Axios Re:Cap

The Week America Changed: White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain on advising candidate Biden

During the week of March 9, 2020, Joe Biden effectively sewed up the Democratic presidential nomination. Behind the scenes, Ron Klain, who served as Ebola czar under President Obama, was advising Biden on what would become the election’s defining issue: COVID-19.
Klain joins Axios Re:Cap to discuss how he advised the future president, how he felt about decisions being made by President Trump, and what it was like to be outside of the White House looking in at the start of the crisis.
Plus, we revisit the race in Washington to save America’s economy.
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