Trump tentatively agrees to transition | First Thing

President says he will cooperate with transition after GSA declares Biden win, but insists he will continue to contest result. Plus, Biden announces cabinet

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Donald Trump has finally agreed to begin the transition to a Joe Biden presidency, three weeks after the election. It followed a declaration from the General Services Administration (GSA) yesterday that Biden was the apparent winner of the US election, enabling the transition of power to officially begin. But, for the president at least, it's not over yet: while Trump tweeted that he had instructed his team to cooperate with the transition, he vowed to keep fighting the election results.