Highlights From the Transition: Republican Senator Says Biden Should Receive Presidential Daily Briefings Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma said in a radio interview that he was ready to “step in” if President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. was not briefed by the end of the week. A Republican senator says Biden should receive daily briefings, and he will ‘step in’ to ensure that occurs. The few holdouts include two autocratic allies of President Trump — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil — as well as President Xi Jinping of China. Moon said he and Mr. Biden affirmed their countries’ “robust” alliance and desire for a “peaceful and prosperous” Korean Peninsula. Mr. Biden currently leads Mr. Trump in Georgia by more than 14,000 votes, with almost all of the absentee and in-person ballots counted.

Source: New York Times November 11, 2020 13:31 UTC