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Mar 2022
22m 30s

Ron Klain

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Ron Klain, White House chief of staff, talks about the war in Ukraine, President Joe Biden's economic agenda, and what it's like working in the White House every day. He's on "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations." This was recorded March 2 for an Economic Club of Washington, D.C. event.

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