Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

2002 for Thursday, November 12th. In today's news, Joe Biden's transition team works

around President Trump's blockade.

Trump's lawsuits challenging the election results continue to flounder

and the lame duck president lashes out at the FDA. President

out at the FDA. But first, the big idea.

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen long-time Washington operator Ron claim to be White House Chief of Staff, sending

an early signal that he intends to rely heavily on experience, competence, and political

agility after a Trump presidency that has prized

flashiness and personality. This is a homecoming of sorts for the 59 year old.

Klain served in the late 1980s as staff director on the Senate Judiciary

Committee when Biden was chairman and he ran Biden's office when he first

became vice president in 2009. A strategist with a legal mind and a political ear.

Klayne is the sort of behind the scene's hand

that has been common in decades past,

the kind of operative who's managed everything

from the Ebola outbreak under Barack Obama to presidential

debates to judicial confirmations. Often called the second hardest gig in

Washington, the chief of staff holds what is traditionally the most important

unelected position in government, not subject to Senate confirmation, the person

who wakes the president at 3 a.m. who decides who gets to be in the room where it happens.

The job's often gone to the most talented advisors in both parties.

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