factors for me, anderson, has just been the political incompetence of the administration. you have a president who s spent close to 50 years in washington making really basic mistakes, and ultimately the responsibility lies with the president himself. he s not going to go. but there should be a chief of staff who makes sure that some of these unforced errors never happen again. and i think the president has, frankly, been ill served by his chief of staff, ron klain. mr. kato kaelin by all accounts is a very loyal assistant, but just as george h.w. bush had jim baker and ronald reagan had howard baker, i think the president needs someone who s a peer figure. i suggested tom dashal, the former senate majority leader. but there are other senior democrats who come to mind. i remember when clinton was in trouble he got people like leon
going to be able to cut those deals because he s going to go out and try to make sure democrats don t have an avalanche of losses. what is the logistics or how his staff works? a lot of those people have been with him for a long time. it s benefitting that they know him well. they also then are beholden to him and are people speaking truth to power? i think that s brett s point and i think it s a very good one. these people are loyal to joe biden to a fault, and they ve been with him for decades and decades as evan knows. and i m sure they say, mr. president, maybe you ought to adjust this or adjust that. but he doesn t have any anybody to say to him that s just not going to work who s a peer. and that s because he s 79 years old. and maybe it s an old peer he suggested tom dashal, maybe it s
avalanche of losses. what is the logistics or how his staff works? a lot of those people have been with him for a long time. they also then are beholden to him and are people speaking truth to power? i think that s brett s point and i think it s a very good one. these people are loyal to joe biden to a fault, and they ve been with him for decades and decades as evan knows. and i m sure they say, mr. president, maybe you ought to adjust this or adjust that. but he doesn t have any anybody to say to him that s just not going to work who s a peer. and that s because he s 79 years old. and maybe it s an old peer he suggested tom dashal, maybe it s someone from the senate who he knew. but these are people he does trust, who do know him, but i think he s the leader. and i don t think they say no to
things around starting with a change of staff around the president. who do you think needs to go? well, one of the striking factors for me, anderson, has just been the political incompetence of the administration. you have a president who s spent close to 50 years in washington making really basic mistakes, and ultimately the responsibility lies with the president himself. he s not going to go. but there should be a chief of staff who makes sure that some of these unforced errors never happen again. and i think the president has, frankly, been ill served by his chief of staff, ron klain. he s by all accounts a very loyal assistant. just as george h.w. bush had jim baker and ronald reagan had howard baker, i think the president needs someone who s a peer figure. i suggested tom dashal, the former senate majority leader.
republicans that there might be enough that one or more confirmations doesn t get through? probably not. there is always the exception. there is always the chance that we learn something that we didn t expect. who would have thought that tom dashal who had been the democratic leader in the senate would sink as the nominee for treasury secretary because he had his own personal tax issue. you never know. probably the more likely scenario and more likely thing we will look for is how many democrats peel off from their party and support the president s nominees. i want to thank our panel tonight. more breaking news. the killer, terrorist who attacked on new year s eve still at large tonight as the man hunt intensifies. we are learning more about some of his victims and clues he left behind. before fibromyalgia, i was active. i was energetic. then the chronic, widespread pain drained my energy.