Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

2002 for Friday, November 13th. In today's news, President-elect Joe Biden considers Hillary Clinton for UN Ambassador.

Two senior DHS officials get forced out for not being sufficiently loyal to President

Trump. And the German couple behind Pfizer's vaccine doesn't own a car.

Now they're billionaires. But first, the big idea.

On Thursday, six American service members

were killed in a helicopter crash

during a peacekeeping mission in Egypt.

Tropical Storm Ida made landfall in North Florida, contributing to severe flooding.

The stock market tumbled as the number of Americans infected with the coronavirus broke more

records.

There were more than 150,000 new cases yesterday alone.

At the White House, President Trump spent the day as he has most others this week,

sequestered from public view, tweeting grievances, falsehoods, and

misinformation about the election results and about Fox News's coverage of him.

Neither he nor his aides briefed reporters on the news of the day or reacted to Democratic leaders who accused Republicans of

imperiling the pandemic response by refusing to accept reality over the election

results.

David Nakamura writes from the White House that the contrast

between our nation grappling with an ongoing global crisis and a president consumed with

his own political problems highlights a fundamental contradiction

at the heart of Trump's assault on the integrity

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