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

202 for Monday, December 7th. In today's news, President-elect Biden picks Javier Becer

as his nominee for Health Secretary.

Kelly Leffler dodges questions in a Georgia Senate debate,

and Rudy Giuliani is in the hospital with COVID.

But first, the big idea.

A few weeks after President Trump took off But first, the big idea.

A few weeks after President Trump took office,

his chief strategist Steve Bannon declared that the new administration's primary focus

would be an ending daily battle for what he called the

deconstruction of the administrative state.

Bannon explained that what he meant by that phrase was

discarding the post-World War II political and economic

consensus in Washington. The mastermind behind Trump's nationalist ideology and combative tactics

had a following out with the president later when he trashed his children to author Michael Wolf.

And this summer, Bannon got arrested on a Chinese billionaire's yacht and charged with defrauding conservative donors.

He's out on a five million dollar bond.

But even if Bannon himself was marginalized, the project he outlined at the

Conservative Political Action Conference in 2017 continues.

John Mitchell, who was Richard Nixon's attorney general,

famously said when they took power in 1969

to watch what they do and not what they say.

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