even before the events of this week, the campaign for president was waged under pretty extraordinary circumstances. i mean come a current president against a former president, a felon and fraudster, 78 years old, and an 81-year-old facing calls from his own party to drop out. it was all crazy enough. and then came the horrifying assassination attempt on donald trump and if there's one thing

that terrifying shooting in and pennsylvania left us with, with lots of questions. how did this happen? what were the security failures? what is the motive? what is it mean for the presidential race? i don't think we have answers to any of those questions just yet. we just don't. in in the immediate aftermath, many were --. on a very sad night -- mike collins tweeted joe biden sent the orders. senator j.d. vance, not yet chosen as running mate said the biden campaign's rhetoric quote, led directly to president trump's attempted assassination. now it is incredibly important to note we have no idea why the shooter did what he did hear we don't know the motive now. we may never know the motive and we certainly didn't know it when congressman collins the -- and senator vance sent out the tweets. but that didn't matter to them. all they wanted to do was blame

joe biden and nothing was going to stop them. and in his convention speech thursday night donald trump didn't go quite as far as his friends in congress but after a long detailed recounting of the attack on his life, he did say this. >> in the spirit the democratic party should immediately stop weaponize thing the justice system and labeling their political opponents as an enemy of democracy. especially since that is not true. in fact, i am the one saving democracy for the people of our country. >> i am the one saving democracy. and here is trump last night at a rally in michigan. >> they keep saying, he is a threat to democracy. i'm saying, what the hell did i do for democracy?

last week i took a bullet for democracy. what did i do against democracy? crazy. >> look, it is really, really important in this moment to acknowledge that two things are true at the same time. donald trump was the target of a scary and outrageous attack on his life that killed one person and left two injured. donald trump also has a long history of fanning flames of political violence and has plans for a second term would literally upend our democracy. both of those things are true. and by the way, donald trump was concerned about heated rhetoric, those concerns didn't last long. at the rally last night he called democrats nationalists, who are the enemies of democracy. and a truth social post saturday morning trump said, we are under attack by cricket joe biden. it is not exactly cooling things down. but more importantly than that

is this idea, that warning about the real antidemocratic positions donald trump has taken, and he has taken many, is the same thing as incitement of violence because they are not at all the same thing. and vice president kamala harris reminded us of just that this week. >> there must be unity around the idea that while our nation's history has been scarred by political violence, violence is never acceptable. there can be no equivocation about that. at the same time, the hallmark of american democracy, the hallmark of any democracy is a strong competition of ideas, policies and a vision for the future. and just as we must reject political violence, we must also embrace a robust discussion about what is at stake in this election. >> just as we much -- must reject political violence, we must disgrace a discussion about what is at stake in this

election. amen to all of that. and that is a core argument. so how democrats come out of this moment and even as there are important questions about the security failures last weekend, now is not the time to -- because after watching the convention last week, what is clear is the contract has never been more important than it is in the selection. joining me as keisha lance bottoms, the former mayor of atlanta. she was a senior adviser in and the biden white house and is a senior adviser to the biden/harris campaign. thank you joining me this afternoon, and i want to start where i ended because as horrifying obviously as the attack in pennsylvania was, i think what vice president harris, the point she made is such an important one. and i think most people aren't digesting that so i want to ask you, was the attack last weekend and what trump has been saying make the argument about the risks trump post more difficult for the campaign and others to make in this moment?

>> i will tell you like my mother told me, you only have to tell the truth wants. the truth is, as horrible as the attack was on former president trump, it doesn't erase all of the things that we know that he has said and done. he is the one who said he would be a dictator on day one. he is the one who celebrated on january 6th. he is the one who talked about rolling back so many of the rights that we have enjoyed. he celebrated being part of us no longer having autonomy over our bodies. through the dobbs decision. those are his words, not ours. and we have to remember that elections are always about the future, but in this case when you have a candidate coming back from the past, we have to remember what that past was like and people have to be

reminded that donald trump is still donald trump and we run the risk of him being elected president again. >> it is such an important point, as he telling democrats to stop calling him an enemy of democracy and calling democrats the enemy of democracy, which feels a bit like a contradiction. i want to ask you, because your senior adviser to the campaign, there is a lot of predictions, a lot of anonymous arches, which i'm skeptical of anonymous sources out there, suggesting a timeline and a decision that the president is planning to make or is making about stepping back from the race as early as this weekend. given your senior adviser, have you been given any indication he's planning to step back? >> have not been given any indication that the president will step back. the president is still our nominee. i had the opportunity to speak with the president this week, and as far as i know, he is

still our nominee and will be our nominee in november. and the beauty of our party is that we get to agree to disagree, but i would caution people that we still have to keep our eyes on the prize and that is to make sure that we are victorious in november. and as we continue to see people attempt to weaken joe biden as our president, and our nominee, i think we all need to be mindful of what that's going to do to our chances in november, with all of our candidates, who will be on the ballot in. >> one of the arguments that is being made by those who are calling for him to step back like say for example nancy pelosi, chuck schumer and others raising these russians, i should say, is that specific data and pulling they've presented indicating that he does not have a path to victory and that he could imperil democrats chances in the house and senate.

we have not seen that polling publicly. have you seen data that they have presented or given to the president in that regard? >> i have not seen that data but i don't have to tell you, we remember what the polling supposedly said in 2020 when joe biden became our nominee. we remember what the polling supposedly said in a 22 when there was anticipation of a red wave. it didn't happen. what i am hearing from people, my own personal polling is, we knew his age when we voted for him. when we are elected him president, we knew his age when 14 million of us went to the ballot and it decided we wanted him as our nominee. we also knew his age when he got historic legislation passed on our behalf, from the legislation related to the american rescue plan, the bipartisan infrastructure legislation, when ketanji brown jackson and was confirmed to the supreme court, and the inflation reduction at.

we didn't hear complaints about his age stopping him from getting these historic is done, and i appreciate the wisdom. we saw him stand up and give all of us an hour-long press conference, following the nato summit. and i don't know of anybody else who could have done that the way that joe biden did it. so i appreciate, again, the fact we can agree to disagree. joe biden is still our nominee and we need to make sure he is as strong as possible going into november. >> one of the pieces that's been reported, that's frustration to campaign advisers, is about the response from donors. is been very -- various reports but as i noted, i am skeptical of anonymous sources suggesting money is drying up. for people out there worried about that, what is the status of what funding is coming in and what resources the campaign has at this point in time? >> what i do know is that small

donor -- small dollars are still coming into the campaign. we still have people signing up to volunteer for the campaign. i woke up to a text message this morning from someone asking me, how do i donate to the campaign. so far be it from me to tell people how to spend their money , but what i will say is, we shouldn't cut off our noses to fight our face is. there are races to be won in november. you need money to win races. we have to go up on tv, we have to get banks going, we have to make sure people canvass neighborhoods and knock on doors. it cost money and we are all in agreement that donald trump is still an enemy to our democracy and we want to make sure that we not only have joe biden and kamala harris elected in november, but are senate candidates and congressional

candidates and the down ballot candidates, we are going to need money to get that done. >> no question, you need money to run campaigns. keisha lance bottoms, thanks you for your time this afternoon. coming up, donald trump is trying to distance himself from project 2025 and that might be because the more people that hear about the plan, the less they like it. first, big-name progressives standing behind president biden as other democrats call him to step inside. ro khanna is standing by and he joins me next. we will be back in 60 seconds. . k outside the box" store. the "help protect your privacy" store. and the "give your business a real street address" store. so while you're juggling everything else like the boss you are, we're the "extra pair of hands" store. you can count on us as the "shredding and mailboxing, anything and everything to keep you going" store. come into the ups store today. and be unstoppable. this summer. snacking.

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alexandria ocasio-cortez explained why she's skeptical for the calls for him to step aside. >> if you thinkthat there is consensus among the people who want joe biden to leave, that they will support vice president harris, you would be mistaken. i have stood up in rooms with all of these people, and said, and i have said, came out your actual plan for me. game it out. have you look, and what are the risks of this going to the supreme court? what are these things? >> joining me as democratic congressman ro khanna of california. is a member of the congressional progressive caucus. it raises a lot of interesting

points and i want to talk about that. but i first want to start broadly because you've been on tv a lot, you've been making the case and there are a number of regressive including yourself, senator bernie sanders and congresswoman alexandra ocasio-cortez whose been a supporter of president biden while others have been more skeptical. why do you think that is quite >> progressives respect the democratic process, and we are less swayed by what the consultants and pundits say. remember the colts to -- consultants and pundits said bernie sanders was unelectable for one year but many stood by him. and the cochair of bernie sanders campaign in in 2020, one of the back -- big myths was a joe biden was a default choice, that he didn't have a loyal base. no one comes president of the united states as a default choice. i am in north carolina, joe biden connects with african american women, with labor

households, with seniors, with people like my parents who have been democrats for 50 years. the idea that there isn't a loyal, fear space for joe biden is a myth. >> i just don't think though, that it is elites and donors and consultants. there are people running for senate, there are polls that are showing, movement not the right direction, colorado and michigan and other places. do you really think it is just elites and donors and consultants? >> no, i think ordinary voters to have concerns as well, but the point is that there is a process for running, and maybe we should have had an open primary, president biden could've stepped aside or maybe we didn't have this you that you cannot challenge an incumbent. adapter there have been votes and you have a nominee, and by the way that nominee, president biden is running on a working- class agenda, bringing manufacturing back and having

federal investment, expanding social security. you can't just say, let's engineer a ticket and maybe quote unquote more electable and don't worry about policy. the tickets that people are talking about would never win a democratic primary. with respect to joe manchin, i like joe manchin, he would get within 5%. for him to say, -- with that win the democratic -- primary? and by the way, dean phillips made the argument with 61% of people saying he's too old, but that was the polling about a year ago and i like dean phillips, he made the argument and it didn't go very far. >> so it is -- i've said many times on the show, despite reporting, predicting, he stepping back today or tomorrow, it is up to joe biden and we have no indication he's changed his mind about plans to move forward. but let's say there are contingency planning all the time in the party as you know and we have seen reports that nancy pelosi told your california delegation recently

she would favor a competitive open primary process if joe biden were to step down. again, his choice as the party nominee, saying it would vice president harris his strength. did she say that? were you in the meeting? >> it was conveniently a meeting i miss it. >> that's convenient. >> let me ask you, what do you think? what do you think? it is his choice. he staying in the race currently but if he were to decide, do you think it should be an open process, or do you think harris is the clear choice? >> i think it's going to be vice president harris and let's be practical. the dnc rules committee just boated, as i understand, to have a virtual vote by august 7th and they're going to formalize that process next week. so you're going to have a matter of two weeks for anyone to get the delegates. first of all i don't think most of the major contenders thinking of running or being floated are even going to

challenge and they are biden/harris delegates. the idea that someone in two weeks are going to be able to get the delegates away from vice president harris is impractical and so is a practical manner, my view is it is either going to be president biden or vice president harris. both of them can win and here's the thing, do i think they're definitely going to win? no. if i think they are definitely going to lose? no. that's why we have campaigns. they both could win, they both could lose. let's do everything we can to win. >> anybody who watched that speech trump gave knows he's not invincible. i've been saying that, too. let me ask about j.d. vance. you were recently in silicon valley and went on a trip with vance before he went into congress spreading opportunities across the country. so explain to us why somebody silicon valley billionaires love that he's on the ticket and should we be concerned about that? >> we should be concerned.

look, 2-1, silicon valley leader support the biden/harris ticket but there are people in the valley who believe, basically the bureaucratic state has gone too far and there should be no role for the state. the very thing j.d. vance wants, which is to help bring jobs to rural america, to the industrialized towns requires the federal government. that's how hamilton did it, that's how lincoln did it, that's how fdr did it, that's how president biden is doing it. we should call the -- that's what it is. president biden has twice the manufacturing investments that donald trump had and j.d. vance, while i believe he cares about the industrialized communities, you can't bring factories there, new jobs there if you don't believe the federal government has a role. and this is a case need to be making, that president biden has the economic vision to help the very left behind communities that j.d. vance and trump rail about but don't have any solutions to do anything about. >> the policies don't match the rhetoric, that is for sure.

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they made the case for why their dear leader should be trusted to govern the country once again. and he set -- said a lot of alarming and crazy things. he spent 90 minutes accounting the assassination attempt he survived. he really rated plans for mass deportations. he talked about everyone from ufc fighter daniel white, look up that guy to kid rock and even hannibal lecter. not making that up. because trump is trying to hide from key pieces of his own agenda, his speech in milwaukee was notable for what he did say. -- or his interest in expanding the powers of the presidency. and installed tens of thousands of loyalists to the federal workforce to carry out his plans. that goal to quote institutionalize trumpism is all part of project 2025. which trump tried to disavow earlier this month when he claims quote, i know nothing about it. just yesterday at a rally in

michigan he tried to disavow it again and even acknowledged the plan was extreme. >> some on the right, severe right, came up with this project '25 and i don't even know. some of them, i know who they are, but they are very, very conservative like you have, sort of the opposite of the radical left. you have the radical left and you have the radical right and they came up with this. i don't know what the hell it is. it is project '25. is involved in project. then they read the things, and they are extreme. >> i mean if he doesn't know who they are, a lot of them worked for him and plan to work him again. one of them is on the shortlist for the chief of staff so that is weird but trump is desperate to put distance between himself and project 2025, that's clear. here's the thing, the plans for his second term already happening. the hiring effort for the second trump administration has been underway for months. resumes are being reviewed and

vetted by a team led by the sky, john mackey t, he is trumps former bagman, the guy closest to trump and has a senior role on project 2025 at the heritage foundation. his job is to find people who will put loyalty to trump above loyalty to the constitution. now it is worth noting that he has also a side hustle, as the ceo of a right-wing dating app known as the right stuff. and his social media presence in promoting that app gives us very cringe worthy clues about the kinds of people he would hire to run the government. >> i am not allowed to use glue traps on mice, but you are allowed to have multiple abortions? i was watching tv yesterday which i usually don't do, and i noticed something with a commercial, and wended everyone in america become black and gay. white people are so awful, why do you keep moving to their neighborhoods? we live in a world where a kid

can't pretend to be an indian but a grown man can pretend to be a woman. do you think handing over your gun ends gun violence? that is like chopping off your own [ bleep ] to stop rape. >> he seems nice. i don't know about you, but that guy is the last person i would trust to hire anyone when you consider what those people are going to be hard to do. their priorities include restricting most abortions, cutting access to birth control, cutting lunches, cutting medicaid, repealing medicare's drug price negotiation program, reducing the price of insulin for medicare recipients and undermining marriage equality. no surprise the people, the more they hear about project 2025, the less they like it. trumps top campaign adviser complaint during the convention this week that project 2025 is hurting them politically. that is why trump is trying to

distance himself from it so hard, but at this point, it is going to be pretty difficult for him to do. for one, the heritage foundation, where this is housed was one of the sponsors of this year's convention and the senior adviser to project 2025 i just mentioned, john mcentee said they would integrate with the trump campaign. back in 2022 trump lauded the heritage foundation filling the groundwork for what his movement will do if he is elected. >> the heritage does such an incredible job, they're going to lay the round work in detail plans for what exactly are movement will do and what your movement will do when the american people give us a colossal mandate to save america. and it is coming. that is coming. >> so for trump to deny knowledge of project 2025, which was written by his own people on his behalf, simply defies believability. besides, anytime trump says he quote, knows nothing about something, the chances are

pretty good that he knows a lot . in fact trump has said he knows nothing about pretty much everything. >> reports today say you have classified information on russia. >> i know nothing about it. >> what was he doing treating you unfairly? >> i don't know, i don't know anything about him. >> the battleship thing last week. >> i know nothing about that. >> et cetera? >> i know nothing about it. >> i know nothing about it but it is a continuation of the witchhunt. >> i've never heard that. >> i know nothing about it in terms of the report. >> i know nothing about the first time i've heard it. >> you wouldn't want me to condemn a group i know nothing about. >> i know nothing about the gentleman. >> i know nothing about him being under investigation. >> i know nothing about lee harvey oswald. >> i know nothing about russia. >> i know nothing about wikileaks. >> i know nothing about qanon. >> i know nothing about her.

>> i know nothing about this nut job. >> i know nothing. >> i know nothing about it. >> so i know nothing about it. >> i don't know about it. >> so you can believe in denials of a proven liar or you can read up what your future has in store under a trump presidency. it is all online. tim miller is standing by and joins me after a quick break. i got this $1,000 camera for only $41 on dealdash. dealdash.com, online auctions since 2009. this playstation 5 sold for only 50 cents. this ipad pro sold for less than $34. and this nintendo switch, sold for less than $20. i got

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what he almost always does, he lives. one of the least examples as i was talking about is trumps desperate attempt to put distance between himself and project 2025. that is the 900 page policy plan intended to quote, institutionalize trumpism according to its authors. is trump just yesterday claiming he knows nothing about it. >> some on the right, severe right came up with this project '25 and i don't even know, some of them i know who they are, but they are very, very conservative, just like you have , sort of the opposite of the radical left. you have the radical left and you have the radical right and they came up with this. i don't know what the hell is, this project '25. is involved in a project -- and they read some of the things, they are extreme. >> i will say , it is a lie for trump to say he doesn't know

anything about project 2025. he's telling the truth when he says it is extreme. joining me as tim miller, the host of the -- podcast and --. is also someone whenever i see him in the hallway of 30 rock we are both like what is happening in the world because it is quite apolitical season right now. so let me start with project 2025 because i can get in trumps head, the strategy of their campaign. clearly it is unpopular but every time he raises it, people talk about it again, so i am wondering, as you are watching this, he's clearly trying to distance himself from it. it is not believable. it is he drawing more attention to it? >> may be, for starters it is definitely trumps people and we all know that. john mcentee, he featured with those weird tiktoks, they called him the deputy president in the last administration, and that's not scary enough, he was so close to trump. he was one of the most

executing the craziest plans between election day and january 6th, like trying to kick out the attorney general and all that sort of stuff, trumps last loyalist. starters, these are trumps people. i think what happened and why trump is trying to distance himself from it is he doesn't like one day she doesn't mind when he causes bad news for himself but he doesn't like when other people are causing problems for himself and you saw it with steve bannon when he was kicked out of the white house in the early days forgetting -- and a trump i think was distracted with all of the court dates, his various court dates, the primary campaign, making fun of ron desantis, and heritage and johnny and t and others were putting this plan together and he wasn't paying attention to and now it becomes a problem and that is what is happening and that is why he tried to back away from it because he feels like it was a problem that somebody else made. >> he talks about sharks a lot so he leaves time for a lot of things. let me ask about j.d. vance. many don't know about him,

we've been talking about him, lots of people have been talking about him over the last week. he's loved by the tech bros and the kremlin. typically the vice presidential him and he doesn't matter but he feels like a gift here. what would you be doing if you are the biden team, if you were the democrats, to make him more of a liability to the trump ticket? >> i think he definitely could be a liability and in ohio he ran way behind the more mainstream republican, mike dewine, the governor on the same ticket. clearly there are vulnerabilities. when it comes to gender gap stuff, j.d. vance has offered a slew of opportunities not related to even just abortion but also talking about how women should stay in abusive marriages, that's >> reporter: wrong morely but also a political loser. and i think the extent of his ties to the extremes, jd, has a trump habit of tweeting out provocative thoughts, one of

them was like i saw that he tweeted about paying for daycare, government paying for daycare is a bad idea, an attack on normal people or something. he tweets these provocative thoughts. there are a lot of opportunities there and the trump team convinced themselves he helps them with working class white people because he wrote a book about working class white people that rich liberal white people read and i don't see evidence of that. i think there are vulnerabilities particularly on women's issues, but not limited to that. >> let me ask about the democratic side because there's lots going on in the presidential race right now. joe biden, and his team are saying he's planning to be in the race, planning to be the nominee, he's going to campaign this week. we don't have updates on that. if he decides not to be the nominee or step back, a lot could happen quickly and there are more debates right now about what it should look like. there is the should be an open

contest where lots of people get in and and would that help vice president harris. should joe biden indoors vice president harris and make it smoother, that people may not love that. what do you think? they may want an open process so what do you think may be the case or course? >> i'm not sure the dnc folks want a former republicans based on this. but i think an open process would help vice president harris. i think it would take asher off of her a little bit and she likely could come out of that as the winner. whatever, something crazy happened and it wasn't, i think it would be assigned to the democrats they did due diligence but i was watching a video, and add that kamala harris put out against donald trump back in her presidential campaign in 2020 and it was pretty tough and i think i have seen her the last few weeks and having at the top of the ticket attacking donald trump and having somebody else who's a compelling communicator in in the vp slot attacking j.d.

vance on the points we were just talking about seems to be something the democrats could use and there are some issues with that, it is not going to be clean, it is not going to be pretty. but the current situation isn't clean and pretty either. to me, that seems preferable. >> a former republican smart strategist who may be is more objective is exactly the kind of advice people should be listening to. to miller, thank you as always. coming up, and in some anyways a young woman is showing us exactly what is at stake. she is speaking out about abortion rights and a searing new ad from the biden campaign and joins me next.

22-year-old hadley duvall is a reminder of what democrats are fighting for. we learned her name when she was featured in a powerful campaign ad from kentucky's democratic governor andy

beshear last year. describing her experience as a survivor of sexual abuse and rezaian -- rape when she was a child. she speaking out again, defending a right to choose. >> honestly i didn't even know what was possible for my future when i was a kid. i had always wondered, sitting in class, do these people go home and are they afraid of their dad, too? when roe v. wade was overturned immediately i thought about 12 and first thing i was told to me when i saw that positive pregnancy test, was you have options. and you know, if roe v. wade would've been overturned sooner, wouldn't have heard that. and then it had me thinking there's someone who doesn't get to hear that now. girls like me across the country, are suffering. their futures are being ripped away. trump and j.d. vance don't care about women, they don't care about girls in

this situation. they will continue to take our rights away in the selection, we have a choice. >> joining me now is hadley duvall. thank you for taking the time to talk with me today. first of all i am so inspired by your bravery, you are just 22 years old and her story, which has been seen by millions has re-elected democratic governor in and one of the reddest states in the country. what compelled speak out? >> honestly, just knowing that i used to dream to find my voice. i used to talk to myself and coach myself through speaking up and finding my voice and being the age i am now, and being a lot further along in my human journey, i have the string and of the courage that i need to do it. and now i have such an amazing support system. so really, it is a lot of little things.

>> i think what is so impactful about your story is that you put a real face to the conversation around abortion, and so many women go through this, sometimes to make change you have to talk about incredibly uncomfortable truths. what you hope people will take away from you sharing your story? >> just that it really could be anyone. it could be your neighbor. it could be the person sitting next to you at a meeting. it could be the person that you parked next to that day. it could be anybody, especially your own family. and knowing that i have reached other survivors and have helped them find their voice and even find the courage, then in itself means so much to me. >> donald trump repeatedly bragged about his role in overturning roe v. wade and his vp pick j.d. vance that he would like abortion to be illegal nationally and resize exceptions for rape and incest.

how has that motivated you to advocate on this issue right now >> really, just knowing that there are some of us working so hard to give back what was lost, and that is hard in itself . to know that there are people who are actively fighting against that work that we are putting in and actively trying to undo everything that was already done for us. and that just really keeps me motivated because there are people out here who are willing to fight until their last breath to make sure there is a national abortion ban and then there's people like me who are going to fight till our last breath to make sure we get our rights back. so that, it really keeps me motivated. they go hard, i go harder. >> you've spoken at campaign events, you have been out there in and adds. can we expect to continue to

hear from you through november and beyond? >> absolutely, i don't to stop anytime soon. >> hadley duvall, you are so inspiring. thank you so much, i appreciate your time joining me today. >> thank you. we have breaking news, president biden has announced he will stand down from the race. i'm going to read the statement on my phone. we also have tim miller joining us shortly. over the past, my fellow americans, over the past 3 1/2 years we have made progress as a nation. today america has the strongest economy in the world. we have made historic investments in rebuilding our nation. in lowering prescription drug costs for seniors and expanding affordable health care to a record number of americans. we have provided critically needed care to 1 million veterans exposed to toxic

substances, past days i'm going to read off the paper. past the first safety lot in 30 years, appointed the first african american woman to the supreme court, and passed the most significant clement legislation in the history of the world. america has never been in a better position to lead then we are today. i know none of this could have been done without you, the american people. together we overcame a once in a century pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the great depression. we have protected and preserved our democracy and revitalized and strength and alliances around the world. it has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president and while it's been my intention to seek re- election i believe it is the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term. i will speak to the nation

later this week and more detail about my decision. for now let me express my deepest attitude to all of those who have worked hard to see me re-elected. i want to thank vice president kamala harris for being an extraordinary partner in and all of this work and let me express my heartfelt appreciation to the american people for the faith and trust you placed in me. i believe today, what i always have, that there's nothing america can't do when we do it together. we just have to remember we are the united states of america. obviously this is a significant breaking news development, with the president announcing he stepping back from the race. there's very little indication from people close to him and many people in the campaign that this was about to happen, as much as there were reports of democrats calling on him to do that. what is interesting i will note and then we will bring tim miller in, is that he does not endorse the vice president in the statement. we will see what he says later

this week and there's going to be a lot of reactions from people, coming in and as the statement was just put out by the white house. to miller, is back with me now. tim, we were talking a few minutes ago and i don't think either of us had any indication and i am a believer that you have to share with the public what you know and what you don't know. he knew that there were lots of calls but we have not been given official indication even as of 10 minutes ago that decision had been made. i spoke with keisha lance bottoms earlier this hour and asked her if she had any indication and she is a senior adviser and she had not. what is your reaction to this news and kind of what is going to happen over the next couple of days quite >> first, i agreed with everything in in the statement there. i think this was very challenging for him. some of us have been agitating for this move and we are a little bit frustrated with the amount of time it took, just because of the stakes of this election and the desire to beat donald trump. but recognizing also, that this is tough. that it is tough for somebody in his position to say, to recognize to admit that maybe while he's up for the day to day rigors of the job of president like the job of

campaigning against donald trump is a different one altogether and given what we saw in the debate and the weeks since, it doesn't feel like he was up for that, to the extent needed and that was reflected in the polls of democrats, reflected in focus groups and conversations we all have with people in our lives. i am grateful to him that he came to that decision. i think the next steps, to what we talked about in the hypothetical question of the last segment, that what makes the most sense for the party. to me, i reiterate, i do think an open process will probably lead to vice president harris. but i think it would be good for the american people and for the democrats to take this moment to get energized, to get excited, to hear from the vice president, maybe hear from other people about what a vision could look like, what a different contrast from trump could look like. the last thing i will say on the vice president, to me, if

you want to sum up the contrast, a prosecutor versus a convicted criminal, a woman who wants to protect your freedoms versus an old man who wants to take them away, those are two really good elevator messages, that she could bring forward, that were not present in the ticket before today. those are the initial thoughts. >> i know we will bring in claire mccaskill and anna personal note, i am digesting this myself because i worked for him for a year and a half and he is a remarkable person, a remarkable president. he has had such a tremendous presidency where he has overcome the odds and divide people's expectations. people didn't think he could pass in the structure bill, didn't think he could lead through covered, didn't think he could pull the country together. he did all of those things and will continue to do those things and also, as a deeply good human being, and i am digesting this myself. i just want to share that. with claire, i think we are

getting claire mccaskill on the phone. i just want to turn to you, i know you are digesting this, too. your thoughts on what this means and of course anything you want to reflect on. president biden will continue to be president through january. there are questions about what he will do, whether he will endorse vice president harris, give us your thoughts and immediate reaction. >> i am still looking at today with a heavy heart. i think people have been so caught up in the drama of this situation. i think the human side of this has gotten lost, sometimes in the shuffle and i first and foremost want to say that i know how painful this is been for the president in 70 different ways, and his family, and his staff. and i am proud of who he is and how he has served. i think our country should be proud of who he is and how he has served.

and i know that he will continue to serve as well. wel. now it-it-now that he is willing to pass the torch speaks volumes about his priorities and how deeply he cares about this country and, frankly, the real danger that donald trump poses to our nation. so, now what happens? um, i think it is important that joe biden chose kamala harris to be there in case he couldn't. when their ticket was voted for by 14 million people in the primary, it was the assumption it was joe biden and that joe biden was not going to be there and it would be kamala harris. and so i am not dramatically opposed to an open process but kamala harris is smart and strong