Ron Klain

But first we have to get through our cold open, the Ebola press conference written by Colin Jost and Rob Klein.

Of course, this is that we open with our traditional C-SPAN opening, and we're about to meet the Ebola czar, Ron Klain.

And I just love the words Ebola czar.

What a fun thing.

On the day he clinched the nomination, she told New York's members of Congress on a conference call that she was open to the job.

His campaign manager, David Plouffe, wants her off the list.

His chief strategist, David Axelrod, agrees with him, but Obama keeps bringing her up.

She has a lot of what he's looking for, he says, smarts, discipline, and steadfastness.

She tells her supporters that they weren't able to shatter the highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, but thanks to them, it has about 18 million cracks in it.

On June 16th, Obama's campaign hires a chief of staff for a running mate it hasn't picked yet.

The job goes to Patti Solis Doyle, the campaign manager Clinton fired in February.

Clinton supporters read that hire as a sign that she's not gonna be asked because the two women haven't spoken since.

Well, see, I mean-

Ron Klain was his chief of staff.

Yeah.

The groups got to him.

And then the president gets interviewed a-about it as he's boarding a plane and says, like, "Everybody should be concerned," and off he is on his plane.

And Ron Klain, who was the chief of staff [chuckles] back, back then, like, e-emails you, prepared, like, a couple of talking points that apparently were not used, going like, you know, basically like, you know, "What's going on with the messaging here?" Like, "Can you fix this?"

Yeah, the, the phrase, I'll never forget it, was all capitalized with a number, was, "Since when did our message become everyone should be concerned about," at that time it was called monkeypox, and there were a number of exclamations and question marks after the end of that.

[laughs] My mom had come up to visit us.

According to documents released Monday by the White House, the surveillance which took place under President Biden was part of a secret probe entitled Plasmic Echo.

I will just say to state the obvious, if this were a surveillance by the Trump Justice Department of Barack Obama, of Ron Klain, I would think that would be a front page story everywhere.

I would too.

Larry, does the Post have it right as far as you know? Are those facts correct? Did they tap Susie Weil's phone?

But he ran in a big way the auto pen and his president of Center for American Progress near Tandon signed off with the auto pen.

No chain of custody for for seeing that it came from Joe Biden to any of the auto pen signers has been asked for, at least released to the American people so that we know that it wasn't the Donalons and it wasn't Zeitz and it wasn't Klain and it wasn't Blinken and it wasn't Neera Tanden.

It was somehow a brain dead or something else.

Biden, because there's no chain of custody, but just want to make it very clear, Neera Tanden and the rest of them signed over $300 billion to John Podesta in 2022 as the climate czar, okay? And that money went to six NGOs, and it's still not been audited, and I believe what is happening in our country right now is it funded that.

One is sometimes the solution is to do nothing.

And in, in the class that I teach on the American presidency, I asked Ron Klain, who was Biden's Chief of Staff, and Josh Bolten, who was, uh, Bush 43's Chief of Staff, "Is do nothing an option? How often is it an option for a president?" And they said, "It's always an option." So if do nothing is the best option, then let's do it.

And o- on that point, too, for those people who think that Donald Trump can never do anything right- You should be glad that nothing happened, because you probably wouldn't have liked whatever deal they came up with.

I mean-