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Opening Arguments
"emily murphy" Discussed on Opening Arguments
"Get 20. And one 5th of members of the House of Representatives there were 138 treasonous members of the House of Representatives, so that would not have been a problem. But that seems to me to be a good compromise, right? You got to get 20 senators to say, okay, there's something wrong with how this vote happened. Yeah, what would that be in a non coup? So, you know, we could talk about the election of 1876, for example. Of course. Absolutely. Well, so that's Samuel tilden and Rutherford B Hayes. It's whether this has been on my list for a while. But imagine the following scenario and that is you have, well, take 2000 and let's just sort of modify it up a little bit. Sure. Let's say you have a recount going on and that recount is very slowly showing a persistent change from and let's reverse it. So that we're being less partisan here. Showing a persistent gain by the Republican. They are, let's say that the underlying anomaly. And again, no fraud here, right? Just like virtually none of the allegations in Trump 2020 were actually fraud. But in 2000, for example, the allegation that Al Gore was making in Palm Beach county was not fraud. It was confusion. It was you had tons and tons of democratic ballots that weirdly went for. That went for doted anti semite pat buchan and it was like, I don't think all these orthodox Jews showed up to vote like straight democratic ticket all the way down the table, but boy, I like that Nazi sympathizer at the head of the ticket. And so and there were the butterfly in, so that was the butterfly ballot problem. There were under votes that were over votes, the hanging chads, all of that. They were, we think these things are being miscounted. And so what we want is to just figure out what the actual vote total was. And then suppose that is starts off at 523 vote in difference and gets within like a 190 80. And then there's a court injunction to stop the recount from continuing, which is what happened in Florida. And then suppose certification day hits, which was December 14th here, right? And again, is a fixed at a particular time. So you would have that recount has been paused. On December 14th, let's say the Democrat is ahead. And let's say then the electors meet gather are certified and because Florida inexplicably has a democratic governor by then and democratic state legislature. Yeah, they sign off on it. And then the injunction ends because that's over. And two days later, the recount continues. And the final recount shows the Republican actual. Oh, and this is all within the safe harbor date or whatever. And let's say that the certification was before the safe harbor date. But the recount ends two days later, December 16th. Still before the meeting of the electors. Well then, the state might get the state might have a rule that says if we have actual knowledge in between because the safe harbor says, if you get your votes into us by X date they're presumptively valid. But presumptively valid doesn't mean the state can do that. No, it only goes one way, I guess. Yeah, exactly. Even though Bush V gore tried to imply that it went the other way. You would then the state could get together. Look at it and go, yeah, I get it. Sorry, we relate. We're going to issue a corrected sleep. And we're going to send a Republican sleep. Again, not unlike 2020, we're not going to get, they're not going to get the Republicans together in a parking lot. We're going to get them together at the capitol. It's going to be on the stationary. It's going to follow all the procedures. It's going to have the state seal, and it's going to say this one's supersedes the previous one. And now you'll have that the ministerial vice president will say, for the state of Florida, we have two competing slates of electors, and then 20 senators would get up and say, we have an objection to the first slate, or to the second sleep, right? It doesn't matter. And then you would go off and deliberate in the houses the way they did. And then Congress would get to decide which slate is valid. That's the way the electoral count act works. So are you saying under those circumstances? Could a democratic Congress go, yeah, I'm sorry, too late. You snooze you lose. We know that the later corrected one two days later had the Republican up, but we're just going to take the democratic ones because we like it. They could do that. Would that be a travesty? I think that would be a travesty. So this isn't perfect. But that situation is at least a very different than, you know, we can make stuff up at any time up until the date of the count. And throw everything into chaos. So that's, I think, an example of how yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. The revised objections, particularly. So those are the changes in broad. There are some others, but those are the ones in the main. Like I said, it's also a slight hedge against the independent state legislature doctrine, which I think is a plus. And it also contains that's title one title two is the presidential transition improvement act. And I don't know if you remember GSA Emily, Emily Murphy, who delayed the authorization of transition funds to the Biden administration until November 23rd, I kept coming and going, well, you know, we don't know, and yeah, yeah, we really don't know. The election was two and a half weeks ago. We know and she held it up for as long as she possibly could because she's a hack. New rules. That say, for purposes of this act, the apparent successful candidate for the office of president vice president shall be determined as follows. Number one, if all but one eligible candidate concede, well, that's pretty obvious. Number two, if on the date that is three sorry, if on the date that is 5 days after the election, more than one eligible candidate has not conceded, then each of the remaining eligible candidates who have not conceded shall be treated as the apparent successful candidates until such time as a single candidate for the office of president is treated as the apparent successful candidate pursuant to clause three or clause four. So that's the major and then it goes through and talks about how you have some additional extrinsic evidence of determining whether that candidate ought to concede or not. But the general approach is, if we're 5 days out, we wait to see if it works the way it normally works, then the candidate left standing is by definition, the apparent successful candidate, give them access to the transition funds and information if they haven't, then use your best efforts to determine but until you determine we're going to treat them, we're going to treat both candidates as if they are entitled to transition funds going forward. That is not perfect, but in a world in which I expect Republicans will never concede again, having the default be things will work instead of things will be broken, is I think what you have to do. So the existing rule was only one person got access to transition, the new rule is fine if you have a Republican throwing a tantrum in The White House. We'll let them both access transition funds. And yeah, but guess what? Like the president has already wasting all the funds that he has access to in the waning lame duck portion of his term anyway. So he's probably not doing any more stealing than Trump was doing already. And whatever.
TuneInPOC
"emily murphy" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"The past few weeks? Well, what we've seen Eugene is that more and more Republicans are slowly publicly saying that Trump should just get on with the transition concede and let Emily Murphy at GSA do what she has to do. But we also have plenty of Republicans like Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, some staunch, very well-known senators Lindsey Graham, we've got Rudy Giuliani, the president's head of the president's legal team, who really are publicly either not saying anything about how Trump should just concede and move on with this. Or they're only privately acknowledging to their allies and to reporters that it's clear that Biden won. Yeah, no, there are moments when I'm looking at this process and I can't imagine how much more difficult it would have been had Joe Biden been Pete Buttigieg or another democratic candidate who was less familiar with their inner workings of The White House. And it seems like Biden's experience is helping him perhaps get around that a little bit. Oh, a 100% because so many people on the Biden transition team and also these agency review teams that were announced last week. That's a group of 500 people, mostly Democrats who worked in government before. So many of these people are Democrats who are just old hands from the Biden Obama years. And you're absolutely right. Eugene, I mean, the other challenge is that what we've been really told is that when you have a transition that is appearing to the outside world as unstable as it really is, you've got the potential for bad actors to come in and that is something that was really discussed in the 9 11 commission after George Bush won in 2000 in the disputed election that the Supreme Court decided in 2000. So we had the terror attacks in September, but Bush had only had a 39 day transition after the dispute in Florida was determined by the Supreme Court. And imagine how short a transition that was. And so what you had there, according to the 9 11 commission, they determined that when the terror attacks took place, bush really did not have all of his ducks in a row and all the people in place who he really needed in place who could have identified the threats from Osama bin Laden and all of the hijackers. So anything like that could be happening now. We just don't know. And that's something former president Barack Obama and a slew of interviews have warned about and cautioned about the reality that there are people who don't have American best interests in my who are paying attention to this and could behave accordingly. That's right. And it's interesting also to look at how Biden's handled this and the transition team has come out every day to talk about the obstacles they face. So far there has not been legal action from the Biden team. We'll see if that.
TuneInPOC
"emily murphy" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"Bonnie Lee bakley came to Hollywood with a dream. She wanted to be someone famous when she married actor Robert Blake, she thought her dream had come true. Until it all went wrong. On May 4th, 2001, at 9 30 p.m., Bonnie was found in a car bleeding severely. She had been shot in the head. I am. Oh my God. Okay, she's breathing. I don't know. Within the hour she was gone. Overnight, Bonnie went from victim to villain. The press called her a grifter, a liar, a scammer. She was in the pornography business. She was in the prostitution business. She had criminal convictions all around the country in various states. But who was Bonnie really? And who wanted her death? Hollywood and crime, the execution of Bonnie Lee bakley premieres on June 20th on Apple podcasts, Amazon music or wherever you're listening right now. You can listen early and ad free by subscribing to wondery plus and Apple podcasts or the wondery app. This one more major challenge Biden faces and crafting his agenda for the first 100 days. A sitting president who is still refusing to concede and a party that's largely backing Trump's actions. Monday night, after holding up the transition for weeks, Trump tweeted that Emily Murphy, the head of the general services administration, which sets the transition in motion, should begin the formal transition process. The peaceful transfer of power is a hallmark of American democracy. With a new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic upon us and a nation divided along cultural and racial lines, a smooth transition is important now, maybe more than ever. Since the election, courts have rejected the Trump campaign's baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud. Yet Trump is using the power of his office to try to reverse the results of the election. He's been spreading misinformation and pressuring Republican officials in Michigan, Georgia and elsewhere to manipulate the electoral system on his behalf. But on January 20th, Trump will have to leave office. The transition really it seems like it's a lot of time, but now we're down to somewhere in the 60s in terms of the number of days until the inauguration, which is January 20th, and then the Biden Harris team will take office. Washington Post reporter Lisa Ryan covers the federal government. I asked her about the details of what we're seeing from the Trump administration during this transition. The federal government is mammoth, right? It's $4.5 million operation 2.1 million civil servants. And Biden has 4000 spots for political appointees who he can put in government agencies. And so there's been a lot of focus on the risks to national security, meaning that Biden really needs to know what's going on in the world of national security, what covert operations are going on. That's the intelligence realm. But if you look at the coronavirus, for example, which is obviously front and center in his preparations to take over the government, he's got to work with the Department of Health and Human Services to establish once the FDA authorizes these vaccines that we're hearing about, which is great news. It's not so easy to distribute a vaccine and figure out who's going to get it first, and these are all federal government functions. And one thing that is very clear, I think, to both sides, both the Trump and Biden teams is that that is a crucial crucial role of the government that right now has no connectivity between the outgoing Trump people and the incoming Biden people. What's the importance of the GSA? Why does it matter that they have formally approved the transition process? So this is a pretty small agency that handles federal real estate and procurement. But it has a role in presidential transitions and the administrator has this normally ministerial task of declaring the apparent winner of the election and then sort of releasing these transition funds, which in this case is about 6 and a half $1 million for Biden. And then also giving the Biden team access to all kinds of government resources, including intelligence briefings, having the State Department allow foreign leaders through their channels to congratulate him, talk about foreign affairs that may in fact be classified. Generally, how have Republicans have been responding to Trump's actions around the transition over.
Blocked and Reported
"emily murphy" Discussed on Blocked and Reported
"And he started business. And then you lose your business because a someone wants you to wax are balls and you refused to do it. Yeah it's insanity. I mean you'd be like what is wrong with this country. You know. I thought this was like i progressive. He's an yeah. So i i mean his. His identity was being protected by the media although he was tweeting about the situation because he just couldn't help themselves so he was outing himself publicly on social media. In other words they were like reviews on yelp under his name and face saying like and so did a great job on my brazilian bikini wax So a blogger discovered. His identity was like this who this guy is in. I tweeted said. Is it true that this person is jonathan. You need like Link to the blog pose and it was confirmed Yeah him so. And then i was permanently banned for the rest of my life from twitter. For referring to this predatory nana's him as i understand. They've never actually told me what rule i broke. He's accused me of hateful conduct and banned for life but never actually really specifically told me what i did wrong ever. So what impacted this have on your career. I mean it does seem. And i. I hate to say this but it's true it does seem like in some ways you have disappeared from the conversation when you were one of if not the most sort of prominent jenner critical voice for years totally. I mean like. I can't i can't be present in the conversation without being on twitter. I obviously still doing a lot of work on this issue and still talking abedin still interviewing people about it but you sort of do get forgotten about if you're not twitter on twitter. It's hard me to share my work. It's hard for me to defend myself. I mean the amount of the amount of liable that is out there about me is insane. It's impossible to even tracking the amount. The things that i see people saying about me online is just out of control. And there's nothing i can do about it. I can't defend myself. I can't speak for myself. I can't share my work. I can't share my perspective. I can't correct lies about me. it's been you. It's hard for me to maintain an income without that platform. Like i. i am doing okay. But it's like you people act like it's just. Oh you got kicked off twitter. Who cares. it's like this is mrs may work. This is what i do for a living And if you can't get your work out there as an independent writer or journalist media producer you can't make an and you can't build an audience and you know i i just i think that people downplaying this really aren't understanding like the broader repercussions not just for me. But in terms of things like free speech access to information and things like that wherein twitter is dictating ideology in their dictating. What constitutes hate speech. They're saying you know anybody who questions gender identity ideology or doesn't want to use so-called Correct pronouns is hateful in dangerous and you know. They're so bad that they can't even be allowed on twitter. Where is the talibans allowed on twitter. But apparently i'm worse than the taliban. Well i mean is the taliban turfs at least they're not transphobic. Actually that would be that would be the way to get. The taliban off of twitter is to to get them to say something critical the only way to get the taliban off twitter. All right megan. Thanks so much for coming on the show. Working people find you as host the same drugs on youtube if you look up my youtube channel under megan murphy. I'm on instagram meghan. Emily murphy ivan public facebook pain Feminists current dot com is my website. A podcast also feminists current the feminists current podcast in drugged..
Mark Thompson
GSA designates Joe Biden "apparent winner," enabling official transition
"And so more than two weeks after the major networks declared Joe Biden, the winner of the presidential election, Emily Murphy finally did what she should have done back on November 7th when Biden's victory became apparent. Now. Emily Murphy is a heretofore unknown federal government employee who is the head of the General Services Administration. It is her job to sign off on Biden's win, which allows the presidential transition to officially begin. It permits current Trump Administration agency officials to coordinate with the incoming Biden team and provides millions of dollars in government funding for the transition. If you've listened to the Ron Owens report in recent weeks, you know I was not in Emily Murphy side when it came there doing her one big job. It doesn't seem that difficult aspect. She said she needed only to ascertain that Biden is the apparent winner of the election. And yet somehow she delayed it up until yesterday, forcing hundreds of people joining the new Biden administration to work without government paid assistance. Hmm. That sounds very trump here. I mean, seriously. Despite Biden's clear victory, she stalled in her letter, finally initiating the formal transition process. Murphy said she had not been pressured by the White House to delay the transition and did not make a decision out of fear or favoritism. She wrote, And I quote, please. No, I came to my decision independently based on the law and available fax. Yeah, of course she did. She's neutrals sort of. I mean, she was appointed by President Trump and unsuccessfully tried to be on his transition team in 2016. And every day she delayed making the obvious choice made it more difficult for Joe Biden to put his people in place and work towards a smooth transition to the new administration. In effect, she allowed the delay to possibly be used by enemies of the United States like Russia, who thrive on making countries chaotic. Bottom line. I don't believe her, but at least now her 15 minutes are up. As for Trump Well, he tweeted now that he's not conceding and plans to move full speed ahead with his various legal cases challenging what he calls the most corrupt election in American political history. So we continue to witness the torture. It's vindictive, classless strategy of the president, making his successor's job more difficult from day one. It's almost criminal. Will Rogers sure never met Donald Trump. I admit I'm still enjoying the pain look of Trump. It makes you wonder. Could he actually believe that he won, Huh? Come on, man. No, but the way he's not carrying himself might make future government officials and everyday bosses think twice before surrounding themselves with sick of fence. Is there any doubt that in speaking with foreign leaders who called him out of obligation, he did all he could to poison the water for Biden, his scorched earth way of handling defeat. Go down in history as the classic example of hubris and Pettiness. I'll be watching with great interest how true Republican senators in Congress members deal with him. Now they no longer will have the power to directly make their lives miserable. A few weeks ago, I was pretty convinced that Trump would keep the GOP in this corner for the next four years by offering daily critiques of anything Biden does. I hope the media would wake up and see how they've been consistently manipulated by Trump and punish him by not reporting every word he speaks. Now, though, you know last week or so I'm watching some of the Republican senators who repeated his Bs open up a bit. And veteran Watergate reporter called. Bernstein has now released a list of 21 Republican senators who in private, have repeatedly expressed extreme contempt for Trump and his fitness for office. Maybe by 2024. His own party might reject his bed for a rematch. Meanwhile, is the first round of Biden administration nominations a release. It's clear that by this choosing people who are indisputably X Spurs in their fields over bigger names and democratic politics. There'll be very little on the job training needed for senior members of Biden's White House, as CNN reported. The simple act of hiring people qualify for their jobs is in itself a rejection of the Trump model, which installed donors, right wing ideologues and inexperienced allies into positions of power in some instances, The express purpose of undermining the institutions they were meant to lead, so we'll find ourselves with a very competent yet a times boring new president and a faceless cabinet. After all we've been through these last four years. Doesn't that sound
WBZ Midday News
Pennsylvania certifies election results, confirming Biden victory
"Right? It is official the governor of Pennsylvania certifying that President elect Joe Biden is the winner of that state's presidential race and the 20 electoral votes that go along with it. And sometime this afternoon, the president elect himself Joe Barton will formally introduce nominees and appointees to national security and foreign policy posts. This after the Trump administration officially allowed The transition of power to begin. The AP is Mike Garcia with Maura. After weeks of resistance and facing mounting criticism, the Trump administration appears ready to allow federal agencies to coordinate with President elect Joe Biden on the transition. The path was opened Monday night when the General Services Administration determined Biden is the apparent winner of the November 3rd election. That declaration from G S. A administrator, Emily Murphy, a Trump appointee, came on the heels of Michigan certification of Biden's victory. The Wolverine state. The GSC announcement was followed by a tweet from President Donald Trump recommending GS and his team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols. Mike Rossia
Morning Edition
Michigan certifies election results
"In Michigan as thousands watched on video President Trump's strategy to somehow win an election that he lost. Suffered another blow. A four member board certified Michigan's vote for Joe Biden, making it clear that the step was required by law. The move followed an embarrassing flameout for Trump's legal team in Pennsylvania, the latest lawsuit that they have lost and by the end of the day, a key member of Trump's administration came close to acknowledging the obvious. Emily Murphy Still did not refer to Joe Biden is president elect. But in a letter the head of the General Services Administration released federal funding to be used in the event of a transition of power. Let's begin our coverage with
Morning News with Hal Jay & Brian Estridge
Key government agency acknowledges Biden's win and begins formal transition
"Agency has informed projected President elect Joe Biden that the transition process can begin. Correspondent Rachel Sutherland. Emily Murphy, head of the General Services Administration, wrote a letter to the president elect, freeing up millions of dollars for the transfer of power. Murphy claims she was not pressured by anyone in the executive branch with regard to the substance and timing of her decision, though she did say she received thousands of phone and online threats in an effort to coerce her into making the move prematurely. On Twitter. President Trump is vowing to keep up the good fight as legal challenges play out while thanking Murphy for steadfast dedication and loyalty to our country, Rachel Sutherland Boxes, and Biden has announced more nominees for
THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
US agency ascertains Biden as winner, lets transition begin.
"I'm anthony davis general services administration ascertained on monday. The president elect joe. Biden is the apparent winner of the november election clearing the way for the start of the transition from donald trump's administration and allowing biden to coordinate with federal agencies on plans for taking over on january twentieth trump who had refused to concede the election said in a tweet that he is directing his team to cooperate on the transition but his vowing to keep up the fight administrates. Emily murphy claimed she was not directed but made the determination. After to trump efforts to subvert the vote failed across battleground
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
Trump accepts US presidency transition to Biden must begin
"Today might mark the first day of the rest of donald trump's life that is because tonight joe biden officially became president elect. And let's also be real clear. Here it's over. The president has failed in his attempt. To overturn an election result joe biden will as planned takeover as the forty six president noon january twentieth in keeping with the results of the election. Another way of putting it is. Trump's defeat became official when the woman who runs the general services administration faced with a boss. Who will not concede just tonight grudgingly agreed to officially begin the transition to the new administration in a letter to biden that avoids calling him. President elect emily murphy signed off on his transition and noted she was under no political pressure. Writing quote please know that came to my decision independently based on the lawn available facts. I was never directly or indirectly pressured by any executive branch official including those who work at the white house or gsa with regard to the substance. Our timing of my decision. I did not receive any direction to delay my determination. Her decision came just hours after election. Officials in michigan certify. Joe biden's victory. Trump posted his reaction to the news about the transition with a message. That did not sound like a concession quote. I wanna thank emily murphy at gsa for her steadfast dedication and loyalty to our country our case strongly continues and we will keep up the good fight and i believe we will prevail nevertheless in the best interests of our country. I am recommending that. Emily and her team do what needs to be done and have told my team to do the same tonight. The new york times reports at this way quote mr trump had been resisting any move toward a transition but in conversations in recent days that intensified monday morning top aides including mark meadows the white house. Chief of staff pat sip alone. The white house chief counsel and jay seculow. The president's personal lawyer told the president. The transition needed to begin. He did not need to say the word can see. They told him. Trump continued to solicit opinions from associates including giuliani. Who told him there. Were still legal. Avenues to pursue. This all comes after a string of losses trump and his effort to overturn the election results. Now trump's legal team is putting all their efforts in pennsylvania. Even several counties have begun to certified the biden victory earlier on this network one of trump's campaign lawyers explained the strategy here or legal strategies to make sure that every vote counts in his counted fairly inaccurately and we have timing again until december fourteenth. At least where those electors for the electoral college will vote and so our strategies to make sure that we continue to challenge all of these False and fraudulent results. The election was stolen in president trump by landslide. Okay so far. None of the election lawsuits has uncovered any fraud.
C-SPAN Programming
Trump administration allows Biden transition to begin
"The Trump Administration announced plans to begin the Biden transition protocols. President Trump tweeted Monday evening that he's recommending the General Services Administration and others in his administration to begin quote initial protocols. In a statement, the Biden Harris transition team, said G s a administrator, Emily Murphy, had officially ascertained Biden and vice President elect Kamila Harris as the quote apparent winners of the
WTOP 24 Hour News
President Trump continues to block Biden from federal agencies and resources
"And President elect Joe Biden is beginning to push harder for official channels to open for his transition. CBS is Ed O'Keefe, president elect Biden met with Democratic congressional leaders will partner with next year. But there is growing frustration inside his transition team is the Trump administration continues to block access to federal agencies and resource is, I just think it's totally responsible. Now. Top House Democrats are demanding the head of the General Services Administration. Emily Murphy, brief them by Monday on why she hasn't declared Mr Biden the winner and allow the transition to
Nightside with Dan Rea
Highlights From President-Elect Joe Biden's Transition: November 20, 2020
"Focusing on the transition meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Wilmington, Delaware. Your CBS is head O'Keefe on his 78th birthday. President elect Biden met today with two Democratic congressional leaders who partner with next year. My Oval Office hero make Austin you cost, but there is growing frustration inside his transition team is the Trump administration continues to block access to federal agencies and resource is, but I just think it's totally responsible. Now top House Democrats are demanding the head of the General Services Administration. Emily Murphy, brief them by Monday on why she hasn't declared Mr Biden the winner and allow the transition to begin. Wrote that her actions were having grave effects, including undermining the orderly transfer of power. Tennessee Republican
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
Current and former Trump officials quietly reach out to Biden team
"To biden. Transition officials are telling. Nbc news that a few current and former trump administration officials have reached out privately to the biden transition tame now. This outreach was described as not a big deal. Those are the words used not a big deal by biden transition sources and they stress. That this out reese Is not in any way. A replacement for the national security and covert briefings and other legitimate transition processes that the trump administration is refusing to provide to the biden harris transition team. The biden harris transition is not yet officially underway. Because emily murphy is lying. Emily murphy has been lying every day for eleven days in a row. Emily murphy is the donald trump appointee. Who is now the administrator of general of general services administration after serving and republican staff positions in washington for several years. Emily murphy is lying with her silence because of his emily. Murphy's sworn duty under law under a law called the presidential transition act of nineteen sixty three to sign her name to the document that officially begins the transition process to the biden harris administration. The law orders the gsa administrator to sign that document as soon as there is what the law calls an apparent successful candidate in the presidential election. The law specifies that for example every news organization calling the presidential election for joe biden is a more than adequate identification of an apparent winner to trigger the official beginning of the transition and for eleven days. Now emily murphy's refusal to sign the document. The transition means that she is silently lying to this country and the world. Emily murphy is telling the lie that there is no apparent in the presidential election on monday. Joe biden said that what emily murphy is doing means. More people may die. Those were his words. More people may die today in a meeting with healthcare workers. President elect joe biden. Said this one of the problems that we're having now is the failure of the administration to recognize. The law says that the general services administration has a person who recognizes who the winner is and then they have to have access to all the data and information that the government possesses to be prepared. And it doesn't require there to be an absolute winner and says the apparent winner apparent winner and We've been unable to get access to the kinds of things we need to know and There's a whole lot of things that are just we just don't have available to us unless it's made available soon. We're going to be behind by weeks months being able to put together the whole initiative relating to the biggest traumas we have with to Drug companies coming along and finding ninety five percent effectiveness efficiency and the vaccines which is enormous. Promise so i just want to tell you that that. That's the only slowdown right. Now that
The Takeaway
US presidential election: A turbulent transfer of power
"Peaceful. Transfer of power is a cornerstone of american democracy. Right now president. Trump is not only refusing to concede this election. He's also denying the incoming biden administration access to key documents funding information. They need to ensure a safe and smooth transition now. The formal transition process is actually a pretty new thing. Congress passed the presidential transition act just over fifty years ago. Em things proceeded from there with relatively little drama or problems until two thousand versus the mission of george. Bush is not up for me to accept or reject the legal process. You know. let's just watch this happen. It'll be over soon. We'll be ready for transition. It wasn't until weeks after that. Bill clinton cabinet meeting december twelve thirty five days after the election that george w bush was officially declared the winner that gave then president elect bush just over a month to plan for and staff his administration course nine months later the september eleventh terrorist attacks happened catching the nation and a relatively new president off guard when the nine eleven commission report came out in two thousand four. It pointed to this truncated transition as a weakness and recommended a more formalized process katherine dunn tempests at senior fellow at the university of virginia's miller center the senior research director at the white house transition project so laws were passed in the two thousands or spin sort of three sets of laws that have been passed to kinda they keep refining it and keep refining it but what they did primarily is that they enable the winning candidates to receive funding to start their transitions after they were formerly so that meant that once biden was the democratic nominee. He was eight. He was provided with all space some funding for salaries and the ability to start planning ahead. Talked to us a little bit. About how worried you are or how worried we should be as americans about this as you pointed out the attacks on nine eleven happened not that long after president bush took office. If something happens january or february of this coming year would the biden administration be potentially a unable to respond because they just simply didn't have the staffing and they didn't have the time to ramp up and be ready. Let me back up. Just a bit to point out that There are basically two important phases of the transition. The i i pointed out was after the nominee has been formally nominated by the party and they received some resources the next big transfer resources comes after the head of the gsa has ascertained the next president united states and they use that verbiage. Esser that verb. I'm not really sure why but And that's the point at which the president the incoming president can start to have access to classified material that can start to be part of the president's daily brief with Tells them all the national security issues. It enables the biden transition team to have access to all of these individuals civil servants and political appointees at the various agencies so that they can interview them. So what's happening now. Is they are preventing the biden from moving to the next phase. And what i would argue is the most important phase at the transition. It's critically important that the biden staff members be able to go to the department of justice francis and to be able to interview. Fbi director the head of the criminal division the head of the national security division to try to get a sense since of. What's the lay of the land where the priorities. What are the crises. That might be boiling over by the time we get here. And that's what they're being denied so. I think there should be a lot of concern about this. The the inability to advance to the next stage of the transition. It's not to say that it's going to necessarily result in some sort of crises that but we want a country that's prepared so it strikes me as were basically just sort of harming ourselves for no apparent reason and were inhibiting our ability to be in the best possible situation. We can be on january twentieth. And there's no reason for that. We have the resources we have the capacity. So why so. Let's talk about the. Why and and the who so. Emily murphy is a name that most of us probably weren't familiar with until now she is a person who is at the head of the. Gsa can you talk a little bit about how her role what her role is. And how much leeway. She has to continue to refuse to release these funds or to allow the biden team to start integrating with the outgoing trump administration. So emily murphy is the administrator of the gsa. It's a political appointment in the gsa. It's office is largely responsible for all the government real estate so they helped provide office space and oversee office space You know in in most situations would never even hear of the essay in this particular case because the legislation housed it in the gsa. She has the capacity to release the funding and the resources to the party. Nominees and then eventually to the president-elect by law she is the one that has to ascertain the election so there will be no funding going out until she does it. So what's tying our hands. I mean she is a by president trump. She must be a republican. Who has some loyalty to this administration and is unwilling to buck the advice. She's getting probably for mark meadows. Probably the chief-of-staff sues weighing on her.
The Takeaway
Trump is stonewalling Biden's transition. Here's why it matters
"Amy Walter from the takeaway were well underway and the ability for Theo administration in any way by failure recognizes this our wind. Does not change the dynamic at all. What radio peaceful transfer of power is a cornerstone of American democracy. Right now. President Trump is not only refusing to concede this election. He's also denying the incoming Biden administration access to keep documents funding an information they need to ensure a safe and smooth transition. Now the formal transition process is actually a pretty new thing. Congress passed the Presidential transition act just over 50 years ago. Him. Things proceeded from there with relatively little drama or problems until 2000 President George Florida's certification of George Bush is the winner. It's not up for me to accept or reject. There's a legal process here, you know, let's just watch this happen. It'll be over soon and we'll be ready for the transition. It wasn't until weeks after that. Bill Clinton Cabinet meeting December 12 35 days after the election that George W. Bush was officially declared the winner. That gave then President elect Bush just over a month to plan for and staff his administration. Course. Nine months later, the September 11th terrorist attacks happened catching the nation and relatively new president off guard. When the 9 11 Commission report came out in 2004, it pointed to this truncated transition. Is a weakness and recommended a more formalized process. Catherine Don Tempus is it senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. She's also the senior research director at the White House Transition Project. So laws were passed in the 2000. There's been sort of three sets of laws that have been passed to kind of they keep refining it and keep refining it. But what they did primarily is that they enabled the winning candidates to receive funding to start their transitions after they were formally nominated. So that meant that once Biden was the Democratic nominee, he was he was provided with office space. Some funding for salaries. And the ability to start planning ahead. Talk to us a little bit about how worried you are or how worried we should be as Americans about this, As you pointed out, the attacks on 9 11 happened. No, not that long after President Bush took office. If something happens January or February of this coming year, would the Biden Administration be potentially unable to respond because they just simply didn't have the staffing and they didn't have the time to ramp up and be ready. We'll let me back up just a bit to point out that there are basically two important phases of the transition. The first I pointed out was after the the nominee. Has been formally nominated by the party and they receive some resource is the next big transfer resource is comes after the head of the G s A has ascertained the next President, United States and they use that Burbage ascertain that bird. I'm not really sure why, but And that's the point at which The president, the incoming president can start to have access to classified material. They can start to be part of the president's daily brief with which is the tells them all of the national security issues. It enables the Biden transition team to have access to all of these individuals, civil servants and political appointees at the various agencies so that they can interview them. So what's happening now is they are preventing the Biden from moving to the next phase, and what I would argue is the most important phase of the transition. It's critically important that the Biden staff members be able to go to the Department of Justice, for instance, and to be able to interview the FBI director, the head of the Criminal Division, the head of the National Security Division. Try to get a sense of sense of what's the lay of the land where the priorities what the crises that might be boiling over by the time we get here, and that's what they're being denied. So I think there should be a lot of concern about this. The inability to advance to this next stage of the transition. It's not to say that it's going to necessarily result in some sort of crisis. I don't know that, but We want a country that's prepared so it strikes me as we're basically just sort of harming ourselves for no apparent reason, and we're inhibiting our ability. To be in the best possible situation. We can be on January 20th, and there's no reason for that. We have the resources. We have the capacity. So why? So let's talk about the why. And the who? So Emily Murphy is a name that most of us Probably weren't familiar with until now. She is a person who is at the head of the G s A. Can you talk a little bit about How her role what her role is and how much leeway she has to continue to refuse to release these funds or to allow The Biden team to start integrating with the outgoing Trump administration. So Emily Murphy is the administrator of the G S. A. It's a political appointment in the GSC itself is largely responsible for all the government real estate, so they help provide office space and oversee office space. Um, you know, and in most situations you would never even hear of the G s a in this particular case because all the transition funding the legislation housed it in the G s a She has the capacity to release the funding in the resource is to the party nominees and then eventually to the president elect by law. She is the one that has to ascertain the election, so there will be no funding going out until she does it. So what's tying our hands? I mean, she is appointed by President Trump. She must be a Republican who has some Loyalty to this administration and is unwilling to buck the advice. She's getting probably from Mark Meadows, probably the chief of staff who is weighing on her. So what happens? The electors meet in mid December, and they certify the results of this election. Is that the time in which you could argue that There just is no formal or legal option for the president to continue to It's sort of obstructed this process. Right? I think the meeting of the electoral college and the electors casting their ballots. And if if the numbers show that you know Biden exceeds 2 70 as he as they appear to now it strikes me that there is she has no justification. To deny the Biden campaign or president elect by and hit the resource is, however. This is a norm, shattering president and we've never had a president who has not conceded. He's lost the election. So normally, I would say yes. You know, that is clearly a decisive moment in American history when the electors cast their vote, And if Biden exceeds 2 70. He is the president. At the same time. I honestly don't know what to expect in this administration. It's very hard to predict many of his political appointees have been loyal to the core. You use the word norm shit or term norm shattering, and I'm wondering how close we are to instead of norm, shattering. Actual democracy damaging, I mean, really, fundamentally undermining the integrity. Of our government and the things on which it is built. I would contend that President Trump along with many senators, who are Denying the facts of the election results and are upholding sort of Trump's Baseless claims of fraud and stealing the election that they are undermining the very tenants of American democracy. In order to have a healthy democracy, the citizenry has to believe in the institutions. They have to believe that the elections that they voted are free and fair. And by actively perpetuating this notion that there has been fraud and some sort of stealing of votes. You are undermining the important tenets of American democracy. And that has long term implications and we are already at important and I would say high level of turmoil in this country. Pandemic has wrecked havoc on the account economy. Various incidents across the country have heightened racial tensions in this country. This is not a moment where we then need to undermine yet another important aspect of American democracy. How
WBZ Overnight News
Growing calls to press lawmakers to ensure smooth transition to Biden
"For President elect Biden to be allowed to get on with the transition, the latest from former defense and intelligence officials from CBS's Camby McCormick a letter from over 150 former national security officials is warning of risks in the transition delay. That letter was sent to the General Services Administration chief Emily Murphy, and it urged her to ensure the smooth transfer of power and allow access to information pertaining to national security issues, as well as the president's daily, brief and pending decisions on possible uses of military force. I'm Cam
WTOP 24 Hour News
GSA's Emily Murphy Holding Up Joe Biden's Transition Team
"The attorney general bar authorizing the Justice Department to look into what he calls quote substantial allegations of voting irregular irregularities, despite the fact there's been a little evidence of any fraud. So far, the legal fights haven't gone anywhere. But the head of the NSA Emily Murphy, is affecting the Biden team by holding up its presidential transition to explain how that can happen. And for more information on Emily Murphy, Sean and Hillary talked about it with Washington Post National reporter Lisa Rain. She was confirmed by the Senate on DH. She has Ah ah, strong background in Federal contracting and had worked on Capitol Hill as an aide on Dad worked in the federal government and and so she's viewed as very competent. And she has also gotten entangled, though in some controversies involving the Trump Hotel, as well as the new location for you know, the FBI headquarters, which both involved Ah involved the president. But she has as do all GS administrators thiss kind of on known roll whenever you have a presidential transmit transition, where once President elected named You write a letter and you basically release millions of dollars in in federal funding, you know, as well as office space for transition teams of the agencies as well as just Access to the new the new administration. This case the President Biden elect and his team to federal agencies so that they can learn what's been going on for the past four years, and that she hasn't done Can you Can the Biden teen challenger or does it simply just have to wait her out? So right now, you know nothing that Emily Murphy has done is illegal in the law that actually was passed by Congress in I think it was 1962 or three does give her you know, the GIs administrator wide latitude you know, for when this letter is written, that sort of, you know, unleashes the transition resource is, but it's never really been tested before, right, Because normally, this's just a very pro forma thing. I mean, you know, after President Obama 12 hours later, you know, the Bush team have had written it their letter now in 2000, Bush v. Gore. We know that was, you know, disputed election that went on and on for weeks. Obviously, it took a while, but that's a different circumstance here than you know, a president. I'm not conceding. So right now it's not clear what the bite and folks feel there. They will do right now. There are no no legal avenues that they're pursuing. And they have told my colleague Matt Visor that they're sitting tight for a couple of days. If this continues, though, you know until the end of the week, they you know they will be thinking harder about What legal arguments they have to make. You know. The problem is, though that is it's really tricky because technically an early member if he could wait until December 14th when the electoral college needs and by then you know the recounts in battleground states would have been completed. President Trump would have, in theory, exhausted his legal options he's pursuing, but that's a long way away. From now on, that's an eternity in a transition of presidential transition. So we just don't know what's gonna happen. And that is Washington Post National reporter Lisa Rain
All Things Considered
Inspector general report: Trump involved in FBI headquarters decision
"The FBI needs a new home its current headquarters on. Pennsylvania Avenue here in Washington is literally crumbling and by all accounts. It doesn't meet the needs of the agency in a post nine eleven world members of congress thought they had a deal to, relocate the headquarters to a Washington suburb and sell the valuable downtown site to. Developers the. Trump administration abruptly, cancelled that, plan and now a government watchdog has raised questions about why NPR's Brian Naylor, has that story the General Services Administration the GSA is an essence the governance landlord it's been deeply involved in the ongoing debate. About a replacement, for the j Edgar, Hoover building the bureau's deteriorating brutalises. Style headquarters, which sits on a prime location on Pennsylvania Avenue. Now the inspector general of the says in a report that the head of. The agency Emily Murphy may. Have misled, congress during Hearing she failed to disclose, that she had met with President Trump. At the White House to discuss the FBI project democratic congressman Mike Quigley of Illinois question Murphy about the decision. To cancel the plan to. Move the FBI. Out of Washington during an April hearing here he is asking for the second time if the White House was involved in the, decision but again to your knowledge was the president. Or, anyone at the White House involved in those discussions either with your predecessors or people, you're with working with now or yourself Certainly, not. The destruction that we got came from. The FBI the the FBI director GSA what's requirements would be in fact, what Murphy failed to mention was that she did indeed meet with Trump at the White House this, past January and had two other. Discussions with White House officials about the project she told the inspector general. That her answers during the. Hearing were literally true but the I g disagreed in its report calling them incomplete, and possibly, misleading, the cliche goes. The three most important things in real estate are location location location the president's involvement in the FBI headquarters discussions are note worthy because of his ownership of the Trump International hotel which happens to be also. On the, same stretch of, Pennsylvania Avenue as the FBI democratic congressman Gerald Connolly of Virginia requested the, report he says the government's decision to cancel the FBI's move doesn't pass Smell test I think two things are going, on one is the President Trump personally does not want the FBI headquarters site redeveloped possibly with a hotel and. A restaurant, to compete with his hotel almost across the street the second reason says Connolly is the president's ongoing feud with the FBI I think he didn't want to quote reward them unquote. With a new functional headquarters inspector general's report also says the GSA has under. Reported the cost of demolishing and rebuilding the, FBI headquarters on its current site. By about half a billion. Dollars the suburban Washington district Connolly represents might, have, been. The side of the new FBI headquarters. To other sites being considered we're in Maryland but Connolly says his concern, is more about what he calls the tainted process surrounding the decision to stay on Pennsylvania Avenue he's, called for a hearing in which. The GSA, head would be brought in to testify under oath about The president's