On Friday's broadcast of CNN's "The Lead," Franklin Foer, Staff Writer at The Atlantic and author of "The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future," discussed his reporting on President Joe Biden and stated that Biden "certainly trimmed his sails very early in his administration about getting kids back to school" during the coronavirus pandemic and did so in part to avoid conflict with American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten.