Ron Klain: “I think it was important for the president-elect to address this directly tonight, to talk about the challenges to our…”

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…

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.

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.

The Republicans have said if they get control of the Congress, what they are going to do is repeal the President's plan to let Medicare negotiate for the price of prescription drugs.