Karen hult, a science professor at virginia tech. Shes also a member of the white house transition project Advisory Board. Thanks for being with us on washington journal. Karen good to be here. Host the white house transition project, tell us about it. This is a nonpartisan, nonprofit entity. It is staffed by Political Science professors and others around the united states. 1990s for thehe white house interview program. They were trying to develop some institutional memory by talking to people that had various white house death and over time. Staff positions over time. They can find out what happens to staff positions for both parties. Directedolved and is by martha i am a member of the Advisory Board along with other colleagues as well as people like norm ornstein and other people from the larger washington community. Providetry to do is nonpartisan backing for what kinds of things have worked and not worked so well in and around the white house when a new president is getting ready t
Science professors and others around the united states. 1990s for thehe white house interview program. They were trying to develop some institutional memory by talking to people that had various white house death and over time. Staff positions over time. They can find out what happens to staff positions for both parties. Directedolved and is by martha i am a member of the Advisory Board along with other colleagues as well as people like norm ornstein and other people from the larger washington community. Providetry to do is nonpartisan backing for what kinds of things have worked and not worked so well in and around the white house when a new president is getting ready to take over. In 2016 whencase President Trump was coming to office and here in 2020 when the president elect biden is likely coming into office, you speak directly with those campaigns or the Transition Teams . Karen i do not personally. What we do begins well before the candidates campaigns put together the Transition
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At virginia tech. Shes also a member of the white house transition project advisory board. Thanks for being with us on washington journal. Karen good to be here. Host the white house transition project, tell us about it. This is a nonpartisan, nonprofit entity. It is staffed by Political Science professors and others around the united states. 1990s for thehe white house interview program. They were trying to develop some institutional memory by talking to people that had various white house death and over time. Staff positions over time. They can find out what happens to staff positions for both parties. Directedolved and is by you speak directly with those Transition Teams from those campaigns. What we do do, really beginning well before the candidates campaigns are putting together their Transition Team. But after each party nominates its candidate. What we make available to transition directors is our materials. Many will be Password Protected and not available to the general public
You both. Steve, ill start with you. The new year is only bringing more troubling news for Los Angeles County as it fights this pandemic. So what are you seeing there . Kathy, its gotten to the point in this crisis where i have to start off with the overwhelming amount of death and what to do with the dead. Private mortuaries and Funeral Homes have now gotten to the point where theyre so overloaded with bodies that they have to turn away bereaved families. The county has shattered its single day death toll, now three days in a row. Let me put it to you like this. The National Guard has been called in to assist with hospitals and in some cases, there are an extra pair of hands for nurses and emts but their primary function in a lot of cases has been to move bodies from hospital morgues because they are so overloaded with the overwhelming amount of bodies to a county storage location, somewhere else where they can free up more room to treat patients. Thats the situation now at hospitals.