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.

and so they were doing it. but that that got curtailed when we started saying we're going to play by the same rules . >> for example, the idea they don't abide by thxample tes relating to subsidizing productsed by the government funded. so guess what? wha they're not going to be able to export their electric vehiclesdport the to united states without a significant tariff. others are doing the sam e around the world. but it is a concern. it is is concern that youer have both china, south korea, north korea, russia, iran, countries that are not necessarily coordinated in the past looking to figure out how they can have impact and toh interrupt that impact. e yes, i do. i but i'm not prepared to talk about the detail of it in and i think you'll see that some

of our european friends are going to be curtailing their investment in russia. i mean, excusement i and in chi, as long as china continues to have this indirect help to russia in terms of being able i to help their economy as well as as well as help a them, and as a consequence, that their ability to in in ukraine. talke the other thing we talked a lot about is that and i raised it and i hear any i can't swearar a that everyone agreed becausebout not everybody got to talk about it, but we haven't. we need a new industrial policyl in the wes pt. for example, we talkedow about how both the eu, as well as nato's, has to be able

to begin to build their own ammunition capacity, hasmunitioe able to generate their own capacity to providire for weapos and the ability to it came as a surprise to some of us how we had fallen behind in the west in terms of the ability to constructf th new material,ay new weaponry, new new everything from from vehiclesem. to weapon systems. and so one of the thingswill b that came out of this was we're going to be meeting again euth a number of my colleagues our european colleagues is what do we do to increaserois wha the capacity of the west, particularly in europerope a and japan, to be ablendbe ablto generate kind of ability to produce their own weaponsl it systems, not session themselves, but to be able to generate that? the same message as what w russia's tryinhag to figure outy

they went to china and they didn't get the weapons ,re goi but then they went to north korea. but we're going to be in a position wherengo ben the west is going to become the industrial base for the people of, the abilitye av to have all the defensive toweapons that we need. that was a discussion as wel wl and i'm sure you answered on whether you would be ready to gand woo with putin and xi tr three years from now. >> i'm readyom now. ears deal with them now and three years from now. look, the like i said, i'm dealing with xi right now and contact with him. i have nh o good reason to talk to putin right now. there's not much that heuc is prepared to do in terms of any change in his behavior. and but there isn't any world leader i'm not prepared to dea worl with.

but i understand in atand a generic point is is putin ready to talk? i'm not ready to talk putin unless putin is ready to change his behavior and the idea. but putin's got a problem. first of all, in this war that he is supposedly have won. and by the waye, i think don't hold me to exact number, but i think the russiak had 17.3% a of of ukraine they've conquered. now it's 17.4. i mean a, in terms of percentage of territory, they they've not beenrritory. very successful. it caused horrible damageused and loss life, but they've also lost over 350,000 troops. military killed and wounded. they've over a million people, i particularly young people with technical technical capability, leave russia ypl because they se

no future there. they've got a problem. .a problebut they do have contr. they are very good at controlling and running. the public outcry that relateso to how they use mechanisms to communicatenisms to people ty like, the constituencies they like about what's going on and and so the idea that we're going to be able to fundamentally change russia in the near term is not likely. nbut one thing for certain, ifo we allow russia to succeed n in ukraine, they're not stopping in ukraine. ot stoi, i know you know this be you've been reporting about it . read full speechutin's after they moved in, what it was all about in kyiv. it wasn't about just anyway, read what his objective is. and anyway, but so i thinki thin that i'm prepared to to any

leader who wants to talk, including if putin called mei wanted to talk last time i talked to putin was trying to get to get on an armsd to control agreement related to nuclear weaponsnuclear spact didn't go very far.m prep so my point is i'm prepared to talk to anybody. tae any inclination there is an inclination on the part of the chinesee is keep in contact with me because they're not sure where this all goes . and look what's happenedha in asia. we have strengthenedt the asian pacific area more than anyone else has. t togeth we you know, we just put together with today, we had. onn i brought on i askedd nato's allies that we bring on the gru from the south pacific australia, new zealand, japan australia. , austrai mentioned australia at twice now i think with the 14 leaders, the pacific island

nations and, we've slowed downrc what's going on there, slowed down china's reach, but there'so a lot of work to do. this is a movingrkdo and i don't take it lightly. some. from npr. hank you thank you, mr. president. asma khalid, npr. q i have two questions. earlier, you spokeue about cease fire plan between israel and hamas. we're now looking at ten months of war. and i'm curious if there's anything that you feelm u you wh you would have done differently over the coursy yoe of war. and secondly, if i may, i wanted to ask you about your presidential campaign. i remember covering your campaign in 2020, and there was a moment where you referredna to yourself as , quote, bridge candidacy, a youn a transition to a younger generation of leaders. gei want to understand what changed?

two things. let's let's go back to when you talked about would i change anything is happening with israel and the palestinians and the palestinian movement. >> the answer is, as you recall from the very beginning, i immediately i went to israel, but i also kind of media contact el-sisi in i met with the king of jordan. i met with i met with most of the arab leaders to try to get a consensus going as to what had to be done to deal with getting more a in food and medicine into into the gaza strip. and we pushed it really hard. and israel occasionally was less than cooperative. number one, the israeli war cabinet been i've been to dinner with israel's golda maier. i saw some of the reporters around here coming all the time who heard say this. first the last first time i met t with golda meir, i said across

her desk and her assistant was rabin sitting next to me. that's how far back i go. i know israel well, and i support israel. but this for cabinet is one of the most conservative war cabinets in the history of of israel. >> and there's no alterman answer the two state solution here. and so what was able to be done in terms of the plan i put together was, it would be a process, a two state solution. and we get the arab nations to particularly from egypt all the way to saudi arabia, to be in a position where they would cooperate in the transition so that they could keep the peace in gaza without without israeli forces in gaza. the question is the beginning. what's the day after in gaza and the day after in gaza has to be the end the end of the day after? it has to be no occupation by israel on the gaza strip,

as well as the ability for us to access get in and out as rapidly as you can. all the stated. yeah. i've been disappointed that some of the things that i've put forward have not succeeded as well, like the port reattached from cyprus . i was hopeful that would be more successful, but that's why i, when i went to israel after meeting, after the massacres that occurred at hands of hamas that i one thing i said to the israelis and remember from war cabinet would be don't make the same mistake america made after bin laden. there's no need to occupy anywhere. go after the people who did the job. you may recall i get so get criticized for it. but i was totally opposed to the occupation and trying to unite afghanistan. once we got once, once we got bin laden, we should have moved on because it was not.

cod no one's ever heard of the united from unite that country. i bent over every inch of that, not every inchver ever the entiy from the poppy fields all the way to the north. orthi said, don't make the same. mistake we made. don't think that's what you should be doing is doubling down. we'll help you find the bad guys. sinwar and company and i and all this criticism i wouldn't provide when the the weapons in needed. i'm not providing £2,000 bombs. they cannot be used in gaza or thatpopulated area without causing great human tragedy h and damageuman. but we remember what happened when when you had the attack on israel from with rocketsstic and ballistic missiles. i was able to unite the arab nations as well as as well as europe. and nothing happened. nothing got hurt. and i sent an incredible lesson to what was going on from the middle east. so there's a lot of in

retrospect, i wish i had been able to convince the israelis to do. but the bottom line is we have a chance. d it's time to end. this war. .doesn' t mean walk away from going after sinwar and hamas. and if you notice you know better than most there is ae growing dissatisfaction in the on the west bank froms ab the palestinians about hamasou. hamas is not popular now. and so there's a lot of moving parts. i just have to keep movinghave a to make sure that we get as much done as we can towardn a ceasefire a ceasefire and getn those. and by the wayd get , look, loo. at the numbers and israel,re i mean, i my numbers are better in israel than our here. but then again, they're better than a lot of othethey ar people here, too. , that's the bridge

candidacy. ing a in 2020, you referredbr to yourself as being a bridge candidat fore for a younger, fresher generation of democratic leaders. >> and i wanted to knowwa what changed. what changed was the gravity of the situation i inherited in terms of the economy, our foreign policy and domestic divisionmestic d. and i think i won't put words in anybody's mouth. in most presidential storieslished give me credit for siving accomplished more than most any president sincenc johnson and maybe before that to get a major piece of legislation passefd. and what i realized was my long time in the senate had equipped me to have the wisdom and knowhg how to deal with the congress to get things donere. i got more major legislation. passed that no one thought hap would happen. and i want to finish ipenet to t

that finished. if tomorrow iffini you if we hae circumstance where there is a lineup and i did hadn't inherited what i did and we just move things along anyway, . it's going to change. >>n, haley bowl scripts. i know. josh wingrove, i'm sorry, was the next one. i'll do two more questions. thank you, mr. president. many of your colleagues, tonig democrats in the hill are watching tonight as they assesshts th what, they want toy about your candidacy. i'm wondering how you're on w of this right now.is it seems lik e your answer is clear that they're watching how things go tonight, tomorrow in michigan, next week in texas and nevad na. are you thinking that waywh about whether how the next week or two goes would inform? you are using that ways. are you thinking that wayou about how the next two weeks go? will that affect your decisiont

or are you fullyyo determined ou on running in november as the party's nominee? >>g, etermined on runnin but i think it's important that i really i allay fearsme ot by saying, let them see me t out there. let me see them. you know, for the longest time, it was, you know, biden's prepared to sit with us unscripted. biden's not preparedscripted. to in anyso wha way. and so what i'm doint i'g and in and i've been doing and i think we've done over 20 major events from ovent to north carolina to anyway to demonstrate that i'm going out in the areas where we think we can win, weeol can persuade people to move our way or people are already there. you look, there he is. we have the most extensive campaign organization. if anybody'st campaignatio had g time. we have well over a thousand volunteers knocking on doors making phone calls, making tens of thousands of phone calls. we have headquarters

i forget exactly how many i want to say the number and find out i'm off. but we have scores of headquarterrss and all in all of the the toss up states, we're organized for a movie. and i it's awful hardm. to replace in the near term. and so and here's the other thing i said in a long time. very of what i've done in the senate. i was chairman of the foreign relationi'm ths committee for aa time, and i was chairman or ranking member and chairman of the judiciarynd committee. i'm going to be going down to the johnson library on tour now. anyway, i'm going to be going around making the case of the things that i think we have to finish and how we can't affordor to lose what done or backslide on civil rights and liberties, women's rights and that little button we have control guns, not girls.

i mean, the idea we're sitting around this for commerce, so good as well. we're sitting around more childrechn are killed by a bullet than any other cause of death. united s, america,of what are we doing? whwhat are we doing.t >> we've got a candidate saying, promise nra, don't not y, not going to do anything. i'm not going to do anything. .you've got a supreme court that is what you might call the most conservative courtconsr in american history. >> this is ridiculou is. there's so much we can do. still time determined to get it done. it's about freedom. and by the way, i'll end this like, well, i'm going i'm not going to do that. haley has has to come up, too. but the i remember i made a speech on democracy in philadelphia at independence

hall and not being critical,obse just observe it. the bulk of the press. what are you talking about that for democracy, you did.y is democracy is not an issue. democracy is not an issue. except the polling that showed 60% of the people knew i was r right. i thought i wa wass right., am i asking you a question? you don't have to answer, obviously. but do t you? our democracy is under siege based on this cour t. hink do you think democracy underde siege based on project 2025? do you think he means what he says when he says going to do away with civil service, eliminate the department of education, make sure. i mean, we've never been here'se before. and that's the other reason why i didn't, he say others. hand off to another generation. i've got to finish this jonerat i've got to finish this job. because there's so much stake. we've had some discussions over the past few days with your press secretary about the healt question of health exams, and you said you take a cognitive test every dayst evy

in this job. are you open to taking anothertt physical or test before the election? governor whitmere th of michigan, t for instance, said it wouldn't hurt to take a test. well, look two things. two one, i've taken three significant tests neurological exams, neuro know who neurologist in each casei' as recent history. and they say i'm i n good shape . okay. although i do have a little problem with left foot becausess it's not as sensitive because i broke my foot and didn't wear the bootitbecaus. but. but. but i'm good. i'm tested every single day on my neurologic. ke the decisions i make every day. you talk to my all of you talk u to my staff. sometimes my staff talks a lot . but the fact of the matter is,dh i don't think you have them.. telling you that all of

the major ideas we've all the undertaken haven't beent initiated by me. s i remember one of the staff, i said, i'm going to goo to south korea and we're going to get a chisouta and wep. .. what are you doing? i'm going to get japan korea back together again after no, essentially having hostilities toward one another since the end of worldtherince war twn i'm going to move and see if we can expand. you know. the only thing age does is help you with creates a little bit of wisdom. creates pay attention. i'm making is,t i think it's important that i if if my if the neurologist tells me he thinks i need another exam h by the way, i'vey laid every bit of the record outy and i haven't had anything going, ask i trump for years. okay. t ali laid it all out.

every single day i'm surrounded by good docs. if they think there's a proble m ,i promise you read. they don't think it's a problem. i thin, ork, i should have a neurological exam again. i'll do it. no one suggested that to me now. and i'll ask you another question. no matteitr whatr i did. no one's going to be satisfied.e did you have seven docs? did you have two? would you have. di howd do this? how many times? so i am not opposed. if my doctors tell me d they shoulocd should have anothr neurological exam, i'll do it. but that'snel right. surely both scripts. >> thank you, mr. president. you said you're making decisions on a day to day basis when it comes to support fory f ukrainore. closed does that mean you have not t closed the door on further considering liftingg rest restrictions for u.s. made weapons inside russirifor us-mau and if i may, your convention is coming up where your delegates are pledgednventr to make you the official

nominee. if they have second thoughts, are they nominee. secon free to vote their conscience. obviously, they're free to do that. >> i get overwhelming support.t overwhelming support. i want how i forget how many votes i won in the primary. the overwhelming. and so tomorrow, if all of a sudden i show up at the convention i, everybody says wet want somebody else. that's the democratic procesods stuff could happen, even if that means vote for someone else. sure. look, and this way, this. i served in the senate a long time. i understand the impetus of candidates running for local office and whether they thinkk.. they can help them or not. y state of delaware, which was a very at least a purple itt

was a red state when i started in terms of where you now talk red and blue. i, i don't recall most of the democratic presidents winning in my state when i was a candidate. the trutpr mh, the matter is i i understand the self interest in candidate if they thinkdaif e that, you know, running with biden on top things can run bihurt him, then they're going t to run away. i get it. i but so far, go and look at tha polling data in their states. look at the end. and by the way, i think you all acknowledge and you're all experts. i'm not being solicitous about, the president, you're experts on this stuff. how accurate does anybody think ? eriells are these days i can give you a series of polls where you havwee likely voters, me versus trump, where i went all the time one on one, the unlikely voters of vote. he wins sometime.

so bottom line is, all the polling data right now, which i think is premature because the campaign really hasn't even started. caen sedi mean, it hasn't startd in earnest yet. most of the time and time to start till after september, after labor da y. happe so a lotn. can happen. but i think i'm the best quote. i know. i believe i'm the best qualified to govern and i think i'm the best qualifiedi th win.e but there are other people who could be trump, to o but it's awfully hard to start from scratch. and, you know, we talk about, you know, money raised.g we're not too bad.bad. we get about $220 million in the bank. we're doing well$220 mil. so with that. do you have any want to follow,t up on that and just ask me? >> yes. nohter. you earlier explained confidence, your vice president. yes. if your team came back and showedif your teamnd you data td

fare better against former president donald trump, would you reconsider your decision to stay in the racour decie? a no. unless they came back and said there's no way you can wi n me. don't say that. don't process that. mr. president. this ends tonight. ss thanks, everybody. on the like a winner on the inside of this. this concludes respectfully earlier you misspoke in your. opening answer, you referred to vice president harris as vice president. right now, donald trump is using that to mock your age and your memory. how do you combat that criticism from tonight? listen to him. this guy for tonight's presshank conference. thank you, everybody. thanks, everyones everyone. wow, that was president joepi

biden wrapping up that big boy press conferenceng up . >> what about about an hour? few questions. extremwe an houre lead, defiant, actually said it's too late at this point to change horses. >> says he thinks he has the best chance to win and it's too late to start from scratch l . >> started off starte today with affe, wajor gaffe confusing zelenskyy with putin. >> watch. t to and now i want to hand it overo to the president of ukraine, who has as much courage as heat has determinatioion.n. >> ladies and gentlemen, president putin has a proven record beat president putin. president zelenskyy i'm soating focused on beating putin, we've got to worry about i tt anyway. >> mr. president, i'm better. you are a whole lot better. >> this is how this latest press conference began on the heels of that mistake. he was obviously exhaustthe heet

and then faded towards the end, fighting for his political survival against his obama.a, the clintons, the media, the donors, half his political party, but says he's in it to win it. >> he's in and begin by backinga and then claiming that inflationnd and, illegal immigration is down and also promising get a cease fire going in gaza. then he began this pressis conference by confusing kamala for trump. ab watch what do you have about vice president harris' ou harability to beat donald tra she were at the top of the ticket? e top look, i wouldn't have picd vice president trump to be vice . >> do i think she's noti thin qualified to be president?>> jes okay. so that was obviously the question at the veryat was w that you just saw the follow up. donald trump already capitalizing politically donalddy , there that major gaffe. there were several gaffes throughout that press conference several that pr, constantly interrupting himself and just saying, anyway, losinghought

his train of thought multiple times. >>times. he was asked about hist schedule and the fact that he doesn't really and t keep hoursr four, sometimes 8:00 in the evening. he said this was because he needs to pace himself betterblamed and then blamed his staff. >> listen. presidency h the most straining job in the world and it's 24 seven. >> i you say you'll be up for that next year in two yearse and four years? given the limits you've acknowledged that you have today ts you'vtu have t, limits have acknowledged that there's>e been reporting, that you've acknowledged that you needre to to bed earlier and you're evening around eight. that's not that's true. look what i said was, instead of mine, every day starting at seven and going to bed at midnight, it'd be smarteri sa for me to painidt myself a little more. and i said, for example, the eight, seven, six staff, instead of starting

starndraiser at 9:00, 3:00, people get to go home by 10:00. that's what i'm talking about. i'm not talkini'g about and ifad you look at my schedule, since i've since i made that stupid d and i've campaigned in the debate, i mean, my schedule has been full bore. i've done worse and worse. trump riding around on his gol frt cart, filling out a scorecard before he hits the ball. fihi, he's done virtually nothing. and i have i don't know how many. i've. t always roughly 20 major events. someone with thousands of peopl.ousande 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. that'ske i just got to just pacl myself a lot more pace myself.ot can the next debate. i'm not going to be traveling

in just 15 time zones a week before anyway. that's what it's about. this is about and by the way, even with that, i love my staff ,but they add things and things all the time. >> it's very and i'm catchingy e from my wife. >> south carolina senator linsey graham joins me now. so, senator, we just watched that entire press conference. your reactio just e presconfern. >> well, sean, thanks for having me. >> keep the theme right here. oh, anyone just by name? oh, sorry about that. >> it was hard to watch as a car wreck, stumbling, bumblingak . i don't know if he really believes he inherited a ba id. deal. he inherited a good deal. tht border was the mos insecure in 40 years. the arabs are making peace with the israelis. veryth and everything changed when he got to be president. but here's the newinchanged gosf tonight. he said, if a doctor tells me i need an exam docto, i will tat

so i'm going to write to theit white house physician and ask him to do a neurological exam. but th neue president, because c of the public believes he's not be. to serve if the doctor doesn't understand that man needs a cognitivunderstae test, the dr needs one. this needs to stop. ti'm of being told there's nothing wrong with biden. do you want him in a room with putin or. i wouldn't let the guy buy me a car. i've known the guy. i like him, but he's compromised. this was a car wreck. it was a train wreck. it was. and we need the president nesid of the united states to takeent a neurological exam. and here's why. he won't. he will fails y he. and here's his message to the democratic party. you're stuckcratic party. with e you can't do everything you need to to replacen' me to america. you should not be stuck with him. bth it's one thing whether or not tp he can beat trump, which he can. the question for all on't. f us, can it be commander in chief

tomorrow? the answer to me is no. .ake a neurologi thc exam to the doctors at the white house. i'm asking you publicl, i'y wril you a letter to tell me why he should noy t be examined. >> he was asked about whether he would take one, and he said he'd take oulde onn a couple already. >> listen to this. we had some discussions over the past few days with your press secretary about the question of health examsab. e th and you said you takecogn a cognitive test every day in this joit ib. ng are you open to taking another physical or test before the electionphysice the? governor whitmer of michigan, for instance, said it wouldn't wot. to take a tes well, look, two things. one, i've taken three significant and tense neurological exams. no, i a nurse, a neurologist.h e >> in each case recent the as february. and they say i'm in good shapey . okay. although i do have a little problem with my left foot because it's not as sensitive,

because i broke my foot, didn't wear the boot. but. but.m good but i'm good. i'm tested every single day. i my neurological capacity decisions i make every day. you talk to my staff, all of you talk to my staff. sometimes my staff m talks a lof i am not positive. my doctorsy doct tell me they s i should have another neurological exam. o it. an >> i don't believe that. you don't believe that? elievet believe he's had three neurological exams. if he has, i want the results released to the to the american people tomorrow neurg. i don't believe he had a neurological exam in february. lieve but if there was one, i wt to know the results. and if the result saw this man is fine. i don't want another doctor to administer it. how many times do we have to ask the american people about d the president's ability to do his job? and they say overwhelmingls y, we don't think he has the ability and he won't submit to at to ton exam. stop stonewalling.

if there's no problemm wi with president biden, submit to a neurological cognitive test. >> president trump will do the same. he's challenged trump to releas. lengede the results of thes cognitive exam he already took. remember televisioofn lion? >> you failed today. we remember the days, the cognitive exam. you got a f today. this was rambling, stumbling, bumbling s rambli. you misled the american people about the state of the world. i had no ide a what you were saying at that time. so we need a cognitive test. a co in about golf, i'm tired of talking about golf. >> go play nine holes or president trump just play nine holes. if you think he writes the score down before he has the ball, you don't know what i'm playing with him sunday. wpresident is a very good golfer. do you think president biden guy could play nine holes? do you want this guy in a roomn with world adversaries of thisyn country? and the only thing betweend thyo your family and your prosperity is joe biden. that's insan e. k with >> well, the democrats are stuck with them too late. you can't take away the delegates.

it you take be right.. it wouldn't be right. you can't disenfranchize them. plus, you're stuck too hart disd to start from scratch is what the president said. >> they'd have to change he. soe lawn signs >> yeah, they'd get to death. senator linsey graham, thank you so much. you kellyanne conway is a fox news contributor and host of the fox natioibutor an show., here's the deal with kellyanne. kellyanne, here's some sound s from the president's news conference. >> let's listeoundm thn. our military is working. i'm following the advice of mya- commander in chief. my, myinhief, my. of the chief of staff of the military. can you name me somebody militas gotten more major piece of legislation passed in three and a halfslation to years? i created 2000 jobs just last week. todab toy we had i brought on i asked nato that we bring on. i grew from the south pacific, australia, new zealand, japan, australia. i mentioned australia.

>> does joe biden survive or what's it going to look like tomorrow? sure, sure. i think he does survive. they'v. t some ve got two ballot access issues about removing him in voluntarily. i don't think people still have confidence in. is competence enoughkamala's toe that she could have hosted the nato summit this week without us laughinweekg. hav she could be standing there and having a press conference for an hour. jesse soina s confer she's still job security. i will say there are a couple of these donors out there now trying to vet josh shapiro. they dream of a kamala harri os josh shapiro, the new governor of pennsylvania ticket because he's been solid on israel. they think they could take pennsylvania off the mapn . we don't know if he's an eagles fan, but i know jill biden does get booed when shows up at these link. >> but seriously speaking, joe bideriously spn, he temptedy with a couple of things whenwh he saien hd if my staff comes t, and says i can't win it, so he's going to be shoving theseh. polls in front of him. but he also says he doesn't believe the polls except doe the of likely voters that show he's ahead. >> here is what i think the democrats right not w when c

comes to joe biden and the democrats concerern is political, not medical. they're concerned about him. his electora l, not moral there. none of them are out there saying, i love thits man. i want him to step aside., he needs medical intervention. they're saying, oh on, he's goings th to cost us the white house and the house and the senate. here comes trump back because of joed thd the se biden. so i think he hears their motives and says, the heck with you. i ran for president three times, in two different centuries. i finally got the brass ring. i got rid of donal i ridf donald i'm going to stick with it. and he's daring. er the one thing he said wherehe i think he gives trump a huge opening. in additio a huge n to the gaffess do that you've covered is when he says donaldna trump didn't sn have foreign policy is a strong suit. that's just wrong. people wanthat is wrong.t that h strength from trump back, the ice is caliphate gone. nortpeople wh korea not shootinf its nukes. suleimani and baghdadi smithereens pals the trade deals china capitulating to trump on trade and fentanyl restrictions t. so we want that foreign policyfe

back. it turns out vladimir putin doesn'ign out vladt fear joe biv he annexes sovereign nations. crimea 14 or invade sovereign nations. ukraine 2022.s when joe biden is in the white house. >> kellyanne, how much pain cano joe biden withstand? at is >> what's his pain threshold? you obviously have clooneypa waa the puppet for barack. you have clinton's team eviscerating on cable. d you have donors talking. talkhave his own staff leakingon . >> you hear him scold his staff a little bit for talking too much. ye. sco staffs. e? how much is it going to take? i mean, it's this guy that pain tolerant that he can withstand this type of beatingn wi from nw until the convention. >> it maybe pain tolerance. o i think it's a little bit of arrogance. also an ego. here'srogance also and a who war by his boss, barack obama, in 2016. barack obama endorsed hillary and hillary lost to trump. here's a guy who was running g in 1987 and he was do some doing something that no one in the labor party in britain did plagiarizing

neil kinnock of the labor partys had to leave, ran on his own in 2008. so this is somebody who's think always been, i think, passed over and underestimated. he feels he's finally there and i worked there for four years. once you're there, you want to stay there and you do want to complete the job, but you're daring everybody else to go against the will of the voteg e the last thing i'll say is thetp people who are bellyachingd wi about this publicly and will actually put their name on the record. me or do they truly the have to displace joe biden? y haveand one last thing. nancy pelosi is 84. jim clyburn will be 84 next week. eddie hoyer is 85. dick durbin turns 80 inif w november. if we're going to start getting rid of the octogenariae ton. and i think that you've got to worry about that, they're probably thinking . really carefully about that. >> so i think he stays, but they're not about to lose national election, kellyanne. and apparently the democrats just can't take e loss. >> they can't lose one election, one election. harris is too unacceptable for i the democrats. they can't just work harder

2020 eight. >> they cannot lose ever. and that's what this is about. they have to rip the rules up and they have to pulld a switcheroo and disenfranchize all of these people who voted disefor joe biden in the primart and they have to change all the lawn signs. and that's really, really signscomplicated. and they're willing to do it. kelly and they're willing to do itu so. thank you so much. you got it. thanks, jesse. right noe.w, our team put together a list of i think it was maybe 11 times joe biden los completely lost his train of thought and justrait said any ,look, folks, this is a well, anyway, in the next debate, i'm not going to be travelin g 15 times on a week a before anyway. i'm catching from my wife.. anyway, it wasn't about just and anyway, read what his objective is and anyway, but then again, they're better than a lot

of other people here too lot. >> j >>es but anyway, fox news senior white house correspondent peter doocy was at the. >> anyway, go ahead, peter.s ki >> yeah, we're here and it's kind of clearing outnd and presidenclt biden probably did what he had to do because, yeah, he made a mistakehear w on the way in here where he accidentally called zelenskyyhe putin, but he explained it on the stage and he did accidentally calll his vice president, kamala harris vice president trump, whicviceesident h not signal a e in the ticket. it's just a mistakchn the e he . but there was no freezing like at the debate. and it seems the like that is what democrats in washington, d.c. were looking for. o fo can he go for 59 minutes, which is how long he wound u p going without doing that? it doesn't sound like he i s to immediately drop out. neke if we or make a change, if we were going to talk next thursday night based on everythinxtg that he said,oci he will still be thec democratic nominee. e

and he was basically daring other democratic candidates to try wasly dar start from zerh up to him because they don't have national operations. but it's notable that he mad.e the comment about he would drop out if he was told that het heouhad no chance to win, becaue as we were coming in here, that's what the in is, that his" longtime aides are trying to figure out how toe tr gently tell him that he might have no chance to win and he should step aside. that is why the biden campaign is reportedlthat's wn y commissg a poll. kamala harris versus donald trump at the top of the ticket. so he waf s defiant, it seemed. but i it's -- it's note wi a definite when he talks about hi s political future, it's not a definite. >> he seems pretty definitivend and put out a few things. like you said, if someone showed him a poll or he bombeddi his next neurological exams , he said he's already had three. he was asked a couple of times , about kamala one time, forgot

the question, but did answer severatimehel times. well, you don't think e forposelified to tak you? i thought you were supposed to be the bridge to the futurehe . >> how would you characterize the way he answered the kamala d thhaquestiont? i it's very and it is a taste of what is to come, becausehe the number one thing that he talked about when he said she is qualifiedis eventually to ta. over, he talked about the work that she doe ws to protect women's bodies. and he was talking about a pen that they have, i believeav. it said protects girls, not gunsd protec. t firs >> and so he listed that first before he got into her experience as a prosecutorpe or as a senator. and that justhat goet goes to sw you the campaign in wilmington needs something to motivate the base. that has been completely disheartened since that debate.t and they are going with women's rights. and if if for some reason she t ascends to the top of the ticket, because he sees a pollhe t that says he has no or

probably a lot of polls that he has no chance to win, that will be the democratic issue if not it's not already. >> but he doesn't believe the polls. >> h whatever poll you hand him, he's not going to believe it anyway. >> and plus he can be thorns. >> he has to believe the polls can be wrong and on the campaign hasn't even started yet because they're the campaign doesn't even start until september anyway. of so leaving himself a lot of at least the first debate, i don't know. it's like the campaign hasn't started yet, but we've already had a debate. aign hasd ye e peter doocy, thanks so much. v >> you'll have a fun daymorrow tomorrow. let's bring in martha maccallum, anchor of the story . martha, here's some more sound from the president defending himsel morfromf in 2020. you referred to yourself for as being a bridge candidate for a younger, fresher generation of democratic leaders. and i wanted to know gen. >> what changed? what changed was the gravity

of the situation i inherited in terms of the economy, ker foreign policy and domestic division. if tomorrow if you said if wpt e a circumstance where there is ae lineup the and i did hadn't i inherited what i did and we just move things along anyway, it's going to change for organize. we're moving and i it's awful hard to replace in the near term and that's the other why i didn't. you say hand off to anotheron generation. i've got to finish this job. i've got to finish this job because there's so much at stake. yeah. martha maccallum can you interpret that for us,it. please? >> well, it's going to change. we're not sure exactly what'si going to change, but i'll say this, jesse, he did wellthis enh to hang in there and to give a lot of democrat donors

and all of those people who pe their in terms of wanting him out a sleepless night tonight, because thisght. is the way it's going to be. it's going to be a lot of whiplash. and i would imagine two things. my hunch is that they didn't prepare him at all for tonightmt becaus ae. l that didn't work well for the debate. he got all garbled up and ther . heet th was plenty of garble tonight. but the bar is low in termsow of what becomes acceptable fors. the president at this stage. he has spent the last severaldat days at nato talking about all of these issues in depth,e and they were all close to his h recall monitoris rec. i think he was able to get out there and do fairly well given how low the bar has become. but this is going to br thise you know, the other thing i think really animates him is that this story, obama being behind axelrod coming out and clooney coming out, there. is a lot of resentment and animosity between these two camps, no matter how many times karine jean-pierre talks about what good friend- r hos they are.

remember obama walking him off the stage? i mean, i think that was the metaphor of this political moment. t but biden is not going to go quietly into this night and he made it very clear today. and i think that that has focused him and animated h him tis evening in a way that probably makes thisha just another bump in the roller coaster ride. t over yet.es so he lives to fight another day. and now we're hearing from s that nancy pelosi and barack obama are talking. obviously, they're talking about joe. so you now. have an alliance between nancy and barack and. i guess he probably would favord nancy. as you said, he's not too keen on barack coming in hot, telling him it's over. >> but this isn't going to end soon. . we wer e told by a loty of insiders in the democratic party that by thisgo. weekend joe's gone. >> they told us that confidently he was goingthey to i don't know if he's gone this weekend. >> i could see this playinf is g out

for another week, another two weeks. who knowan oweeks.s? e biden's got the clock on his side. he's just going to go unti sidel convention. >> yes, i think you're right. and i think that'sround clear intention. he's got this small group around him. and, you know, terms of i'm going to be a bridge to the future, we all remember rememmenyent very clearl in the 2020 election. and the idea was that he would be able to pas 2020 s off to kao harris. we know what has happened to that plan. his numberw whatappenetos are w. her numbers are worse thans ar his ate . led he this point, despite the fact that he called her vice president trump tonight, which wa night s obviously a weird momen. but like i said, the bar hasthe hoen lowered dramaticall lowere but he likes living in the white house. his family likes living in the whit ie house, having the proximity of that. that is one of the things that has changed. as kellyanne tha said before, nobody wants to leave after one term. and as bush 41 said, don't want to be a one termer. and biden is a political creature. >> this is all he has ever done. it's wha hast he knows how to d. we saw a lot of muscle memory tonight.

he kicke ad and it worked for hi this evening. and i think it's going to have a lot of democratsng i are trying to get him out. like i said, having a tossingt and turnin ag night tonight when they try to go to bed. >> do you think he just told do yous to hand kamala the baton to so they'd support him? eede he needed the far left support. he chose kamala to getr le. do you think joe biden bid actually was realleny thinkinge he was going to be a one term guy from the jump talking about joe biden? uym themartha is more wanted toe president his whole life. >> he's wanted eight years. this whole time. >> he was never going to pass this off to kamala, never it was all a ruse to get the leftk to agree to back him in 2020. you know, i think i'm thinking t about what chuck todd had to say about how, you know, while we always talk about joegu biden as such a great guy, you know, a good determined, decent man, everybody likes him. and he said, you know, but nowh. we're seeing his ugly colors. we're seeing his stubbornness. and i think it's fascinatingtheb knowing that the same people who basically said, you know,

the voters can't be trusted trup on donald trump, that he's going to destroy democracy. oingo are now, trying to take awayac democracy as well by taking away from joe biden afterid people did elect him. i mean, they did nominate him in terms of this process. >> and i think that he looks at that and he in and he says,e sa no way, i am notys giving themwt they want they're not going to push me out. and i think for all of the reasons that you justesse said he wants to stick around. >> all right. and every day, six around is a fun day to cover. >> the biden white cov house, that's for sure. >> all right, martha, we'll see you tomorrow.l se then. >> brian's the founder of american majority and he joins me now. >> kind of a tame press gaggle.s se: i thought the first question was going to be the american people wanwantt you.it they don't think you're fit. why are you sticking around or when are you going to take a cognitiv you s oe test? wit what's with the parkinson's doctor? mi he just giving you botothe pr migraines? that was the excuse. instead, it was likes? he half the questions were about neda. what about barack obama ac? bing you in the back

>> are you mad at your your old boss? yeah. what happened here your old? ? right. so so a couple of things. i biden struck kind of ae of perfect balance of just making enough of a case for sticking aroundg r st while at the same e obviously increasing people's about his abilityy clea to carry on. but one thing's abundantly clear, jesse, he's not going anywhere and cliff notes of an hour long presser. you can takepresse the white house and the nomination from my cold, dead hands. >> but i think you're righcoldte about the regime media. they have not bought fully bought into obama' y boughts coup.they a so now they're stuck. right. and they're stuck because they're sitting hereretuck becae we eviscerate this guy biden right now and he's not leaving, the race will be helping trump. but if we don't eviscerate helps biden, we think he has a really good chance of losing to trump. o it's choices, choices, c choices. but they're definitely stuck right now. threyou that was the one thing t that i drew from that presser. the regime media the 100% stuck and doesn't know what to do. >> yeah,t to do. the toughest qn was from a foreign press guy. -- wt surprised because

you heard the whole week how defensive the press wa howso they're being accused of being in on this cover up of his mental condition. to g and they were going to go out there and show him and this was thg like be a thrashin you've never seen before, that biden was never going to survive this type of onoing t from these reporters who had their their their honor challenged. . >> and it was like, oh, well, you know, well, what about kamala they don't they don't know how to do it. i mean, that's the other problem, jesse, is they are not usedot u to being attack dogs on one of their own, on a tha democratic president. they're not used to doing that. so it be a complete and 180% degree change on their behavioral patterns. now, if it was trump, they would have had no problem with that. but it's their guy. tha and i just don't think that that muscle memory, if you will, is there f yo for them to attack their boy in the white house. so that's another problee m. but i'll say this. i mean, again, he made it very h clear he's not going anywhere. and i totalle'y agree with you.

every day that passes becomes even stronger chance that biden remains the nominee and is the nominee for november. s and that's what the trump campaign wants. they want this woundedr novemb with a terror. >> they're going to give their word and a terrible brain and they want it. they want it. as much as the chaos may help brnted.h asr him than the unknown because he is known and he's correct. knowd he in to be going down. >> terrible record. all right now. thank you. thanks, jesse. >> joining me now, michael shellenberger substack, columnist. >> so what happened out there, mike? i, i mean, you start as welle as anybody did, jesse. i mean, i think the most interesting thin interesg is thu in which he struggles to finish a clear traiggh n of thought. there's constant digressions. he's constantlthere isy the poit that he started just a few seconds earlier. sorlier. th think what the problem here is, i think for people watching this, there's just a sense in which his thinkinge which isn't right. and he is. the thing that we haven't really talked about here is the ways which biden's only hereh because he was coddled by thert,

democratic, particularly by the elites who first got ridy by of. they got booed, adjudge and klobuchar to drop out. n he then had to run againstag warren. but you've seen these extraordinary efforts,e the ef o was in 2020 and 2024 to moveetit competitors out of theors way.a whereas for trump, he's battle hardened. s tl he had to win in 2016 to standts up to the republican establishmentta, the establishment, the democrat establishment fought their populist candidate of sanders. the republicans did, too, but trump won. and so you seerepublic a more rt candidate right now on the republican side, this weakenedt now on of biden, i thk ms directly attributable to hi having been overprotected, which, as you and i both know, is one of the problems that you have with the progressive movement. >> you're right. he was maneuvere have witived into this ova oval office by the elites that he's now blaming forr his calling for his head, the fbi, the cia, all the donors, all barack's guys. they all put him in there with the helguysp of the chinafh virus and then they coddled him chin woundedd him like animal, which he was for

four years and then were shocker year d all a sudden that he him fell apart at the debate and now want him gone. and joe is wait a second, we had a deal. >> we're not goingsaying anywhe. >> i'm officially the president. you're officially not the president. e presidenand we're going to ma. ugly and it's going to get ugly. oing to gehow is this going to ? >> i mean, look, the democrats, the media, which really runsa the democratic party, is clearly not done. >> i mean, they nothing would have happenewould'ved tonights. that would have changed their views. >> and so this is the thing that's happening e thin right, is that the media is in a self-reinforcing downward spirala is. s they covered up biden's health problems for so long, o lod on a dime on him after the debate. they're now now stressing the same issues they had dismissed weeks ago. >> so they're destroyingin realt their own credibility in real time. the democrats, the same thing they were covering for this for so long. now they're now the knives are out. so i think that you see both the the democrats and the media losingocrats. hug

>> i think that's a huge thing that will last for years to comer right.andalo >> and this is now become anus actual scandal that's going to be needed to be investigatede . >> and after trump wins this white house, who were these people that covered this up and defrauded the american public ford ded all this time?? maybe it's something the substack team could figure ouat somet t. are wo >> thanks, mike. we're working on it. absolutelyrkesse. >> here now, rod blagojevich, former democratic governor of illinois, knows. a little something about being pushed out. how do you thinkw do yo be biden survives? he seems to be feeling fin feel they were waiting for a major freeze. there was nos. no freeze like there was at the debate. and as many times as he mix up trump and kamala and zelenskyy and putin, he lives to fight another day. >> well, think george clooney is going to have a sleepless night because i think president biden made ibecaint clear he's not going anywhere. he's going to stay. and the only way they can get a new candidat.e is if he isng willingly agrees. if he willingly agrees to step

aside, he's made it clear that he's going to run it. sureg to run. g like all the indications are that he's going to run. and, you know, the democrats are in a reaoithmocrats l bind. how do you tell 15 millionhow do democratic voters who voted for biden in the primary, working people, people who in real lifem do the real work of the world, the home health care worker, for example, who takesorker fo c your grandmother, your auto mechanic who gets dirty fixing your car. how do you tel..l or her that you can't the candidate you voted for needs to get out of the race because george clooney and hollywood get good thinks there should be another candidate? i think the democratthe democrs the divide in our party and what's happened to the democrat partyty is really sta a question of whether they're going to stand with the working people that supposedly they're foh r,e workinle t whice actually abandoned or whether they're going to listen to their hollywood wall street financiers ywooand silicon valley billionas with regard to what they want. and so i thinkth biden is going to stay because what else should he do? he's got a legac hy to think about. and i think he resents the fact annd obama behind the scenes

and nancy pelosi behind the scenes are acting not like statesmelin or stateswoman, but like old times. chicago democratic ward bossescd who are going to decide who the candidate for president ought to be. >> well, what would an oldid chicago ward boss do in this situation? let's say nancy and the messiah are cooking something up in the back smoke filled room. would it be a whistle blower? ? would it be a golden parachuteto to the biden famil ty? >> would a bit a little pressure campaign, maybe an extra farah chargeould on hunter? >> what would sweeten the deal or what woulweeten dead be so pe that biden would have to take a knee? now, you're asking a great question, jesse. no, i think that's going to be happening. and in the day.s ahead, i thinkinatio there'll be a combination of the carrot and the stick. and n thei think the elites lee the leaders of the democrat party today, obama, pelosiadof, the clintons and others are going to do those sorts of things behind the sceneg to h with allies in the media dropping dimes on biden and his familydia, and his son. at the same time, they'll have, you know, back channels to him

,offering him, as you say, golden parachutes and other hannel. g if he's just willing to step aside before the democratic convention here in chicagoasid.. but my guess is biden's going to stay. well, what else should he doe d , what, 81, 82 years old.2 ye he thinks donald trump is his vice presidential candidate. that maybe that's another reason why he doesn't want to get out of the race. >> he hates trump so much.h he doesn't want to see that as vice president. all righ him t. blagojevich, thanks so much. thank you. and talk about these drip, drip ,drip today.t we just found out biden hasn'td had a cabinet meeting in almoste ten months. and when he was having cabinet me, the cabinets secretaries were asked for questions ahead of time and the aski was scripted. >> it was all an act. the cabinet meetings. and now you understand why he hasn't had them? because he was being hidde becan from his own cabinet, not just us. thatr tonight. dvr us. always remember i'm wonders. >> this is m