From Washington: President Biden's Pick For New Chief Of Staff

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🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week, President Biden confirmed the news that Jeff Zients will replace Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff. Zients, an entrepreneur, formerly served as President Biden's Covid-19 response coordinator. Klain's departure from the White House comes as the President faces political headwinds over classified documents, a looming debt crisis, and a potential re-election campaign in 2024. Former Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush and FOX News Contributor, Karl Rove explains why the Chief of Staff's role is so critical to the administration and discusses the challenges Zients may face within the role. He also takes a look back at Klain's career in office and looks ahead at potential Democratic challengers in the 2024 presidential election. Following their holiday travel meltdown, Southwest Airlines was met with criticism from angry travelers whose plans were disrupted by the mass flight cancellations. The chaos has led to a shift in attention toward an alternative mode of transportation: high-speed railways. President and CEO of Eno Center for Transportation and Brookings Metro Non-Resident Senior Fellow Robert Puentes discusses the current state of rail across the country, how the airline industry has lobbied against rail projects in the past, and why there's public demand for more competition within the transportation sector today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Saturday, January 28th, 2023, I'm Kevin Cork, a change at the White House
0:40.0	that could both retool and reinvigorate the Biden agenda.
0:44.0	I think Klein made a decision.
0:47.0	2023 is about setting up the presidential reelect in 24
0:51.0	and relentlessly depicting Republicans as MAGA extremists.
0:55.0	And design I think is smart enough to say,
0:58.0	you know what, we are better off focusing on governing
1:01.0	and getting whatever bipartisan cooperation we can in 2023.
1:05.0	I'm Ryan Schmelz.
1:07.0	After airline cancellations rocked the United States over the holidays,
1:11.0	some are calling for more competition when it comes to transportation,
1:14.0	but those pushing for more rail options are running into their own set of issues.
1:19.0	The challenge they're going to face right now is making a system
1:22.0	that people actually want to take because it gets you to where you want to go.
1:26.0	It's not clear it's what it's doing right now.
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