November 25, 2024: Trump bucks transition tradition … again

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

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When a new presidential administration prepares to take office, it typically signs transparency and ethics agreements with the White House, the Justice Department and the General Services Administration to ensure access to important government information and otherwise facilitate a smooth transition. But this time, President-elect Donald Trump’s team has been reluctant to sign them. White House reporter Adam Cancryn walks Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels through the reasons for the Trump team’s hesitation and the implications. Plus, the president-elect dominates the conversation at the Halifax Security Forum, and what we know about Kamala Harris’ next moves.

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0:00.0	Presented by BP.
0:02.0	Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels. It is Monday, November 25th. Here is what's driving the day.
0:13.0	First up at the top of Playbook this morning, a check-in on someone that we haven't heard from in a while, Vice President Kamala Harris.
0:22.4	The vice president is in Hawaii, where she's been with family and some senior aides for
0:26.4	decompression before heading back to D.C. early this week. But the VP has spent a lot of time
0:32.1	calling allies and supporters since her loss this month, sending them all one message,
0:36.8	quote, I am staying in the fight.
0:39.5	The question is what that role actually looks like.
0:43.1	Harris has been telling allies and advisors to keep her options open.
0:47.0	The two most political options for Harris is a possible 2028 presidential run or even a run for governor in her home state in two years.
0:57.3	Ritchell she's expected to explore those and other possible paths forward with family members over
1:02.4	the winter holiday season. No one can really agree on which path makes more sense for hares,
1:07.1	but the thing that they do seem to agree on is that she's too young to leave the
1:11.5	political arena. Either way, the first decision facing Harris is to figure out how and when she's
1:18.5	going to speak out against the incoming Trump administration. Don't forget that as president of the
1:23.9	Senate, Harris will oversee the certification by Congress on January 6th of the win of Donald Trump, her opponent.
1:32.7	Speaking of, Donald Trump continues to be at the center of conversations by policymakers in Washington, D.C.,
1:39.8	and, well, pretty much every power center around the world at the moment.
1:44.0	At the Halifax Security Forum this weekend, the anxiety was popping as security officials from across the Western world
1:51.3	tried to decipher how Trump 2.0 will be different from Trump 1.0, what that means for Ukraine, for NATO, for democracy itself.
2:00.0	And they're looking for signs out of Washington to tell what kind of governing partner Trump will be.
2:05.6	But there, too, Trump is bucking tradition and upending norms that have long guided the transition period.
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