Published 04:46 IST, November 25th 2020

Biden talks about Brexit, Trump, intel briefings

President-elect Joe Biden will begin receiving classified briefings regularly now that the Trump Administration has removed a major roadblock from his transition.

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President-elect Joe Biden will begin receiving classified briefings regularly w that Trump ministration has removed a major roblock from his transition.

Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware Tuesday that while its been offered, he hasn't yet h Presidential Daily Briefing, regular briefing on most sensitive intelligence offered to top U.S. officials.

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Biden has been blocked from receiving intelligence briefings, and his team h been blocked from contact with ir counterparts in Trump ministration, due to General Services ministration's refusal to ascertain that Biden won election while a number of Trump campaign legal challenges against vote continued. That ascertainment finally came Monday night, lifting those roblocks to cooperation between Biden transition and Trump ministration officials.

Biden said he'll w have briefing "on a regular basis," and since ascertainment, he said, Trump ministration officials "have been very forthcoming, offering all access."

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He also said he would be willing to meet President Donald Trump, "if he asked."

Biden said that he h t yet spoken to Dr. Anthony Fauci, government's top infectious disease expert, but that his staff h and that he's been "very, very helpful."

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Responding to a reporter's question about Brexit negotiations, Biden said he did t want to see a guarded border between rrn Ireland and Republic of Ireland.

 

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04:46 IST, November 25th 2020