Move joe bidens transition to the white house can now begin until now hes been doing it without the support of the federal office thats tasked with overseeing the transfer of power. Well, more than 2 weeks after his victory speech, the head of the General Services administration is filing told the president elects that the transition can formally begin. It means bidens new administration can meet with federal officials to work on the Pandemic Response and National Security. Will trump took to twitter to announce that he is ready for the transition . He wrote, she wants to thank emily murphy at the g. S. A. For his steadfast dedication and loyalty to a country he went on to say shes been harassed and threatened that he doesnt want this for her or her family or anyone at the g. S. A. He went on to say that case, strongly continues wanting to keep up the good fight and believing that he will prevail, nevertheless, that he is recommending emily and her team do what needs to be done with re
Steadfast dedication and loyalty. He went on to say she has been harassed and threatens and threatened and he does not want this for her or anyone at gsa. He won on to say our case strongly continues wanting to keep up the good fight and believing he will prevail, nevertheless that he is recommending emily and her team do what needs to be done, with regard to initial protocols, and that he has told his team to do the same. Joe bidens Transition Team welcome to the move. In a statement his team says, todays decision is a needed step to begin challenging tackling challenges facing our nation. Campaign officials will be with federal officials to discuss the campaign sponsor and our National Security interest and gain complete understanding of the trump administrations efforts to hollow out government agencies. We have two correspondents covering the story. One in wilmington and another in washington, d. C. Remind our viewers how significant this all is . It is significant because what we
She have a full week of that apache called his, at the white house, the g. S. A. Itself. So it provides a president ial Transition Team with certain practical things, right, Like Office Space and, you know, coordinating access to federal agencies to wade through like on a practical level what this will mean. Now for that transition, i can be very specific actually because it was specified in the letter that he sent to the biden camp. So she says, while making it clear, once again i was all trying to do the actual winner of the president ial election will be determined by the electoral process. Detailed in the constitution number less, determine that you may access the postelection resources and services described, described in the relevant act upon request, which means section 7 of the act in public law, 116159 provide a preparation, 6300000. 00 for, for the transition, and a further 1000000. 00, as well for a transition directory eye exam to admit, im not a huge expert on the, on the
With norah odonnell, reporting from the n brennan good evening, and thank you for joining us. Norah is off tonight. Im Margaret Brennan. There is breaking news tonight on the president ial transition. And we are going to get to that in just a moment. But were going to begin first with the millions of americans ignoring warnings from the c. D. C. Not to travel tonight. A dangerous move that Health Experts are warning will send the deepening crisis into an even faster and deadlier tail spin. Tonight one model used by the white house says americans should expect the death toll to double by the first of march to nearly half a Million People nationwide. With millions already on the road or in the air tonight, part of an estimated 50 million americans expected to travel for thanksgiving, experts say it is guaranteed that cases of coronavirus will soon explode even more than they are right now. More than 3 million americans have been infected since the beginning of the month. That means about
Congressman bob barr is with his deputy serves as president resd Law Enforcement Education Foundation. The question we ask our viewers in the first hour of our program today was are they concerned Political Division inth this country will spur violence for after the election . How would you answer that question . Guest its a question we should never really have to ask but the state of the country date is such that it is a relevant question to ask unfortunately. We have seen the past six months or so significant violence erupting in cities from coast to coast and in americas heartland. It does raise the question in peoples mind how much of this violence, if any, i is related o the political environment and whether it will continue after the election. None of us really have an answer for that but i worry a great deal that for example, it President Trump is elected those who are opposed to him which seem to be many of those engaged in violent acts will continue their violence. But its dif