[ti:President-elect Biden Chooses All-Female White House Press Team]
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[00:00.04]President-elect Joe Biden
[00:02.48]has named an all-female senior communications team
[00:07.92]for his upcoming administration.
[00:11.28]More than half of the seven positions will be filled by women of color.
[00:17.84]The choices are part of Biden's effort to create an administration that,
[00:23.68]in his words, "actually looks like America."
[00:28.32]Biden's campaign communications director, Kate Bedingfield,
[00:33.12]will serve as the White House communications director.
[00:37.16]She served in a similar position for Biden when he was vice president
[00:42.60]during the administration of President Barack Obama.
[00:47.60]Jen Psaki will serve as his press secretary.
[00:51.88]She held several positions in communications during Obama's administration,
[00:58.04]including as State Department spokesperson.
[01:02.92]Biden's communication team is expected to return to more
[01:07.44]traditional ways of talking and meeting with members of the press.
[01:13.56]President Donald Trump and his administration's communication team
[01:19.12]have had an unusual relationship with the press.
[01:23.36]His team has held comparatively few press briefings.
[01:28.20]Those that did happen were often hostile.
[01:33.12]Trump sometimes spoke directly to announcers of Fox News television programs
[01:38.68]instead of reporters for the White House.
[01:42.72]In a statement announcing the White House communications team, Biden said:
[01:48.36]"Communicating directly and truthfully to the American people
[01:52.84]is one of the most important duties of a President,
[01:56.68]and this team will be entrusted with the tremendous responsibility
[02:02.00]of connecting the American people to the White House."
[02:07.04]Biden has also nominated women to several high-level positions in his Cabinet.
[02:13.44]On Monday, the president-elect and his transition team announced
[02:20.04]Janet Yellen as nominee for US Treasury Secretary.
[02:24.24]If the Senate confirms her, Yellen will become the first woman ever
[02:29.28]to lead the Treasury Department.
[02:32.52]Last week, Biden named Linda Thomas-Greenfield as
[02:36.72]U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
[02:40.40]Thomas-Greenfield, a Black woman,
[02:43.52]served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa
[02:48.08]from 2013 to 2017 under Obama.
[02:53.16]Biden has also nominated Avril Haines as Director of National Intelligence;
[02:59.12]Neera Tanden as Director of the Office of Management and Budget;
[03:04.20]and Cecelia Rouse as chair of Council of Economic Advisors.
[03:10.40]As a presidential candidate,
[03:12.88]Biden promised that people chosen for his administration
[03:17.16]would represent the diversity, or mix, of the American public.
[03:23.20]In an opinion article published last summer,
[03:26.56]as protests spread nationwide over the police killings of Black people,
[03:32.56]Biden wrote: "Across the board -- from our classrooms to our courtrooms
[03:38.56]to the president's Cabinet -- we have to make sure that our leadership
[03:43.68]and our institutions actually look like America."
[03:48.72]Biden also said over the summer that
[03:51.32]he would choose a woman to serve as his vice president.
[03:55.04]On August 11, he chose Senator Kamala Harris, a Black and Indian woman.
[04:01.60]Harris is now set to become the country's first female vice president.
[04:07.84]People of color make up almost half of Biden's transition team,
[04:12.36]Forbes magazine reported last month.
[04:15.64]Women make up a small majority of the team.
[04:19.60]I'm Ashley Thompson.
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