also to get biden aside from all of that has come from axios' national political correspondent alex thompsone with you. you've been on top of every detail and we have come a long way in a week. a week ago, this was a dam breaking, and that aside over the weekend and a phone call about jerry nadler and other top democrats saying you should step aside. but nadler has reversed course with many other democrats. it seems the story right now is the dam is holding. you have these individuals on speed dial but what are you hearing? >> absolutely. essentially joe biden's damage control has been quite effective the last few days and that is just because he's been defiant. there is really no mechanism to get him aside. it is his personal decision and democrats are basically making a calculation, at least publicly that it does not help matters if he will stay in. it doesn't help to make a mess by going publicly. and some democrats privately have told me they filled the president is holding them hostage by essentially being defiant and staying in. there is concern about his inner circle and feeling that

alex thompson did, working for axios has been covering this story for a while.te house defending president biden before, watch. >> i will quote a little bit of what the first lady said. behind does more in one hour than most people do in a day. his age, with experience and expertise is an incredible asset and he proves it every day. and instead of republicans, you know, focusing on the president's performance in office and what he has been able to accomplish, his actual record, they do these cheap fakes. they are cheap fakes. at the end of the day, they are fakes. that's what they were. targeting the president. he is as sharp as ever, as i have known him to be in my engagement in my experience with him. >> lawrence: mike, there is two problems here. you have the concealment from the white house. but you also have concealment from some of those in the media. >> thank you for fearless reporting by alex thompson. >> lawrence: it was great. >> axios, always clinical. you are right. reporters were shamed for askinged what turned out to be very very lit mat yes, sir,

. >> we have for you exclusive audio from a biden campaign meeting as alex thompson of axios obtained this recording, it sheds light on just how the campaign leadership is trying to recover from the fallout of president biden's debate performance with the chair jen o'malley, dillon, in quite blunt about their plan to rebound they look at donald trump and they see every single thing that they are afraid of, and they don't like about him. >> while we have had two very, very, very hard weeks, very bad weeks, i will leave it at told you that level with you didn't ban donald. trump, numbers have gone down in some polls are numbers have gone up and it's not because of the debate. a lot of people didn't see that bag. it is because when they hear him talk, when they say things about project 2025, they are reminded how much they don't like him so i am not here to tell you that things are they're going to be easy or that the path is that we're head everywhere and we're just going to be fine. but i am here to tell you that we are basically in the margin of error in all of our battleground states

so it's very scattered. >> yeah, alex thompson, great reporting as always thank you for joining tonight now, to the other side of this race, donald trump has a big announcement to make that he still has not made yet his vice presidential pick. the convention starts on monday. trump's says it's unfolding. apprentice style. we'll tell you how and who's up next? >> i'm jonathan lawsuit. here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. if your age 50 to 85 and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget remember the three ps what are the three ps the three p's of life insurance on a fixed budget. our price, price and price. a price you can afford a price that can't increase. and a price that fits your budget. >> i'm 54. what's my price? >> you can get coverage for $9.95 a month. i'm 65 and take medications. what's my price also? >> 995 a month i just turned 80. >> what's my price? >> 995 a month for you to if you're as 50 to 85 called now about the number one most popular whole life insurance plan available through the colonial penn program options start at $9.95

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how biden's event staffers guide him behind the scenes alex thompson shares these screenshots of whitehouse documents which pointedly. we're used to aid biden at a previous event. you can see too large pictures with large print that says walk to podium. thompson goes on to write, quote, since the june 27 debate, some democrats who've attended and helped set up biden events have wondered whether his team's focus on minute details were to obscure the 81 1-year-old president's limitations, rather than just a reflection of a meticulous staff and quote, that reporter alex thompson joins us live. alex, thanks for being with us walk us through what you learned about the staff's advanced work, especially in relation to other key officials and administrations. how does it compare? >> absolutely. so the whole reason this came to me is because after the debate, people that had worked on joe biden's events in recent several months basically started to replay things in their heads at first, they thought sometimes advanced people can just be veery you know, for lack of a better word detail-oriented. and

alex thompson, national political reporter for axios. jason osborne, former senior adviser to trump's 2016 campaign. and karen finney, former senior adviser to hillary clinton's 26 teen campaign. welcome to all of you as we cover the rnc in milwaukee and we talk instead about the president of the united states. karen's already been in the hotseat so alex, let me start with you because your there's honestly no one better to talk to in terms of digging into biden world and exactly what is going on and what is your latest reporting around where the president's head is? jeff zeleny plenty was first last night to report that he is perhaps more receptive to these calls. what do you know? >> well, think about all of these meetings. there were that we're talking about right now with nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, hakeem, jeffries thing to remember. they were all last week. the fact that they're coming out now and joe biden has still been publicly defiant shows you a little bit of where his head and the truth is that you can have almost every democ

let's get some perspective now with national political correspondent for axios, alex thompson. alex great to be with you. let's start with your new reporting about this third, all staff call that the biden campaign had yesterday. it was the third one that was held since last week. they're trying and to write the ship. what did you hear from your sources about how it went down absolutely. 17 audio of this call from someone that was on it. and essentially campaign chair jen o'malley dillon, who ran his reelect in 2020, is really just trying to rally the troops and get them to stop panicking cheese he said that she acknowledged that it was very, very, very bad two weeks. she also threw in a bunch of colorful language along there that i can say on here. and she really tried to just try to convince the team that there is still a path to victory. the fact is that the biden campaign, one of the bigger problem the biden has beyond just the members of his party trying to call on him to withdraw as their members of his own staff fields moralized, feel a little bit disillusion in part beca

. >> dana: the cover of the post is time to go, joe, alex thompson is here and we have team fox coverage as will. gillian turner at the white house. let's go to aishah hosni on capitol hill. >> good morning to you, dana and bill i'm standing in front of mark warner's office. everyone is waiting to hear from him directly after being reported on friday he was apparently rounding up a group of senate democrats to go to the white house and ask president biden to step aside. there was reportedly, dana, a meeting that was scheduled with senate democrats later on tonight. fox is now told that is not happening and dana it is not happening because details about that meeting, the planning, were leaked. still this is the first day that senate democrats are back face-to-face in the same building since the debate so expect a lot of movement and developments today. the dominoes are already falling on the other side of this complex. top democrats in the house are calling on the president to drop out. we're talking ranking members, powerful committees like jerry nadler, and others according to punch bow

speaking exclusively with the biggest names in politics and media, including alex thompson, whether or he can actually do the job, not just four years from now, but three years from now, one year from now. >> and, you know, to be honest, even now, you know, the presidency is a 24 over seven job and the fact is that he did not seem with it at that debate. and so that is why you see this white house in chaos. i can tell you, i talked to dozens of people over the last few hours. >> we'll have more with alex thompson this week on our political show. the issue is it airs tomorrow morning from 630 to 7. right here on ktvu two. job fairs are coming to the bay area next week as the u.s. postal service announces a hiring spree ahead of the november election. the first will be on wednesday in san jose at the willow glen post office on meridian avenue. the second will be on thursday in san francisco at the evans street location. usps says they're looking to hire a range of jobs to accommodate the election. since 88% of voters used mail in ballots for both the 2024 primary and 2022 general electio

. >> john: democrats and advisors wrapping up on whether to stay in the race, alex thompson will weigh and just had. >> sandra: plus hillary vaughn catching up with house democrats on the president's mental acuity what are you hearing, hilary? >> we talked to house democrats still defending biden but some are more reluctant and less enthusiastic than they were earlier in the week. we have the exclusive video we will show you after the break. started disrupting my day. td felt embarrassing. i felt like disconnecting. i asked my doctor about treating my td, and learned about ingrezza. ♪ ingrezza ♪ ingrezza is clinically proven for reducing td. most people saw results in just two weeks. people taking ingrezza can stay on most mental health meds. only number-one prescribed ingrezza has simple dosing for td: always one pill, once daily. ingrezza can cause depression, suicidal thoughts, or actions in patients with huntington's disease. pay close attention to and call your doctor if you become depressed, have sudden changes in mood, behaviors, feelings, or have thoughts of suicide. don't take

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joining me now is the reporter who wrote that story, axios, national political correspondent, alex thompson. alex, good morning to you. can you explain more about what you've learned that led to this report and also just kinda take us inside what's going on i'm with the family right now yeah. >> absolutely. so basically, you i had them gathering sort of string and heard these little bit of stories about they don't really see the president that much. these aren't just low level staffers, but mid-level and even though staffers that are very close to the top, they only see the president every once in a while. well, there's really only a core group of a dozen to 20 people that see him on a regular basis. and i can tell you that there's not just shock among some of these white house staffers, but real anger two, because in some ways, you have the same things that the senior staff were telling reporters and democrats and donors. the president is sharp, there's no acuity issue do you his right-wing narrative. they were telling the staff two and now the staff is looking and saying it's not even jus

so for more on where the biden campaign and the democratic party go next, let's discuss with alex thompson national political correspondent for axios. alex hi so you have reporting about top aides in the white house for biden shielding president biden from staff, but couldn't hide the debate. have americans been duped about president biden's fitness for office based on his eighth, keeping him in a bubble well, i can tell you that i think a lot of americans, including democrats, the democratic party lawmakers that have actually spent time with joe biden have felt jute. he felt gas lit, and part of the reason that i wrote this piece is because that anger that frustration also includes people in the white house as well. the back the matter is that really only about 20 people regularly interact with joe biden on a day-to-day basis and an intimate way, a lot of the other aids, even ones, just one or two clicks outside that inner circle, you only see him every once in a while and they've noticed a little gas are in calling brain, but they were always please in ways that you could rationalize the

. >> thanks so much for joining us now is national political correspondent for axios, alex thompson. thanks for joining us tonight. you really been leading the way hey, alex, on reporting on everything since the debate as it pertains, a president biden and what your sources on the hill, what they're thinking i've talked to a couple of folks certainly they were not too impressed with the interview that biden did and didn't actually think particularly helped him. what are you hearing yeah, absolutely. >> i think two things. one is the fact that joe biden waited over a week to even do the interview. i think really concerned a lot of democrats. he basically was down the first several days after the debate, despite the north carolina row hallie then went and spent the weekend at camp david and only really started to really try to stop the bleeding both internally with his own staff campaign and white house staff who were feeling very much neglected and felt like they weren't getting honest answers and so it was a little bit of too little too late i would not be surprised. i actually probab

pyrrhic within his own party change the narrative somewhat joining us now, alex thompson and sara fisher, both of axios syria is also a cnn media analyst so sarah, the president, he's raising doubt that he's actually losing to trump in the polls, which i mean, we just fact checked it is not true based on the data as we have at the poles could be wrong and they've been wrong before, but the pole is at least he is losing and was losing before. and as losing more now what does this say about his read on the election and what his own people are telling him about the state of the election. yep. so he said in that interview that it's a toss up when clearly it's not a toss up. he's far behind it. remember democrats need to be more than just above democrat or republicans because of the way that the electoral college, 4%, right? exactly. so he's actually four ban behind there's two things that could be here. one is that his staff is not preparing him for to answer this question in honesty and for a reason. and then two is that he genuinely believes it and that he's just misinformed formed the pre

unfortunately, we are out of time, but alex thompson, chris whipple, ron brownstein. our thanks to all three of you. as donald, trump hits the campaign trail again with revamped security for today's rally, investigators are using new evidence to pull together a time line for the man who tried to kill trump last week at his actions in the moments before he pulled the trigger. >> here on the scene we must break the will of our enemy and end this war the crown will pursue victory is one i did not think they would be so eager to die he was seen me a ruler symbols of all 30 she joins and gangs but the she'll the sword house of the dragon streaming exclusively on max you will never smell better everywhere. like you will with looming, it's so easy to use just a pea sized amount like this, rubs in like a lotion controls odor for three days on pits, feet, privates, anywhere you have odor, but wish you didn't know before you say isn't that what's soap and water is for? i'm here to tell you that your shower doesn't work as well as you think yes. and lumi is clinically proven to

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. >> our panels here, let's bring and cnn senior political analyst mark preston, alex thompson, national political reported for axios. the former white house communications director kate bedingfield and matt gorman, who is former senior adviser to the tim scott presidential campaign. welcome to all of you you are in the hotseat this morning welcome. i appreciate you being here we have seen all of this kind of reporting pilot. i want to dig into some of the things that alex has reported in the last 24 hours as well. and i know he has new reporting, but first, i just want you to kinda bring us inside the conversations democrats are having right now because it does feel like we're in a different place today than we were on monday. there does seem to be this groundswell, this sense at a boulder rolling down the hill at president biden, what's your sense of where things stand now and what are the variables affecting the president's decision? yeah. well, look, i think we should level set a little bit, which is to say if you look at the scope of polling that's come out since the debate, the bot

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there is confusion, the campaign is saying this, alex thompson says the white house was involved. we will refrain from doing this in the future, so karine jean-pierre needs to be asked, did you script a question in your tenure and how many times? declining the president had a medical exam, she has a lot to answer for today at 11:30. >> ainsley: while interview hosts can ask whatever questions they please, we will refrain from offering suggested questions. there was another host, earl ingram, he said he was given five questions. these are two that admitted it. kaitlan collins we are living in a trueman show. it ises scripted, not andid interviewing. l.a. times reporter asked a question that appeared scripted out and the l.a. times said we did not give questions to the president. are they giving out the questions? >> ainsley: sad they have to do this. he needs to know in advance. >> kayleigh: and still stumbled. >> steve: they will ask a scripted question and he will read a scripted answer. that has been revealed. as media, it is finally catching up to the story. like, okay, we all

here's what alex thompson from axios has been posting about with the chief of staff's -- he says he hasber one, but your head down. execution, execution, execution. at the same time, hold your h head. he continues by saying this. this is a period of intense noise out there. people are looking for chatter. tune it out. the leaks are coming. apparently play-by-play. every sentence the chief of staff is saying. it feels like you are on the titanic. >> he's got to know that a lot of that is going to be leaked and get out. this feels to me that they are returning fire. the death of joe biden's presidents campaign -- i think right now, there are probably shredders running over time all over washington. that may start to slow down. >> i think the key element is a lot of the younger staffers and may be the ones feel misled. we are elsewhere housewares and expletives across the media. a lot of them allegedly didn't know about biden's condition. >> that is the protection that kgb and others have given him. on the issue of the gaslighting that we have seen, we have also been gaslighted by the whit

. >> dagen: alex thompson as axios made this very salient point on x just a short while ago speakingesident kamala harris. these are my words but it is his point. she has been the biggest cover-up operative for joe biden. i say biggest. but she has run covering for this man for 3 1/2 years. remember her reaction to robert hur's report? she called is gratuitous, an accurate and inappropriate. some of the language she used to describe it was really kind of astonishing. she said the way that the president's demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and is clearly politically motivated. knowing what we know, how does she even wind up at the top of the ticket if he drops out? >> i think that's exactly it. i think as kamala harris gets more ambitious and the opportunity arises for her to assume that position, i think she will start throwing president joe biden under the bus with far more frequency. i don't think she will run cover anymore. she has done it to this point because no one is drawing her name out. not until the last couple of days that anybod

meanwhile, alex thompson at axios claims reporters were gaslit over joe's decline. by whom?uestions for biden's press conferences should have tipped them off. seeing him falling down a couple of times a week with your own eyes wasn't enough to clue you in? the fake republican on "the view" was told she's duped. >> i was genuinely in shock last night watching this. it was stunningly worse than i expected. >> greg: i actually believe she could be that stupid. [ laughter ] she's genuinely shocked? i'd say she's just another pretty face but then joy might eat it. [ laughter ] it speaks more to these hacks' complicity than these abilities that they maintain the deception. a paleontologist would have helped. of course as the media feigns outrage they still loathe trump. they cry in unison, he lies as if it's as bad as joe's dementia. i've got to hand it to joe, with dementia he still managed to lie 16 times in one sentence by claiming no troops were lost during his presidency. but that pales compared to the entire gaslighting of the american public. perhaps the greatest hoax in re

joining us now is axios national political correspondent, alex thompson or alex, i know you've been talking to a lot of people inside the white house, inside the biden campaign. what are you here? during about how they're feeling about the situation well, today was basically day to stop the bleeding because you had jeff signs call a conference call with basically the entire white house staff, the entire bp staff, the president and the vice president, had a separate conference call all right after that with the entire campaign staff and the reason is because the morale among the staff is incredibly low. >> and part of the reason is it wasn't just the bad debate night that re-emphasized are reinforced or are basically proved, or at least suggested that beye not be up to this job. the other thing that the other mistake they made was that joe biden basically was nowhere to be seen for several days afterward. he basically was not. he did north carolina rally on teleprompter. you did remarks monday night on top a prompter and sunday, you didn't. andy liebowitz photo shoot and that was really depr

joining us now is our great new friend alex thompson, axios political correspondent.n the last hour. the biden campaign came out, did an interview on msnbc and says we're full steam ahead. biden is the candidate and this is how we're going forward. in the same hour nbc news says they have reporting the family is getting together to talk about what biden's exit from the race would look like. what is the truth in between those two? >> both things can be true. if you are the campaign chair they will keep going full steam ahead until they aren't. joe biden is running until he is not, right? they are trying to get back confidence. you saw even joe scarborough, you saw skepticism of her theory of the case. they are saying what do you do when nancy pelosi is saying -- you had the head of the house democrat super pac say we cannot have a fractured party. we'll lose the house. you can't go into november for half of your voters don't think you should be the nominee. but at the same time joe biden still at his core believes he is the most electable person against donald trump. t

the scoop from axios, alex thompson this morning. how the dnc plans to run out the clock for biden.ing ahead with plans to technically nominate president biden before the june 27th debate. this was -- there was no move to push him out really then. after the debate there was a move. now you have this amazing performance by donald trump last night. the party, this energy, and so now you hear the dnc is trying to speed it up. >> a democratic rebellion inside the party that joe biden's team is trying to put down and end once and for all. they know he doesn't become the nominee until a month from now, four weeks from now and make sure he is the nominee as soon as possible and basically say it is over. i'm in the race. you notice that joe biden has continued to say i'm staying in. i'm staying in. i'm staying in. democrats are is that your final decision? it is an effort to move this and do electronic voting on the nomination. do the roll call vote as early as august 5th if not earlier. >> bill: that's a monday. looking at the calendar. right now biden is expected to speak in chicago on au

people who said that you were an irresponsible journalist and now you have reporters like in axios, alex thompsonm 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. biden is dependably engaged and events are held in those times. i wanted to give you a chance to defend yourself. you are probably too professional to take an i told you so lap but i might do it for you. >> look, i think what we've seen the last few days is the reporting we did was vindicated. i have to say the story was a very difficult story to write. me and my colleague spent -- we spent months working on it and those months took so long because it was -- we had a very high bar for what we were willing to report and what my editors were willing to report. we would find things and learn things, go to our editors and they would say look, we need more. we need more. there were many times that my partner and i late at night were trying to figure out how can we meet that bar? we think it is an important story. we want to meet that bar. so we felt that we did. and the story i would encourage everybody to read it carefully. i think some of the criticism of it is u

alex thompson is a national political correspondent and his latest piece.utely. when joe biden was really wrestling with his decision whether or not the drop out, one of the concerns that he and his senior aides told other people they weren't sure that kamala harris could win. obviously there have been some polls that show that she was a bit more competitive. that is before donald trump and his campaign was going to dump a ton of money on her. joe biden had just concerns that she was up to this. >> bill: we're watching kimberly cheatle arrive on capitol hill. a different scene from wisconsin when she was being chased down the hallway. that begins in ten minutes. alex, let's hang with you on this for a moment. here is the trump ad that came out on harris, okay? basically they are saying she was in on it in terms of hiding and covering up joe biden's condition. watch this here. >> we've been through -- >> kamala was in on it and covered up joe biden's decline. >> bill: a bunch of clips going back to february of 2023 where she is defending publicly his age. yo

>> sandra: alex thompson thank you for being here as we look at the dover air force space as we are aboutsee the president for the first time in what has been a number of days. he is apparently now testing negative for covid. we will see him and he is planning to speak to the nation tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. let me get your thoughts on this first compass is karine jean-pierre press secretary, didn't offer a briefing after the president decided to step out of the race. we have not seen her hold one i believe in about a week now. but she did join the ladies on the view earlier and she went on to defend kamala harris, listen. >> he set himself the reason why he picked vice president kamala harris is because he believed she would be ready to leave from day one. he believed she was the right person to take over the campaign and she is. >> sandra: there is this reference to who she was before she took office by vice president. we heard that from karine jean-pierre they are, we heard that from the president when he was asked about her record and he referenced her time before she

axios martial political correspondent alex thompson has been doing some digging. the latest, what are you hearing? what we understand now from the campaign is that president biden is moving forward, bewe also know that they have paused because he's recuperating from covid. what's the next step? >> absolutely. i can tell you that inside the biden campaign, at least the very top of the biden campaign, there is a feeling that all of this, all of these lawmakers that came out yesterday is part of a coordinated campaign to pressure him to drop out. now, joe biden truly believes with almost sort of a religious fervor that he is the most electable democrat against donald trump. and because he believes that with such conviction, he still is killing in -- digging in, does not intend to drop out at least at this moment even as some people within the biden o bit are increasingly -- orbit are increasingly resigned to that being an inevitability. one biden aide told me just yesterday this is an almost universal a, you know, almost universal sentiment that this is the end of th

. >> dana: we had alex thompson on, several times.ries about things that were happening in the scenes. maybe it is a blip, i don't know. to go back and edit publications you have from years ago to try and prove this point. on march 24th, 2021, the white house put out a statement saying she would lead the biden administration's efforts to stem migration at the border. that the white house's words. the whole term of "czar" goes back a while, basically coordinating the effort, the drug czar, for example. this is quite crazy. than she tried to change it that she was going to deal with the root causes. okay. how did that go? and i would really love to know how much money was actually went into what she called the root cause fund. she asked all these private companies in america, i want you to go and invest there, let's have some factories or manufacturing, the companies were like yes, madam vice president, of course we will do that, and i don't think there has ever been any results that have come from that. >> katie: brian, given they are

away from telling him things that could be hurtful as far as leaving the race, axios reporter alex thompson said that mr. biden believes he is the most electable against donald trump. >> joe biden is going to ride this out and stick it out, and the thing that's worrying a lot of people that have worked for joe biden, that dedicate a lot of their primes of their lives to his very lengthy career, is they feel that if he stays in this and loses, that this could end up being the first line of his obituary and sort of undermine, you know, a lot of that legacy. but you know, joe biden has surprised doubters before. >> a white house spokesperson told axios that biden's advisers have, quote, demonstrated the integrity to tell the truth and keep the well-being of the american people ont mind. that's just onef the many topics being touched upon on this week's edition of the issue is, you can watch it sunday morning at 530, followed by fox news sunday, and then mornings on two from 7 to 10. >> on wall street, stocks finished higher with all three major indexes in the green for the week. big talk big t

alex thompson, a national political correspondent for axios, spoke to cnn's allison camerota earlier can you explain how these aids have been shielding or protecting the president? >> yeah, absolutely. some of it is just making sure that when they meet with people, when by meet with people that every once in a while, there's not really regular meetings with not even just mid-level staff, but even that tier one above and one above that, his core team is really not bigger than about well, if people and this was really the instinct of two of his top aides. they're very nondescript of name's anthony for null and any thomasine. and their task was really made easier at the very beginning because of covid. and so keeping a really tight circle around the president was just sort of building in as a practice. but then over time those habits continued. >> so in other words, they started during covid is that do i have that right? and now they've continued to shield him from the wider staff. >> yeah absolutely. and that's part of the reason the reason why this has been such a shock to the system

alex thompson on our staff wrote about it. we were on the other end of it. they were furious. they ridiculed. they said everything is false. then since the debate performance, which everybody saw, it was real, you saw it, have conceded, it wasn't great, it was bad, disturbing. >> right. >> ever since then, the litany of excuses, whether he was too sleepy or whether it was an 11-day jet lag or whether or not he needs to go to bed earlier, like, none of this stuff to the average voter passes the smell test. i'm going to defend "the new york times." i'm going to defend alex thompson, saying, scrutinize the h hell out of this. >> i talk to the guy an awful lot. i was in communication with him an awful lot. i will just say, i spoke to him over the past week. i've said it before. i'll say it again. he sounds extremely cogent. he's all there. i still don't know what happened last thursday night. i don't know if he knows what happened last thursday night. i didn't get that from him directly. i'm just saying, as somebody who talked to him regularly, i still don't know what happened las

confiscate firearms for law abiding citizens just 98 days now until america votes, let's bring in alex thompsonal reporter for axios, new york times journalist lulu garcia navarro and matt gorman, former communications director for the national republican congressional committee. >> good morning, everyone great to have you here. alex, let's let's start at the beginning of all of those clips will trump ultimately debate kamala harris, do you think his team is saying that he's going to and this is sort of a bit of a negotiating tactic that essentially he agreed to debate joe biden on abc and now they're going back and forth and saying, well now it's a different candidate will see, i bet you we still will have multiple debates and clearly kamala harris is team, wants to have them. they she's said that she thinks that they're the underdog in this race. they want to get her and right next to amman a debate stage, she's younger. she can articulate a case. she has the prosecution background. she can deliver the sort of canned lines and debates. i expect we'll have one or maybe two and matt, it's worth

david weigel of san before seung min, kim of the associated press, and alex thompson of axios. hello everybody. happy friday to those who celebrate, i like to say, i think it's fair to say of any week this is just the data if it ends and why? because who knows what's gonna be happening over the next several days alex, i wanted to start with you you have done a lot of reporting about questions leading up to the debate. well before the debate about questions being asked by democrats and others about joe biden's, not just as age because there are lots of people who are older than him serving who don't get questioned about fitness and beyond. but about his ability to lead nevermind to campaign what is the latest that you were hearing right now? >> i mean, this is a white house in crisis and in turmoil, both on the campaign side and inside the building. now, at the very top, they finally started stop, trying to stop the bleeding on wednesday, you saw geoff signs convene a conference call with staff. you saw joe biden, kamala harris. do it seemed like pre rehearsed remarks for the ca

left she's crazy all right, to dive into this crucial moment in american history, i'm doing by alex thompson of axios may rest in from the washington post, semafor's david weigel, and npr's michel martin good morning to you all. some of you are flying just back from milwaukee after the republican convention, a lot to digest, alex, you have some new reporting this morning about what is happening with him for biden right now is seems all the signals that he is sending, even though maybe he's receptive to changing his mind, he very much wants to stay in this race. is that what you're we're going as well? absolutely. president biden is dug in some of the new reporting today that i have is some of this actually originates from a grudge. he has with brock obama. and what he feels was obama and his aides talking him out of running in 2016 after after donald trump beat hillary clinton 2016, biden felt guilty i'm not running, but also angry at everyone that convinced him not to run. now he and some of his aides see parallels to what's going on right now. some of those same people, even some of those

we have more political experts joining us now to discuss alex thompson. i want to bring you when you've been doing so much reporting on all of this and how it's been unfolding since the debate. you heard president biden and full force on that stage and wisconsin just hours before his maker break, abc interview errors seemingly make or break. we'll see the white house is helping four turnaround is this going to be enough? >> absolutely. well, by itself, it's definitely not going to be enough, but i can tell you, democrats were certainly heartened by the fact that after really being out of the public eye for four days, which really puzzled people joe biden, did that rally in north carolina last friday and then basically was absent for the most part, which further worried these concerns. what you are seeing is the biden operation finally, trying to stop the bleeding now, i can tell you even so this is a white house in crisis right now. and not just inside the white house, but inside the campaign as well, because while we're talking about, we've let me see, t

jackie kucinich, and axios national political correspondent alex thompson jackie, let's start with you. i'm curious to get your perspective on some of this new reporting, not just what we heard from kayla, but also the new york times pointing to advisers, figuring out how to approach joe biden on the question of potentially stepping aside from the top of the ticket and further, the biden campaign apparently testing kamala harris's numbers against donald trump. what do you think i think that last name is what this is all about? >> is is about defeating former president trump. and that is why you're hearing democrats coming out. that's why you are hearing all the hand-wringing behind the scenes from anonymous sources. i've talked to several people over the last couple of days. you are democrats who are truly worried about how this is being handled and how they are going to go forward. but the matter of fact is this is joe biden's decision. it always has been and what you're hearing from members like nancy pelosi, for example, saying, oh, it's his decision, he's actually already said what

our panelists here, alex thompson, national political correspondent for axios, elliot williams, cnn legal analysts, former deputy assistant attorney general, during the obama administration. kate bedingfield, former white house communications director for president biden, and jonah goal the editor in chief of the dispatch. thank you all for being here on this momentous day. i'm kate, i want to hear your reflections in a second, but alex, i just want to start with you on the reporting how we got here, how the president got here, because this was a very long, very long time coming yeah. >> i mean and while a lot of people are praising his decision today, let's be clear, this was not something that joe biden wanted to do. this was a reluctant seating of power that happened because that the fact that joe biden decided to do that debate early, the fact that whether or not you believe the reasons of travel schedule was the reason for the bad performance or something else that basically led to a panic and the party that nancy pelosi and other democratic leaders basically decided that this is not

i want to bring in our conversation in our panel with national reporter for axios, alex thompson, former deputy assistant to president biden, ashley etienne, and also former republican congressman joe walsh but those numbers, are not great news for any campaign. there are those who'd be skeptical and say, okay, well, the best polls are election day and i can show you a poll to fit anything. those numbers show you a great deal of things. actually begin with you here. you heard earlier today, former speaker pelosi, who you've worked for, by the way leave perhaps a door open or a glimmer of consideration people are interpreting that she wanted biden to maybe make a decision. he's made a decision. why do you think she said though, things she did isn't being misinterpreted no. i mean, she also said today that she thinks that he can win in november, but i think what she's trying to do is give the caucus some space to deliberate for members to make their grievances known, and also give the president some room to two also engage those members and so the question is whether or not that's actually

axios national alex thompson will join us right now. oh, my god. for joining us this morning. every time i think we should talk about it, i'm ready to look down at my screen looking at citing individuals requesting anonymity. i'm ready for it at anytime it is such a fluid situation. the move is afoot to find somebody else and we heard the wa wagons are circling. there is no heir apparent, alex. what do you expect to happen? as of 6:40 a.m., east coast time, what do you know? >> both things can be true. some people are scouring to see if there can be a replacement and the wagons are circling around joe biden. you basically saw joe biden's family take the wheel over the weekend to go to camp david with a shoot with annie liebowitz. the first lady on the cover of "vogue" this month dropped this morning. that being said, the only person to get off the ballot is joe biden. this is a one-person decision. the fact is, a lot of donors and democrats and a lot of white house staff, are simultaneously sad because of how this could affect the election, but als

joining us now is alex thompson from axios. is almost like appointment tv, like a sporting event. i'm going to put this out to you and you can disagree with me. i wish we could bet on it with draftkings. bet on biden. biden, last night, for the win. for the "w." disloyal, feet of clay democrats in areas for the "l" last night. what did you see? >> i think you saw a president that is very dug in and has no intention of getting out of this race. he and his inner team just have a disconnect with a lot of these democrats. the thing you have to understand about joe biden, he articulated it both last night and the interview with george stephanopoulos is he believes he is the most electable democrat against donald trump. if you believe that, why would you take yourself out of the race because house democrats are complaining and worried about their own races. >> alex, what indicated to you last night that he was any less cogent or lucid than pelnancy pelosi or steny hoyer? i think democrats have a tough case. i disagree with almost eve

honest about the concerns that we are hearing from people all right our panels here, it's bringing alex thompson, national political reporter for axios meghan. hey, is former special special assistant to president biden last trove or former spokesperson for north dakota governor doug burgum is 2024. presidential campaign. welcome to all of you. thank you for being here on this holiday. that doesn't quite feel like a hot here. we're just rolling right along with this news. alex, let me start with you because we've got a lot. there's a lot of data points coming in right? at this point. there was a statement from seth moulton, he didn't call him on the president to step aside, but he did say that we should have all viable options on the table and he said that the status quo will likely deliver us president trump. there's reed hastings, we kind of tick there are a whole bunch of these things that are happening. what is your latest reporting on what's going on inside the white house and what matter is mattering the most right now, the bags are bad and the thing is that the white house has been slow t

information they're hearing about all of this cnn's kaitlan collins, david chalian kristen holmes, and alex thompson of axios. david chalian, i want our viewers to be able to hear what you tell us in the morning. as we prepare for our day, because as for usual, you framed the stakes for tonight and the stakes more broadly, let's look at what it means for president biden as they relate to one another. >> au, these kind of an amazing thing to watch. both of these things happen in real time side-by-side. i mean, the complete disintegration of the biden candidacy at the moment in a split-screen with the most unified republican party around donald trump in the nine years that he's been a figure at the top of the party. so it's just the start how's she anything happening side-by-side, but i will say this about the biden situation i think we have to be clear what this is in this moment. the biden candidacy is over as we know it, whether he steps down or not so if indeed he doesn't step down he moves forward in an entirely different kind of candidacy than the one that has existed to date and so as we have c

alex thompson from axios, the wall street journal's volleyball, david weigel from semaphore, and the newer time zone lawn can new young's. thank you all for being here with us on this busy sunday morning. wow, we have so much to cover, especially as we look at the week ahead, right? you just heard are led break breakdown there, alex what president biden is doing today and in the days ahead to try to turn the page right from this moment. can president biden's efforts actually turn this around though? >> well, if you're democrats is a huge disconnect because they all feel that it's been too little too late, that basically went through this thursday debate, then really didn't appear much in public beyond teleprompter remarks and didn't even do his first on-camera interview for over a week. and now we know that the first two interviews he actually did with two black radio hosts and philadelphia, milwaukee well, sort of staged affairs where the white, where the biden team basically gave them the questions ahead of time. now, what you're going to probably see this next week is probably a l