Frank Figluizzi: "In FBI terms, we're coming very close to having what the bureau calls 'a barricaded subject' - the barricaded subject is in the WH. What we saw the President-elect do today was right on the money with regard to initial negotiation w/ a barricaded subject...
...Here's why: We saw a very calm Joe Biden today. We saw him essentially shrugging off that he doesn't yet have the money or keys to open transition offices. He shrugged off he's not yet getting the classified briefing. That is exactly what you do in the initial stages...
Whoever's advising him is doing it right. You want to let that barricaded subject know that it's going to be OK - I'm going to listen to what you have to say. You can vent and vent and vent. You can call me names, and not acknowledge my authority outside the perimeter here...
and eventually in this case, there's going to be a time where Joe Biden calls the SWAT team. It may be a legal challenge to the GSA refusal, it may be that U.S. Marshals come take the president out, but as we say to a barricaded subject...
'we can do this the hard way or we can do this the easy way' but so far so good with the way Joe Biden is handling this."
But eventually we're going to get this done.