because it was intensifying at the last moment, but i do know the height people for the season was these abnormal warm waters. these anomalies that we're seeing a barrel, did it in the caribbean and it did it approach here to texas. so i think that's what we're going to be seeing this year ahead as those warm waters and they really do fuel hurricanes what, what does it how do you register though? you're doing this at the beginning of july well, that is the incredible part, actually june, right? >> it's sorted out in june and now we have friends that were down in the kamins going to jamaica, had no idea this was even come and they cancel their plans because i was talking to one of them and he's like, you're kidding me, right? so this is not normal for this time a year in very very unheard of. so we're gonna have a busy season ahead. i'm afraid all right. >> well, mike, i appreciate your time and thank you very much for sharing this with us.

and thanks so much to all of you for being with us tonight. we'll see you back here tomorrow. ac360 begins. now tonight on 360 president biden says he's not going anywhere as another democratic congressman says, he should quit the race also tonight, new reporting that an expert on parkinson's disease made eight visits and eight months, the white house exactly why unclear and we're joined by two democratic lawmakers since sides the question should president biden bow out, including benny thompson, a critical member of the congressional black caucus meeting with the president. >> does evening. good evening. thanks for joining us. wouldn't congressman thompson joins us will learn how that meeting with this cbc went. today began. what could be a decisive week for president biden's viability as a candidate. he's defiant and determined to run. but it's hard to say his weak began especially well. democratic lawmakers returning to washington from the holiday recess were greeted this morning by this from him the bottom line here is that we're

not going anywhere. i am not going anywhere. i don't think i should run against me go ahead and now. announcer president, challenge amanda convention that's part of the message democrats heard this morning. they also heard this as the president struggle to do what he's been trying to do for the last 11 days. put the debate behind him look at my career. not have many of those nights was a terrible night. and i really regret it happened. but the fact of the matter is how how can you assure you're going to be on faith that can intervene on your way to go to you know, work tomorrow age age wasn't the idea on tool those first three sentences made since the last two did not know for any wavering democrats, that's not reassuring, nor was reporting over the weekend that his staffers are now scripting out his appearances in large print handbook so the point of view photos mapping out his every

step to the podium, nor were moments during his taped interview on abc friday night like this one, after being asked how he would feel if he stays in the race and loses i feel as long as i gave it my all you can just jobs. >> i know i can do. that's what this is the bow. >> well, lead today, a six democratic house member call for the president to leave the race. and this time it was a member of the leadership ranking democrat on the armed services committee, adam smith our constituents are bringing up the country is bringing it up in the white house. sorry, campaign strategy of be quiet and fall in line. and let's ignore it. simply isn't working right now. elections are a choice. and in this field, even in the current situation, joe biden, far and away, the best candidate. but i know in my heart and my soul, in my brain that we can do better. and i know what the stakes are on the senate side, speaking about the president, oregon, jeff merkley said,

serious issues have been, have to be raised. colorado is michael bennett called on the party to have an open debate in his words about the election importantly, however, the president is still has the support of senate majority leader chuck schumer and house minority leader kim jeffries, who said this tonight to cnn's manu raja mr. leader, do you support joe biden staying? is your democratic nominee? >> yes. i made clear that day after debate publicly that i support president joe biden and the democratic ticket my position has not changed the president also has the support of the congressional black caucus. what he does not have and did not have even before the debate was the kind of bedrock support that could see him through this, something seen as david axelrod underscored today he's not winning this race. he's more likely if you just look at the data and talk to people around the country political people around the country it's more likely that he'll lose by a

landslide. then when narrowly, this race and if the stakes are as large as he says, and i believe they are then he really needs to consider what the right thing to do here is so there's that and all the questions about the president's viability as a candidate now swirling around the white house and the campaign. >> there's also more new reporting there. walter reed neurologists, a specialist in parkinson's disease, made a visits over eight months. the white house, and met once with the president's doctor sure questions about it led to in your shouting match today with the president's press secretary has the president been treated for parkinson's know, is he being treated for parkinson's? >> know? he's not. is he taking medication for parkinson's know, i'm not going to confirm a specialist any specialists that comes to come to come to the white house? i am not sure darien confirming names from here it is a security reasons, in fact, going to do that, ed it doesn't matter how hard you push me. it doesn't matter how angry you get with me. i'm not going to confirm a name. it doesn't matter if it's even

in the log. i am not going to do that from here. i am telling you that he has seen are enrol just three times while he has been in this presidency. that's what i'm saying george santos, dr. jonathan reiner, professor of medicine and surgery at george washington university. >> his latest op-ed piece for cnn.com raises questions about president's fitness and begins this way, quote, there's a tenant of medicine that states you only find what do you look for? it closes by saying it's time to look. dr. reiner, thanks for being with us. when you hear the president speaking on morning, joe in some sentences are fully formed, make total sense than some seem to get away from him. that happens with regularity if this was anyone else, the person who your family would you want them to get a cognitive test, is there a reason not to get a cognitive test sure our treatment guidelines support evaluating a person of the president's age. >> if they start to show any symptoms that might possibly be consistent with cognitive

decline. i think it's much more controversial whether we should be testing asymptomatic people over a certain age and i think the jury is really out on that. but once one starts to develop symptoms then i think it's reasonable to evaluate whether that really is the beginning of an organic process that would result in significant cognitive decline and again, there aren't a lot of medical issues that i think would absolutely disqualify somebody from running for president united states but cognitive decline or alzheimer's disease i think would i was in japan a couple of weeks ago and visited hiroshima. and if you ever want to get a sense for how important the power of the president, the united states is. visit hiroshima, and understand the really the magnitude of the power of that office holds. and i think the voting public should have a good sense for whether there is any significant cognitive issue

with any of the candidates including the former president who's running in this in this election. its just, it just makes common sense to me. >> what has first secretary karine jean-pierre was asked about why the president has not had a cognitive test. i just want to play that the neurologist has said it is not warranted. the president himself. he said today, he said it multiple times. and the dr has said this everything that he does day in and day out as it relates to delivering for the american people is a cognitive test what do you make of that argument you know as i said, i said at the outset, you know, you only find what you look for the flip side of the flip side of that is you know, sometimes you don't look for what you what you don't want to find. and if the president had no symptoms at all, i think it makes a lot of sense, not to do

this sort of gratuitous testing but the president had a very concerning performance at the debate. ten days ago even if one discounts any other sort of lapses in his, in his speech over the last several months that one debate raises. i think are important questions and i think at this point, there's a lot of noise surrounding the president's competence, which can be just, you know, erased, if the president has a comprehensive mental status exam. now let's put that away. and then there's nothing else to talk about. and then they can focus on what's really important to this country, which is policy and the differences between the candidates. but this has become a giant distraction and the refusal to do the testing has become the big news. rather, rather than the results of the test. and i think if, if the president is fine, he'll do fine on the exam. and if he is

having significant cognitive issues, then he really needs to know as, well as the voters. >> the white house said that biden had not been treated for taking medications for parkinson's disease. they avoided directly answering questions about the parkinson specialists who visited the white house do you does that the idea of i guess there's a lot of reasons why someone might visit the white house. do you make much of that? >> well we know the president has been evaluated by a neurologist who specializes in movement disorders. dr. o'connor put that in his february summary of the president's annual exam. so we know the president has at least been evaluated once this year by that specialist now the white house medical unit sees a lot of people at the white house and it's certainly very possible that the walter reed physician who has visited there on eight occasions has seen, have seen other people. it will be a different story. and if if

we learn that the neurologist has come, basically once a month to see the president united states. that raises the race is a different issue. and again, i think what we really need to see with both candidates it's just an effort to have some transparency about the health of the people who are running for the highest office, perhaps the most important office on the planet we know nothing about trump, absolutely nothing. we don't know what medications he's taking, but we certainly don't know how much you ways the his note from his physician in november was basically three paragraphs, completely devoid of any data. we actually know a lot about the president. i think they've, they've tried to be very to give a very comprehensive report. it was it was about six pages long and had a lot of data in it. but this one issue has really come to the fore. and i think the best way to dispense with it is

just to be transparent, turn all the cards face up on the table and if there's nothing to see, there's nothing to see. and we don't need this distraction anymore. >> dr. reiner. thank you. joining us now is former biden white house communications director kate bedingfield, the aforementioned david axelrod, ashley etienne, who served as vice president harris's communications director and democratic strategist paul begala david, i mean what do you make of these visits? the white house from a parkinson specialists well i don't know what to make of it. >> i will say this anderson, i i i don't believe the president it has parkinson's disease. they say he doesn't, that he's not being treated for that. i think it would be irresponsible to run if you were being treated for that? i don't i have no question in my mind about that. but questions are going to be raised if you're not simple and direct and about these kinds of issues, it was predictable that people would have curiosity about why this doctor was there given the issues that were

raised by the president's debate performance and the fact that press secretary didn't have direct answers to those questions only intensifies the hunt for answers. the media is going to not we'll take her non-answers at face value at this point members of congress who are trying to decide what to do here and whether they should take up positions on the president's candidacy are probably going to want to know before they do. what is this all about and i think you can be very sure that the house republicans are going to treat this like a ball of wool. and i think at this point they need to be very, very direct on all these questions or they're going to continue to get more questions and it's going to propagate more trouble for the president. they need to jump on this issue and they need to be clear and direct about kate. i mean, if there was no issue

with president biden's cognition and his ability to speak without a teleprompter. an answer questions. why wouldn't the white house, i mean, to david's point? have a press conference and just let the president answer questions from reporters well, he's going to do that this week. >> we know he's going to do that on thursday, so we will see him. we'll see him doing out there and i would also say, you know, in listening to careen today, which by the way, the white house press secretary has an incredibly difficult job and anybody who's worked in white house communications patients can tell you that there's a lot of factors that go into what you make public. there's often it's often the role of the white house press secretary, the white house communications director to advocate, to others internally in the building to make information public. and sometimes you get pushed pushback based on what the lawyers think or what the legislative team thing i have to imagine there was a robust conversation about this inside the white house today. and i think if you look at what corinne said, she answered a number these questions directly. she said he's not being treated for parkinson's. he's not he doesn't have he's not taking medicine for parkinson's and the white

house has put out they're and never talk about about dementia i mean, what the more obvious things which is what the subtext of all this is, isn't it? >> well, but they put out a detailed they put out a detailed a detailed medical analysis of the president every year in which the neurologist says there's no evidence of any of these of these issues. but i would also say, well, you just said parkinson's or ms he did actually didn't specifically saying anything about dementia or any kind of form of dementia, but in this section of the report, he says no reason to be concerned about neurological. i think he was uses the word deficiencies, but but they have put this out annually every single year. it is dramatically more detail than as the doctor was mentioning donald trump has but the other thing i would say is the white house medical unit. and again, anybody who's worked at the white house knows this acts. ashley paul could all speak to this to the medical unit is doctor's office that treats all of the staff. if you have a cold when you're at the

white house and your staff or you go to the medical unit. there are rotating a rotation of doctors who come in who are there too? we to be available to staff. they don't just treat the president. and so i think the desire to jump to conclusions here when the press secretary was clear that he's not being treated for parkinson's. i think is problematic. i would also note if you overlay the president's schedule and i haven't had a chance to do all of this, but if you overlay the president scheduled, you'll see there were times those visitors logs where the doctor was there, the president was out of the country. so i think, you know, look, i understand that people have these questions. i certainly agree with axe at the white house needs to be clear. i think that the press secretary did the best job she could do today with the information that she was allowed to share. but i don't think there's any reason to believe that the president is being treated for pardon? >> okay. paul, i mean, nobody can explain or has offered any explanation for the debate for parents other than a bad night. and the president has said, you know, i was tired from international trips even though it was more than ten days or so

after his last international trip. i mean, nobody can you really has spoken to why sentences, some sentences are totally fine and make total sense and others like you on morning joe trail off into just kind of a word salad do they need to answer that question well, they do the question was best posed by nancy pelosi. >> not exactly a maga trumper speaker emerita pelosi said that i'm paraphrasing, i don't have that but she said, we want to know if this was just a bad night or if there's a condition let's nancy pelosi. she's not exactly a biden hater and she's spent more time with president biden than most people have my own advice to these folks and they're my friends and i love them and i love this president. he's really wonderful man. he's done great things for the country. but they've got to be more transparent. they need to listen to dr. reiner you know, nobody wants their medical records it's released in public. but you know what? he's got his finger on the button, he's got 5,000 nuclear weapons. he's got 1 million

troops under arms under his command and mr. jefferson said this, our third president, when a person assumes a public office, they become public property. so i think both candidates, both mr. trump and mr. biden should should waive doctor patient confidentiality and send their their personal physicians out to say sanjay gupta, right? because local reporter is not going to know the right questions. but we should have more transparency about both of these guys because i think there are really important questions about each of them ashley, i'm in a number of centers are voicing concerns about the president's candidacy tonight. what more would you like to see him to do to try to address these issues well, you know, i've been on the phone all day with ranking file members as well as members of leadership in the house and essentially what i'm hearing anderson is the messages that stopping the bleeding doesn't solve the problem. >> you know what they've said to me is that if we accept the president's word, that it's episodic and nauta condition,

then we should all anticipate that there's going to be another episode and so the fear is that, you know, that the epa so is much more profound comes at a much more consequential time and also comes at a point in which we've run out the clock and there's no, no options left to solve the problem. so that's what i'm hearing from members. i'm also hearing that they were not satisfied with the president's explanation because many of them have seen them in his in their districts and they've seen him perform. they weren't satisfied by this letter that he sent over to day. they feel like they need to touch and feel the president. so i mean, the overwhelming message i'm hearing from members as that is that they're filling like sitting ducks waiting for the next shoe to drop. but they're holding out some level of patients and giving the president sometime, david, i mean, let's talk about time. obviously, he seems determined and defiant and thinks he can do this as long as he feels

that how does anything change what well, i mean, this has always been the case. >> it has always been his decision you know, what he said in that interview was that he didn't expect the leaders of the house and senate to come to him and say you're jeopardizing us and for members and you don't want this to be your legacy said doubt and that's not going to happen there all with me and they don't i don't know what else would intervene. i don't think god almighty is going to play a role here it really has to be the leaders of the congress that letter is sent over this morning was pretty dismissive. i mean, there was no real acknowledgement of the concerns or addressing of the concerns that people had. he basically said, i'm done talking about it. i'm running live with it. and here's my case against donald trump. and that as ashley said, that didn't really resolve the fundamental

questions. so i do think he's trying to run out the clock. i think he very much wants expects to be the nominee he has nato this week that republican convention is next week, and then time gets very short. if you were to make change, the only thing i would say that he should consider is and i've said this from the beginning kenny, can he make a straight face case to the american people as to why they shouldn't be concerned about this and why he is the best candidate for the next four years, we can honor the president's achievements for the last four years and the last 50 years of his public service, which is distinguished, important i think what he's done as president has in many ways has been historic, but that doesn't address his, his ability to do this for another four years and he's seems unable to address that. everyone. thank you. coming up next, congressman bennie thompson, a member of the congressional black caucus meeting tonight with president biden, will talk to him and current congressman mike quigley. one of six now publicly calling on the

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congressional black caucus is meeting tonight with the presidents, just wrapping up the scipy congressman bennie thompson took, pardon it. he joins us now. so does illinois congressman mike quigley, who recently called on the president step aside. congressman thompson, thanks for being with us. what can you tell us about the meeting? how it went well, the president spoke to the black caucus has evening. >> he talked about continuing to support of his administration he talked about the policies that he had put forth that have benefited many of our constituents. and basically just like any other person running for reelection, he asked us for our continued support and you continue to support a message to the congressional black caucus do you what do you make of i mean, are you concerned by what you saw on that debate stage and even an interview since then, sentences that don't make sense well, i think everyone

who's been involved in politics, so anderson, you've been in media, you have good days and bad days, but you don't, judge a person like that. >> you look at his policies from what? but i've seen the policies have worked. we have low unemployment. are children are getting a better education. they able, if they can't afford it we've created policies to help them. we've alleviated the debt, the biden administration has been open on a above-board and so for all of this as you know, the congressional black caucus historically has been very supportive of the democratic nominee joe biden is no different in return, the policies that he's promoted have been very beneficial to our constituencies yeah. so we heard from him, we felt very

good and we understand. but we will take joe biden. any day over convicted felon. >> so congressman, quickly or you're one of the few house democrats saying publicly that the president should step aside. how many of your colleagues do you think feel the same way you do, but don't want to come out publicly and say it i talked to members on the florida night as quite a few. they have to come to terms with that on their own. i know it's a tough choice. i suspect you'll be hearing from quite a few this week regardless of that for you, congressman, was it just the what you saw on that debate stage? what else? what was there anything else this all is focused onto the specter of a second trump presidency. >> and and quite honestly i started talking about this congratulating the president and on an extraordinary record, i thought i was respectful and thoughtful and talking about, but that's snai what this is about you know, i was told this was a bad night and

everything's good no. it's a horrible night and nothing is good. the polls are trending the exact act wrong way in a hurry. a robust candidate would have a hard time turning this around. we have donors walking away. it absolutely critical time you know what i said? beginning was i'm worried about not just who controls the white house, but who controls the house and the senate. you know, there's a very real the concern about a red wave, because as you know, in the presidential years, the top of the ticket is so critical. >> congressman thompson, what do you make about those concerns? >> well, it's a campaign. i hear obviously being a democrat we have differences, but at some point, we come together. my plea to my democratic colleagues is sure you can express yourself. but at some point if, joe biden continues to run the campaign and he's a nominee, we all have to rally behind him. his record speaks

for itself i can imagine just like my friend trump administration, he would be bad for this country. he said it, he will be dictator for a day he'll do everything that's against american values. but as democrats will have to come together work with the biden administration as long as joe biden is running for president. and decides on his own, he'll continue to run. i think a majority, if not overwhelming majority of the congressional black caucus will be within your comes from quickly. i mean, how do you see any change actually happening? i mean, if the president is determined to run his family supports him what, kind of what would it take for him to change his mind no, i don't know the inner workings of the president and his inner circle is family. >> the campaign is most,

president then campaigns are very insular i'd like to think common sense. and the realization that they've done nothing but go backward since the time of the debate and that there's so much at stake. so it was said donors is in money, is it house and senate leadership saying, hey, we're going to get blown out and we're not going to control well, many of these things. and you're not going to clear it up in 2028 you know, i'll tell you next the opening days of a trump presidency are, going to be a continuation of the last days. so the last trump presidency, and i was in the room on january 6. there's no guarantees that our fragile democracy can handle this. so given there's so much at stake, i would like to think that there's people would stand up and show them the reality of the polling numbers. he's losing in wisconsin mark my words in the next day or so it will be another poll that shows him trending downward in that state. all the swing states are being lost right now. he it doesn't have the

ability, the capabilities of changing that course. it has to happen now, a change has to take place kirtzman thompson, i'm just in terms of voter excitement to come from quickly is point. >> this race is going to boil down to a handful of battleground states. it's just like it did the last time 20,000 votes or so in wisconsin and a few other states may made the difference do you worry at all about enthusiasm? i mean, there's one thing about the hardcore democrats coming out to supporting the democratic candidate because the policies but just getting every voter out with excitement, getting them to take time off work or get child care so they can go vote or whatever it may be. do you will not have any concerns and listen well, any person running for office would have concern. but it's all hands on deck democrats know what's

required to get the vote out. we're good at it. we get our friends and labor, we get the environmental community we get everyone who has an interest, women who have an interest and having the right to choose, they need to get out and work all those things come together. form a campaign. hopefully it will be a winning campaign i look forward. if joe biden stays in the race to work, my behind off on his behalf i understand what the pollsters and other folks say, but most of us came to washington despite of the pollsters. and we are still here in spite of the pollsters because most of the people who vote for people like benny thompson, the pollsters never talked to guardsman thompson. i appreciate your time comes from and quickly as well. thank you. thank you. we mentioned wisconsin next cnn's john king heads to a small battleground town there. president biden won it by just 19 votes in 2020. how do people there feel after the president's debate, it's

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>> hosted by john cena all this week at 8:00 on discovery and streaming on max. just moments ago, patty murray, president pro tem of the senate, just put out this statement on the president quoting from a piece of it, more than a week since the debate. >> and after talking to my constituents, i believe president biden must do more to demonstrate he can campaign strong enough beat donald trump. there's such a case to be prosecuted against donald trump, president biden has to lead the charge in making that case. its going to john king joins us now with some thoughts on that. john anderson, that is a senior democratic lawmaker from a very blue state on the west coast, a former colleague, close colleague of joe biden in the united states senate before he was vice president saying, mr. president, you have to do more, not say mr. president gets out the conversations you just had was so telling you president biden is playing, trying to keep the support of his friends in the black caucus. he's trying to keep that support because it's such a foundational element of the democratic party. and it's because his strive for other lawmakers, if the black caucus stays with the president, it's hard for many others democrats

stand up and say, get out, but you have democrats who are looking at all the data. and now a member of the senate leadership who does not want republicans to take charge of the senate, saying mr. president, you need to lead the charge. what does he mean by that? you need to change the numbers. that's what she's saying. they want to see the numbers in the polling change. they want to see a fast anderson. and that's hard to do. the president this morning said, it's just the elites in the democratic party trying to push him out. but i'm just back from another trip on the road, anderson, i want to take you to wisconsin, right. and i want to show you here's milwaukee, down here. this is blue, the president has to win here. then you go just north of milwaukee, you get to ozakin county just over the line down here is a little town called cedarburg. this used to be reliably red country. if you see in the county trump got 55% last time by trump struggled, struggled in the suburbs cedarburg is right down here. we spent some time with voters. they are not elite sanderson many of them democrats, many loyal biden voters, many of them say mr. president, please think about getting out cedarburg, wisconsin fourth of

july the city's legendary parade runs two hours. as a middle america, as it gets locals call cedarburg a living hallmark movie picture as polite. genus lando was parade grand marshal this year and carries to keep it civil theme over to her growing pickleball studio. >> it just really is a place for people to forget what's going on in the real-world. and they can focus on just having fun and getting along do you think they need a place to forget what's going on? >> they do well, because it's extremely you know, people have these anger issues it's so polarizing what's going on. >> yes. signs of polarization, even here and anxiety among democrats is what jumps out now, i think last week hurt so much that he's really got to think of the party the contrary, before he thinks of themselves, lisa and troy reisman on a moonshine business are biden voters and are still stunned by his debate, disaster.

>> quite frankly, i didn't even finish watching. i was really having a hard time watching it yeah. >> it was definitely scary. the first people that i call where my parents are really old and i said, what did you guys think about that? because obviously i still know where i'm going to vote when mike board is going to lie but they don't and they were equally as scared, tiny cedarburg population 12,000 is a new battleground community within one of america's most headed of battleground states. not long ago, it voted lopsided republican. but donald trump's struggles in america's changing suburbs. he won cedarburg in 2016, but with just 55%. joe biden won in 2020, just barely by 19 votes biden's voters say a repeat win here, suddenly feels less likely. >> we just need fresh leadership, new leadership, and somebody who's a little bit more i liked joe biden is as a person, i think he stands for good things but i'm just not sure he's he's there anymore

to lead the country. >> think of the future think of our kids and grandkids and maybe you should step aside only because there's a future doesn't look too bright with the other side taken over allen that barella is a fiscal conservative and socially liberal hi guys. like many here, disgusted with the choices. >> there's something wrong. we're going to keep going for the better of two evils. i mean, it's something's got to change. we need a logical party, we need an independent party that makes sense. >> that barella leans biden because he can't vote for trump. >> it's embarrassing how he speaks to people, how he treats people, how he responds to other countries. >> what was going through your mind watching the debate, watching biden, try to get through his words was just bad. >> just bad. now, everybody has a bad day. i get it. i get it. but the thing is, is this was a time that was your time to

shine. >> did he look to you like someone who could serve for president for 4.5 more years. >> i don't i think that what's let me put it this way. i'm voting for the party right now do you think vice president harris is qualified to be president? no i don't think so but should my vote for joe biden anyway, for the debate that barella thought biden could eat, got another wisconsin when now big doubts yet he worries switching candidates might backfire who's going to do it? >> and it's so late in the election process that trump will be a shoo in anyway, that barella moved here to care for his aging mother. his winds were made in california and sold in small towns, cedarburg with a flashy slogan the draws fewer complaints now than when he first opened shop five years ago. >> i assume the demographic change a little bit. so now you're kind of getting on a, an, even keel between conservative and liberal genus olinto calls herself an independent libertarian, a good

teacher, very competitive. look past trump voter, very unhappy with the presence. >> this is the best our country can do there's certain things i feel just overall sadness for. and to me the biggest issue is that a house divided cannot stand that's there's truth to that. and i'm seeing our country erode instead of thrive so lando can't see herself voting biden, but won't commit to voting. trump. proof. there biden setbacks aren't automatically points for trump. but in politics like pickleball, it helps to set the pace interrupts treasured tradition here. but as the election year calendar turns, another page, the mood change in this battleground is stunning what the biden campaign has a theory that voters who are concerned about biden's health aren't going to turn around and vote for trump. does that there recapture the whole picture? >> it's a risky theory, anderson, the biden voters we spoke to even the ones who

said, please, mr. president, step aside, say if he does not, they will vote for him in the end. but those are strong biden voters. your choice whenever he's had, he called his parents they're still undecided. what are they going to do in a place like cedarburg? there are a lot of soft republicans or independents who don't like trump. but if they saw the debate and like move, people at a picnic approached me and said, here's the, here's the danger. if it's just trump trump-biden. sure. maybe they stay with biden, but remember 2016 third-party candidates matter third-party candidates matter, they're already one or two on the ballot, and wisconsin several on the ballot in michigan, if there are third party candidates on the ballot and you are demoralized and don't vote for biden. you have an option, you will have an option. and we learned in 2016 that option could make the difference and how critical is it was conston to biden's path to victory. >> simple math. let me pull out to the 2016 map. you see donald trump wins pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. these three tend to go together. the three of them, there are democratic states, the demographics are lined up, but donald trump flipped them the great blue wall, right? and he's present, united states, joe biden flipped them back and he's present united states,

wisconsin, only ten electoral for votes, yes, you can mathematically make it up somewhere else. but it's part of the democratic blue wall. if you are a democrat, you need it. john king. thanks so much as ahead, a look at the former president's return to the campaign trail this week's democrats continue to grapple with what happens now. >> did you see we put out his outdated dmv has two forms of my id think of all the places can expose your inference lifelock monitors and millions of data points for identity. >> there's a problem. we fix it, guaranteed deal dash.com, online auctions since 2009, this playstation 5s sold for only $0.50. this ipad pro sold for less than $34, and this nintendo switch sold for less than $20, go to deal dash daughter come and see how much you can save. >> as a gynecologist, i'm embarrassed to say this. we use deodorant on our armpits and we kinda make women feel bad about body odor that they get on other parts of our body. that's why i created lumi whole body deodorant for pits, privates and beyond. it's

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kind of platforms is dozens and dozens of pages of a detailed outline of the vision of the future of the party that is just not what we saw today. this is a much shorter document. it is much more vague and it really a nor some of the hard line republican stances that have been in place for decades for example, abortion, the part of the war on abortion in this platform is just severely watered down. there's no mention of any kind of national abortion ban. remember, this is something donald trump doesn't think it's a political winner and has said that he would not sign if it came across his desk. the other interesting part of this platform is no reference to traditional marriage, particularly as between a man and woman. this is not something that donald trump believes should be part of the republican platform. and the last one is something that is a stark difference from what we have seen in decades at the republican party, which there's no emphasis on reducing the national debt in instead, the emphasis is on curbing inflation. now the rest of it really sounds exactly like what you would hear at a

trump rally talks about immigration mass deportations stopping the weaponization of the government. but overall, anderson, what this does, it just shows the cemented grip that donald trump has on a very changed republican party. >> and what about the trump campaign's game plan in the run-up to the convention. what do we know better well, right now, they're just preparing in general what that convention is actually going to look like getting those speakers in line. but it comes to messaging. there are two schools of thought here. one, they are going to mention joe biden, but remember, there's a reason donald trump has been laying low. he's essentially watching joe biden and the democratic party spiral by themselves. he doesn't need to insert his own messaging, but you are likely to hear a taxon kamala harris, as they are they're trying to figure out what exactly is going to happen next. also expect to hear this argument that if joe biden steps down from the ticket, that he should no longer be president. that is something that republicans are really beating the drum on. and that's messaging we expect to hear at that convention as

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>> next tropical depression. beryl is moving through texas and i'm headed for arkansas bringing threat of tornadoes and heavy rain early this morning, the storm made landfall along the gulf coast, not far from sergeant texas as a cat one, hurricane. beryl long leash, powerful winds, dangerous storm surge, and he's you see from this drone video, large part of the community he was flooded farther north in houston highways and city streets turned into rivers as man was trapped on top of his pickup, rope was lowered from the latter of a fire truck and thankfully, he made it to dry land cnn meteorologist derek van dam joins us now from houston. so what are you seeing on the ground? >> yeah. anderson, i'm seeing a very battered city of houston as we were driving in, we saw a toppled billboards, toppled trees, downed power lines. and of course, the flooding that inundated this very road. it's receded since then but this is a major thoroughfare for people who work in downtown houston

trying to exit the city. this was completely covered in several feet of water, not three hours ago. this storm has had a dubious track record rewriting history, books. and now it made its third landfall. first of the atlantic 2024 hurricane season here in the united states and slamming into the texas coastline, where does it go from here? well, that's the big question we know it's impacted houston in a major way. there was at one point this morning, over 400 calls to 911 per hour asking for assistance there is of course, power outages significant here within harris county where houston metropolitan is located, even the mayor of houston saying that he does not have a power at his very house as well? so where's the storm going? well, it's exiting quickly out of texas and it's got its eyes set on the arkansas and mid mississippi valley and it's bringing a

tornado threat along with it. there's already been multiple tornado warnings this time across louisiana, arkansas, and into missouri. but, you know, when we compare that to the wins that we experienced here in houston we had wind gusts in excess of 85 miles per hour. that is a category one hurricane. last time that happened here in houston was 2008 from hurricane height so that's really saying something. and, you know, with the storm creating so much wind damage, it also increased the power outages. now currently sitting at two-and-a-half million plus customers without power. and the problem with that is here in houston, we have a heat advisory going forward over there next couple of days. so without that ability to cool your home down with air conditioning, no electricity, it is going to be a very difficult next couple of days. the good news out of all of this it's not a hurricane harbor. this system is moving quickly and it's got its eyes