Vice president elect biden good afternoon, everyone. As i said on saturday, i am humbled by the trust and confidence the American People have placed in me and we are ready to get to work addressing the people of the addressing the needs of the American People. Today we start that process to get covid19 under control so we can reopen our businesses safely and sustainably, resume our lives, and put the pandemic behind us. We just received positive news that there has been progress made toward successful vaccine. The process must also be science so the American People can have full confidence that any vaccine is safe and effective. At the same time, its clear this vaccine, even if approved will not be widely available for many months. The challenge before us right now is still growing and although we are not in office yet, i am laying out what we expect to do and hope can be done. The purpose of this is to let you know what were going to do once we are sworn in. There is a need for bold a
Minutes. Good morning. Im the director for the center of United States in europe. At the bookings institution. I am delighted today to be chairing this important discussion on election 2020 and its implications for u. S. Foreign policy. Obviously over the weekend there have been some rapid developments. There is now a president elect joe biden, after a pretty tumultuous few days, i think, for everyone, an election that was pretty close for many days but now we have a clear winner. So we have a terrific panel this morning to discuss not so much the election but looking forward to next year to see what the implications are for u. S. Foreign policy, for international order, and to talk to parse maybe some of the nuances of last week and what they may mean, particularly that trumpism is alive and well even though the president did not receive a second term and that the senate could still be in the hands of the republicans. Adelman fromic Johns Hopkins school of advanced international study
Ve what changes are in store . Politicals to spread disinformation via social media, now a permanent part of the american election, i hope not. The Vice President for communications and strategy at the Brennan Center of justice, where she leads the and digital presence. Take it away. Lisa thank you very much. Is john on the call . Um, because he was going to be joining us to talk in particular about polling, but i do not think he is here yet, so we may have to wait for him. In any case, fortunately we have a panel here that can talk about anything. So i wanted to start out by noting that in the first 20 four 24 hours after the ballot counting started on Election Night, the media and polling classes had declared that the polling was the biggest loser. Playbook said the industry is a wreck. Lots of folks were talking about embarrassed to support trump voters that were skewing the results. Too many people are refusing to engage with posters because they do not trust the results. The presi
The major sticking points remain the same, Congressional Democrats want to raise taxes on the highest income earners while keeping the current lower tax rates in place for the middle class. Republicans want to extend tax breaks at all levels. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. We are going to be talking about the fiscal cliff, the statements the House Speaker made about being a stalemate and what the president said during his trip to a toy factory in pennsylvania. Here are the numbers. You can also reach out to us by email and twitter and facebook, all of the social media as. On twitter the addresses cspanwj, facebook. Com cspan. More from the article by jake sherman with the headline fiscal cliff. He writes lets go to the phones. The first call comes from debbie in flint, mich. On the line for democrats. Caller i think they need to pass a law that these guys did not get paid. If i go to work and did not do my job, they will not pay me. They have not done their jobs in the
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has once again been elected to lead the Senate GOP conference after a contentious vote in which the minority leader was challenged by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), chairman of the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm.