We get that fed in from the white house. That has already happened. We what we saw was the video being fed in. We dont know what was said at the top of this meeting. We will get that to you as soon as it comes. Meanwhile, there is breaking news. We want to bring in evan perez. Hes our justice correspondent, hes got a big development, a new head for the Justice Department. Evan, tell us what you know. Michaela, the new attorney general that president obama is expected to announce very soon is Loretta Lynch. Shes right now the u. S. Attorney in brooklyn and shes very well regarded. She has been u. S. Attorney since 2010 under president obama and previously served in the same job in the clinton administration. Now this is obviously the big a big announcement for the Obama Administration. Eric holder is stepping down, as you know. He announced that last month and theres a lot of big cases that theyre looking at, including the investigations into the shooting of Michael Brown. Now, Loretta Lynch handled a very important case similar to the Michael Brown case in the 1990s, if you remember the haitian immigrant abner louima who was sodomized by some new york city cops. She handled that case. So thats going to be an interesting thing for experience for her to bring to the Justice Department. Evan, such a fascinating choice. She is not known as a headline grabber here in new york, and there are plenty of those in this area. Shes known as a crime fighter mostly and a prosecutor and you brought up the abner louima case which is so interesting because obviously one of the biggest cases or one of the biggest situations the Justice Department is dealing with right now and will be dealing with is what happened out in ferguson and the issue of police conduct. Right. Exactly. And as you pointed out, Loretta Lynch is not a big name for a lot of people. In new york shes overshadowed sometimes by preet be rar a, the federal prosecutor in manhattan. But she has a lot of the same experiences. Not only has she done the regular crime cases but shes done National Security cases and so and more importantly for folks here in washington, shes not going to be controversial. She got approved by a senate voice vote last time and so i think the Obama Administration knows that theyre going to have to deal with a republican congress, they want to make sure its not anybody whos going to be held up because of any controversies. Well, and you know, controversy is obviously one of the aspects and the fact is theres a lot of conversations right now going on about Race Relations in our country, as you mentioned, about whats going on with ferguson. Obviously somebody like this people will turn to her and look for her voice and communications in a situation like ferguson. Exactly. She would be the second africanamerican to serve in this job. Second woman. Janet reno was the first. I should note we asked the white house for comment they said they dont have announcements to make just yet. The president is leaving on a terrorism to asia on sunday so we expect the announcement might come in the next few days. Perhaps when he gets back. Tell us a little bit more about Loretta Lynch. 55 years old, a harvard law graduate. Harvard law. Two stints as a u. S. Attorney . She worked in private practice in the middle . She was a lawyer with hogan and hartson which is a big white collar firm. Shes very well liked. I saw her the other day when she was down here for some awards ceremony and the attorney general basically just went up to her and grabbed her and hugged her in front of everyone. Shes a very, very wellliked person. Shes a big fitness buff. She likes to jog and so on. So shes somebody that frankly is just going to be wellliked inside the department which is a big deal. You have a hundred thousand employees to oversee and she comes from the department so that will be a big deal for them. Of course, president s decision is not final until the white house officially announces it. Do you know when theyll make that announcement . Well, as i said, the president is expected to hes on his way to asia on sunday. We had thought maybe that this announcement might come today but it looks like the president has a lot of things on his plate. Hes got that meeting at the white house. Well, hes got a lot going on today. The Cabinet Meeting that we showed you the messed up photo of. Well hear what he said. There is a white house regular press briefing at 11 30,en this he neats with the new congressional leadership so he has plenty of opportunities to talk. Evan, Loretta Lynch, the name started surfacing more over the last week. People saw her in washington with the current attorney general eric holder and i think people started talking well, hey, maybe this might be the pick. Any whispers from capitol hill about how this nomination might be received . You know, there was a lot of concern about some of the other people that the president was looking at, including tom perez, the labor secretary. And so this name was one that a lot of people said, look, this is not one that republicans would try to oppose and thats one of the other things that everybody knew that i think everyone was predicting that the republicans were going to have a big day on election day and so the president was going to have to figure out someone who was not going to get hung up on any fights or any controversies. So she is a very safe bet but she also someone whos very accomplished so he gets to have both things at the same time. I was going to say, i think when you look at the appointments of certain people to lead these organizations and these administrations, you get so much more respect from people if they have been on the front lines, that has woman certainly has. And she has a great deal of respect here in new york, shes got a great deal of respect and accomplishments. That kind of thing goes a long way and you talk about the fact that it wont be controversial and i think that other aspect will win over a lot of hearts and minds. Exactly. The one thing she has more recently is this prosecution of Michael Grimm whos the congressman, the republican congressman from Staten Island who, by the way, just won reelection despite the fact that hes under indictment. So talked to voters down there in brooklyn and Staten Island. She was prosecuting that case. Shes leading that case and she was very she did a press conference in which she had some very strong words about the congressman. He is calling the prosecution politically motivate sod expect that line of attack to come from his people probably in the next few weeks. Evan, a great reporting on this, breaking the news that president obamas choice to head up the Justice Department will be Loretta Lynch, 55 years old. I want to bring in dana bash. Dana, this will be a confirmation process. We dont know yet the timing of it if the president i assume he will try to figure out a way to get this through in some kind of lame duck. Any sense how the senate will deal with it . Its a good question. Unclear if republicans in the senate will allow it to happen in the lame duck. It depends on how they view her. Evan is right, she doesnt appear to be someone who is highly controversial but the problem for the Obama Administration is the obama Justice Department has done controversial things and and its been under the microscope. On the house side, Darrell IssasOversight Committee has been tough on attorney general eric holder, on the fast and furious issue and so many other issues. Because of that its probably going to be a discussion about whether they really want to do it in the democratic controlled lame duck session which starts next week or theyre going to wait until the next congress which starts in six or seven weeks. Its so interesting in light of the Midterm Election results. We have been talking about what next, what happens. Now we see a choice that the president is making and we have an example well see played out before our very eyes about whether or not youre going to get a fight between the president and the congress. The president and the majority. Its a very interesting example, case in point. It is. Even though i just said that there has been a lot of tension between many republicans in congress and the obama Justice Department, the flip side, you also have republicans in the senate who several of them are making very clear they want to be president who are being a lot more liberal, for lack of a better way to say it, on some criminal justice issues. Rand paul is a perfect example. Hes been working with democrat corey booker on dealing with doing away with changing some of the mandatory minimum sentences for drug use. So while you on the one hand have some hard feelings dana, stand by for a second because the president as we said is meeting with his cabinet right now and were getting our first look at the tape at the top of that meeting. Lets listen. Business has added 209,000 new jobs. The Unemployment Rate fell again. Our private sector has now added 10. 6 million new jobs over the last 56 months and this is the strongest job growth that we have seen since the 1990s. And all this is a testament to the hard work and resilience of the American People. They have been steady and strong, digging themselves out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and what we need now do is make sure that we build on this momentum because we recognize that despite the solid growth, despite the drop in unemployment theres still a lot of folks out there who are anxious about their futures, who are having trouble making ends meet at the end of the month or saving for their kids College Education or being able to make sure that theyre able to retire with dignity and respect. So everything that we do over the next two years is designed and geared towards ensuring that folks who work hard in this country are able to get ahead. Now, obviously weve had a significant Midterm Election, as i said at the press conference. My attitude has been and will continue to be that good ideas dont necessarily come from Just One Party and im looking forward to seeing the leaders of both democratic and republican caucuses this afternoon to have a chance to share with them both what i think we need to be doing to build on the economic momentum that we already have and make it even stronger. But im also going to be interested in listening to them in terms of areas where we think its possible to work together. Whether that is putting people back to work through stronger manufacturing here in the United States and selling more to countries around the world, one of the major topics well be discussing during my asia trip next week. Whether its figuring out how we can build on modest new investments that weve been making in Early Childhood education. We know that works and theres strong bipartisan support around the country for some of those investments. Lets see if we can do more. All these issues are ones in which there is a strong possibility of bipartisan cooperation as long as we set politics aside for a moment and focus on the people who actually sent us here. In the meantime, in these regular meetings that im having with my cabinet, ive been emphasizing to them from day one and will reiterate in this meeting the fact that separate and apart from legislative activity we have the capacity to continually improve how we deliver services to the American People. Part of whats happened over a course of several decades is that people sometimes feel as if the federal government is distant, that its not customer friendly, that theres too much bureaucracy. Because of the fine work of many of the members of this cabinet, were chippingaway at that and instituting new ways of doing business that improve customer service, that make sure the people are getting the hen they need. This week i had the chance to have a conversation with our new secretary of veterans affairs, bob mcdonald, whos coming from the private sector but also is coming from west point and an extraordinary legacy of service in our armed forces and what were already seeing is that bob is able to start skinning down the wait times for people in terms of getting appointments that they need, but also building on successes that have been taking place over the last several years, reducing homelessness, for example, with our hud secretaries donovan and now castro weve reduced veterans homelessness by 30 and a lot of that is not by virtue of new legislation, just by us focusing more on these problems and managing them better and continually listening to the American People to see how we can be more helpful. So there are a lot of opportunities for us to do that here today and were going to i think taken a inventory on the progress thats being made in various departments. Were also going focus on the fact that between now and the end of the year theres still some immediate work that needs to be done. We have made progress in building the kind of Public Health infrastructure that we need to deal with any eventu eventualities with respect to ebola but its still a concern both here domestically but most importantly still a concern internationally. So well get reports from sylil vie y Sylvia Burwell and ron klain whos here will tell us how the work we need to be doing with congress can help advance and ultimately stamp out this epidemic overseas to make sure the American People are safe. We also have some significant National Security issues. Weve got to make sure our efforts against isil are properly funded so that will be an opportunity for secretary of defense hagel to brief us on the progress in our campaign against isil in iraq and some of the work were doing in syria. Bottom line is that as ive told my white house staff and shared in the past with many of my cabinet, we are extraordinarily privileged to be in a position where every single day we can have a pozive in impact in some way on the lives of the American People. And when i started out on this journey with joe biden and we traveled around the country, we were constantly reminded of the hard work, the sense of community, the sense of family that exists in every pocket and every corner of this country. The same kinds of values that joe grew up on and i grew up on. And what we want to do is to make sure that between now and the time that our next Administration Takes over that every single day in every Single Agency we are constantly finding ways to build on those values and to make sure that we are making this country safer and more prosperous and i know that based on the conversations ive had with this cabinet there is no lack of enthusiasm or energy in achieving that goal. All right . Thank you very much, everybody. Reporter sir did you [ inaudible question ] thank you very much. That was moments ago the president speaking ahead of a Cabinet Meeting. Obviously a lot on the plate for the president and his cabinet. Coming off a bit like a pep talk. The teams down by half at the down by 30 at the half and trying to reinvigorate these conversations that he feels need to be had. Obviously a lot of things pressing on them, the situation overseas with isis, the economy here at home. One thing he did not discuss, the news that our evan perez broke moments before we played you that video, that the president has settled on his choice to be the next attorney general. He will nominate Loretta Lynch, 55yearold u. S. Attorney, a harvard law graduate currently in brooklyn. We dont know when the president will officially announce it. He didnt do it just then and i had the chance to. I want to bring in the anchor of the lead, jake tapper. Jake, this is in some ways the first move of the rest of the president s life. His first nomination, his first big decision after the Midterm Election which did not go well for him. Looking at it, what do you make of it . Its interesting for a number of reasons. First of all there were the other contenders for the job, the solicitor general don verrilli and the secretary of labor tom perez. The fact that he reached outside his comfort zone and is anticipated to pick u. S. Attorney lynch says something about reaching outside his comfort zone. Also it says something about wanting to pick somebody that perhaps there will not be a contentious confirmation hearing about. There was perez when he was nominated and then confirmed to be secretary of labor that was very contentious. Verrilli, while he was low key and respected as solicitor general, he was somebody who has been part of the obama team so that would be an opportunity to revisit decisions made under president obamas watch, ones that republicans oppose. U. S. Attorney lynch is somebody who is not part of obamas world at all. She was somebody that was u. S. Attorney during the clinton administration. She was tapped by obama and picked and she won by voice vote in the senate in 2010 but shes not part of the Obama Campaign the way eric holder was. Not part of the obama team, not somebody that he knows well. So its an interesting pick. Shes somebody thats built a fairly well known pardon me, fairly respected reputation forrers in new york as the u. S. Attorney in br