and in los angeles, david dayen is executive editor of the american prospect, who has been following of this closely and has a recent piece headlined "why the bid to push out biden is losing." david, let's begin with you in california. what was your assessment? we played some of the gaffes of president biden. he spent an hour talking about foreign policy. but that beginning where he was talking about kamala harris and why couldn't she be president or could she be president and the whole issue of passing the torch, the next generation come as president biden said when he was running less time that he some place on himself as a bridge to the next generation. take it all on, david. >> i don't go in for theater criticism a whole lot, so i don't know that i am super interested in addressing the theatrics of the whole thing. i think people were looking for a sign out of this that maybe was unreasonable us to people were looking for him to either follow the podium or recite the gettysburg address from memory. neither of those things happen. there was no clear signal -- the problem is that wh