Biden: “I want this country to be united”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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President-elect Joe Biden says he would consider appointing Republicans who voted for Trump to his cabinet because he wants “this country to be united” and “we can't keep this virulent political dialogue going.” Biden’s transition team has been in contact with all federal agencies, including the White House, just 24 hours after the GSA said the official transition process can begin. The President-elect says all outreach has been “sincere.” Christine Todd Whitman is the former Republican Governor of New Jersey but endorsed Biden in the 2020 election. She joins AC360 to discuss how Trump delayed the transition and still refuses to accept the results of the election. Plus, the U.S. is approaching 260,000 Covid-19 deaths and has seen another day of record hospitalizations with at least 88,080. Dr. Craig Spencer is the Director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. He tells AC360 the system can’t last that much longer if we continue to have such a crush of new cases throughout the country. Airdate: November 24, 2020 Guests: Christine Todd Whitman Dr. Craig Spencer 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	So, it was a day where President Trump heaped praise on cousin Eddie from the vacation
0:05.9	movies.
0:06.9	A day when the coronavirus statistics are reaching horrifying levels.
0:10.6	A day when we got our first glimpse of how a Joe Biden administration will look, act,
0:15.4	and sound.
0:16.4	And boy, that was different.
0:19.2	John Berman here in for Anderson, in his first full day of the official government sanctioned
0:23.6	transition, President-elect Biden not only learned he will finally receive the President's
0:27.7	daily briefing, something we'll get to in a moment, but he quickly put his stamp on
0:31.6	the executive office he will inherit in less than two months, a rollout of picks for top
0:36.4	national security positions who all voiced an unmistakable message.
0:41.1	The Donald Trump lost, and that America first died on election day.
0:46.9	This is how Biden described it moments ago in a new interview with NBC News.
0:52.8	America is back, we're at the head of the table once again. I've spoken with over 20 world
0:57.3	leaders, and they all are literally really pleased and somebody excited.
1:04.3	America is going to reassert its role in the world and be a coalition builder.
1:11.1	America is back, says the President-elect, and keeping the monists the entire tone of
1:15.1	today's affair, both in terms of style and substance and masks, was a stark contrast
1:20.6	from the current President's conduct. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris spoke of
1:24.7	quote, a President who will ask tough questions and demand that we be guided by facts.
1:30.6	The nominee for Director of National Intelligence told Biden quote, you've selected us not
1:34.7	to serve you, but to serve on behalf of the American people.
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