jump in immediately as the j. the vans is the v p. pick off for president donald trump saying that a bite and should resign immediately if he would be not able to run for president again then to he also. and i'm putting him here is not able to run the country for another a 6 months or so. so this will definitely be also uh, the bade which will be louder from the republican side, but was in the demo, democratic kind of a area of people all really i think mainly relieved. and now of course, trying to find out how is you just said, proceed in this uncharted area. was you said, say, is just had their relief among some democrats. but now the question of the hour is, who will replace jo bodies and raise kamala harris. the next likely candidate well the as a president biden and endorsed her right away and she will be kind of the,

the, the kind of nearest store closest pick. i think one can say is that she is very well known. you know, it's only like a how many days i wrote it down somewhere a $107.00 days or so until election day on november 5th. that's not really a long time to build up a new candidate who is not a well known to the american. a kind of people and then there's also the big question about money because of the $96000000.00 or so which are in a biden's award. chest could be used by vice president, come on the harris. but if someone else would be picked as the presidential candidate, it might be actually difficult to get this money to use said money a to come paying for the white house. so many, many open questions. and definitely a very exciting time here in the united states that was due to the washington bureau chief in his polls. and as biden says, he will be focusing on fulfilling his duties as president for the remainder of his

term. let's take a look now at the weeks that have led up to today's fateful decision item inflation has, it was a moment that changed the trajectory of the 2020 for presidential campaign has increased. making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what i've been able to do with the, with the coven, i should be with dealing with everything we have to do is, uh, what if we finally be medicare to for the big joe biden. called for an early one on one tv debate with donald trump. to dispel concerns about his age, we get to tony dealt was a plan that backfired spectacularly the total edition, as viewers watched biden to struggle with his answers in more asylum of questions about biden's fitness had dodges campaign from the beginning. in his public

appearances in the us and abroad, the 81 year old appeared increasingly frail. like at last month's g 7 summit in italy, your job in the wake of biden's debate performance about his campaign and press team thought to don't play concerns. he had a cold and a bad night. i would not see this as an episode. i would see this is what it was and what we believe it to be, which is it was a bad night. and he did on top of that, he had a cold biden's. every move was closely scrutinized initially. and our world, i just, i think donald trump should have been back a long time ago. so i mean, it makes me really happy even though he's out. would you have voted for joe if he were still in? i would have that i would have because simply because he can, there's certain things he can still do,

but he can't campaign anymore. so i'm, i'm sad and he's a, he's a, he's a true patriot for subbing for more without joined by the deputies on rent off here in the studio. so brent biting finally about 2 weeks of mounting pressure. what do you think actually causes him to finally take this step? well, what we do know is that people close to him have said reportedly said that the decision was made about 48 hours ago. but what happened between, let's say, friday evening and sunday evening. i'm your guess is as good as mine. what we do now is that for years we've been hearing grumblings within both parties about the questionable fitness of biden for office and 24 days ago with the debate. debacle to just been getting louder and louder is going to snowball effect. now you've had more and more high level high ranking democrats come out either privately or publicly saying that he should step aside. and the donors as well had been

threatening to freeze money. that normally would be automatically be going to him. and as you and i both know without money, there is no campaign in the united states. but, i mean, let's go back for a 2nd. we've been hearing back into your in a binds initial run, he wanted to be a one term president. why did he stick around even when there were so many questions about his health and his fitness to serve? but everyone, if you were to ask people on the street about that, they would probably tell you that they understood that to me, that he was going to be a one term president, right? a bridge to the future. or after the native 75th anniversary conference. he was asked by reporters at a press conference, this very question you ran as a bridge candidate. what has changed? and his answer was, our national security situation has become dire or more dire than it was 4 years ago. he said, our politics have become more polarized, and he said the threats coming from china and russia are greater today and they were 4 years ago that may well be true. but i don't think that that was

a convincing argument. i think that most people would look at joe biden today, and despite all the respect that they have would see a man who simply has not been able to see the writing on the wall. right. but when it comes to the writing on the wall, now he has said he wants to see his vice president succeed him as a democratic candidate. now, is this a foregone conclusion? is she did a facto candidate, or could we see dar codes coming in? now is she she is not, i mean, her mean evans ability of her nomination is, may seem to be inevitable, but, but it's not just what she has to do with sources. tell us that in the last 12 hours she's been on the phone calling members of congress trying to drum up support . she knows that she has to get there's more than $4500.00 delegates votes at the democratic national convention next month. they have to vote for her. so she may seem like she would be the anointed one to follow a turbine, but that is not

a given. and we're not, we're talking about possible other people who just go through this list here of people who could possibly get the nomination. there's the governor of north carolina. roy cooper. there is the governor of pennsylvania. josh shapiro. i take that back, josh appear that is already said that he is not running. there's the senator, mark kelly from arizona, and there's given news from the governor of colorado. now, what would be the benefit of having a gubernatorial candid become your presidential candidate over having come with the hairs? it would be harder, according to pollsters. it would be harder for the republicans. i need donald trump and jay to advance to blame a gubernatorial candidate for inflation for the border crisis for the us, not forcing it into the more and ukraine. these are all things that a president or vice president could be held accountable for. you can hold a governor accountable for that. so all of these candidates, no one has come out and said that they want the job button. there's been silence to

they haven't said that they're not interested, sir. it's still it's wide open. and if, when it comes to these candidates, what do you think would be the most probable goal come? do you think we could see or taking a d p that is from them or the good tauriel like torrell um, experience type of candidate or do you think we could be seeing something completely different? do you think they'd be running against or an open convention, or are we talking about a combined or a the joint tickets? i think that anything is everything right now as possible because these are uncharted waters. we haven't really seen 8 situation exactly like this. and we've got 3 weeks until we get the democratic national convention going by. then if you talk to the democratic insiders, they'll tell you that they want this thing clarified as soon as possible. and we can't forget, early voting it for the november presidential election begins and a couple of months in some states. so, i mean, you've got a very narrow, narrow window of opportunity for the democrats to pull a surprise out of their had someone that they think can defeat donald trump and do

gardener support on your delegates, as well as the public. that's a tall order for any political party, or it definitely is a tall order. and this election campaign has been nothing if not surprising. that was due to the brand golf. joining me in the studio, but stick around, we'll be back with you just a little bit of time. but 1st, let's take a closer look at vice president kamala harris. there has been great debate among democrats, whether she would be the strongest candidate against former president donald trump, but having been in biden's ticket and receiving powerful endorsements like that of former president bill clinton, she seems to be the candidate to beat. as kamala harris has already made history once by being the 1st female and the 1st black vice president of the united states, she was in no hurry to get rid of fighting, initially holding the line for him. after his disastrous debate performance. we believe in our president joe biden, and we believe in what he stands for the

but soon after this, others began to push the hood to replace him. if he stepped aside, it's a scenario. few would have predicted just a couple of years ago. the start of the vice presidency was overshadowed by criticism. some said harris was failing to make the most of her role and was being and effective. however supports his claim. she was being sidelined and held to a higher standard because she was a woman on black. yet perhaps on surprisingly for one who managed to become the vice president of the us, she's not the person to back down there going to be many times in your life where you're going to be told that can't be done. it's never been done before. it's not time, they're not ready for it and then this is the one i love. it's going to be

a lot of hardcore don't to listen. i you know, for breakfast some of the front to the also working in a favor. she's already on the ticket and a search would automatically inherit the infrastructure and funds of biden's campaign with tens of millions of dollars. she also has the highest name recognition of all the alternatives. and he's already a player on the global stage. or she's become a leading voice on abortion rights. one of the key issues of the campaign and has prioritized finding solutions for the migration crisis of the us is southern border . but most crucial level, perhaps in the weeks after the debate, i think companies showed harris had a great a chance to buy a winning the election. chris divine is the author of 2

running mates matter. the influence of vice presidential candidates in presidential elections. i asked him how come all harris has performed as a vice president for it's america, people not very well. she's pulled consistently a little under joe biden. as of yours may know job, i ins prove a writing for quite a while now has been around 40 percent, really low, low forty's, at least usually. typically she's couple points under that. uh, that's hard to interpret though, because i'm not sure how much americans are familiar with even some of the things you're referencing there about what she's been doing on a day to day basis of the piece off and have a hard time getting out of the shadow of the president, even during the campaign situation, that's gonna be complicated for her. i think when people are reacting to complet harris's advice present, most of their reacting to joe by and as, as a president. and then also contacting her for not being a leadership role, which of course vice president supposed to follow, not li,

they follow the lead of the president. and here, certainly, right, it was, my impression has also been that it's been hard for kamala harris to get out of the bible shadow in the last 3 years. so why is he, i generally speaking to her, what her pulling numbers are worse than his so it's not clear that anybody else would do better. i think one of the things we have to factor in is that while there are, for example, governors, as were mentioned earlier, i think gretchen whitmore, or gavin, do some or others. they may pull better in certain situations depends which boy you're looking at. but they're also not nationally known in the way that she is, uh, as was, was, was just said she has the highest name recognition. so walter people might perform well in their state. it's hard to know how to be received nationally, especially once they get the kind of pressed scrutiny that comes with being in a, in a national res tomlin. harris has been through that. she ran in the presidential primaries, not very well, but then she ran for the vice presidency. so she's been vetted, she's more of a known quantity. i think this is the least risky option that democrats have. i

should point out also that as the 1st woman to be vice president and woman of color, that it would be especially difficult for democrats to pass her over. for example, for someone like gavin newsome, a white man in that case, that could be taken not well by, by some key constituencies in the democratic party. well, as you were dressing harris's own campaign for president in 2020 field to gain any traction. so what is it that you need to do differently? now, as you know, it's a different animal running and presidential primary versus now, you know, assuming that she does come away with the nomination running in a general election, she doesn't have to kind of strategy to follow the same kind of strategy that you want to get the nomination, this is, this is different. she's going through that national campaign as well. so she has more experience to draw on. presumably she would have learned some things about how to campaign better, and especially how to really sees on a message that will work for. that's one of the things i'm interested to see in the

coming days as she emerges it, i think it seems likely as, as the presumptive presidential nominate. uh, what is the rationale for the, for the campaign? obviously a big part of this is going to be that what you'll pay a success of the bottom ministration. also concerns about what a 2nd, trump and ministration will look like. what about her? in particular, what's for uh, what's your purpose, what, what's your uh, theme for the, for this campaign? i think i could tell you a lot about what kind of campaign she's going to run, how well she's going to run the campaign by way. could also tell us about who to expect for a v p there. yeah, and that's actually the next question i wanted to ask you, what do you think she's gonna end up choosing from? is it one of the names that could be or potential um, or potential opponents if it was an open convention or would be a dark horse candidate? yeah, it's very hard to say we're so early and in this i will say one thing you hear a lot about is that she should easily pick off a state by choosing that states governor. if she chose josh appear on the governor of pennsylvania. she pickup pennsylvania, if it was,

gretchen whitmore in michigan. she pickup, michigan, or roy cooper in, in north carolina. i'd urge years to be very skeptical about the something that i've done a lot of research on what we call the home state advantage that you would do better in the v p can it's home state. we see that kind of helps a visual presidential candidate, but not for vice presidential candidates. so uh, well, that doesn't make any of the ones that i just named about pick after. think. gretchen whitworth particularly be a good one. and i would caution against making that, that kind of a judgment simply based on which state they would come from. they come from it as if voters just, you know, automatically vote for a ticket is v b comes from their state, write them for you want to leave it there. that was chris, divine associate professor of political science at the university of dayton, ohio. thank you. and we have had some reaction to jo, binds announcement here in germany from german chancellor, all off shorts. he prays bite and on the platform x the german chancellor rhodes, my friend joe biden has achieved

a lot for his country for europe and for the world. thanks to him, transatlantic cooperation is as close. nato is strong and the us a is a good and reliable partner for us is decision not to run again. deserves our respect. do you live in brussels? corresponding to see a shopping is following the story for us from brussels. i asked her if this political earthquake is reverberating among european officials. clearly did. so the news broke around 8 o'clock local time here in brussels. and i think you can be sure that the european institutions which are based in brussels and took note of this decision by joe biden, even though we do not have official statements on this. well, has there been any reactions from other european leaders not just in brussels as yeah, there has been a number of leaders that have posted on x, for example, of the spanish prime minister page was sanchez has been praising joe biden for his

decision saying this is a great gesture by a great from a great president, also donor chose keys, the powders, prime minister. he's been saying that this might have been the most difficult decision in the life of to buy it. and so, so the knowledge in what this might have meant for joe biden to take this decision . and then finally a t, as tom of the new, the elective elected british prime minister. he said that he respects this decision and that he's looking forward to work with joe biden for the last month, off his presidency. and as you say, there we are. and during the last 6 months of biden's presidency, and some might argue, he is now a week into president. how might that affect transatlantic relations? yes, so that is of course, the big, the big question here as well. but what you have to see in this regard is that already before today, it wasn't so clear whether the next president would also still be jo by and so that

has been, for example, in nature summit 2 weeks ago. rev is already with regards to maybe a future president, donald trump, that has been some, you can call it may be prep her preparatory work that has been done. for example, the nato has decided to take over the coordination of military it to ukraine before this was done by the united states. when there was another decision that has been taken by the united states to deploy and miss. so it's to germany, and this has been priced by outgoing secretary general, and jack installed in back s and then commitment to nato a to the alliance, but also to the security in europe. so it is a bit early to say what, what would happen next? the mean for the trans atlantic relationships shift, but what is clear also is federal by and was a strong trans atlantic coast. and as we have just heard,

also has been priced for this for a strong nato by chance that what i feel is right. i'm afraid we have to leave it there. that was due to be corresponding latria schultz and brussels sandra. now once again joined by the w spring gulf here in the studio. so brent, as we were hearing there, dro bind's, european partners are already starting to think about his legacy. yeah. where do you put that? well, i mean, you know, for those of us remember a bucket back in 1988. we had to bind running for president. that's a long time ago. he was elected to the us senate. within 50 years ago, he has been a fixture of us politics in washington for as long as you are, i have been alive basically right on every winning democratic presidential ticket in the 21st century, has been a ticket that has had ju biden's name on it i mean, we just split that so can here he has been there since the beginning. that is

something that you can't sneeze at. ad, it is something that the historians will have to you to give us a rough draft of what they think. doug brinkley, us a story and said that the presidency at the bottom with the re pre for a nation exhausted by trump and the pandemic. those things of course, 4 years ago for years as a long time, let me just show you this. i wonder if we can see it up close or not, but this is the cover of time magazine that's just come out and list change. you just sent this to us and it shows by walking off the page and it shows come over here as walking yet, which says that most people are assuming that she will be the candidate. we will see, i think the next day or so will prove very, very, very important for whether or not she can solidify the support that she needs to become the presidential nominee for the democratic part. what do you think she needs to do to actually solidify that support illness? she has to just have talking points that work. i mean, if yes it americans,

now what does she stand for? the most people would say what joe biden stands for. she's gonna have to, in a very short amount of time, she's gonna have to differentiate herself, um, friendship alignment as well as building on the success of that they've had an a 3 and a half years of that will be a, a, a good fit, a piece of work that we've never seen before because these are uncharted territory, so whoever is able to get the nomination, they are definitely going to be doing it faster than real time. you know, they certainly have their work cut out for them. so that was d. w, as brent of joining us in the studio, thank you very much. he was present, binds withdrawal from the west presidential race, comes less than a month ahead of the democratic party convention, which begins august 19th. he has endorsed vice president kamala harris, but other names are also being suggested as a potential successor. so how exactly with the party pick another candidate? one option is what is known as an open convention. us president joe

biden has withdrawn from the presidential race there now just weeks to go until this is democratic convention where he would have been officially annoying to this is parties. presidential norman me. the question now is, what happens next? how will the democrats select and you know, many one on service? 3, what is known as an open convention. the last time the democrats held and open convention was in 1968. it descended into chaos as tempest fled over the vietnam war, both inside and outside the building rest. somehow this is one of the reasons the rules were changed and parties have since last year to clear orders without the slight bought it remains a legitimate way of picking the candidates. and it means rather than consigning and

nominee selected in the primaries, as by doing was delegates. we'd have to choose a new nominated in an open and potentially fis competition. this year, around 99 percent of some full 1000 delegates that the democratic national convention a pledge to the joe biden. but now that he has stepped aside, they are free to back, which have a candidate they want. this is probably invited, has already endorsed covent vice president carmella harris to be the know many of the names floated include california governor calvin newsome and governor gretchen whitman of michigan. delegates would just have to keep waiting until one of them achieved the majority and was declared the winner critics of the open convention method. se would be a free for rule which could expose divisions within the democratic party as the new candidate spotlight account and trying to win the support of the nearly free don't delegate divisions that could potentially alienate voters in november. or the

other say that it is a risk was taking if this is the only way to beat donald trump, and you are up to date, but who stick around? it has been a high drama in american politics. not just what's happening now, but of course the attentive is attempted assassination of donald trump and trump's response to it and the events of the republican national convention. and so in a democratic convention that must choose a new candidate fully back at the top of the hour with more news on this critical juncture in american politics. thanks for watching. the bullet holes with reuben's rage

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