Biden: "America is Back," Introduces Key Cabinet Picks

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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President-elect Joe Biden declared quote "America is Back," as he formally introduced his key cabinet picks on Tuesday in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden said his appointees and nominees are a team that reflects "America is back and ready to lead the world." The White House has signed off on Biden to start receiving presidential daily intelligence briefings, White House officials say. The move is a step towards a transition of power held up by President Donald Trump, weeks after it was clear he lost the election. The General Services Administration issued a formal notice that released funds so the formal transition of government can proceed. The coronavirus is taking more American lives. Tuesday, the number of deaths surpassed 250,000, with the overall cases hitting 12.5 million. Hospitalizations have also hit the highest levels since the pandemic began in January. President Trump made a rare post-election appearance on Tuesday. He took credit for the stock market gains at a White House Briefing; despite saying previously the market would crash if Joe Biden won the election. He later went on to pardon a Thanksgiving turkey at the White House. During the annual tradition, he thanked first responders for their fight against Covid-19. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is CNN breaking news.
0:07.0	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:09.6	I'm Wolf Blitzer in the situation room.
0:11.6	We're following breaking news. President-elect Joe
0:13.6	Biden declaring and I'm quoting now, America is back as he formally
0:18.0	introduced the key cabinet picks. He said the team shows the country is ready to lead the world, not retreat from it.
0:25.0	And in a major development, the White House has just given formal approval for President-elect Biden
0:30.0	to start receiving the President's daily intelligence briefing and it's working with
0:35.1	the Biden team on when he'll receive that first briefing.
0:39.0	Also breaking, President Trump touting American greatness just a short time ago at the annual White House
0:44.7	Turkey pardon.
0:46.1	But the President himself is undermining that greatness by refusing to concede the election
0:51.3	and by continuing his brutal attacks on the vote.
0:55.0	We're also following breaking pandemic news.
0:58.0	The US has now passed 12.5 million cases and more than 258,000 Americans have died from COVID.
1:05.4	And in an especially troubling sign hospitalizations here in the United States
1:10.0	right now are at the highest level since the pandemic began back in January.
1:17.0	Let's begin with all the breaking transition news right now.
1:19.5	Our senior Washington correspondent Jeff Zellie is joining us.
1:22.6	Jeff, we're learning that the President-elect,
1:24.8	the Joe Biden, will now have access
1:26.9	to this really critically important, highly classified information.
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