One of the significant picks of Biden is nominating retired Army General Lloyd Austin to lead the world's largest and powerful defense mechanism - The Pentagon.

Former President Barack Obama said, "History will rightly remember today's violence at the Capitol, incited by a sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about the outcome of a lawful election".

The 768-page memoir will be released on November 17 and it revolves around Obama's childhood and political rise, his historic 2008 campaign, and his first four years in the White House.