Executive Order Up
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🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Over the weekend, Biden’s team announced the president-elect’s agenda for the first ten days of his term, plus a dozen or so executive actions Biden intends to sign on Inauguration Day. We discuss.
Tomorrow's inauguration will have a massive security presence, with tens of thousands of National Guard troops headed to DC. Across the country, authorities continue to arrest people who participated in the January 6th attack, and states remain on high alert for any violent demonstrations.
And in headlines: misinformation down on social media following Trump’s ban, Samsung’s chief is headed to prison again, and a pandemic-defining relationship comes to an end as Affleck and de Armas break up.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, January 19th. I'm Achille Hughes. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Gideon Ressick and this is what a day where we are saluting our beloved U-Haul drivers waiting outside the White House. |
| 0:14.1 | Yes, thank you for your duty to Americans, but also I hope you got paid in advance because you know how the Trumps are. |
| 0:19.7 | Yeah. If the check bounces, we won't do. |
| 0:23.2 | We were trying to help. |
| 0:26.3 | You knew better. You knew better. |
| 0:35.4 | On today's show, an update on the security situation as we head towards an |
| 0:38.9 | auguration day tomorrow, then some headlines. |
| 0:41.2 | But first, the latest. The president, Lex, has said that he's going to release all available vaccine supplies when he gets inaugurated. |
| 0:48.2 | But then this week, there was just confusion about how much vaccine supply there actually is, whether or not there's a federal stockpile. |
| 0:55.6 | Do you have a clear answer yet on how much vaccine supply this country has? |
| 1:03.1 | We have looked carefully and we are confident that we have enough vaccine for the 100 million doses over the next 100 days. |
| 1:12.6 | That is what the president-elect has promised. It will be a hefty lift, but we have it in us to do that. |
| 1:18.8 | That was Biden's incoming CDC director, Dr. Ryszelle Wollinsky, talking about the challenge that awaits when he takes office. |
| 1:25.5 | On that front, ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration, his team has been talking a lot about their first agenda items. |
| 1:31.2 | In recent days, we've heard the president-elect talk about his plans for COVID economic relief and vaccine distribution, |
| 1:37.1 | which they've said is their number one priority. |
| 1:39.3 | And then we've also heard a bit more about what Biden and Harris intend to do with executive action, basically right away. |
| 1:45.7 | So let's start there. |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah, a lot to do. Immediately. I don't know why you'd want the job. |
| 1:51.6 | So over the weekend, Ron Claim, Biden's incoming chief of staff, sent out this memo that went into some detail about what these first steps are actually going to be in practice. |
| 2:00.1 | So in that memo, it covers the first 10 days of Biden's term. |
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