the seated to the president's left in the oval office were family members, doctor jill biden ashley biden, hunter biden, howard, macey biden. finnegan and hunter president's grandson also seated senior advisor mike and steve racheti ashley biden had her eyes closed nodding and breathing deeply and dabbed her eyes with her shirt a couple of times. this is an emotional time. he's still going to be president and republicans say there's a problem with that. harold. >> dana. >> glad you shared who was in the office with him because it is important for everyone to know how emotional and how much gratitude they had and he has. you know, i'm reminded as brit said that this is -- this sounded like a convention acceptance speech he recited miss accomplishments he talked about his service he talked about how he got to where he is and campaigny people may give him rope on that but i'm a christian brett an my faith means a lot to me as i heard him speaking all i could think was -- there's a season for everything. there was a season for him to think about running for office there was a season to run an

jill biden, ashley biden, hunter, biden, howard crying, maisy, biden, naomi biden, finnegan, biden and hunter, president's grandson. also seated. senior adviser mike donilon. steve ricchetti. and for the good part of the speech p, ashley biden had her o eyes closed, nodding silently, breathing deeply as her father spoke, and she dabbed her eyese with her shirt a couple of times. this is an emotional time. he is stilthis ional tl going t' president. and republicans say there's a problem with thas m with tt. harold. dana right. i'm so glad you shared humanso in the office with them because fothin offk it's i think it's important for everyone to know how emotional and howavn much gratitude they have. and he has know. sai i'm reminded of, as brit said, that this is this sounded likede a convention acceptance speech. he recited his accomplishments. he talked about his service. he talked about how he gotand where he is. and he got a little campaigning as well, which i thinkittl people may give him the benefit of the doubt and give him a little rope on that. t ristiabut i'm a christian and mo

ceded to the president left in the oval office were family members, dr jill biden, ashley biden, the.nd for the good part of the speech, ashley biden had her eyes closed nodding silently, breathing deeply as her father spoke as she dabbed her eyes with her shirt a couple of times this is an emotional time, he is still going to be president and republicans say there's a problem with that. >> i'm so glad you shared who was in the office with him because i think it's important for everyone to know how emotional and how much gratitude they have and he has. i'm reminded as brit said that this is -- this sounded like a convention acceptance speech. he recited his accomplishments, talked about his service. talked about how he got where he has and he got a little campaigning as well which people give him the benefit of the doubt on that. i'm a christian and my faith means a lot to me. as i heard him speaking, all i could think was there is a season for everything. there was a season for him to think about running for office, there was a season to run and a season to win and even as vice presi

familia, incluyendo a la primera dama, la doctora jill biden, ambos de sus hijos, hunter biden y ashley bidenque su trabajo no ha terminado, y mucho que quiere lograr, como para implementar inversiÓn federal para aumentar —— encontrar una cura en contra el cÁncer. y tambiÉn evitar que rusia con vladÍmir putin invada el resto de ucrania, y otras cuestiones que son muy importantes para el presidente. hay que dejar bien claro que el comitÉ nacional demÓcrata decidido que durante la primera semana de agosto harÁ un voto virtual para elegir oficialmente a kamala harris como la nominada del partido demÓcrata, y cuando venga la convenciÓn a la ciudad de chicago sÓlo tenga que aceptar esa nominaciÓn por parte del partido demÓcrata. ademÁs, la campaÑa de harris ha publicado su primer vÍdeo donde claramente ella se pinta, el futuro de liderazgo aquÍ en los estados unidos y deja entrever que donald trump es el pasado, y una persona que se cree que estÁ por encima de la ley. carolina: todo esto cambia minuto a minuto. muchas gracias. mientras tanto, el expresidente, donald trump sigue lanzando fuertes cr

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ashley: they should. before we say goodbye, does biden drop out or does he stay in? m, they are his strongest base of support, when they turn on him it is serious, i think he dropped out. ashley: very interesting, brent brazil, very informative. thanks for joining us. to come, still ahead, congressman darrell isa on biden's claim that no troops died on his watch. jerry baker says the democrats deserve biden you fluent if the country doesn't. former levi's executive on her new pro women's athletics brand commercial, getting and on tiktok, the 11:00 am hour of "varney and company" is next. ♪ ♪ before you use ai to transform business, accelerate growth, predict trends, you need to begin with trust. introducing watsonx governance. helping you govern any ai, as data, models, and policies change, so you can scale it responsibly. let's create ai that begins with trust, with watsonx governance. ibm. let's create. >> one of the principal people at the post-election meeting at camp david urging him to stay in was hunter biden. god, depend on that guy's good

edward, what are the issues that biden may have the edge in? >> reporter: yeah, ashleys the edge in health care, abortion. the president doing everything he can to try and direct voters' attention away from the border and the economy. meanwhile, trying to get his base in order to tell his base that he can be president for another four years. president joe biden came out immediately after the u.s. supreme court decision to redirect focus on the court being political as well as going after former president trump. >> i know the i will respect the limits of the presidential powers i have for three and a half years, but any president, including donald trump, will now be free to ignore the law. >> reporter: so now the biden campaign came out with a new campaign ad about this. listen are. >> nearly 250 years ago america was founded in defiance of a king under the belief that no one is above the law, not even the president. until now. >> reporter: now, it's all meant to move attention away from the economy expect border. on the border sources tell fox news about a 168,000 peopl

of policies we pursue, the product of our engagement and they see president biden having led the way in all those areas. ashleyministration clearly on defense. can they convince the world that president biden can lead? >> the world is on fire. a lot of it has to do with the fact that secretary blinken, the worst secretary of state in american history is leading the charge, defending biden's administration and his decision. this is the same guy that orchestrated the 51 former intelligence officials to write a letter saying of a hunter biden laptop was russian disinformation, interfering in the 2,020 election. i don't believe a word that comes out of secretary blinken's mouth, the biggest serial liar. i know how to tell the truth, he never told the truth in his life, everything the democrats say, everything biden says, blinken says, believe me, it is completely the opposite. the world is on fire, we are in a worse situation than we were under donald trump because president biden is the president and antony blinken is the secretary of state. ashley: that's good place to leave it. congressman jimenez, thanks for j

ashley: thank you very much. both trump and bidenthe blame game on inflation but the data shows a real story, consumer prices rose more than 7% under donald trump but it will be 19.4% under biden, there is in fact there, the data tells the story does it not, there's no question about it trump's that i've held inflation under control, even the fact checkers in the media, your friends in the media were saying inflation was on the rise when trump left office in the truth is i look to the last four months when trump was in office and that will be up until january of 2021, you would know they were one point to percent, one point to percent, 1.4% and 1.4% does that sound like he had it with exploding inflation and the most amazing thing, he himself the economy with 1.4% inflation in 18 months i don't know how we did it so quickly inflation went from 1.429.1% and is important for people to understand this did not happen by accident it was a direct result of the multi-$3 trillion spending spree all paid for by printing money. ashley: i'm ass

in power as long as he can and i believe at the end of the day hunter biden expects a pardon to get out of all the trouble. ashleylf-preservation, next one forward 2024 republican presidential candidate nikki haley told the wall street journal that she expects the democrats to replace biden with someone young, vibrant and tested, in other words be careful what you wish for, is that something to worry about? >> is certainly something to worry about, anybody would be a better candidate than joe biden, i think it's going to be a lot more difficult to place joe biden and i think every state has its own election laws and it's my understanding is too late to replace joe biden in wisconsin in nevada, those are two states that joe biden needs to win if he is going to be donald trump this november, i think the democrats have cooked their own goose and they waited too long and i agree with david axelrod and james carville, this should have happened year ago, they tried to have this discussion with the democrat insiders but they wouldn't have any part of it, now the american people have seen that the mainstream media has be

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biden. >> well, thanks, ashley.ecause they have, essentially they have misled us, let's put it as mildly as that. they've gaslit us telling this man was completely capable, these ridiculous stories we got that he was sharper than everybody, that he was, you know, solving quadratic equations at the same time as a doing, you know, bench pressing 3000 pounds or whatever. -- 300 pounds. they told us all that, and now the fantasy, the the fiction of that has been revealed for the whole world to see last thursday, and the whole world did see it. and they are now panicking because of they've been exposed. and part of me, as i said in my column, part of me feels they should be stuck with it. this is their creation. they put the country in this position by promoting this fiction for four years. let them live with it. they made that bed, they should lie in it. i do think for the good of the country we really shouldn't have that choice of a candidate who, obviously, is not capable of serving another four years but, yeah. the d

ashley biden, the president's daughter, sat next to dr. jill biden with her eyes closed. taking several deep breaths during the first minutes of the address. she wore a white sweater with an american flag above the olympic rings. the first lady wore a purple suit and held ashley's hand toward the end. kareem jean-pierre who is another historic member of the team. first lgbtq and african american woman follow-up to our wonder f jen psaki as press secretary. and other aides. they watched from a monitor that was accept up in the back of the room. the president's top advisers were also there. to observe the moment. 39 people is the head count of how many were watching. >> what did you think of the speech? >> the speech was wonderful. the things i wrote down were not in our group of the select quotes. one of the ones that moved me was one that goes to what lawrence said earlier. where he said nowhere else on earth could a kid from pennsylvania with a stutter rise to sit behind the resolute desk as president of the united states. i thought that was so biden. that was a so biden

xfinity. >> joey: president biden selling off million barrels of our oil from our emergency stockpile in effort to slash fuel prices ahead of tomorrow's holiday travel rush. >> ashleyasone has more. >> cheryl: president biden is putting americans at resque by dipping into emergency oil reserve, spr, to cut down on rising cost of gas under his administration. department of energy will sell each barrel of boil for $2 per gallon, gas cost 3.50 yesterday, that is higher than last week. >> the president in particular from scranton is focused on reducing cost for everyday citizens and one reason inflation has been high has been because of energy cost. remember in the wake of the war in ukraine, gas prices were close to $5 a gallon and have come down $1 kno.50 since then. the president is looking to bring down cost if people transition to electric vehicles. >> cheryl: his administration sent 180 barrels to the open markets, six million barrels went to a chinese-owned company. the more oil you have on the global market, including with iran, which has been flooding the market selling their oil to china. you have domestic gasoline prices. ask yourself why we are not enforcin

his son hunter biden and his wife, ashley biden his daughter, and her husband as well as the first ladyoval office was packed with family and close friends ton tonight. now this, mark twain has said history doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes. of president biden stunning decision to not seek reelection is certainly historic, but it also echoes another presidents choice in a another turbulent year -- 1968. >> tested many times this past year -- >> revolt clouded lyndon johnson in 1968, and unpopular incumbent. >> 2024 is very reminiscent of 1968 for a variety of reasons. >> historian mark updegrove is president and ceo of the lbj foundation. between 1968's america and today's. >> the country, divided, tempestuous, a lot of extreme rhetoric, we had the same thing in 1968. we were being shaken to our very foundation. >> especially divisive then, vietnam. america's sons and daughters dying in southeast asia. cbs's news walter was the most trusted man in america declared the more unwinnable. >> there will be the experience of vietnam is to end in a stalemate. >> johnson believed losing

ashley biden sat next to dr. jill biden with her eyes closed, taking several deep breaths during the first few minutes of the address. she wore a white sweater with an american flag. the first lady wore a purple suit and held ashley's hand toward the end. karine jean-pierre, another historic member of the team. first lgbtq member and african american woman as a follow to our wonderful own jen psaki as press secretary. and some other aides, they watched from a monitor set up in the back of the room. the president's top advisers were also there to observe the moment. 39 people is the headcount of how many were watching as the president makes the 40th in the oval office for this address. >> that is all of the reporting. what did you think of this speech? >> the things i wrote down were not in our group of select quotes. one of the ones that moved me goes to what lauren said earlier, when he said nowhere else on earth could a kid from pennsylvania with a stutter rise to sit behind the resolute desk as president of the

biden read his will over a teleprompter, the text reflected in the window behind him. in the oval office at this time the whole family, wife jill, children, hunter and ashley, grandchildren. joe biden's half-century political career ends live. he says he will remain president for another six months, but can we believe it now? last week he also promised. some people believe that we should live in a land of chaos, fear and hatred, but we choose something else, we choose freedom. the most unpopular vice president in history with one of the most failed. presidents, 4 years in biden's shadow kharis was only part of his team, and even her associates did not regard her as an independent politician. several days of painful hesitation, but other options 3 months before the election for democrats no. we are here today to support vice president kamala haris. formally, kamela haris is not even a candidate yet. official approval will take place at the democratic party congress in 3 weeks, but after the unanimous support of the activists. there is no need for other candidates, there are enough votes from delegates, and the sponsors have opened the floodgates, in a few days 250 million

biden has no intention of voluntarily stepping aside. they are committed to seeing this race through even if it harms the democratic ticket in the long run. ashley to get your thoughts on this. bill maher is urging president biden to step aside in a new op-ed. maher says in part, let's move the plot line forward. democrats could not buy with all of george soros' money the enthusiasm engagement and interest they would get from if having an open convention, and in chicago no less, famous for democratic convention drama. this may sound like i'm doing a bit here, but i'm deadly serious that this would be good for the democrats and give them a better chance of winning. what -- do you think we could see an open convention from the if democrats, kaylee? >> i don't think so. the risk that democrat run of staging an open convention at this point is pure chaos. they would be launching an intraparty civil war because the fact is they have no alternative to joe biden who could really consolidate all of the factions of the democratic party within a very short amount of time. and to bill maher, i would just say where were you two years ago? you know, biden pr

assistant anthony bernal, as well as deputy chief of staff eni tomasini, and senior adviser ashley williams, think for biden. these names are unfamiliar to us residents, but these are the people who testify for biden in the chamber representatives carefully hide the reality, sources say. speaking to voters in michigan the day before, biden behaved as usual, he forgot his words and stared into space for a long time. and then he barely uttered a simple phrase: i promise, you, i, i’m fine, face down in the dirt, and literally, the minister of sports of france, amelia castera , still took a bath in the hay, accompanied by journalists, assistants and cameras, a french official in a wetsuit and the cap took a short swim in a parisian river full of sewage, after. boasted on social networks that everything it was successful and the water is invigorating. previously, responding to criticism from world athletes that the water in the seine is simply dangerous in order to organize triathlon competitions in it as part of the olympics. president macron and the mayor of paris also threatened to organize a swim. that's jus

biden. i'm old-fashioned character matters, results matter. >> ashley: i feel like i saw a different joe bidenuring that debate. does gavin newsom have this much pole to say, "hey, this is the joe biden we want to reelect and to make people actually believe what he said? this is behind close doors and we don't know. all we know is what we saw. >> i can't answer that, but i can tell you we all see what is happening in california. we all know the cities in california where you don't want to open businesses and you know you are scared to send your wife to get out of her car because she may get carjacked here and so that is the reality of california. gavin newsom embodies that. so he along with many other prominent governors are all just jockeying for position. they want to be president of the united states. they want to fool the american people to believe they are states are actually run well and their cities are not the most crime infested in the nation. so we can come i think they are trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes. and it is unfortunate, unfortunate that humanity has gotten to th

ashley, grandchildren. bideno will carry the torch of democracy next has already been decided, but biden is allowed to leave gracefully and once again be reminded that it was he who determined the successor. i made my choice. i would like to thank our wonderful vice president kamala haris. she is experienced, she is determined, she has all the necessary skills. joe biden read his statement from a prompter, which was reflected in the window behind him, the wristwatch during the supposedly live address, as viewers noticed, showed a completely different time, but people around the outgoing president no longer pay attention to such trifles. white house staff came specially that evening... to take part in the historical moment. in its final months, the biden team lives in the usual looking glass, continues to insist that the refusal to seek re-election is not related to biden’s health and that he will be active until the end of the term. there is no concern that the president will now become a lame duck. we we don’t t

this needs to be said though, to what ashley said. joe biden did something today that donald trump is humanly incapable of doing. he put his country first. i don't think laura i don't think the trump campaign is gonna know how to deal with kamala harris. i really don't. they built the entire campaign to go after biden trump's struggles with women strong women, he's going to have our time kamala harris, and i would be very surprised if trump got up on the debate stage with her and i forgot. >> i wanted we want it's evan, let me ask you, how often agree to see biden on this campaign trail now? >> well, that's the thing about this. you know, it's, you know, have this interesting situation where you have more principles available on the democratic side, then you have on the republican side, you have joe biden, kamala harris, eventually, her running mate, barack obama, perhaps bill clinton, hillary clinton. you have a huge number of people who are, in a sense now putting a shoulder to the wheel, it's a very different situation then if you can rememb

come back in, ashley webster, please. how do biden tell his aids he was dropping out? lot of them. they reportedly learned about it on the social media platform x. surprise. politico reported that a sign of the abruptness was that biden's campaign sent out a fundraising e-mail for joe and kamala just eight minutes after biden shared his decision to bow out. the new york times report that campaign staff were still calling delegates 30 minutes before the biden announcement pushing them to declare their support for joe biden. the times also reported that biden worked on his announcement with advisers from saturday afternoon into the evening, but didn't tell most of his staff of his decision until a minute before the letter was posted to x and many of those didn't even get that heads up. they read about it on the social media platform. oh dear. stuart: what a week we've had, ashley. stuart: what a week. stuart: i tell ya. show me the dow 30, please. i want to get a sense of the markets. even split frankly. down 21 points, 21,465 and same number of losers as winners on the

biden will be landing later this hour. punchbowl cofounder jake sherman is also here along with "washington post" senior political correspondent and msnbc political analyst ashley parker. and cook political report publisher and editor in chief, amy walter. all right, so gabe, so notable about those conversations you had were that these were all joe biden supporters. they all want him or a democrat to win. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, katy. look, those are voters who had voted for joe biden before. they voted democrat, they were lifelong democrats, but they feel frustrated where the race is right now. as you heard, they felt they had no other option than for joe biden to leave the race. now, to be sure, katy, the president still has a lot of support here in michigan. we expect to hear from supporters who are backing him in this rally in a few hours. but the question is, katy, how much will -- sorry. there's some noise here as some of the organizers here are telling us to go back inside. my point is that there was a new poll that came out today. this npr/pbs maris poll that shows an extremely tight race across the country. and that's what the biden campaign i

now, biden will have his own place in history as somebody who did not seek re election in this context, they bring in ashley here because like you are a biden-harris 2020 20 alum. >> and i have been dying to know what was your reaction because we've had this conversation about everyone has been talking around and about biden. >> what was your reaction that he actually bowed out? but of this race and then a full-throated endorsement of vice president kamala harris will unfold transparency i was taking a nap when my mom came in and said he's out but first before i do that, i want to say thank you to joe biden. i worked for him to get them reelected as vice president. i worked for him when he was vice president and i worked to help get him elected in transition into the white house. and so when those stories are written about why but leadership looks like, joe biden's name will be first in line. so thank you for what you have done for america, for black people and for the world, writ large so two things happened you know, bakari deals with a lot of elected officials and i work with some more movement groups an

at this moment , the entire biden family, wife jill, children hunter and ashley, and grandchildren areoval office. biden consoles them and the country that he will remain president for another six months. who will carry the torch of democracy next has already been decided, but biden is allowed to leave gracefully and once again... the president is no longer paying attention. white house employees came to work that evening specifically to take part in the historical moment. in its final months, the biden team is living out the familiar. the looking glass continues to insist that the failure to seek re-election is not related to biden's health and that he will be active until the end of the term. there is no concern that the president will now become a lame duck. we do not believe at all that there is any reason to talk about this. at the moment we are talking about a president whose work can be called incredibly successful, and he's going to do everything in his power to continue the fight for the american people. war machine, you are facing a war machine, that's what they do, they figh

was actually surrounded by his family, that when it ended, towards the end of his remarks, that ashley biden who support him, no matter whether he is president orjust grandpa. and sol he is president orjust grandpa. and so i think that is a view into the private part of what being an elected and public official looks like. yeah, public officials, president biden on down to members of congress and any elected — members of congress and any elected official, they unfortunately, sometimes voters forget _ unfortunately, sometimes voters forget they have families, and those — forget they have families, and those family moments are the ones _ those family moments are the ones that— those family moments are the ones that i remember the most, standing — ones that i remember the most, standing up and victory speeches with my kids, judging how tall— speeches with my kids, judging how tall they have grown, based upon _ how tall they have grown, based upon which election they were standing — upon which election they were standing next to me in a picture _ standing next to me in a picture. so these moment

. >> we do need to go soon, but george clooney wrote his op-ed calling for biden to step aside. ashleyd did today biden, though, he he's i've been told this tonight. look, he is not going anywhere unless polls show that he is going to, you know, it's just everything collapses. and i'm wondering if what you think about these hollywood star coming forward and publicly telling biden to step aside. and if you're worried that it further, but italy further weakens him weekends or democratic candidate who says he's in this race through, through the election of course, that's a risk. >> and i may be eating these words in three weeks if the president decides that he's going to keep running we'll see if that's the eventuality what i can tell you for sure is that everybody who is around the president is concerned about the future of the country and everybody knows that the future of the country can't be left in the hands of donald trump. so it's really just a question of how are we going to attack that as our shared problem? hollywood will rally behind who the candidate is whenever that moment be

meanwhile tinsel town and it's a listers with the pockets continue to turn on biden with actress ashleyding her name to the list, asking in the usa today piece for biden to step aside, writing beating trump is too important. new tonight, the new york times reporting that several of those hollywood fundraisers could be in jeopardy as many donors have reportedly told the campaign they will not continue to give if biden remains in the race. >> trace: precious dollars, thank you. let's bring in the cohost of the everybody settle down podcast and braver angels national ambassador. thank you for coming on. gavin newsom reacting to the george clooney op-ed calling biden to drop out. he said the following, watch. >> i think all of us that were at the fundraiser wondering what they were thinking scheduling the president who just got overseas to a fundraiser late at night. showing up at that fundraiser, a human being like any of us, exhausted. >> trace: excuses are coming. >> the problem isn't the fundraiser. maybe you could say okay he had the trip overseas, he flew back to la across five or six

biden's discussions with his biographer. had they denied having those transcripts? ashley: they have. remarkable coincidence, isn't it? president biden says he's not going to run again and they find the transcript. those transcripts played a role in the couple investigation into biden's handling of classified material. the doj telling a federal judge this week the transcripts being located in the wake of a report, special counsel robert hur described biden as a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. it is unclear whether biden's exit from the race will affect the handling of the materials, the biden justice department argued up to now the release of biden's interviews would violate his privacy and lead to potential abuse. miraculous coincidence. stuart: kamala harris is planning on cleaning house if she wins. delta air lines, a full investigation after secret service disruptions from the crowd strike outage. 5000 also flights have been canceled since friday. grady trimble has the story after this. ♪ things will go wrong for your customers. but your business can make it right, wi

axios reporting that one former biden aid annie, ashley and anthony create a protective bubble and potusll independence. count on staff to nudge him who is he meeting. including staffers and advisers who biden should easily remember without a reminder from annie. house republicans want answers, and they have subpoenaed all three staffers. in a letter to the white house, the committee says that it's concerned that the three aides may be running interference on behalf of the president and perhaps doing some of the president's job for him. there are similar mentions in letters to the other two aides. now, joining me now, ben domenech, editor and chief of the spectator, fox news contributor. and alex marlow, author of breitbart news author of breaking biden. tell me about the three musketeers. >> ben: it's thrsmght these people come from jill biden's orbit. >> laura: jill? >> ben: all people who have been with the biden family for quite some time. very close associates. look, you are normally not going to judge somebody for hiring staffers that they have been close with for a long time. >> l

biden can almost hear them. >> and from george clooney's op-ed, this morning ashley judd asked joe biden to step aside.rty for president. that sentiment also showing up among large donors, and a source telling nbc fund-raising is "a disaster" july donations falling by half. >> we are relying on you. >> of the campaign turned this week to small donors. paid to run this appeal from president obama. >> $5, that's enough to make a difference in this election. >> obama supports biden publicly, but did not stop clooney from calling him to step down. >> i think the first comments i had to the president were like who did your schedule? >> thursday gavin newsom reiterated his support and said his lackluster performance at last month's hollywood bash was due to jet lag from an overseas trip. >> it shows up at that fund-raiser as a human being, by any of us exhausted. >> as for money, not unlike the super pac reportedly withholding $90 million in commitments to the campaign, make a donors and netflix founder say that they too will suspend contributions until joe biden steps down. john. >> john: is all about the m

ashley harris and biden. so it will be interesting to see is this her changes over time. rs view - >> and her favor ability rating really will play a crucial role determining whether or not she can be the former republican president. >> sure. one of the things that people look at what we've been calling in. double-headers people that weren't really interested in voting for either candidate. so that 2016 they tended to rate for donald trump and that helped in his victory over hillary wrote for joe biden in 2020 and obviously that made a big we'll start to see where people said, you know what, not really enthused are excited about either candidate. if the introduction of a new candidate leads them to go one direction or another. >> the polls that were done were all taken before president biden dropped out literally like 24 hours ago. basically at this point, do you think the numbers are going to change a lot now that he's officially gone from the republican ticket how that will then change things for kamala. >> i think you can expect people to get her look, the numbers that

biden to get out of the race. senior national correspondent william la jeunesse with more what's the latest from holl hollywood? >> ashleyd branson if you remind me including him, one with the last time you heard a late-night talk show host go after a democrat? it's part of hollywood that biden never had to worry about which gave him a pass for 3.5 years but not so much anymore. >> yeah, more democrats are calling for biden to step aside. biden has not seen this many people jumped ship since he vacationed on the titanic. >> and then walks all the way back to the podium. like he is in some sort of an invisible corn maze. that is called a reverse grandpa simpson. >> another battlefront for the president, money. today actress ashley judd adding at "usa today" president biden and supporting a talented democrat to be our party's nominee. we don't have another day for distraction or division among ourselves. judd did not identify who that might be, but it will not matter if there is no money, right? large donors to the lifeblood of any campaign and many are reportedly going awol. the source telling abc fund-raising is "a disas

president family reportedly urging him to stay the course and in typical biden fashion blaming the people that prepped him for the debate. ashleylife. >> reporter: appears president biden supporters want to blame anything and everyone but president biden for his poor debate performance. >> calling this a classic example of preparation overload and i just think much less preparation for this debate. >> i'd rather have joe biden with the bad colds for 90 minutes then donald trump for america to lie. >> trace: former msnbc host directing his irs cnn for hosting the debate in the first place. >> literally i am suggesting at some point tonight cnn should go off the air in shame and fire everybody and to seal off the buildings make sure everyone is out and burn the god [ bleep ] plays down. >> trace: biden family blaming the biden staff and the family questioned how he was prepared and wondered if they could have done something better in biden's first press secretary and now msnbc's -- msnbc host came to defence, writing the notion the process and by people like ron mclean who have successfully prepped any candidates it's observed 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 happening right now, i think the question w

pure how does a politician who was less popular than joe biden suddenly become the savior of the democrat party? >> jessica: well, she is ashleypular than joe biden, more popular than donald trump -- >> judge jeanine: two weeks ago. >> jessica: she's the candidate now. it's different. this is a whole new race, a race, people who are genuinely excited about kamala harris, and then also people who would be happy with generic d. remember we have seen all of this polling over months where it is donald trump versus generic democrat and this was part of what people used two try to force joe biden out. they set a generic democrat is on 8-10 points ahead of where joe biden is. and kamala harris has just begun. she is going to need to answer for these things that i frankly think she should just get in front of it. do a big interview and play me all the clips. show me every thing i said i will explain to you how i feel differently because i have governed for four years. i have been part of the biden-harris administration. this is why my mind has been changed about x policy related to the border, medicare for all, these are lofty ideals,

see if she can't, you know, win back some of the democratic voters who had left president biden since 2020. >> ashley, there is a lot of reporting out there that a burst of energy is exactly what's happened here. i wonder, as you're talking to democrats, what their level of confidence is, that she is the person -- kamala harris is the person that can beat donald trump. this framing of former prosecutor versus convicted felon, is that going to set the stage, at least in the early weeks? >> on the prosecutor versus felon, absolutely. i spent a lot of time talking to harris aides and allies, just about how she would prosecutor the case against donald trump. it's worth noting this was also the theme of her failed presidential campaign in 2020, scherr logan was kamala harris for the people, which were the words she used to introduce the words in court when she was a prosecutors, and at that point she struggled not to make the case against trump, but affirmatively say what she stood for. four years later, that di234578ic has changed. she's still prosecuting the case against trump, but he's, a, now a convic

ashley: i will indeed, stu. in a letter to president biden, they said u.s.ary aid to israeli government should stop immediately to bring about a peaceful resolution in the war with hamas according to the unions and president of the american postal workers union said this "working people and our unions are horrify that had our tax dollars are financing this ongoing tragedy. we need a ceasefire now and the best way it shutting off military aid to israel. goes onto accuse benjamin netanyahu of violating u.s. laws on foreign aid leading democrats to call on netanyahu as we know is visiting washington this week to resign over his handling of the war in gaza. stu. stuart: thanks issue ash. i've got to tell you on the market, s&p having worst day of the year and nasdaq is having the worst day since july 17th. of this year or last year? it's a bad day for nas damage lauren: on july 17 fell 2.8%. stuart: this is as bad. we're down 2.6%. that's pretty bad. coming up, all very familiar with vice president harris' word sackmary lads. here's a few -- salads and a few of

house aides who are accused of creating a quote protective bubble around presidents biden setting subpoenas to ashleys the special assistant to the president, anthony burnell and assistant to the president and senior advisor to first lady joe biden and and a thomas evening white house deputy chief of staff. the house oversight committee put into an article and reporting from axial slow streak the forward by nad is saying "annie ashley and anthony create a protective bubble around potus. he is staffed so closely that he has lost all independence. potus relies on staff to nudge him with reminders of who he is meeting including former stock advisors who biden should easily remember". white house spokesperson andrea base pushing back on this "these are standard processes for any white house regardless of person are party". let's pregnant oversight chairman james comber. -- bring in. good to have a. let's -- you hear what andrew says about this. he says like these are people who are making sure he is on time for thanks and knows the names he needs to know as he goes in. what do you hope to gain from these

. >> she served as president biden's white house communications director, also joining us. ashley etienne, former senior advisor to the 2020 biden-harris campaign. david, first of all, what do you make of what we heard from vice president harris today? >> look, i thought this was i remember her campaign from 2020 and it wasn't a good campaign. she wasn't she'd seemed uncertain her message was unclear this was a different person who we saw today and it shows what four years of experience has done. i mean, she knows what she's fighting for and she made it very clear. she wove her biography as a prosecutor and attorney general into the narrative and drawing a contrasts with donald trump on values and on vision and eye really, i think a lot of people were heartened by what for somebody who just got i mean injected into the biggest stage in the universe. and in this very strange as what senator sanders calls this very weird situation, she would seem remarkably at ease, at ease you know, there was a comfort and it's like enjoying it. them? yes. and that was something that we didn't see

we've got ashley, allison and i agreeing on something which is that this is bad for joe biden, that is not going to happen every single today. and i've said this a few times now and i mean this purely figuratively, but there's the old adage in politics and really anything else from life when your opponents committing suicide, don't commit homicide donald trump doesn't do anything right now. you've got the democratic party eating itself. it's been happening now for months, for a while. it was happening policies, it was happening on what was going on, israel and those who took a different side and we're supporting essentially supporting hamas. you had you know, issues around that going on. you have the base dispirited on other issues. now, it's all about whether they believe joe biden is capable, even serving i, just don't know and here's the biggest problem for joe biden. if i was the biden campaign, this would be my concern every single day. this doesn't necessarily go away, right? everyone's going to be watching every single interview from now for november, they're gonna be watching e

. >> ashley judd called for president biden oh step down in a usa today op-ed.heads into the weekend trying to hold his campaign army intact after clooney went a-wall. 18 congressmen followed and large donors. oh source saying that fundraising is a disaster. july donations falling by half. now "the new york times" this morning saying that 90 million in commitments are on hold if biden stays on the ticket. the campaign is turning to small donors paying for this online appeal this morning from president obama who publicly supports biden but reportedly did not stop clooney from calling for him to step down. >> join millions of other americans by giving what you can right now at a crucial moment in this campaign. >> there is another front biden is now fighting, late night. liberal talk show hosts gave the president a pass for 3 1/2 years. not so much anymore. >> well, guys, president biden continues to dominate the news, yeah, the whispers about him dropping out of the race keep getting louder. they are getting so loud biden can almost hear them. >> a critical momen

at the same time, president biden supporting hollywood has been dwindling. on friday, the actress ashleyviously a delegate at the democratic national convention, wrote an op-ed in "usa today" titled "i'm calling on biden to step aside." earlier in the week, george clooney regg similar peace in the new york times titled "i love joe biden, but we need a new nominee." the w york times reported friday that some major democratic donors are threatening to put $90 billion in pledge donations on hold if president biden stays in the race. contrarily, a biden campaigns mcpherson in michigan said that donations to the camp and exploded during his high-profile press conference on thursday. let's get more on the state of the democratic party. joining me as a democratic strategist who has previously served as a senior advisor to john kerry. i want to flashback to last night and that highly anticipated press conference. what did you make of joe biden's performance? there were some gaffes, weren't there? >> we would not really have noticed any of them but for the debate performance. that is the challeng

el presidente biden le hablÓ a la naciÓn por cuarta vez desde la oficina oval en tres aÑos y medio de gestiÓn. estuvo acompaÑado de su hijo hunter, su hija ashleyvos maridos y la doctora y primera dama, jill biden. el discurso fue corto. durÓ unos 11 minutos, pero le explicÓ al paÍs sus motivos para retirarse de la contienda. enumerÓ los logros de su presidencia y explicÓ lo que aÚn le hace falta por hacer en estos Últimos seis meses de su periodo. cristina londoÑo nos acompaÑa con todos los detalles desde afuera de la casa blanca. buenas noches. >> asÍ es aranza, muy buenas noches. fue un discurso sentido en que el presidente joe biden se veÍa a la vez resignado y comprometido, convencido de lo que estaba haciendo. hubo un momento en que dio la sensaciÓn de una despedida y es que este sin duda ha sido el mensaje mÁs difÍcil para Él en mÁs de medio siglo de carrera polÍtica. >> so i decided the best way forward is the past the torch to a new generation. >> he decidido que el mejor camino para unir a nuestro paÍs es pasÁndole la antorcha a una nueva generaciÓn, dijo despuÉs de cuatro dÍas de silencio, el presidente joe biden, al explicarle a la

so ashley, let's ashley you know, in this context though president biden in spoke earlier, great and many opted to decide to give an oval office address at 8:00 harder prime time on a sunday night, the last time he gave such an address was after what happened in israel in october okay. so just to me, everyone understand the seriousness of this moment. i don't think any american questions is seriousness of this moment what do you think we're going to hear from him tonight? ashley? >> well, first i think it's important that we hear from the president that we heard from him immediately put a statement out yesterday when an address the american public told people not to jump to the assumptions because we just don't know. we still are trying to figure out who this person was. it took the shot and then he came out again, keeping people updated. that's actually what leaders do, is they communicate we're regardless of your political ideologies. he's the president of the entire united states and host. so he's communicating to american citizens, but he's also communicated to the world that som