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quote, intends to earn and win the nomination democrats greeting biden's exit with an avalanche of cash to the tune of more than 46 million bucks and counting energized by even the prospect of a harris top of the ticket campaign. i want to bring in cnn, white house correspondent priscilla alvarez. she's in rehoboth beach, delaware with the president. i'd states priscilla what have you learned about how this seismic and i do mean seismic announcement even came to pass after weeks of defiance well, ultimately the last 48 hours were pivotal. the president is self-isolating in his delaware residence here because of his positive covid diagnosis. and it was during that time that he was also deliberating and reflecting we're now learning that the president on saturday evening huddled with his senior advisers who were here in rehoboth beach and they assess

the polling. they talked about what democratic lawmakers had been pleading the president to do, which was to step aside. and it was during that time that the president was starting to come to the decision that he was going to drop out of the race. he also, of course, consulted with his family. they have always been pivotal in almost all of his decisions over the course of his political career. but then today was ultimately the day that the president decided to announce that he was going to drop out of the race. and this was so tightly held that it was only one minute before the president published his letter publicly. but he was on the line with the senior white house and senior campaign officials to advise them or sorry, to notify them that he was going to withdraw. and of course, this shook the political world as the president announced that he was not going going to seek reelection and then shortly thereafter said that he was going to endorse vice president

kamala harris and urged the democratic party to get in line and to support her. now sources also telling me that the vice president didn't know about this decision until today. that's when she was informed by the president that he was going to step aside from the presidential election for the presidential race. and then they spoke multiple times over the course of the day. and vice president kamala harris has since then been making multiple calls also democratic officials over the course of the day to try to earn their endorsement that we should also note, laura, that in that letter from the president, he said that he was going to address the nation. we're still trying to get clarity on when exactly that is. of course, the president is still recovering and from covid, the white house doctor has provided routine updates to say that he is improving, that his symptoms are improving, but we still don't know when or where the president wants to address the nation. the white house putting out his guidance this week, which doesn't shed any light in terms of what his schedule

is going to look like as he is in recovery certainly that is going to be a speech that all eyes will be on as the president tries to seek some sort of unity in his party, which for weeks now has been completely divided on whether thrown out. he was the best candidate for them in this divisive election year priscilla alvarez, great reporting, please keep us informed. >> also, joining me now are cnn political listen commentators. we got ashley allison, ron brownstein, and scott jennings. so much is happening right now. it's almost like news through the fire hose. again, let me begin with you hear ashley because there's probably an incredibly hard decision. i mean biden biographer evan osnos whole is just in the last hour that some white house staffers felt the news was a quote, bitter defeat for for others. if i could kind of a relief, i wonder how you felt when you heard that news well, look, i mean, joe biden has been an excellent president. >> he still has six more months to serve and i he put up post

on instagram. i said run through the tape, joe, i'm finished wrong. you still have executive power to do executive orders to continue to forgive student loan debt, which is such an important issue for so many young americans and then people my age suffering with that debt of course, it was a hard decision. joe biden believed he could get the job done, but he talked to some of his closest advisers and family and came to the conclusion that it's not about him, it's about our country, it's about our party unlike his former opponent, donald trump, who continue would lost in 2020 continues to be the party nominee, continue to put candidates up in the midterms that lose. so yes, it was a terribly hard decision for joe biden because he cares what happens to this country, but he also did something extremely historical and passing the torch to kamala harris as vice president. and i think history will remember him well i mean,

ron, i let one word i keep hearing tonight has been energy. it's a jolt, it's a, you it's an adrenaline rush. all of these things are all being described how will the energy though translate into the general electorate is going to be a flash in the pan or sustained know, i think for democrats, that will be much more energy than they would have been sticking with biden i mean, no one in the democratic party he believes that kamala harris is a sure thing. >> there are lots of questions about whether she can beat trump anymore than biden could. but i think democrats felt a certain amount of, you inevitability to the biden situation they have stayed had the airwaves to themselves this year. laura, in the swing states almost completely, almost unrebutted, spending tens of millions of dollars and biden's approval rating in those states was no better now than it is nationally, which suggests that there are an awful lot of voters who are basically, who are basically done with it. and had tuned him

out, at least with harris you get a chance to reset the race creates a new contrast. suddenly donald trump is the, is the older guy and i think the version i've heard from many democratic strategist this in pollsters and consultants is that yeah. her floor might be lower. we don't know how good she will be at issue was not a great candidate in 2020, but her ceiling is almost certainly higher and that was a risk that seemed i think to most democrats were taking at this point i mean, she's got four more years of experience as well. and now the incumbency aspect of it is going to factor. and there is the name recognition as the vice president. and i do wonder if the notions of electability become moot compared to the conversations four years ago, but gottlieb, bring you in here because the trump campaign has been preparing for weeks for the possibility of running against someone who is not president joe biden, although in mawasi biden was the focus, how does this moment change the race for the republicans well,

they're prepared for harris because i think the republicans assumed all along that if biden jumped out of the race, that the democrats would have no choice but to go for harris even though she has limitations along the lines of what ron just described there already out with an ad tonight basically saying all the biden stuff that you don't like is the harris stuff that you don't like? >> she's been right there by his side during the inflation crisis, during the border crisis. and on top of that, she has to answer for her own role in the coverup of joe biden's condition? i do have to address and actually, i love it. >> it's got when you say the idea, i don't want you i want you to finish your point, but i do understand what you mean by her role in the chyron. you mean that the accusation that i'm how she was aware of some infirmity or that going forward. she was aware of something different. what do you mean yeah. >> i mean, i assume you've read all the articles about how this white house spent years trying to hide from the public. >> just how bad joe biden had gotten and i mean, she's right

there. she was on tv every week saying he is sharp. he's strong behind closed doors. he's his sharp as attack the best we've ever seen i mean, i'm sorry, but she was in on this and it's obviously not true, otherwise, joe biden would be wouldn't be dropping out of this race. actually, by the way let me ask you you also suggest, oh, wait you can hold on. >> hold on one second. >> we can all hold, but it will be after i speak skye on this point what is the difference? and i'm asking how they're going to be able to mark at this point what's the difference? why would there be accusations again, say speaker of the house? johnson or anyone who's met with president biden over the past several months or a year, suggests that they too were knowledgeable about what you are intimating. how do you, as a strategist and how do you to the electorate? make that distinguishing feature so that you're only targeting what she would know versus any member of congress yeah. >> i mean, what you know, why

should we expect kamala harris? no. anything, right? she's only the vice president united states, who has been sent out time and again for months and years to tell us how sharpen as attack that, that joe biden has looked at the reporting on. this is clear. >> every major media news outlet in this country is now deeply reporting on all the steps that were taken to try to hide from the public what was going on with joe biden and you've got a litany of people from ms white house, from the congress and the top ranking democrat who was part of this litany going out into the public and lying to us about how he is was kamala harris. >> so i suspect what they're going to say is not only is she in on all of the policy deficiencies you're mad about? she was also on the line and that's going to call into question her credibility. that's my point. i think it'll be an easy point for them to make well, it will be a nice turn from there, whether i'm in it for joe biden to then she was in it. >> that's i'm sorry, that the next the next tee shirt we're going to be actually seeing at this point in time but i am curious how the electorate will

view this. ashley, because, there will be ample opportunity to criticize both of these candidates going forward. and whoever is she may pick, should she get the nomination as her running made as well? and the questions are swirling that that scott has mentioned what does the harris ticket need to do to address the points that scott that is raising well, there's no cover joe biden has decided to step out of this race because his close advisers told him that there is not a path to victory. and so rather than making and about himself, he is saying, i understand the threat that donald trump poses to our democracy. and if i can't beat him, i'm going to give a pathway for someone else to to beat him. i think in terms of the record, look the narrative around the border maria cardona, our colleagues was saying that border crossings, illegal border crossings our lower now under joe biden and kamala harris and they were under donald trump so we can have a conversation

about immigration also, what i will say is, is that when the biden-harris administration put forth a bill that a very conservative lankford from i believe nebraska oklahoma. thank you. it's late the fourth and said here's a pathway was a conservative support at bill. it was probably going to get through the house on the senate donald trump said, no because i want to play politics we can go for tat for who did this and who did that. but when it comes to people, particularly kamala harris saying to middle middle-class as workers in the beltway are in the midwest, in the sunbelt, i have a plan for you that protects union jobs that kate creates a pathway to the middle class that gives you childcare. we have a plan, donald trump does not. >> let me ask you, ron and bring you in here because i am curious one, how how voters you

think might be seeing these two different arguments at literally are optically on the left and right. if you right now on the screen, but also you got somebody who was a bit of a thorn in the side of democrats throughout the tenure that he has been a centered, i'm talking about senator joe manchin, who was once a democrat now is an independent and there are sources close to him saying that tonight he is considering reregistered and as a democrat and maybe throwing his hat into the ring. what do you make of that possibility well, first, let me let me talk about what we've been discussing. i agree. harris will have the same vulnerabilities on policy as biden does, particularly about inflation and the border, the voters are discontented with biden's record on that, won't be any happier with her on those issues. the big difference is that unlike biden who really has not had the capacity to drive an offensive message harris will have the ability to i think more

effectively, articulate what is the democrat's best argument against trump that he represents a threat to americans rights and values and democracy itself. that's been heard. jobs since dobbs, she has spent two years pushing back against what the supreme court has been doing what red state states have been doing. if you look at her answer, at the essence fast about the supreme court immunity decision and compared to biden's response at the white house. a couple of days later, it gives you a perfect encapsulation of white democrats think she can be more effective at pride prosecuting their best argument against trump. don't forget, biden was already trailing trump by ten or 15 points on who voters trusted to handle the economy. that meant democrats are gonna have to convince millions of people who think trump is better for their bottom line to vote against him anyway, and harris is just much more skilled than biden is at this point. at delivering the argument that represents their best the chance to do that. as for manchin i mean, it's fine. it's not i don't think it's going to be a usually relevant factor. i mean, there are there is an audience in the

democratic party. there are democrats consultants, voters strategists, donors, who worry about harris this his ability to beat trump. and someone is going to speak to that audience, but it is not. i think in any of the candidates who might actually threaten her, someone like gavin newsom or gretchen whitmer, they're not running against her. i think there's going to consolidate around her very fast. and manchin will be as you described him, as they often was in the last week here's more of a gadfly and a thorn in the side of democrats than someone really capable of saying the direction for the party we have to go, but i want to quit here. >> if you quickly, scott, on this point, i know you guys are coming back does harris his ascension to the top of the ticket make the senator j.d vance selection a better or worse idea? >> i don't know how to do that algebra yet. actually, i guess it maybe some of it will depend on on who harris ends up choosing for vice president. i did i didn't want to comment on one thing ron said about her, you know, sort of going

out and trying to make the case about democracy. i do think this hurts democratic arguments on democracy. i mean joe biden got millions of votes in the primary. he is now effectively been overthrown by a handful of elites and rich people. now, harris is going to end up with the nomination through what they're calling a process, but it's obviously rig so the party of democracy is now disenfranchising millions of democrats and handing the nomination through a process set up by elites to someone who did not earn it. i do think this is, this makes, makes it a little more complicated to go out and say you're the party of democracy when you've sort of operating your party and a very undemocratic way. >> i'll be curious. you can carry the ballot to be clear based folk 14 million voted for joe biden and kamala harris. >> ron, i couldn't hear you. what do you say quickly you saying you can't really compare what's happening now to what happened, what trump did after the 2020 election culminating in january i mean, that's i mean, that's really kind of specious. but you know, what, we'll leave it as a cliffhanger

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this source with kaitlan collins. week nights at nine well the impact of black voters, especially women, black voters, cannot be overstated and their importance on democratic politics ask any strategies, you know, in the past few weeks, many black lawmakers have come to judge so biden's defense as other democrats called for him to exit the race well, joining us now is the president and ceo of the naacp, derrick johnson. >> i'm so glad that you're here this evening. welcome. wonder what you make of this stunning announcement was good to see the president put country above personal interests we are in a serious crisis concerning our democracy and for an individual to have enough character say, you know, there is a better option here. >> i'm willing a step back to ensure this democracy survive. is something that is to be commended you know, in the

naacp statement that followed the announcement of biden stepping down from seeking real election. >> it stopped short of endorsing specifically vice president kamala harris saying, quote, while today's news requires a discussion, we cannot be distracted our focus must remain on the policies that presidential candidates stand for not their political performances are personalities. and quote, i do wonder what policies do you think the vice president would need to get behind in order for your organization to endorse well, first of all, the naacp, we don't endorse candidates or political party. >> we focus we focus on policy priorities and so candidates who support the right of workers to collectively bargain, the validity of federal employees to behalf civil service protections. the need for more individuals to be provided student loan debt cancellations the rights of

citizens have equal protection under the laws. those are the things that we care about. our fortunately, the vice president who is a member of the naacp also support those issues, but we don't zero in on individuals we focus on public policy and we're going to advocate for voters to focus on the things that would improve the quality of their life stabilizes democracy and grew opportunities for our young people you know, people are looking at weeks away from the democratic national convention in chicago the last time it was in chicago was at an era in our history that was particularly tumultuous following assassinations turmoil in the streets, vietnam you could just name what was going on. >> civil rights, a whole number of issues and the laundry list could ensue right now but i do what lit this moment of history how do you think black voters? should view where we are right now, where a major party may in fact end up nominating the first black woman to be president au big

african-americans need to focus on what would be at our long-term interest 1968 is a great example for us to not forget i think it was jackie robinson who was served as a member of the naacp board at the time, who gave a warning that president nixon would be devastating to the efforts that was achieved by african americans at that time it was absolutely correct you think about it. >> he was a republican saying this individual will not stand up for the policy priorities that we had just achieve in terms of voting rights and the fair housing act and civil rights and he was absolutely right. and so we need to take a page out of that history. and really zero in on one of the public policies that we can. were concerned about and make sure project 2025, donie radek, kate all the gains we've made over the last 60 years does

that mean that the focus from the naacp is on the policy priorities above all else. if there were other candidates who sought to throw their name into the ring and become a potential nominee who had similar policy platforms at the the naacp aligned with you'd be open to an open convention well, we are open to whatever the process the political party itself got to go through. >> and within the party process is over. we're looking at november. november is our goal we are actively engaged in the formation of public policy that improves the quality of life for african-americans, not the partisan conversation. there were three for up the candidates in this two-party systems. one political party has decided their candidate. we are waiting for the other political party to decide their candidate. and then from there, who would evaluate one of the policy priorities that those candidates are evaluating? we

can say that what we are hearing from coming from the heritage foundation and project 2025 is at best any candidates who support the policies that because it's coming out of that recommendations, that's what's concerning to us because it will read the fine the role of government so bert, democracy and minimize the voices of so many americans across the country. >> there, johnson, thank you so much for joining me this evening thank you well, kamala harris, the vice president of united states, is already fund raising tonight for her campaign. as guinea. it's hard betting some vice presidential picks pretty soon. so who is who and who should be on a short list. my panel comes back after a short break, stay with me on the edge, moments that

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inflation. he appointed her the borders are the simplest and easiest way for them to transfer the campaign. they were already winning onto this new democratic nominee i mean, ron, president trump, he seemed to think that harris would be easier to beat than biden. of course, the focus will now has been on biden. is he right about those potential claims? >> yeah. well, i felt who is scott. i mean, those are the vulnerabilities, right? she has the policy vulnerabilities that biden does. what she has though, is a potential to make more of the administration's assets and democratic arguments than biden seem to be capable of doing. at this point harris has to help alleviate biden's biggest electoral weakness, which is his declining support relative to 2020, among younger and non-white voters, especially men. >> but and, that, and that you could serve her well. i mean, she could generate more turnout and improved margins among

groups that had grown disillusioned with biden. >> the risk is that she could squander to some extent what has been biden's greatest electoral asset, which is that he has held his support among older and blue collar whites to a surprising extent, amid all all of his other troubles. >> and that's going to be the calculus here. i mean, the camila coalition, as i call it, is going to be different than the biden coalition. it'll be a little more like the obama coalition, and that it's going to depend on improvements among younger and non-white voters, college-educated white women, where they, democrats can probably squeeze out a few points to offset what is likely to be at least some retreat among the blue collar and older whites that biden brought back relative to hillary in 2016. >> i mean, this is actually, this is right up your alley in your wheelhouse and all the work by the way, she's also the founder of the water and haul media company as well. you didn't look at that. everyone. but kamala harris will likely be the first black woman to lead a major party ticket. and this is how she responded. back

in 2019 about the historic nature of her then presidential candidacy i do want to take a moment to acknowledge the historic nature of your candidacy there have only been a handful of black woman, whoever sought the presidency if you win, you would be the first black female president in the history of this nation. what does that mean to you? >> well, it listen in every position that i've held when i was district attorney, i was elected as the first woman of the city and county. i was the first woman of color in the entire state of california? when i ran for attorney general and when i was elected, it was as the first woman ever and as the first person of color ever. and, you know, frankly, jake, my mother used to have a saying she would say to me commonly you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last that's, how i

think about those kinds of things. and it is about certainly breaking barriers is something that is very important and in my experience given what i've shared with you, i will also say to you that i have seen father's bring their sons up to me and say she is the first in a way that is to also speak to those sons about the fact that they should not ever be burdened by what has been and they should see what can be and i think that's really the most important takeaway, which is that with each barrier that we break, it is saying to all of us, don't be burdened by what has been see, what can be and strive for that ashley, i wonder if this will be a major part of the campaign because obviously her historical significance is there also the fact that she's been for years a vice president and has listed her qualifications as well. that will be a part of it as well. >> but what will be the driving force do you think behind the

campaign look in a moment like this? i think of shirley chisholm. i think of geraldine ferraro. i think of hillary clinton. they didn't ascend to the vice presidency or the presidency, but they were the first and many aspects and they certainly were not the last. and so i appreciate what the vice president's mother shared with her because there is a sense of hope and possibility of what this country can do when folks are given the opportunity, i want to say that when vice president or then senator was selected to be the vice president as she went through a rigorous vetting process he was the attorney general for the second largest department of justice. and that country, second to the department of justice that the attorney general sits, that she was on the judiciary committee going over important supreme court confirmations. she has the credentials. she also happens to be a black woman and so she is not in this position because she is a black woman, but she does have happened to be a black woman. and so i think that all of those things

put together will be really important. who she picks as her vice president, folks always say vps don't matter. i don't necessarily early agree with that, but i think people will look to see is she going to do like donald trump and pick a maga person like j.d. vance, who was anti-abortion and who won't actually say the election results of the 2020 elections are fair and accurate, or is she going to look for someone maybe from a battleground state? maybe somebody? from a different racial background than her and say, i can bring america, america together, look at this ticket. this is what america is, and you all are a part of it and you're part of the story that we continue to write in this great country. >> i'm curious to see how the debates are going to go. scott. i'd love your weight on this is, is trump going to debate harris? she's already making a bit of a stink about the outlet. he will be on yeah. >> great question. i don't know. i mean, i think if biden had stayed in and there was no chance trump was going to debate biden again. and i guess what the campaign will have to decide is whether there's any

benefit to doing this i mean, harris, you know, the high watermark of her short-lived campaign for president that you were previewing a minute ago was when she had a debate and effectively implied that joe biden was a racist on the stage. >> that was ai a watermark, so i don't know if they consider her to be a good debater or a bad debate or i'm not sure how they view it but strategically, i'm sure they're mulling that override now they've got a few weeks to decide that i think ron, what's your take well, i think, you know, for you know, obviously for harris, part of getting on the stage with trump would be to just be on the stage with trump and establish the credibility of doing that. plus the sheer physical contrast. suddenly, donald trump is the old guy in this race and you know, it's been so overshadowed by the widespread doubts about biden's capacity that we forget that consistently roughly half the country is saying in polls, i don't think trump has the mental acuity either to be president, physical? yes. mental, a lot more doubts given some of them meandering and

strange comments at it his rallies and confusing haley and pelosi and so forth. so i think that for trump, there is risk in the debate, as i said, harris has the same vulnerabilities on policy is biden what she does have is a greater capacity. i think many democrats believe for good reason to kind of make the democratic army humans that, that can hurt trump. and i thought scott was going to say you know, the big highlight of her political career arguably in washington, leaving aside the presidential race was her questioning of red cabinet at those hearings. and so that could be an effective forum for her. and we'll see whether trump is willing to give her that chance. >> we will see everyone. thank you so much. i appreciate your time this evening and your insight the big question is, what are we to make of this time in american politics? up next two of the country's brightest political and presidential historian join me to talk about it in a moment

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historian tim neftali, glad to have both of you here laying begin with my alma mater professor julian from princeton. let me ask you this question at 78-years-old? donald trump now becomes the oldest nominee in us history how significant is this shift considering all that we have talked about for months now about that, that contest very significant. >> i mean, it changes the terms of the debate where now former president trump is the old candidate, and those questions will surround him and at the same time, it's also a generational difference. whoever the nominee is and it's looking like vice president harris, it will reflect one party that is pushing forward with new ideas and new issues and new faces compared to the top of the ticket with the gop, which is still the politics in some ways of yesteryear. so it gives democrats an opportunity to be

the bridge to tomorrow as bill clinton used to argue in 1996 it means him. now, you've got the name and it's truman. >> it's lbj, and now it's biden put this into perspective for house litigate. this is that a person is not seeking reelection when he could have more as you just said, we've had instances where presidents incumbent president who could have run for reelection decided not to. but in the cases of both truman and lbj they did it on their own terms. they decided on their own that they wouldn't run again and they decided when to tell the world that they weren't running again? yes. there were in both cases, democrats who were seeking to challenge the president but the leadership of the democratic party wasn't pushing those president's out, nor was there a whispering campaign that made clear there was a coalescing of most democrats around the idea that the incumbent president shouldn't run again, that's

what makes what happened today. still extraordinary. >> the other thing that's important to keep in mind is the decisions made by truman and lbj happened in march of the election year not just a few weeks before the nominating convention, where the incumbent president already had more than enough folks to be renominated. and that's what puts a president trump, president biden's decision in real context president biden didn't want to make the decision he made today. >> president biden realized he had to make it. and what a contrast to former president trump, who held onto power, even when it would come at a cost to dividing the country today, president biden decided not to inflict that cost in the country but to inflict the cost on himself because this must have been personally a very difficult decision. >> i mean, julian, to that point, it's almost a tale of

two perspectives on democracy same we know that both candidates with biden and trump, they both thought they were each an existential threat to democracy. there are those who are now talking about either a coronation or a kind information of the person that biden has now endorsed vice president kamala harris is this a sign of a healthy democracy yes. >> i think it is. i think that point that tim made about how president biden has acted reflects something good about the democracy to see a leader who can be selfless at some level and to sacrifice themselves politically for the good of party and in his mind for the good of the country that's what we're looking for. it's the kind of virtue you want and parties have the ability, they have the right and they have the rules to make a shift like this back in the era of the party conventions, the point was the primaries and caucuses weren't the mechanism that we used there are rules in

place if the candidate resigns or if the delegates haven't voted yet, which they have not to switch, who's at top. so i don't think this is a coronation. it's within the rights of the party and again, primary and caucus voters voted for biden biden-harris ticket. biden has voluntarily, even if not happily stepped down so i think this can be totally legitimate and there is no comparison with january 6 that was about attacking the election system. this is about a party changing their choice. >> tim, you want to weigh in on that point as well. what do you say what i say is that we have witnessed yet another unprecedented moment my this whole season has been a test of our democracy and our republic we have seen yet another

unprecedented moment with a very human element to it in the end, president biden had the power and the authority to stay atop the ticket there was no system by which he can be removed. >> this was not a story of impeachment. removal. he hadn't done anything wrong. he just gotten old and he came to the conclusion that our country would be best served by his standing aside. what is incredibly, it's interesting and important. and i know julia knows about this too. is that in 1968, when lyndon johnson stepped aside? he didn't endorse his vice president until after the convention indeed, lyndon johnson held out a sliver of hope that he might be re, nominated at that convention by draft in this case. what we're seeing is a coalition and a coalescing of support for vice president harris. very quickly not simply

because the president endorsed her, but because leading democrats see her as the correct standard bearer at this moment so we're not in 1968 situation. we're in a unique 2024 situation, either way, gentlemen, i think tells you we're not in kansas anymore. >> julian zelizer, tim naftali. thank you. you both while the decision by president biden to exit the presidential race is making headlines all around the world. well, i we'll, show you the very latest when cnn newsroom continues after this very short break when you saw this guilty plea, were you surprised? do you think the criticism has been fair? >> because bring court might take this up. what's the outcome though? >> how's that for him? the cliffhanger america, laura coates live weeknights at 11 eastern on cnn. >> i got this thousand dollar camera for only $41 on deal,

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and reliable partner for us. his decision not to run again deserves respect unquote. and from the uk, we heard this from the relatively new british prime minister who said, quote, i respect president biden's decision. i look forward to us working together during the remainder of his presidency. we also heard from ukraine and its president volodymyr zelenskyy who issued a lengthy post on the social platform x, saying that ukraine is grateful to president biden for his unwavering support for ukraine's fight for freedom many strong decisions have been made in recent years and they will be remembered as bold steps taken by biden in response to challenging times. and we respect today's tough a strong decision. under president biden, the us has bolstered ties with alli around the world, also here in asia to counter a rising china. and as such, allies here the region have also weighed in, including the australian prime minister calls biden a quote, incredibly decent, honorable man of integrity on social media. we heard this from anthony albanese. he said,

thank you for your leadership, thank you for your ongoing service. he also adds that the australia, us alliance has never been stronger with their shared commitment commitment to democratic values international security, economic prosperity in climate action for this and future generations. so albanese, also called kamala harris, a good friend. now, south korean, japan, they said that they don't wish to comment on domestic politics in the u.s. but they also emphasized the need to work with the us and we also in the last half-hour, hurt from the president of the philippines called biden's decision a demonstration of genuine statesmanship. now the u.s. says it stands with the philippines, especially now as tensions grow with china over the south china sea. and laura, we are still waiting for response from china later in the day back to you how is kamala harris perceived internationally and in asia and they're not comment on domestic politics, but is there a perception of the vice president there you know, it's interesting. >> obviously she's not as well known as president biden, but

also she is not had a massive international portfolio, but she is of south asian descent. she has made multiple trips to asia as vice president and her job has been to reaffirm, or rather reinforced biden's message and to reiterate america's commitment to the asia-pacific region, especially in light of a rising china that you, laura kristie lu stout. >> thank you so much. and before we go a quick mention of some new endorsements it is for kamala harris tonight. these include north carolina governor roy cooper, new york governor kathy hochul california governor gavin newsom maine governor janet mills, new jersey governor phil murphy the pennsylvania's governor, josh shapiro, who may be on harris as vp list and senators tammy baldwin, laphonza butler, bob casey, and many more. this list keeps growing thank you for joining me this evening. i'm laura coates and make sure to join me again tomorrow night, 11:00 p.m. eastern for laura coates live cnn's special