Will Team Biden repeat the mistakes of the Obama 2008 transition?
Reed Hundt, author of A Crisis Wasted: Barack Obama's Defining Decisions, sits down with Guido to figure out how and why the Obama administration made critical, Presidency-defining mistakes during the 2008 Presidential transition. Obama staffers on Team Biden are experiencing déjà vu as they navigate the current Presidential transition amidst another economic crisis; Guido asks Reed whether he's optimistic about Biden’s team avoiding the mistakes of the 2008 transition. Then, in the group chat, Waleed Shahid and Amira Hassan, Justice Democrats Political Director and Spokesperson, return to discuss the left’s demands for Biden’s team and evaluate the confirmed picks for Biden’s cabinet so far, before attempting to take certain men and the bad policies they supported in the 1990s and put them outside the Democratic Party’s tent.
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