And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
Democrats can call in at 202 7488000. Republicans 202 7488001. Independents 202 7488002. You can also send us a text this morning. That number 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Catch up with us on social wj, on on twitter cspan facebook. Com cspan. Today marks three weeks since election day 2020. Transition to Bidens Administration begins. Take you now to the front page of the trade news. Their lead story about the certification process. Michigan born in charge of certifying election votes casts what they call a pivotal vote, cementing joe bidens victory in the state. The board of state canvassers voted 30 to certify the results. The republican board member crossed over to certify the election, which is traditionally viewed as an administrative step , but had drawn a spotlight as the Trump Campaign questioned the integrity of the election. Less than two hours after that final vote, a letter from gsa administrator emily murphy to joe biden. That sa
To you rob all right, thank you for the update john checking in on the traffic still recovering from some issues here so in the 4 oclock hour we had an overturn accident that is still active, but its not causing major delays so is 1224. At the oak hill exit as you work your way through lafayette couple of lanes of traffic still close as they try and get this out of your way a special Traffic Alert remains in place. But no major delays getting through the westbound side is the commute direction and its doing fine out of lafayette into are and and over to the caldecott tunnel were checking in on the bridges, the bridges look really good. No delays at the bay bridge toll come on in wide open across the upper deck and were off to the golden gate. Were checking in on one oh one which is smoothing out the limit so if youre coming from the north bay and easy 90 minute trip rolling south nevado to the toll plaza darya james all right, thank you very much robert 5 oh one is the time breaking ne
A week in the job. U. S. President donald trump, appears to acknowledge for the 1st time that joe biden has won the white house, but insists he wont concede. The uns acting envoy to libya says shes pleased with the outcome of talks aimed at ending nearly a decade of violence in libya. Despite rival factions being unable to reach an agreement on who will lead the country through the transitional period, a both sides have agreed to hold nationwide elections in december of next year. Their delegates failed to agree on the makeup of an interim government until then. The majority in the room do not want the status quo. This is not an acceptable alternative. It is not sustainable. Everybody recognizes that the hard summer that many libyans just passed through with no electricity and very little water and all the other hardships and, and the pandemic really, i think, was a wake up call for. Lets go to our correspondent harriet tears in tunis. Clare, what do you make of the outcome of these ta
Karen hult, a science professor at virginia tech. Shes also a member of the white house transition project Advisory Board. Thanks for being with us on washington journal. Karen good to be here. Host the white house transition project, tell us about it. This is a nonpartisan, nonprofit entity. It is staffed by Political Science professors and others around the united states. 1990s for thehe white house interview program. They were trying to develop some institutional memory by talking to people that had various white house death and over time. Staff positions over time. They can find out what happens to staff positions for both parties. Directedolved and is by martha i am a member of the Advisory Board along with other colleagues as well as people like norm ornstein and other people from the larger washington community. Providetry to do is nonpartisan backing for what kinds of things have worked and not worked so well in and around the white house when a new president is getting ready t