In this power vacuum, as Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank and Harry Reid and other Democrats in Congress speak up and take the lead, and he is sort of is standing away from it, there's going to be a sense that maybe we elected a new -- the Democrats to lead the country, not Barack Obama.
Gergen warns that if Obama does not assert his leadership, it may undermine his authority.
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This represents a very professional, thoughtful, first set of steps by Joe Biden.
I think there ought to be a delegation of Republicans like Mitch McConnell who ought to be talking to the President.
I think what we're seeing is the Aguero story just underscores how vital it is that we have a National Commission to investigate what happened on January 6th, and we cleared the air on it.
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