this is a fox news alert the biden
transition spokesperson announcing new
cabinet picks including
tony blank for secretary of state
alejandro mayorkas for dhs secretary
ambassador linda thomas greenfield for
the u.s ambassador to the u.n
john kerry for the climate czar position
avril haynes the intelligence position
and jake sullivan national security
adviser we also should note
that avril haynes will become the first
woman
to lead the intelligence agency as she
has been nominated to serve as the
director
of national intelligence interesting
also that former secretary of state
john kerry will be back in the biden
administration
of course he has a lot of experience as
secretary of state and now will be in
charge of climate policy
former vice president joe biden has said
that he wants the united states to
rejoin
the paris climate agreement something
the trump administration took the united
states
out of and so these are new picks by
the biden transition team that have been
announced this morning
there of course i'm sure will be some
controversy and some praise from all
different corners of washington d.c
uh kennedy your initial thoughts on this
initial list of cabinet picks
for vice president joe biden
very dubious of jake sullivan at nsa
i'm excited to learn more about avril
haynes
i think the surveillance and
intelligence apparatus is obviously very
beefy
and we may need to slim it down i don't
have high hopes for
that and from john kerry if we are going
to reenter the prime
paris climate accord i want to know what
he plans on doing to make china
and india accountable in the same way
that the united states
and the rest of the first world
is going to i have not heard much in
terms of specifics
from joe biden about that he has said
that he will
but what does that mean and how is he
going to do it i think that's critical
if we are in fact going to re-enter that
accord
brian kilmeade it's interesting to see
these
announcements and these specific
positions being announced first the unit
the
ambassador to the un secretary of state
uh what does that say to you about where
biden's priorities are going to be well
number one
katie it makes me feel right away that
uh we never got a debate on foreign
policy
we never had a top this topic come out
and even though joe biden's got all this
experience he doesn't have any
good track record remember he's been
wrong about every foreign policy and
national security issue according to
a guy that knows it well bob gates is
former secretary of defense when he was
vice president
than anybody else for over 47 years and
the guy that's been by his side is tony
blinken so now he's going to be
secretary of state
to implement some of those backwards
ideas that looks as though it's going to
bolster things like iran over israel
i'm not saying that they're a favorite
but that's going to be the new emphasis
as opposed to the nations that are
recognizing israel and when it comes to
afghanistan
i'm pretty sure he's on the same page as
president trump which concerns me
in that i think we're turning it over to
the taliban right now and the
i think he might use that as an entree
to do so when it comes to the power i
didn't know we had a climate czar
but uh but i know that i know that
senator kerry had to get paid back
for his early support of joe biden so it
makes sense he's going to be there
i just can't wait for the american
people to be writing tac their checks
their tax dollars
and giving it to other nations in the
hopes that they might comply
like we will probably be complying here
and russia and china
i haven't been on board to begin with so
why are we going to be subscribing to it
anyway
but john kerry is there to give his
condescending
views to anybody that wants to disagree
with him so that'll be refreshing
so emily the biden campaign has made uh
no question that they want to reverse a
number of trump administration policies
including stopping
the building of the border wall and the
southern border with mexico you have
alejandra marcus who is a former deputy
secretary
of dhs now being nominated to serve as a
secretary of the department of homeland
security
um what do you think about this
appointment in terms of immigration
policy
well i think it's it's taking a step
back if you will so you mentioned
in the intro that these are new picks
but it's definitely getting the band
back together again as this is reuniting
a group of former senior officials in
that obama administration as you pointed
out
so really i think what we can look
forward to is essentially taking steps
back
in terms of that development and
certainly in the approach to immigration
in terms of that policy as was
articulated today a quote wariness of
foreign intervention
um and i have to point out as well that
john kerry
does not have an international respect
at a certain level for negotiation and
so certainly if he is sort of this
outward facing
uh position again obviously it's not a
cabinet position
and a note to viewers actually the
ambassador to the un position will be
restored to cabinet level
but i think it will be interesting to
see his place on the international
negotiation stage and really what that
looks like because even though this is
a reunion of sorts it isn't the obama
administration anymore and we are now
four years later so i'll be interested
to see
how this plays out in the landscape that
the trump administration administration
has gotten us to
so carly as we go through the transition
process
and see a number of these nominees by
joe biden of course we'll be looking
into the backgrounds of these people
what their records are what they have to
offer what their plans are
with a biden administration and it's
interesting to see the controversies
already coming from the left you have
congresswoman alexandra ocasio-cortez
saying that she's not going to forget
the pact that
the left made with joe biden for for an
election but now they want some payments
so this first initial list
um well i'm sure come under scrutiny not
just by republicans in the senate should
they hold on to it and have to confirm
uh biden's cabinet but also from the far
left of his own party
yeah and just a note to point out as you
guys were talking i was looking through
the list and
alejandro marcus will be the first
latino
and immigrant nominated to serve as
secretary of the department of homeland
security so
that's something notable obviously but
these initial cabinet
picks are important to really understand
the direction
that a president biden is going to take
the country
um there are certain people who have
wondered you know maybe because he
in his initial speech said that he
wanted to be the great unifier
maybe he'll pick a republican a mitt
romney a john kasich
to sit on the cabinet which past
presidents have done they've reached
across the aisle and picked a candidate
from the other party
uh but so far like you guys have said it
does appear to be sort of the gangs all
back together again
and it there this all of these picks
will face a lot of score scrutiny
i'm sure that the progressive wing the
aocs will be you know very happy with
john kerry
um being uh on that list right now and i
think that his name is really
the big headline uh for the moment
yep indeed he is