going forward, and it s noting that the special counsel isn t technically up and running yet. this has a number of steps to go and is very much a live process. we learned yesterday you and kaitlan collins reported the chief of staff is going to be stepping down and going to be replaced by jeff zients. he s very well known in washington and also very well known in the building behind me. he was president biden s covid response coordinator when he first came into office when the pandemic was raging throughout the country. he was the co-chair of his transition team as well. before that he served in a number of high-ranking positions inside the obama administration. ron klain is obviously a powerful chief of staff and has his hands in everything that comes across the president s desk, across the administration. his departure is significant, someone who has known and worked with the president for decades and has been integral to the operations in the building. it was something
criticizes him. he thinks this is going to help absolve trump from being prosecuted because of what the justice department is facing, the question of how they handle two presidents who took classified information when they left office. i think it s put democrats in a position saying the white house was not careful about this, the biden white house. one of the suggestions you hear from house republicans who are looking into all of this, and obviously there s a political dimension to what they re saying, but there are people in biden s family, hunter and his brother jimmy, and his other brother, i think, frank, these are people who have lots of business deals and businesses with other countries and businesses with the federal government, and the question of were they ever in that garage, were they ever in that room, i mean, those aren t ridiculous questions. no, those are very fair questions. in fact, jake, i think this highlights one of the key questions, which is what is in
telegraphed, telling people for several months he expected to leave at the start of the year. zients will take over, and while he may not be the political operator, white house officials make clear it s his operations ability and what he s known for in terms of keeping the trains running on time they view as so critical in this moment, where president biden will be dealing with house republicans and dealing with the implementation of all of the cornerstone legislative achievements of his first two years, in part as this investigation with the spoecial counsel is ongoing. this is trying to keep the white house separate from the investigation and keep things running on time, very much in line, as the investigation and the president s legal team keep handling what is an uncertain timeline going forward. thank you so much. here to discuss, cnn anchor and correspondent kaitlan collins and ellie honig. merrick garland addressed the biden document investigation and the trump document inve
going forward, and it s noting that the special counsel isn t technically up and running yet. this has a number of steps to go and is very much a live process. we learned yesterday you and kaitlan collins reported the chief of staff is going to be stepping down and going to be replaced by jeff zients. he s very well known in washington and also very well known in the building behind me. he was president biden s covid response coordinator when he first came into office when the pandemic was raging throughout the country. he was the co-chair of his transition team as well. before that he served in a number of high-ranking positions inside the obama administration. ron klain is obviously a powerful chief of staff and has his hands in everything that comes across the president s desk, across the administration. his departure is significant, someone who has known and worked with the president for decades and has been integral to the operations in the building. it was something that was
the department has a set of norms and practices, and part of our dna, the attorney general, the first post water-gate attorney general, these are essential for us to continue and ensure that we adhere to the rule of law. these mean, among other things, that we do not have different rules for democrats or republicans. do you think that is how the trump and biden teams see this, that there are not separate rules for democrats and republicans, everyone is being treated the same way? the white house thinks they shouldn t be treated the same way because they ve handled it differently in the sense that they re cooperating. trump thinks he s being treated unfairly because there wasn t a search warrant on biden s property. we did see the fbi search his property for the 13-hour search. it was in coordination with biden s attorneys but there were fbi agents searching the president s home. what was so fascinating there to me about attorney general garland is invoking ed leavy,