A next brenon talking with experts. Policy good morning everybody in d. C. , good evening to nerve korea, welcome. This week on the capital cable, global threat. The bidenharris transition and the Foreign Policy environment theyll inherit. Tension, issues posed by dprk, china, and interpreting all the signs around the region. Our guests this week, john brennan is perfectly positioned to address this critical and evolving set of issues an we are lucky to have him here today. He needs no introduction but let me go through it. Former director of c. I. A. , former director of former principal advisor assistant to the president for counterterrorism and Homeland Security in the white house to president obama, former director of the National Counterterrorism center, career c. I. A. Officer, arabic speaker and author of the bestselling and i would add having read it myself, very interesting book undaunted my fight against americas enemies at home and abroad, he is someone who sits at the nexus
To provide statutory framework for the peaceful transfer of power. It has been updated several times since. We are going to discuss rising issues coming out of that in the current transition and transfer. It has been almost a week since most Major Networks designated joe biden as president elect. The biden team has been moving forward on a transition and selected a new white house chief of staff, have launched a Pandemic Task force, and soon will be announcing other white house and cabinet level positions. Theyve started conversations with foreign heads of state and a number of american political leaders. A small but growing number of senior Republican Leaders have acknowledged the outcome of the election, including former president bush, his chief of staff andy card, counselor karl rove, and a handful of republican senators. And yet, we still have not had a formal concession by President Trump. That may be a personal matter of his continuing to file legal claims in a number of states,
Have want to heal with less time. Amy the u. S. Death toll from covid19 has topped 250,000 as the number of infections soar across the country. Nearly 2000 deaths in one day. But President Trump is all but missing in action. He has not attended a Coronavirus Task force meeting in five months. He continues to have no Public Meetings on his schedule. We will speak with the atlantics ed yong. Then to iran. As President Trump installs loyalists in a shakeup at the pentagon, is the president laying the groundwork to attack iran . Plus, we will look at why climate activists and progressive democrats are protesting president elect joe bidens decision to tap congressman Cedric Richmond to a Top White House post. He is the leading democrat recipient of fossil el money in congress. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The official u. S. Death toll from covid19 has passed a quarter of a Million People as the virus rages
Republican committee as many of you know has been an influential center of conservative thinking and policies for years. Scholars often work with the committee on major issues. I intensified for the committee and size them on issues concerning Food Security and policy and weve had our china scholars. The emerging young leadership of the conservative movement in the United States and we are very pleased to have the outgoing chairman mike johnson of louisiana and incoming chairman of indiana. Mike johnson from louisiana and jim banks from indiana. Im going to do a quick introduction of them and ask questions but we will take questions from the audience. We will put them up on the chat box although i do have a bunch of my own questions as well the chairman elect and representative is in his second term representing the Third District of indiana covering the Northeast Corner of the state including fort wayne. Representative banks serves on the Armed Services committee, the Labor Committee
Thinks. Well talk to congressman cedrick rich b monday of louisiana and republican senator kevin cramer. A covid explosion. More sick than i have ever seen in my life. They just drop so fast. Daily case records being set. Were in an utter emergency here. A quarter million americans now dead. The Trump Administration refusing to confer with the biden team. Were in a very serious situation. We can do something about it. Vaccine help is on the way. We had enough vaccine doses between these two vaccines of about 20 million during the month of december. This morning youll hear my conversation with dr. Fauci and ill talk to the head of operation warp speed. Join iing me for inside and analysis are hallie jackson, eddie glaude jr. And anna palmer and john podhoretz. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Is from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. In the days immediately following joe bidens victo