WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is naming Ron Klain, a former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden and a trusted adviser at the Obama White House, as the point man on the U.S. government's response to the Ebola crisis. Obama has
CHRIS WALLACE: I want to start with the lead story in "The New York Times" on Saturday. Put this headline up, if you will. The headline, "Amid assurances on Ebola, Obama is said to seethe." I haven't seen the word "seethe" in a headline a long time.
WH inside hack Ron Klain (no MD/health care exp) is new Ebola Czar @IndependentsFBN @TheFive https://t.co/QTKTelSmcp pic.twitter.com/7Yw7FNb95d. — Kenner (@Pwdrskir) October 17, 2014. Proud to have been the
After critics accused the federal government of mishandling the first cases of Ebola diagnosed stateside, President Obama named Ron Klain, a former aide to Vice President Biden, as the government's Ebola response coordinator on Friday. In his new role,
Ron Klain was one of the senior White House officials who had been made aware that solar power company Solyndra was having severe financial problems.