klain for ron klain's very first job in politics, and he wrote this note to ron klain. "to the best campaign manager in ed markey's or anyone else's 1984 senate campaign. there is no one else i would have wanted running those final ten days in september." of course if the final ten days of your campaign are in september, that means you lost in the democratic primary. joining us now, the first person in history to lose a campaign run by ron klain, senator ed markey of massachusetts. senator, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> well, actually, to clarify, i didn't run. and so the reality was that if i had the final days, ron klain would have been the perfect person, but unfortunately, i decided i would rather be the chairman of the energy and environment committee in the house of representatives. so i did not run in 1984, although ron klain was my legislative staff director and brilliant at it, and the campaign manager for the race that i decided not to complete. >> that's the kind of campaign that i could run, the one that you don't actually run in. that would

i am joined by white house chief of staff ron klain to discuss what is ahead for the biden agenda. thank you so much for joining us. for those tuning into the livestream, you can follow the conversation on twitter using #litter co. playbook -- politico playbook. good morning. thank you for doing this. ron: thanks for having me. ryan: the american jobs plan has been detailed. there is a lot in it. let's start with how you move this thing through congress. i see sort of three elements of opposition already forming. you have people in the house on the left who want to go bigger. we have democrats in the middle who want certain things in this package like state and local tax deduction returns. and then of course you have republicans not very enthusiastic about the tax hikes , the corporate tax hikes in the plan. can you take us through those three groups and give us a little about you massage that opposition? ron: i start with the fact that as the politico morning poll showed yesterday, this plan starts off with enormous support among the american public. support among all groups, all

. >> white house chief of staff ron klain spoke about president biden's agenda with politico playbook chief washington correspondent, ryan liz this conversation is 20 minutes. za. ryan: good morning, everyone. i am the co-author of political playbook and chief washington correspondent at politico. the washington administration is full ahead with the vaccination timeline, the deployment of $2 trillion in pandemic relief at a multi trillion dollar infrastructure plan detailed by president biden yesterday in pittsburgh. the white house is also dealing with a rising number of migrants at the u.s. mexico border, the aftermath of back to back mass shootings and a looming showdown over the senate filibuster. i am joined by white house chief of staff ron klain to discuss what is ahead for the biden agenda. thank you so much for joining us. for those tuning into the livestream, you can follow the conversation on twitter using #litter co. playbook -- politico playbook. good morning. thank you for doing this. ron: thanks for having me. ryan: the american jobs plan has been detailed. there is a l

what ron klain was referring to there is an ongoing review. a policy and legal review. >> democrats laid the ground work for huge debt forgiveness with a provision in the coronavirus relief bill formerly any debt cancellation was seen as income by the irs. student loan debt forgiveness is now tax free. progressives are pushing biden to go big framing it as a matter of racial justice. pointing to black students historically borrowing at higher rates and struggling more with repayment. harris. >> harris: jackie, thank you very much. georgia governor brian kemp is going after former opponent stacy abrams. georgia businesses could lose millions through boycotts. abrams is now trying to walk it all back. when it comes to autism, finding the right words can be tough. finding understanding doesn't have to be. together, we can create a kinder, more inclusive world for the millions of people on the autism spectrum. go to autismspeaks.org we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so

afternoon i'm clear r ron klain to discuss what's ahead on the biden agenda. for those of you on-line, follow on twitter #politico playbook and tweet us at politico live. ron, thank you for doing this. >> thanks for having me, ryan. >> the american jobs plan has been detailed. there's a lot in it. let's start with how you move this thing through congress. i see three elements of opposition already forming. you have people in the house on the left who want to go bigger. you have people, democrats in the middle who want certain things in this package like state and local tax deduction returns, and then of course, you have republicans, most of the ones who have spoken up so far, not very enthusiastic about the tax hikes, the corporate tax hikes. can you get us through those and how you massage that opposition? >> well, look, i think, first of all, you know, i start with the fact that as politico morning consulting poll showed yesterday. it starts off with enormous support from the american people. two to one support, all groups, all sectors, overwhelming support

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ron klain, white house chief of staff, tweeted out the front page, "america, let's go win the future," klain wrote. let's go win the future, america. what does that future look like? this plan, whatever its merits,e will not make your commuteoo easier. only about 5% of that 2 trillion will actually go to roads and bridges, so 5% on infrastructure, 95% on social engineering. that is what joe biden calls a once in a lifetime infrastructure bill.gi he is right about part of it, it is once-in-a-lifetime, if it passes, this generational live in a very different country. before we tell you what is in. the bill, one word about who is going to pay for. we only need one word, the word is you. taxes are going up to radically, speak with the federal reserve funds them. when federal officials want something, they print money. they've been doing this for years, and it's accelerating. there is no actual reason to raise taxes anymore for anything. joe biden wants to raise taxes to punish you, and he plans to do that. if the administration is calling for a tax increase of about $3 trillion over ten y

you know, listening to ron klain there, and i get the political messaging of this. they've got to present, hey, this president is doing what he promised to do, try to work in a bipartisan fashion, but i've got to tell you, from, you know, my day job down at the other end of pennsylvania avenue, the ship has already sailed and capitol hill. i don't see any way raising corporate taxes, raising taxes on individuals, that they get any support from republicans at all, and are going to have to do this alone. what's your take? >> well, i agree with that, kasie, but there's also one other thing. there's folks like joe manchin. the joe manchin rule, do what i want or you don't get anything you want. what we're seeing here, he will only vote for something if it has buy-in from republicans and tax increase os. there's one vote that's going to be tough to get. it's one thing getting -- it's one thing getting something through during a pandemic. it's another thing on infrastructure. so you have to make sure, yes, the president has to make sure he has all 50 votes to go reconcili

klain, now the white house chief of staff. and kasie, who's two interesting twists on the j.d. advance likely run for rob portman's seat. one is that he's become a big voice against big tech. and of course, has rise has been viral and he's done very online. so big tech has actually been an important tool of his. and second, he's trying to be trumpy and trying to attack west coast billionaires. but of course, he's supported by one of those billionaires and got to know them well when he was working in venture capital. this is someone with an authentic american story that broke through with americans in a way that few sort of on the ground books have it was one of the first ways that the people tried to understand the trump phenomenon of the struggling areas that went big pro-trump and in the blind spot of so much of the media. >> axios' mike allen, thank you very much for being up early with us today. we really appreciate it. and we have woken up this morning to yet another mass shooting in america. it also happens to be the sam

so i don't think a call from ron klain or jen psaki would necessarily have the fox news talking heads change their messaging. one thing i did find interesting about tucker carlson's monologue last night was that that it illustrated they're still having trouble landing a direct hit on the biden administration. this -- this message came hours before biden himself steps out at the white house and said, you don't have to wear a mask outside anymore. it would almost make more sense if he was doing this in the face of news that biden is continues to insist on mask wearing. in fact, you know, if tucker carlson wants less mask wearing, he could amplify the president's message today, but he's turning it into a culture war. it doesn't match up with the facts comes out of the cdc and the government, which are actually saying something that he doesn't disagree with this this time. >> that's the irony of the whole thing, frank. that's why we covering it as disinformation. we're no longer having different takes on the news of the day. it's straight-up disinformation. annie karni knew, and surely tu

is it ron klain, susan rice, barack obama behind the scenes offering our lease advice? are there any serious journalis left who will do some real investigating to get answers to these questions but sadly these serious issues surrounding the president of the united states, the mob and the media trying to find lucrative ways to spread lies about republicans. look at for example fake news fraud cbs, 60 minutes, still refusing to retract and apologize for the now debunked fake news conspiracy theory hit piece against the florida governor ron desantis which, you know, use nothing but lies to falsely suggest that the state of florida cut a secret exclusive deal with publics on vaccines. that never happened. as the state of florida never paid publix a single penny. there was no pay to play for anybody. for the record, publix is a huge chain and they've given money and justiv as much money to republicans and democrats, including democratic virginia senator mark warner, and tim kaine.in now the good news is income of florida democrats are now calling out cbs for their outright l

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klain this past week. take a listen to what he had to say about that. >> we want to move forward if at all possible on a bipartisan basis. i think there's some hope for that. in the end let me be clear. the president was elected to do a job. part of that job was to get this country ready to win the future. that's what he's going to do. we know it has bipartisan support in the country so we'll try our best to get bipartisan support here in washington. >> so bipartisan support in the country but maybe not on capitol hill. what does that really look like when it comes to actually getting a bill like this passed? >> first of all, it looks like i haven't moved or changed since thursday when i did that interview. >> you haven't aged a day from thursday. >> i have left this stool. well, reading between the lines of that interview, they're not defining victory as bipartisanship. they are really driven by the lesson of 2009 when arguably barack obama did define victory by bipartisanship and he had to because he did

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klain the chief of staff are trying to run through. that's not the reality either. they are desperately seeking some sort of approach here that can chisel away at biden's popularity. >> what evidence is there that it would work? this was tried during the campaign. they tried to paint joe biden as a crazy liberal. this was tried during the campaign where the russians and the trump campaign tried to paint joe biden as not mentally competent. and he still won. so, why would this work now? >> yeah. and i'm glad you noted, there are two things here at play, right, john? it is sort of the notion oh he's this old out of touch guy. so other people have to be in charge. and it's the and other people are in charge that are going to be so much more extreme and liberal than joe biden presents himself to be. they're trying both in this one line of attack. to your point, john, i've seen no evidence yet that it's working. obviously we lived in -- we live in very polarized times. and there's some benefit that animates the republican base with these li

klain seeing if there's some deal that they can make on infrastructure. so kasie, one idea they're floating is in a first package to draw those ten republican senators votes, could you limit it to traditional infrastructure, what republicans have been wanting, roads, bridges, airports, and leave out other packages. there's room for a deal and these talks go beyond last time which was more photo op or media in the oval office. these seem to be real conversations. >> if there they're worth keeping secret, that makes some sense to me, mike. do you know if there's a time line on these talks? i think there's some democrats on the hill who don't want to drag this out? are there setting memorial day deadline, end of summer deadline to see if they can get these people on board? >> no, kasie, you're also hearing that they hope to do it this summer. a little bit this is flash back to the obama administration when they realized that when things drag out too long, if you get past labor day, then suddenly you're in next year, then you're suddenly in the mid terms. so,

here is a ron klain on where the white house may be going next with this. >> he asked his secretary of education who has just been on the job a few weeks, once he got on the job to have his department prepare a memo on the presidents legal authority. hopefully we will see that in the next few weeks. then he will look at that legal authority in the policy issues around that and make a decision. and >> sandra: so president biden has said that he would rather congress act on this then go it a moment. but that word cancel culture triggers evil. >> it does trigger me because that's not what cancel means. cancel is proof, it goes away. but that's not what happens. somebody pays for it and that person that pays for it had nothing to do with it so it enforces someone who had nothing to do with it to pay for it. there's all these arguments, the economic boon for the economy and last year they released a report that said, it will have 90 billion to the economy but it will cost 9.7 trillion so that doesn't make mathematically. >> sandra: is also that idea of personal accountability, personal resp

he lets ron klain, chief of staff, susan rice, domestic policy advisor, take the reins and watch it happen. stuart: what bugs me more than anything, pete this is popular. any government which showers the population with bread and circuses, money, you just chuck it out there by the trillion you are going to be popular. people like what they think is free. that popularity may push some of the more important parts of this plan beyond congress, through congress, and that truly worries me pete. >> amen. the radicals there are willing. trust me they want to find a reason to get rid of the filibuster. they're eager to do structural transformative change. bolstered, stuart, by the most dangerous aspect in our body politic, our culture today, the complete take over of the classroom which transform ad generation of youth to believe there is such a thing as a free lunch. they're owed this. america is structurally injust. when that is the fertile ground you sinned free money into, please give me more of it, defund the police, keep my borders open. it's a dangerous moment because the grandparents allow

they don't want people like jen psaki or ron klain or the president or the vice president leading this campaign. they want it to be people who don't seem to have a political agenda, folks like david was just saying, out in the community and friends and family, but also celebrities who are not a part of our daily political conversation, and the other thing interesting that we're seeing biden officials talk about is a focus on tone. they don't want to create an impression that they're belittling people who are hesitant to take the vaccine or making them feel stupid for not wanting to take the vaccine. rather, they want health officials to be open and sympathetic to the concerns that people out there might have about the vaccine. to be ready to answer questions no matter what they are, no matter how silly they might seem to the experts, but to not make people feel bad about having those concerns and then try to meet them in the middle somehow to persuade them to switch sides. they realize they're not going to get to everybody, but they need to try to get to 85% or 90% of the country in or

they're dealing with ron klain, the white house chief of staff, when they meet, but they have the ear of the president. and joe biden, president joe biden is different than candidate joe biden. we've talked about that a lot on a number of different fronts. but they have definitively decided that they want to be a transformational administration when it comes to these progressive items. so the progressive caucus has a lot more power than it ever did. it was always kind of a small player up on capitol hill. now because of the white houses' acceptance, more moderate democrats are saying, hey, i need to get into this, and they're having a lot of sway. steve: if joe biden gets his way and he does pass this $2 trillion infrastructure program, they're going to have to pay for it. and one way is to raise taxes. i know you're involved in a new series available on fox nation called the unauthorized history of taxes. you, you talked to a guy by the name of scott hodge. he's an economist, right? >> exactly. the tax policy, yes. and he's really great as far as knowing the history. and one of the t

klain running the country or is susan rice running the country because she is head of domestic policy it. doesn't look like any one of them are taking the lead or hiding it well. joe concha, thanks so much. >> good to see you, brian have. a good one. brian: you got it. straight ahead a california teach berates students after their parents push for in person learning. i'll pause. >> just dare them to come at me because i am so sick to my stomach of parents trying to tell educators how to do their job. brian: we will have reaction from a parent in a nearby district who calls the remarks disgusting. it could mean a chance to live longer. opdivo plus yervoy is for adults newly diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread, tests positive for pd-l1, and does not have an abnormal egfr or alk gene. it is the only fda-approved combination of two immunotherapies. opdivo plus yervoy equals a chance for more starry nights. more sparkly days. more sunny mornings. opdivo and yervoy can cause your immune system to harm healthy parts of your body during and after treatment. these problem