Of staff s management style compared to, of course, ron klain, who, before, was the chief of staff and spent a lot of his time in one-on-one meetings with biden, a lot of his time on the hill discussing policies and negotiations with house democrats and republicans. now, zients is taking a different management style. he s inviting more people into meetings than were previously invited, meaning more officials are getting in front of the president. that s leading to quicker and better decision making. as you know well, there have been a couple stumbles under zients time already. officials feeling left out on the crime bill and new things as he is continuing his tenure. i was definitely up at 4:30 in the morning, but i was main lining coffee at that moment. alexi, house republicans could,
For the same either sloppy or intentional mishandling of documents. we need an electronic system and i don t know how you make that secure. that s the big challenge. our thanks again to charlie dent and caroline heldman for their analysis. u.s. president joe biden has picked a replacement for outgoing chief of staff ron klain. sources tell cnn he s expected to fill that role and being described as a master implementer. zients also served in the obama administration. klain is expected to step down in the coming weeks but a source says he ll remain close to the west wing. still to come this group of volunteers put themselves in danger to help civilians near the front line of ukraine. plus many afghans endure a
Come into the white house should there be turnover. so far we ve seen little turnover within the administration. president biden landed on zients because it became clear that ron klain favored him. it comes at a criminal period with what the president is trying to implement. one thing will be implementing laws that president biden got passed on capitol hill and when you talk to people at the white house, sources, zients is known as a man to get things done. back in 2013 he was brought in to fix the obamacare web launch. but this is a criminal time for president biden as he faces the special counsel. always a difficult job but more so now.
Of staff is going to be leaving and replaced by jeff zients who has a good reputation as a manager. an opportunity for reset when a new chief of staff comes in. do you think he would have a different approach on the documents or any other thing? you already hear rumors the left is wary of zients because he is not known as a progressive guy. maybe he is but not known for that. first of all ron klain presided over the worst two years of any presidency in my lifetime. think of the disasters he presided over. the worst inflation in 40 years, worst collapse in real wages in four decades, worst border crisis in american history, the worst crime wave since the 1990. the worst labor shortage in american history. this is the first major turnover since the election.
Clark, is expected to appear in court after she was arrested during a protest in boston. riley dowel is facing several charges including assault after an officer was injured. police say they found her defacing the parkland bandstand monument. in a tweet the congresswoman is weighing in, addressing the arrest saying, quote, i love riley and this is a very difficult time in this cycle of joy and pain in parenting. this will be evaluated by the legal system and i am confident in that process. this morning we re learning about the man who is set to replace ron klain as white house chief of staff. president biden selected jeff zients who led the coronavirus response effort. this is what kaitlan did all day yesterday. i was texting you as i was reading it. it s fascinating because they re different. biden and zients are different. they manage differently, but this is his topic. very impressed by how he handled covid? really entering because jeff
Has people in place to do the yauch outreach to the hill. even low zients will do a lot of that. did a lot of it as covid coordinator. no question about it, but the fact the president is choosing somebody who is part of his comfort zone and not thinking outside the box so to speak tells you a lot about that. about that he is thinking about the campaign ahead. he wants to have the white house well run so he can focus his other people on the campaign. something else that struck me, too, how quickly they moved on this and didn t give anyone else an opportunity to wage a public campaign. made their decision. and somebodiy trust minding the store when you re out presumably on the campaign trail. up next, squeeze and shame. report on a white house strategy. carried by president biden.
Staff according to sources familiar with the matter. it s important. ron klain instrumental in every element of the white house over the course of the last two years, but al uso underscores, efforts to run president biden s covid-19 response operation, held several roles in the obama administration as well. and given the moment the white house finds itself in, look at the president s agenda implementation at this point in time. passed a lot of those bills, now laws. want to get them in play when zients come into play. keeping train running on time. not ak the investigation so much making sure the west wing, operations of the day-to-day white house are separate from what the president s lawyers, what the white house counsel office is working on and why zients was selected. in part with house republicans in their majority, very much on the attack, too. something they are cognizant of as well and the driving force of this in a very critical moment for the president as he weighs
Ukrainians would collapse in three, four, five days. nobody would believe that at the end of the year we would be talking and this is where the arrows would be pointing. in a really dramatic historic way, donny. yeah, not only just putin. it really shows it under earth and took the embers close off russia as far as not being the superpower. certainly it is a third world country in so many ways. as you, said if they were choosing up sides in the beginning it s inhibiting, on ukraine to russia, it would be a no-brainer. zelenskyy has been so pitch perfect in the way he s handled the media. this also goes back to joe biden and nato. adam bring about this out of time with his brand. the nato coalition that he put together. but, zelenskyy was time aga zients made of the year rightfully so. putin is a damaged hurt brand. i don t know what his exit ramp is, but zelenskyy is an international hero, and i think time augustine has it completely right. well, still ahead on the special edition of brand of brandaun, donnek gives us the trends for some of the biggest
Also when you think about senior citizens with only two doses, many of them got that second dose like a year ago. and we know that antibodies wane over just, say, four, five, six months. if it s been a year ago, there s real concern that those seniors who have not gotten a third shot really could be quite vulnerable. victor, alisyn. elizabeth, also there s this shuffle. jeff zientz is stepping down, going to be replaced by our friend, ashish jha. why is this happening? it s being framed as the pandemic has moved into a new phase. when mr. zients started his job it was really operational. he was trying to get hundreds of millions of americans vaccinated. i know it seems like a decade ago but it was only a year ago we were doing stories about this huge undertaking. things have changed now, that s
Thing because it s not just the school community, it s the community at large, it s the professors and the kids who are going home to potentially vulnerable parents. that s why i think they re doing what they re doing now. i wonder if, as you were saying, individuals will have to take responsibility and decide their own risk. i mean, we re two years in, and schools are necessary, college is necessary, but when we re talking about elementary and high school, the kids need to be in school, so the parents can work, so society continues to function. is there going to be come a point where it s about, if you feel you re at risk, you re going to take yourself out but not everybody is going to be forced to go home? you know, today at the white house briefing, a reporter asked this of the group. and they answer things very indirectly, right? zients said we re not going to close things down anymore but