On today’s show: The Wall Street Journal’s Vivian Salama shares what we know so far about who will be in Trump’s Cabinet. 

Jake Bittle of Grist outlines five important issues to track at the COP29 climate conference this year.

CNN’s Betsy Klein explains how President Biden is racing to Trump-proof his legacy. 

Plus, a New York judge is set to decide today whether the president-elect’s 34-count conviction for falsifying business records can stand. Maryland posthumously declared abolitionist Harriet Tubman a one-star general for her role in the Union Army. And the complicated story of lab monkeys that escaped from a research facility. 

Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.