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donors in the northeast. the president and first lady arrived and the hamptons earlier today for two fundraisers with the goal to reassure his financial backers that he is up for this race and can still win in november. cnn white house correspondent arlette saenz is here with more our let what was the president's private message to donors tonight will allison, president biden has done held to fundraise for today in the hamptons where he was really trying to reassure these donors that his candidacy is on track. >> now, according to the reporters who were in the room, the president's acknowledged that he didn't have a great night on the debate stage, but neither did trump. and he went on to say that he thinks voters are going to have a different reaction to the debate. of course, we will be seen in the days and weeks to come how exactly voters are feeling about the president's performance. but there is anxiety within the democratic party and particularly plea with, among some high dollar

donors about whether president biden has a viable path forward in this race. you see the president attending these fundraisers. he had another one yesterday here in new york city. he's about to travel to red bank, new jersey for another event with governor phil murphy and his advisers behind the scenes have been fielding calls from anxious donors after this debate. now one thing that biden campaign has been trying to tout are some bright spots in the fundraising in the 48 hours around this debates, the biden campaign earlier today had announced that they raised more than 27 million between thursday and friday. but there will be questions going forward. word about what his fundraising will look like down the road at the same time this afternoon, at the top campaign officials, top officials at the democratic national committee held a call with dnc members, one that was described as a pretty standard call, but it was one where they acknowledged his the president's of poor debate performance then then tried to essentially rally the troops laying out what the dnc,

the democrats organization looks like a heading into this november elections. so president biden, a really at this moment is attempting to have some type of reset. you saw that yesterday in the campaign rally in north carolina, where he came out with a much more fiery and in impassioned speech, you see that in these meetings are private meetings with these democratic donors as he's trying to pitch them once again on his candidacy. but there will be questions still going forward about what comes next. the campaign has been insisted that the president is remaining in this race, even among some democratic anxiety, they say that he plans to debate donald trump if there is another matchup in september on the debate stage and so far there have been no signs showing that the president is backing down from this rate despite some of the anxiety within his own party okay. i'll let science thank you very much for that reporting here with me now, we have republican strategist and former rnc communications director doug hi and democratic

strategists, former special assistant to president biden and convention consultant for the dnc, meghan haze. okay. megan, let me he start with you. so the dnc on that conference call well, forget the conference call for a second. behind the scenes. is their talk of perhaps tapping somebody from the fairly deep democratic bench? that could possibly take the place of president biden in november? >> no, absolutely not. i mean, the president has to drop out himself. people went to the ballot and cast their vote for him during the primaries they're now pledged delegates to him. so there is no way that we can have a broker convention that anyone else is going to take the place. and let's the president decides himself to step out. there is no behind the scenes movement with the party to do that. that's up to the president and he's not going to do that one more question. >> meghan, what about polls? what i mean we haven't seen the polls any polls yet since the debate. what if the polls show a real weakening of support? >> look, i was on the campaign

in 2020. we can't live or die by the poles. we would have done that what he would never be the president right now, he would've dropped out listening to those pools the president is a resilient human. he's a resilient man. he knows that he is an underdog now he knows he had a bad performance. he knows that he needs to spend the next hundred and something de is proving to the american people that he can do the job for the next four years. and i think that he will do that. i would accept i would expect the polls to have a little dip in them and then he needs to bring them back up. this is this is just how campaigns seasons go. there's four months left, but the president knows that he has a work to do to earn the trust of the american people doug, what do you think? >> well, alison, look you're from new jersey. i was born in red bank, new jersey where president biden is going later today, i applaud anybody going to count bases, hometown. but what we saw the other night wasn't a bad night and i mentioned new jersey because i want to talk about frank sinatra for a moment. i saw frank sinatra about four times in his career. and each time he got older and older. and what we would see with sinatra towards the end of his career was one minute, come fly with

me was going great and a few songs later, he couldn't remember the words to my way. and this happened more and more as he got older, joe biden as an age where he ages faster in a job where you age faster than any other. so we can't just attribute to this one bad night for joe biden because this was what everybody was looking for. and that's a problem for biden. the other thing i would say allison is as somebody who spoke out very forcefully and very frequently against donald trump in 2016. i've noticed that a lot of the democrats, especially on capitol hill on friday, who repeatedly said, when would paul ryan speak out when we john bain or speak out, they always use that word. they were mum, they ran from cameras. they didn't have comments. they essentially acted like republicans who said, i didn't see the tweets about donald trump. and i'll tell you, it cost me a lot of money he to say what i said about donald trump no regrets democrats right now are hiding from what their true feelings are because they don't want across the king. and i get it. if you come for the king, your best get them, but they are not in a good situation right now, and their silence tells you

that megan, what about that what about the idea that many democrats, but whether it'd be elected officials, whether it just be voters feel that that wasn't just a bad debate performance. they feel that it telegraphs something more worrisome about president biden look into. >> i just wanted to address that as point here really quick the former president barack obama's came out and said it would people have bad debate. so there are the stewards of the democratic party, the people who are the leaders of this party who have spoken out. it's not just present, former president obama. i just want to point out that people are not the democratic party is not running from this climber and spoke out like a lot of people have been in supporting president biden here, that he should say on the ballot. so i just want to address that, that people are not running like they did from trump, but i do think the president has to reaffirm to the american people that he is fit to do the job and he needs to spend the next hundred 30 days or 129 days? doing that. he did. i mean, it was a bad night for him and he needs to prove that north carolina was not an anomaly that he didn't come out strong

the next day. that is who he is. and he mean, i would assume that the campaign knows that they need to be doing that. they are going to work very hard. you saw him today? he was it's done well yesterday. he's been fundraisers today, so i just you know, i do think there is worked to do, but this is something that i think that joe biden is used to in his career of being the underdog and being able to prove to people that he will get back. we'll get up when kicked down so i'm inductor that point as meghan was just saying, you know, president obama said that you can have a bad debate night pennsylvania senator john fetterman are calling on democrats to quote chill the f out. >> and so is it possible that what they're saying is that the next day he looked vibrant by the way. i'd friday at a rally, he is color was better, his voice was stronger. he looked vibrant. is it possible that democrats are panicking prematurely? well, i always did better on tests when i had notes with me and certainly did better at basketball games when i was in a home crowd where they were cheering for me and that's what we saw with biden. >> yeah. he's going to have some good days, but he's also

having increasingly bad days and they're confirming what voters are feeling that 25% of voters who don't i'd like donald trump, and they don't like joe biden. they didn't get a reason to vote for biden. and i'm talking about those members of congress who weren't running from joe biden on friday, they were running from manu raju. they were running from reporters because they didn't want to answer questions clearly, a lot of the framework here, the democratic party is going to support the president. that's their job but i can tell you, having worked at the rnc when you schedule a weekend call, it's never for a good reason and we know is some people are very quietly saying amongst themselves that this was a disaster. the only person who can, can affect this other than joe biden is jill biden, if she gives her husband the adrian balboa, you can't win speech. that may be the only thing that it does. it. but this is where we run into very risky territory for democrats. >> guys stick around. we have more questions. we're going to take a very quick break out. we'll be right back to talk more about all of this fallout we'll be right back tomorrow

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presumptive nominee for the democratic party, short of a true health crisis about the only way he loses that slot is if he he agrees to step aside. >> but even then the process of replacing him would be full of uncertainty. democrats could work it out at their convention in an august, the way political parties used to various names would be put forward and most likely the more than 3,900 delegates from across the country would discuss and debate and which we decide on a new candidate. almost all of them are currently pledged to biden, by the way, and approved by his campaign. but what if they can't agree on a new choice? if it gets really nasty and grinds on well, then maybe the additional roughly 700 superdelegates, deep seeded party insiders and elected officials could be key to settling the matter normally, they can't vote on the first ballot for president if it would change the nominee, but they can vote on subsequent

ballots. but that scenario raises questions two, would voters who took part in primaries feel pushed aside an alienated from the party if a new nominee was chosen that way would a new choice be able to mount an effective campaign in the roughly ten weeks from the end of the convention until election day, for example, would donald trump agreed to debate a fresh face at that late date? and who who would be the choice. there are several big names that could likely be considered, but not until the party decides how it feels about vice president kamala harris. plenty of democratic voters party leaders would see her as the natural heir to the nomination and if she is not chosen, her disappointed supporters could also become a deep problem for the party. in november number for now, biden's advisers and top democrats are pushing back on the whole idea of him dropping out. but that talk just keeps

elbowing in allison tom foreman. thank you very much for all of that. we're back now with our panel. we have meghan hayes and doug hi. okay. so megan, you you are a biden adviser who is talking to him right now in the inner circle can have a candid conversation with him about what went wrong. >> look, i think they've had those candid conversations. i think obviously dr. biden is very involved, but i think i needed done as you saw, she was on another network earlier today talking about the conversation. there's the campaign staff and the white house staff that's all around him. but again, i think that they are moving past that. they are moving on to look to what they're gonna do for the next hundred and 30 days to what they can do to show the american people that he is capable of doing this job and what they will do for him. i mean, he has had a tremendously successful presidency. i think they need to remind people of that. and then he needs to get on out on the trail and continue to remind folks what he's gonna do for the next four years. >> mega have another question. what went wrong? what i mean?

he we were told that for the week before the debate, he was prepping at camp david running simulations of the debate. what happened? >> i don't know. i wasn't part of debate prep. i wasn't in the room with him at the debate obviously, i don't know. it seemed like he was over prepped a little bit. it seemed that he just what it just wasn't a good night for him. it just didn't seem like his va joe biden that we're used to seeing the joe biden that was in north carolina the next day. so i don't know what went wrong, but i do know that the next day he got right back up and went out there and own that it wasn't a good performance and continued to move on. >> so allison, i certainly didn't think he was over prepped and the second he started speaking, i heard his voice and said oh, this is going to be a very real problem for the president. i first met joe biden on the first morning of my first internship in 1990 one and i've spent a fair amount of time with them for a republican staff were along the along the years, i liked joe biden. i think he's a good person, but at 81, this is what people expect. and if we go back to the state of the union,

he had a big forceful night and he sparred with house republicans. it was a good night forum democrats, would said after that, a state of the union address, this was a game changer. the reality is that game didn't change and had the debate going well for joe biden, the game wouldn't have changed either. this is a very long season, 162 games but this was a devastating loss for joe biden because it speaks directly to those concerns that the 20 forget the trump voters and forget that core biden base that 25% of voters says, i don't like either of these guys they saw a lot worse of joe biden than they did. donald trump, who yet made up a lot of stuff, said crazy things, did what donald trump does, because the moment joe biden spoke, they said, oh meghan, what about that? i mean, what about there were 50 million people watching some of them young, some of them first-time voters, and they certainly didn't like what they saw. how is he going to have another 50 million? person, opportunity. >> yeah, no, that's totally

fair dogs, totally right. that it didn't it was not a good day for him. i went hand down when we've said that over and over again and we are there is a real fear of people staying home if they're not going to vote for biden or trump and they've just say home, that is a real fear, and that is why luck latest, this debate was early enough in the campaign season that he can go out there and try to get his message out and they can work together. the vice president will be extremely helpful on the trail as well. so they are they are very well-prepared to go out for the next hundred and 30 days and continue to get out its message. but i mean, doug has some very valid points there. i do think that this is where the organization and the money that they've raised early on really, it's helpful here that they have boots on the ground that can deliver some of this message for him. >> is there gonna be another debate? meghan? >> i'm going to he agreed to go to another debate, so i would i would hope so. i think that it would be good for him to do that what do you think dug? >> well, i said before the debate started, i wouldn't be surprised if there was only one. i wouldn't be surprised at this point. there's only one as well because you can see, look, these candidates talk about

anytime, anywhere, like they're pro wrestlers but you could also see donald trump saying that loser, i beat him once. why do i need to beat him again? and all that kind of trumpy talk that we see. i just don't know because there are reasons for and against either of them doing it i'm doug very quickly. nikki haley today in the wall street journal warned the republican party to prepare for a younger rival, basically saying that she thinks that democrats will ultimately replace joe biden or do a biden will ultimately step aside. >> who do you think trump's team is most afraid of? >> if i'm them, i'm afraid of the witmer warnock ticket. i think that could be a one-two punch for democrats. look, it's hard logistically to do for all the reasons that meghan and tom foreman laid out, that one would scare me and he's not right there yet, but in a couple of years, wes moore, the democratic governor of maryland is i think the major star to watch. >> interesting. all right. megan doug, thank you both very by the way, speaking of new jersey combat love in bookstores now, a great story of the jersey shore written by alison camerota, dog, you are

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tomorrow night or early monday morning before it reaches barbados. and the winred island so isn't this particularly early for hurricane it's not necessarily the early for a hurricanes, certainly early for hurricane this far east and certainly would be very early for a major hurricane to occur anywhere in the atlantic basin. >> we don't typically get the most of those occur typically in the peak month of august, september, october, so it is very unusual. the waters, as we know in the atlantic basin are quite warm in it. new record warm levels for this time of year. so unfortunately is not surprising that we're getting this type of development this early in the season this far east so how strong do you think this will get well right now we're forecasting major hurricane. category three, maximum sustained winds of at least 115 miles per hour, but the time it reaches the islands. so that's very dangerous, but it's not just from the wind perspective, we're expecting a very dangerous, life-threatening storm surge of five to seven feet above so normal tide levels on nearer to the right of where the center passes through those islands with large and destructive waves

also expecting three to six inches of rainfall. so a very dangerous situation unfolding for places like barbados, st. lucia st. vincent, and the grenadines and grenada is it on a trajectory to hit the u.s it's it's too early to tell, but at this point it looks like it's going to stay well south of puerto rico and the u.s. >> virgin islands and then move near or over portions of the jamaica. has spaniel, cuba maybe closer to the yucatan peninsula by the time we get later in the next week at this point, we don't see a threat to the the mainland us from this system, but we'll keep watching it. that would still be quite far down the road so does this suggest that it's going to be a very active hurricane season? yeah. i mean, it's certainly an indication that conditions are lining up to be favorable across the base and noah is forecasting and above average season, we're watching two other systems at the moment, one moving into the southern gulf of mexico and another farther out in the eastern atlantic that both have a shot at becoming a tropical depression or tropical storm over the next several days. so

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bringing in all three candidates. this was honestly even bigger than january 6 and the aftermath. and i think that's for one very specific reason, allison a lot of americans had tuned out of this election until this week. a lot of people didn't believe there was really going to be a rematch. they don't want to see these two elderly men been running for office again, they wouldn't see other candidates so people hadn't really paid attention. and now as of this week, they are, i'm doing here's my very scientific backyard pool party the analysis today, allison, i have people come up to me, a kid's birthday party saying is biden seriously going to stay in the race? this has now permeated beyond just the new york times and the atlantic, beyond just the political elites. this is now an everyday conversation for people who i think in some cases didn't believe the rematch was really happening yeah. but i mean, what's another interesting metric? brian, is that if you look at the past debates, i mean, people do tune in for debates. this is where they try to get their impressions. now, it was

less than in the previous debates. so in september of 2020 73 million people watched that face off with trump and biden, and then in october the next month, 63 million. so now it's 51 million. it's interesting. i mean, for all the talk of like, oh, debates don't move the needle people sure seem very interested in tuning in 100%. and the reason for the decline from 2020 as number one, that people don't like to watch repeats as much as premiere episodes. and this is a rerun number two, it's the middle of the summer, so not as many people wanted to watch this live, but actually think this debate has permeated the culture more than the debates in 2016 or in 2020, because this was truly a game-changing debate. i mean, look, if you're in a battle between someone who lies really confidently versus someone who mostly tells the truth, but really incoherently, the confidence that liar is always going to win and i think many millions of americans who

don't want to see trump re-elected. we're yelling at their tvs wanting biden to fight back harder, wanting to see an actual debate and actual fight. they didn't get that. the came on disappointed and it makes me wonder if there will be any more debates at all. but i have an idea, allison, i brought this up as a joke on thursday before the debate to the heads of one of the major networks, i said there should be a presidential fitness test on live tv this fall, and i was kidding, but i'm serious now, i think we should have a presidential fitness test on all the networks. maybe trump and biden can even go golfing as they apparently want to do i mean, does golf show your fitness level? is that i mean, i what i'm imagining right now is like, what were those celebrity fitness tests in like this 19th where they would swim and jump off things that's what i'm imagining is that what you mean? >> yeah, but that is what this is coming down to write. i feel like 20 is seen in 2020. were elections about what kind of america? we live in, what kind of america we want to have. it was about race and class and gender and those issues are still all very live this year

but now suddenly it's elections more about actual physical fitness. it's about actual competency. and there are so many biden supporters out there who are looking around and saying i don't want to vote for trump. they're saying, but i can't trust biden for four more years. i feel like a lot of the conversations about barak obama and hillary clinton and bill clinton, all supporting biden right now are forgetting that we're having an election for four years, not for four more months, but perform more years and that is why the media reaction has not been overstated. this is not an overreaction from the likes of the new york times. this is a very serious crisis for the democratic. >> brian, what did you make of the structure of the debate? because it was different as you know, the there were rules where the mics were muted, they could speak for only a certain amount of time and then jake i can dana would cut them off and jacob ghana, you know, obviously there was there was some controversy is right word but question about whether they should have been the fact checkers which would have taken most of their time. obviously

when donald trump was, you know, i mean, saying such a blizzard of lies or not. so what did you think of? the whole format? >> philosophically, i believe in live fact-checking, but practically speaking, it's impossible during the debate. it's one thing to do during an interview. if i say the sky as orange right now, you can correct me. and in real time, but if two different people are vying for airtime, it's really on them to detract from each other biden clearly didn't do it but i think when it comes down to the structure here in the format, this was a shining moment for cnn because it points for a new way forward for debates no studio audience is again, the way and the muting of microphones actually worked. i'll tell you alison, they were executive to cnn that were very worried about this. i didn't know how it was going to go with the microphones, but it actually fostered a real conversation and for better or worse, we learned a lot about the candidates. we learned about trump's emotional appeals is rhetorical appeals. there oftentimes full of bunk, but biden didn't push back on them and it makes me wonder if there

will be another debate. if biden's able to do it or not. >> yes that is one of the big question marks today. brian stelter. thank you very much for the analysis. great to see you all right. we'll be right back celebrate go four is in america thursday, july 4th. >> they 70s dirt on see it. >> this is what the pursuit of happiness sounds like. freedom taste better on a black stone. go to the nearest blackstone retailer or blackstone products.com today no one should have to choose between good vision and great value. that's why america is best is slashing their prices during the y's by sales abadi get to progressives and a comprehension so my exam for just 12995 book an exam online today hone call from the boss.

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has rolled back women's rights almost entirely most girls and women now barred from school and universities. >> women are forbidden to travel without a male guardian. and crucially, most cannot work or provide for their families eight months ago, cnn's anna coren exposed the heartbreaking consequence of taliban's misogyny as suicide rates among women surge she now brings us an update on what led one afghan, one young afghan girl to such despair. and her second chance at life huddled on the floor over school books, 16-year-old azo meticulously copies the english sentences her nature, cursive, writing, a display of devotion to furthering her education my hand washing, our qiat make it learning new words makes me happy. >> she explains, but can name is but this scene was unthinkable, just eight months

ago when we first met azo in the same room on the outskirts of karachi in pakistan. >> hey, good luck session. i don't worry, you'll be fine. >> says her brother kissing her hand we are with you always aso was bedridden her skeletal for wasting away every breath she took and movement she made, causing unbearable pain azo is from neighboring afghanistan and it's there in her home in july of last year. she tried to kill herself can you talk to us about this is the first time the teenager whose identity is hidden due to security concerns, is able to speak to us about what led her to that point all i want my pick and make it on that day, i felt like everything was over. >> i glanced at pictures of my classmates and filled a deep sense of longing. i was overwhelmed by hopelessness and

that's why i drank battery acid convinced it would end my life as those seen here in pink in happier times, is one of countless afghan girls who have attempted suicide. and alarming trend spreading across the country since the taliban returned to power almost three years ago a ban on secondary education for girls. one of the most damaging of dozens of atx enforced by the teller ban contributing to what human rights activists describe as the most serious women's rights crisis in the world a cold backed up by un officials, the taliban's institutionalize d system of gender oppression established an enforced through its violations of women and girls most fundamental rights is widespread and systematic and amounting to crimes against humanity. >> but despite these powerful language, the un has appeased the taliban for the un conference on afghanistan in doha agreeing to its demands

that women's rights are off the official agenda, guaranteeing it's a tendons for the very first time. nor will afghan women be represented in television meetings. >> there's a shocking and shameful behavior and what this really represents a huge win for the taliban on its slay in terms of how much power they're able to exercise, how much the international community is is allowing their conduct, their abuses to be normalized. and this is really devastating for afghan women especially for girls like oslo after her suicide attempt, she was vomiting blood and couldn't swallow her siblings smuggled her into pakistan for treatment at a local hospital but are those condition only worse? >> the rising number of girls turning to suicide out of there despair when our story aired in december, a highly respected institution in pakistan that wishes to remain anonymous,

contacted cnn offering azo proper medical care that would ultimately save her life her weight was that of probably a four-year-old. she was 22, 22 kilograms at the time that we saw are there's no doubt in my mind that she had only a few months are left to live really by consuming battery acid, as i suffered, what's called an esophageal stricture and narrowing of the esophagus, stopping food from passing to her stomach over several procedures, duct is inflated a tiny balloon inside her esophagus to gradually widen the passage, allowing her to eat in january this year, she ate her first meal of rice and milk oh it was delicious. i felt strong at that moment and so happy. i told myself i could get through these hard days and since then, she has doubled her weight yet are those battles are far from over the area

where she was pretty badly scarred, the doctor says you require it's ongoing medical care and is now at risk of developing esophageal cancer but the immediate threat facing azo and her siblings is deportation. as pakistan prepares to expel the next wave of undocumented afghan migrants approximately one fifth of the nearly 3 million afghans living in pakistan were deported by the end of last year homes in refugee camps have been marked by authorities for the next round. and azo is visible the upset at the prospect. would you try to kill yourself again if you were forced to return to afghanistan month, could make rum. >> i got if i go back to afghanistan, i would end up doing the same thing again because i can't attend school or see my friends i cannot live there for the pediatric surgeon who operated on azo, he says they will lucky to get to her in time we don't want to be at

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