The News Roundup For November 15, 2024

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🗓️ 15 November 2024

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Summary

President-elect Donald Trump has had a busy week floating his picks for his upcoming cabinet.

Trump's team is also considering drafting an order that will create a board of retired military officials whose mandate will be to investigate generals it identifies as unfit for leadership.

Trump and President Joe Biden met in the Oval Office after the former's election victory.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump made his pick for U.S. ambassador to Israel this week, tapping former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Huckabee has previously questioned the existence of a Palestinian identity and opposed a two-state solution.

COP29 is set to kick off in Baku, Azerbaijan this week. Very few actual heads of state are expected to attend leading analysts to wonder how much will actually be accomplished.

We cover all this and more during the News Roundup.

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0:57.9	Presidential cabinet picks can tell you a lot about presidential priorities. Donald Trump's
1:03.4	choice for defense secretary and his pick for a new intelligence chief are raising a lot of questions.
1:09.1	But two of his latest picks are causing the most alarm. First,
1:13.5	his decision to ask vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human
1:19.5	Services and the now former Congressman Donald Trump is nominated for Attorney General. That's caused
1:25.7	shock, even among Republicans.
1:28.7	Gates is not only totally incompetent for this job. He doesn't have the character. He is a person
1:35.8	of moral turpitude. True media reaction when you heard it was Matt Gates.
1:39.9	Ufta. That was literally my immediate reaction.
1:46.2	Things are moving fast in Washington.
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