is the most tumultuous period i can think of. i think we all look back on this ... it will be seen as inevitable wants that debate happens that he would have to step aside and someone else would have to come forward. the signs are all aligned for her to become his successor at least as candidate for president. i think that's where we are. the debate happened and everything else flowed from it except for one thing and that was the attempted murder of donald trump. >> martha: while they campaigned together and how much will bc the president after this? >> i think the lead-in from brett with the idea that he had to scramble just to fend off a russian effort there. you are going to see a lot of

the president. the real issue for me is that he and kamala harris will now be copresidents over the next six months. >> martha: >> bret: thank you very much. fox news is inviting trump and harris to participate in a debate. that event will take place september 17th in pennsylvania. >> we have offered to discuss this -- specifics. we are open to negotiation over a date, format, location as well as whether there would be an audience or not. those things still to be figured out. >> a long way ahead to november. we will cover you all the way. next stop is the democratic convention in chicago in a few weeks. history in the making tonight. thanks for watching our special coverage of president biden's address to the nation. jesse watters primetime is next. good night from the white house. >> jesse: joe biden speaking to the american people, this is his last chance to polish his

legacy and what's looking like damage control for a failed presidency. he started off at the top saying he would always promise to tell us the truth and he didn't. he didn't tell us why he changed his mind, he didn't tell us why he was stepping down. he didn't explain what happened this weekend. he didn't really instill confidence in why he can still execute the duties of the president. he did allude to the fact that he was doing this because he needed to save democracy. trump is a dictator, he can't be trump, someone else can so resigning as a way to save democracy. we get that. but he kind of beat around the bush. and then he said i'm passing the torch to a new generation. that's going to unite the country. that's not what the issue was. it was never joe biden's age. it was joe biden's competence and it looks like this country may vote for someone almost the

same age as joe biden p. it has nothing to do with the new generation. this defend democracy pitch, that was more of a pitch to the democratic party that was not a pitch to the entire country. most people want to defend their paychecks, their border, their homes and their families. didn't land. let's bring in... what did you think of that? >> i sat here and i listen closely and i kept a tally on my computer. joe biden liked to keep a tally from the press shot about hit the times his age was mentioned. i kept a tally for tonight. you mentioned democracy a half-dozen times. they reminded me of his inauguration speech. you mentioned unity. that was the buzzword four years ago. we did not get unity. we got gop compared to segregationists. we got republicans are a clear and present danger. the vaccinated have a right to

be angry at the unvaccinated but if he wants to use this new buzzword democracy, i've got a new one, transparency. when is kamala harris first press conference? when is her first serious sit down? we've heard from her in these little podcasts, when is her press conference? we've got democracy and that talking point but now we need to -- we need transparency. joe biden got 14 million votes. kamala harris has got zero votes to be a candidate for president of the united states. >> jesse: i expected humility, this has got to be a painful address to give. i thought he was going to level with us and say i lost my fastball. i lost the confidence of my party and the confidence of the american people. i got old and i'm sorry. father time caught up with me, it happens and this is what it is, i am doing the best thing i can do for the country. he didn't do that. exhaust over all of that and many americans are suspicious about how many people knew about

his condition, how long they knew and many realize the person that's now handpicked to be the nominee knew about his condition better than anybody. this didn't clear up anything and suppress any doubts and concern this country has about this entire presidency. >> that's correct. remember kamala harris was the person who came forward after the robert her report. how accurate was he? he said... he called him an elderly, well-meaning old man not fit to stand trial. kamala harris came out in the aftermath and defended him. said i have seen him, he's better than any of us that's who is now running for president of the united states. prepare for kamala camelot. the mythologized age of the kennedys, the shining, prepare

for it. it is coming your way, beyoncé already greenlighted her using the freedom song. everyone needs to be prepared. >> i prepared but i'm going to laugh at it kale leap. there's really no threat, she is not a threat. it's funny to watch them try to spin this woman the same way they spun joe. the same people that said joe was running circles around the mall and was up until four in the morning jogging. they are saying she is the next messiah. the brainwashing has to stop at some point right? >> it has to stop at some point. i remember... coming out and saying until joe biden comes out and does a double twist flip, none of us will believe he is fit to hold office this is what we were told behind closed doors. we were told he was fitter than his youngest aids. they couldn't keep up with him in there needs to be an accounting of the white house

press because if i would've stood the podium and said that and said joe biden is unable to keep up with me, i can barely follow him around. there would've been an accounting for the misleading at the podium. i want to believe she didn't know. i want to believe that andrew bates didn't know but i won't know until there is an accounting of the facts and the truth. >> jesse: the age issue... it's the policy. it's been a disaster. everybody sees it. that's why he had to leapfrog and do this debate in june. that's why he detonated the cover-up is over and now they are onto another cover-up with her. and never ends but we see it, you and i see it. have a great night. >> you to. >> jesse: former press secretary for joe biden, michael larose adjoins me now. you might disagree with some of my characterizations but ask plain how the family is handling this. >> i thought we heard some pretty good colour from earlier

about the family in the room, the grandchildren, hunter, ashley, little bow and it's -- it sounds like it was a really painful moment for all of them. you could sort of tell actually by the president, the way he started leaning his left arm when he started talking about what i expected to be or what appeared to be very uncomfortable for him. the idea of giving up and not running even though he felt he merited a second term based on what he delivered in his first term. it appeared like a painful moment and it sounding like what was described in the room, it was a painful moment for the family. >> jesse: does he see that he gave up? it looks like he was forced out.

>> i think that they view this as -- you are right. it was a political intervention of epic proportions. did they want to fight? of course they did. but being the leader of the party requires thinking about the entire party not trust him. the family is supposed to think about him. that's their job. they are supposed to be dedicated to joe biden but it is the people who are still the future of the democratic party, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, the people who are raising money and recruiting candidates to try to win majorities, it's their job to think about the health of the party and he was kind of implicit in what he was saying about in order to unite the country or save democracy, implicit is that he can't win and it seems like over the weekend. >> jesse: he said he can't be

the dictator. that's basically what he said. he can't be the dictator, donald trump, so someone else is going to have to do it and he is resigning from the campaign that's going to save democracy because kamala is going to be the dictator? it doesn't make any sense to me. where is jail? is dr jill they are i didn't hear her mentioned. >> i thought they said the first lady unless. >> jesse: i thought she was going to paris. >> she might be going to paris. i didn't hear all the family members. i'm not sure, i will have to do some digging. i would be surprised if she wasn't there. >> jesse: this must have been a painful moment for the biden family and they have more months to play this out. >> it was uncomfortable to even watch, when you start a campaign and use -- you are losing a campaign, you come back and he

beat the incumbent president, it was historic to see it and. it was bittersweet. >> jesse: thank you so much. let's bring in... >> this is something we have not heard from president biden, that the soul of america is still at stake but he doesn't think he's the best person to repair it, to fix it. as he lists off all the different things that he thinks he's going to do in the next six months,... he's going to do all of that as a laying dock. it's not an insult. he's not up for election again, all of his capital is gone officials in the briefing room insisted he is not a laying dock. they also told us he is not stepping aside for any specific health reason but they are not

going into any other detail. the president didn't into document didn't get into detail. they also said, i don't know if we saw the soundbite but there is not a cover-up which there has been a lot of curiosity about why it is that on 711, president biden is explaining all the different reasons that he's staying in the race and why he thinks he's the only person who can keep the country from tearing apart at the seams and then he gets covid and suddenly changes his mind. >> jesse: i believe we have that sound, let's listen. >> who ordered white house officials to cover-up... >> i know that is a narrative that you love. >> he did a press conference at nato. and then ten days later i'm dropping out. >> it is not a cover-up.

i know that is the narrative that you all want, it is not. >> jesse: so it's not a cover-up and he's fine? >> something else that they said is he has not declining to run for a second term because he can to serve it out. they are telling us that it is possible for somebody who is the president and could still be the president deciding that they don't want to be. we really -- there's another briefing, we will try to get more details about what happened because they teased ahead to this speech and we still have some questions. >> jesse: going to be a fun lame deck restroom for the night next couple of months. thank you so much. now bringing in... he's not saying he's a laying, doc,, he's going to cure cancer, going to lower costs, bring peace in the middle east. is anybody buying that?

>> know jesse. you hit it right there, nobody's buying it because he didn't do it. he's not going to deliver on it. he's not running for reelection based on, he did so much that he exerted all of his energy, he's not running for reelection because the numbers had him in the face, he couldn't win. it's disastrous. aside from the obvious thing that the entire nation has seen that they've all covered up including the vice president, now the democratic nominee. we are just stating fact. he has no record to run on. what is his record? he's got military disasters, foreign-policy disasters, economic disasters to say nothing of what we are dealing with domestically with all of the problems at the border. there is nothing that he can run on so this is ultimately, the new democratic party emerging from the husk of joe biden with the lack of a better way to put it. he's leaving because he would

get beat. this is not up rave thing ended people who are lauding this bravery and talking about how courageous it is, when democrats lose to trump in november they are going to blast him for that. they are going to blast kamala harris, blasted joe biden for waiting until this ruth bader ginsburg moment of waiting until it's weigh too late. he finally caved to doing what they demanded. >> jesse: you know what most weak presidents do, they have someone challenge them in the primary. sometimes that makes them more competitive, sometimes you get a new nominee. that's what's called healthy or if you know you're down in the polls as sometimes happens with incumbents, they work harder, they fire their campaign manager. they change message. they change strategy. they don't just say goodbye we're going to pick somebody else in the back room, that's crazy. that never happens.

>> and disenfranchise all of your base voters, the people who supported you. black lives matter is even upset because they feel disenfranchised. they don't get to have a say in who the democrat nominee is going to be because with the superdelegates the party elites are picking this. that's the antithesis of democracy. that's not what it is. they are not following that process in this republic. all of the things that they accuse the right off they are actually guilty of it. >> jesse: it's ridiculous. thank you so much. this is going to be a fun couple of to cover. we will see how kamala handles the speech. let's go over to white house correspondent jeff mason. did you have any details about the speech being written, what happened over the weekend, no one knows anything. >> i can tell you a little bit about the speech tonight. it was in the oval office and there was a very small pool that

was there as well as his daughter and some of his grandchildren. i can tell you behind us here in the rose garden, there were big cheers from staff who collected themselves for a viewing party and a watch party and then the president came out and spoke to them afterwards and he got a lot of applause and a lot of cheers and apparently ice cream was served. it was kind of a valedictorian speech for the president. i imagine it was sad for a bunch of people in that crowd even though they were cheering for him because this is someone that people... also the people in the white house were expecting him to run again. he made his decision not to. >> this might be the last primetime address we ever have with joe biden. he usually doesn't do those press conferences that traditionally are done by presidents after elections. we don't usually see that. this might be our last glimpse of joe biden at this level with

an audience this big. do you think he was able to manoeuvre the conversation to help his legacy and to make people understand what's been happening over the last couple of weeks? >> i think that was the goal. each certainly talked about his reasoning and talked about putting aside personal ambition for the fight for democracy which he believes is under threat. and he painted a picture of gratitude for having had the support of the american people for a kid from scranton who had a stutter showing up and becoming president of the united states and getting to sit behind the resolute desk. this has been an emotional time for him. he didn't see a motion coming from his face tonight. i'm sure he was trying very hard not to show a lot of emotion but certainly to show gratitude and to explain the reasoning without getting too far into discussing his opponent, he did mention former president trumped by

name. he did think the vice president and made it clear that she was his choice going forward in the eight november election. >> jesse: do you sense resentment still? >> i didn't in the speech tonight. that doesn't mean that there isn't some. certainly has party turned on him that's got to be very hard for someone who has been a leader for the last three and a half years and who many people, many advisers believe he never got the credit that he deserved for not only some of his accomplishments in office but for winning the 2020 election and beating president trumped. being pushed aside as he essentially was, he made the decision to step down but it was after a lot of lawmakers and very powerful once encouraged him to do so. it's not for me to say weather there is resentment but you didn't pick up on that tonight. the theme he really focused on

was gratitude and again what he sees as the stakes for the election. he accept the fact that he isn't want to carry the torch but to pass it. >> jesse: the president doesn't drink and that's probably a good thing. tonight would be a tough night. jeff mason, thank you so much. >> jesse: the president of the governor of accountability institute and he joins us now. what made all of a sudden adds 1:45 pm joe biden changed his mind like that. was he motivated to? was there i carry it, stick, what happened? >> it's a great question. i he was forced to relinquish the torch. a really came from the party elites. person you have to look at first as barack obama.

he was really the first one unofficially, kind of behind-the-scenes who started saying joe biden has to be replaced and the reason is not because of his declining mental faculties, it was because he was behind in the polls and he couldn't win and barack obama i think engineered this and what you have to remember is that joe biden's financial base, the chairman of his campaign's finance committee is an obama guy before he has a biden guy and you can say that about a lot of the people in the democratic party. barack obama engineered this, he has a history of doing this in chicago and elsewhere. you heard james baker, the former secretary of state was once called a velvet hammer. he called -- you can call barack obama the velvet shiv. he knows how to do people in with a smile and he has a very long friendship and association

that predates even his career in the u.s. senate with kamala harris. she is definitely somebody he likes in this position. >> jesse: the biden family is broke. joe biden took a mortgage out on his house, a couple of equity lines of credit. he's been burning threw legal fees, his sun broke burning threw legal fees, child support. facing felony charges and time in prison. the brothers, they don't earn much. they are not that talented, they haven't done well without being able to leach onto joe's position. if i was trying to get joe out i would say i will take care of the family. do you think anybody came to biden and said take care of the family. >> i think it was probably said that way. they are all smart enough to not explicitly negotiate the details but i think it was made clear by donors that they would take care of the family. hunter or james or frank or whoever is going to get a

consultant deal et cetera. but of course there options are limited. you are not going to find a lot of chinese interest in doing deals with the former first family of the united states. i think you are exactly right and i think that's one of the reasons joe biden really dug in his heels. i think he probably saw this coming for a couple of weeks but if you strike out the position, you only up the price or the potential price of what you're going to get on the backend. >> jesse: that was probably a big negotiation. we might find out that joe biden has a huge book deal he will never finish or netflix special he will never appear in. i don't know, i think we're going to find out something pretty nice. thank you as always. clay travis and reed joins us now. what did you think of the speech? >> first of all jesse do you want to buy my hunter biden

artwork collection? it's really cratered in value and i thought. >> jesse: i told you that was a bad investment. >> you tried to tell me, i was convinced it was going to be the next picasso and i'm don't know who i'm going to sell these thanks to. i should sound like my wife when it's her birthday. i had low expectations and somehow you managed not to reach them. that is kind of how it felt about joe biden's speech in general. i expected him to reach for history, he didn't. let me try to put some history in context for you. twenty-seven days ago, it feels like it's been 270 days since then, donald trump knocked joe biden out in a debate for the first time in american political history. for 27 days, joe biden tried to get back up off the canvas and convince people that he hadn't

been knocked out and he was never able to do it. so this is the end of that era. that 27 days as he fought and scrambled to try to get back up. you know what he said? i jotted down a couple of things. he said he had to drop out to save our democracy. save our democracy? by putting a woman who has never received a single vote for president of the united states in after 14 million people voted for him? if he really wanted democracy to triumph, he should have done what all of us said back in the summer of 2023, he should have said i don't have the physical or mental ability to run, let's have an open primary let the democrats pick somebody. also, i'm fired up about this because did you see on cnn where they said dti is the new n-word? even in this address they actually, and joe biden, bragged about putting a black woman on the supreme court. he didn't brag about it but he

picked kamala harris after saying he would only pick a woman. he created the categories. he diminished his own nominees. you could've still picked them, he didn't have to tell us that he was only picking them because he said i have to pick a black woman and because i have to pick a woman. i think he is the worst president we've ever seen and he delivered more of that. >> i thought we were supposed to celebrate dei? no one celebrates dei more than jesse watters primetime. every thursday we celebrate with our friend. why is that the n-word now? i thought it was a good thing. >> this is what they are going to fall back on. i'm going to go have some ice cream in honour of joe biden maybe with a nice alcoholic beverage alongside it. this is what they are -- their campaign is going to be.

any criticism of kamala harris is racist and sexist, they are going to say that donald trump is going to show up on their door knocking on it and if somebody's 15-year-old girl is pregnant he's going to arrest them. -- is where they are all headed. that may hit you with one more line that i think joe biden delivered that he didn't anticipate landing like a data. he said this -- does character in public life still matter and the answer is yes, and that's what you got fired by donald trump tonight's. >> jesse: clay travis, he's going to go have a drink. he wasn't drinking before, now he will have one. the trump team responds to joe biden's dropout speech. that is straightahead.

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secretary. what are the former president say about the farewell address? >> we certainly know why biden gave his farewell address to the nation tonight and it's because president trump delivered the ultimate lock out to joe biden on the debate stage last month. if he hadn't had such a dominant debate performance over crooked joe, and then kamala harris and the entire democrat party would still be lying to us about biden's cognitive decline, trying to shovel him over the finish line in november. thanks to president trump, the democrats have been exposed for who they are. a bunch of liars who are the thrill -- the real threat to democracy. and now the party elite have taught us -- tossed aside 14 million ballots to install kamala harris who is just as weak and incompetent as joe biden yet she has worse because she is dangerously liberal. of radical leftists and if you want to know how dangerous she is, look at what happened

moments before biden made his farewell address to the nation. we intercepted two russian fighter jets and chinese bombers off the coast of alaska. our adversaries know he is on his way out and they are laughing at the chance to take advantage of caramel. the only weight we stop this mess is to reelect president trump, the american people know and that's why he's leading much as joe biden but of course kamala harris in nearly every single pole right now. >> jesse: enemies are going to test this country until november. we are pretty weak country with what we have in the leadership position. they used to live for joe and now they will lie for her. they are saying she is not dei, not liberal. they are scrubbing their articles where they say all of this. now they are saying she was never the borders are peer she was never... joe biden said you are peer she said she was. >> outlets that's were saying

that she wasn't reported that she actually was the borders czar. they are going back and scrubbing their own articles. they are throwing their own journalists under the bus. is what we see in communist china and north korea. it is orwellian. we are going to see the mainstream media to the beat -- bidding of kamala harris. they're desperate for the democrats to cling to power because they know that president trump is not what to tolerate fake news when he's back in the white house. is not going to tolerate a wide open and illegal immigration invasion with terrorists and criminals all over this country which kamala harris has directly overseen. she is going to root try to run from the policies but she can't because she has enabled joe biden and every single one of his policies and if she is given power for another four years she will take it a step further. she wants to decriminalize illegal immigration. abolish ice, an agency that we need now more than ever. the only way we are going to secure the border and bring law & order back to this country is by electing one man and his name

is donald trump. the media is going to try and say that we are picking on her for her race and gender, that's a bunch of nonsense. she is the most incompetent, a worst, unpopular vice president in american history and she needs to be held accountable just as joe biden did for his disastrous policies. >> you are allowed to pick on politicians. politicians aren't off-limits and has nothing to do with the race or gender. look at the record. a look at the words that come out of her mouth. we are looking what we are seeing right now, she said she want to get rid of private health insurance. she said she wants to spend 2 trillion more dollars next year. while we are in inflation. she is to the left of burning, this is crazy. let's not pick on her, that would not be mean. dr jill biden has spoken and she just put out the statement, let's do this. inc. you for the trust you put in joe. now it's time to put that trust in kamala.

we have the author of amateur hour, here now. what a graceful pivot two i'm going to stay and win and stand when it, i'm going to drop out and save democracy, she is our girl. that was fast. >> where was kamala tonight? i didn't see her in the oval office to receive the torch from the biden family passing the torch. she is nowhere to be seen and maybe it's because joe biden is really weak right now, she doesn't want to be seen anywhere near him. it's almost as if she's throwing him under a yellow school bus. >> jesse: how much did she get involved in this coup dei we will hear about it later but was she one of the ones pushing him out? she was obviously thrilled that he dropped out. do you think she left any fingerprints on it? >> i don't think so. she really focused on trying to push the baton forward to

perform flawlessly on the campaign trail and make sure that there were no fingerprints at all peer she had her own people that are working behind the scenes and she had the number 1 supporter, former president barack obama also working for her behind-the-scenes to pull the torch out of joe biden's trembling hands and throw it over to kamala harris. >> jesse: everybody that worked for her quit. 92 percent of her staff quit. what does that tell you about working for kamala harris and how is not going to translate into the kamala harris campaign? >> notice there's not a huge line of people waiting to go work for her again at least among former staffers. they're not begging to be let back in because they know what a disastrous boss she has and how much of a difficulty able be serving under her when she has all the power that she's always wanted. even watch obama's people, they

are not eager to jump in and work for her as well. many obama people who came to work left the white house feeling very dissatisfied with someone who is supposed to be a transformational figure and really failed the test. >> jesse: are they putting her in there so they don't get wiped out in the house and senate as bad as they would have if joe biden was still there? she is there not to win, she's just there not to lose as badly as biden? that's the sense i'm getting from democrats. >> i think nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, they are trying to feign enthusiasm but they are struggling to bring the necessary excitement. they are there to put her in there to bring out as many democrats as possible and important states and races and hopefully they can cling to one house of the federal government and block the trump agenda. >> jesse: thank you so much. >> thank you jesse. >> jesse: that basically turns

the page on the biden presidency, failed presidency if you can really evaluate it honestly. will try to, he comes in after covid, spends trillions of dollars that was absolutely unnecessary, devastated schoolchildren with their learning and did everything burning and the far left wanted. blasted inflation through the roof, blew up the border and usually great presidents prevent wars or win wars, joe biden did neither. and oversaw a major political correctness crusade in this country. did some good things, making some investments in the united states. when you talk about crime and illegal immigration. this guy's legacy is not good. that's all for tonight. don't miss fox and friends. [ ♪♪ ]