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Trumps administrations final weeks and as we head into this new political era. Great group. Jeh johnson, the former secretary of Homeland Security and serves as general counsel of the department of defense. He also represents new jersey in a seven state counsel that coordinates covid related reopening. Sue gordon is the former Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the nations secondhighest intelligence post. She served in the Intelligence Community for over three decades in senior positions. Carrie cordero is the robert gates senior fellow and general counsel. She served at the department of justice and in the office of the director of it is a great group. We are going to start with a conversation among us, then move to some audience questions, which you can enter in the q a box on your screen, and we will also have a couple of polling questions we will weave in throughout so we can get a sense of what the audience thinks about some of the topics. Lets start with Homeland
And this at the moment, and the main aim that netanyahu, how deicing, with these visit to saudi arabia could meet m. B. s, the crown prince. The 1st priority for relief for israel is to get iran put at the top of the agenda for the administration. The same coming administration will have many other domestic issues to deal with. Its not clear whether they will control the senate or not. Its not clear theyll get their agenda through and he wants to put iran really sort of front and center. So this is a way of calling attention to it. Calling attention to iran, if you like, what he would add a regional role. And i think the other aspect of whats going on is to sort of heighten the tensions because the railroad was the main reason i think for the visit to saudi arabia was to agree a few reichen agenda with the saudis, about iraq. Where are we going to stand in iraq . I mean, i think, i mean, this isnt this character tony blinken has previously said about talk about regime change in syria a
Livermore. Find that jacket. Concord at 44. Thats also colder. As we look ahead to the rest of today itll be sunny and warm. The mornings where we have a minor issue. I will be back with more on the rest of the forecast including thanksgiving in a few minutes. For now lets see how the drive is doing. Its a little busy. We have a couple of hot spots in the east bay. Lets start on westbound 580. Thats where chp is clearing a crash over to the shoulder. They just ran a traffic break. You will see a few brake lights. Hopefully they will get that out quickly. We have an advisory that was davis. A serious accident. This is a fatality. Davis street will be shut down. You can exit 98th over toward 880. Troubling new coronavirus days before the thanksgiving. Cases tripling in past month and hospitalizations up almost 80 compared to two weeks ago. Today at noon health and Human Services secretary will update on californias fight against coronavirus. You can see it right here. The fda has asked a
Measures. The new Field Hospital just opened as one city warns it will run out of beds within weeks. Rudy guiliani tests positive for the coronavirus as President Trump gives his first major speech since the election. Local republicans spent today refuting it. The government report first obtained by nbc news, was a foreign adversary hitting american diplomats with Microwave Radiation to make them sick . Plus, the show must go on. The nutcracker in the age of covid. The Sugar Plum Fairy Dancing under the stars. This is Nbc Nightly News with kate snow. Good evening. There is some hope on the horizon at the start of a new week. The first doses of the Pfizer Vaccine landing in british hospitals today. Here in the u. S. The fda set to meet this thursday to consider Emergency Authorization for the same vaccine. But that hope is over shadowed at the moment by far too many cases of coronavirus and deaths. California Just Announced they recorded 30,000 cases yesterday, a new record in that stat