In the first clip of his interview with CNN, Biden said he spoke with Dr. Anthony Fauci Thursday afternoon, asking him to stay on in his role -- where he's served under several presidents.

"I asked him to be a chief medical adviser for me as well, and be part of the COVID team," Biden said.

The president-elect also weighed in on whether he'd take a COVID-19 vaccine and allow the public to view the process, saying he'd be "happy to do that," after Fauci says a vaccine is safe.

"When Dr. Fauci says we have a vaccine, that is safe, that's the moment in which I will stand before the public," Biden said.

"People have lost faith in the ability of the vaccine to work. Already the numbers are really staggeringly low. And it matters what a president and vice president do," he added.

-ABC News' Molly Nagle and John Verhovek

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced that his office has launched an investigation into Florida attorney Bill Price after he attempted to register to vote "fraudulently" in the state of Georgia ahead of Senate runoffs.

"Those who move to Georgia just to vote in the Senate runoffs with no intention of staying are committing a felony that is punishable with jailtime and hefty fines. They will be found, they will be investigated, and they will be punished," Raffensperger said in a statement Thursday.

ABC's Atlanta affiliate WSB reported Wednesday night on the Florida attorney giving a speech earlier this month before members of the Bay County Republican Party. He said he would be moving to his brother's address in Hiram, Georgia, register to vote and then encouraged other Republicans to try to game the system as well, including by registering at his brother's address too.

The speech was recorded in a now-deleted Facebook Live video, but WSB reporter Nicole Carr recorded the stream shortly before it was deleted. According to WSB, the speech was given about a half an hour after the election was called by the networks for Biden on Nov. 7.

Raffensperger had previously launched investigations into several voting rights groups -- the most prominent being the New Georgia Project -- asserting they've been trying to register ineligible voters to vote in Georgia for the runoff.

He, and other state Republican officials, have repeatedly warned that it's a felony to register to vote in Georgia if the voter is not intending to establish residency, threatening investigations and prosecutions for anyone who attempts to break the law to register to vote in the runoff.

Monday is the deadline to register to vote in Georgia for the Jan. 5. runoff -- races which will determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.

-ABC News' Quinn Scanlan

White House communications director Alyssa Farah resigned from her role Thursday.

Her last day is Friday, ABC News has confirmed.

Farah had previously served as press secretary for both the vice president and the secretary of defense before her current position. The Washington Post was the first to report the news.

The White House released a statement Thursday evening from Farah who said she is leaving "to pursue new opportunities." The statement makes no mention of the presidential election.

-ABC News' John Santucci and Benjamin Siegel

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Thursday against hearing the Trump campaign’s recount appeal on procedural grounds, ruling that the campaign needed to first try to resolve its dispute with election officials in circuit court.

The court voted 4-3 against the campaign’s request, with a more moderate justice siding with three more liberal members of the court and three conservative justices dissenting. The majority agreed with the argument presented by the Democrats that Wisconsin law clearly requires any recount appeal go through the lower court first.

The Trump campaign sought and received a recount in two Wisconsin counties after losing the Nov. 3 election to Biden by over 20,000 votes. After paying $3 million for the recounting process, Biden's lead wound up growing by 87 votes.

In one of the dissenting opinions, Justice Rebecca Bradley said by declining to intervene, the court was “undermining the public's confidence in the integrity of Wisconsin's electoral processes not only during this election, but in every future election.”

Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, called the ruling a "good decision," adding that he was "amazed that it was not unanimous."

-ABC News' Cheyenne Haslett and Soo Rin Kim