bash about her health, she quickly turned the conversation back to what was most important to her i am grateful for there and i look forward to educating people more about this very it is devastating disease. but at this point in time i want juneteenth to be part of american history over and over again. and so that will little children begin to study their early history. bacon study juneteenth as part of america's, our focus and if i get that, i can tell you that it will truly be a dream come true our family said in a statement that she will be dearly missed, but her legacy will continue to inspire all who believe in freedom, justice, and democracy sheila jackson lee was 74-years-old thanks for being with me. >> smerconish starts now so

what's it going to take? >> i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. i can think of only one more shoe to drop for president biden's precarious candidacy. the delegates directly or through their silence, we've already heard from every other foundation of the democratic party, the leadership senate majority leader chuck schumer, house minority leader hakeem jeffries, former house speaker, nancy pelosi the intelligencia, the new york times editorial page of the washington post editorial page, david ignatius, as recline nate silver the members for democratic senators now and more than 30 democratic house members have called for him to step aside. it's hard to keep up with all the announcements yesterday, congressman seth moulton of massachusetts published a heartfelt essay in the boston globe. moulton said that he treasured the president as a mentor and friend someone who is vice president would invite them to breakfast at the

official residents and teach them about congress but on the 80th anniversary of d day, he saw the president in a small group at normandy and quote, for the first time, he didn't recognize me soon thereafter came to the debate at which we all watched moulton's reflection was reminiscent of george clooney coming forward post-debate to share what he'd witnessed two weeks prior at a hollywood fundraiser that he had hosted clooney shared that essay pre-publication with president obama, who apparently didn't talk them out of its publication. political reported yesterday that the party has quote, run out of patience and believes a decisive moment is now at hand. the president faces a mountain of polling data which shows him trailing donald trump in all the battleground states. and frozen campaign funds. an ap poll released this week shows the two thirds of democrats, two thirds of democrats one him replaced a finding the totally belies the president's assertion that this is only the sentiment of party elites against this backdrop. nbc

reporting that biden family members have discussed what an exit might look like. that's an extraordinary development given the repeated denials from the president from his campaign and the white house of any process expect of him standing down as recently as friday, the president released a statement that he will return to the campaign trail next week with the democratic convention less than five weeks away, it feels like it's building to a crescendo. uncharted waters lie ahead not the least of which is who and how would he be replaced? the new york times reports that before the debate, biden told confidants that he had a far better chance to beat trump than vice president kamala harris. polling shows her approval rating about as a bismol as his so will he endorse her a bluelabs draft memo obtained by politico showed for democrats running stronger against trump in swing states than biden or harris. senator mark kelly, governors wes moore, josh shapiro, and

gretchen whitmer i've long believed the best way to pick the democratic nominee is to see the party a-listers on the same stage, james carville suggested town halls in every region in the country. george clooney said likewise a georgetown law professor at a venture capitalist proposed a so-called blitz primary they envision weekly forums moderated by cultural icons like michelle obama, oprah, even taylor swift congressman james clyburn has said that if biden steps aside a mini primary would be appropriate and politico now reports that in a meeting with fellow california democrats, just last week former speaker nancy pelosi stressed the need for an open process to choose the party's next nominee. if president biden steps aside in an effort to avoid the appearance of a kamala harris coronation still, there are several reasons why biden might not go with the competition idea. and instead endorse harris. >> first. he might appreciate

her on the merits and believed that after three-and-a-half years as his vice president, she's best suited for the job second, it's harris who could most easily control the $91 million the campaign has on hand, which went including allied democratic organizations grows to 240 million third, biden might still be smarting over the way he was treated as vice president by president obama and not want to repeat the slight. he was discouraged by obama from running in 2016 and in 2020, obama didn't endorse biden until biden was the last man standing and there's another more fraught reason. biden might be inclined to endorse harris. he might feel beholden to endorse a candidate who could be the nation's first female president. >> and a woman of color. >> the president has continued to draw political strength from the minority community. the same constituent since see the turned around his then more urban 2020 campaign in south carolina's primary. so what

might break the apparent impasse? >> those delegates, it's quite remarkable to me that they are the only democratic constituency we've not yet heard from but they could have some leverage. >> they could conceivably determined the outcome convention rule 13. dj says this, delegates elected to the national convention pledged to a presidential candidate. shall in all good conscience, reflect the sediments of those who elected them no wonder then that the biden campaign has been working the phones and trying to prevent what could be the final rebellion the, nation has wondered who would win the tug of war between the president and the democratic leaders. the two sides are engaged in mutual assured destruction. this is a moment of ugliness, unparalleled in modern american political history and ultimately it seems, it can only end in the president's eventual capitulation because in a democratic system governance depends on the consent of the govern that consent is gone now, among democrats, when

president biden eventually accepts that reality, a new nominee will be left to cobble together the remains for what both sides regard as the existential mission of defeating president trump i want to know what you think. go to my website right now. it's we're kaddish.com. answer today's poll question is kamala harris. now the strongest candidate, the democrats can field joining me now is tia writen, an assistant professor of political science at virginia commonwealth university and amie parnes, senior political correspondent for the hill, where she wrote this piece published today, democrats stalemate over biden candidacy escalates. amy, thanks for being here. you say, quote, he's doug in, meaning the president, what's the very latest the latest is he still dug in michael. >> i mean, i think this is why we're at a stalemate. you have both sides pushing really hard. you saw what happened this week with the former house speaker, nancy pelosi. a lot of people

think that she has been working quietly behind the scenes. a lot of people are they're convinced that president obama, his silence speaks for you know, for everyone as well. and so you have all of these, these forces pushing and pulling. and here we are. but the thing is the big question is how long can this last? and i think you're right when you say that president obama, president biden has said for years he said it in 2020 that he's the only one who can beat trump. he's saying it again to allies. he's saying, look, i've been tested, i beat him. i'm the only one who can beat him and he's convinced himself and everyone around him of that. and then i think he thinks that if kamala harris is going to go in and she's tied with him in the polls that he might as well run anyway, he's been tested, he's the president. he has an agenda, a successful agenda, a lot of people have said so why not? so this is where we are dr. writen, in your opinion, can the vice president defeat donald trump well, the vice

president has already defeated donald trump. >> that's how she was elected vice president. >> right. but do you think if she's the presidential candidate, she can defeat president trump and this political climate that is not possible, but it has nothing to do with vice president harris's ability to do the job and has more to do with the fact that as a black woman woman of color, she's going to face obstacles that her opponent would not face. >> so she's going to face discrimination, sexism due to her race and her 17. and those are obstacles that are man-made, but those are the obstacles that she's going to have to contend with. >> so if that's if that's your assessment that she can't beat trump for those wrong reasons? right. because i think you're in part saying the country wouldn't vote for a woman of color should she nevertheless, be the nominee if president biden decides he's not going to run i think in right now where

we stand, the democratic party says that they stand for the democratic process. >> that they're protecting the democratic institutions. if that's the case, really, really shouldn't be a conversation on whether or not biden is going to bow out during the primary season, 14 million americans voted for joe biden as the presidential candidate and kamala harris as the vice president. >> so really what we're, what we're really talking about is if we are saying are at the democratic party is saying that we value a democracy and its institutions we need to honor the process and so at this point, i'm not certain as to why the question is, if he bows out because there is no democratic process that really answers that question right? but one more follow-up with you and then i'll go back to amy, but you've seen the polling data two thirds of democrats are saying that they don't think he should be the standard bearer you've got now all of the democratic leadership

essentially on record as saying likewise, i think president obama, biden his public silence is also probably a factor in all of this. you can't turn away from all that information, can you i mean, i think what it comes down to is who's going to vote, who's going to mobilize. >> and what i think we continue to forget is that you know, in 20 90% of black lemon came out to vote and we know that when black woman mobilize and vote, that they really can turn the tide of elections. whether that'd be at the national or the state level. and one thing that we also know is that when you're talking about an oppressed group, they know what's at stake i'm a, black woman know what's at stake if donald trump wins a second term. so the question, yes, in terms of polling, i think polling is important, but i also think what it comes down to is whether or not we mobilize voters to turn out to vote on election day so we know

that polling is only so efficient. so far, right? it, it's something sort of like a snapshot in time, but looking at the trajectory, we know that those are not always reliable and we should be thinking about what does that mean? should we be basing our ideas about democracy on polling? and i also agree with this idea that in some ways biden suggests that it's a very elitist view, right? we talked, we're talking about the democratic leadership we're not talking about some of these everyday voters and everyday people that will try to vote for i'm sure that's what that is what president amy that is what president biden is saying through his representatives, but it's not two thirds of elites who were polled by the ap and norc. >> it's two-thirds of democrats. i think my conversation with getaria explains getaria explains just how complicated amie parnes this all becomes. should he decide he's not going to run right yes.

>> it becomes much more complicated and you're hearing already. i mean, there is the party is divided. and then if this happens, if he decides to step down, there's the potential of it being even more so divided for a little, a little while because there are lots of people who feel like kamala harris, this is this is her right to be the nominee that she was campaigning with, that she was his vice president. she deserves this. and then there's this other school of thought that an open convention is what's needed donors in particular, i've been told by so many donors are really pushing this it's idea, they want, they don't believe she can win. they want an open convention. they think that that's the best way. they think that can generate excitement. but then you're hearing a lot of pushback from lawmakers. aoc came out yesterday saying, look, an open convention would be a disaster. and plus michael, you add in, we're running hang out of time. this is 100 days, almost till the election. it takes time to organize, it takes time to build name recognition. if,

if kamala harris is going to pick someone, it takes time to build a ground game. and so i think this is worrisome and problematic for a lot of democrats as they see this at the time so i'll take the final word and say, if you build it, will they come, you've heard me say, i like in the abstract, the idea of a mini primary. >> i'll take congressman clyburn's words or a blitz primary. but if the vice president is one of those candidates, and we all expect that she would be are any of the other so-called a-listers is josh shapiro really going to want to come forward? is gavin newsom going to want to are they really going to get on that stage with her or in the end that she win by acclamation. thank you, both. i appreciate you both. that's an interesting conversation. so i'm glad you were here. what are your thoughts hit me up on social media. i'll read some responses throughout the course. there's to the program from the world of youtube. what do we have fine line here. i think he has to endorse her. pick a white male for vp. i'm

sure it's a decision that well, i mean, there's a fundamental decision that the president is wrestling with and assuming he decides that for the reasons ai articulated at the outset, that he's not going to stay in the next important question is, does he endorse her or does he not endorse her if he endorses or she becomes the candidate even without his endorsement for all the reasons that dr. reiner and i were just having that conversation is anyone else willing to get in on such an expedited basis and compete with her i don't know but i think this week is gonna be a critical week. >> i want to know what you think go to my website at smerconish.com. answer today's poll question is kamala harris. now the strongest candidate? the democrats can field up ahead, a video timeline of the assassination attempt on president trump's life is a indictment of a dereliction of duty. so says gerald posner, who has written the definitive books on both the jfk and martin luther king

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gunman new details in the timeline leading up to the failed assassination attempt are now revealing major lapses by the secret service. about three hours before the shooting, the gunman was spotted acting suspiciously near the magnetometers at the security screening area. the gunman was carrying a device that hunters use for long distance shooting that information was passed along to the service video obtained by wtae captured him lurking just passed the secured perimeter of the rally for more than an hour about 19 minutes before the shooting officers had lost track of the gunman's whereabouts until he was seen climbing on a roof outside the security perimeter? trump took the stage at about 6:05 p.m. without his team knowing about a suspicious male identified by law enforcement multiple times with a hunting device. many lawmakers like senator kevin cramer now asking the obvious question the counter sniper team was aware of a threat on a rooftop, 150 yards from the

stage, knowing identifying a potential threat of a person on a rooftop with a rangefinder how is he let donald trump get on the stage at 6:09 several rally attendees noticed a gunman on the roof or a nearby building for at least a minute and 57 seconds and flagged it to police good luck because we have an officer. he dangerous we have we have people local police officers were apparently inside and around the same building, the gunman used to position himself about 100 150 yards from the events podium with only a few seconds left before all hell broke loose, a man in the crowd yelled out a potential threat the scene

erupted into chaos after the former president was shot and fell to the ground. secret service director kimberly cheatle. now facing several questions about the security breach was that perimeter too small? >> the perimeter encompassed the area that we needed to secure for the event that we had on that day what happened? it's a terrible incident and should never happen. and we are obviously going to make sure that moving forward, we take whatever lessons that come out of this and adjust accordingly joining me now is gerald posner. >> he's a pulitzer prize finalist, forbes contributor, new york times bestselling author of case closed, lee harvey oswald and the assassination of jfk and killing the dream james earl ray and the assassination of martin luther king junior is new piece is called a dereliction of duty. serious problems with the shooting timeline. gerald, let's begin with that perimeter that

director cheatle just referenced. i'm putting on the screen a map of the local oh, my god, how the perch used by the gunman was not within the inner ring of that security perimeter. is mind-boggling your thoughts? >> you're absolutely right. michael, look, you know, i've studied security for secret service vote on it, kennedy and king assassinations and later on, ronald reagan and the attempted shooting of gerald ford. this is the greatest breach and dropping the ball in terms of secret service security, i've ever seen, and it starts with what you just said. they go up there as you know, a day beforehand and they start to look at areas that could be vulnerable, where a shooter could be located, then they draw perimeter line, which means more security inside you get checked for a gun. if you come in there and a little less security outside and how that building with the direct line of sight to the stage, only 130 darts away a third less than oswald was shooting it. in essence that at john f kennedy

in 1963, how that wasn't included. i just don't understand that i never heard it expressed that way before. a third less than oswald had with kennedy. let's run through some of the other evidence. this video of the rally attendees, can we play that again for gerald and hear his analysis as they're flagging what they are seeing, roll the tape and jerrald, you react very is right there right. >> thanks thank you. can see the shooter there on the far left-hand corner of the roof there's a figure laying down there and then what's happening? >> there's somebody on the tape asking the question everyone is wondering a look and then people point out again to the roof where you couldn't speak crooks on the roof, actually, changing his position from his right side to rolling on his stuff out, getting ready for the shooting gerald i'm wondering where our law

enforcement at this moment we have a still image, as you can see, the shooter repositioning himself, put this still image up. >> i think what i'm seeing there as law enforcement right on right on the cusp of the building itself. >> you know, michael, so we now know there were 22 secret service agents there at that rally, and that includes the cyprus teams, 30 or 40 state police, the local police to come from butler county. there were seven who were really doing traffic control in one sniper, we're not sure if that's a state policeman or a local, but there right? at that building and inside the building is sort of the the counter sniper team that butler county emergency services has. they're looking out the windows to see if they see anyone from their liner site that might be a threat to the president when the threat to the president is on the roof directly above them, you couldn't make this up in a movie is part of the problem that the left-hand and the right-hand are not in communication. ai once did advance work for vice president

george herbert walker bush. there were countdown meetings. everybody was in the same room. it was a different era. we didn't have the technology of communications that you have today, but i'm getting the impression that although these folks are shouting out the bystanders what they see, maybe they're telling law enforcement who are not relaying it to the secret service, your thoughts no. >> you're absolutely right. first of all, there is there is a communications channel that is run from the central command post if somebody jumps on that communications channel, and you has gun is supposed to go out immediately to the close protection of the secret service near the stage of the candidate. and they hear gun and their immediate reaction is supposed to rush the candidate no matter what else happens. not the county to the foreign. make sure that protected and get them out of that. that never happened. and the key here, michael is notwithstanding everything that happens beforehand at 5:51, secret service identifies this as a person of interest. they put them on their radar in at 5:50, 32 minutes later, they notify the snipers. that's the report that was coming out of

senate confidential hearing the other day together with the secret service head, and then seven minutes later, the secret service. au case trump to take the stage. he goes on as six authree. so what i want to know is how is it that you notify the sniper teams that you might have a possible suspect of interest somewhere on the ground and seven minutes later, you okay. the president but to go on, that's really the left-hand not knowing what the right hand is doing gerald, thank you for your analysis. >> you're the one that i wanted to hear from. i appreciate you thank you, michael social media reaction from the world of x, i believe. what do we have? it says this the level, of incompetence is stunning. why is the secret service not holding press conferences? oh my god, that is my point after every catastrophe we see our elected officials and different agency heads standing in parkas and sweatshirts and so forth with the insignia of the state or the you can see where is that

press conference? where is the opportunity for all of them so that they can't finger point to be standing in front of us on one stage. and by the way, if any member of any of those investigative agencies it takes issue with our timeline presentation. it's your fault because you haven't come out and told the public what the public needs to know. it's been a week. we have a right to know in the end, we're going to find out and what you're doing and i hate to be so negative and condemning of law enforcement because i'm a great supporter of law enforcement. i'm talking about the public relations aspect of this. i think director cheatle i'm looking at you and i'm saying you're responsible for the internet going nuts with all of these crazy conspiracy theories. you want to rein them in, then tell us what the facts are. otherwise, they're going to run rampant. it's terrible i want to remind you, go to my

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the program. unfortunately, know she's not the strongest candidate and black women might sit it out if she isn't at the top of the ticket but i think shapiro or beshear would win easily. well, rhonda, that's that's the dynamic that i was discussing with dr. write-in does she deserve it on the merits? how will she be perceived? i happen to think it would be the best interest of the vice president or anyone who emerges from the process to make it competitive. otherwise, it's going to look like a coronation hisham and in the same way that some say jeez, did she really earn it in 20 2020? she dropped out of that election before a single vote was cast. biden selected, or nonetheless, because he had said in advance that he wanted it to be a woman. as you you can put to rest a lot of that scuttlebutt by by having a shortened process, the brits had about this month it's time and they ran a full election. democrats could get it done before the convention. so to calm the global cyber outage, it hit airlines, it hit banks, businesses, even emergency services, according to one

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she said, your social media is blowing up with, conspiracy theories about last saturday and some things just occurred to me. i have a name for you. ready for this? andrew cuomo andrew cuomo. do you remember in the midst of covid every single day? he would face the media and he would have a press conference and he would reveal whatever they knew at the time relative to covid. that's what's needed right now by all branches of the government investigating the assassination attempt of former president trump every day, they should be in front of the cameras and answering all questions so as to put to rest some well, the craziness that's my idea. where's andrew cuomo airlines and banks casinos, package deliveries and emergency services around the world, recovering today from what could be the largest tech outage in history. the root cause was linked back to a software update issued by a us based cybersecurity firm called crowdstrike the global glitch caused many computers using

microsoft's windows operating system to crash and triggered more than 5,000 us flight cancellations on friday, 911911 services down in multiple states and impacted banks in the uk, south africa, new zealand, and australia hackers took advantage of the chaos by building phony websites that offered solutions to the outage. but in reality were designed to steal a user's data and breach their devices, crowdstrike ceo says the underlying issue was fixed and confirmed with a senior white house official that the outage was not caused by a malicious attacker joining me now is richard clarke, the nation's first cyber czar, former white house counterterrorism coordinator, special adviser to three previous us presidents. he's co-author of cyber war, the next threat to national security and what to do about it. and the fifth domain defending our country, our companies, ourselves in the age of cyber threats richard clarke, welcome back. do you buy the explanation we've been provided yeah.

>> michael, i do i'll talk to enough people in affected companies and enough cyber experts around the country. i think the explanations true, but what it reveals is a shocking lack of quality assurance on the part of crowdstrike and that's the larger policy issue, which is if we're going to rely on these companies, shouldn't they have to have some standards that they live up to or be liable? they're not liable. you can't sue them they make sure of that. >> so if you are a critical software that the world depends on you need to have some regulation of your quality. look, we all need constant software updates, but there are ways to do it. one, test the thing before you push it out number two, don't send it out to everybody at the same time. that gives us another test. >> and number three have some ability to roll it back.

>> the problem that we have now is people have to go around to each individual computer and opened it up and roll it back. there ought to be a way a safe secure way of rolling back software updates when they're a mistake. we've seen this happened many, many times. it's about time we fixed it for larger. >> how likely that it happens again? >> oh it'll happen again. it'll happen again to may not be crowdstrike this time, but it will be someone that the software services that we all depend on but the world depends on our lives now, depend on it we regulate seat belts in cars, but we don't regulate software and we rely a lot more on software frankly, than we do on cars if you're running a big company to lesson here is, don't rely on one software so richard clarke does not believe that it was malicious actor, but nonetheless, mired a

playbook. >> be generated from this for china, for north korea, for putin, et cetera, et cetera. >> putin's already done it. michael putin had his intelligence service attack as software vendor that no one had ever heard of. but everybody was using called solar winds. and in the software update, he put a spy package that wasn't detected for nine months and was on tens of thousands of government and private sector machines. the software update, attack vector is well-known and we have to fix it. would have to fix it how despicable that there are some bad actors out there trying to take advantage of this by immediately logging on and saying, hey, here we are, we can help you with your issues. >> and indeed, they were no good next i think the rule for everyone on the internet is know who you're talking to,

know who you're dealing with just because they're on the web, just because they're on instagram or something, doesn't mean that they're real or doesn't mean that they're honest whether it's software updates or anything else no, we're talking to double-check before you click richard clarke. >> thank you so much. appreciate your expertise as always. >> thank you michael you still have time to vote on today's poll question at smerconish.com, i understand there's a lot of voting. >> i haven't peaked. i don't know how it's going. is kamala harris now the strongest candidate, the democrats can field when you're there, sign up for the free and worthy daily newsletter, you'll get exclusive content from great political cartoonists, steve breen drew this for us this week every weekday morning. here are the five things you need to know to start your day cnn's five things with kate bolduan, streaming weekdays on

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