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let's start with jeff zients expected to soon take over as biden's cleave of staff. kely could know this or understand it. the chief of staff to any president is such a critical role, jeff, in the functioning of white house, the success of any president. what are you hearing about jeff zients in this new role. >> there is no doubt that the white house chief of staff has the best real estate outside of the oval office in the west wing because they convene many meetings in the corner of the west king, just steps away from the oval office and they really are the command center for everything that happens inside there. as this news was being reported by us over the weekend, i was thinking back to 2013 and that health care website back during the obama administration that broke down and did not allow the country, people to sign up for obamacare. jeff zients is the man who came in and essentially fixed that website. since then he's been known as mr. fix-it inside of the obama administration and earlier in the biden administration during the covid pandemic. so that is what h

so they're picking the covid czar, jeff zients. his greatest hits here. >> important strides in equity with the majority of booster shots going to people of color. this virus knows no borders and it's in our national interest to vaccinate the world. the bottom line, vaccinate requirements work for the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death. for your serves and your families and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm. >> tucker: so the guy is humiliating. turned out to be completely wrong. jeff zients had no background in medicine and he never apologized for it. he's now the white house chief of staff. what is interesting, jeff zients also got super rich. how did a guy like that get so rich? in just one year, 2020, zients made between 10 and $28 million in one year. the covid year. what? what happened? sean davis, ceo of the federalist joins with us possibly some answers. thanks for coming on. how are these people getting so rich? nobody ever asks that question. jeff zients has gotten richer than anybody.

jeff zients is in a different category. he's a management consultant, very successful, self-made one at that. and he's known for being well organized and handling complex operations. so i think one of his first big tests will be his handling of this investigation. but there's something else to focus on with jeff zients. and that is his experience with the economy and with budgeting. all the way back to the obama administration, giving economic advice, performance management, all these different roles and of course handling the vaccines. if there is a recession, a soft recession, economic recovery issues, jeff zients is going to be well poised as chief of staff to implement that sort of policy approach and response. and you know, even beyond the r-word, i just think the economy is going to be such a big issue. and he is just well positioned to deal with those issues, deficit reduction, we've talked about, the republicans are trying to force biden to make a deal in order to increase the debt limit. this is the sort of thing t

ron klain retweets a lot of things and jeff zients doesn't tweet at all. but when you're talking about the president shifting maybe from a policy-based first two years where both houses of congress were under democratic control, to a more antagonistic position in campaign focused position, i think this appointment is particularly significant. jeff zients also has a ton of economic experience that will come in handy, considering the big fights we talked about on this program before -- debt limit and government funding. you're bringing in somebody who is market fluent with both of those issues and guiding that response. i think that's another significant thing to be talking about. dani: i know biden has spoken about his meeting with mccarthy and essentially saying no changes to the debt limit and what republicans want to push off the table. thank you, derek, getting is caught up on all things d.c. in europe, germany and france pushing for huge spending increases at european businesses so they can compete with u.s. and chinese competitors. this after the infl

jeff zients is 90 million up to 442 million in assets. alth more than doubled since high first joined obama white house. >> i know it looks bad. i think jeff was a reported healthcare, guy before the administration. i personally know him, i had a lot of respect for him, i disagree with a lot of positions that came out. elizabeth: okay, dr. marty mckeri thank you for joining us. >> this story, outraging more parents. finding more schools high schools in virginia held back, their students scholarship merit awards, parents, are growing scared about the new drive in the high schools, punishing children who work hard, then try to call that fairness or justice. >> former president trump reportedly plans a return to twitter and facebook. "new york post" jon levine next on the "the evening edit." dad, we got this. we got this. we got this. we got this. life is for living. we got this. let's partner for all of it. edward jones after advil. let's dive in. but, what about your back? it's fine. before advil. advil, dual action bites, pain, two ways. a

president biden has a lot of faith in jeff zients. for the first part of the administration, was responsible for the largest expansion of an inoculation program in history. he looks at zients as someone he can rely on as klain focuses on the campaign. jeff zients, who is described as the ultimate firefighter by one of his predecessors, will focus on making sure the government keeps running as smoothly as possible. >> we will be watching for all of that. ken dilanian, peter baker, thank you so much. >>> california governor gavin newsom renews calls for gun reform after visiting. we will take you live to the scene of the shooting next. live scene of the shooting next any questions, chris? all good, thanks maura! there you go, one new inhaler! nice did you get my refill too? maybe [door bell] here you go, sir. you're a lifesaver. have a nice day. healthier is managing all your family's prescriptions in one app. cvs pharmacy. healthier happens together my a1c stayed here, it needed to be here. ray's a1c is down prescwith rybelsus®. app. i'

jeff zients recently led the covid response and acting director of office of management and budget andcouncil under president obama. joining us now, white house reporter for "the washington post," tyler pager. tyler, i know you, like me, had to work all weekend because of all this white house news. we appreciate you being with us this morning. let's -- a couple topics to hit. let's start with ron klain. tell us just how important he was for this white house which took office days after january 6 insurrection and height of the covid pandemic. >> absolutely. great to be with you this morning. you're right, he played a role in every decision the biden administration made over the past two years. i spoke with the person that wrote the book on chiefs of staff called "gate keepers." he ranked him among the best in modern history putting him on the same level as james baker and leon panetta, reagan and clinton respectively. some of their chiefs of staff. and ron klain, part of his skill as i talk to other people that worked with ron over the past few years, just the depth of experience that h

, will soon be stepping down after two years on the job to be replaced by the former covid czar jeff zients. norah. >> nancy cordes, thank you very much. >>> well, in tonight's weather, there are two significant winter storms keeping an eye on. the fers first is a dangerous storm that slammed new england with more than a foot of snow in some areas. the second storm could be more serious. stng houons areni o w obile,ba al s as eig states. people in arkansas, st. louis, indianapolis, and detroit could all get up to a half a foot of snow. new england could get hit again by this storm at the end of the week. hey, i just got a text from my sister. you remember rick, her neighbor? sure, he's the 76-year-old guy who still runs marathons, right? sadly, not anymore. wow. so sudden. um, we're not about to have the "we need life insurance" conversation again, are we? no, we're having the "we're getting coverage so we don't have to worry about it" conversation. so you're calling about the $9.95 a month plan -from colonial penn? -i am. we put it off long enough. we are getting that $9.95 plan, today. (j

jeff zients had no backgroundjef whatsoever in medicine. he had no idea what he was z talking about and he nevered apologized for it.r it >> so he's getting an upgradeff now, white house chief of staff. but what's interesting is that jeff zients alsos got super , a super rich. now, how did a guy like that jus get so rich ? wellt on, in just one year, 2020 zines made between ten and$2 twenty eight million dollars in one year in o, the covid year. what's what happened? , >> sean davis is ceo of the federalist. he joins us tonight with possibly some answers. sean, thanks s comino muchg foe on . richlways the story is ,le how are these people gettingha rich ? no one ever asket d that question. jeff zients has gotten richer, almosts gott anybody. how do you think that happened?' well, it's interesting. i think through the covid th i think especially through the covid thing, it was a story we saw that we all over the couy where i know it's cliche, but the rich get richer, the poorpo. zients get poorer and seems to have used much of his u career r

it's interesting that jeff sooins zients is taking over.ked 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 middle of the fourth batch of classified documents they found improperly stored by president biden and weeks ahead, potentially, of his official announcement to run for president again. >> it's not an easy job he's walking into by any means. the chief of staff job is famously tough. you're managing the west wing, also working so closely with the president. what we heard from sources is essentially he'll be focused more on the running government aspect. the political portfolio is going to fall to those other names that are senior staffers t

jeff zients coming on board. he solved the problem of the obamacare website and implementation.see a reset? >> i certainly hope so. as supportive as i am of president biden, he has been woefully inept in terms of dealing with the border. the fact he waited two years to go to the southern border is such glaring testimony to his indifference or his fear that if he went close to the problem it would be associated with the problem. there is a glimmer of hope. you did have senator cornyn and senator coombs in a senate visit to the border. they must get together. we need comprehensive immigration reform. we need to speed up the asylum process. all the people that were reported sneaking over that bridge this morning, the guatemalan most single men it looked to me or young adult men. they really have no right to remain under the current implementation that president biden is using. i think most of them will be deported. what do you do, for instance, dana, if you have an unaccompanied toddler? an 8-year-old crossing the bridge? what do you do then? you need humanitarian feelings, you nee

>> as jeff zients comes in, there is a potential reelection campaign for president biden noble the presidenttop brass there like anita dunn, who is expected oversee political elements. zients comes in as republicans are expected to launch investigations into the president and his family. a lot of democrats who have woed with him before say ty are confident in his ability to handle that. they credit him with working long hours with the team trying to, whether it is cell and development the infrastructure -- implement the infrastructure law, they think he will be able to shepherd those threw tw the finish line while handling investigations. geoff: let's talk about the documents investigation. the fbi found six more documents. how does that change the facts of the case? >> right now, the facts ultimately haven' changed. as you noted, there was a search of president biden's wilmington home and today, the spokesman for the council's office said this was an unprecedented offer that the presidents private attorneys made to the doj by allowing them to go into the president's private home and search

so now, the white house has not formally commented on this, but it is expected that jeff zients will replace ron klain and there is very little turnover among staff for president biden since he's taken office. this is quite a big development. >> arlette saenz, thanks so much. >>> all right. i want to go back to our stop story and natasha chen with this new development. natasha? >> reporter: well, fred, if we could show you some of the aerials from our affiliate locational station. what you're seeing is in torrance, california, what appears to be an ongoing police standoff. now torrance is about 30 miles southwest of where we are in monterey park. and we have this information from our colleague josh campbell where this standoff that you're looking at is believed to be associated with the investigation into this shooting that happened just a couple of blocks behind me. and that is from a law enforcement source telling our josh campbell. so this may be related and what you're seeing there are a lot of law enforcement vehicles surrounding what looks to be a white cargo van. why that is i

why ron klain is out and jeff zients is in. ♪ >>> all right. good monday morning to all of you.elcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i'm christine romans. officials in southern california last night identifying the gunman who killed ten people and wounded another ten at a ballroom in monterey park, that's east of downtown l.a. he is 72-year-old huu can tran. authorities say he died by suicide hours later after police stopped him at a shopping center 45 minutes away in torrance. >> when officers exited their patrol vehicle to contact the occupant, they heard one gunshot coming from within the van. our sheriffs s.w.a.t. team approached and cleared the van and determined the suspect sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene. >> l.a. sheriff robert luna says the shooter's motive is still under investigation. cnn's natasha chen is on the ground in monterey park with more. >> reporter: on sunday evening, on lunar new year, when this community was supposed to be celebrating, law enforcement gave a press conference conf

. >>> president biden is expected to name jeff zients as his next chief of staff. he is said to replace ron klain, with expected to lee post in the coming weeks. all this according to an administration official. he will take over the job at a critical moment as biden is caught in a controversy surrounding his handling of classified documents with the state of the union address fast approaching. >>> a live look at the gate bridge which now has the green light to complete a major upgrade. last month they won a $400 grant for the for the final phase of an earthquake retrofit project. tomorrow the white house invitation -- information pete buttigieg will be there. >>> a new apple release, new macbooks go on sale tuesday. the latest updates use apple's own chips. buyers will get the option of either the m2 pro or m2 mac chips. they make the computers work faster and the battery life last longer. the basic model starts at about $600 and the macbook starts at $2000. >>> remember a guy named jimmy garoppolo? these days it's all about brock purdy at quarterback for good rea

weekend marked by a potential change, a likely change in the administration with the news that jeff zients will become the new white house chief of staff -- chief of staff. two bytes president kamala harris -- two vice president kamala harris. this is the reporting from tallahassee, florida. the headline is can we truly be free? we will read some of that and just a bit and i want to play you the video from the administration released over the weekend and they texted this last night over the white house. this tweet, i should say. president biden and vice president kamala harris have gotten a lot done and they are just getting started. >> ok. what do you think? >> i think we are off to a great start. >> remember what has happened in our country and what motivated us is the resilience and the determination of the american people. i wish people could see what i see. i have been in the oval office with you when the cameras are there and what you have singularly done based on who you are and i meet this in -- mean this in all sincerity, to bring together nations and allies and you bring them tog

. >> reporter: and president biden is expected to name jeff zients his new chief of staff in the coming weeks that's according to an administration official and a person familiar with the decision recently led the white house's covid-19 response. ron klain is expected to depart some time after the president's state of the union address francis? >> brie jackson, thank you >>> family, friends and celebrities gathered at graceland on sunday to pay their final respects to lisa marie presley. nbc's priscil priscilla thompso more from memphis. >> reporter: songs of comfort. ♪ amazing grace ♪ for a family in mourning >> our heart is broken lisa, we all love you. >> reporter: the memorial service for lisa marie presley a moving tribute to elvis' only child. from axel rose to alanis morissette ♪ rest our souls ♪ >> reporter: sarah ferguson, the duchess of york reading a poem from presley's daughters. >> i live in the smiles, the moon,the stars and sky, and i feel eternal pride as i watch you all fly. >> reporter: and messages delivered through loved ones from lisa marie's daughters. >> thank you

will soon be stepping down after two years on the job, to be replaced by the former covid czar, jeff zients >> o'donnell: nancy cordes, thank you very much. well, in tonight's weather, there are two significant winter storms keeping an eye on. the first is a dangerous storm that slammed new england with more than a foot of snow in some areas. the second system could be even more serious as it sweeps across the country from the southern plains to the great lakes. forecasters are warning of strong tornadoes, from houston to new orleans, to mobile, alabama. to the north, winter weather alerts stretch across eight states. people in arkansas, st. louis, indianapolis, and detroit could all get up to a half a foot of snow. new england could get hit again by this storm at the end of the week. in the city of memphis, the family of tyre nichols was shown the police body-cam footage of his january 7 traffic stop that preceded his death. an attorney for the family said the video shows that the confrontation was violent and appalling. cbs's elise preston has more. >> all i heard my son say was "what did

white house chief of staff ron klain prepares to step down from his role over the next few weeks jeff zients, who led the administration's covid-19 response is expected to replace him as the next white house chief of staff >> okay, allie, thank you. >>> almost four years later, the auror aurora, colorado officers and medical officials charged in the 2019 death of a black man, elijah mcclain have pleaded not guilty mcclain, whose death received increased attention during black lives matters protests in 2020 died after he was placed in handcuffs by police and injected with the sedative ketamine each of the five defendants were charged of one count of manslaughter and one charge of criminally negligent homicide for their roles. the five will stand trial later this year. >>> jury selection begins in the murder trial of alex murdaugh. the once prominent lawyer is accused of murdering his wife and son in june of 2021. a prosecutor gave a possible motive for the crime, alleging that murdaugh had schemed and stolen around $.5 million from more than a dozen victims. the prosecutor suggested that he w

reporter: kate, that's right klain preparing to leave at this critical moment for the administration jeff zients, who led the administration's covid-19 response, is expected to be named the next white house chief of staff, ka >> all right ally, thank you. >>> coming up, damar hamlin's triumphant return the big surprise at the bills game today and the emotional moment when fans found out he was there >>> also the famous people who came to graceland today, their moving good-byes for lisa marie presley y, their moving good-byes for lisa marie presley. i always wanted to know more about my grandfather. he...was a hardworking man who came to new york from puerto rico when he was 17. with ancestry, being able to put the pieces of the puzzle together... ...it's amazing. it's honestly amazing. just between us, you know what's better than mopping? the last thing i want to do.as well, i switched to swiffer wetjet, and it's awesome. it's an all-in-one, so it's ready to go when i am. the cleaning solution actually breaks down dirt and grime. and the pad absorbs it deep inside, so it prevents streaks and haz

i just don't have anything to share. >> does the president think jeff zients would be a good chief oftaff? >> what about steve holland? ms. jean-pierre: steve holland, do you want to be chief of staff? i think i hear a name. someone just called you out as chief of staff material. >> so, this popped up on friday. when will speaker mccarthy visit president biden? ms. jean-pierre: so don't have a meeting to share at this --with all of you at this time. the president is looking forward to sitting down with speaker mccarthy to talk about an array of issues that -- and this is normal, right? during a new congress, it is normal for the president to sit down with the speaker to talk about how they can work together. you heard the president say this right after the midterms, how he wants to work in a bipartisan way with members of congress to continue to deliver on the successes that he has had this first two years in good faith. he wants to do this in good faith. so, once there's a meeting locked in, we certainly will share that with all of you. go ahead, phil. >> thanks, karine. on the debt

he'll be replaced by jeff zients, who was biden's first covid coordinator.just as important, we has a really big heart. the president writes when he was elected he knew he wanted ron to lead the white house staff, describing ron as tough, smart, determined, and persistent as anyone he has ever met. the president also commended klain for assembling the most diverse and talented white house team in history. president biden praised incoming chief of staff jeff zients for his work with the white house's covid response, which he calls a massive logistical undertaking of historic proportions as well as his previous work with the obama/biden administration. next week the white house will host an official transition event. jonathan lemire, just your thoughts on this and your insight. obviously through your contactings at the white house. but being a covid coordinator is a massive job, especially given what they were inheriting. >> yes. this was reported a week or so back, now official from the president of the united states. start with ron klain, who came to that jo

jeff zients, who was a cochair for the biden transition and has had several other senior roles here. and the timing, i will say, is just not that surprising. it is after the midterms, at the halfway point, and it's right when we are expecting the president to make that final decision and announcement about whether or not he'll seek re-election. this is when we would expect a lot of shake-up in the biden political world. >> maryalice parks with late reporting tonight, thank you. >>> we turn now to the war in ukraine and the mounting toll of dead and woundned. officials telling abc news russia suffered more than 150,000 casualties. meantime, heavy fighting continues to rage in the east. these recent images were released by a ukrainian unit near bakhmut. and tonight, new details on the former navy s.e.a.l. killed while fighting in ukraine. abc's matt gutman on the ground in kyiv. >> reporter: tonight, the staggering toll of putin's war coming into focus. u.s. officials now estimate that over 150,000 russian soldiers have been killed or wounded since the start of the war. many of those t

bloomberg has learned that president biden is set to name jeff zients as his next white house chief of staff. sources say he will claim ron who will stay on through bidens state of the union address on february 7. jeff was a cochair of bidens presidential transition. the leaders of france and germany are warning european businesses will need to unleash investments on a massive scale to keep up with others. they have met to discuss how they should respond to president biden's inflation reduction act which the block argues does not abide with international rules. and influential japanese politician has thrown his weight behind washington's widening campaign to contain china's chip ambitions. he is the main architect of the rolling efforts to elevate japan's semiconductor industry and told bloomberg that beijing is part of a group of nations seeking global hedge -- global hegemony and must be stopped. >> western nations should communicate which chips will pose a threat if exported. china itself is building its own supply chains and is policy is not to rely on other countries. what we are

biden's brain is leaving and his former covid czar jeff zients will replace him. guy that oversaw biden's dark winter of severe illness and death will be running the administration. god help us. zients is a champion ever vaccine mandates and covid boosters even though the latest variants don't show they work at all. the mandates made us left safe. my next guest is pushing to reinitate all of the military members who were fired from joe biden's vaccine mandate. texas senator ted cruz, please get them their jobs back and the back pay they deserve. >> amen. we had a victory last month when we repealed joe biden's abusive vaccine mandate in the military. joe biden fired thousands of soldiers and air men and marines and the coastguard. it was abusive and wrong. we forced biden to sign this into law. ed good news is that the mandate in the military is over going forward. the bad news is that we only repealed it prospectively. there are thousands of servicemen and women who fought for our country who joe biden and the democrats wrongfully fired. i introduced the american

. >> reporter: that is right sources tell nbc news that jeff zients is the new chief of staff. he led the white house covid-19 response team. he is expected to replace ron clain who is expected to leave after the president's state of the union address. >> brie jackson. thank you. good morning >>> we are just getting started on a busy monday the "r" word has been thrown around one big bank says the odds of recession this year are now lower than ever. >>> plus, first google and others and now spotify with the hiring headwinds playing into the earnings and later on with hedge fund history the big story you have to hear and you will only if you kp ren orwide exchange. ic - cover's “dreaming”] [music playing] ♪ imagine something of your very own. ♪ ♪ something you can have and hold. ♪ ♪ i'd build a road in gold just to have some dreaming, ♪ ♪ dreaming is free. ♪ accenture, let there be change. i screwed up. mhm. i got us t-mobile home internet. now cell phone users have priority over us. and your marriage survived that? you can almost feel the drag when people walk by with their pho

. >> steve: jeff zints in the spotlights overall what do you think about jeff zients?ow much about him so far because of the criticisms i like him. if only criticism is he wealthy, far off base. the more the left attacks him the more ordinary people might like him for proving he was obviously a death to business and so forth. >> todd: kellyanne had more incoming take on the incoming chief of staff. >> this white house doesn't need a manager. we need a leader. we need a president and vice president function. truth tellers that aren't lying to us every single day. jeff zints said if you are unvaccinated you will die or create other deaths. they are always den graghts and castigating lots of americans. >> >> todd: that's the right's criticism of him. didn't do a great job with covid what's your take. >> i agree with that look, covid was really botched. and i think they all have to answer for it. look, a chief of staff though is not the president. but he has the most to say about house of how white house runs. i served under two chief of staffs, they were very different. d

. >> the idea if you talk to folks inside the white house is put jeff zients in and the focus of othersn re-elected if he plans to run. you can't underestimate the departure of klain. we don't see presidents have aides with them at decades at a senior level. obviously ron klain is still in joe biden's ear. >> he said perhaps on the campaign. >> that day-to-day running the west wing and the white house and the administration for the president, the president's losing someone he knows very well and getting someone he doesn't know nearly as well but has faith. >> what the white house didn't really foresee is the documents issue that created a special counsel to contend with. it's created some real problems. we don't know how longstanding they will be. >> they are dealing with this and will. look. if you want to sort of unpack this plan is when a president is facing an investigation what you want to do is say the investigation's over there. over here i will go about the business of the american people. the success of that plan means you have to get it right on the execution side. he is in th

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so what happened is that jeff zients, who head of the transition and then head of the covid czar, was talking to a bunch of governors and elected officials around the country and he realized from them that there was no plan and that led him to work his team to say, we have to put a plan in place from scratch. so did that stall the plan? probably not. i think that they put together a very effective plan so that on january 20th memos went out and said, we're going to start these mass vaccination centers, we're going to fund distribution, we're going to get pharmacies to cooperate. it did delayed discovery of the fact that there was no plan. and then in other agencies like the united states trade representative for the department of defense, it impeded the cooperation between outgoing and the incoming so that it just was harder for the incoming officials to start to launch, to get organized once they took office, january 20th. yeah, you have an interesting chapter in the book you interview on january 19th, 2021. chris, who is a former business executive, i think he's australian or he's f

ron klain the president's chief of staff is going to be leaving and replaced by jeff zients who has a good reputation as a manager. an opportunity for reset when a new chief of staff comes in. do you think he would have a different approach on the documents or any other thing? you already hear rumors the left is wary of zients because he is not known as a progressive guy. maybe he is but not known for that. >> first of all ron klain presided over the worst two years of any presidency in my lifetime. think of the disasters he presided over. the worst inflation in 40 years, worst collapse in real wages in four decades, worst border crisis in american history, the worst crime wave since the 1990. the worst labor shortage in american history. this is the first major turnover since the election. this election was a couple months ago. if there had been a red wave not only would people be trying to push biden aside he would be cleaning up his white house to demonstrate he is changing course. instead it is basically he has asked what will you do differently? he says nothing. he will change hi

an official transition event or ron klain on the job two years and the incoming chief of staff jeff zientsy it with me, dana? >> dana: we think it's how it is pronounced. i want to hear him say it himself and we'll decide. >> bill: coming up next week. in the meantime you have this from 24 hours ago. watch here. [[inaudible] >> dana: prosecutors play the chilling 911 claims in the alex murdaugh double murder trial yesterday and the jury heard from first responders who described the graphic crime scene where his wife and son were killed. testimony is set to resume any minute now. let's get an update from jonathan serrie live at the southeast bureau in atlanta. hi. >> so far the witnesses called by the prosecution have been police and other first responders to arrive at the crime scene. alex murdaugh was visibly emotional in court yesterday as they played body cam recordings from investigators arriving at the 1700 acre family estate where the bodies of his wife and son were found fatally shot. in one recording you can hear murdaugh tell a sheriff's detective what he believed led to the shoot

reportedly to be jeff zients as democrats struggle to defend the president's document mess. >> embarrassedy the situation as he should have been. >> some distancing themselves from the president's defiant defense. >> i have no regrets. >> i think he should have a lot of regrets, yeah. >> the democrats stress the president is cooperating. republicans are skeptical. >> this has all the pattern of an influence peddling scheme. it also has the makings of a potential cover-up. >> is president biden involved in a cover-up? >> we have been very clear here from this administration, the president has been very clear that he takes this very seriously when it comes to the -- when it comes to classified information. >> this is the first time a sitting president has had a home searched by the fbi. and the press secretary insists president biden still does intend to run for president, run for re-election in 2024 but they do concede there is no precedent for somebody running for president after having the fbi search their most private quarters. bret? >> bret: the use of fbi agents to search the president

transition with white house chief of staff, to step down in the coming weeks and said to be replaced by jeff zientsand a veteran of -- across two administrations. designed to sharpen the administration's focus on its agenda. priorities outside the ongoing investigation. >> white house officials view that role for zients, whenever it is announced, and it is definitely separate and different from what is predecessor has essential. in part because the posture that they've had related to the investigation up until this point. zion's will very much be not involved in any way and that is intentional, but something that is designed to help the trains run on time, as one official told me. make sure the white house is focused on the day-to-day operations of the west wing and allowing the lawyers to handle the investigation that has no clear timeline and is still filled with uncertainty. it is the former that the president is most interested in, according to officials, and into the former that will help drive what will happen in the next couple of months in the minds of those officials who still very much be

jeff zients will take over. what more do you know? >> it's a significant change of guard.his first chief of staff as vice president for two years. this is the beginning of potentially a more significant staff turnover for a pretty stable senior staff at the white house. it's tied to the state of the union address as the president transitions into re-election mode. ron klain will stay close to the biden orbit and helping to advise that campaign when it launches. >> thank you. >>> next, more from monterey park as investigators search for answers in the deadly mass shooting there. what one local activist who is in town for lunar new year celebrations with family says about turning pain into action. n . to help take you from 9 to none. power through with vicks dayquil severe. kids are so expensive, dad. now katie needs braces. maybe try switching your car insurance to progressive. you could save hundreds. i don't know, dad. ♪♪ maybe try switching your car insurance to progressive. you could save hundreds. that's a great idea, tv dad. but i said the exact same thing. some day w

. >> we know that jeff zients is taking over, and that's a transition that will take place from now untilbruary 7th. we're hearing from the current chief of staff and president biden. ron klain in an e-mail to staff said he told the president late last year he was going to leave at this point in time saying it was always his expectation he would leave after two years. and talking about how proud he is of the work that this administration has done over this first two years in office. ask he said part of the doing this job is knowing when it's time to leave. now feels it's the right time. also noting that he would do whatever had he can to help president biden, if he chooses to run in 2024. as for president biden, he's thanking ron klain for his service. they have known each other for more than 30 years. the president praising jeff, the incoming chief of staff, this is a time where the current chief of staff needs to focus on implementing a lot of the laws the president signed during his first tu years in office. and the president saying that there will be a hint next week honoring the chie

kaitlan collins reported the chief of staff is going to be stepping down and going to be replaced by jeff zients. >> he's very well known in washington and also very well known in the building behind me. he was president biden's covid response coordinator when he first came into office when the pandemic was raging throughout the country. he was the co-chair of his transition team as well. before that he served in a number of high-ranking positions inside the obama administration. ron klain is obviously a powerful chief of staff and has his hands in everything that comes across the president's desk, across the administration. his departure is significant, someone who has known and worked with the president for decades and has been integral to the operations in the building. it was something that was telegraphed, telling people for several months he expected to leave at the start of the year. zients will take over, and while he may not be the political operator, white house officials make clear it's his operations ability and what he's known for in terms of keeping the trains running on time they

he is set to be replaced by the former covid czar jeff zients. >> harris: any word why he is exiting stage left? >> no, just burned out from two years of -- it is a big job and most folks don't last two years but it is -- is there any such thing as a coincidence? i don't know. >> harris: there is always interesting timing. >> saturday night do you release something you want people to know about like the f.b.i. search? >> harris: not unless it's the lottery numbers and you won. for all the liberals who wanted to play the former president trump has classified documents two card it's becoming more complicated with the searching and finding of materials at multiple locations and the possibility that search will deepen. >> do you fear that because of that, the current president has kind of lost the high ground on this notion of classified information being where it shouldn't be? >> well, of course. let's be honest about it. when that information is found, it diminishes the stature of any person who is in possession of it because it's not supposed to happen. whether it was the fault of the

today the washington post is reporting jeff zients will be come president biden's new chief of staff.s the report that ron klain is stepping down from the role in the coming weeks. now, cnn's helped oversee the white house's coronavirus response. what do you foresee will be his top priority in these new positions? >> oh, i can't say. ron claims certainly was someone who was masterful at holding the democratic coalition together and making progressives feel heard and included and integrating some of the priorities into what was often a more centrist agenda. i don't think we know whether the new chief of staff represents a change in direction by the administration or just a change in personality. >> rick, as we do the show tonight we focus on two stories. tragic mass shooting in california and the 50th anniversary of roe versus wade. i can't help but think about the fact that on both issues, modern-day republican party is out of step with most americans on both issues. polling suggests a majority of americans support at least some form of legal abortion and also some form of gun restric

and jeff zients, though former covid czar as ron klain's replacement. >> steve: rehoboth, maybe theyarch. they looked at wilmington and found stuff there. you mention he's going to camp david next weekend. the president can have those kind of things at camp david as he can the white house so they wouldn't search those come over they? >> you know, that is a good question. it is unclear but i will say about the rehoboth situation, in previous statements we have gotten from the president's personal attorney, remember, they were doing these searches up until the last search on friday. they said there was nothing found in the rehoboth home here they have gone through that place. if the justice department does go there and tries to go over their work, that would be a no dbe a newdevelopment. when did the protocol shift because before was an understanding of the biden could do the searches. they found something from a stop looking and went to the doj. but in this case the justice department investigators, and the fbi went in and found things themselves. >> s>> brian: thank you so much, jack

the washington post reporting with the biden administration's former covid response corner nader, jeff zientsef of staff when ron klain, believes. he will replace klain, who's gonna depart from the role after serving for two years. but first the clock is ticking. the united states debt limit officially being reached, they're now relying on quote, extraordinary measures from the treasury department to make sure the governments bills are paid. that'll only last until june. rather than using the normal -- to codify the drastic spending cuts, there after, many house republicans who are using the full, faith of credit of united states as a bargaining chip. with the threat of economic calamity looming large. they're refusing to consider raising the debt limit until the white house agrees to their terms. but the biden administration, isn't playing along. they say raising the debt ceiling is not negotiable. joining me now to discuss is a member of president biden's council economic advisers, heather boucher, heather, welcome to you right now. i want to start with this negotiate, won't negotiate, kevi

the former covid czar jeff zients, and this new change in direction comes as an nbc poll finds that 71%le believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction. what else does the biden team think they can do to turn things around? get busy. look at the schedule. later on today going to be in baltimore for an infrastructure event. tomorrow, up in new york city for another infrastructure event and a dnc fundraiser. wednesday he is going to have the competition council come to the white house. also meet with speaker mccarthy who wants to talk debt kreiger and then on thursday the national prayer breakfast with the vice president and on friday president tweeted my word as a biden have never been more optimistic about the future than i am today. do events outs of town and together. they usually leave at least one of them behind to tend to the business of the country. and it is particularly interesting because president biden's announcement about re-election or not is expected to come as soon as february, which starts in two days. back to you. >> brian: kind of unique also, peter, noteworthy t