Speaking earlier, he said the transition process was well underway.

Our North America editor, John So Paul, is at the White House.

And how frustrated is Joe Biden about the progress with transition?

You know, Sophie, it's exactly four years to the day that Barack Obama welcome Donald Trump to the White House and said, How can I help you?

Is there anything I could do to make the transition easier?

Nothing like that is happening now on.

I thought Joe Biden's voice today was of a bedside doctor holding the hand of the Republican patient and saying, I know you've been through a terrible shock.

You will come to terms with it sooner or later.

He said that the Republican leadership was mildly intimidated by Donald Trump mildly, I would say they are knee knocking Lee scared of Donald Trump and that's why they are going along with this whole recount business.

The president himself is tweeting out saying watch for a massive ballot counting abuse.

We're a week on from the vote on that massive abuse.

Their evidence off it has not yet being brought forward.

So I think that Joe Biden wants to lower the temperature on, be patient and say to the rest of the world, we're back on the world stage.

Meanwhile, talking the world stage, Joe Biden made a phone call to Boris Johnson.

What was said, Yeah, I think that's really interesting.

I mean, look, we've got a readout from the British side and a readout from the American side, and a lot of it is blah, blah, blah.

The British are pleased that it was the first call to a European leader.

Special relationship box ticked.

They talked about defense.

They talked about NATO.

They talked about security.

But trade is the really interesting one on this is where it's worth a bit of textual analysis.

On the British side, it just said we talked about trade on the American readout.

It said.

We talked about trade on, reasserted our that the importance of the Good Friday agreement that is a warning shot to Britain about withdrawing from this withdrawal agreement and jeopardizing the Good Friday agreement that that might jeopardize any future U S u K trade deal.

On that is something toe watch with caution in the weeks and months ahead.

John Sable.

Thank you.