zients doesn t have deep political experience. he s a businessman, former consultant. he was brought in to help when biden first took office manage the covid response. he was seen as this master implementer, as people described him, in the west wing. taking over for ron klain who has been in the job for quite a long time. two years is a very long time to be chief of staff. it s a very tough job and really demanding. it s interesting that jeff sooins zients is taking over. one, he was picked by ron klain for the talent sf, not necessarily for the chief of staff job. they thought there would be a lot of turnover after the midterms and thought democrats weren t going to do well. he was looking for more senior staff, cabinet officials. they didn t have the turnover they thought they were going to happen. he was conducting the search. it didn t really materialize. ron klain is the most significant departure. what about the moment, the
pandemic. it shows the democrats weren t concerned about wasteful spending. we know there are hundreds of billions of dollars wasted in the unemployment insurance and stimulus funds and ppp loan funds. no one is taking that seriously and no one is held accountable. we ll look into that. bill: james comer the republican from kentucky. thanks. thank you. dana: apparent flip-flop on remote learning from the leader of the largest teachers union drawing ire. what aft president randi weingarten is now saying and some people are crying foul. how are folks in their 40s supposed to dress and look? iconic movie is sparking a heated debate among today s youth. sharp dressed man jimmy failla is here to weigh in.
indefinitely. if so it was just a matter of grinding people down, making concessions, and as kim was just suggesting bringing over most of those 20 the holdouts. 20 holdouts. once it got down to about 7, it was clear kevin mccarthy would, indeed, be the speaker of the house. paul: in the last congress, nancy pelosi had the exact same size majority, and yet she was able to and she had some people who weren t thrilled with her after democrats lost seats in 2020, but she was able to become speaker without the dissent. mccarthy gained seats this time, didn t lose 14 like she had, and yet he had so much trouble. what s the difference between the republican and democratic coalitions? well, part of it might be a difference of ideology. when you re a democrat and the goal is to get programs funded, it s easy enough to add more programs into the bill whereas some of these conservatives want spending cuts which are unpopular with even some of their conservative colleagues. some of it might
the concessions he made, and we ll talk about those. but just actually unifying again. it was gracious, it was welcoming to the new members who had to wait a long time, and it made an overture to the democrats, and that s smart of him because he may end up needing their help at a certain point given the slim majority and the cracks in his own coalition. paul: yeah. if he can t get 218 from republicans, he s going to have to reach out to jeffries, will he not, kim? yes, absolutely. and this was good let me say, too, jeffries was gracious in handing over the gavel. i m sure democrats weren t thrilled to be there all that time, they kind of gloried in the republican chaos. but it was a good start and, again, he s going to have a lot of work to do getting people back together in his party. if he had stepped up there and looked unhappy or willing to punish someone, that would have been a bad start. paul: all right. when we come back, with the speaker fight behind them, republicans look
shifting. her main point there was that she was willing or perhaps happy to say the democrats weren t going to do anything to help kevin mccarthy. i think that s true. as joe walsh said the other night who s a conservative republican talk show host and a former congressman, mccarthy has no core. so the truth is he d be a lousy speaker and that s the one thing those nut jobs have right. so i think the interesting thing would be are there four patriotic republicans who are in moderate districts who don t want another year like the one they just had in the election when biden is on the ticket and probably leading the ticket, that will be a much stronger