President-elect Donald Trump is named Time magazine Person of the Year, “for marshaling a comeback of historic proportions, for driving a once-in-a-generation political realignment, for reshaping the American presidency and altering America’s role in the world.”
President Joe Biden announces pardons for 39 people convicted of nonviolent crimes and commutations of sentences for nearly 1,500 more, a new daily record for clemency. We talk about with The Hill’s White House reporter Brett Samuels. (11)
FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker announces he will resign January 20th, giving President-elect Trump another agency leadership vacancy to fill.
The House passes a bill to add dozens of new judgeships, sending the bill to President Biden, who has threatened a veto because the Senate had passed the bill before the November election, when it was not clear who would be the next president able to nominate the new judges.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken lands to Jordan for the start of talk about stabilizing Syria in the post-Bashar al-Assad environment, while White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is in Israel meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu on the latest ceasefire and hostage release talks with Hamas.
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