Biden Moves Ahead With National Security Planning

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Trump is planning on cutting troops in Afghanistan and Iraq before Biden takes office in January. The United States tops 248,000 Covid deaths with 11.2+ million cases as states announce new restrictions amid a surging pandemic. Pfizer says their vaccine has reached its safety milestone, and the company is preparing to file for emergency use with the FDA. The American Medical Association, and other medical groups call on Trump administration to share Covid information with the Biden transition team. Cedric Richmond is leaving congress to join Biden White House in a senior role. No final decision by Trump campaign on whether they want to go ahead with a Wisconsin recount which could cost nearly $8 million. Sen. Lindsey Graham denies pressuring Georgia’s GOP Secretary of State on recount. Covid-19 hospitalizations hit record high 73,000+. US positivity rate tops 10% for first time since May. South Dakota Governor refuses to mandate masks. Sen. Chuck Grassley has tested positive for coronavirus. 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.
0:09.6	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:12.2	I'm Wolf Glitzer in the United States and around the world I'm Wilf
0:12.6	Plitzer in the situation room we're following breaking news. President-elect Joe
0:16.5	Biden moving ahead with the transition of power receiving a national security
0:21.2	briefing just a short time ago from outside advisors and
0:25.0	experts as the Trump administration continues to block him from getting classified
0:29.8	briefings, also breaking sweeping drawdowns of American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq
0:35.5	announced by President Trump's newly appointed acting defense secretary.
0:39.7	It's the latest in a series of controversial moves by the president as his weeks in the White House dwindle.
0:46.2	The drawdown will leave just 2,500 U.S. troops in each country by January 15th,
0:51.7	five days before the start of the Biden administration.
0:55.4	We're also following breaking pandemic news right now.
0:58.1	The number of Americans killed by COVID-19 has just surpassed 248,000 as cases climb to more than 11.2 million
1:07.6	prompting many states to implement new restrictions but in a hopeful sign
1:12.4	Pfizer just announced that its
1:14.3	vaccine has reached its safety milestone and the company is preparing a file with
1:20.3	the FDA for emergency use authorization.
1:24.0	First, let's get some more in the presidential transition right now.
1:28.0	We're a senior Washington correspondent.
1:29.0	Jeff Zelene, he's reporting from Wilmington, Delaware.
1:32.0	Jeff, the president won't let his experts
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