his departure could happen in the coming weeks and marks a rare and significant turnover for the biden administration. the news comes at a time when the president is dealing with classified document controversy, and questions about his 2024 ambitions. let s get right to cnn s she joins us from delaware where president biden spending the weekend. here we go, some saturday news for us from the biden white house, what can you tell us? yes jim, pretty big news, as we have learned that white house chief of staff, ron klain, is expected to the part his post in the coming weeks. sources said that the transition is expected to happen after the save the union address, which is currently set for february 7th. really, this comes as there has been very little turnover amongst president biden s most senior staff. ron klain of courses within that inner circle of advisers that has been with president biden since he joined the white house, and has worked for biden before in the obama adm
with tensions and among the democratic party in congress whether it be with congressional negotiations over legislation or what have you the white house stands has always been to send top white house staffers, whether it be senior adviser steve machete, whether it be louisa terrell as well to the hill, and at least publicly say that biden would take a step back. this has got to be something to watch, though, because, as you noted this involves one of the one of the issues one of the things in that being judicial appointments at the white house has celebrated for the past six months, so it will be something to watch something you can still get done in divided government. now that the republicans control the house, you just need senate confirmation of judicial picks. just look at these numbers. 119 biden federalench confirmed by e senate so far, only one approved by the judiciary committee to get it to the senate floor since fine size, but also it puts that process at hole where a week o
replacements for the chief of staff. that could include of steve machete, a longtime counselor and adviser to president biden, also jeffrey zion who served as the covid-19 response coordinator in the first few years of the biden white house. there s also anita dunn, and two cabinet secretaries who might be in the mix. tom vilsack, as well as marty walsh. so far, the replacement has not been identified. it is something that they are working towards. but this will mark a very significant shift in the leadership of the white house as he is said to the part in the coming weeks. all right, thank you very much. we are going to talk about this as larry sabato, the director of the center for politics at the university of virginia. larry, good to see you, thank you so much. you know larry, we usually see some turnover at the white house after the midterms, the president sometimes one fresh legs heading into the second half of that first term. but biden and klain are very close. this departure
asia and the cause of change in china. in his last year in office, clinton made expanding the chinese economy one of his most important priorities. to do that he appointed a lobbyist called steve machete and put him in charge of the project. fast forward to today, china has been a member of the world trade organization for 20 years. steve has written an even higher in democratic politics and is a top white house aide to joe biden. as for china, it has changed as bill clinton promised it would. china is now the richest country in the world, police state is far more efficient authoritarian even then it was under chairman mao. china is a much larger threat in united states and its neighbors, as far from peace in asia as we have been since 1945. the american manufacturing sector is gone, evaporated, most products are made in china theater maybe you seen the pictures of cargo ships strung out into the pacific, struggling to get to a port to unload
the outer power party to be able to take control of the house for sure and the house likely but eventually the senate and they re basically just saying they re not gonna get reelected on the basis of what we ve delivered and we re doing this based on how we can scare the voters and how democrats are managing the economy. we have a report tonight saying that the bipartisan group has basically handed over the negotiations tonight to rob portman basically went on with steve machete and you couldn t ask for more experienced and steve machete in a situation like this to deliver this deal. those to people if there s going to be a deal it might be the ones who come up on it. yeah i saw that lawrence and while i agree with machete, the problem i see and my initial reaction is that that does not leave any republicans with the