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TOP STORIES
Monday, December 7
GA DEBATE: LOEFFLER STALLS ON STOCK SALES Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R), who traded millions in financial holdings after receiving secret coronavirus briefings, was asked directly during a debate if senators should be barred from financial trading while in office. “What’s at stake here in this election is the American dream," she answered, refusing to elaborate. She also refused to acknowledge President Donald Trump's election defeat. [HuffPost]
BIDEN TO TAP INFECTIOUS DISEASES EXPERT FOR CDC President-elect Joe Biden plans to tap Rochelle Walensky, the head of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, as his director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Walensky, also a professor of medicine at Harvard, will replace Dr. Robert Redfield, who was appointed in 2018 and has been one of Trump’s main advisers during the coronavirus pandemic. [HuffPost]
RUDY GIULIANI HOSPITALIZED FOR COVID-19 Rudy Giuliani, who has been leading Trump's failed effort to overturn the election, was hospitalized in Washington on Sunday. Trump tweeted the lawyer's diagnosis and said Giuliani “has been working tirelessly.” “Get better soon Rudy, we will carry on!!!” the president tweeted, repeating the racist term, “China Virus.” [HuffPost] |
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BIDEN PICKS CALIFORNIA AG FOR HHS SECRETARY Biden has reportedly picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, a surprise to many who believed the former Democratic member of the House would be chosen to head the Justice Department. The selection of Becerra is a victory for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, which he used to lead. [HuffPost]
BIRX: VACCINES 'WON'T SAVE US' FROM CURRENT SURGE With a COVID-19 vaccine perhaps just days away in the U.S., most of California headed into another lockdown Sunday, and top health officials warned Americans that this is no time to let their guard down. “The vaccine’s critical,” Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, told NBC. “But it’s not going to save us from this current surge. Only we can save us from this current surge.” [AP]
ARMED MICHIGANERS DENY VOTE RESULTS Michigan supporters of Trump gathered with firearms outside Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s home over the weekend to protest the battleground state’s election results, which helped Biden win. Benson, Michigan’s top election official, said that dozens of armed individuals stood outside her home “shouting obscenities and chanting into bullhorns” while she was decorating the house for Christmas with her 4-year-old son. [HuffPost] |
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WHAT'S BREWING
JEWISH GROUP JOINS FIGHT AGAINST TRUMP ARMS SALE J Street, a prominent Jewish American organization working on Middle East issues, is pushing to stop Trump from sending $23 billion in military arms and equipment to the United Arab Emirates. “The sale of a massive quantity of such destructive weapons systems to the UAE would only further fuel an escalating arms race in a region already suffering from destabilizing wars that endanger civilians and undermine U.S. interests,” J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami told HuffPost. [HuffPost]
TRUMP VACCINE CZAR PRAISES BIDEN'S MASK PLAN Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the chief scientific adviser for Operation Warp Speed, said Biden’s plan to ask Americans to wear masks during his first 100 days in office is a “good idea.” Asked on CNN whether Biden’s request would be “too little too late,” Slaoui said it was “never too late.” “This pandemic is ravaging the country,” said Slaoui. “We all need to take our precaution, have our mask, wash our hands, keep our distance, remain aware that this virus is a killer." [HuffPost]
TRUMP'S PARTING GIFT: A WORSE YEMEN CATASTROPHE Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is considering designating the Houthis, the Yemeni militia that rules over the vast majority of the country’s population, as a terrorist organization. The move would fit the Trump administration’s strategy to weaken Iran, which supports the Houthis, and thrill Iranian adversaries like Saudi Arabia. It would push millions of people in Yemen into starvation and prolong the country’s civil war. Biden would find it extremely difficult to reverse the designation. [HuffPost]
GEORGIA GOV RIPS RIGGED ELECTION COMPLAINTS A legal action filed by Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp blasted the Trump legal team’s election fraud complaints as “myth.” Kemp’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging election results called the complaints “outlandish.” The filing followed attacks by Trump on Kemp at a Georgia rally. [HuffPost]
CONDEMNED TO DIE IN TRUMP'S EXECUTION SURGE On Dec. 10, Brandon Bernard is scheduled to be executed. If the execution goes forward, he will die for acting as an accomplice in a crime that happened when he was 18. Five of the nine surviving jurors who voted 20 years ago to condemn Bernard to death now support sparing his life. So does a former federal prosecutor, who defended Bernard’s death sentence on appeal. He has a clemency petition pending before Trump. [HuffPost]
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