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Ron Klain

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Ron Klain is an American lawyer and political advisor who served as the White House Chief of Staff under President Joe Biden from January 2021 to February 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, Klain has had a long career in public service, including roles in various administrations and as a key advisor on significant policy issues. He is known for his expertise in crisis management and has played a pivotal role in handling major events during his tenure in government.

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Nov 15, 2021

The decision to bring these charges against Mr. Bannon was made exclusively by the Justice Department. The President had nothing to do with it. We have an independent Justice Department that makes decisions about prosecution and specific…

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Nov 15, 2021

Senator McConnell was indeed quite helpful in getting this bill passed, because he saw what a number of his Republican colleagues saw, which is this bill wasn`t liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican. It was common sense. It`s…

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Nov 15, 2021

President Biden did. He brought Democrats and Republicans together. He had over 100 meetings in the Oval Office over the past few months with Democrats and Republicans, to put this bill together and build the support to pass this bill.

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Nov 14, 2021

President gave no direction to the Justice Department, and taking its action.

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Nov 14, 2021

Seventeen Nobel Prize winning economists have said it will ease inflationary pressures.

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Nov 14, 2021

There's no vice president I've seen this gotten off to a faster start than Vice President Harris.

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Nov 14, 2021

I'm not going to speak for him. What I know is he has played a key role in advising us and talking to the President many times about the framework for the Build Back Better Bill.

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Nov 14, 2021

We pass this bill not to change polls, but to change the country.

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Nov 14, 2021

I think the bill we signed is one step on combating inflation.

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Nov 10, 2021

Tuesday was about voters saying they want more.

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Nov 9, 2021

A lot of credit goes to those 13 Republicans who did sign up and did support the infrastructure bill. But, look, it's just not healthy. Infrastructure should not be a partisan issue. But there isn't really a Democratic or Republican…

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Aug 31, 2021

I don`t think anytime soon. I don`t know if we will ever recognize their government.

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Aug 9, 2021

We need to put requirements on people to get vaccine. That's how we're going to get this behind us.

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Aug 9, 2021

If Governor DeSantis is not prepared to fight COVID, he should at least get out of the way of the educators who want to keep their kids safe.

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Aug 9, 2021

What is inappropriate is the Governor of Florida, trying to prevent local educators, local officials from keeping kids safe.

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Aug 9, 2021

Well, I think today's win is a great one, as you said, Anderson. People in Washington have been trying to do this for decades, trying to find a way to pass a large infrastructure bill to make these investments that are long overdue in our…

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May 10, 2021

I don’t think it’s big government to fix the ten bridges in this country, the most economically significant.

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May 7, 2021

We have 10 million people who a year into this still don’t have jobs. We have in this country food lines that are miles long. It’s long past time for this country to step up and do what we need to do to help those people who are hurting.

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May 3, 2021

Well, no, Anderson, I think it's an achievable goal. It's a stretch goal, but it's an achievable goal.

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May 3, 2021

We're going to work with people in both parties who want to work with President Biden, on addressing the country's problems.

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May 3, 2021

I absolutely agree that people need to accept the fact that there was an election in America, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won that election.

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May 3, 2021

Our goal, as you noted, Anderson is to get to 70 percent of the country with one shot, 160 million Americans fully vaccinated by July 4th.

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May 1, 2021

Really, manufacturing is the biggest problem.

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Apr 29, 2021

It`s for anything the president is going to propose in this term. And it`s very specifically, Lawrence, for the two plans he laid before the Congress last night, the American Families Plan and the American Jobs Plan.

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Apr 29, 2021

I have respect for Senator Scott and look forward to working with him on police reform and other issues. But on this issue of the economic policy, he`s just wrong.

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