Biden Makes Historic Picks Filling Top Cabinet Posts

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Michigan board votes to certify election results despite pressure from President Trump. The U.S. Coronavirus death toll tops 257,000 with 12.3 million cases. Biden picks first latino to lead the Department of Homeland Security, and the first woman to head the intel community. Biden's chief of staff says the impact of Trump blocking transition is escalating. GOP support for Trump effort to overturn the election is crumbling. Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejects the Trump campaign's effort to block counting certain absentee ballots. Millions traveling for holiday despite urgent CDC warning. U.S. sees 500,000+ new cases in just three days. U.S. average daily death toll climbs to 1,500+. Astrazeneca says early data show vaccine is about 70% effective. 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.
0:09.7	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:12.4	I'm Will Flitzer in the situation room.
0:14.3	We're following breaking news.
0:15.8	President-elect Joe Biden announcing historic picks for top posts in his cabinet,
0:20.5	including former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to be the country's first. cabinet
0:23.0	including former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to be the country's first woman
0:25.6	Treasury Secretary.
0:27.0	He's also naming the first woman to leave the
0:29.0	U.S. Intelligence community and the first Latino
0:32.0	to lead the Department of Homeland Security as
0:34.4	well as the first ever special envoy for climate. Also breaking right now a new
0:39.9	defeat, a very important defeat for President Trump as he seeks to overturn the US
0:44.9	election. A Michigan board has just voted to certify the state's results despite
0:50.0	a lot of pressure from the president to try to overturn them making it even clear
0:54.8	that the president right now has no path forward. We're also following breaking
0:59.8	pandemic news. The US death toll is now topped 257,000 people and the number of cases here in the United States is growing at an alarming rate now passed 12.3 million with one quarter of them some 3 million confirmed just this month
1:18.0	and it's only November 23rd.
1:20.0	Let's get to the breaking transition news.
1:22.6	First, see, that's Jessica Dean is joining us
1:24.6	from Wilmington, Delaware.
1:26.0	Jessica, some very, very important posts
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