differently whom he chooses. >> shannon: not know you how are going to be up against or number two would be up against. a lot of unknowns there as they wait. if he walks out on stage with nikki haley. i don't think any of us will be more surprised. it would be very interesting twist as you guys say. panel, thank you very much. keep in mind, tonight, as we are waiting for that press conference from president biden, we will keep you in conch all night as soon as it starts. we will let you know. and coming up on "special report" tomorrow is president biden in better or worse shape after this press conference tonight after the nato summit. remember, if you can't catch live, set your dvr 6:00 p.m., eastern, 3:00 p.m. on the west coast. thank you for watching "special report." i'm shannon bream in washington headed to take you on the road to milwaukee. extended conch all next week. don't forget conch of that impending press conference. but up next ingraham ham angle. >> laura: i'm laura ingraham this is "the ingraham angle"

from washington. the high stakes press conference is expected to start at any minute as pressure builds in the democratic party for him to step aside. this was biden just a few hours ago introducing the ukrainian president. >> and now i want to hand it over to the president of ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination, ladies and gentlemen, president putin. [applause] president putin? he can going to beat president trump. president zelenskyy. i'm so focused on beating putin, we got worry about it. anyway, mr. president. >> i'm better. >> you are a hell of a lot better. >> laura: that would be funny if it weren't so deadly serious. fox news senior white house correspondent peter doocy is standing by. peter, that moment was yet mother embarrassment. but why did repeated delays tonight with this presser? >> laura, in that moment, which followed remarks that had mostly been on teleprompter he announced president putin like vladimir putin was going to be a surprise guest here at the nato

summit. but he did quickly correct himself, vladimir putin is not here. they did spend all day talking about ukraine and how to help zelenskyy and zelenskyy was standing just out of frame right next to president biden when he called him putin. but, again, putin not here. as for the delays, these nato things are always delayed. we have been there in brussels. we have been there in madrid. the presidential press conference is always delayed and so it's surprising somewhat that the white house decided they were going to try to put president biden's closely watched press conference after a day of nato events because, not everybody goes to nato summits around the world and knows that they are always delayed. but people have been told all day he's going to be there at 6:30. if you have new questions about president biden and his acuity, tune in at 6:30. and now here we are 30 minutes late. the room isn't really that full yet. it's a room that they have been recycle links for events throughout the day.

it's going to take at -- i mean they are not telling us any timing. it's going to take at least 20 or 30 more minutes i would say for him to be in here. politico has an item tonight that some white house aides want him to take around four questions. but that another aide says maybe it will be more like six or seven questions. >> laura: yeah. >> peter: again. they advertised this as a big boy press conference. that's a term that they went with. ddo four questions count asa bir six or seven count as a big boy press conference. it's always possible he will go for more. he often does. he is not ever under this kind of scrutiny so we will see. >> laura: now, peter, i remember that presser that trump did, kind of midway through his presidency where he ended up just freewheeling going on and on. it was probably the best that he ever did. and he was funny and engaging. and it was also a high stakes moment during his presidency. but tonight, with this internal pressure building.

it's like doppler radar showing, you know, the looming storm here in the party. i mean, we say it's high stakes. but i don't think i have seen a press conference in my career to this president and to the future of nato. >> peter: well that, is true about the press conference that is to come. it's going to be unscripted. many, many chances for it's just impossible to predict what is going to happen. there are so many democrats a mile away on capitol hill that are just looking for any excuse to take their private concerns about president biden remaining the democratic candidate public. and he may have just given it to them when he is standing next to volodymyr zelenskyy and he says here is a man with great courage and conviction, vladimir putin. the way that things -- the international press was in the line to get in here with us. and their phones were buzzing

with that clip from places all around the world. like 10 minutes later. that's just the nature of a presidential campaign in 2024. and so, even if he has a flawless performance on the stage behind us, which they will still setting up. it's possible that that clip is going to be the headline of the day. >> laura: yeah, well, as i'm going to say in a few moments, peter. that was not the first time something like that happened. but it was ignored for many years. peter, we'll go back to when this thing gets underway. thank you so much. all right. with the democrats silence. they were all enablers, i don't care how worried they all are. tonight as the biden presidency and re-election bid does hang in the balance. americans are demanding answers. what do democrats know about biden's decline and when this d. they know it? dems like jon tester montana in a tough race for re-election. they are at this point just

trying to get out of town. >> senator tester do you think joe biden is mentally fit to be president? >> sir, i'm a senator can i give you my business card get in touch with our press office. >> i have a question for him. is he right here. senator tester, do you think that joe biden is mentally fit to be president? >> can i get. >> do you think is he mentally fit to be president? >> can you take this, here's the card. >> if you can just take this here's my card. joining us now chris bedford author of the briefway. charlie hurt opinion editor "washington times." fox news contributor chris, democrats are literally running away from questions when they're not giving mostly anonymous quotes to politico or axios or cnn about how they have had some concerns for some time about biden. >> isn't it fun to watch? i mean, republicans on capitol hill, are just loving it. it seems like it's the first time that democrats and the press have actually had to work.

whether being chased. whether being asked hostile questions. extremely not used to this sorts of treatment from folks within the press who basically ran the 2020 campaign for them. while joe biden hid in the basement. it's not just -- you see there is also anger in hollywood. george clooney out here now saying hey this guy has got a problem. the guy i saw three weeks ago big fundraiser is not the same person, even in 2020, forget about in 2010. they are noticing that and getting annoyed with it. but here's the thing that is on joe biden's side. one time they have only got a couple weeks left to the dnc congress has already left town. not going to be asked any more questions at least until after the republican national convention that's going for them. two, even when see george clooney things he is saying we need a different candidate. can you beat a different candidate. that's not a person. they would need to coalesce around a single person. if kamala harris was actually good at the one job she has, vice president, she was able to

take over the presidency. this would be a done deal. but they -- and they would be pushing. why doesn't the old white man step aside and let this historic candidate take the job? they know she might be worse at it than she is. and that's his ace in the hole. >> laura: you know, charlie, i foresee things happening this way. whereby they eventually appeal to biden to, you know, take one for the team here. and they do coalesce behind kamala. i could see the press conference where she and joe were together, right? and they are standing side by side. and they thank him for his patriotic service. and he hands the baton over to kamala harris as the future of the party and the democrats coalesce and say we have never been more united, it's time to turn the page. i think that's where this is headed tonight. i might be wrong. but all the signs, i think, are swirling in the air. and once obama clearly let the dogs out or, you know, implicitly let the dogs out. there's no turning back.

>> yeah. i agree. i think that behind the scenes, the people that run the democrat party and their big donors are probably doing everything they can to sort of put together some kind of package that is appealing enough to try to get the biden family out of the white house. this isn't going to happen unless it's the biden family's decision. it should be joe biden's decision. but i think we have seen that he is not capable of making decisions. so, i think it's a family decision now probably the first lady's decision. they are going do do what they can to try to get him to that spot where they decide to move on. and i think you are exactly right. a minute ago you asked the most important question which going forward what did they know and when did they know it? the degree to which kamala harris obviously the press, but more importantly kamala harris and democrats on capitol hill have conspired to deny the american citizenry, their

president, by covering up the facted that the president that got elected is completely mentally shot and not making decisions and that's been the situation for a long time man if they do quinels joe biden to walk away and i agree the most seemless thing to do is to hand it to kamala. man, the press is going to turn on a dime and suddenly she is going to become the most vaunted historic figure we have ever seen and all of the criticism about her failures is going to just immediately vanish. >> well, i think, chris, when you read the press accounts today of democrat officials and white house, you know, staffers, former staffers saying well, you know the president hasn't done a solo press conference since, you know, i don't know when. and he hasn't had a full cabinet meeting since october of 2023. well, we have all been saying

this they are getting no credit from me for being truth tellers in this moment their enablers and co-conspirator in covering this up. chris? >> that's exactly right. what we're seeing seeing right now two weeks of sudden honesty in the press. two weeks of complete and total panic. after that debate they realized that the ruse was up. they had access to the president. they had seen him. they hadn't been asking the questions. they knew they were being lied. to say and they continued the lying and they lied to the american people. now they are worried that they can't actually win. much more than they care about joe biden they care about beating donald trump. that's number one. parties have been in dangerous places before republicans knew they were going to lose going into 1964. republicans knew they were going to lose with gerald ford against jimmy carter. democrats were terrified of ronald reagan in 1980. you start to see this panic. i have never seen panic like this. >> laura: chris and charlie stay

with us. as we await president biden coming the for this presser and we are hearing it could be any moment now, the bad news keeps coming. his donations, the big donors running away two well-connected democrat party consultants who work closely with the top donors are telling fox there has been a major slowdown in biden's fundraising over the past week. joining us now, lara trump, co-chair of the rnc, laura, this press conference is being billed as, you know, the most important press conference of the president -- president's term. but, is it going to be enough to reboot this stalled fundraising operation? >> my question, laura, is why are they doing this to him. it appears to some people like a way maybe to just go ahead and embarrass joe biden a little bit more and kind of earner him on his way out. i mean, the truth is. even in these very scripted pretaped interviews like he did with george stephanopoulos.

he still can't get it done. you had one of those radio stations he called in last week where they gave the questions from the white house directly to the radio station saying we actually had to edit some of that because it was so bad even though you gave us the questions in advance for joe biden. the idea, laura, that he is going to come out on this stage and do anything miraculous at this point, i think is a super long shot. i mean, if you want to call it a hail mary, can you call it that in my mind i can't figure out why the heck you would put joe biden out there if not to maybe further embarrass him and try to convince him to quit and bow out of this thing early. they have a huge problem on their hand. they are backed in a corner. i know you guys were just talking about kamala harris. let's not forget when kamala harris actually ran for president, she polled so poorly and did so poorly she had to drop out before her own home state of california voted. she is not popular. she doesn't poll well. people don't like her.

they don't see her as effective. i'm waiting to see like everybody else with my popcorn what the heck these democrats are going to do because, man, do they have a problem. >> laura: lara, you think when biden screwed up zelenskyy's name and called him putin, democrats on capitol hill are secretly kind of rubbing their hands together saying aha, see, we got him. i think there is something to that. they -- this obviously has gone south for them. so the more stumbles at this point it's more evidence to jill and company that you got to stop doing this to this man. >> yeah. well, one would think. and i don't know what their play is. obviously the only person who can inherit the money that they have fund raised at this point is kamala harris. if they have any chance of putting any other person in there, they better have plan going in the background they better have some person who is going to infuse a lot of money in this campaign very quickly. i don't know, but what i can tell is you that next week we are going to present at the republican national committee

convention a view of america that americans want. it is not a stumbling president. it is not a failing president. not someone who we can't rely on who is not up to take the 11:00 p.m. calls if you get a call from your military overseas. we're talking about a man in donald trump who actually delivered for this country. we're going to talk about what he did while he was president. talk about his vision for the future. and it will stand in stark contrast to what the democrats are trying to offer. whether it's joe biden, kamala harris, or laura, quite frankly anybody else. >> laura: kamala harris could pull some more african-american voters. that's the thought. nobody was and i had her in 2019. she ran a terrible campaign. now the democrats have a way to reboot their whole effort. this is how i think they are going to pull it, laura. this is the way they are going to do it more united than we have ever been. this is a new jennings, passing the torch, they are going to turn it into a big production

for a diversity and the future and youth vote. i think that's how it's going to go. they are going to be united, i believe, behind her. are you at all concerned about that and wouldn't joe biden staying in be a lot better for you? >> well, look, obviously joe biden has epically failed as president. but i can say the same thing about kamala harris as vice president. she has epically failed. think about what her tasks were while she was vice president. her first task was border czar. and you look at the 10 million plus people who have illegally crossed our border. we have never seen a more porous border unsecured border than we have right now. during this administration. i think you have to go back whether it's biden or harris to their track record. and she has a horrific track record as vice president. she was sold to people to your point, laura, as some historic figure. we should all be excited that she is the first minority female vice president. that's great. i just want somebody as a woman

myself who can get the job done. and, obviously, she was not up for that task. so the idea that anybody is going to buy that she can do a better job at being president when she completely failed her very few roles as vice president, i don't know. it might be a tough sale to the american people. maybe they get a few more people on board. but, i don't think it matters to us whether it's joe biden or kamala harris at this point. we know we have the best candidate. >> laura: lara, a lot of people from that debate, biden imploded so spectacularly, but, the connection between trump and the american people, donald trump and the american people on bread and butter issues, to me, that is still where this is at. we have forgotten or people aren't talking about the policies as much over the last few weeks. but, you know, we had bad news coming from pepsi tonight. pepsico. we have the border still being overrun we still have people struggling to make ends meet. so, on the economics, to me,

that's still the big -- we are talking about foreign policy tonight. but, the economy, stupid, still reigns supreme, i think. >> stops true. it's basics. look, when your basics needs are not being met. i think that's how you are always going to vote. and people are struggling. just to get by day to day. they are struggling to pay their rent. to say buy a house right now it's twice as expensive as it was when donald trump was in the white house. when you can't get by day-to-day without your life being immensely harder, which it is for so many people, you have to take a look at what's been going on and say well, something has to change. you can't go wrong when you go back and look at donald trump as president. and that is what we are going to continue to talk about with the american people. inflation was low. we were energy independent. we had a secure border. our standing on the world stage was strong. it was peace through strength. and you had peace agreements around the world instead of wars breaking out around the world.

it was so different, almost 180 degrees with donald trump in the white house. >> laura: everyone knows it. when i'm president, gas is going to be about 2:30 a gallon again. end of story. >> 1.87 a gallon national average with donald trump by the way. >> laura: let's put it out. there lara, great to see you. thank you so much. you will not hear -- cheers] >> the scrappy kid from scranton. you were the first decision i made as a nominee and it was the best. >> laura: well, you won't hear obama say anything like that now. new reporting reveals that he knew about george clooney's devastating op-ed on biden before it came out. didn't bother trying to stop it, tacit approval, wink, wink. none of it surprising though. even the biden campaign finally figured out who is behind all of this.

>> the biden campaign and many democratic officials do believe that barack obama is -- is quietly working behind the scenes to orchestrate this. if joe biden believes that, that's not going to get him out of the race any faster. >> laura: i don't understand that analysis. but joining me now vivek ramaswamy, former presidential candidate. vivek, do you think joe biden cares about what barack obama thinks or the donors think or george clooney thinks or jill for that matter, at this point? >> the reality is i don't think joe biden has enough of a functioning brain apparatus. i don't mean that insulting, laura. literally for him to be the person making that decision. the real question is what does jill biden think and hubbard. the reality is this is all part of a extended negotiation. think about a board trying to

oust an ceo. that's extended negotiation for package. a lot of the public puffery. biden is done. there is no way can he be the nominee with this level of crumbling support. the only question is how well the biden family gets taken care of. effectively a knowingation on price. only neon quite possibly literally laura that's what this comes down to, when the carts are fallen when obama is on the other side ultimate punt masters have decided puppet has to go. die has been cast and negotiation for the biden landing pad and golden mayor chute. >> laura: they about to make big announcement about nato and ukraine. so we have a figure head president dolling out tens of millions of dollars, which will continue the killing fields of ukraine. both sides losing huge, huge numbers of people. and, yet, everybody knows the man is non-comp pus men tis.

isn't that a scandal? hunter biden was sitting on the board of ba his that. this is a ukrainian affiliated hunter biden had no business sitting on the board of. that is the exact same country joe biden the puppet directs hundreds of billions of dollars of u.s. taxpayer money to afterwards. if the same shoe fit the other fight and this was a republican or god forbid donald trump. imagine what the reaction would be. those are the same people now deciding what they are going to do with their own family. the rattles are so corrupt, laura, i do think the right answer, unfortunately for the democrats is, they have to play to the personal incentives of the biden family, that's what this is going to come down to. what i worry about on our side is a lot of this creates a distraction. artificial distraction to make the entire message about biden or who they are going to put up. it's a risk for republicans this fall. the red wave that never came in 2022. i don't want to see that happen

again in '24. if we talk about all our times hot democrats are going to put up in late august they put up a new puppet honeymoon phase of the pluck lasts through november that's a real risk we have to be alert to right now so at the convention next week and beyond, we got to focus on our own message regardless of which puppet they are playing with. >> laura: whoever is president. even if biden stayed in. you are right is he not going. to say even if he did day in. the same policy going to be in place. is he not making decisions now, so he is not making decisions and probably step aside in the next four years anyway, so it's kamala harris, we know who kamala harris is. and the same policies that have destroyed america, our economy, our border our foreign policy are going to continue. so, the policies are what matter, the personality, it's fascinating, the drama, the tragedy of it all. but it's the policies. and it always has been. and that's why he was behind before the debate and that's why is he behind primarily now. >> that's exactly right. the reality is the people we

elect to run the government in the united states, laura, they are not the ones that actually run the office. kamala harris' low iq is the same as biden's cognitive difficulties. it's not a bug it's a feature for the people who control them. that's what we ultimately need to dismantle in american politics. donald trump winning this november is the last best chance we have in the foreseeable future to actually dismantle that managerial class in the deep state. that's what we're up against. and the figure head they put up matters a lot less. >> laura: vivek, they think that somehow pouring more money into ukraine and hosting zelenskyy for the umpteenth time where he comes out with his hand outstretched. i know people love zelenskyy, that's fine. we hope ukraine does well and hope putin gets back on his a hotel. is that what americans are going to be voting about? do they want us more deeply entrenched and possibly risking thermonuclear war with these people in charge or anyone in charge, frankly? >> we're closer to world war iii than we have ever been in my lifetime.

this used to be something that the left was dead set against. yet, now, capture democratic party is actually part of that pro-war machine. i do worry, laura. you think about the american people's trust in the people making decisions, the same people in the south side of chicago, who are seeing encampments for migrants being set up in their city or converting high schools into encampments for migrants seeing $200 billion of our own taxpayer money flowing to some ukrainian clepto accurate can buy a bigger house all the while people in charge in the united states no idea where the money going. even the current president of the united states referring to him even offhandedly mistakenly as putin today. frustrating to a lot of the americans left holding the bag in a difficult economy, inflation and prices rising in a faster rate than wages have. and yet seeing own taxpayer resources increasing the risk of world war iii. by the way you could have done a peace deal a couple years ago before we spent this money. ukraine would have are a better peace deal than today after $200 billion of american

taxpayer resources helped subsidize that war. that is senseless. i think that's going to bring along at love independents and maybe even former democrats to deliver a landslide. a broad coalition that i think trump can deliver. that's an opportunity we shouldn't self-quarantine. >> laura: who is everyone concerned about? is putin and xi concerned about kamala harris? or are putin and xi concerned about a stronger american economy where it's truly peace through strength? to me, this is all played into xi's hands. it's all played into their hands. >> strength starts at home. i think that's something we are going to be able to revive but take the right result this november. >> laura: vivek, this idea that these high placed democrats and celebrities and donors are coming forward in profiles in courage and stating what they saw, well a few weeks ago at this beverly hills fundraiser, biden was not the man we saw, i

mean, i'm reading this clooney column and i'm howling laughing. clooney, catsenberg, stripes sand, the whole crew, knew exactly what they were getting with they were fine with it until the whole party went down and took the party with them. they were fine with that man leading us into the next four years. oh we are truth tellers. you are all frauds and we know it and the american people ultimately know it. they are bad actors. >> absolutely. these people will lie to your face and take your money while you are at it. imagine if you had george cleaner's fundraiser you should be asking for a refund. >> some of them are. >> until the managerial class gets online and now suddenly turns on him. it's the shear dishonesty of this. even most democrats, laura, i think are now sick and tired of that. that presents an opportunity for us to you know what? unite this country. you may not agree with republicans on every one of our policies, but you at least deserve a president who is

straightforward with you and tells you the truth even if that comes with some mean tweets from time to time. maybe you that 2016 you can be into that 2024. opportunity for republicans. as long as we don't get sucked into the nonsense of the other side. focus on our own message and agenda. pretty historic as an opportunity for us. >> laura: this is about to start. they are introducing joe biden. is he walking out on stage. ♪ this is a fox news alert. president biden walking out and a long delayed news conference. let's watch. >> good evening, we just concluded this year's nato summit. [clearing throat] consensus among members was it was great success. especially momentous because it represented the 75th year, the most important military defense alliance in the world's history -- history of the world. we should never forget that nato grew out of the wreckage of world war ii, the most destructive war in history. the idea was do create an alliance of free and democratic nations that would commit

themselves to a compact of collective defense. standing together, they we woull be safer. an attack on one would be treated as an attack on all. and it's worked because a would-be aggressor knows they attack one of us, they will be attacked by all of us. sending that message is the best way to deter aggression and prevent wars in the first place. for those who thought nato's time had passed, they got a rude awakening when putin invaded ukraine, some of the oldest and deepest fears in europe roared back to life because, once again, a murderous mad man was on the march but this time no one cowered in he's piecement. especially the united states. we collected intelligence that russia was pla plan invade ukrae months before the invasion. i directed the intelligence

community to be -- significant amount -- declassified so i could start building international coalition to oppose the invasion. then, in february, some of you remember i warned the world that the invasion was imminent. i rallied a coalition of 50 nations from europe to asia to help ukraine defend itself. my foreign policy -- many foreign policy experts thought as putin amassed russian forces, just 100 miles north of kyiv, the capital of ukraine, but he thought he -- putin thought it was the mother home of russia. the capital would fall in less than a week. but the ukrainian people, backed by a coalition to help build stopped them. today, kyiv still stands. and nato stands stronger than it has ever been. [clearing throat] >> during the week of this summit, several heads of state made it a point through their statements to thank the united states.

[clearing throat] and to thank me personally for all that nato has achieved. nato is not only stronger, nato is bigger because we led the charge to bring in finland and sweden and the alliance. and makes gigantic difference. [clearing throat] excuse me. meanwhile, my predecessor has made it clear he has no commitment to nato. he has made it clear that he would feel no obligation to honor article 5. he has already told putin and i quote: do whatever the hell you want. in fact, the day after putin invaded ukraine, here's what he said. it was genius. it was wonderful. some of you forgot that but that's exactly what he said. but i made it clear is essentially to american security. and i believe the automobile gation sacred and i remind all americans article 51 invoked

only once in nato's long history and that was to defend america after 9/11 i made it clear that i will not bow down to putin i will not walk away from ukraine i will keep nate toy strong and that's exactly what we did. and exactly what we'll continue to do. now, the future of american policy is up to the american people. it's much more than a political question. it's more than that it's a national security issue. don't redo this to the usual testament that people talk about issues being a political campaign. it's far too important. it's about the world we live in for decades to come. every american must ask herself or himself is the world safer with nato? are you safer? is your family safer? i believe the american people

know the answer to all those questions is yes. and i believe the american penan people understand america is stronger because of our alliances. i believe the american consensus from truman to reagan to me still holds today. america cannot retreat from the world. we must lead the world. we are indispensable nation as madeleine albright wrote. now, let me turn to three other key issues. just this morning we had a great economic report showing inflation is down. overall, prices fell last month. core inflation is the lowest it's been in three years. prices are falling for cars, appliances, and airfares. grocery prices have fallen since the start of the year. we are going to keep working to take down corporate greed to bring down prices further. meanwhile, trump is calling for

a 10% tariff on everything americans buy, including food from overseas, vegetables and other necessities. and economists tell us that that would cost the average american working family another $2,500 a year, it's a tax of $2,500 a year. second, our efforts to secure the border, southern border is working. after trump killed the bipartisan effort to secure the border, republicans and democrats had worked on, because he thought it would benefit me and make him a loser if republicans walked away. so i took executive action last month. as a consequence, working with mexico, border encounters have gone down over 50%. the current level lower today than when trump left office. third, for months, the united states has been working to

secure a cease-fire in gaza. to say bring the hostages home, to create a path for peace and stability in the middle east. six weeks ago i laid out a detailed plan in writing, it was endorsed by the u.n. security council. the g-7. that framework is now agreed on by both israel and hamas. so i sent my team to the region to hammer out the details. these are difficult, complex issues. there are still gaps to close. we are making progress. the trend is positive. i'm determined to get this deal done and bring an end to this war which should end now. let me conclude where i began. we're the united states of america. we are the indispensable nation. our leadership matters. our partnerships matter. this moment matters. we must rise to meet it.

with that, i'll take your questions. i've been given a list of people to call on here. reuters, jeff mason. >> mr. president, your political future has hung over the nato summit a little bit this week. speaker pelosi made a point of suggesting that your decision on whether to stay in the race was still open. george clooney and a handful of lawmakers have called on you to step aside. reuters is reporting tonight that the uaw leadership is concerned about your ability to win. >> uaw just endorsed me but go ahead. >> thank you. my question for you is how are you incorporating these developments into your decision to stay and separately, what concerns do you have about vice president harris' ability to beat donald trump if she were at the top of the ticket? >> look, i wouldn't have picked vice president trump to be vice

president. do i think she is not qualified to be president. let's start there. number one. the fact is that consideration i think i am most qualified person to run for president beat him once and i will beat him again. secondly, the idea i served in the senate a long time. the idea that senators and congressman. [clearing throat] are running for office worry about the ticket, is not unusual. and i might add, at least five presidents running or incumbent presidents who had lower numbers than i have now. later in the campaign: so a long way to go in this campaign. and so i -- i'm just going to keep moving. keep moving and because, look, i got more work to do. we got more work to finish.

so much -- we made so much progress. think about it. think about what we are economically with regards to the rest of the world. name me a world leader who wouldn't want to trade places with our economy? we have created over 800,000 manufacturing jobs. 1.5 million -- i mean, so things are moving. we got more to go, working class people still have -- need help. corporate greed is still at large. and prices, corporate profits have doubled since the pandemic. they are coming down. and so i'm optimistic about where things are going. danny kemp, afp. [clearing throat] >> thanks. thank you, mr. president. i wanted to ask you about your -- you mixed up president zelenskyy and putin earlier today. >> ha ha ha british prime

minister, the president of france and the german chancellor having to step in and make excuses for you on that. officials here are saying off the record that your decline has become noticeable. hasn't this now become damaging to america's standing in the world. >> did you see any damage in my standing in leading this conference? have you seen a more successful conference? what do you think? and the putin piece i was talking about putin and i said and now at the very end i said here -- i mean putin, no, i'm sorry, zelenskyy. and then i added five other names. look, guys, the idea anybody suggests that -- that we haven't had an incredibly successful conference, how many times did you hear in that conference -- i know it sounds too self-serving.

because biden did the following. look, folks, this is -- well, anyway. i thought it was the most successful conference i have attended in a long time and find me a world leader who didn't think it was. next one, sorry, nancy cortis, cbs. [clearing throat] >> thank you, mr. president. you mentioned other instances in history where presidents have faced a challenge. but what makes this moment in history so unique is that it is not your enemies who are calling on you to reconsider your decision to stay in the race. it's your friends, supporters, people who think you have done a great job over the past four years. have you spent time thinking about what it would mean for your legacy, which have you worked decades to build if you stay in the race despite the concerns that voters say they have and you lose to someone who, yourself, have argued is unfit to return to the oval office?

>> well, look, i'm not in this for my legacy. i'm in this to complete the job i started: as you recall, understandably, many of you and many economists thought my initial initiatives that i put forward can't do that it's it going to cause inflation. things are going to skyrocket. debt is going to go up. what are you hearing now from mainstream economists? 16 economic nobel laureates said i have done a hell of a job. and under my plans, so far and what is going to happen in the future if i am reelected, things are going to get much better. our economy is growing. i was determined when i got elected to stop trickle down economic theory. wealthy did very well. everybody else would do well. my dad was the well read decent guy. i don't remember much trickling down on his kitchen table.

middle class people and working class people need help. and so what happened is i have decided to implement -- was able to implement as president what i believed when i was a senator. and that is that a way to build this economy is from the middle out and the bottom up. that way we growth economy and the wealthy still do very well. they do fine. [clearing throat] and guess what? find me a mainstream economist who says we haven't done well. what have we not done that isn't working right now? so we got more to do. we got to finish the job. by the way, i come from the corporate stage of the world. delaware has more corporations, you know, registered in delaware than every other state in the nation combined. i'm not anticorporate. corporate profits have doubled since the pandemic. doubled. time to get back in order a little bit. it's time, for example, if i'm reelected we're going to make sure that rents are kept at

5 percent increase. corporate rents for apartments and the like of homes are limited to 5%. make a lot of changes that i have been talking about because we're going to continue to grow this economy. and, by the way, i know remember how i got so roundly criticized for being so prounion? not labor, union. union. well, guess what? i have been the most prounion labor president in history. not a joke. guess what? i had the treasury department do a study, when you unions do better, everybody does better. everybody does better. and we talk about how, for example, when i went -- remember when we talked about beginning the computer chip industry in the united states? used to be, 40% of the industry. we invented the chip. 40% of the industry in the united states. and former presidents decided that the best way to do it was find the cheapest labor in the world. send the product over there and

import what the product was. and so, what did i do? i was told not to go over to europe -- i mean to asia, including europe but asia. and i remember going to south korea, convincing them to invest $20 billion in the united states to build computer chip factories. and i asked why when they finally decided to do it and the answer was because you have the safest economy in the world. you have the best workers in the world. so, the whole idea here is we -- we have invested, over $50 billion in investment in computer chip manufacturing just coming into being. none of you thought that would happen. none of you thought that would happen. but it's happening. it's happening. and it's going to grow economies. all -- and, by the way, red states and blue states, manufacturing as much in red states as blue states. i made no distinction. so my generic point is that the

idea that we can't continue to build and grow the economy, make it fair, like i said, from my standpoint, when the middle class does well, that's when the whole economy grows. the [inaudible] wealthy do well. the wealthy got to start paying their taxes. >> as a follow up, sir, you mentioned that your vice president kamala harris would be ready to serve on day one. can you elaborate on that? what is it about her attributes and accomplishments over the last four years that make her ready to serve on day one if necessary? >> first of all, the way she has handled the issue of freedom of women's bodies to have control over their bodies. secondly, her ability to handle almost any issue on the board. this is a hill of a prosecutor. first free person and in the senate she was really good. i wouldn't have picked her unless i thought she was qualified to be president. from the very beginning. i made no bones about that.

she is qualified to be president. that's why i picked her. felicia schwartz financial times. >> thank you, mr. president. presidency the most straining job in the world and it's 24/7. how can you say you will be up for that next year, in two years, and in four years given the limits that you have acknowledged that you have toted. >> the limits i acknowledged i have? >> there has been reporting that there is ache reports you need to go to bed earlier and go to bed around 8:00. >> that's not true. look. ha ha ha ha. what i said was instead of my every day starting at 7:00 and going to bed at midnight, it would be smarter for me to pace myself a little more. and i said, for example, the 8, 7, 6 stuff. instead of starting a fundraiser at 9:00. start at 8:00. people get to home home by 10:00.

that's what i'm talking about. i'm not talking about and if you look at my schedule since i made that stupid mistake in the campaign -- in the debate, i mean my schedule has been full bore, i have done -- where has trump been? riding around in golf cart filling out score card before he hits the ball? look, he done viral actually nothing, i have done i don't know how many don't hold me to it roughly 20 major events. sometimes with thousands of people showing up. and so, i just think it's better -- i always have inclination whether i was playing sports or doing politics, just to keep going. not stop. i just got to pace myself a little more. pace myself. [clearing throat] in the next debate i'm not going to be traveling into 15 time zones a week before. ha ha. anyway, that's what it was

about. that's what it was about. and, by the way, even with that, i love my staff but. [whispering] add things, add things all the time. i'm catching hell from my wife for that anyway. i'm sorry, zeke miller, associated press. >> thank you, mr. president. two questions for you. first, on the nato summit, president zelenskyy in your meeting with him, he pressed you to lift your limitations on the ukrainian use of american weapons saying in this public remarks afterwards saying that ukraine cannot win the war unless those limitations are lifted. are you reconsidering your position on that and, then secondly, following up on felicia's question there leaders of your own party have said that they're not worried about that debate. they are worried about the next bad night and the bad night after that. how can you reassure the american people that you are up

to the task and that there won't be more bad nights at debate stage or somewhere else? >> first thing about zelenskyy asking for the ability to strike deep into russia, we have allowed zelenskyy to use american weapons in the near term in the near abroad into russia. whether or not he has he should be attacked, for example, should zelenskyy -- he's not, but if he had the capacity to strike moscow strike the kremlin, would that make sense? it wouldn't. the question is what's the best use of the weaponry he has? , the weaponry we are getting to him. i have gotten him more himars -- i got him more long range capacity as well as defensive capacity. and so our military is -- i'm following the advice of my

commander-in-chief -- my -- the chief of staff of the military as well as the secretary of defense and our intelligence people. and we're making a day-to-day basis on what they should and shouldn't -- how far they should go in. it's a logical thing to do. second question related to? >> bad nights. >> bad nights, sir. how can you reassure the american people you won't have more bad nights whether on debate stage or a matter of foreign policy. >> well, i will tell you what, um, the best way to assure them is the way i assure myself and that is am i getting the job done? am i getting the job done? can you name me somebody who has gotten more major pieces of legislation passed in three and a half years? i got -- created 2,000 jobs just last week. so, if i slow down, i can't get the job done. that's a sign that i shouldn't be doing it. but there's no indication of that yet. none. um, who have i got here?

uhmerrik. radio. >> thank you, mr. president. how are you? >> i'm well. >> the election in the u.s. have consequences around the world. you have pretty high standing in europe. i just asked president macron about you and he said we are happy to have him as the president of the united states. but, there is a concern -- many people in poland across europe are worried that the former president may win the election. and there is a lot of concern that donald trump may weaken nato, stop supporting ukraine or push ukraine to give up territories to russia.

>> they're correct. >> you yourself was warning just two minutes ago about it. so my question is do you think that europe will be left on its own if donald trump wins the election? and what's your advice to european leaders to prepare for possible u.s. disengagement? >> well, look, i think -- how can i say this without sounding to self-serving? i'm not had any of my european allies come up and say joe don't run. what i hear them say is you have got to win. you can't let this guy come forward. he would be a disaster. he would be disaster. i mean, i think he said at one of his rallies, don't hold me to

this, recently where nato, i just learned about nato or something to that effect. foreign policy has never been his strong point. and he seems to have an affinity to people who are authoritarian. that worries as i tell you -- that worries europe. that worries poland, and nobody, including the people of poland think that if he wins in ukraine he is going to stop in ukraine. that that's going to be the end of it. so, what i can say is i think i'm the best qualified person to do the job to make sure that ukraine is not fall -- that ukraine succeeds, that the european alliance stays strong. [clearing throat] you may recall, no one was talking about fin land joining nato. i remember talking to putin when -- right after he got elected in geneva. and he was talking about what we should do -- what we couldn't -- be in eastern europe, et cetera.

and i said you're looking for the finlandization of ukraine. get the natoization of finland. and about four weeks later i got a call -- that's not true. probably five months later, the president of finland key come and see me in my office. and i invited him to the oval office. we sat down and talked. he said he wanted to join nato. could i help? and i did. it wasn't automatic. and then i got a call from the swedes. [[inaudible]] i beg your pardon? [inaudible] >> and so, fin land joined nato, 800-mile border is significant. and they are already allies but they weren't part of nato. and you heard i can't remember whether you said our closed meeting if he wouldn't mind

being repeated. he said we decided in finland the people of finland decided they had to be part of nato. it was in our interest because of the joint ability to be together to dissuade any attack on finland. and the same thing with sweden. if took a lot of selling to some folks, particularly in turkey and other places. to agree to the expansion. but it expanned and we are a hell of a lot stronger because of it. we are more secure because of it. and, by the way. i was able to get 50 other nations, 50, 5-0 to support ukraine. 50. able to bring about a coalition between of europe and asia, japan and south korea. i just met with -- we talked about aukus and relationship between australia and new

zealand, japan, south korea, the united states, we're making the world safer and stronger because we have to deal with the new arrangement that exists in the world. the cold war is over. the post war era is over. what is going to replace it? and i respectfully suggest i have a pretty good idea what this should be. i convinced a lot of people to follow it. we're just going to get stronger. um, david sanger. where's? -- >> thank you, mr. president. >> be nice, david. [laughter] >> mr. president, the nato declaration that was issued yesterday, was very notable because it described china as a decisive enabler of the war in ukraine for its provision of critical goods to the russians. that's part of a broader

partnership that seems to have cemented in place in the past two or three years. i think one that you were a little bit doubtful of when we asked you about it some time ago. i would be interested to know whether you have a strategy now of trying to interrupt the partnership between china and russia. and whether or not in a second term you would pursue that if you could describe that strategy to us. and, along the way, could you also tell us whether you think just to follow up on if he issue wilaccfelicia'squestion if you m with vladimir putin the way you were with three years ago or with president xi that a few years from now you will be able to go negotiate with them and handle them one on one? >> well, the first part of your question is we discussed and i raised in the nato summit and others raised the future of china's involvement, what they

are going to do. what they're doing with russia, in terms of accommodating, facilitating -- getting access to additional -- they are not supplying weapons themselves, they are supplying mechanisms for them to be able to get weapons. and china's position is basically, and i've spent more time with xi jinping than any world leader has over 90 hours since being vice president all the way through, for real. and by the way i handed all my notes. but my point is that xi believes that china is a large enough market that they can entice any country, including european countries to invest there in return for commitments or to not do certain things. what's happened is we had a long

discussion about what we cannot -- we have to make clear china has to understand that if they are supplying russia with information and capacity along with working with north korea and others to help russia in armament, that they are not going to benefit economically as a consequence of that by getting the kind of investment they are looking for. and so, for example, we're in a situation where -- and we've reestablished direct contact with china after that -- remember the balloon, quote unquote going down, all of a sudden the thing came to an end? well, we set up a new mechanism, direct line between xi and me problems. the issue is that we have to make sure that xi understands there's a price to pay for

undercutting both the pacific basin as well as europe as it relates to russia and dealing with ukraine. and so, we -- for example, if you want to invest in china, as you know, you know this area really well, invest in china you have to have 51% chinese owner. you have to make sure that you do by their rules. and you can't -- you don't have the authority -- you have to provide all access to all the data and information you have. there was a while there, as you recall, the last administration, and other administrations, where the access to that market was enticive enough to get companies to come in because they had access to over a billion people in a market, not a billion but a lot of people in the