Biden, Harris Enter Office With Message of Unity

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🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn into office Wednesday with an inaugural message of unity. The new administration faces extreme challenges, from far right radicals and the pandemic to a failing economy and foreign cyber attacks. President Biden got right to work, signing 17 executive orders, many aimed at rolling back Trump policies. We’ll talk about the inauguration and calls for unity, and what it means for California, that so many state politicians are now in prominent national positions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.0	President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn into office yesterday with a call for unity. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America. We've acted together.
1:02.7	We'll talk about the inauguration, what's next, and what the prominence of Californians in the new
1:07.1	administration could mean for the state. Then at 930, President Biden has a plan to slow the spread of COVID-19,
1:13.6	which includes getting 100 million Americans vaccinated in his first 100 days.
1:18.7	Epidemiologist Nicholas Christakis will share his take on the plan,
1:22.0	and he'll talk about his new book, Apollo's Arrow,
1:24.7	which lays out how and why humans tend to respond the way to do to pandemics.
1:28.8	And what happens when pandemics end? That's all next, right after this news.
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