jesse watters, primetime live reaction to joe biden's solo preslo presss conference at 8:0j okay, judge. okay. it's timud?e for toronto. >> i got to change that picture. >> all right. in dele cciously sor collaboration, hines withartnered with kate spaded and dropped a condiment couture line. the flavorcondiment can a of at the favorite flavorful collection features totes, purses foo, clothing, footwear and more. my personal favorite is the catce ketchuph all catch a purs. >> get it, catch. i'll get it. i will pay you 50 dollars. i will pay you $50. hey, listen, i'm a fat littl cat named biggie smalls is a little bit smaller. >> he lost a lotr lost of weight and it's pretty cute. >> there you are. it's a wave. oh, that back.but up yes. those epic. >> yeah. good night, everybody. i'm laura ingraham. this is the "ingraham angle" from washington tonigh gle"tis exp

president biden's high stakes press conference is expected to start at any minuteect anasid as pressure builds in the democrat party for him to step aside. noe.iden jusw hourw, this was b hours ago introducing the ukrainiaitover tn president. and now i want to hand it over to the president of ukraine, ie who has as much courage as he has determinationtlemen,n. >> ladies and gentlemen, president putin, president putin, we've got to beat president putin. president zelensky y i'm so focused on beating putin. we've got to worry about it anyway. >> mr. president, i'm better. you are a up better. s >> wow. now, that would be funny if it weren't so deadly serious. fox is senior white shoushouse correspondent petery is standing by. peter, that moment was yet anothe yr embarrassment. but why the repeated delays tonight with this presser? hat laura in that moment which followed remarkshaly that hadvlm mostly been on teleprompter, he announced president putin like vladimir putin was goinglyc

to be a surprise guest here at the nato summit, but he didty quickly correct himself. vladimir putin is not here d. n they did spend all day talking about ukraine and how to helanwe zelenskyy. and zelenskyy was standing just out of frame right next to presidentn hcalled h biden e he called him putin. but again, putin notas for t he as for the delays, these narrow things are always delayed. we've been there in brussels. we've been there in madrid. the presidential is al pressso i conference is always delayed. pressot's it's surprising somet 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 and h summits around the worldav and knows that they are always delayed. but people tol have been tolds u all day he's going to be there at 630. if you havtent biden ane new qus about president biden and , tune in at 630. and now here we are, 30 minutest late. the room isn't really that full yet. it's a roohe beem that they've n recycling for events throughout

the day. it's going to take-- i i mean, they're not telling us any timing. it's going to take at least 20 or 30 more minutes, i would thy, for him to bein in here. politico has an item tonightquen that some white house aides want him to take around for sethat mayquestions, but that ar aide says maybe it'll be moreve like six or seven questions.a yeah, and again, they advertisbe this as a big boy press conference. that's a term that they wentestn with. i do for questions, count as a big boy, presss coung bo confer. dopr six or seven count is a big boy press conference. it's always possiblelway he goer for more. he often does, but he is not ever under this kind of scrutiny. >> so we'll see. now, peter, i rememberer, i reme that presser that trump did, but kind of midway through his presidency tre where he ends up just freewheeling, going on and on. and it was it wae s probably the best that he ever did. and he was funny and engaging. and it was also a high stakesmoe moment durinntg his presidency. >> but tonight, with this internal pressure building,yo

it's like doppler radaru kn is showing, you know,t' the looming storm here in the party. but we say it's high stakes. but i don't think i've seen a press conference in my careery as important as this one to the president and to the future of nato. well, that is true about theny,a press conference that is to come. it is going to be unscripted many, manyny chances for i it's just impossible to predict what is goin g to happen.y but there are so many democratse a mile away on capitol hill who are just looking for anyr pr excuseivat to take their private concerns about president biden remaining the democratic candidate public. and he may have just given them whe it to them when he's standing next to vladimir zelenskyy. and he says, here is a man with great courage and conviction. vladimird co putin and so the wy that things at the international press was in the line to get in here with ue buzl

and their phones were buzzing with that clip from places all around. the world likea 10 minutes later. that's just the nature of a024. presidential campaign in 2024. and so even if he hasrmance itflawless o performance on the stage behind us, which they are still setting up,'s it's possible that that clip is going to be the headline of the day , as well as i'm tim going to say in a few moments. yeg likepeter, that was not thet time something like that happened, but it was ignoreard for many years.. peter, we'll go back to when this thing gets underway. thank you so much. all right. well, the democrats silence, they were all enablers. i don't care how worried they are. and tonigh t, as thees biden presidency and his reelection bid does hangg in ine balance, americans are demanding answeranswers.s. decln what did democrats know about biden's decline and when did whd they know it?n test that dems like jon tester, montana, he's in a tough race pt for reelection. they're just at this point, just justying t trying to get o

>> senator tester, do you thinki joe bide bn is mentally fit to e president? sure. i'm in bes center for a third ts and i give you my business card. >> you may. but i got a question for him. get in touch with our press officer. he's right here. o >> i hava qut here.senator testc that joe biden is mentally fitan to b>> do yoe president?re's the i can get you. you think he's mentally fit to be president. if you could just take thi s. >> here's the card. if you can just take this.rd here's my card. joining us now, chris bedford, author of out with the beltway charf newsletter, charlie herd,s opinion editor of washington times, fox news contributor. cs chris, the democrats, are literally running away from questionwhens when they're not o giving mostly anonymous quotes to politico or axios or cnn f about how they'vore had some concerns for some time i about biden. st >> isn't it fun to watch?. i mean, republicans on capitol hill are just loving it.ha it seems like it's the first time that democrats and the presve acts have actually had tk

where they're being chased, where they're being asked exe questions. they're extremely not used to the sorts of treatment from folks in the pressn hid who basically rainn the 2020 campaign for them while joe biden hid in the basement. and it's not you just dc. see, there's also anger in hollywood. you've got george clooney out here now sayingy has saying, hey, this guy's got a problem. the gu y i saw three weeks ago at the big fundraiser is not the same person even in 2020. ad forget about in 2010. they're noticing that.n' they're getting annoyed at it. but here's the thing that is on joe biden's side one time, they've only got a couple of weeks left to the dnc.. the congress has already left town. they're nog to bt going to be ad any more questions for at least until after the republicanthem. national convention. that's going for them. two, you see these george clooney things they're saying, he's saying we need a different candidate., but you can beat a different candidate. that's not a person they would need to coalesced e around a single person. and if kamala harris wasidency actually good at the one job

she has vice president, she was able to take over the presidency. b . this would be a done deal.n but they and they would be pushing. why? why doesn'side andett the old wn step aside and let this historic candidate take the jo?b ? but they know that she might even be worse at it than he is, and that's his ace in the holeci . >> i you know, charlie, i first see things happening this waysty where they eventually appeal to biden to take one for the team here. and they do coalescecoalesce bee kamala. i could see the press conference where she and joe thank were together. right. and they're standing side him forby side and they thank r his patriotic service. and he hands the baton ove overs to kamala harris as the future of the party and the democratsay coalesce and say, we've never been more united, it's time to turn the page. i think that's where this is headed tonight. i migh.t all the sit be wrong, a the signs i think, are swirling in the air. and oncemaet obama clearly let e the dogs out or, you know, implicitly let the dogs out,

there's no turning back.e yeah, no, i agree.people t i think that behind the scenes, the people that run the democrat party and theirg ut big donors are probably doing everything they can to sorr to r of put together some kind of package that is appealing enough to try to get the bidenen family out of the white house.il this isn't going to happen unless it's the biden family's decision. itiden's should be joe biden's decision. but i think we've seen that he's not capabl sions.e of making decisions. so i think it's a family decision now, probablydecisi now the first lady's decision. and they're going to do onat they can to tryto try to gm to that spot where they decide to move on. and i think you're exactly right. a minute ago, you asked the most important question,oing which is going forward, what didd what d they know and c they know it? and the degree to which h kamala harris, obviously the press, but more importantly, kamala ias harris and democrats on capitol hill have conspireiredd to denyi the american citizenry

their president by covering up the fact that the president that got elected is completely mentally shot and nongt making decisions. and and that's been the situation for a long time. but, man, if they do convincesee joe biden to walk away and i agree this the most seamlessss n thing to do is to hand it to kamala, man, the press is going e an to turn on a dimest and suddenly she is going to become the most vauntede ev historic figure we have everer seen. yeah. and all of the criticism about her failuresg to immed isi to just immediately vanish. >> well, i thinks,, chris, when you when you read the press accounts todayda of of democrat officials and white house staffers, formertaffers n saying, well, you know, the president hasn't done a solo press conferencfence, yob you know, i don't know when. meethe hasn't had a fullin wellnet meeting since october of 20, 23. well, how we've all been sayingg

this. and so they're getting no credit from me forin being truth tellers in this moment. they were enablers and they were coconspirators in covering this up. chris. s that's exactly right. what we're not seeing right nonw is two weeks of sudden honesty in the press. that we're seeing now is two weeks of complete and total panic. after that debate, they realizee wad that the ruses up, that they had access to the president. seen him.bein they hadn't been even asking the questions. they knew that they were being liednd to. and they continue the lying and they lied to the american people. but noriedw they're worried they can actually win much more than they care about. joe bideaboutg donaldn. they care about beating donald trump. that's number one. you know, parties have been los in dangerous places before. republicans knew they were going to lose going into 1964.el republicans knew that they were going to lose with geralgainstdd against jimmy carter. democrats were terrifiedin see of ronald reagan in 1980, and they start to see this panic. but i've never seen panic likeey this. >> all right, chris and

charlie, stay with us. and as w e await president biden coming out for this presser and we're hearing could be any moment now, the bad news keeps coming. hihis donations, the big donorso running away to well-connected democrat party consultants mao work closely with thh thp de top donors are telling fox there has been a major slorw down in biden's fundraising over the past week. joinin n trug us now, lara trum, co-chair of the rnc. >> laura laura, this press confo is being billestd as the mostnts important press conference of the president. president' ts term. but is it going to be enoughot i to reboot this stallederatio fundraising operation? >> well, my questionn?>> m, lau, is actually why why are they doing this to him? this appears is it appears to some people like a way maybe to just go aheadlittle and embarrasswa joe biden a little bit more and kind of usher hi m on his waythes out. >> i mean, the truth is, evene e in theseryted very scripted,po pretaped interviews like he did with george stephanopoulosulos.

he still can't get it done. you had one of those radio stations he called in to last weeke they gestionsouse where ti 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. stions even though you gave us the questions in advance for joe bide adv bidenn. ome ou sot the idea, laura, that he'sn going to come out on this stage and do anything miraculous at this point, i think is al it super long shot. i mean, if you want to call it a hail mary, you can cal thand u that. in my mind. i can't figure out why the heck you would pu put joet joe bident there if not to maybe further embarrass him and tryg earl to convince him to quit and bow out of this thiny.ave a hug ear. >> they have a huge problem on their hands. let''re backed intuys wereo a c. and i know you guys were just talking about kamala harris as the second. let' when kas not forget when ka harris actually ran ford to president, she polled so poorly and did so poorly, she had to drop outr ow out before her owne theye of california vote nd. she is not popular. she doesn't poll well.

people don't like her. they don't seeer her as effective. >> so i am waiting to see like everybody else with myes popcorn ,what the heck these democrats are going to do because, man, did they have a so. so, laura, you think when zelen biden screwed upsk zelensky's name and called him putin. democrats on capitol weill are secretly kind of rubbing their hands together saying, i got him.. g i mean, i think there's something to that. they they this obviously is going south for them and so the more stumbles at this point, it's more evidence to jill and company that you got to stop doing this to thisel man. >> yeah well one would think and i don't know what whatn wh their plano is obviously fun the only person who can inherit the money that they have fundraised pointis kam atf is kamala harris. and if they have any chance bacg of putting any other person in there, they better have a plan goingroer in the backgrounn they better have some person who's going to infuse a lot of money in thiser campaign verx quickly. i don't know. but what i can tell you is that next week we are going to present at the

republican national committecoe convention a view of america that americans want. it is noit is t a stumbling president, not a failing president, not someone who wise can't rely on, who's not upry to take the 11 p.m.. calls. if you get a cal oeas.l from w your military overseas. we're talking about a man in donalhouallyr thisd trump whh actually delivered for this country. we're going to talk about whater he did while he was president. talk about his vision for the future and it will stand 's joe in stark contrast to what the democrats are trying to offer, whethelar it's joe biden, kamala harris or laura, quite frankly, anybody else. >> well, kamala harris could pull some more african americane voters. rin that's the thought. and that if nors. one was unitin behind her in 2019, she ran a terrible campaige ran. >> but now the democrats have a way to reboo t their whole effort. this is how i think they're going to pull it. pullaura.laura and and this isn they're going to do it. >> like we're we're more united than we've.this is ever been. this is you know, this is ag new generation passing the torch. and they're going to turn it rnto a big production fo

a diversity and the future. and youth vote.they a i think that's how it's going to go. and they are goingre united, i e united, i believe, behind her. are you at all concerned be about that? a >> and wouldn't joe biden staying in be a lot better for e you? well, look, obviously, pres failedas epicallyas as president. but i could say the same thing about kamala harris as vice pre president. she has epically failed. let's think about what her she wasre whilesident vice president. her first task was borders are an d you look at the 10 million plus people who have illegally crossed our border, we've never seen a more porous border, an unsecured border than we have right now during this administration. i thins adk you have to go back. whether it's biden or harris, to their track record. and she has a horrific track record as viceresident president. she was sold to people. to your point, laura, as some we shoul figure, we should all be excited that she is the w first minority female vice president. that's great. i just wanans womat somebody asp

myself who can get the job done. and obviouslfor that ty, she wap for that task. so the idea that anybody is going to buy that she can do a better job at being president when she completel ewyo th failed her very few roles as vice president. i don't know. it mightamericanple.maybe be ae american people. maybe they get a few more people on board.t ma, but e don't think it matters to us whether it's joearris at biden r kamala harris at this point. we know we have the best e. n dat laura, a lot of people fromim that debate, biden imploded soni spectacularly. but the connectiononween tru ben trump and the american people, donald trump and the american people on bread and butter issues, to me, that's still where this is at. we've forgotten orng about people aren't talking about the policies as much over the last few weekbue d nes. but, you know, we had bad news coming from pepsi tonigh have tg pepsico. we have the border still being overrun. we still have people struggling to make ends meet. on t econoso on the economics, ,

that's still the biggest fear, talkin n g about foreign policy tonight. but the economy, stupid, is still still reigns supreme as a theme. i thinme, i think.k it's -- it'. it's the basics. and look, when your basig met.ce are not being met, i think that's how you're always going to vote. and people are struggling just to get by day to day. ing tothey're struggling to payv their rent to buy a house. right now, it's twice as expensivee p was in as it was when donald trump was in the white house. when you can'tto-day get by dayan to day without your life being immensely harder, whicy ph is for so many people, you have to take a look at what's been going on and sayng h say, well, something has to change. you can't go wrong whend loon yo back and look at donald trump as president and and thann is what we are going to continue to talk about with the american people.. inflation was low. we were energy independent. our e worl. ure border our standing on the world stage was strong. it was peace through strength. and yoagreemen u had peace agreements around the world instead of wars breaking out around

the world. it was so different. almostees with 180 degrees with, everybody in the white house. but you're right, it boilsl dows to the basics for people and they know who delivered it for them and who will agaien i'mn. a >> and it's donald about when i'm when i'm president, gas is going to ben about 230 a gallon again, end of story. >> that's what i would be saying,7 87 a gallon with te national average with donald trump, by the way.y. >> let's just put it out there. laura, wonderful to see you. you k you solat to much. all right. you're not going to hear obama >>ying anythinotg. the scrappy kid from scranton, you were the first decision. >> ls i made as a nominee and is the best. >> well, you want to hear obama say anything like that. now, new reporting revealseboutn that he knew about george clooney's devastating op ed on bidebeforen. it came out, didn't bother trying to stop it. tacit approval, winkproval, win none of it surprising, though. even the biden campaigfi n finally

figured out who's behind all this. >> the biden campaig campan andy democratic officials do believel that barack obama is is quietly working behind the scenes to orchestrate this. if joe biden believes that that's not goinof theg to t him out of the race any faster on. i don't understand that analysis. but joining me now, vivek ramaswamy formerr presid presidential candidate, the fake. do you think joe biden cares about what barack obama thinks other donors think think or george clooney thinks or jill, for that matter, at this pointsu ? >> the reality is i don't think joe biden ha s enough of a functioning brain apparatus. i don't mean that insultingly. g,laura.ion. >> i mean it literally for him to be the person who's making that decision. the real questiostion n is, whas joe biden think? and maybe hunter biden. and the reality is, i think thisllof ade is all part of an d negotiation. >> think about a board trying

to ousat'st a ceo.fo that's an extended negotiation for an exit package. that'sr what this is. >> a lot of the public puffery. biden is done. there's no wayle he can be the nominee with this level of crumbling support. the only questio n is how well. the biden family gets taken care of. it's effectively a negotiationc on price. and i only mean that half jokingly, somewhat metaphorically. neoquite pobut i think quite po literally, laura, that's what this comes down to. wn tn thso when the cards have , when obama's on the other side, the ultimate puppet masterat mas have decided their puppet has to go. the die has been cas go.t and te rest of this is really just a negotiation for the biden's landing pad in the goldeg pan. >> that's what's going on. well, think about it. they're about to make some big they abo announcement, i believe, about nato and ukrained. and so we have a figurehead president doling out tens of billions of dollars, which will continue the killing fields of ukraine. both both sides losing huge, huge numbers of people. and yet everybody knows man is non compos mentis and in the way you need to be to be

president. p s.i mean that in and of itsel. >> isn't that a scandal? >> of course it's a scandal. and the deeper scandal is it even relates to that same biden family dynamic that i described. thin on thek about this hunter biden was sitting on the board of burisma. this is a ukrainian state affiliated energy company that hunter biden had no business sitting on the board of. >> and yet that is the exactirects same country that joe biden, the puppet, directs, hundreds of billions of dollars of u.s. taxpayer money to afterwards . if the same shoe fit the other foot and this was a republican. or, god forbid, donald trump, wa imagine what the reaction would be. so those are the same people art now deciding what they're going to do with their own families. lao th, theyty is it is so corrupt, laura, that i do thinkh the right answer, unfortunately for the democrat pers is, they e to play to the personal incentives of the biden family. to.what ithat's what this is gg to come down to. what i worry about on our side is a lot of this createsentire a distraction, an artificial distraction to make the entire t message about biden or who they're going to put up. i think it's a risk for republican. t neves this fall.t want >> the red wave that never camet in 2022. i don't want to see that happenr

again in 24. but if we spend all of our time talking about the shenanigandems of who the democrats are going to put up in late august, they put up a new puppet. that's a honeymoon phasel risk with the public that lasts through november. we gink that's a real riskve t that we have to be alert to right now. >> so at the convention next week and beyoncus ownd, we've t to focus on our own message, regardless of which puppet they're playing with>> laurag w. yeah, whoever is president, even if biden stayed in which he you're right, hay he's not gn to. but even if he did stay in, the same policy is going to begb and prob place. he's not making decisions now. so he's not making decisions sto and i'll probably step aside in the next four years anyway. so it's kamala harriand ths ande know who kamala harris is and the same policies that have destroye d 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'sit alway the policies a always has been. >> and that's why he was behind behindbefore debate and that's y he's behind primarily now. e we >> that's exactly right. and the reality is the people we electeelect governmdn

the government, the united states anymore, laura, they're not the ones ruo actually run the governmentme a . kamala harris' low iq is the same as joe biden's cognitivedic difficulties. that's actually not a bug. it is a feature for the people who controit who conl them. that's what we ultimately need to dismantle in american politics. and i think donald ld trump winning trump winning this november is the last, best chance we have i foreseen the foreseeablea to actually dismantle that managerial claste s in the deep state that you build up against and the figurehead they put up matters a lot less well, if they thinkmo that somehowre pouring more mony into ukraine and hosting the landscape for the umpteenth time where it comes out with his hand outstretched, ou are, wlot of people hand you know, love zelenskyy. that's fine. we hope ukraine does weleldhopea and we hope putin gets back on his heels. >> but is that what to be ty americans are going to be voting about? do they want us more deeply enched a and possibly risking thermonuclear war with these people in charge or anyone in charge, frankly? >> we're close. we're closer iii eve to world war

three than we've ever been in my lifetime. >> this used to be somethingy that the left was dead set against. >> yet now the captured democratic party is actually part oo-wa of that pro war mach. >> and i do worry, laura,people you think about the american people's trust in the people who are making decisions. ih si chicago, athe same people in thi side of chicago who are seeing encampments for migrantsencamp being set up in their city or converting high schools into encampmentmes for migrants seeig $200 billion of our own taxpayer money flowing to some ukrainian kleptocratic can buy a bigger house alle all th the g you got people in charge in the united states who have no idea where that money is even goinght . even a current president of off the united states referring to him even offhandedly and mistakenlyha as putin today.ag >> i think it's frustrating to a lot of americans who are left holdingficult, the bag in t difficult economy, inflation and prices rising at a faster rate than wages have, and yet seeing their own taxpayer resources goin g to increasing h the risk of world war three. >> by the way, if ukrainave had done a peace deal a couple of years ago, before we ped spent this money we , ukraie would have had a better peace deal than they could get today. aftedar $200 billion of american

taxpayer resources have been used to helpayer subsidizek that that war. that is senseless. and so i do think that that's goingg to bring along a lote ev of independents, maybe even former democratsenmocrat, to deh potentially a landslide, a broad coalitioat thinkn that k trump can deliver. >> but that's an opportunity we shouldn't squander. t selfi mean, who's everyone and concerned about? is putin and xi concern about kamala harris or putin? and shde concerned about a stronger american economy or peaceit's truly peace through strength. >> to me, this is all played in hands. p >> it's all played into their hands during the talkshing at home. and i thin we ark that's somethg we're going to be able to revive. but take the right result this november. vivek, this idea that these high placed democrats and celebrities and donorsd are coming forward and profiles in courage the and stating fundr what they saw. >> well, a few weeks ago at this beverly hills fundraisernot the , biden was nd

the man we saw. >> i mean, i'm reading this clooney column i and i'm howlinc laughing, clooney, katzenberg, e streisand, the whole crew knew exactly what they were getting with joe biden. and the truth is, they were fine with it until it looked i like that guy was going to go down and take the whole partl ye with him. but they were fine with that man leadin h thatg us into the next four years. and now they're like, oh, we're truth tellerh tes, you're frauda you're all frauds, and we know it. and the american people, i think ultimately they know it. they're bad actors. it. >> absolutely. i mean, these people will lie to your face and take your money while you're at it.d imagine if you were at george clooney's fundraiser. you should be askingr forl a refund several weeks ago. the guy's biden unti l the managerial class gets online and then now suddenly turns on him. it's they of sheer dishonesty t of it. and i think most even most democrats, lauraired othat., i w are now sick and tired of that. that presents an opportunity for us t couo, you know, unite o country. you may not agree with republicans on every one of our policies, but you at least deserve a president

and who is straightforward with you and tells you the truth, even if that comes with some mean tweets from time to time. maybe you weren't into that in 2016. 016 u cayou can be into that in so this is an opportunity fore ' si as republicans. and as long as we don't get deuo into the nonsense of the other side, focuges on our own messagh and our own agenda. >> i think this is pretty historic as an opportunity forii yeah, thisey is about to startih there introducine g joe biden. x >> n he's walking out on stage.l this is a fox news alert. president biden walking out and a long delayedays confer neo conference. >> let's watch. we just concluded this year's nato'ssummit summit and the cons among members was it was a great success. it's especially momentous because it represented the 75th year, the most important military defenseworld' alliance in world history, the world we should never forget. the native grew out of the wreckage of world war two, most destructive war in history. c the idea was to create an alliance of free and democratico nations that would

commit themselves to a compactmf of collective defense. standing together. an a they knew we'd all be safer.tte attack on one would be treatedat as an attack on al'sl. and it's worked because a would be aggressor knows they attackel one of us. there will be attack by all of us. sending that message is the best way to detessior aggressios and prevent wars in the first place. for those who thought nato's time had passetime hadd, they gi a rude awakening and putin invaded ukrain e. some of the oldest and deepest fears in europ e roared back to life because once agaian ,a murderous madman was on the march. tbut this time, no one cowered in appeasement, especially the united states. we collected intelligencia was that russia was planning to invade ukraine months beforte the invasion. i did. i directed the intelligence

communiteunity to read a signift amount of which has beenardi declassifiedng so i couldin start building an international coalition to oppose the invasion. that >> then in february, some of you remember i warned the world that the invasion was imminent. >> i ralliedra the coalitionhelp of 50 nations from europe to asia to help ukrain ue defend itself. our foreign policy, many foreign policy experts it as true and amassed russian forces miles n just 100 miles nh of kyiv, the capitol ofs th ukraine. but he thought he putin thought itmother was the mother homefall of russia. a capital woul id fall in less,k than a week. >> but ukrainianed people, backed by a coalition to help build stopped them. today, kyiv still standseen. and nato's stands stronger than it has ever been. tate and during the week of this summit, several heads of states made it a point in theirat statements to thank the united]t

states and to thank me personally for all that nato'so nato's not only stronger, nato'sbecaus bigger because we d led the charge to bring in finland and sweden into the alliance. and it makes a gigantic difference. y excuse me. meanwhile, my predecessor har who has made it clear he has no commitment to nature. n >> he's made it clear that he would feel no obligatio tnqut to honor article five. >> he's already told putine:th ohe i quote, d whatever the hell you want. dayin fact, the day after putin invaded ukraine, here's what he said. it was genius. it was wonderfulf yorgot tha. some of you forgot that. but that's exactly what hei made said. but i've made it clear. a strong nato is essentialr is to american security. and i believe the obligation of article five is sacred. i remind all americans article

five is revoked only once and nato's long history. and that was to defend america. ter 9/11after 911. i made it clear i will not bow down to putin. i will not walk away from ukraine. towill keep nato's strong. that's exactly what we did. exactly what we'll continue to do. now, a futur poe american policy is up to the american people. this is much more than the political question. it's more than that. it's a national security issue. don't reduce this to the usual testament that people talk about issues, debate itpoliticacampail campaign. >> it's far too important.'s it's about the world we live in for decades to come. every american must ask herself himself. is the world safer with nato? are you safer? ev is your familye th safer? those i believe the american

people know the answer to allan those questions is yes. and i believe the american people understand that america is stronger. stronger because of our alliances. liances.i believe the american consensus from truman to reagan, to me, still holds today. >> america can not retreat from the world. it must lead the world. we're our indispensable nation. as madeleine albrighight wrot w. now, let me turn to three other key issues. just this morning, we had a report showing inflation is down. nflati overall prices fell last month. core inflationonwest is the lowt it's been in three years. prices are falling for cars,es. appliances and air for airfarese . grocery prices have fallen since the start of the year. year. t workiwe're going to keg to take down corporate greed to bring those prices downing dn further. meanwhile, trump's calling for

a 10% tariff on everything americans buy, including foodome from overseas vegetables and other necessities. an tell us that that would costn the average american working familya another $2,500 a year to tax of $2,500 a year. thsecond harvest to secure the border. a southern border is workingp ki after trump killed the bipartisan effort to secure bothe border. gregg republicans and democrats had worked on because thought it would benefit me and make him a loser. republicans walked away. so i took executivase action lat month. as a consequence, working with mexico, border encounters have gone down over 50%.t leve the current level is lower today than when trump left office. month third, fors, months, the unitedg

states has been working to secure a ceasefire in gaza to bring the hostages home, to create a path for peace and stability in the middle east. weeks agsix weeks ago, i laid ot a detailed plan in writing. it was endorsed by the u.n.at security council, the g7. that framework is now agreed on by both israel and hama.s. ru so i sent my team to the region to hammer out the details. these are difficult, complex issues. e are stthere are still gaps to. we're making progress. d the trend is positive.n en and i'm determined to get this . deal done and bring an end to this war which it and now. let me conclude where i began. am states ofable america. we are the indispensable nation . our leadership matters. our partnerships matter nershipt this moment matters. we must rise to meet you.

with that, i'll 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 narrow summit a little bit this week. speaker pelosiesting t decis mat of suggesting that your decision on whether to stay storl open. was stilen george clooney and a handful of a handful of lawmakers red on you to step aside. reuters is reporting tonight that uaw leadershiconcerp is concerned about your ability to win uaw in justt endo endors. >> but go ahead. thank you.re my question for you is, how are you incorporating these developments int o your decision to stay? and separately, what concernst r do you have about viceis president harris, his ability to beat donald trump if she were at the top of the ticket? d >> look, i wouldn't have picked vice president trump to be vices

president. do i think she was not qualified to bidere.e presidente so let's start there. number one, the fact is that the consideration is that i think i'm the most qualified person to run for president. i beat him once and i will beat him again. secondly, the idea i served ser in the senate a long time, the idea that senatorsman. and congressmen running for, office worry about the ticket is not unusual. and i migh at t add, there are t least five presidents running or incumbent presidentpresidens. lower numbers than i have now later in the campaign. so there's a lon tg wao y to go in this campaign. and song i i'm just going to kep moving, keep moving. and becaus d e, look, i got s

more work to do. we got more work to finish. there's so much we made so muchw progress. think about it. thine ark about where weworl are economically. >> road to the rest of the world. name me a world leader who wouldn't want to trade places with our economy. we've created over 800,000 manufacturing jobs. -- i m1.5 million. i mean, so things are moving. c we've got more to go. working class people still have need helpd . corporate greed is still at large. their pricesd pric, the corporae profits have doubled since the pandemicg . they're coming down. and so i'm optimistic about where things are going. daddy camp, afp, and thanks. thank you, mr. president. i wanted to ask you abou -- yot. you mixed up presidents zelenskyy and putin earlier today. >> and you now have someiden of your key allies, including

the britis h prime minister, the president of france, and the german chancellor having to stephaving in an in at excuses for you on that. and officials here saying offea. the record that your decline has become noticeable. hasn't this now, frankly, the become damaging for america's standing in the world? >> thank you. do you see anyworld.>> did yin r standing might leading this conference? have you seen a more successful conference? what do you think? puti and the putin piece i was talking about putin and i said it now at the veri meany e. i said here, i mean putin. i said, no, i'm sorry, solecki . and then i added five other names. look, guys, guys, the idea anyby suggest that that we haven't had an incredibly successful conferenceco. i how many time did you hear in that conference? i know it sounds too self-se self-serving, but other leaders, heads of state in thanking me, saying

the reason we're together is because of biden, because biden did the following. look, folks, this is a well,he anyway, i thought it was mostr successful conference i've attended in a long time and find mwhthine a world leader who didn't think it was next one. sorry. nancy cordes, cb[clearins. >> thank you, mr. president. you mentioned other instancesbu in history where presidents have faced a challenge thi. but what makes this moment in history so unique is that it is noton you your enemies who ae calling on you to reconsider your decision to stay in theou race. it's your friends, supporters, people who think you've done a grea haveat jot job over the t four years. have you spent time thinkingat o about what it would mean for your legacy, which you've corked decadeso build to buildf you stay in the race despiterse, the concerns that voters say they have, and you lose un yourselfwho you h i have argued is unfit to return

to the oval office. >> well, look, i'm not in thisb for my legacy. >> i'm in this to complete the job i started. as you recall, r i understandaby ,many of you and many economists thought my initialse initial initiatives that i put forward can't do. that. going to cost inflation, things are going to skyrocket. that's going to go u gp. ream what are you hearing now from mainstream economists? s said 16 economic nobel laureates said, i've done a hell of a job. and unde plar my plan so far and what's going to happen in the future if i if i'm reelected, that things are going to get much betteed when r. our economy is growing. i was determined when i gott stoelected to stop the trickle down economic theory t. it was the wealthy did very well. everybody else would do well wa gu dad was a real decent guy. i remember much trickling down on his kitchen table.

middleble. class people and worg class people need help. mpleme and so what happened is int decided to implement was able to implement as president what i believe when i was a senatod th tr. bottom and that is that the way to build this economy is from middle out and the bottom up. that way we gre, the economy and the wealthy still do very well. [clethey do fine. and guess what? i mean, it kind of mainstreamav economists have said we haven't done well. what hav note we not doneso that isn't working right now? and so w we got more to do that. we got to finish the job. and by the wayth, i come from the corporate stage of the world. delaware has more corporationsc, ,you know, registered s in delaware than every other state. comd.and nation combined.orate i'm not in a corporate,pr but corporatoublede. ubled. corporate profits have doubled since the pandemic. doublet i. exa it's time to get back in ordermp a little bit. this time. for example, if i'm reelected, we're going to make sure that rents a are capped at 5%ens

increase in corporate rents for apartments and the like. and homes are limited to 5%. we're going to make a lot of changes that i've been talkintog about because we're going to continue to grow this economy. and by the way know , i know rer how i got so roundly criticized for being so pro-union, notunio labor union, unionn.. well, guess what? i've been the most pro-union labo.r president in history. not a joke. and guess what? we had the treasury department do a study when unions do better, everybody does better. everybody does better. and we talk about how, for example, when i when remember when we talked about getting the computer chip industry t back in the united states,he ust to be 40% of the industry. we invented the chip. hendustry ited40% of the industo the united states. and former presidents decide dd that the best way to do is find the cheapest labor in the world. send over th the product over t,

and import what the product was. and so what did i do?to i was told not to go over itd in europe, i mean, asia, including europe, but asia. i remember going to south korea convincing invest $20 billionuid in the united states to buildhey computer chip factories. and i asfinallk why when they fy decided to do it. and the answer was because you have the safest economy in the world. if the best worker s in the we -- world. so the whole idea here is we've$50 bi we've invested there's ovellr $0 billion invested in computer chip manufacturing just coming in t ougho be.ought none of you thought that would happen. happnone of you thought that wog happen. but it's happening. oing tit's happening. and it's going to grow. economieds all through. and by the way, red states and blue states, manufacturerses as much in red states and blue states. i made the distinction. so my generiy gec poc is that ta

that we can't continue to build and grow the economy, make it fairer. like i said, from my standpoint, when the middle class does well ,that's when the whole economy grows. the morey grow of a shot the wel do well, wealthy guysto start paying their taxes sta, as are. you mentioned that your vicece president, kamala harris, would be ready to serve on day one. can n you elaborate on that?ribe what is it about her attributes and her accomplishedd wins over the last four years that make her ready to serve on day fre one if necessary? >> first of all, the way she's handled the issuwomee of freedom of women's bodies to have control overil their bodiesit. secondly, her ability to handle almost any issue on the board. . this is a of a prosecutor. she was a first rate person, and in the senate she was really good. asi wouldn't have picked her unless i thought she was qualified to be president from

ualified the very beginning. i made no bones about that. she is to be president. that's why i picked her. >> felicia schwartz, financial times. >> thank you, mr. president. thw presidency is the most straining job in the worldor,e p and it's 24/7. how can you say you'll be up for that nex t t year? in two years? in four years? given the limits, you've acknowledged that you have today mits thahave. limits? i have acknowledged. i havethat. >> there's been reporting that you've acknowledged that you need to go to bed earlieo to earlir and you're evr around eight. that's not true. . look, what i said was, instead of my every day, starting at seven and going to bed myser exampl it'd be smarter for me to paint myself a little more. and i said, for example, the eight, seven, six staff, instead of starting a fundraiser at o'clock, 30 8:00, people get to go home

by 10:00. that's what i'm talking about. look ag about if you look at my schedule, since i've since i made that stupid mistake of and i've campaigned i in the debate, i mean, my schedule has been full bore . i've done worse and worse. trump riding around on his golrf cart, filling out a scorecard before he hits the ball. i mean, look, he's done virtually nothing. and i have i don't know how many town hall we do run roughly 20 major events, summer with thousands of people showing up. and so i just think it's better. i always have a inclination whether i was playing sports ort ,do politics just to keep going that style. i justel got to just pace myself a little more pace[c myself. in the next debate, i'm not going to be traveling in juse t 15 time zones a week before t

anyway. that's what it's about. this is abouhat and by the way, even with that, i love my stafft ,but they add thingshe and things all the time. i'm caand i'm catching from mye anyway. i'm sorry. zeke miller, associated. thank you, mr. president. two questions for you.our first, on the nato summit, him president zelenskyy in your meeting with him, he pressed you to lift your limitationsn on the ukrainian use of american weapons, saying that in its public terwards remarks lim afterward, saying that ukraine cannot win the war unless fted.there's a limitations are lifted. are you could reconsidering your position on that? aen ndly, foand then secondly, follp on felicia's question there, leaders of your own party have said that they're not worried about that debate. they're worried about the next bad night and the bad night youa after that. how can you reassurere t the americanhed people that

you are up to the task and that there won't be more bad nights at a debat e or somewhere else? >> first thing about solecki asking for the ability i to shrink deep into russiant. >> we've allowed zelenskyy in th to use american weapons in the near term, in the near abroad, in the russia. whether or not he has, we should be. he should be attacked. for example. should zelenskyy. f hehad the cahe's not. if he had the capacity to strike moscow straightn't. to kremlin, would that make sense? if wouldn't? the question is, what's the best use of the weaponry? has the weaponry we were getting to it? i've gotten a moret hi high. i've got a more long rangedefens capacityiv as well as defensive capacity. and so our military y is workin. i'm following the advice of my

commander in chief. my, my, my of the chief of staff of the military, as well as the secretary of defense and our intelligencle people. and we're making a day to day basis on what they should and shouldn'shouldn't, how farcd they should go in. that's a logical thing to do q. second question related to that night that night, sir, how can you reassure the american people that you won't have morie bad nights, whether they be on a debate stage or it's a matter of foreign policy >>? way well, i tell you, one best way g to assure them is the way i assure myseletf, and that is, am i getting the job done? am i getting the jobme done? o can you name me somebody who's gotten more major piecation pae of legislation passed in three and a half years? i created twicobe jobs just lase week. so if i slow down, i can't get the job done. that's a sign that i shouldn't be doing i indict. but there's no indication that now we got here.

merrick polaski radio. merrik thank you, mr. president. how are you? , i'm well. . the elections in the us have consequences arounha d the world.in you have pretty high standing in europe. i just ask president macron about you and said we are happy to have him as the president of the united states. but there is a concern. acros many people in poland, across europe are worried that the former president may win the election. >> and there's a lot of concernr that donald trump maumy weaken, need to stop supporting ukraine or push ukraine to give up

territories to russia. they're correct. and you're yourself was warning just 2 minutes ago about isot. i so my question is,s do you thik that europe will be left on its own if donald trump wins the election? and what's advice to european leaders to prepare for possible u.s. disengagement? well, look, i think i can i say this without sounding too self-serving. m i've not had any my european say allies countries say, joe, don't run when i hear them saya. is you've got a wind. with this guy word. he'd be a disaster if he disaster. i mean, i think he said in one

of his rallies, don't hold itsoe as recently where nato i just learned about nato or somethintg to affect foreign policy has never been his strong poin.t and he seems to have an affinity to people who authoritarian. that worries. as i do tell you all n that worries europe, incld. is gopolan and nobody, including the people of poland, think that if he winins in, he's goint to stop in ukraine and that's going to be the end of it. k and so what i can say is i t think i'm the best qualified sur person to do the job to make sure that ukraine is not fall, that ukraineukrain succeeds, the european alliance stay strong. you may recall no one was talking about finland join nato. i remember talking to putiwh- r. in when right after he got elected in genevd he wasa and hw talking about what we should dor

. he we couldn't have been in eastern europe, etce look.. and i said, you're looking forr the federalization of ukraine. as you can get to nato's zation of finland. true. and about four weeks later, i got a call. prob true. not probably five months later, when the president of finland, could he come and see me in myoe office and i had invited him as of oval office. we sat down and talked. he said, we want to join nato'sn . could i help? and i did. was it automatic i got? >> and then i got a call from the swedes. i beg your pardon. and so finland joined narrow a 800 mile border as all eignificant and they'r all allies, but they weren't part of nato. and you heard i think you heard maybe i can't recall it. he said a publicu in our close meeting, but he wouldn't mind

if he repeated decid. he said we decided in finland the people of finland decided they had to be part of nato was in our interest because of the joint ability to be togetherme to dissuade in the attack on finland. t of and the same thing was with sweden. it toomek a lot of sellinglarl to some folks particularly in turkey and other places to agree to the expansion, but it expandet itd and we're stronger because we are more secure because of it. and by the way, i was able to get 50 other nations, 55 zero to support ukraine, 50 were able to bring about a coalition betwee n and of europe and asia, japan and south. i just met with we talked about orcas and we talked about the relationship between australia and new zealanda,

japan, south korea, the unitedde states. >> we're making the worlr d safer, stronger because we have to deal with the new wo exist in the world. the cold war is over. the postwas over r is over. what is going to replace it? and i respectfully suggest i have a pretty good idea what tha.t should be. i could visit. a lot of people would follow it. we're just going to get stronger. david sanger was. >> thank you, mr. president. be nice, david. mr. president, the natal declaration that was issued yesterdaday,y 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. to that's part of a broader

partnership that seems cemented. in place in the past two or three years. i think, one that you were a little bit doubtful of when we askedl u abou you it some ti. whet'd 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 pursueyo that if you couldd describe that strategy to us. >> and alongyo the way, couldf i you also tell us whether you think just to followsswill s on felicia's question that if you were in a roo with vladimir putin again the way you wereputin th three t ago or with president xi,he that a few years from now you will be able to go negotiathae with handle them one on one? >> well, the first part of your question is we discussed and i raised in the next summit and others raised the future of china's involvement.

what they're going do. to do, o what they're doing with russia in terms accommodating, facilitating, getting access to additional they're not supplying, you know, supplying weapons themselves suppl , their supply mechanisms for them to be able to get weaponsan . and china's positionmore is basically and i've spent over more time with xi jinping, any world leader has hours over 90 s since being vice president all the way througd by theh for rea. and by the way, i handed all my notes. but my point is that she believes that china is ae enough large enough market that theydig can entice any country, including european countries, to invest there in return for commitments from europe to dos. a, b, c or d or not to do w certain things. what's happened is we had a chn about what we

cannot. we have to makine clear china hs to understand that if they are supplying russia with information and capacit aya along with working with north korea and, others to help russia in armament, that they're not goinga co to benefit economicallnsy as a consequence of that by getting the kind of investment they're looking fosor. and so, for example, we're in a situation where we've reestablished direct contact with china after that member cam of a balloon, quote unquote, going down, and all of a sudden it came to a a n end. well, we set up a newbetw mechanism. there'ees a direct line between xi and me and. our military has direct access to one another and they contact one another and we have problems. the issue is that we have to make sure that she understands

there's a price to pay for undercutting both the pacific basin as well as europe and as relates to russia and dealing with ukraine. and so we, for example, ifu you want to invest in china, as you knoknoww, you know this a really well and invest in china o, you have to haveou a 51% chinese owner. you have to makedo b that you do by their rules and you don't have the authority and that you have to provide all access to all the data and informatiota you have. there is a while there, as i recall, the lastdmistratio admi and other administrations wherae the access to that market was enticing enough to get companies to com thae in because they had access to overlot a billion people in a market, nooft a but a lot of people in the market.