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
Watch the washington journal 7 00 eastern. Join with your phone calls, texts, and tweets. Host we are joined by scott long with the hill newspaper, covering congress for quite some time. You have a lameduck session coming in here shortly in the u. S. But before we get to the next congress, tell us what the next few weeks or month looks like on the u. S. House side in particular. Guest the house of representatives will come back to washington after this historic election to hold their leadership elections. It looks like democrats are moving forward with their leadership elections next week. That favors nancy pelosi. The quicker the election, the less time there is for their to build any momentum in opposition against her. Nowe is some chatter right from moderates who are just crumpled about the number of seats that have been lost by democrats in a very surprising fashion. At least seven vulnerable democrats in the house went down to defeat. That has caused some andternation in the party
Mccabe testifies before the Senate Judiciary committee as part of its investigation into the russia probe. Monday, president elect joe biden spoke about covid19. He commented on the recent news about a pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine trial, announced the goals of his covid19 Advisory Board, and advocated for all americans to wear a mask. This runs 10 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. We start the work with doing every thing possible to get the covid19 under control. So we can reopen our businesses, safely and sustainably, resume our lives, put this pandemic behind us. We just received positive news in this fight with the announcement that there has been progress made toward a successful vaccine. Soon, the expect tatian is the fda will run the process of rigorous reviews and approval. The process must also be grounded in science and fully transparent so the American People can have every confidence that a proved vaccine is safe and effective. At the same time, its clear that even if approve
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
This has got to be one of the more fraught election cycles in our lifetime. Certainly a roller coaster counting process. And still unclear, a full clarifying picture of what is happening down ballot for several weeks. We have assembled a stellar team to help us navigate a couple of key questions. What happened, and why . Was there an expected gap between expectations and eventual results . If so, what was the cause of that . How are the two parties, democrats and republicans, now going to move forward in terms both their program, their policies, but also how they position themselves electorally. With that, let me turn the mic over to my coconspirator in this endeavor, ellen toscano. Ellen . Hello. I am the cofounder of the inside american politics series. Hostedfor 10 years and last year and this year by the center at nyu. We started the annual conference in 2008 following the historic election of barack obama as president of the united states. Now, we come together to discuss the elec