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In the nation's capital right now, Joe Biden's future is all bound up inside these

Mahogany boxes. I think they're very old boxes that, you know, kind of look like treasure

chests. Slates, Jim Newell is going to spend the day reporting about what's inside these

boxes. They might be magical boxes. I don't know the entire history of them. They contain

what's called certificates of ascertainment from the states and the official electoral

college count that will make Joe Biden the 46th president of the United States. Later

today, these boxes will be brought into a joint session of Congress, cracked open, and

then the contents will get tallied up, making Biden's win official.

You know, there's a lot of pop and circumstance going on with this very ministerial task here.

Right, because it's not like they're certifying it or something. It's just like they're acknowledging

it, right? Yeah, they're accepting it. I mean, it's been certified. It's all done at

the state level, and they just are the final link in the process. It's kind of like the

federal government accepting the state's results. But each state's results will be announced.

Someone has the opportunity to raise objections. If there's no objections, then they're counted.

And then once, you know, every state goes through, the vice president will, will gavel it

shut. But this year, of course, there are objections. A lot of them from Republican

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