she is also going to be on another top committee. so she got some really great committee assignments and she is going to be probably one of the most outspoken and most visible voices in the republican party heading into this plethora of investigations. i do want to bring you a piece of news. nbc news has learned white house chief of staff staff ron mcclain s gonna be stepping down in the coming weeks. much talked about, now confirmation. do you have a sense that how that might impact negotiations like the debt ceiling? ron mcclain was somebody who stayed in close touch with capitol hill, with congressional leaders, with even rank and file members of college congress. i hear of people getting phone calls throughout the week. he was definitely a force in the white house, somebody who had the presidents trust, who had the trust and relationships on capitol hill.
manufacturing, bring so many jobs and spur tech manufacturing industries. to do stuff for veterans, the pack, to take care of veterans we ve proven that we can make this work with republicans in the house and senate. obviously, we will have to find ways to do the same. the president has also proven that he is going to stand his ground, and he was very clear on that today. if you wind up with a republican majority in the house, we re going to try to find areas of common ground to work with, and the president is not going to agree to cut social security and medicare. he obviously vetoed any efforts to ban abortion or anything like that. we re going to try to work with him where we can. we ll draw the lines or the lines seem to be drawn. ron, it s chris hayes here, and i wanted to ask you a question specifically about the over performance of democratic incumbent members of the house in frontline districts. you look at how democrats overperformed the fundamentals, that was really where
and they ran on the agenda. this is not a mid term where endangered members of the house and senate ran away from them at the president on. this is a mid term where they ran on with the president on. we gave them a substantial record, to use that record, i think that s why we won a lot of these closing combat races in both the house and senate. ron, it s alex wagner, congratulations on what is a seemingly victory for the president, even though the outcome is not finalized, but i know the feeling is good. i do wonder, the president said today, as he gets back from the asia trip, he will be inviting republican and democratic leaders to the white house to talk about the road ahead. who specifically in the republican party to some republican president feel he can speak with and work with on an agenda. look, he has worked with senator mcconnell on issues. obviously, there are white differences. senator mcconnell worked hard against things, but senator mcconnell did help us pass the in
i will give you a second to wait for those votes to expect any minute. we will policy for a second, if you don t mind. we ll speak with bryce house chief of staff ron klain. welcome back to you, expecting the votes are here. joining us now is white house chief of staff ron mcclain, thank you for making time. thanks for having me. first, let me start by apologizing for treating you like an interruption to steve kornacki, as white house chief of staff, i know that this is a i apologize, but also it s an honor to go on before or after steve kornacki, as he counts votes, it s a rare honor, either way. we all feel the exact same way, but we don t work in the white house. i wanted to ask you what it has been like today at the white house? how the president views these results. obviously, we saw him speak on his own behalf today it is on prescott fronts, but i wanted to ask how you are feeling,
chips act. he provided republican votes for the veterans legislation, and we will try to find more partners in the house. we did have a number of house republicans vote with us on key legislation, so, we ve been through this for two years, there is no one here that is naive about the challenges of divided government or closely divided government, or 50/50 government in the senate. we ve been through it. but we have been able to deliver results. those results are making the country and the economy is stronger. we will try to keep that up in the next two years. ron, other plans for the white house to try to help raphael warnock over the finish line and what we now know will be a december six runoff between him in herschel worker? rachel, we ll do whatever senator warnock wants us to do in terms of events or fund raising. we ll do employ all resources thunder. i feel optimistic about that runoff. i think senator warnock has done an incredible job.