and quite frankly, us jerry connelly that earlier democratic but remember from virginia, and he said, we don't know the answer to that. that doesn't sound like ringing confidence to me in this moment to that point. another thing connolly said that i found interesting is that he had not seeing the outreach that he would have liked to rank and file members not only from the white house, but from the campaign to get consensus. quickly, we have evan austin os with us. he's been standing by oven how much do you think this speech? matters in the calculus of biden's decision because obviously it was a fiery speech, but we saw him give one in north carolina a week ago it was only about 20 minutes. i can imagine that there's 50 plus million people watching the friday after fourth of july. the way there were for the debate. how do you think this fits into the bigger picture? >> well, it was a feisty speech and the top line, of course the thing he wants people to come away from this width is that he's not getting out and it was interesting as, as as gloria mentioned, this question of who is he t

eric bryan here in virginia and jerry connelly said the ukraine's borders are our borders. i saw it was sick that after they passed that measure, they all took out ukraine. why? of ukraine and israel. and i didn't see a single congress person in the united states of america waving the united states it. what's terrible about, how does that tell you? what is the other thing is this about that they call this supporting ukraine half a 1000000 minimum of a half a 1000000 ukrainian, some type of ukranian people are suffering in this way. let's face it. things are going well for israel right now with friends like that, who needs adversary if they are truly looking out for the best interest of ukraine and israel. they would negotiate diplomatic settlements to both of those, and then they would try to rebuild them. and so they could have a peaceful existence so clearly, and they're not looking at. and by the way, as i understand it, and i'm not sure how, you know, how much certitude they have in this uh, that they've apparently proposed. but the russian side has on several occasions

we spoke to representative jerry connelly, democrat earlier on cnn who when asked if biden could be trump, he said, i don't think we know that yet. and you talked about how important these next few days are i think the next couple of days are critical, but i think i've watched rally today when joe biden spoke, i think we need to see more of that. joe biden, i think i wanted to hear job numbers because that's what matters to americans. i wanted to hear have them talk about policy because that also is mattering. that's what voters are looking at american tebor short-term memory. i know that we are focused on the back i'd performance of the debate, but i do think that the tide will turn. this will fade at some point for me, it's not fading fast enough because i think this sooner that the democrats can coalesce around the candidate that they have chosen to put forward on the ticket, the better off, we'll all be because i'm in the interest of making sure that donald trump never returns to the oval office again there's also though you're talking about i wanted to fade and for many people, right

. >> and you heard jerry connelly on here earlier, say took issue with some of the things he said about god almighty will have to come and tell me to leave the race for you to leave the race and just saying, hey, if i lose again strong by gave it my all certainly not satisfactory. i want to just ask you quickly, alex, before we let you go. so it struck me as i was listening to the interview when george stephanopoulos very, who did it, i thought a masterful job asking the right questions with the right tone as luck, would you take a cognitive test? best and he pressed him on that and president biden said, we'll every day, i'm taking a cognitive test. well, the bottom line is, he failed that's a standard, he failed that test on debate night, right? i mean, i think that's a pretty universal view and as you laid out, sarah with interviews, he's done it he certainly hasn't been past you them with flying colors. so what's the discussion behind the scenes, alex, about about that? and hearing from the white house doctor shootings i mean, the fact that the more troubling thing isn't just the deb

as you heard a moment ago from jerry connelly with congressman, he's saying openly it's not clear to him that joe biden is in the strongest position to win evan biden has said that he would be a transition candidate, infected fluid with the idea of only serving one term. >> and when you look at and just consider as age and some people wonder why, why continue won, you know, why is he running again what drives him, especially in this moment of immense pressure right now, does he feel an obligation to serve? >> yeah two things. one is interesting is even though he said at the time i want to be a transition canada, he actually explicitly said no to the idea of only serving one term. i just think it's something that is worth pointing out what he was doing at the time was, let's be honest, he was sort of playing with the ambiguity of that idea. he wanted people to say, well, he will put in place place people who would eventually inherit this kind of power. but the reality is people expected him to serve one term and only one term. and i think what i talked to him back in january about thi