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questions about his 2024 ambitions. let's get to cnn's arlette saenz. she joins us from delaware where president biden is spending the weekend. what more do we know? >> reporter: well, jim, this will mark a significant shift in the leadership at the white house as cnn has confirmed chief of staff ron klain is expected to step down from his post in the coming week. sources saying that that is expected to happen after the "state of the union" address set for february 7th, but klain would stay on for a transition period as they work toward his replacement. now this comes as klain has st...

Concrete structure from sea to sea. These are steel barriers in high priority locations. Cnns ryan nobles joins us live in washington. The president calls this a common sense compromise that both parties should embrace. His words, but democrats began rejected it, even before he spoke. Nancy pelosi calling this a nonstarter, did trump say anything in his speech to change their minds . It doesnt seem like it, at least not at first blush, democrats rejecting this idea from President Trump. What this appears to be is an effort by republicans to put the ball back in the democrats court, in exchange...

I didnt need to do this, id rather do it much faster. I didnt really need to do th this. Calling this an abuse of power. Nancy pelosi saying, if you dont need to declare an emergency, then its not one. Legal challenges to the declaration have already been filed and the president made some early predictions as to how those challenges would fare in court. We will have a National Emergency. And we will then be sued. And they will sue us in the ninth circuit. Even though it shouldnt be there. And we will possibly get a bad ruling. And then well get another bad ruling. And then well end up in the s...

We have cnn correspondents all over the world and all over this right now. Nick robertson is in riyadh. Natasha chen is standing by and admiral john kirby. Let me start with you. This has become a global investigation. Tell us what more we know about the shooter, what this Intelligence Group has found. Reporter well, this intelligence seems to indicate, if correct, that he tweeted out what is effectively a will in about the 15 minutes or so before he went on this shooting rampage. So what it seems to indicate, and i say seems because weve really dont have all of this confirmed yet, although we...

Bad behavior from my point of view. >> all right. charlie dent, keith boyken, go ahead, keith, final word there? >> i was going to say i wish charlie -- maybe you can tell some of the republican moderates in the house to actually use their power. because they have just as much leverage as the freedom caucus members do. why won't they stand up and put pressure on kevin mccarthy so they can get not only committee assignments but also influence the direction of the party and the caucus. that's what i'd like to see. >> some of them are already on good committees, some of those more moderate, pragm...