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jon meacham, thank you very much for calling in. we appreciate it. >>> president biden told his senior team he had changed his mind about staying in the race g at 1:45 p.m. today. that is according to a source with direct knowledge who is d speaking to nbc news. the message last night had been full speed ahead, which we got the announcement at about 1:55, i believe. 10 minutes before president biden told his senior team those closest to him in the white house that he would no longer be runny. joining me now on the phone as well, this nbc correspondent, everybody is calling in on a li sunday. gary, thank you for joining us. you spoke to former president donald trump, what did he have to say? >> that's right, katy. i reached the former president to continue our timeline, believe about 20 minutes after the announcement became public. he did not sound the least bit surprised and was ready to do really what jon meacham was just saying, trying to shape s the historical narrative around joe biden but do it in a completely different directi
jon meacham, thank you very much for calling in. we appreciate it. >>> president biden told his senior team he had changed his mind about staying in the race g at 1:45 p.m. today. that is according to a source with direct knowledge who is d speaking to nbc news. the message last night had been full speed ahead, which we got the announcement at about 1:55, i believe. 10 minutes before president biden told his senior team those closest to him in the white house that he would no longer be...
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historian interior friend of our show jon meacham joins us. joins us. >>> i wanted to say a few words about our president. joe biden's legacy of accomplishment over the past three years is unmatched in modern history. in one term, he has already, yes, you may clap. [ laughter ] in one term, he has already surpassed the legacy of most presidents who have served two terms in office. >> the president's decision not to seek reelection has not just change the course of the campaign but it's revealed something about who joe biden is as a person. our next guest writes the following, quote, mr. biden has put country above self. the constitution above personal ambition, the future of democracy above temporal gain. it's up to us to follow his lead. joining us now, historian jon meacham who occasionally advises president biden on his beaches and the author of and then there was light. it began lincoln and the american struggle. it's out now. i know you don't like to get into specifics about when you speak or spoke to the president, but give us your last
historian interior friend of our show jon meacham joins us. joins us. >>> i wanted to say a few words about our president. joe biden's legacy of accomplishment over the past three years is unmatched in modern history. in one term, he has already, yes, you may clap. [ laughter ] in one term, he has already surpassed the legacy of most presidents who have served two terms in office. >> the president's decision not to seek reelection has not just change the course of the campaign...
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i mean, you see jon meacham helping write a speech. if his party loses in november, that then becomes part of his legacy. so he really does need to pivot this. now, i'm trying to encourage people to get on board include people who worked for him you know, the voters, et cetera. >> best thing he can do for his legacy, right now in his view and the view of those who support him is get kamala harris elected zachary. okay. tia mitchell, catherine lucey. thank you both very much. >> alright. >> coming up next here on cnn this morning, donald trump, trying to try it out new attack lines against kamala harris plus israeli prime minister benjamin met yahoo set for high-stakes meetings with president biden and vice president harris after a remarkable day yesterday as pro-palestinian protests in the nation's capital turned violent here's to getting better with age here's to beat least two every thursday. help fuel today with boost type protein completely attrition, you need without the stuff you don't so years to now won a next level, clean the
i mean, you see jon meacham helping write a speech. if his party loses in november, that then becomes part of his legacy. so he really does need to pivot this. now, i'm trying to encourage people to get on board include people who worked for him you know, the voters, et cetera. >> best thing he can do for his legacy, right now in his view and the view of those who support him is get kamala harris elected zachary. okay. tia mitchell, catherine lucey. thank you both very much. >>...
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. >> jon meacham, i value talking with you anytime . particularly tonight. thank you. >>> it is now just after 8:00 emma east coast and 5:00 yemen vice president harris's home state of california. less than four months until the election, president biden has dropped his reelection bid and endorsed kamala harris. in the hours since he made the announcement, there has been a steady stream or a flood of endorsements for vice president harris. endorsements from democratic organizations, members of congress, governors and attorneys general. several governors who had considered possible contenders should this decision be made, including roy cooper and gavin newsom and josh shapiro. in the last few minutes, bob casey became the latest senator to endorse kamala harris. i don't know that i've ever seen a group of people do that as quickly as we are seeing today coalescing around kamala harris is candidacy. fundraising group saying it to be the largest single day of fundraising in the history of the party. vice president harris just released her first text. she said i
. >> jon meacham, i value talking with you anytime . particularly tonight. thank you. >>> it is now just after 8:00 emma east coast and 5:00 yemen vice president harris's home state of california. less than four months until the election, president biden has dropped his reelection bid and endorsed kamala harris. in the hours since he made the announcement, there has been a steady stream or a flood of endorsements for vice president harris. endorsements from democratic...
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let's bring in jon meacham. jon, you have a new piece up, the rogers chair in the american presidency at vanderbilt university, a new piece for "new york times".com, posted, "joe biden my friend and an american hero." interested in your take as a friend of joe biden, as an occasional adviser to joe biden, and also as a historian, where this sits in american history. >> we're commemorating self-sacrifice by a man of great grace and a president of great consequence. understandably, we're talking about what happens now. that's what america does, a democracy does, and it's at risk. it is vital, as mika said, we stand for the constitution, the rule of law, and the kind of decency and dignity president biden embodied. but let's take that moment and recognize that the president of the united states just did something that is counterintauty counterintuitive to human nature and a politician. there was a senator from my state who said the only true cure for political ambition is embalming fluid. here, you have someone who
let's bring in jon meacham. jon, you have a new piece up, the rogers chair in the american presidency at vanderbilt university, a new piece for "new york times".com, posted, "joe biden my friend and an american hero." interested in your take as a friend of joe biden, as an occasional adviser to joe biden, and also as a historian, where this sits in american history. >> we're commemorating self-sacrifice by a man of great grace and a president of great consequence....
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the beat medical we saw i think he is cumulative performance and i think the sort of argumentum ad jon meacham to try to find historical parallels here and against like, i mean, we're gonna go back to britain for behaves or something. >> would you actually is a good historical parallel, but this is why i asked, you know, i think what ai i think that one of the problems we deal with in this age is that reserve a rule of thumb that says, if you don't know how something works, you think there's a conspiracy going on and this is true about people's theories about the media, theories about all sorts of things in politics, curious about in the presidential assassination attempt i think there are a lot of legitimate questions about how this whole thing rolled out and i agree that the party decides which just for viewers is a big insider police tsai term that applies here, but it's sort of like hemingway's bankruptcy. the party decided very, very slowly and then suddenly right because this is not something that biden wanted to do voters were telling elites in washington and in the party for tw
the beat medical we saw i think he is cumulative performance and i think the sort of argumentum ad jon meacham to try to find historical parallels here and against like, i mean, we're gonna go back to britain for behaves or something. >> would you actually is a good historical parallel, but this is why i asked, you know, i think what ai i think that one of the problems we deal with in this age is that reserve a rule of thumb that says, if you don't know how something works, you think...
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>> joining us now is presidential historian, pulitzer prize-winning biographer, jon meacham.ed with him on several important speeches. it is really a pleasure to have you with us tonight, particularly given your relationship with this president, but also because of your historians perspective on these, thank you for making the time to be here. >> thank you. >> let me ask you first for a historians perspective on this moment, that i would like to talk to little bit for a moment if i can't about what your communications have been with the president, what you understood about this process. with a historians eye, we have all been saying this is one of those moments where you will always remember where you were when you heard that this is something that has happened very, very rarely in american history, that it has never happened under these circumstances before, that it feels like a profound and perhaps unique active personal and political sacrifice by a president who did not want to do this, but felt it was the right thing to do for the country. let me ask if those things reson
>> joining us now is presidential historian, pulitzer prize-winning biographer, jon meacham.ed with him on several important speeches. it is really a pleasure to have you with us tonight, particularly given your relationship with this president, but also because of your historians perspective on these, thank you for making the time to be here. >> thank you. >> let me ask you first for a historians perspective on this moment, that i would like to talk to little bit for a moment...
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jon meacham has always said, we really haven't always said. but george says a of stuff that we really can't think of america as a openly and free society until 1965. do we have? the voting rights act where all african-american people who lived in the south who before could not vote and participated in the government. we're not part of it. so, you know, the past was good in lots of ways, but there were a lot of problems. and we a new set of problems now. but the question the question, you know, suggests we have to try to think of ways to to form that unity. but with the different voices that are now participating in the conversation and the way. well, i think, as annette said in an earlier answer, a lot of other nations, a shared ethnic background or a shared religion in the course of human history, a lot times people have organized states or what we think of as states along those lines. it's a lot. if you have homogeneity across society, if you only have one accepted religion, if you only have one accepted race, if you only have one accepted t
jon meacham has always said, we really haven't always said. but george says a of stuff that we really can't think of america as a openly and free society until 1965. do we have? the voting rights act where all african-american people who lived in the south who before could not vote and participated in the government. we're not part of it. so, you know, the past was good in lots of ways, but there were a lot of problems. and we a new set of problems now. but the question the question, you know,...
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meacham.president biden on historical matters and major speeches. jon, great to see you this morning. let's start with some of the history here. we've talked about it briefly last hour, but it's easy to overlook the history-making candidacy here of the vice president. today, just this morning, a couple hours ago, the first black president of the united states, barack obama, endorsed the woman who could be the second. >> yeah. first of all, if i were you, i'd talk to hr about why willie is in paris ask you're not. >> i sent off a few sternly worded messages already this morning. it is -- >> emails, okay, good. >> yeah. >> president biden passed the torch, but the track is in the same stadium, right? the opponent has not changed. i think that the case that's going to be made, just speculating, the case that's going to be consistently made, that we continue to face an existential question in this country. do we want someone who has proven they're willing to overthrow american democracy for their
meacham.president biden on historical matters and major speeches. jon, great to see you this morning. let's start with some of the history here. we've talked about it briefly last hour, but it's easy to overlook the history-making candidacy here of the vice president. today, just this morning, a couple hours ago, the first black president of the united states, barack obama, endorsed the woman who could be the second. >> yeah. first of all, if i were you, i'd talk to hr about why willie is...
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our friend jon meacham, presidential historian, contributed, as well. president biden got to this moment reluctantly. he still believes he could run and win. he said his ideas and record warrant a second term, but he is bowing to reality. in a very selfless act, a selfless act, one we shouldn't overlook, relinquishing power. saying it is time to bring the party together. the stakes are too high, the threat too grave to risk it if people don't believe i can still do it. he hands the torch now, and he said it, to a younger generation and vice president harris. we have seen what has been a blockbuster rollout of her candidacy in recent days. but, sam stein, this president not quite done yet. as ed mentioned, supreme court reform on the agenda, perhaps a code of ethics, perhaps more. we shall get details on that in the coming days. the president also mentioned trying to revise the cancer moonshot. he's got a major meeting today with prime minister benjamin netanyahu of israel, trying to get a cease-fire deal done. u.s. officials say it's close but there's s
our friend jon meacham, presidential historian, contributed, as well. president biden got to this moment reluctantly. he still believes he could run and win. he said his ideas and record warrant a second term, but he is bowing to reality. in a very selfless act, a selfless act, one we shouldn't overlook, relinquishing power. saying it is time to bring the party together. the stakes are too high, the threat too grave to risk it if people don't believe i can still do it. he hands the torch now,...
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to honor the legacy of the 41st president, presidential historian jon meacham curated over 450 photosed life. the photos are in a new book entitled "the call to serve: the life of an american president george herbert walker bush," we began by asking john why now is the right time for this project. >> centennials of presidents are often revealing. george washington's in the 1930s which is the bicentennial was a reminder of why we were doing this, amid the depression and the forces. if fdr's centennial gauge a chance to talk about the new deal and the great society. president bush itself was part of eisenhower's centennial as he was trying to build a world order which is really more about the center of governance, as opposed to extremes just as the world was beginning to change. you know, i'm a great admire of george h.w. bush. i was his biographer. i would like to say i didn't fall in love with him, but i did come to love him, not least, because, at critical moments, however imperfect he was, he would put the country above his own interests. he was driven by ambition. he was driven to
to honor the legacy of the 41st president, presidential historian jon meacham curated over 450 photosed life. the photos are in a new book entitled "the call to serve: the life of an american president george herbert walker bush," we began by asking john why now is the right time for this project. >> centennials of presidents are often revealing. george washington's in the 1930s which is the bicentennial was a reminder of why we were doing this, amid the depression and the...