Fill out mynt into paperwork, i inquired about it. So if you wonder where our Social Security money is going, who wants tobody be on Social Security needs to go down and take a look at the waiting room. They will see where this social purity money goes. Host that does it for todays washington journal. To anl bring you now event happening here in washington on president ial transitions. The secretary of Commerce Penny pritzker and the former housing and urban Development Secretary steve reston is sharing their thoughts on what they take on what they think it takes to succeed as a smooth president ial transition. Think of for watching. We will be back here tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. We are showing coverage of the discussion this morning about president ial transitions. It features commerce secretary from theer and partnership of public service, one of the organizations leading the transition into the next president , less than five weeks now and told election day. We understand they
Number of revelations including the level of cooperation and trust. Lets start with a hollywood thriller. Lets go straight to inagural which was almost postponed with terrorist threat and just how was that threat and how did the bush and obama teams deal with it . Thank you very much for being here and talking with me about the book. When we look at the the front of the cover of the book here and you see bush and obama, both of them actually looking pretty serious and grim. They are. They had walked out the blue room where they had traditional coffee where the president elect and first first lady to be come in to be hosted by the sitting president and the Vice President from both sides too. And so while they were there discussing whatever the days activity ahead, they were talking about in the situation room, there was a meeting about a threat on the inauguration that had come over the weekend. There was a threat of a terrorist attack on the inauguration. Probably not close to the podi
You can also catch up with us on all your favorite social media pages. He very good sunday morning to you. I want to start with a few headlines from papers from around the country on this idea of the American Dream. Some recent columns in the wall street journal and a few others on the subject. Robert reich the former labor secretary of the United States, his column from december 26. We will be talking about this issue of the American Dream for the first 45 minutes. That subject has also been in discussion already in 500 or so posts on our Facebook Pages morning. I will read you just a few of those. I want to read you little bit from that piece. That is a bloomberg poll. We also have a poll on our Facebook Page. Is the American Dream still attainable . Right now the results seem to be tracking the same as that bloomberg poll heard about 240 seven people saying yes it is still attainable and 404 people saying no, it is not. Be talking about this subject, taking your calls and comments.
The president s campaign of delays, shake ups and denials over the facts this have election. Next hour we will see him for the first time in several days in an official capacity as he heads to Arlington National cemetery for a wreath laying honoring our nations veterans on this veterans day. While those veterans fought to protect our democracy the president and his administration the fact is fighting to undermine it. Thats right. And while this fight in washington persists so does the dire situation in our nations hospitals. There are now a Record Number of covid19 patients in our hospitals and a Record Number of covid19 infections this morning. It has gotten so bad in some states leaders are asking their residents to stay at home all over again. Were covering all the angles this morning, the shake ups, the transition, the National Security impact and of course this Health Crisis. Lets begin our reporting with our m. J. Lee who is following president elect bidens camp in delaware. Morn
And there is no better place to be covering all of this from ben washington, where we are this morning. I am leland vittert. Welcome to the headquarters. Shannon i am shannon bream. The white house calling for whether the Obama Administration abused his executive power during the 2016 election. This one day after President Trump accused of wire tapping trump tower in the lead up to november so. Christian fisher is following all this fastmoving developments in West Palm Beach florida where President Trump spends his beacon of our love go. Reporter lives, both republicans and democrats at the sunday shows to say that President Trump made these claims therefore that they had to provide proof to support those claims. But the white house isnt playing by those rules at the white house says there will be no further comment about all of this until the house Intelligence Committees look into it. Heres Deputy Press Secretary sarah sanders. Lets find out if they are going to investigate russia ti