“This is not Obama’s third term”: Biden sits down for his first post-election interview – how it happened | US News

Call it a little turkey.

In a greatly diminished ceremony at the White House earlier today, marking the annual Thanksgiving tradition during which a president forgives a bird from the table before the holidays, Donald trump seemed to realize that his star had already begun to wane, the Guardians David smith writes …

On Tuesday, Biden introduced the smart adults of his waiting administration at a major event with a noble talk on restoring America’s moral leadership and saving the planet from the climate crisis.

An hour later, at the White House, a turkey was pardoned by a lame duck upon discovering how fickle the media circus can be.

The gathering at the Rose Garden was naturally slowed down by the coronavirus pandemic, but their last Thanksgiving ceremony was a quiet affair that also struggled to make its way onto the cable news.

“Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States and Mrs. Trump,” said one announcer, the words suddenly elegiac as an abnormal administration turns black.

Morning, Biden He will deliver a Thanksgiving speech from Wilmington, Delaware, and “will discuss the shared sacrifices Americans are making this holiday season and say that we can and will overcome the current crisis together,” according to the transition team.

It will probably be in stark contrast to Donald trumpTurkey forgives today. Trump thanked healthcare workers and celebrated progress in vaccine development, but did not offer condolences to the families of the quarter-million who died from the coronavirus.

Joe biden He also said he would not “use the Justice Department as my vehicle” to investigate Donald Trump and his allies.

In the interview with NBC Nightly News, he told Lester Holt: “There are a number of investigations that I have read about that are at the state level. There is absolutely nothing I can or cannot do about it. “

“We are facing a totally different world than the one we faced in the Obama-Biden administration,” Biden told NBC’s Lester Holt in the president-elect’s first televised interview since winning the election.

He would like his administration to represent the “spectrum of the American people as well as the spectrum of the Democratic Party,” added Biden, agreeing that he would even consider appointing a Republican to vote for Trump.

“I want this country to be united,” Biden said.

Progressive Democrats, including representatives Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib Y Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, have signed a petition advising against a role for former Biden chief of staff, Bruce Reed, in the Biden-Harris Administration.

“Reed has a history of putting deficit reduction before economic recovery,” the petition says. “We are extremely concerned by reports that Reed is a pioneer to head the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Biden administration, given his history of dislike of the economic security programs that workers depend on.”

So far, progressives have praised Biden’s choice of Janet Yellen for Treasury Secretary and Ron Klain as chief of staff.

After the party came together to help Biden defeat Donald Trump, progressives have lobbied the president-elect to welcome progressive candidates and policies into his incoming administration.

Joe Biden told NBC News’ Lester Holt that the transition “has already begun.”

“They are already working on my ability to get the daily presidential reports,” he told Holt. “We are already working on a meeting with the Covid team at the White House. And how not only to distribute, but to obtain a vaccine that is distributed, to a person who can be vaccinated. So I think we are not going to be as far behind the curve as we thought we could be in the past. And there is a lot of immediate discussion, and I must say that the approach has been sincere. There has been no envy so far. And I don’t expect that to be so.“

Talking to reporters, Joe Biden He said he would like to avoid seeing a protected border between the UK and Ireland.

“We don’t want a protected border. We want to make sure: we have worked too hard to make Ireland work and I spoke to the British Prime Minister, I spoke to the Taoiseach, I spoke to others, I spoke to the French. The idea of ​​having a north and south border closed again is simply not correct, we just have to keep the border open, “he told reporters, according to the press group.

Other lively hours in American politics. Joe Biden interview with NBC’s Lester Holt will come a little later and my colleague from California Maanvi Singh will bring you some of that and other developments.

These are the main events of the day so far:

• President elect Joe biden is reported now to receive the president’s daily summary, after Donald trump it’s been almost three weeks deny permission for classified intelligence briefing He receives it daily to share it with his successor.
• Incoming Vice President Kamala harris praised the beginnings of a Biden-Harris cabinet that “looks like America ”with much greater diversity and representation than the one it will replace.
• John kerry, former Democratic presidential candidate (who lost to George W. Bush in 2004) and former Secretary of State (2013 to 2017 for Barack Obama), declared when accepting his nomination to a new cabinet position as climate sent than the international Paris climate agreement that the United States will re-enter under Biden was not alone enough to prevent a climate catastrophe.
• Joe biden presented his new foreign policy and intelligence cabinet options at an event in Wilmington, Delaware, including his elections for Secretary of state Y ambassador of the United Nations.