Biden Receives First Presidential Daily Intel Briefing

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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United States President-elect Joe Biden received his first formal presidential daily intelligence briefing. Monday marked a milestone on Biden's path to the White House after weeks of being blocked by President Donald Trump to the nation's most vital intelligence. The President-elect, along with his Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced an all-female White House communications team on Sunday. Biden also named a diverse economic team with four women in top roles. Arizona has officially certified Biden's victory, following false claims of voter fraud by President Trump. The recent win, awards the state's 11 electoral votes to the President-elect. Biden beat Trump by more than 10,000 votes, the secretary of state's office said. Trump has not conceded the election and he still claims without basis that he won, All Americans who want a coronavirus vaccine will be vaccinated by June 2021, says an official with Operation Warp speed. Pharmaceutical company Moderna applied to the US Food and Drug Administration for authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine on Monday. The FDA will meet with its advisory committee in December to review Pfizer's and Moderna's applications. Right now, there are more than 13.5 million Covid-19 cases in the United States. More than 260,000 people have died. 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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1:14.3	major developments right now, major developments unfolding, including the President-elect of the United States,
1:20.1	Joe Biden, receiving his first first his first formal presidential
1:24.0	daily intelligence briefing just a little while ago after weeks of
1:28.6	being blocked by President Trump from getting important national security
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1:33.7	The President-elect also naming a diverse economic team
1:37.0	with four women in top roles, as well as an all-female senior White House
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