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biden going on offense and what many see as the political fight of his life in both prepared an impromptu remarks. he's doubled down telling fellow democrats he's not going anywhere despite growing calls for him to quit the race. the timing could not be more critical this week, the house and senate back in session for the first time since his faltering debate performance and tomorrow, the democratic caucus will meet with their leadership about biden's political future. now calls for him to drop out, have only grown following friday's interview with abc news, a move aimed at countering the fallout in a letter to democrats sent today, the president called for an end to the question about his r1 and on the phone in on a phone call to msnbc, biden further challenged his critics. listen i'm getting so frustrated, but by the lease now i'm not talking about you guys, but brought the lease in the party who they know so much

more with any of these guys. i don't think i should run against me. go ahead. announcer announcer president challenge managing convention cnn's mj lee is at the white house where a press briefing is starting in just moments, but mj first you've got some new information to report yeah, dress. >> we have one more example of president biden getting personally involved to try to stop the bleeding and prevent the dam from fully breaking. the president just call jin to a campaign call with donors that was led by campaign chair jen o'malley dillon, where i'm told by one of the donors that was on this call but his tone was completely defiant, but he wanted to make clear to his supporters and donors so important to the party that he isn't going anywhere. i'm told that the president made clear it is important that the party start to change the narrative and really start talking about donald trump again and making clear what the top issues are that are really at stake. heading into november. interestingly, i'm told that

there was a good amount of discussion on this donors call on project 2025. this, of course, is the pro-trump proposal about massively overhauling the federal government, which i should note, donald trump has tried to distance himself from, but that the current president, joe biden but make clear on this call that he thinks that this proposal would be massively disruptive and damaging for the country on all fronts, on the economy for women, for the lgbtq plus community and this was apologists were donors could speak up and ask questions and i'm told there was one moment where one donor actually smoke up and said that she would be willing to crawl through broken glass for him. so an example of the president hearing directly from a donor and a supporter who is saying they are also fully in now, another interesting detail from this call is that the president made clear that whenever the next debate happens, he isn't just going to be focused on laying out his own record heard the he is fully going to go on the attack and attack the

former president lot more aggressively than we saw on the june 27 debate. now, if you look at the last 24 hours, this is just one example of the president really going on the offense himself, calling into this donors call, calling into an interview with msnbc writing a letter to democratic lawmakers that clearly the goal has been to send the message that he isn't going anywhere. and one of the ways in which she has tried to make that case is by saying the voters have already spoken. take a listen i am not going anywhere. i wouldn't be running if i didn't absolutely believe that i'm the best candidate to beat down someone 2024. we had a democratic nominating process for the voters spoke clearly. i want 40 million votes, which cetera. so i just want i'm not i'm only believed that from the beginning, but i wanted to reassert in demonstrates that is true there's no question about it just this is the

president trying to get ahead of a weak, were many democrats believe this could be the moment when the dam could fully break particularly a democratic lawmakers are coming think back to washington dc this week where a lot more lawmakers could end up publicly speaking out and saying what they have been thinking privately. >> and that is if the president should not seek a second term, just yeah, a lot on the line for president biden this week, mj lee at the white house for us. thanks so much. let's turn now to cnn's kristen holmes, who's in miami, florida. she's trump following the trump campaign and kristen, you're learning the saga over biden's nomination is complicating donald trump's strategy. how so well that's where it doesn't mean, keep in mind that these two weeks, this week and next week, we're supposed to be all around donald drum. >> we know that he is still yet to actually put forward a vice presidential pick. and then the convention in milwaukee next week. now you would not really seen or heard from donald trump at all? yes, he has been on social media yeah posting about

joe biden, but it really slaying low for the most amount of time as they've watched this kind of spiral, they were not sure how biden's performance would play out, but they certainly didn't see this coming. this potential that biden wouldn't be at the top of the ticket joe biden, the democrats have really taken the spotlight for the last time several weeks, sense that debate now, they are trying to figure out what exactly is next for donald trump. they have a self-imposed deadline of monday that's the start of the convention in milwaukee for donald trump to actually name his vice presidential pick when that's going to happen, we don't know. he has tomorrow a rally at his drought resort in miami where we are and then later in the week over the weekend, he has one in pennsylvania, even the people closest to him say they are not entirely sure how this is going to roll out and it could come as late as monday morning. now, people close to him, they say that this is not going to impact him making an announcement, but as somebody who is covered, covered donald trump for some time, he is somebody who likes to have

complete control well over the media narrative, knowing that, for example, on thursday of this week, biden is expected to give a press conference at nato that all eyes are going to be on that could impact the way that donald trump decides to announce to his vice presidential pick is. but right now, they are just sitting back trying to figure out what is next for the top of the ticket on the democratic side, much like all of us sr they haven't changed any of their strategy yet. they are just sitting back and waiting to see how exactly this is going to play out. >> yes. and we shall see about that. kristen holmes for us in miami. thanks so much for that reporting. boris now, more on that defiant letter from president biden to congressional democrats. it's more than two pages long. and at the end he says, quote, we have one job and that is to beat donald trump any weakening of resolve or lack of clarity about the task ahead, only helps trump and hurts us it's time to come together, move forward as a unified party and defeat donald trump and quote, sources tell cnn more than a

handful of high-ranking democrats are now joining the call for the president to step aside. let's get the latest from cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju. he's following all of this from capitol hill manu, what are you hearing? >> yeah. look, there have not been many democrats who have set them march and made a lot of them have been keeping their powder dry as they were gone last week during fourth of july recess. and this week is critical because i'll be the first time members are back in session, first time they will meet, first time they will air their concerns about the viability of job by biden atop their ticket and whether they believe it is time to replace him. all eyes will be on tomorrow. key meaning and the house democratic caucus that will happen behind closed doors. hakeem jeffries, a democratic leader, has not single signal how he plans to come down, but he is viewed as pivotal and it whether he sides with joe biden but ultimately help him stay as a democratic nominee. if not, it could pressure him to step aside, even as joe biden has been

defined and said that he will remain as a democratic nominee and that it is time to unite. also, chuck schumer and senate majority leader has not yet said one way or the other about this, he said last week that he is behind joe biden, but what does that mean? does he actually believe joe biden should be the democratic nominee still? and will he does he have any concerns that joe biden at the top of the ticket could sink democratic candidates in key senate races where they are trying to keep you control of the chamber in november now, in a statement just moments ago, senator jon tester, who the montana democrat, won the most vulnerable democrats up for reelection this year, put out a statement saying that president biden has got to prove to the american people, including me, that is up for the job for another four years. now that steam adopt short i've calling joe biden to step aside, but it shows you the concern among many vulnerable democrats about joe biden at the top of the ticket and what it could mean for their own prospects. so

bohr's tonight when members come back for votes in the house and the senate, many reporters including myself, will be pressing these, these democrats for for how their view and whether they believe joe biden should continue on or whether the drumbeat of pressure for him to step aside will intensify and we know some of them have spent the day running away from you already it's past time on the hill and running away from mano motto razi live from phil. thank you so much for joining us. now we're seeing in political director david chaldean, david as we await this briefing from the white house, let's step back and talk about the stakes for both campaigns here, because we are one week out from the republican national convention. and we're at a critical crossroads for the biden camp. yeah. i mean, it is an astonishingly important week and i think when we get to the results in november, we may look back at this week as a definitional week in the outcome of this race, boris you heard from kristen clearly, donald trump, who was sort of seeding the spotlight based on

his advisers advice to all the democratic cast that is going on is clearly trying to grab that back now, i mean, we're going get to see him on hannity later. he's got a vice presidential pick to announce, which is one of the huge moments for a candidate in their campaign. and then he rolls into his convention, which they're trying to execute as the defining contrasts with joe biden. before voters. that is all happening. big week for him while joe biden is still in this battle, which is just remarkable to think that i'm saying that in july, right. he had the nomination wrapped up from the get-go and he is now in a battle to stay atop the ticket. now it's a battle. he's going on a lot more offense as of today than we've seen him over the last 11 days, whether on the donor call are in that msnbc the interview, that letter to members of congress. this is joe biden now, not just digging in, but actually full offensive battle to tamp this down and put it tibet. >> and so david, was one of the

polls tell us right now? what is the, what is the shape and the contour of this race? so this was one of the things that grew out of the stephanopoulos interview on friday, which is the joe biden just was not conceding an inch to the reality of the state of he campaign as it exists now. so if you look at our poll of polls, this is an average of national polls, pre and post debate pre-debate donald trump, had a two-point edge and a poll of polls and average of national polls, 49% to 47%. that's a pretty close race you see post-debate donald trump has stayed the same. he didn't grow his support with the debate, but joe biden took on some water. he is down to 44%, and that's a five-point lead in the pole. a pole calls for donald trump, so to say that the debate had no impact, i don't think is reflected by a totality of the poles. also, if you look at the electoral map guys and the road to to 70, it's only going to get more complicated. look here, this is our latest assessment of the race as the yellow are the true

battlegrounds. here are some leaning fred states that are clearly heavily contested states as well, like georgia, north carolina, and nevada, michigan. but we are we're now talking about the light blue states, perhaps minnesota virginia, new mexico, that are leaning democratic now, they may be coming online as more competitive in this moment, we need to see how true that is. if that happens, that means more resources that biden has to spend in a greater number of states, then he's currently spending if the map expands against him, that's not a position of strength heading into this fall campaign, as we've seen in the electoral college, adds a dynamic to those polls that isn't fully representative in those numbers. i am curious. so where do independents land? >> so i am fascinated by this because obviously independence are still big, big factors in the outcome of presidential elections. you remember in 2016, trump bested clinton with independence by a bit. he won that election four years go

biden won independence by 13 percentage points against donald trump. look into at the independent tracker of cnn polling alone over the last year. so back a year ago, last august, we actually had biden the blue line there on the left of the screen up against trump by nine points are so among independent it's okay. and then you saw as we continue to pull this race, you saw in november that crossed trump has led with independence and never game up the lead. and if you look at the april line versus the now line, this is pre-debate versus post-debate both of them ticked down a little bit in their support with independence. but donald trump's lee it has maintained he's now got a ten percentage point lead in our polling among independents in this race. that's a huge warning sign to any campaign, which is why joe biden is finding himself in the position he's in right now, which is that he may be successful at pushing back on this effort to get him to leave the race. the question becomes, so where does that leave him? him? and the democratic party,

all the data suggests, at the moment, he's in a weakened position in this race maintaining a top of the ticket then he was clearly a year ago, but even you could argue more recently at what cost and it almost seems like to have all of these democrats even come out and just even not go all the way to say, we want him out of the race, but just enough like the jon tester comment, a lot of follow-up questions for john first of all does he think it would be more beneficial to him in his race and montana, if kamala harris was the top of the ticket, i'd love to hear his answer on that. it's beneficial for a democrat running in a deep red state to take on the president of his party, right? joe biden is not going to win montana. so by saying, hey, joe biden's got approved to americans, jon tester gets to look tough against the democratic president that serves his needs. but he didn't go as far because i have a question for jon tester, is are you going to be benefited any anymore if you were to swap out somebody at the top of that ticket i'd be curious years answered

calculation that they're all trying to make right now. it an end to that end that chuck schumer and he came jeffries are trying to make without a doubt. >> i mean, man has been sort of the risk assessment underway for the last 11 days since the debate. >> i think there was there's been a limited window of time though, and time is ticking here and so if, if no the ackeem jeffries and the chuck schumer is of the world, don't go down to the white house and say, we're losing everything. if you maintain the top of the ticket, we need you to engage in this conversation with us they have not said that yet, and that is allowed. joe biden to say, i'm not entertaining this conversation. you could have 2050 members come out. joe biden is telling us today telling these numbers he has committed to staying in this race. >> all right. david chaldean, thanks so much. could still ahead. new reporting on how biden staff preps him for events, large print on how to enter and exit a room, picks of the podium. we'll talk with the report on that story next. plus washington missiles hitting a children's hospital in kyiv. at least 30 people killed and

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thompson shares these screenshots of whitehouse documents which pointedly. we're used to aid biden at a previous event. you can see too large pictures with large print that says walk to podium. thompson goes on to write, quote, since the june 27 debate, some democrats who've attended and helped set up biden events have wondered whether his team's focus on minute details were to obscure the 81 1-year-old president's limitations, rather than just a reflection of a meticulous staff and quote, that reporter alex thompson joins us live. alex, thanks for being with us walk us through what you learned about the staff's advanced work, especially in relation to other key officials and administrations. how does it compare? >> absolutely. so the whole reason this came to me is because after the debate, people that had worked on joe biden's events in recent several months basically started to replay things in

their heads at first, they thought sometimes advanced people can just be veery you know, for lack of a better word detail-oriented. and they just dismiss it as that. but after seeing the debate and then after thinking about the fact that the president relies on things that every president relies on, including advanced staff, but he does so in a way that is distinct and seems to rely on them more example is the teleprompter, right? joe biden uses a teleprompter every president uses a teleprompter, but joe biden uses it more, seems to rely on it more he even uses it in small fundraising events. so basically what was happening is that even in small usually casual events with just not that many people, the white house was very, very concerned about every single step the president was taking that even experienced staffers thought was a little bit unusual. and then after the debate, they basically feeling that maybe

this was to make up for his limitations one person that worked in event for joe biden recently said that they treated a small fundraiser like it was a nato summit wow. >> i'm wondering what your responses to those like dan pfeiffer, he's a former obama senior adviser who make the case that this isn't really out of the norm, that this is done for a slew of different principles absolutely and you've dan is right, but very detailed advanced work is is normal for this sort of level of principle. but what has, what was striking to people that have worked these events who also like dan said, hey, like this is not that have done lots of vance work before they said that people that worked, joe biden's events said that this level of detail, this level of hand-holding was abnormal, that basically things

that appear normal for more president's joe biden's campaign, his white house basically takes it to a new level, which in retrospect to the debate seems excessive. and to sort of obscure potential, his potential limitations so during a phone interview with msnbc this morning, president biden was essentially presented with a list of those congressional democrats, those big names who've cast doubts about his candidacy. >> and he said, quote there are big names, but i don't care what those big names think given the sources that you talked with the white house, it doesn't seem to bother him that there are clearly serious doubts within leading members of his own party now, just not bother him. it actually motivates him. joe biden has long been known to have a chip on his shoulder and that chip has only grown larger with age. the vectors that if he has doubters, especially debtors, that are powerful, whether or

not they be a big donor, a big democrats the fact it may go public with their doubts, it honestly sort of makes him more motivated to go forward and that's the dilemma that you're seeing in this democratic party. it's part of the reason why you notice when any democrat suggests that maybe he should step aside, they always precede it with heaps of praise for the present and how historic has been, how great of a job he's been. and then they say, i think you should go out there the entire democratic party in essence is tip toeing in some ways around joe biden's ego in order to try to coax him out of the race. but joe biden a very proud person has no intention. he's been saying he has no intention together, race and part of that is because it is a commandment in joe biden's orbit. that he is the most electable candidate against donald trump. and if you believe that with such fervor, nothing else matters. >> alex thompson, some fascinating reporting. appreciate you coming on thank

you so much. of course. jessica we are now just one week away from the republican national convention in milwaukee in it's expected to bring around 50,000 people to that city as the gop formally nominates donald trump as their presidential campaign. and i as you would imagine, security is going to be quite tight, especially after a new security assessment shows the event could be, quote attractive as a target for extremis, cena and cybersecurity reporter sean lingus has new reporting on all of this in john, just to be clear, there is no credible threat that's outlined in this report, but gives us a sense of what they're preparing for here. that's right, jessica, no credible threat, but this is a very high profile events and it comes amid historic partisan divide in the country and also many weeks of protests at college campuses related to the u.s israel policies. so it's a very tight time, tense time, and some of the things that law enforcement is doing for months has been sort of scoping the area in milwaukee where the

convention center has been taking place. they are concerned while there's no credible threat that there could be a this could be an attractive target for domestic violent extremists, which we've seen quite a bit lately. the country in terms of those types of online threats that could or could not be manifested in the physical world. and so it is also attracting all kinds of other potential threats. he talked about. whenever there's a big event with people coming out from out of state, this a potential for sex trafficking that's sort of thing. so dhs told us that there's no credible threat but this is something that they're been preparing for, for months and they're trying to make sure everything goes smoothly with this in detail, threat assessment. these big, big events like this, and it's not just domestic threats that's on their radar how are they preparing for any foreign threats, right? >> well, there's actually been a resurgence among us officials, a resurgence of concern around potential terror attacks specifically ten reported last month on concerns about individuals from tajikistan crossing the border and being sympathizers of an

isis affiliate so that is been something in sharper focus compared to previous years, of previous conventions so that is probably the foremost foreign threat concern. and then you have the general anytime there's a political party, a major political party getting together, there's potential attempts by foreign intelligence services, russia, china, iran, to target candidates or people around them to try to gather intelligence on them or protect pape's cultivate assets. so that is again one of the many things that security officials are considering going into the milwaukee convention on that milwaukee convention, then of course we have the democrats in august as well. sean lyngaas, thanks so much. we appreciate it. so ahead, beryl losing strength, but not before doing extensive damage in texas. major flooding in homes just torn to pieces where the storm is now headed. that's next so probably seen as hosting shark week shark week, his back, who

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now this president has invested in allies and partnerships. and we took office. what i said nine, only nine allies had reached the 2% level. mao, 23, that's not by accident, that's because leadership, that's because a constant stewardship of the alliance in other partnerships around the world. the president's record speaks for itself and the allies and the non nato friends and partners that are coming as well. they know that they wouldn't become a new zealand, japan, south korea, to a nato summit if they didn't believe in american leadership and how important it is. and if they didn't believe that president biden takes that responsibility extremely serious everyone good to see on the point about european country amino members boosting or defense man, that was something that was a big concern with the last as part of the reason many of them are boosting their funding and it was a concern for president before the last president, as you recall, president obama said the same thing. this, this pledge goes back a decade or so but the numbers speak for

themselves rather than brow beaten and yelling and screaming and complaint and whine about it. president biden invested in this alliance, any just the last three-and-a-half years now more than double the number of allies have reached that 2%. >> two questions on the fallout from the debate have you in your meetings with him ever seen him appear similarly to the way he did on the debate night? >> welcome, spokesman. and your lesson meetings with them. i am the last thing i'm gonna do is sit here and talk about every meeting i've had with the president. what i can tell you is what i saw in, that. debate is not reflective of the man and the leader and the commander in chief that i have spent many, many hours with over the last two-and-a-half years in terms of the specificity of the way he probes the questions he asked just this morning he was asking me questions about the situation on the european continent that i couldn't

answer and i told him i had to get back to where he spent with governors last week, he suggested i'd like to curtail events that begin after 8:00 p.m. at night just because he'd rather focus on resting and doesn't want to have a long day in your understanding of things as the national security council ever withheld information from him, he should have known late at night out of concern he might not be able processes know russia has bombed ukraine's largest children's hospital, as you noted, do you believe the timing of these strikes is meant to send a message to nato ahead of this week, salman, it's hard to draw a line married to that. >> i mean sadly this is par for the course for mr. putin to hit civilian infrastructure and he doesn't care whether you're sitting hospitals are residential buildings i can't draw the line. this is some sort of message, but as i said, in what you're going to see over the course of the week it's a very set of strong signals and messages to mr. putin that he can't wait nato

out can't wait. the united states out that we're going to continue to support ukraine just wanted to ask about the air defenses and some of the deliverables that are coming out of benito. >> can you walk us through what you think will be happening in term of any additional? commitments, and it should the funding captures would come and can you say a few words about this project to consolidate the way that weapons are going to ukraine through that distribution center that i think there's and center there'll be set up in these buttons and ordination yeah. i mean i don't purpose for me to come today. it was just kind of give you the lay down of the of the sum of the head and not to get too far ahead of the leaders in the specific deliverables, but without doing that and without getting fired, i'll just tell you that you're going to see some announcements on air defense. you're going to

see some announcements on deterrence capabilities, not just with respect to helping ukraine, but boosting alliance. you're going to see some announcements with respect to the defense industrial base and how to shore up that and make it more resilient and invested more including in our own industrial base here in the united states and you're going to see as i alluded to some discussion about ukraine's path, the nato and what that, and what that can look like and a reaffirmation of what the president it has long said that nato is in ukraine's future just about weapon that can you say whether the word irreversible will be in the communique. >> i'm not going to get ahead of this specific language what israel and girls, i can you say anything about the israeli response to the hamas response to the proposal? >> lots of responses. >> so no surprise. i'm not going to negotiate here from the podium or republic, i would just tell you that there has

been some back-and-forth, as you know, we have a team in cairo right now that includes brett mcgurk and the director of the cia they're meeting with their egyptian is really in jordanian counterparts. and there'll be follow-on discussions after that. over the next few days look, we've been working this very, very hard and there are still some gaps that remain in the two sides and the positions. but we wouldn't have sent a team over there if we didn't think that we had a shot here and we're going to take every shot we can to see if we can't get this ceasefire deal in place one day i couldn't give you date david. >> thank you john. >> thanks for doing this for just a follow-up on that, communicate even if you can't get your reversible the president's objection. last pier and chancellor schultz's objection. if i remember vilnius correctly, was that

neither one of them wanted a date? let's say, for phi or i assume that the united states and its allies would be drawn into the ground, or if ukraine was still at war, wildland, nato-member does that remain today to be his primary objective objection. is he willing to do wording that just short of de because he even if you do the word irreversible or not, he doesn't really change the meaning very much of what you published in vilnius levs a second well, i'll i'll make this simple but unsatisfying. i again, i'm not going to get into the text and the discussions about what the draft's going to look like, david, i think you can understand that but i do think your question is important to provide some context to the president. still believes that nato is in ukraine's future. what that future looks like

depends on an awful lot of factors right now, you gotta war going on inside ukraine and the focus, right? lee's got to be on helping them win that war and we are, as i detail than my opening statement number two, for any country that wants to join nato any country, and it's an, it's an alliance of democracies. then mocker said his have to meet certain, certain guidelines particularly when it comes to governance and we are and will continue to work with you crane on reforms that are necessary for any democracy that wants to be a member of nato. and then the third thing i'd say is, you know, it's a unanimous vote. everybody has to be on board with that i didn't i can take some time as well, so focuses on making sure that they can win now and that we can continue to work with ukraine so that there is a path to nato. the last thing i'd say is back to the bilateral security agreement that the president signed with presence. and let's get the g7 and italy. i mean, we're one of many other nations that have done that too because we know that whenever this war ends, however, it ends and whatever the border looks like ukraine

still going to have a long border with russia that's going to need to be defended and they're going to need the reassurance of being able to put forth a capable and competent defensive capability against russian forces going forward. and that's why we're making sure that there are things in line to make sure that ukraine can defend itself and what followed. >> you mentioned that it was ten years ago that the 2% gdp goal obviously, there was no war underway at that time. >> and so the entire security situation look radically different than it does. that, it did when that was said, well, i begged to differ. there was there was fighting in afghanistan and mr. putin invaded ukraine in 2014 40 yeah. but i think the 2% may have been set. it was in wales, it might have been set before the invasion, but nevertheless, it was still a tense security environment. where it's something much different today. i think we're all in agreement, just given the amount of arm no

argument is going and so it's part of the president's message at this summit. the 2% is in the rear-view mirror that the nato allies are going to have to be spending significantly more than that. maybe double that for some countries in some larger economies? or is he going to stay away from numbers? i know it's politically sensitive of all of them who also you mentioned the word when i was wondering how for defining that are still out there the president is not going to sit a new bar or new level of gdp spending on defense here at this summit, the goal is 2%. >> it was a commitment. everybody made ten years ago, not everybody's there most of the remaining patients that haven't reached 2% and most of them not all are working on it and are getting there and so i think the president wants to focus on that wants the lord and commemorate those who have, but also make it clear that

those who haven't still pleasant they still have some work to do on when i think we'd been consistent about this. i mean, at least i think i have i mean, we we want all of ukraine's sovereign territory respected, which means we want no russian forces in any part of ukraine by the internationally recognized boundaries you just said answering of questions you're not picking up when signs of allies meeting, reassurances, when it comes to president biden but the hi is also look for secure united states. >> have you heard any conversations from the allies about issues of elections? process here, what they've been saying, and the stability of the united states and the next few months, couple of years, et cetera i'm not aware of any specific conversations with respect to our domestic political situation, but look,

april we watch the domestic political situation of our allies and partners of course, like we did with the uk, with france over the weekend. >> and we have no doubt that there are watching ours as well and that there'll be watching our election with with a lot of keen interest. we certainly would expect that, but i'm not aware of any conversations that we've had at senior levels here at the nsc or elsewhere here at the white house, from allies specifically about this, this particular lecture who gathered reporters, a couple of years ago with concerns about democracy here, they, they might be talking to you all, but i'm not aware of any specific conversations here. just want to circle back on overall on edx questions. so you said broadly that the president, your view is not represented by what was on the debate stage. then you gave us an anecdote about a meeting today where he was engaged and so forth are you saying you have never encountered a

situation where you thought that he was displaying any of those symptoms or f activations or something that would give pause or you just declining to answer one way or not. well, i'm a little uncomfortable. answering these kinds of questions because there's a spokesman. my job is to be an advisor and counselor and i don't think it's appropriate for spokesman to yes, i did because i wanted to make it clear. so yes, i'm uncomfortable with these kinds of questions, but to answer your tanno your specific question. in my experience, the last two-and-a-half years, i have not seen any reason whatsoever to question or doubt his lucidity, his grasp of context, his probing nature and the degree to which he is completely in charge of facts and figures. and if he isn't, what i've seen is because it happened to me this morning when he isn't and when i can't be in command of those facts and figures i have to

dress up and go get the information that he's asking for any asked me some questions this morning. i didn't have answers for thank you. >> 32 questions over the israeli has been done it was the largest seizure of land in the west bank, which undermines the president vision for two-state solution. so why do i have to be not mom on that? and when the president it's not that we'd been on there. there was a we have there was a statement put out by the state department about this call for settlements. we continue. nothing's changed about our view that settlements continued to be counterproductive to peace and stability and the possibility of a two-state solution. we don't support that okay. >> i'm listening to national security council spokesperson john kirby from the podium and the press room at the white house answering a number of questions about ukraine, the upcoming nato summit here in washington, dc, about negotiations with the ongoing ceasefire and hostage release deal in gaza. but the most pressing questions especially in this climate, as we're

hearing lawmakers returning to capitol hill openly questioning the viability of president joe biden at the top of the democratic ticket for the race for the white house kirby saying that those questions make him uncomfortable. questions regarding whether he's ever been around president biden the way he was in the debate, he specifically said that in his experience over the last two-and-a-half years, he had not seen any reason to question or doubt president biden's lucidity, his probing nature, or his company and a facts and figures. he says that what he saw in the debate is not reflective of his personal experience with president biden, one of many questions he and other white house officials are going to get about that very top and again, worth underscoring. he's there to talk about national security and still getting these questions as well. to your point, it is the climate we're in and the environment we find ourselves in this week. but interesting to see him give nothing but a defense of the president, saying that even this morning, he was giving

this anecdote, he went to him and didn't have answers for the president and he had to go get answers for ehab. and that's how lucid and with it, the president is so again, they're john kirby briefing reporters at the white house will continue to keep an eye on that and bring you any other information as needed. in the meantime, let's take a quick break and we'll lai 21st. i'll special. how would and search for a suspect how it really happened, the atlanta a little bit bombing from years july 21st, at night on cnn he always had trouble losing weight and keeping same, discover the power of we go with the gobi. i lost 35 pounds as some lost the war, 46 pounds we go. >> and i'm keeping the weight off we go via help you lose weight and keep it off i'm reducing my risk we go v is the

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country today that's killed at least 36 people left more than 100 wounded. see you in an international diplomatic editor, nic robertson is monitoring these developments from london nyc, we're watching these images, this video. what more are you learning about these strikes? >> well one of our stuff is driving near the hospital when that impact happened and saw something. she said she hadn't seen before, which was literally everyone stopped their cars and rushing to try to help because everyone knew that this was a hospital where children were being treated. we know that the icu was heading we know that the oncology unit was hit, that the surgery theater was head. it is the biggest children's hospital in ukraine president zelenskyy called on the un to hold an emergency meeting of un security council that's going to happen tomorrow. we've heard this be decried by various leaders around the world and you british prime minister calling it a horrific barbaric as what the french foreign

ministry use to describe this attack but the key about it seems to be, and this is what makes it different. and this is why people reacted so quickly and hopefully on the scene was because all these rights, they came during daylight hours around about pan am, the mirror of kyiv said people would have been going to work. there were 38 missiles. some of the hypersonic high-speed missiles and cruise missiles. there were ballistic missiles. all of these, or all of these are highly precise precision missile systems in fact, one of them was filmed as it was, as it was heading towards the hospital and unprecedented zelenskyy has that there is no way that the russians didn't know what they were targeting and they knew when they were targeting. so this does seem to be a real uptick in attacking civilians as opposed to energy infrastructure that we've seen more of being hit over recent weeks and again, not just kyiv across the country, right? >> and not just civilians, children who were receiving treatment for cancer, neck,

president zelenskyy also said today that the strike on the children's hospital will not go unanswered. >> answered, knowing that how could ukraine retaliate one thing i think we can all be pretty sure that we're not going to see we're not going to see ukraine follow what russia dead, which is break international humanitarian law we're not going to see ukraine target a children's hospital or i would expect any hospital inside of, inside of russia. >> what what ukraine has been doing is trying to hit behind russia's military frontlines to hit their fuel depots. and this is perhaps seems to have angered russia here, that they were able to hit an ammunition and fueled fuel store quite recently. so this is i think where we'll see the ukrainians focus their attention and let's not forget, they don't have all the ammunition that they want. some of it's on the way. it's slow coming. so they're going to be pretty precise and pretty careful when they do target. they're not going to lash out, but they

will want to land a blow that will be understood by by president putin that what he was done has caused outrage, not just in ukraine, but around the world. >> right? nic robertson forests. thanks so much for that reporting. and still had this afternoon, we continue to monitor the white house press briefing that is ongoing as president biden tells fellow democrats on the hill, he's not going anywhere. and he's taking that message now, the campaign trail, we'll be right back shark week continues tonight at eight and discovery with fast signs creates striking custom visuals, then inspire pride. >> district, fly that's sides make your statement. >> they say we should stop

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their their doctor once or twice a year, they have to get in a car after either take public transportation in order to make that happen, the president's medical unit is literally down on the other side of the colonnade is just down the steps from from the residents. and so a couple of times a week, he does a check in a verbal check-in with his doctor while he's exercising. that is something that happens often. matter the fact he did a check-in today because i know folks, we're going to ask about if he was tested for covid he was not. we are falling cdc guidance. he was not tested for covid just to let you guys know about that one. and if he hasn't the symptoms, obviously, we would test them the second gentleman yes. which is why no, no, no it's in context of the second gentleman, but to answer your point, he did not have a medical exam. he did not have a physical he did do like a verbal check-in with his doctor sure a couple of days after the debate and it was very quick.

it was a couple of words that were spoken to each other and that's how we were able to two we able to give you that answer, but he did not have a medical exam. he did not have a physical excuse me. do you know about that verbal check-in or do we just don't ask him? >> so the line of questions that i was getting that day was in the way that i was hearing the question was about the medical exam i answered mj is question when she asked me the medical exam and i answered and so i said no physical and then somebody else asked me, was there a check-in? i did not mean to steer anybody wrong. i was still thinking about the medical we'll exam. i was still thinking about the physical that's how i answered the question. and then when it became when the president actually spoke to it, we actually i went back asked to ask the asieh asda the medical doctor, and he said they had a verbal check-in. that's what he said. but in answering the question, i was talking about the medical exam. i was talking okay. about the physical issues with ones a lot of reporting