everything i just mentioned, this will mean one million new jobs in the american automobile industry. one million. and it will take steps toward my goal of achieving a 100% carbo

libya the obama/biden foreign policy failed. again you admitted picky set libya is a particularly challenging one i have to acknowledge that we obviously did not succeed in the obama/biden administration in getting that right. in iraq the obama/biden foreign policy failed. unfortunately you continue i believe and mistakenly call the withdrawal of u.s. troops in iraq a success but the rest of the world knows a failure to get the status of force agreement in iraq created a vacuum which led to the rise and creation of isis. in 2014, senator john mccain's was a member of this committee raise these issues come went to the senate floor to speak against your nomination to be deputy secretary of state. i ask, mr. chairman, a statement be to the record. >> without objection. >> thank you, mr. chairman turkey raised concerns with your actions come status in decisions regarding iraq, syria, ukraine. based on the record of failed foreign policy decisions, senator mccain said that only is mr. blinken, unqualified but he is he said i believe

and say to barack obama and biden served us vice president to stop our always intensified with lady gaga singing the national anthem. jennifer lopez with a medley of this land is your land and america's a beautiful. and country singer goth brooks asked everyone to join in amazing grace. but the future was heralded by 22 year old poet amanda goldman who took up the themes of biden's inaugural speech in a poem addressing the problems of the divided nation and offering hope for there was always like if only were brave enough to see it if only were brave enough to be it. and joe biden 46th president of the united states is taking up that challenge. on reporter stacy befriends of joins me now in the studio for more days it's been a busy day for president joe biden tell us more about what he's been up to well he's managed to be able to set the tone and a distinct departure from the previous administration and he's done that with his executive orders and so we've mentioned rejoining the paris climate accord and the w.h.o. which is very important it's a signal a signpost to you know internationa

both organizations there which i belong and then to the justice department during the obama biden ministration where she led the civil rights division at every step with every case she fought for greater equity and the right to right the wrongs of a justice system where they existed and she's done so by bringing people together earning praise from across the logical spectrum for approach to solving some of the thorny is probably face during the obama biden ministration benita was put in charge of investigating the abuse of power and police departments in ferguson missouri and other communities torn apart by acts of violence and racial injustice shall pensa to common sense police reforms to build greater equity safety and trust. she was commended for her work by both law enforcement and those advocating for changes in the criminal justice system that's a rare cheatin and speaks volumes about her capacity to unite people in common purpose which is what this is all about you 19 american morning in philadelphia a proud daughter of immigrants from india that sound from other. if confirmed the nativ

you knowjoe biden very well. obama talked so much about the tilt to asia. oing to see a tilt to asia underjoe biden, do you think? 0h, most definitely. and i would remind your audience that the reason why president obama and vice president biden were so supportive of the tpp, the trade agreement that would have bound the united states and 11 countries, not only would it have opened up a huge market for us companies to trade in asia, but it also would have isolated china and we would have set high standards in terms of everything from human rights to the environment and business trade policies. and it would have isolated china. and so whether or not it is possible to re—enter those conversations is yet to be seen. but i know that president elect biden understands the potential of that market for all us companies and also appreciates the fact that we have to collectively hold china accountable. it's not something that any one country can do alone. all right, richard, do you like what you heard from our two panelists? i think that they are right things i wonder

china wants to see if it's going to go back to business as usual as it was under the obama and biden administration. what you are seeing is they are testing to see whether or not the biden administration will stand up to china and what's important is your point about the intelligence, no one has seen more intelligence in the last year than i have. so the question is will they. i watched a real haynes rhetoric which was tough on china but that has to translate into action. that hasn't been the history with joe biden and let's hope that that changes because maria, this is not a political issue. this is about national security and we all fail and suffer as a result of that and not taking china seriously. >> maria: we know that china has stated its goals clearly, overtaking the united states in that regard, not just economically but militarily. the trump administration has pushed back on investors who helped to fund china's expansion by banning investment into chinese companies that are tied to the military. i want you to listen to jennifer psaki, the press person for president biden and

the obama biden administration did reduce the auto industry.23 billion on a united auto workers bailout. this was a sweetheart taxpayer funded deal to shield their union friends from taking pay cuts during the auto bankruptcies, period. the biggest joke of today was banning of new gas and oil leases is going to create more jobs. he says, they can close those abandoned wells. under biden's plan, there will be many, many more abandoned wells. it's like me saying, my policies are going to create tons of going out of business sign makers. that's not good. >> laura: wait a second, back in the radio days tracking biden's promises about green jobs, i think it was 2009? >> more green jobs means more money in your pocket at the end of the month. >> the money landed in someone else's pocket, lori. it wasn't the taxpayers. obama and biden promised 5 million green jobs as part of that $787 billion stimulus package. the only thing green was the piles of cash spent on this. they never hit their goal, and to remember, they counted janitors, cleaners, and to b

we tell every team get ready for mccain, obama, clinton, trump and other biden team. thank for the update you did this year. we will do a review of what's happened when it is all over but in the meanwhile we do have a set of ten into recommendations captured a testament and i will hit seven of them if i can very quickly. the first weather seems to be unanimous view on this we do need to clarify the standard for postelection transition support. it should be a ministerial decision. it should be clear and it should be a low bar. this is not about deciding who is president. this is deciding whether someone is going to get information they need of help they need to be ready to govern if they're in charge in january 20. number two, , we need to make me support for the pre-election period it will help a very substantial way around clarifying the standard. this congress has already done a lot of great work about lengthening the runway so there's more pre-election activity done in transition planning. one of the best examples is in 2004 win in light of the 2001 attacks congres

science was a governing philosophy in the obama-biden administration. for example, a belief in science and our efforts to map the human brain helps us develop individualized medicines. it added to our mission to end cancer as we know it, something that is very deeply personal in my family and kamala's family and families around the country. when the president asked me to direct the cancer moonshot, i knew we needed a sense of urgency. my wife jill and i traveled around the world. we talked to philanthropists, technology leaders. we sought to better understand these silos and stove types -- stovepipes while building a focused and coordinated effort here and abroad. we made progress, but there's so much more we can do. when i said i would not run in 2015, i said i had one regret. i would not be the president to preside over the end of cancer as we know it. god willing, the 20th of this month, we will get that done. we know the science is discovery. it's not fiction. it's also about hope. it's in the dna of this country. it's about hope. we are on the cusp

and that was joe biden. >> narrator: obama asked him to be on his ticket as vice president. in wilmington, the biden inner circle gathered. >> he was not going to do it. i mean, there's no doubt he was not going to do it. we had another one of those family meetings and a few key, key people. >> the kids said to me, "mom, you have to talk dad into running." and i said, "joe, this is such a great moment in history." >> his ma said, "well, well, joey"-- she called him joey-- she said, "well, joey, you're telling me that the first african-american president in history thinks that you can help him get elected, and you're saying no?" game, set, match, it was over. (laughs) >> barack obama is projected to be the next president. >> senator barack obama of illinois... >> narrator: he'd turned a political crisis into a relationship, and became vice president. >> 47 years old, he'll become the president... >> he had already squared away in his mind that he understood that barack obama was president, joe was vice president. and joe understood the job of vice president and, and, uh...w.

you need science, data and discovery was a governing philosophy in the obama-biden administration.nd everything from the economy to the environment to criminal justice reform and to national security. and on health care. for example, a belief in science led our efforts to map the human brain and to develop more precise individualized medicines. it led to our ongoing mission to end cancer as we know it, something that is deeply personal to both my family and kamala's family and countless families in america. when president obama asked me to lead the cancer moon shot, i knew we had to inject a sense of urgency into the fight. we believed we could double the rate of progress and do in five years what otherwise would take 10. my wife, jill, and i traveled around the country and the world meeting with thousands of cancer patients and their families, physicians, researchers, philanthropists, technology leaders and heads of state. we sought to better understand and break down the silos and stove pipes that prevent the sharing of information and impede advances in cancer research and treat

>> julissa reynoso, who is actually from new york and moving down here but served in the obama-biden ncement that dr. biden made that julissa will be the co-chair of the new gender equality council at the white house. so that signals to me and along with others on that staff, it will be a very busy working office with a full complement of a staff, starting on day one. the joining forces initiative is being restarted. dr. biden is bringing that back. of course, you know something that she worked on with first lady michelle obama and bringing back that same director who served before to the white house. so i think she's putting in place some pretty strong people to be overseeing the initiatives she cares about. education will be at the top of the list, too, and that will cross cut almost everything that she does. but at the end of the day, too, one of the most important responsibilities of the speaker of of -- of thespouse of the pre their fierce protector and sanctuary in the white house because all the responsibility that falls on the president's shoulders now, tas you all know -- as

say and i think positive about what obama and biden did in the past 6. clearly you had a situation for instance in the middle east where you know the obama biden intervention in libya created a much more greater problem what what i'm trying to say is that whether republican or democrats americans. forces you know. i have traditionally. engaged in a lot of intervention in developing countries developing countries elsewhere so i'm not going to say republican interventions and democratic and they're very. worse than the other in fact you know that's what we've been so much against since we started speaking about breaking the law and i think it's really looks like one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter case i want to ask you. efforts and calls on the part of they a democratic administration to. change the definition of domestic terrorism the biden team even prior to the events on the capitol hill was looking into that they are all in favor of that do you think it's warranted and do you think it's going to be good for america well i don't know e

the obama-hyden -- obama-biden administration knew how to do this, and we know how to do this. we weatherized more than a million homes. the recovery act of the last tipper craddick administration made record clean energy investments, $90 million. the president asked me to make sure -- the president asked me to see how that money should be spent. now the biden-harris administration is going to do it again. we will create the white house office of domestic public policy as the head of the new office and my national climate advisor, jean will chair the national climate task force made up of many members of our cabinet to deliver a whole government approach. we need to be bold. that includes revitalizing the economies of coal, gas, and power plant communities. we have to create jobs for recapping old mines and wells, creating new good paying jobs in those communities where those workers live because they helped build this country. we are going to do right by them, make sure they have opportunities to keep building in the nation and their own opportunities and getting paid well for

administration robert gates under president obama noted joe biden has been wrong on nearly everyor foreign-policy and national security issue over the past for decades. you are an integral part to advise obama and one - - obama on these even ears a form policy when it came time to make the right decisions you have to say you failed to return the tragic loss of life with millions of people made into refugees and that something we have to live with. we rightly sought to avoid by not doing too much and then you said libya is a challenging one with the obama biden administration get that right in iraq the form policy failed. and then mistakenly called the withdrawal of the troops in iraq a success but the rest of the world knows the failure to get the status of force agreements created a vacuum leading to the rise in the creation of isis. in 2014 senator john mccain was a member of this committee we issue and went to the senate floor to speak against the nomination to be deputy secretary of state. i asked his statement be submitted for the record. >> and was statements and discussion

something special-- a kind of political sainthood they called the "obama lo." >> joe biden a halo, everybody knows that. that is the cleansing of joe biden and everything tt may have happened. and e this sh a great irony, that someone who was the architect of the '94 crime bill, and a white man of this age, en you think about anita hill, his crutch, his... the reason for his success is a black man with a funny name who's kind of skinny from hawaii >> blaives matter! black lives matter! black lives matter! >> narrator: in those years as vice president, biden would confront yet more crises. among them: the building racial tensions... >> don't touch me. >> narrator: growing outrage over police violence against african americans. >> black lives matter! black lives matter! >> narrator: then, news of a revenge shooting against the police. >> we begin tonight with breaking news. a deadly police shooting in new york city. >> two new york city police officers are dead following an ambush saturday afternoon. assassinated. >> amateur video captured the frantic scene, as paramedics desp

a lot of people who are young, bright, soldiers and higher in the obama administration are now in the biden administration in very high places. jake sullivan, john feiner, a lot of people at that level. and they have graduated themselves into something. is it obama 2.0? i'm not sure it's that exactly because a lot of things have changed by the mere fact of who donald trump is and was in what he did. but i think in terms of what hene learned, i think he learned who other people are. think he holds a sensibility of think he'd notched it back a little bit in those meetings with the kids who in the beginning of the obama administration were kind of making fun of him behind his back, uncle joe is people tell us, sleepy joe a lot of those words came from the obama young people in the white house and the other agencies in the very beginning are now senior people in the biden administration. he obviously does not carry grudges either. >> were chocolate the incoming president, joe biden freed the new documentary by pbs frontline is called presidenty biden, filmmaker michael kirk here with us to take

and then, to the justice department during the obama-biden administration, where she led the civil rightsivision. at every step, with every case, she fought for greater equity and the right to right the wrongs of the justice system, where they existed. she's done so by bringing people together. earning praise from across the ideological spectrum for her approach to solving some of the thorniest problems we face. during the obama-biden administration, anita was put in charge of investigating abuse of power in ferguson, missouri, and other communities torn apart by acts of violence and racial injustice. she helped institute commonsense police reforms to build greater equity, safety, and trust. she was commended for her work by both law enforcement and those advocating for changes to the criminal justice system. that is a rare achievement. and it speaks volumes about her capacity to unite people in common purpose, which is what this is all about. uniting the american people. born in philadelphia, a proud daughter of immigrants from india, does that sound familiar? if confirmed, vanita will b

commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and accessibility, building on the work we started in the obama-biden administration. that's why i've rescinded the previous administration's harmful ban on diversity and sensitivity training and abolish the counter factual 1776 commission. unity and healing must begin with understanding and truth, not ignorance and lies. today, i'm also issuing an executive order that will ultimately end the justice department's use of private prisons and houses prechildhood detainees and federal prisoners. the executive order directs the attorney general to decline to renew contracts with privately operated criminal facilities, a step we started to take in the end of the obama administration and was reversed under the previous administration. this is the first step to stop corporation from profitting off and incarceration that is less humane and less safe as the studies show. and it is just the beginning of my administration's plan to address systematic problems in our criminal justice s. here's another thing we need to do. we need to restore and expand the voting rig

you see the biden administration if, you know, matt mentioned it, it's kind of obama retreads, right?en administration appears to be the is sequel, right? and the original wasn't that good to begin with. i do think they're going the try to tow a clintonian-centrist line, but the failures of trying to enact that especially with what will likely be a divided congress, i think it'll only incentivize an aoc squad-type, left-wing, you know, woke intersectional uprising. so that is certainly where my money was placed if i were placing wagers on the future of the democratic party. we are so far removed from the clintonian notion of the era of big government is over. obama, the 2008 and 2012 obama/biden platforms by today's standards are positively quaint. so is i think the direction of the party is 'em emphatically clear at this point. gerry: we'll have to see what happens. thank you both for joining us. it'll be a fascinating year ahead. like to have you back so we can get into these issues in more dethe tail in the future. thank you for joining us. >> you got it. gerry: coming up, covid lo

when the previous administration reverse the obama-biden vehicle standards, the biden-harris administration will not only bring them back but set new ambitious ones that our workers are ready to meet. we see them installing 500,000 new electric vehicle charging stations across the country as we modernize our highway system to adapt to changes taken place. we see american consumers switching to electric vehicles to rebates and incentives and residents of our cities and towns breathing cleaner air and fewer kids living with asthma and dying from it. not only that, the federal government owns and maintains an enormous fleet of vehicles, as you all know. with today's executive order combined with the buy american executive order i signed on monday, we're going to harness the purchasing power of the federal government to buy clean, zero emission vehicles that are made and sourced by union worker right here in america. with everything i just mentioned, this will mean one million new jobs in the american automobile industry. one million. we'll do another thing. we'll take steps toward my goal of a

in the obama-biden administration in the last two years, of it there was significant push for reform to also shrink the footprint of that. i would sit in the trump administration we kind of held steady work on one hand there was a lot of rhetoric from the president that is typical fear mongering of a lot of order stuff we have heard, talking about cities that are falling apart under democrat leadership, high rates of crime. this is something we've seen for decades and decades and this is what is led to the building of the justice system but, in fact, in policy terms there were some modest reforms. the present site in 2010 the first step act rich edson sentencing reform in some reforms of the federal prison system. actually just last week congress passed a reform that was 27 years in its necessity, and it's making which was to return the use of pell grants which is federal financial aid for low income students. make those grants available for incarcerated students. in 1994 1994 crime bill didd h those grants. the president just signed that bill two days ago. we have on one hand with t

during the obama/biden administration, she was put in charge of investigating police departments in ferguson, missouri and other communities torn apart by acts of violence and racial injustice she helped institute common sense police reforms to build greater equity, safety and trust. she was commended for her work by both law enforcement and those advocating for changes in the criminal justice system. that's a rare achievement. and it speaks volumes about her capacity to unite people in common purpose, which is what this is all about. uniting the american people. born in philadelphia, a proud daughter of immigrants from india -- that sound familiar if confirmed, anita will be the first woman of color to serve as associate attorney general, and i'm grateful, i'm grateful that anita is leaving her current job, as she answers the call to ensure once again that our justice system is even more fair and more equitable for assistant attorney general for civil rights, i nominate kristen clark, who has spent her career advocating for greater equality and equity in our justice system the daughter of j

now joe biden says he has got, he will have a plan of his own. look, democrats, you have to go back to president obamare not, are not as good as republicans in juices up the economy. republicans know how to do it and the best way is to reduce taxes. biden wants to raise taxes. elizabeth: yeah. the other thing too is, fred, this is key, the conservative judges that the president put in place, matters also the d.c. circuit. they could push back on biden because here's what we're hearing now the state of texas says they will start to sue the biden administration fossil fuels and the border. the republican attorneys general association is gearing up to sue the incoming biden administration way more than they did during the obama era. they won nearly 2/3 of nearly 80 lawsuits against the obama administration. your final word on that? >> it is hard to beat how well texas and these red states and conservative states did during the obama administration. they won almost everything. they will impede a lot of things that the biden wants to do, particularly in the environmental area. elizabeth: all right. fred ba

a lot of the biden's team has come from a obama biden's team, maybe too many. we worry about stale thinking because when they were in power four years ago are over four years ago there are a lot of things that have changed inhi te world particular and foreign-policy. a lot has happened in the world. we need fresh views but we are where we are. an example of this kind of stale thinking that i was shocked to see recently at theho white houe is the use of the term quote strategic patients as a foreign-policy concept. this was the phrase the obama administration used to describe its policy towards north korea andhi i think most people would recognize democrats and republicans that was not a very successful policy, failed policy and granted north korea's difficult, no doubt but the policy that was known as strategic patients was the policy that enabled the north korean rogue regime to massively build up a nuclear arsenal. so kind of like leading from behind the obama administration's term strategic patients became synonymous with a passive and even weak foreign-poli

and bush administration's as well as head of the 2008 obama-biden transition. >> welcome to our second panel of our transition 2020 day, the confirmation process. ivan patti solis doyle, a partner at the brunswick group and lead the firms public affairs office. the brunswick group is a strategic advisory firm focused on critical issues at the center of business, politics and society and we are thrilled to what's again partner with georgetown and my friend and formeror colleague mo elleitheeo contain today's conversation on an incredibly relevant topic. on behalf of myself and the entire brunswick team i thank you for joining us. i think it would be a great session i would like to try to set up the second panel on the confirmation process for handing it over to mo and are incredible panel. while the official confirmation process will take center stage in a few short weeks president elect biden has already eight cabinett level nominees outpacig his predecessors in making appointments. some of these appointments include heads of state, treasury and hea

obama administration. they want almost anything. it would impede a lot of things that the biden wants to do particular in the environmental area. elizabeth: alright it is good to see you again and don't be a stranger. guest: okay, thank you. elizabeth: coming up for an independent counsel back with us. on this new debate. trump's first letter, his first draft firing former fbi director james going, it is blistering for unit it is now late rate of would public opinion have been different if trump had used this letter and said when it comes to the trump russia probe. the story is next. >> jim kelly and lisa page cannot see. the problem is where you turn. the director is on the deceit. ♪ ♪♪ less every day. and having more days is possible with verzenio, proven to help you live significantly longer when taken with fulvestrant. verzenio + fulvestrant is for women with hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer that has progressed after hormone therapy. diarrhea is common, may be severe, or cause dehydration or infection. at the first sign, call your doctor, start an anti-diarrheal, and drin

tal: they both say that they want to use the obama/biden presidency as a guide. biden was a very integral player in that administration, and he wants a vice president that is a sounding board that that raises questions. he wouldn't have chosen kamala harris if he didn't want to draw from her perspectives. obviously, she comes in with deep understanding of the criminal justice system. i would expect her to be a player on immigration. it's an area she really carved out for herself in the senate. but there's going to be some growing into the role to do. you know, i would fully expect biden does not seem threatened by her in any way, nor should he be. he's reached the pinnacle of his career. he wants to make her the standard bearer of the democratic party going forward. but it may take some time for her to sort of find that role, and that voice that she's going to have in the administration. soledad: how does she get along with the republicans in the senate, and republicans in congress across the board? tal: right before she ran for president, i was writing a profile

ambush of administration as well as the head of the 2008 obama-biden transition. snoke welcome to our second panel of our transition 2020 confirmation process. i'm patti solis doyle a partner here at the group and leave the public affairs office. the group and its strategic firm focused on critical issues at the center of business politics and society a and we are thrilld once again to partner with georgetown and my friend and former colleague russell okung convened on an incredibly relevant topic at on behalf of myself and the entire team thank you for joining us today productive is going to be a great session. i'd lik' to talk about the conversation process before handing it over to incredible panel. read the official confirmation process will take center stage in the future weeks present like biden has made appointments. some of these poems include heads of state treasury and health and human services. a recent study by the center of presidential transitions found in the last 28 years the senate has confirmed 95% of the present cabinet secretary nom

should it be a tech explosion or do you continue to deflate under president obama under biden or you can't tell. >> i think both scenarios are outliers i would not look for an implosion and i'm not sure it's reasonable to expect the same kind of growth we seen in the last four years. i would definitely not rule out only tech stocks, i think it's going to be a cold day before they take the tech sector and taken to the woodshed. tech is where the growth is, tech is where the top and bottom earnings are and certainly there are excessive's, nothing rational about stocks in the stock market to begin with but at the end of the day investors want to be where the growth is so yes perhaps they take a little pause and maybe is long overdue but i certainly don't think were looking for a debacle in the tech sector, if you're going to stay on the stock market you probably want to stay long to exposure to text. liz: don't bet against american companies especially long-term which names do you expect to do well on abiding a administration in the same token ones that perhaps might not. >> i think you