The next 100 days. Tom the transition challenges are simple. He needs a single letter out of gsa and that has not happened yet. We will do with Greg Valliere a on this in a moment. There are still four states with under a 1 count, and that is really what matters around all the hoopla. Francine it certainly does. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Biden is launching his transition effort while President Trump continues legal challenges over the election. The news media declared biden the winner of the president ial election on saturday. The former Vice President won or was leading in states that would give him more than 270 electoral votes needed for victory. Meanwhile, the president has falsely claimed victory whilst saying there was widespread in legal voting. He has not offered any evidence. President elect joe biden will take the first step to one of his Biggest Campaign promises today, to bring the Coronavirus Crisis under control
Thank you again for joining us and our top story is this. Newly released documents give us a clearer view of how President Trumps personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, coordinated his efforts in ukraine through the white house and is coming directly from the u. S. State department. The information results from a freedom of information lawsuit filed by the Advocacy Group american oversight. Emailed exchanges spell out how the white house helped arrange a phone call between giuliani and u. S. Secretary of state mike pompeo. This took place the day after giuliani handed over materials with unproven claims about former Vice President biden and his son, hunter. Documents show pompeo spoke with giuliani the first time in late march, before giuliani handed over that information. It was the second conversation that was facilitated by the white house. For that conversation, giuliani reached out to madeleine westerhouse. Giuliani said she was, quote, getting nowhere through regular channels. She then