Joe biden has been given the official green light to begin his transition to the white house, more than two weeks after the us media declared him the winner of the president ial election. Donald trump has accepted that his team needs to work with the incoming administration, but has promised to press on with legal challenges contesting the result, tweeting in the last hour that will never concede to fake ballots. Our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. A peter bowes reports. Step closer to the white house. A step closer to the white house. The green light for president Electjoe Biden, formerly to begin the transition process, with the trump administration. The General Services administration, the government body that handles the handover, finally acknowledged that mr biden was the apparent winner. President trump treated tweeted that he had approved the handover but without conceding the election. Our case strongly continues and i believe we will prevail. The president add
Trump interview with Robert Mueller may be in. Tonight President Trumps Legal Team Shakeup as his lead counsel in the russia probe steps down. Mr. President , would you testify to special counsel Robert Mueller, sir. Thank you. I would like to. Plus can congress fix facebook . I wish i could tell you were going to have a hearing for sure. And trying to pretend you are fighting washington while running washington. This may be the worst bill ive seen in my time in congress. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington and welcome to mtp daily and we begin with breaking news after the big shake up in the president s legal team which features a shift in how the president will deal with Robert Mueller escalating investigation. To put it bluntly, things could get real interesting and real ugly and it could be both. Nbc news learned that todays resignation of the president s lead lawyer in the russia investigation john dowd is part of larger prepar
Political consulting work, but it was awkward for a u. S. President ial candidate to have his Campaign Chairman turn out to be secretly on the payroll of a prorussian Foreign Government that had recently been deposed in a popular uprising. So Paul Manafort left the Campaign Amid those reports. And actually, he left the campaign under circumstances that are still not particularly clear, especially on the financial front. But if you widen the aperture on that moment in american political history, that moment in american president ial campaign history, it seems clear that that moment was not just awkward for Paul Manafort and for the Trump Campaign, it was also if you wind it out just a little bit, you can see that that was also a very awkward moment for the country that had apparently secretly been paying Paul Manafort off the books. Paul manaforts client in ukraine was a proputin dictator who he basically remade in his own image. The picture on the left here is yanukovych before Paul Ma