have been june 27 was that debate june thousand 3 and half weeks ago but we looked at each other and said a while something's going to change and this entire picture. >> since then if that efforts by the present to try to regain support. we have had a former president's political opponents survived an assassination attempt and then go on to accept his party's nomination. and now we have this. specific sturdy set of circumstances the whole week ahead to continue to watch it. thank you to everybody who joined us this evening. we will all see you back here tomorrow. bret: continuing coverage right fox all night long. we are going nonstop and guess what, it is going to continue the histories and that making real time.

i am laura ingram. special sunday night. biden is out. that is pretty wild. just this morning biden campaign cochair was saying this. >> i that decision is to accept the nomination and run for reelection. >> okay. just a few hours later a letter was released bearing biden's signature saying he will step aside. >> what happened around 11:00 a.m. and 1:46 p.m. when we all got the alert on our phones. peter ducey is standing by. giving us some insights. >> peter, good to see you on a sunday night. >> for the president's top advisers made a pilgrimage to the beach house. they were all there last night. president obama donated -- she

is talking about this and saying with this selfless and patriotic act president biden is putting our country above everybody else the frustration with speaker pelosi and barack obama with not doing more to stop the democratic party mutiny against him. president biden justified staying in the race just last week saying he initially wanted to be a bridge for another generation of democrats. does not want to hang things off today when the country is so polarized. building up to the really shaky debate which happened way earlier than normal because his campaign thought it would help them. it did not. the president says it has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president. my intention to seek reelection,

i believe it is in the best interests of my party in the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term. there have been a lot of questions about what exactly the family's impact was on president biden as he weighed what to do. we just got a signal from the first lady's office and says down to the last hours she was supportive of whatever he chose. she is his biggest believer champion and always on his side and that trusted way only a spouse of almost 50 years can be at is the latest. a very, very busy day here at the white house. >> peter, thank you so much. i want everyone to understand that there are a few points we have to be very clear about tonight. biden tonight is just as overall health the injustice capable of doing the job as he was before the debate with president trump.

obama, schumer, pelosi, they all knew that he was basically not completely together. in weeks and weeks and weeks ago , in fact, they've known it for years but they did not care. they did not care so long as it did not threaten their hold on power. what change for biden was not his overall competence, he's never been competent, what changed as he is now a threat to the democratic party. to solve this threat, the powerbrokers in the party apparently intended to get the nomination to kamala harris. well, that is ludicrous. >> you think you just fell out of a coconut tree. [laughter] the context of all in which you live in k before you. >> the significance of the passage of time, there is great significance to the passage of time. >> who does not love a yellow suit rule plus.

can you raise your hand if you love the yellow school bus. >> always ask if there is a venn diagram for this. it is fascinating when you deal. llaura: imagine the venn diagram that explains what happened last night and this morning. >> kamala harris has not won a single primary. she has not persuaded a single delegate. she was utterly humiliated dropping out even before the iowa caucuses in 2020. according to the regime media her performance as vp has been pretty abysmal. >> they are on damage control tonight after the latest in the series of missteps. >> growing tension between vice president kamala harris in the white house. >> is a 2024 race heats up, could she make a good second impression on voters or could she drag down the democratic ticket. >> remember what political told us about harris vp office, that it was totally dysfunctional and

i remember when the washington post told us that harris staff hated to work for her. and, remember when the hill told us harris had lost 13 high-profile aides in less than two years as vp. what is it, a year ago, less than one year ago when the atlantic of all places told us that few people seem to think that she is ready to be president. so, what republican could write a better attack ad in this article from last fall. not the prevailing themes of harris vice presidency. our first year on the job was to find staff turnover, political missteps in a poor sense among even her allies of what exactly constituted her portfolio. within months of taking office, president joe biden was forced to confront a procession that harris did not measure up. ultimately, the white house issued a statement insisting that biden did in fact rely on

his vice president as a governing partner. harris' reputation has never quite recovered. truthfully, it probably never will. the people who really run things in the democratic party, again, obama, schumer, pelosi. they know that harris is incompetent. just like they knew that biden is incompetent. tonight, i am telling you, they do not care. they just want something to change the narrative that has been a nightmare for them. harris, she certainly can do that. changing the white house from a place where staff ignored the president to a place where staff actively hate the president. again, let me be clear. no one who truly loves this country, no one that truly wants the best for the american people whatever subject us to someone like kamala harris. not a single person in d.c. and

not a single person in any government office anywhere in the world including in beijing or moscow actually believes that she is capable of doing the job. that means making her own calls on the big issues. the best case scenario issue would just be a puppet that does with the bureaucracy, media and donor class tell her to do. the worst-case scenario is she will bring the chaos that she sold in her disastrous presidential campaign enter time as vp directly into the old veil office. the enemy now is charlie hearst and former white house press secretary contributors. joe mansion is reregistering as a democrat in jumping into the race. [laughter] this is the democratic party. they hide all of the details that happened this morning.

what changed joe's mind, we will never know. they will always hide those. >> yeah, well, it won't be joe mansion. don't forget these are still joe biden's delegates. somebody has to run. somebody has to step in. i don't think kamala harris will have the field all to herself. the democrats and kamala harris have found the only person in politics who has a favorable rating lower than joe biden's. if you look at this, joe biden's favorability rating today is 39% kamala harris favorability rating is 38% comparative donald trump is favorable is 43%. i am certain that one thing will happen now. there is a short-term benefit to the democrats because of somebody other than biden. that will give them focus, a lotta media support. the trump campaign will make the

case against a san francisco liberal who failed the nation all the tens of millions of people across the southern border who supported joe biden's big spending inflation creating measures on capitol hill and as we get soft on crime and when it comes to crime, one of the biggest failures. this is vice president kamala harris who in 2020 after that george floyd riots paid to bailout arsonists. a kamala harris who would president trump and federal troops went to portland to protect a courthouse that was under seizure and under fire, she called for the withdrawal of federal funds. this is what you get with the san francisco liberal. she will not make it across the country. >> well, first of all, you got to write in bigger font.

[laughter] big block letters. i am looking at that through the prompter and i can't see what the hell that was. [laughter] okay. all right. this is for you, charlie. now, nbc news is reporting that democrat donors, okay, this was what, just yesterday? left a call with kamala harris frustrated and annoyed. this was on july 20. is it july 21? she was also defending biden. one day ago. they are in a call with her. this was supposed to quiet everyone's concerns. the people on the call went crazy. mismanaged. it seems every time they put kamala harris out there to calm people down, chaos ensues. and then she goes on in this call and she insisted, and i'm

quoting her from the notes of this call, we know which candidate in this election puts the american people first. our president joe biden with every decision he makes in the oval office he thinks about how it will impact working americans and i witness it every day. charlie, she just says this in a call two days ago and now, the gal that biden is endorsing in he's getting out but she was part of this whole cover up from day one, was she not? >> she absolutely was. she will have all kinds of questions like that answer. i would say this is very late in the campaign for party to be swapping out its candidate. a lot of time between now and november 5 in terms of how long kamala harris has to run this campaign without reminding voters of her true self. i think when you point to things like that phone call, you point to things like her czar tenure

at the border and you talk about all of the policies, failed policies of the biden administration and you start reminding them of these things and whether it's a debater on the campaign trail, she will have to answer a lot of really tough questions. not the least of which will be the question about how is it possible that you lie to people for as long as you did about the condition of the president. one other thing that i think about the age factor, i know kamala harris the democrats will try to talk about donald trump's age even though anybody has been around them, anyone who has been to a rally sees that he is so with that, his age is not a problem for them. we have all been sitting around wondering, if they just so important, we've been sitting here wondering for years who is actually running the country and it turns out that nancy pelosi

is running the country. she is the one ordering joe biden to do what it is that he does. she says get out of the race and he gets out of the race. she is the oldest of them all. she is 84 years old. >> i think from now on when you swear our next democratic president and if she's alive still, just swear her and as well and drop the pretenses. thank you. stay with us. >> take a look at the democratic nominee, we will find out shortly, maybe, we don't know. let's do this. let's do a poll. who would you most like to run against? who was the best candidate, who would you like? who would you like to most run against if you are us if we were to win. ready. kamala harris. >> it sounds like trump ready to take on whoever gets the

nomination, ultimately. not holding back on biden either the former president said he is not to serve and i asked who was going to be running the country for the next five months. joining me now is danielle alvarez. danielle, thank you for joining us tonight. running against, law versus running against biden. they are the same in a way. they agree on the same of the issues in a way. but she is a lot younger. she is like 25 years younger than joe biden, or more. so how does this change. >> it does not. the trump campaign has been prepared for whoever would be at the top of the ticket because we have the best asset and all politics. we have donald trump to deliver the devastating dominating debate performance that led to joe biden dropping out of the race. ultimately, kamala owns every single failure of the biden harris administration and then

some. she is the true definition of a california liberal. llaura: when you think about that debate, though, it was more than the substance. the substance was great, but it was the performance. are you saying tonight that you believe her performance will be as abysmal as it joe biden's performance or you are just going to say on the substance you will win hands down. >> i think both. i think it is very clear that kamala harris really struggles to form a sentence. she spee's and venn diagrams. we've heard her diatribe about yellow school buses and so forth the president is a great messenger to the american people not only in the way that he delivers his message but in his record. voters are dying to return back to president trump's strength, to the prosperity that he delivered when he was in the white house.

right now democrats are just rearranging chairs on the sinking titanic. >> some democrats, though, are actually pretending to get really excited. watch. >> i was national cochair for kamala harris for president. we are so damn excited. my phone is blowing up. it is going crazy. a lot of excitement, a lot of chaos, a lot of confusion. at the end of the day democrats have kamala harris in a long list of others taking on jd vance and donald trump and we stand a fair chance. >> well, danielle, they think she is younger, she, obviously, a historic president because she is not the typical white male that we have seen except for obama. what about that? >> well, i think that we will have a hard time seeing the democrat party coalesce around kamala harris. she is not the choice of democrat voters.

she is the choice of the very elite that joe biden decried for pushing him out of the campaign trail. and, so, i think it is wishful thinking that they will come in coalesce around her. we will see who wins up at the top of the ticket. it has been an absolute disaster for a few weeks for democrats. a stark contrast to president trump to the historic national convention and to the months ahead that will lead to victory for the republican party in the nation at whole. llaura: one thing that i think is interesting is joe biden at least had the pretense of being kind of working class. around the edges, he could mix it up with the union guys even if his policies did not really help union workers out much. he could play that role a little bit. she cannot play that role at all she has zero credibility with working-class people. zero coming from san francisco

and everything that is come from that city and everything that she represents. to me, that is the biggest benefit to having kamala harris and their versus joe biden. not even the age difference, it is a working-class sensibility. she cannot even pretend to have it. >> i'm not sure who she relates to at all. she is a california elite. she is a california liberal. the original orders are. she wants supported abolishing i.c.e. decriminalizing border crossings . she was the deciding vote on the $1.9 trillion spending package that sent us and triggered inflation. i mean, i am not sure but in american voter will think when they look at her record and think she is a person for them. not only does she have the disasters before she joined the harris biden ticket, you know, it has been an abysmal three and a half years. by the way, she was a liar that did not, who hid the fact that

joe biden was having serious health issues. that trust is just not there. >> fox bret there just talked with senator joe mansion who says that he is in fact considering throwing his hat into the ring even just to be the boy -- voice that brings the democratic party back to the middle. i don't know what that add-on comments as. not even serious. he would be more threatening, would he not be to the trump campaign because he does have much more of an appeal to middle-of-the-road voters certainly band kamala harris. >> that is just not where the democratic party is. it is just not a real hypothetical to think that he would be the choice of democratic voters. the democratic party and especially the elites pushing biden out in making this decision. more in line with the kamala

harris. that is just not where the american people are. i think they will continue to be a couple disastrous weeks for democrats as they head towards their democrat national convention. >> i don't think anyone should take anything for granted. i know the trump campaign is now anyone gets cocky that it will be a cakewalk they will be sorely disappointed. >> the fact that our democracy remains deeply at risk. >> democracy is on the line. we are facing down fascism. >> we are continuing to undermine our democracy. >> it seems like these so-called guardians of democracy don't really care about that all that much, do they. they had a primary, but they are happy to just dismiss the choice of almost 15 million americans. interesting how that works. joining me now is kevin mccarthy former speaker of the house.

kamala dropped out of the 2020 race in november of 2019 before the iowa caucuses and she said at the time that she knew she did not have a path forward. what has changed now for her? is it just that some big money will line up behind her or do you consider the possibility of her being the sacrificial lamb for the people really running democrat party as someone to just, finally just to miss her and get ready for 2028. >> there could be two rules here nancy pelosi was the person behind this. i was told, democratic congressional members from california, the behind-the-scenes nancy pelosi says kamala harris would be worse than biden. the other thing is, you are correct. she dropped out of the primary for president. even when she ran for senate. only running against another democrat because we are the top two in california.

she comes from san francisco of all places. that has been her history. they may be pushing around at the very beginning to see if she collapses really soon and then bring in another democrat up and have an open race inside of the convention. for democrats that say democracy is on the ballot, that is hypocrisy. for the number one question that she will have to answer now is why did she lie to the american public. this is the democrats watergate. it will not be washed away. they want to know who knew and when and why did they not say anything. she is the number one defender in meyer this entire time. every time i went forward and said after my meetings with this president that i challenge that he is not the same joe biden, she was the one to attack me and so was nancy pelosi. >> mr. speaker, she just said biden's decline like 24 hours ago or 36 hours ago on the call with donors when abc did the big

call and donors were frustrated and angry after this call because it was poorly run and they were not getting any explanations. kamala harris says he's the man. i have seen him make -- right up until the last minute she has been lying to the american people. with a party that is done that for three years, how do they regain any sense of legitimacy or trust at this point. >> they don't. they will have to answer the question should joe biden status president or will he and mike nixon and have to resign. if they truly believed in harris why would they have not given this to her. what we ar ought to go back and read couple it. the person that keeps his head while everyone else is losing theirs.

they are moving too fast, too quickly on this and they have never answered the number one fundamental question, why do you lie to us for the last three years. she was the key vote that brought us inflation. she was the borders are that his failed time again. she comes from san francisco. she is weak on crime. she will not sell on these other places. even democrats themselves. so wanting to move away from joe biden that they literally privately told me last week that they were afraid she was worse. newsweek after that debate, kamala harris pulling even got worse for her. i am not sure that this answers any questions but only opens more. she will collect all of the negatives of joe biden but whatever positive they are, i do not know how it adds to it. >> i think also, the question here is, how does she connect with those working-class voters, mr. speaker, that trump has had a lot of success with at least

of diesel anywhere accurate in the swing states. any of the voters from joe biden to scranton and wilmington. >> she won't. joe biden being for scranton helped. kamala harris being from san francisco does not. even her energy with less to hold she could not get through the border. time and again, every time she goes to campaign she is a worse campaigner then we have even looked at on paper. i do not understand this movement so quickly where they want to go. what i see really happening here is they will not even get challenge on the money. take biden's name often harris. that will get challenged in court. they are pretty clear. you have to give that money back if you made it to a super pack, that is different. a candidate has one advantage. they get a buy at a lower rate than super pacs. that would be a real disadvantage. if i was anybody i would

challenge kamala harris right to that money. that is a continual lie to the american public. they gave that money for joe biden running for president. when you talk about democracy, you talk about the rule of law. the democrats have thrown that all out the window. if joe biden said he would only get off the ballot if god told him or if a doctor told him, and he is off the ballot now, tell me what god said and tell me what the doctor said. [laughter] >> yeah. such humiliation for biden. mr. speaker, you've been around watching a long time, so if i. if this decision is being made to force that guy, he did not write that letter, i don't know who did, but he did not, forcing him to put out a letter not even giving him the dignity to go on camera and do it the right way, doing something later in the week, what about the optics of that?

that is a shiv in his back up until the very end. >> yeah. why would they not get this president who was sitting there the right to give an oval office address, talk to the entire american public about his own future in his own words saying why he would no longer be on the ballot. they denied his ability for american history. somehow it is a tweet for the american history. and set up your own voice in your own words and your own passion. this is how bad this party is. >> what do you think obama is up to here? he did not come out and then endorse kamala harris. i will say, again, other than maybe pelosi, schumer is pretty smart as politics go. he is the smartest and most popular democrat around. so, he decided he would not come out and endorse her. what is he thinking. >> he is actually the smartest one in the room. he was the leverage behind the .

remember, he jumped joe biden when joe biden was his own vice president. what he has done here is help push joe biden out. he had axelrod come out a year ago. he started pushing members to push out against him. now, he is smart enough to take a pause. not to just jump where you go to kamala harris because he knows that that could even be worse for the ticket overall. take a deep breath and wake up the next day and let's think about what we will do. you know, there is an advantage for democrats. republicans are done with their convention. president trump had to select his vice presidential nominee without knowing who he will run against. now we are off to the races. we have another four weeks before their convention. they can sit and put a hole to get together to know our entire game plan. that is one advantage the

democrats could have. joe biden, obama, he is the only one smart enough to take a deep breath and say pause for a second. >> is it true that she could fly them out in the next couple of weeks and then she will be off the contenders list. if they are willing to do what they did to a guy in washington for a half a century, the humiliation they rain down on him today, you don't think if she flubs it up the next couple of weeks which is entirely possible it should be off and on to the next person? >> not only is there a chance of her doing it, that is the history of kamala harris of flaming out. she had 20,000 people show up to her announcement for president. probably one of the best rollouts and she did not even make it to one primary. no one has ever voted for her as president and now they will make her the nominee? that is unheard of. this is a party that does not

care about the rule of law. does not care about democracy. they are the mac of alien party. they think the end justifies the means and they want to blame everything else for every dirty trick i've ever done. >> thank you for joining us. the day began with the defiant joe biden. ready to return to the campaign trail this week. it was announced. his team went on tv and said the rumors of him dropping out were false. they were adamant about it. but then at 1:46 p.m., everybody got the alert on their phone a letter was released bearing his signature announcing he would step aside for the race. minutes later, because he had not done it in the letter, he endorsed kamala. but, again, just because he is backing her does not mean is kevin mccarthy just said that she will automatically become the nominee. fox senior congressional correspondent chad program is here with what happens next.

a lot of people are confused by this process that may go forward how will democrats actually arrive at their new nominee? >> it is rather convoluted. vice president harris now phoning members of congress to wrap up their support. this is not a coronation. and the primary thing cast ballots for biden and harris. democrats are worried about more chaos. democratic says anyone using a romanticized free-for-all at the convention is living in a dangerous fantasyland. those that want that are asking for the continuation of the chaos. he calls on democrats to unify round terrace, but nothing is crystal clear. there may be things to sort out. >> people have that right. we have a democratic process and anybody who wants to run should

be able to say they are running and go out and work this hard. i don't know of anybody right now but there are couple names that i still hear. let's see. >> here the mechanics. president biden has delegates committed to him. dean phillips for and jason palmer from american samoa three here is what philip said this morning. >> let's have a thoughtful spirited competition. show great contrast with the republican fellow in the past and a dynamic democrat for the future. it is not to late. >> endorsing a mini primary. there is no time to rerun the primaries and states. the delegate to president biden one in the primary our pledge to him but not bound to him. republicans can vote anyway they wanted the convention and that is why harris is on the phone right now trying to lock up her delegates. >> i just want to go back to what i asked former speaker

mccarthy. the smartest speaker alive. what is he thinking here? is this a desire, perhaps, to just have this appear to be a really, you know, streamlined yet very democratic process despite 50 million people voting for joe biden and they are basically out of luck now. >> jeffries, schumer, pelosi, they have not endorse vice president harris. maybe there is a chance here for harris, maybe she does not get all the support that some democrats have overweighted this afternoon. if it does not work, there is an analogy and hocking the home team which is what they call final change. you see what the matchup is and then you put your team up out on the i.c.e. republicans have put their team on the i.c.e. democrats, their convention is second, they have final change.

they can maybe put the best possible team at least from their vantage point out on the i.c.e. we will see if they do that. is harris the best have on the i.c.e. right now, they think so but they are not 100% sure right now. >> the entry continues on a sunday night. great to see you. thanks so much. again, the most popular person is a democrat in america probably around the world has refrained from making an endorsement. i mean, he's been thinking about this for a number of weeks at least. so, what is he really thinking? i think this is the most fascinating question of all of this. joining me now is stephen miller former senior advisor to president trump. stephen, as chad just said, we don't want to repeat what we just said, but as chad just said we don't have pelosi, jeffries, obama, is it the case that they

know her very well. they know kamala harris. i am not sure if they like her or not. i have no idea. but they know that she is not a slamdunk. >> the former speaker went out so well. she has never in her life ran a compelling campaign. she has been a beneficiary of a great deal of luck and good fortune. if you look at her presidential campaign she flamed out and she framed -- flamed out hard. she would be the most liberal head of the democrat ticket in american history left of carter, she would be the leftmost candidate ever to lead the democrat party. think about how that would turn off working class voters all across the country. not to mention as her record as ordered czar. she is truly trapped.

none of biden's attractive qualities to the working class which is why they chose them in 2020. all of the baggage of the administration. if they did chair, they lose all the money that they have raised and go into a totally chaotic convention. this really is a democrat party in crisis. >> they are pretending that it is all exciting. no. it is chaos. you subverted, you literally subverted your own democratic process as you spent the last three and a half years, more, let's say six years, let's say nine years, trashing donald trump for doing literally what you just did to your own voters. there may be a 25-30% of voters who still prefer joe biden to remain at the top of the ticket. they don't care. >> they held a primary. they had ballots.

they filled out circles. they went to the voting booths. they spent money on advertisements. as president trump said, the republican party spent tens of millions of dollars running against joe biden. now they just woke up one morning and said nevermind, we are canceling the entire primary . we are getting rid of our candidate and were pretending the election is never happening and will let donors handpick a new nominee. they are publicly admitting that they are an oligarchy. they are not running a democracy they're not running a representative republic. this is an oligarchy controlled by business interests. the private corporation that represents those business interests. full frontal and attack on american democracy as we have ever seen in the history of america's major political parties. >> let's face it. george clooney has more influence on the democratic party then like 14 million

voters. moments ago, governor newsom endorsed kamala harris. tough, fearless, tenacious. no one is better to get the case against trump's dark vision. i cannot even read this stuff. they have to update their talking points. sometimes we are live on television we cannot update things fast enough. at least we tried. they don't even try to update their lines at this point. it is so bad. >> you cannot use the democracy talking point on the day where you actually canceled the entire democratic primary. oh, never mind. they don't count. we actually picked the nominees. this is a democratic party. fundamentally. this is the most important part. why are they in crisis? their record is indefensible. wars all over the world. a border on fire and an economy in freefall.

>> the record has not changed. old puppet of the globalist new puppet of the globalist. goodbye old puppet, hello new puppet. >> do you think you can tell the american public. do you think you're in the position to do that. she doesn't need to go back she is fine five minutes ago.

it is still hanging over all of this. kamala harris, i don't want to repeat, but if she gets the nomination, who is really going to be running the show. is it the same running the show now. it will be wall street. it will be big business and it will be hollywood. they are the people that chose biden they are the people that made money. now they ditched him. they are holding an audition. i think that they have not decided. they are who matter. those democrat primary voters, they don't matter. who matters is wall street private equity in hollywood.

that is who controls this thing. whoever gets the nod they will be in charge. 100%. >> we understand from our reporters tonight that she is working the phones to use a tired old cliché. working the phones trying to shore per support. telling everyone i'm smart. i'm really smart. i'm really accomplished. when you have to say that you really are not. okay. people really have some talent. i don't agree with them but they have talent, josh schapiro in pennsylvania. if i was trump i would not want to run against him. comes across as a little more sane. he can actually think on his feet. he is not getting in on this race. he doesn't want any part of this neither does newsom, neither does witmer. what do they know that three stars of the party about running against donald trump. >> well, they know donald trump is a powerful candidate. he has a strong candidate.

the reason voters selected him as our nominee and voted for him in the past is because he is not beholden to the same people you're talking about. couple hold until hollywood, wall street or big business. they all hate them. the best endorsement of trump you could possibly get. it does not matter who the democrat nominee is. they will not be calling the shots. it will be those other folks. the choice is between do want somebody that actually represents you, who actually represents your voice and make this country strong, do something for you or do you want somebody who will call and phoned it in for wall street. wall street will make money no matter who the democratic nominee is. that will be the real contrast here. >> well, i have to say, for a party that claimed it would bring all of this calm and unity and transparency, calm in the world, obviously, it has not worked out. but what is putin, kim jong-un,

they are watching democracy democratic party style. how is it looking to them? regain their own elections. this is hysterical. dare we say it, it looks like an insurrection. it is hysterically funny or would be if it wasn't for the fact that democrats have persecuted for the last three years doing exactly what they are doing now. again, it is a desperate desperate attempt to the most powerful people in the country to cling to their power. joe biden is no longer useful to them. we will have several weeks of auditioning up to that puppet will be. at the end of the day republican know who our candidate is. donald trump is not a puppet and that is why he will win in november. >> he does not answer to any of those people and that's why is always been a threat. thank you so much. senator pete booted just

endorses kamala saying i will do all that i can to elect kamala harris the next president of the united states. we saw of senator hall. we ought to get his take on this your take on that. i guess the cabinet feels like it has to step forward and put out its endorsement. i guess we lost him. okay. all right. ahead, breaking new details from behind the scenes on how joe biden actually made that decision. it seems like minute by minute. a decision to drop out.

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>> the biden team insisted for weeks and weeks right up until this morning that joe biden was staying in this race. he would be the democrat nominee let's move on. so, what in the heck changed the 11 until 1:46 p.m. in the afternoon. kevin is live from delaware. you were not at the beach -- well, you're kind of at the beach. good to see you, my friend. >> good to see you.

just down the beach. life comes at you fast. let me share something from just 16 days ago. it was then that president biden took 2 x and declared the following, you will appreciate this, let me say this as clearly as i can, i'm the sitting president of the united states, i'm the nominee of the democratic party, i am staying in the race. that was then and this is now. mr. biden no longer facing calls from democrats to drop out of the race. he is facing calls from republicans to resign altogether which of course could set off showdowns on capitol hill as democrats try to keep them on the job through the election next 107 days and beyond that through january of 2025. the real reason mr. biden is dropping out is simple. donor money. you know it really began to dry

up. a disastrous debate performance. let it be known. no change at the top. no money here on out. already we are reading the reports of the times announcing once again. who at this very hour is beginning to coalesce. they continue to throw our support behind ms. harris. you see some names that stand out. gavin newsom, he among them. >> i still do not understand what happened between 11:00 a.m. and 146. it is just weird.

>> you are right. pulling in michigan did not tell free press trump up by seven and that really hurts. you add to the fact that he is well behind in the swing states in the donors look at that stuff not throwing good money out to bed. i think that was the affluent decision. >> may be don't send your campaign person out on the morning shows. good to see you. thank you. >> joining us now michael derosa you know how the biden's operate behind closed doors making decisions, conversations. it is a short period of time. it is a short window for things to have changed. >> it looks like steve, his longtime political advisor, a longtime pollster of his, sort

of speech writer, his voice, they looked at a round of polling last night. it gets a lot worse. steve, obviously, he ran the dsc see so he knows down ballot politics really well. they saw the writing on the wall he went to bed last night after a family meeting. it looks like this morning he did have a change of mind or at least he confirmed or accepted a change of mind. >> do you think the kamala harris decision is racking up a lot of -- people are going back and forth on this. >> it depends how you look at it

morocco -- barack obama being insurgent. you could start whipping millions. if somebody really wanted to get in there they could certainly challenge the vice president, absolutely. >> the first round they are not pledged. he stepped aside. he wants them to go right to harris. we understand that there will be some legal challenges. i did get to breaking news. abc is reporting that biden youngest brother frank biden said "overall health and vitality played a major role in his brother's decision to end his white house run." i was wondering when this would come. overall health and vitality, i

guess that could mean i'm slowing down a little bit. if you cannot run for president you can still be president? >> i'm thinking about it politically right now. we were talking about this two years ago. you know, i love the president. i love the first lady. i care deeply about them. but, the party, they are in a really precarious situation right now. access hollywood back in 2016. our speaker was a little bit more successful. >> this is a bad moment for the democratic party. i don't care how anyone tries to spin this. thank you very much.

>> a harris trump matchup and donald trump is favored in that matchup. kamala harris really scrambles this race. i think will create great excitement and enthusiasm. they are excited that there is a new matchup here. >> excited. you will hear that word a lot. a trump harris matchup. the average is up by about two points. the white house press secretary. still not the nominee. now that there is a chance, the race will get tighter if indeed she is. >> they may change a little bit.

being the nominee if the democrats don't have a fight. taking away. i just got through pulling a lot of the battleground states. she does even worse and independence. trump is doing better with independence. that will be the big battle for independence and also trying to gap, this enthusiasm gap, 20 points, 50 points. that is why they are doing this. they cannot get their people out to the polls. they would not be able to keep their candidates running strong. this is why this had to happen. >> the media thinks that she can pull off a victory if she picks the right running mates adjusting that schapiro going back to pennsylvania could pull her cross the finish line.

47% of voters said she would vote for sure. 46% map trump and advance. this is a big selling point for jd vance. he could be parked and once -- western pennsylvania. extremely strong pull for those voters. on the ticket giving a real edge of their. >> almost every voter votes for who was at the top. for those who are really focused on who the vice president is, for every marginal pickup you may get an pennsylvania or somebody votes for schapiro, that really gives the harris ticket a big problem in michigan schapiro is a jewish candidate and they have enough problems in michigan with the arab vote. i do not know how that will play i still think it is essentially

a boat for the people at top. >> matt, you know, the e-mails i was getting earlier this morning were those new swing state polls i know you were pouring over. these are disastrous numbers. in arizona, michigan, wisconsin tough still. shows a dead heat in wisconsin. you are looking at new mexico. these are states that an pennsylvania, obviously, states where normally, republicans would be scrambling. how does she in any way help in those battleground states where trump is showing really strong power. >> i'm not sure she can. i think that this is about other things besides just battleground states. they have to get some sort of been as he has. i'm not sure she can do it. the numbers that we saw we produced looked at dismal for

her. if you go back and look at earlier polling that was done, earlier organizations earlier in the year, same numbers in the same states. she will now have the mantle of being the nominee and that may bring her up a little bit certainly in the national polls which are very confusing. those are big blue states like california, new york battleground state pulling the matters in this case. trump just has to keep appealing to those independent voters. laura: all right. both of you, great to have you both on tonight. thank you so much. this has been about the wildest eight days in american politics. we will go back to the debate in a month or so. we will keep covering every aspect of it, every angle. i want you to stay with fox news all night long for the breaking coverage. this story will take a lot of twists and turns befor