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She have a full week of that apache called his, at the white house, the g. S. A. Itself. So it provides a president ial Transition Team with certain practical things, right, Like Office Space and, you know, coordinating access to federal agencies to wade through like on a practical level what this will mean. Now for that transition, i can be very specific actually because it was specified in the letter that he sent to the biden camp. So she says, while making it clear, once again i was all trying to do the actual winner of the president ial election will be determined by the electoral process. Detailed in the constitution number less, determine that you may access the postelection resources and services described, described in the relevant act upon request, which means section 7 of the act in public law, 116159 provide a preparation, 6300000. 00 for, for the transition, and a further 1000000. 00, as well for a transition directory eye exam to admit, im not a huge expert on the, on the only minute transition to this level. But yes, initially, it means that they will have a great deal of knowledge in the biden campaign. Was fundraising in the last few weeks to try and in case, in case this didnt actually happen, and in fact they havent ruled out legal action against the g. S. A. If this continued much longer, but it would appear them about is now all, all moot. Ok, thank you for that. See how tons it is from wilmington, delaware. Lets bring patty call home who is live for us in washington d. C. So as ive been talking to donald trump has responded in sames well with his timing, this tweets. It looks that way. Tell us more well, hes basically saying look, the g. S. A. Was being harassed, their families were being harassed, so ive directed them to go ahead with this transition with a caviar, he went on to say that their challenges are going to continue. This is a pretty big deal. This is the 1st time were seeing u. S. President donald trump even give an indication that he acknowledges and realizes what is real to everyone else, that he in fact lost the president ial election come january 20th at noon he will no longer be in this white house. This is now going to be where joe biden, former Vice President , now president elect joe biden, and his wife, dr. Jill biden reside. So its an acknowledgement for the 1st time, but the pressure is really been building. So whats just been happening over the last day . Well, weve seen michigan certified their votes. That puts joe biden over the edge was one with pennsylvania. Those counties have started to certify their votes as well. Didnt hit the deadline on monday. The bigger than the actual vote totals is the pressure thats building outside of this. What weve seen is former Republican National security, big wigs that also in the letter say ok enough. This is dangerous for the country. Now this is aimed at President Trump, but aimed at the republicans who have been incredibly quiet. I think count on 2 hands, the number of Republican Leaders who have said ok the election is over time to move forward with the transition. And not just the National Security people. Its the big wigs of republican pola political fund, raising c. E. O. s from across this country. Very Influential Group of people because they give a lot of money to republicans. They send out a notice saying its time republicans to admit reality. So what does this mean on the ground . Well, for the biden campaign, the biggest thing for them is going to be that they can now get information from operation warp speed. That is the mission that is between the health and Human Services department in the department of defense that to come up with vaccines for the country to come up with medicines to treat the current a virus. And theyve been very concerned. They said, look, were looking at testing in this country and how horribly the admin has handled it. They said one out of 3 people can get a test in america and across the country as cases spike. If people travel for the thanksgiving holiday, it is taking between 5. 10 days to get test results back and those thats in the states that are particularly hard hit right now. Youre seeing lines, hours and hours of people waiting just to get tests. But then again, those tests are coming back so late, it doesnt necessarily make a difference. So the buying Campaign Said 1st and foremost, we need to know what operation warp speed has, what theyre doing, what are the contracts . We need to be thinking about a so now they can get those briefings, they can get the National Security briefing, the president s daily brief or shows all the top most classified intelligence, and then they can get the background checks. Thats the most important thing. So weve got what, 60 days or so before january 20th, less than that. So they have thousands and thousands and thousands of people who not just work in this building but work in the building next to it. The Old Executive Office building the other administrative building right over there. All of these people, if theyre going to have top level clearance, they need to have background checks that takes time. Then they need many of the hundreds of them need to be confirmed by the senate. That takes time. So what this does is it opens up the floodgates bidens Transition Team has really been running. Its a clean place now. They can actually start to transition for the moment that he steps into this white house and becomes the next president of the United States. The next day here, thats being sent from emily murphy from the General Services administration. And she says, you know, the g. S. A. Administrator does not pickle, certify the winner of a president ial election. Its role under the act is extremely narrow to make resources and Services Available in connection with a president ial transition. But on the other hand, as you mentioned, donald trump has also said that hes directed his team to do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols. How much should we waiting . Should we be putting into that . What the president is saying there . I think it has a lot of weight because this is again the 1st time weve had even a tiny sense that the president realizes what is in fact, reality to most other people on the planet is that he is not going to be the next president of the United States, so this is him, say to ok the transition can proceed, but not because im going to give up. Im still in a challenge in court, but he has had dozens and dozens of she was mentioning, court cases and these judges have just missed these cases. In some cases with prejudice. Basically saying this is nonsense, theres no law here. Theres no clear violation of fraud, and so his legal avenues have been pretty much gone down that path. Hes lost as he had hoped. The states are just simply throw out the vote, send their own electors, no indication that thats going to happen in any of the states that matter. So every single day weve seen developments go against him and his supporters. And again, one of the bigger things that im going to be watching for in the coming days is what is the Republican Leadership do in the senate and the house . They have been the vast majority unwilling to say anything to this president like its time to go or its time to can do the transition or hugh lost the election. And theres 2 words for that sheer and georgia general trying to still hugely popular with his base. They dont know if thats going to continue in the years that hes out of office and hes already indicated hes willing to go to twitter. If theres a republican that speaks up against him, he says, hey, you want to primary challenge because ill make sure you lose when youre up against other republican. The other part of the equation is georgia. So the whole fate of the said it, the balance of power in the senate, which will determine if joe biden can actually enact a bold agenda. Its going to come down to these 2 senate races in georgia. So theyre already walking this tight rope. Theyre seen voters in georgia say, hey, wait a minute, you didnt do anything to trump the presidency again. So im not going to back your Republican Senate candidates. They still say the democrats are very fired up as they saw from the selection. So Mitch Mcconnell once to still be the majority leader, that means he decides what bills get voted out and what goes into those bills. Its a hugely powerful position if he loses those 2 Georgia Senate seats. Hes the minority leader and he doesnt get to say pretty much anything because come up, senator, come, all harriss, Vice President will become the tiebreaker. So that is why in the background you see these republicans really debating this. They dont want to lose in 2 years or 4 years. If remains popular with the base. They dont want to lose georgia and theres already a backlash because they havent given the president the state of georgia, even though republicans are in charge of the state. So theres a lot of calculations going on, but i think the biggest calculation in the minds of these Republican Leaders is going to be that letter from these big fundraisers. Were talking about c. E. O. s, close confidante of President Trump saying its time to move on. This is damaging democracy, its damaging National Security joe biden has one pretty much get used to it. So this is the 1st indication in this tweet that all the president is not can saying hes conceding, hes saying that the transition can continue, but hell stay away. Which he wont leave. Thank you for that pedicle hane really breaking it down for us there in washington d. C. Lets go back now to joe. Ruben. As we mentioned earlier, he served as the foremost instance sector of state in the obama administration. So thank you mr. Ibn, so the federal agency for International Viewers who are not familiar with what the General Services administration is. Its a federal agency which oversees the transition from one administration to the next. Now it has told joe biden that the transition can begin. Whats your reaction . Well, jim, its great to be with you again and thanks for having me. This is, a significant change in the position now of that agency, the g. S. A. , the General Services administration, which up until this moment in time, only perform the bureaucratic function of signing on the dotted line that the president elect, whomever it was in the past, did win the election, but as is everything with this administration, donald trump politicized this, this bureaucratic agency, but now the money will flow to the biden Transition Team. It will enable the team to have offices to have staff access to the federal agencies that they will be transitioning, the biden team into officially on january 20th. So its a significant change. It basically means donald trump and his administration recognized that joe biden was the victor in this election. Now actually just got a press release thats been put out from the biden house Transition Team, saying that todays decision by the g. S. A. Is a needed step to begin tackling the challenges facing our nation and specifies, i guess what they say is the Biggest Challenges that theyre in a pandemic under control and our economy back on track. So with the unlocking of, these funds from the g. S. A. , i mean, that must be very important to have for the team to be able to get, you know, get to doing those things. Yeah, i mean, its a frightening time in the United States, as it is throughout the world. Youre worried the pandemic. Were essentially locked down in our homes, although not formally, but people are working out of their home offices. Weve had over a quarter of a 1000000 people die. And we, if this pandemic is out of control in the past week with over a 1000000 people infected in. And the last thing we want is to have the Trump Administration block information to the biden team, coming in about how to deal with the pandemic and how to potentially move vaccine around. So this is a critical step for the United States, for the American People, for our security, for our health. Clearly, the economic repercussions and the like, come with this package of transition challenges, but the pandemic, the idea that we are not going to have a transition, is we seem to have a lost job revenge always, jealous, still there. We just lost your image. F. S. A. Can you hear we have had of course donald trump tweeting as he does. 7, his response, i believe we have the tweet hare. Thanks emily murphy at the g. S. A. , goes on to say that shes been harassed, threatened, and abused, or less, or actually says that contrary to media reports and insinuations, her decision was not made out of fair or favoritism. Donald trump goes on to say that his case strongly continues keeping up the good fight, believing that he will prevail, but is recommending that emily and her team at the jail g. S. A. Do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols. And crucially says, hes told his own tain to do the same. What do you make of that . Well, its great that hes going to treat joe biden, the way barack obama treated him, except it took 3 weeks for him to do the same. And i dont buy for a moment that emily murphy and donald trump were treated unfairly when theyve been doing substantially holding the election hostage to the president s conspiracy theories about having had this election stolen from him. We have to remember joe biden has won this election in the popular vote by 6000000 votes, not to mention an overwhelming victory in Electoral College, not to mention the fact in every legal challenge. Something like out of 35 or 36. Donald trump is the only one to and they barely registered a blip on changing any votes. So this is been donald trump, not wanting to let go of power and abusing the american electoral and political system for his own personal political benefit. And emily murphy was caught in the middle of it, but i dont really feel for her show and sorry for her because this is her job. She is a public servant. She is paid by the taxpayer. Just do the business of the American People in line with the constitutional oath that she swore to uphold and protect. I serve, i served in government. I swore an oath to that qantas constitution as well. This is what you do. So its unfortunate, but it took 3 extra weeks, but here we are. And its good and it should go forward and thats weeks from President Trump. About his still winning are just unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. Theres no truth to it. And were going to move forward with this transition thats a by administration. I think that we are now led to this to say less head to the biden tamed. I think were now going to see more republicans coming elves and calling on donald trump to to prop and they can st. Thats a great point. And there is a sort of balancing going on, ricocheted within republican politics right now. And as, as was just described in a report earlier, is that a business leaders, National Security leaders in the Republican Party are putting pressure on the Trump Administration to do what was just done. Weve seen multiple sitting republican senators say the same thing that its time to move on to transition. Its time to allow children. If its present, lets 1st, if its a move forward. Coronavirus a vaccine planning. There are 3 each other. Its clear. Looking party believes overall, joe biden won the enough Public Servants to speak out now with emily murphy. No coming back. Im sure it will see more. Dont really self isolating, and this is not good for his legacy. Its not good for the country. He should turn the result of misleading his followers, orders told in the hard truth. Tell them the reality of the election with you, joe biden. Ok, thank you for that joel rubin there live for us in washington. D. C. , my apologies for the issues there with the or if you just joined us here on aljazeera, the General Services administration, which is the federal agency in the u. S. Which oversees the transition from one administration to the next has told the biden heris Transition Team that the transition can begin. We have also heard from donald trump, who has tweeted, thanking emily murphy, who is the administrator of the g. S. A. , thanking her for her decision. He went on to say she has been harassed, threatened and abused. Although in a statement that she had put out a statement, the letter to joe bidens team, she has said that actually contrary to reports and situations, her decision was not made out of fear or favoritism. If i dont, trump goes on to say that strongly continues the fence to keep on the good fight as he calls it, but has recommended to emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols and has told his team to do the same, lets bring in pentagon haying, rejoins us live from washington. D. C. Patty, just remind our viewers of how we got to this point. How did we get to this point . What a long and winding road its been . So we, we thought, whenever a new election night, we were going to know the answer. There were so many people voting. Its a pandemic. People are voting by mail in record numbers. So i dont lecture night the trumpet ministration at a party over there right behind me. They feel pretty good about it. They felt good about how the results were rolling in. The problem for them was the melon ballots still

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