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Good Wednesday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Anna Palmer. Let's kick off the Thanksgiving break with a bit of good news.

Joe Biden, who will become president in 56 days, is now able to get the presidential daily briefing,

an in-depth glimpse at the world produced

by America's intelligence community. President Donald Trump facilitated this. Whether you are for

or against Biden, he's the president-elect and should be working with the full suite of information

at hand. The Trump administration is now allowing a transition of power,

and a bipartisan spending deal is coming together. Government funding runs out December 11th.

That's 16 days from now, and the two sides have agreed on the top-line spending numbers,

which allows them to fill in other details. The stock market also hit new highs this week,

and three vaccines have shown promise in ridding the globe of the COVID-19 pandemic. There's no doubt that America's

going through one of the most difficult stretches in contemporary history, but there are signs

that some things are beginning to turn. Joe Biden sounded bearish about appointing Elizabeth

Warren or Bernie Sanders to the administration,

noting they already have significant progressives in the administration. He said, this is really

critical, taking someone out of the Senate, taking someone out of the House, particularly a person

of consequence is a really difficult decision that would have to be made. I have a very

ambitious, very progressive agenda,

and it's going to take really strong leaders in the House and Senate to get it done.

On his 100-day priority, Biden said he will send an immigration bill to the United States

Senate with a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people in the U.S.

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