It's Thursday, November 14th.

If this was going to be business as usual, no one told the Justice Department.

We start here.

President-elect Donald Trump names one of the most divisive figures in Congress to be his attorney general.

There are people that just think he is an agent of political chaos.

Some in the DOJ are predicting mass resignations

if he's confirmed, but that's a big if. Meanwhile, Republicans officially gain full power

over the Capitol. I promise to be a leader who serves the entire Republican conference. But some

are privately concerned over what's happening at Moralago, and they deal with emergencies

all the time, but wildfires aren't one of them.

This is not something that we usually have to do, at least in this part of the country.

How a northeastern drought is forcing fire departments to rethink their futures.

From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milkey.

When President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump met on stage at this summer's

first presidential debate, they didn't shake hands. Some people asked at the time, are our politics

so broken at this point that we stop seeing basic gestures of respect between these two parties

going forward? The will of the people always prevails. Well, since election day, Biden has vowed to

preside over an orderly transition. Yesterday, he did something Trump never did when he lost power.

Biden invited his successor to the White House.

Among his first words to Trump, welcome back.

Welcome.

Welcome, very much.

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