Hi, this is Izzy from Texas me and my friend Grace who were just voted president and vice president

First or great class

This broadcast was recorded at to a eastern on Monday November 9 things might have changed since that time

Okay, enjoy the show

Congratulations little one. That's awesome. I trust your opponents can see this

But as we know a concession is not necessary to move on with the transition

Hey there. It's the MPR politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I'm covering Joe Biden

I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House and I'm Frank Ordonia as I also cover the White House and there's actually a lot of stuff to talk about

Already we're only halfway through the day, but president elect Joe Biden named 13 health experts to his transitions

COVID-19 advisory board president Trump said on Twitter he had fired his defense secretary Mark Esper and of course still has not

Conceded that he lost the presidential election and both of these things happened on the morning where we got some big preliminary news about a

possible coronavirus vaccine and we will talk about that in the second half of the pod

Tam let's start with Mark Esper what do we know and why do we think it happened?

Well as with almost every personnel decision of the Trump administration this one was announced via tweet as you say

The president says that

Mark Esper has been terminated. I would like to thank him for his service

He is naming Christopher C Miller of the National Counterterrorism Center as the acting secretary of defense now

Why did it happen? There has been a fair bit of

Disagreement between not not exactly open disagreement, but obvious disagreement between the president and his defense secretary

Esper expressed great discomfort and tried to distance himself from the whole

Lafayette Park

St. John's Church holding up a Bible incident. What's fascinating here though is

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