President-elect Joe Biden has announced his nominees for his top national security team. Some of the names include Tony Blinken for Secretary of State, Alejandro Mayorkas for DHS Secretary, Avril Haines for Director of National Intelligence, and John Kerry as climate envoy. Carol Morello, diplomatic correspondent at the Washington Post, joins us for more on who they are and how these picks have often pushed for policies that Trump used to fuel his rise.

Next, China has successfully launched its most ambitious mission to the Moon yet. It is a quick ‘grab and go’ mission to bring back some lunar rocks and dirt. If they succeed it will be the first time since 1976 that we will have fresh moon rocks back here on earth. It is a complicated process for the mission and they hope to be back in about 23 days. Loren Grush, senior science writer at The Verge, joins us for more on the Chinese Moon mission.

Finally, retailers are preparing for another surge of shoppers as we are seeing rising coronavirus cases and in some areas, new rounds of lockdowns. All the while, essential workers continue to go in to work and put their health at risk. Hazard pay incentives that we saw at the beginning of the pandemic have not come back and some companies don’t plan on bringing it back. Michael Corkery, business reporter at the NY Times, joins us for more on the lack of coronavirus hazard pay.

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