Ron Klain: “Five years ago I wrote a piece where I said that Congress should amend the Stafford Act to add epidemics as a disaster…”

I think the polls do show a very, very close midterm election as a whole. I think on inflation, look, prices are high and the President is working to bring them down.

So I don't think rallies have proved effective for candidates in the midterms. And so we're trying something different that we think will be effective.

He views them as very responsible efforts to get to the bottom of a real threat to our democracy. So the hearings Congress is holding, I think is part of what should be a national reexamination of whether or not this country is dedicated…

We have a better chance than ever to defeat Donald Trump this fall and to elect an experienced, talented, intelligent president to lead the country for the next four years.