Months weve been allowed and able to share a zip code, shea nothing of an entire television studio. Brian, it is great to be with you in person tonight. Fantastic to be together. Joint of course by our beloved colleagues Nicolle Wallace and joy reid who are here at my sides, my sisters in full vaccination status. It is good to be together, you guys. With the band all back together again, we are awaiting President Bidens Joint Address to congress. This is a speech we are not supposed to call a State Of The Union, although thats effectively what it will be. Modern president s have generally given this speech in february, just about one month after being inaugurated. President biden has waited much later, until now, late april. Today is his 99th day in office. Indeed this president will address the nation tonight over a year into our pandemic, which of course has claimed the lives of over 570,000 of our fellow citizens. Given the Ongoing Public Health crisis, tonight is going to look very
Stier, president and ceo of the center for president ial transition. He is with us this morning to talk about what the Biden Administration will be doing develop President Bidens cabinet and the agency workforce. Max, good morning. Guest good morning. Host first of all, lets get into with the Biden Administration faces. On screen are going to see the biden political appointee tracker, which is done by our public service, that biden has picked 51 nominees to fill key roles so far. Only 2 have been confirmed by the senate. Max, what does President Biden face when it comes to filling his key cabinet rules . Guest it is a big task and as you say the biden team is ahead of the curve in the historical term. They have got over 50 nominations they have made in the next highest administration in terms of having the outside the gate was the Obama Administration at 42. That is just nomination, not confirmation. There are over 1200 positions that the Incoming Administration has to fill that are Se
We will open up our regular lines to you. Democrats, your line is 202 7488000. Republicans, we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. Independents, you can call 202 7488002. Keep in mind, you can always text us your opinion at 202 7488003. We are always reading on social media on twitter at cspan wj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Once again, we had an agreement brokered by house and Senate Leaders on friday, to wait two weeks before beginning the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. The New York Times has a story Senate Leaders struck a deal on friday to delay former president donald j. Trumps impeachment trial two weeks, giving President Biden time to install his cabinet and begin moving a legislative agenda because before they begin a historic seating. The plan guarantees that the trial, which promises to dredge up the ugly events of mr. Trumps final days in office and resurfaced deep divisions over his conduct, will loom large over mr. Bidens first days at the
Outside the home with two americans dying from tobit every minute, the nation is bracing for a starkest period of the pandemic. Time is running out before the United Kingdom cuts ties with the European Union and today, the two sides failed to secure a trade agreement. Instead saying talks will be paused. Negotiators want to talk to politicians so they can get better guidance on where to go next. With less than four weeks before the transition period ends, it is down to the same three Sticking Point that have threatened to derail the process for months. Lets bring in our correspondent in london. It has been a dramatic week of ups and downs. Now it is ending in this pause. Is that a surprise . It is a surprise that suddenly they are paused tonight, but we have an explanation. What they are trying to do is reach this post brexit trade deal and that time is really short. We have said that many times. We have seen sincehe eu was no longer bluffing for the United Kingdom because of the refer
Peoples lives in the process i bring golf in berlin this is the day. I think is all of this is all political just to get soaked to make trump look that went through it now they say i am i think the time is right i think its good to see how easily another a person very young animates it. So if youre lucky the article is where years ahead on vaccines and theyre going to be distributed virtually im not concerned. Ive been workin all the time i got no call to living in fear to come to us. Also coming up when the pandemic engulfed new york hope and help were dished out daily by Governor Andrew Cuomo his memoirs from that time are now in a new book including moments when some say the governor sounded and acted more like a president but i understand what the president is saying this is unsustainable that we close down the economy but if you ask the American People to choose between Public Health and the economy then its no contest. Our viewers watching on p. B. S. In the United States and to