the u.s president-elect joe biden has
said it's an embarrassment that donald
trump has not accepted defeat in the
election and it will reflect poorly on
his legacy
speaking earlier he said the transition
process was well
underway our north america editor john
sopple is at the white house and
how frustrated is joe biden about the
progress with transition
you know sophie it's exactly four years
to the day that barack obama
welcomed donald trump to the white house
and said how can i help you
is there anything i can do to make the
transition easier
nothing like that is happening now and i
thought joe biden's voice today was of a
bedside
doctor holding the hand of the
republican patient and saying
i know you've been through a terrible
shock you will come to terms with it
sooner or later
he said that the republican leadership
was mildly intimidated
by donald trump mildly i would say they
are knee-knockingly scared of donald
trump and that's why they
are going along with this whole recount
business the president himself is
tweeting out saying
watch for massive ballot counting abuse
we're a week on
from the vote and that massive abuse
here evidence of it has not yet been
brought forward
so i think that joe biden wants to lower
the temperature
and be patient and say to the rest of
the world we're back on the world stage
um meanwhile talking the world stage joe
biden made a phone call to boris johnson
what was said
yeah i think that was really interesting
i mean look we've had a readout from the
british side and a readout from the
american side and a lot of it is blah
blah blah
the british are pleased that it was the
first call to a european leader
special relationship box ticked they
talked about defense they talked about
nato they talked about security
but trade is the really interesting one
and this is where it's worth a bit of
textual
analysis on the british side it just
said we talked about trade
on the american readout it said we
talked about trade
and reasserted our the importance of the
good friday agreement
that is a warning shot to britain about
withdrawing from this
the withdrawal agreement and
jeopardizing the good friday agreement
that that might jeopardize any future
u.s uk trade deal and that is something
to watch
with caution in the weeks and months
ahead john sobel thank you