Biden: Trump administration’s behavior during transition is “nothing short of irresponsibility”; Officials: bomber killed in explosion, motive still unknown; TSA: 1.3 million people passed through airports Sunday; Novavax vaccine staring phase 3 clinical trials;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 28 December 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Biden: transition team “encountered roadblocks” from Trump admin; VP-elect Harris, husband to get COVID vaccine tomorrow; Trump backs down, signs COVID relief bill and avoids shutdown; Trump golfs as pandemic worsens and congress feuds over stimulus checks; Trump’s delay could prevent Americans from getting aid this week; House expected to vote today on $2000 stimulus checks; Soon, house could override Trump veto of defense bill; GOP election challenges could cause chaos in congress next week; GOP leaders hope to avoid messy fight over election results;
At least 8 treated at hospital, 40+ buildings damaged; New video shows moment of massive explosion;
Fauci warns pandemic “might actually get worse”; More than two million vaccines administered so far in U.S.;
Novavax becomes fifth to begin phase 3 trials in U.S.; Novavax trial funded with up to $1.6 billion from operation warp speed; WA nursing home at center of COVID outbreak begins vaccinating staff; New Yorker piece dives into “plague year” tragedies;
Admin official: COVID relief checks could start going out this week;
53-year old Georgia teacher dies of coronavirus on Christmas Day;
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we start with breaking news in our |
| 0:04.7 | 2020 lead at this hour moments ago president-elect Joe Biden accused some in the |
| 0:09.0 | Trump administration of what he called irresponsibility because they are |
| 0:13.2 | according to him partially blocking his national security team |
| 0:16.8 | from fully preparing to take control in just over three weeks. |
| 0:22.5 | We have encountered roadblocks from the political leadership |
| 0:26.0 | at the Department of Defense and the Office of Management and Budget. |
| 0:30.3 | Right now, we just aren't getting all the information that we need for the ongoing |
| 0:35.6 | outgoing and from the outgoing administration in key national security areas. |
| 0:40.7 | It's nothing short in my view of irresponsibility. |
| 0:44.0 | President-elect Biden went on to accuse the Trump administration of hollowing out the key U.S. agencies |
| 0:50.8 | responsible for keeping the U.S. safe. Let's go straight to CNN's M.S. agencies responsible for keeping the U.S. safe. |
| 0:53.4 | Let's go straight to CNN's M.J. leave. |
| 0:55.2 | She's live for us in Wilmington, Delaware. |
| 0:56.6 | And MJ was clear. |
| 0:57.9 | The President-elect is frustrated with what he sees as lack of cooperation from the Trump administration. |
| 1:05.6 | That's right Jake. I think frustrated and frankly concerned, you know historically the |
| 1:10.1 | transition process is such that the incoming administration gets a lot of |
| 1:14.7 | cooperation and transparency from the current government and that of course has |
| 1:20.4 | been delayed to begin with because the GSA would not offer the official |
| 1:25.2 | ascertainment for a number of weeks so these teams, these agency review teams |
| 1:29.9 | working for the Biden transition they were already late in getting their access |
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