One is struck, Anderson, by the fact that, over the last few months, as this pressure has come from the outside to shake up his staff, change his policies, which are just as important as changing personnel, how much resistance there has been.
Gergen reflects on the resistance from the White House to calls for change amid declining popularity.
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I think the signs are just as Margaret says. They are saying that he is increasingly interested. Strikingly, Anderson, his interest seems to intensify when he sees Biden in trouble.
Maintaining the status quo with regard to the filibuster is unacceptable for him.
It's very, very big. Not legally, but politically, it's a very, very big deal.
If he had a receptive audience, and I will tell you, when everything -- when all the facts were to come out, it would be like Nixon and the tapes.
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