Cabinet. You see some there. And President Trumps former defense secretary, jim mattis, listen to this, he is giving joe biden some free advice on how not to deal with other world powers. Were going to have more for you on that in a moment. And biden and excuse me, Vice President elect Kamala Harris are meeting virtually with the conference of mayors right now. This is all happening as another drug giant is announcing the successful results of a Covid Vaccine trial. It is welcome news, obviously, for a country still shattering its own hospitalization records and right as Health Experts warn the thanksgiving holiday could lead to a tsunami of new cases. Lets start with this lets go to cnns jessica dean who is following the president s transition. Jessica, as i mentioned, former secretary mattis, no stranger to setting the record straight on where he disagrees with this current administration, but this news coming out about what he is saying to joe biden is a pretty big deal. What is it
Lead the u. S. Intelligence community and the first latino to lead the department of Homeland Security. As well as the firstever special envoy for climate. Also breaking right now. A new defeat, a very important defeat for President Trump as he seeks to overturn the u. S. Election. A michigan board has just voted to certify the states results, despite a lot of pressure from the president to try to overturn them, making it even clearer that the president , right now, has no path forward. We are following breaking pandemic news. The u. S. Death toll has now topped 257,000 people. The number of cases here in the United States is growing at an alarming rate now past 12. 3 million with 225,000 confirmed just this month and its only november 23rd. Lets get to the breaking transition news first. Jessica dean is joining us from wilmington, delaware. Some very, very important posts being filled on a very speedy rate by the president elect of the United States. Reporter yes. They are moving at a
First americans started to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Also today, the most radical attorney general since the watergate era, when one attorney general went to prison, today trump attorney general william barr finally resigned, or was fired. Hard to tell. All of those things happened in one day. A vaccine, a new president and Vice President , and the northbound of a southbound attorney general william barr. How was your day . All at once. Everything happens all at once. In just a moment, we will be speaking here with the Incoming White House chief of staff. President elect biden tonight gave a big, serious speech on the occasion of the electors meeting in the various states and officially casting their ballots to make biden and harris officially the president and Vice President elect. Ron klain is going to join us live in just a moment to talk about that speech from president elect biden and also to talk about this historic moment that we got to see play out live today all o
We start a new week on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news. Good night. So today joe biden and Kamala Harris was formally elected by the Electoral College to become the next president and Vice President of the United States. Also today, at long last, the First Americans started to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Also today, the most radicad attorney general since the watergate era, when one attorney general went to prison, today trump attorney general william barr finally resigned, or was fired. Hard to tell. All of those things happened in one day. A vaccine, a new president and Vice President , and the northbound of a southbound attorney general william barr. How was your day . All at once. Everything happens all at once. In just a moment, we will be speaking here with the Incoming White House chief of staff. President elect biden tonight gave a big, serious speech on the occasion of the electors meeting in the various states and officially casting their ba
How was your day . All at once, everything happens all at once. In just a moment, we will be speaking here with the Incoming White House chief of staff. President elect biden tonight gave a big, serious speech on the occasion of the electors meeting in all of the various states and officially casting their ballots to make biden and harris officially the president and Vice President elect. The man who will serve as president Bidens White House chief of staff, ron klain, is going to join us live in just a moment to talk about that speech from president elect biden and also to talk about this historic moment that we got to see play out live today all over the country. I never thought i would burst into tears watching a u. P. S. Driver go up a loading dock ramp with a hand truck, but that happened to me more than once today. All over the country today, nearly 150 sites received their first doses of corona vaccine today. 145 sites got it together. Another 425 sites are going to get their fi