-Over the coming weeks,
what we're gonna see from Joe Biden
is he's gonna start to fill out his White House staff,
and we already have a Chief of Staff right now,
and I think we can expect to see other key personnel roles
filled in the weeks ahead.
We're gonna see at some point cabinet picks.
-I hope we're able to be in a position to let people know,
at least a couple that we want, before Thanksgiving.
-They're gonna have to figure out who they want
and who they think they can get confirmed
because these cabinet nominees
are gonna have to get confirmed by the Senate.
The Senate is very, very closely divided right now.
In fact, at this point, we don't even know which party
is going to control the Senate,
so they're gonna have to make big political decisions.
The Biden teams hopes to hit the ground running
when they take office,
but again, a lot of that will depend on who they pick
and how quickly they are able to get confirmed,
especially on the cabinet side.
Secretary of State is somebody who's typically
one of the most recognizable faces in the administration.
And it's an especially important one for this administration
because Biden has talked about kind of resetting the place
in the world of the United States.
One name to keep an eye on is Susan Rice.
She is somebody who was vetted closely
by the Biden team to be his running mate.
She was a finalist to be his running mate.
She impressed a lot of people.
She, of course, served in the Obama administration.
Biden and Rice know each other very well.
The question is whether or not
the Biden team decides to nominate her.
One factor could be Republican resistance.
She is somebody who is a pretty polarizing figure
going back to the Benghazi attacks during the Obama years.
-I'm not entertaining promoting anybody
that I think was involved with the Benghazi debacle.
I'm not gonna promote somebody who I think has misled
the country or is either incompetent.
That's my view of Susan Rice.
-Another name to keep an eye on for Secretary of State
is Tony Blinken.
He is somebody who worked with Biden very closely on policy.
Pretty respected in the universe of Democrats.
He's gonna have to choose a Treasury Secretary.
Right now, the name that a lot of Biden allies are pointing to
is Lael Brainard, a Federal Reserve governor.
Somebody who is in the sort of centrist mainstream wing
of the Democratic party, is very respected.
But on the left, the liberal wing of the Democratic party,
you're seeing some resistance to her potential nomination.
There's gonna be a lot of --
There already is a lot of jockeying,
a lot of political jockeying from all sides on this.
And so the Treasury Secretary position
is one that's already generated a little bit of that friction.
We might see some of the people who ran against Biden
for the Democratic nomination in 2020 resurface.
The biggest one to keep an eye on is Pete Buttigieg,
who, of course, ran against Biden in the primary
and that his campaign endorsed Biden
at a very, very crucial time in that Democratic primary.
It was an endorsement that a lot of people felt was crucial,
helped to put him over the top. And then from there,
he campaigned pretty aggressively for Biden.
The position that he's often mentioned for, potentially,
is ambassador to the United Nations.
Buttigieg is somebody who speaks
a bunch of different foreign languages.
And so he's seen as somebody who would be sort of
a capable ambassador on the world stage in a really,
really important position.
Another name that has come up is Elizabeth Warren.
And on the left, you're seeing a lot of support.
"Hey, she would be a great Treasury Secretary."
She's somebody who, you know, ran a campaign that was very,
very, very focused on the economy.
Again, the question for Biden is a similar one to the question
he would face with Susan Rice, which is, you know,
does he want to nominate somebody who could be
potentially polarizing and cause a partisan fight?
And one more thing to consider with Elizabeth Warren
is you have a Republican governor
in the state of Massachusetts.
And if she leaves, what happens to her Senate seat?
Does that end up getting filled by a Republican?
Beyond that, there's some names
that are sort of thrown around by Democrats,
like Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Amy Klobuchar.
These are people with long experience in the Senate
who might surface as, you know, potential picks.
In the campaign, Biden said,
"Look, I want to have a government --
I'm gonna have a government that looks like America."
So diversity, no doubt,
is a priority that he has put out there.
And another one, I think they want people who have experience
or who, in their view,
are qualified for a lot of these positions.