just as we planned for him back now with joe lockhart, kate bedingfield, and john love it. >> john, you know, what is your argument to those who say, look, there's you know, the, the alternatives are not necessarily polling any better than the current president why then should a change be made? first of all, to kate's point, i would say that's a very legitimate argument. nobody knows everything. everybody should be talking about this with openness and generosity in humility is a very difficult situation. i think the issue is right now, kate's also right when she says that these are polls that i can't and pain can turn around. joe biden has an excellent campaign around him. he has an incredible, smart group of people and a great apparatus around him. the problem is right now, i think the real doubts are about whether joe biden as a candidate has the capacity to be the messenger. we need right now right? like it is true, other candidates don't pull much better against donald trump, but we're counting on the idea that they'll do politics, that they'll go out there from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 pm

political correspondent for the wall street journal for her white house communications director kate bedingfield and jonah goldberg. he is the co-founder and editor in chief of the dispatch. welcome to all of you molly ball. it seems like the president yesterday did. he had a better day? hey, than some of his other days and that he had this he had this letter. he did. we played a little bit of that interview that he did on morning joe had this call with the cbc. there seems to be some shoring up of support there, but he still has high-profile tests looming this week. i'm just wondering what your latest reporting is on where this where this stands and the level of pressure the president is facing right now well, i think i think that interests ended up well, actually, which is that the party is divided and that for a lot of people, a lot of democrats is the worst-case scenario of people were hoping to get through this one way or another without having the party at odds. >> but now you do have these warring camps emerging where there is a group that is saying let's stop arguing think about this. he

this also comes as yesterday kate bedingfield who is the former communications director divided, she the biden team well. she said this team is the best in the business when it comes to data and analytics and maybe it's time they look earnestly at what the data's saying. maybe they listen to kate bedingfield yesterday. >> emily: finally, wasn't it joe biden who said he doesn't believe any of the poles he s sees. it illustrates to me more than just testing, harris for voters is testing her at this point. why have they not been testing her this entire time? we've been discussing his mental acuity lapses in the clear potential for him not to survive, i mean that figuratively speaking, not to survive his candidacy, or running. how is it just now they are saying let's see about the vice president. i'm sorry. we've been asking that for months. her audition has been the past four years also and she has abysmally failed. gavin newsom shares a donor pool with, harris. they grew up in the same political scene and enjoy the same five strong families that have supported them to begin with. they'

kate bedingfield. thanks so much here now, the political panel to discuss david chalian, the democratic national committee. despite having been proven not being honest about what's going on in ohio because there was questions about whether or not they had to do this virtual nomination because of some law in ohio, but that's now changed whether or not the dnc wants to acknowledge that they don't want to acknowledge it, right? they're not being honest about it what are you hearing about this plan to start with this virtual nomination against the wishes of chuck schumer, hakeem jeffries, and so many other elected democrats as early as august 1, right? >> so the plan had been and it was the ohio thing that triggered it before resolved to do a virtual or remote roll call and it would be happening prior to the invention, by the way, this is what happened four years ago because of covid, when we saw that roll call at the convention that was not he had already been they had done this before, so they were doing

kate bedingfield look, i want to start with you. you also as all of this was kind of cascading yesterday, you tweeted this to those that you used to work with at the white house. if they have data that supports the path to victory that they see, they should put it out there now and help people who badly wanted to beat trump rally around it people want to see the path you've been here several days this morning. we have been following this bouncing ball together, where biden has been up and now biden seems to be down how difficult was yesterday for him and how different is the situation now than it was 24 hours before them yeah. well, it definitely felt like the mood shifted a bit on capitol hill, obviously, when you saw nancy pelosi come out and essentially put the conversation back on the table and say, let him get through nato this week and then we're going to essentially chile she's signaled, we're going to have another discussion about this so obviously that's not, that is a weaker position than he was in the day prior when it se

we have shermichael singleton and kate bedingfield with us. shermichael, i wonder what you think of this controversy over president trump appearing at this conference. >> i mean, i get it. i have a lot of friends who are black journalist and i have talked with a ton of them over the last 24 hours but i also found in my conversations texts, a few phone calls that they also have thought that it was important. i mean, here's someone who very well may become the next president. again of the united states. and there are some very serious questions that black journalist who do represent the interests of the black community should be able to ask both leading candidates in terms of their policies and their politics and their philosophy sophie and how that will have implications on the broader black community. that is their job as journalists. and the job is to take two task politicians and political leaders. and so my hope is that they will ask tough questions. and my hope is that the former president will answer those tough questions. mean black peop

kate bedingfield, former communications director for the white house under president joe biden. you left about what, a year-and-a-half ago? >> yeah. march of 2023. okay your reaction i mean, this is a well, you tell me what they'd like for you. au it's an emotional day as proud as i can only speak for myself, as proud as i am that he made this decision, which i know was excruciating and harder for him, but i think was incredibly selfless. it's still it's emotional. i mean, this is somebody who has achieved an incredible legislative records, made enormous progress on things that the country has been trying to make headway on for many, many years. and joe biden with somebody who was able to do that as president and as somebody who worked for him, i am enormously proud of that. i know the people who were working for him in the white house are proud of what they've been able to achieve in these now almost four years and i think it's also, we should also acknowledge the campaign staff in wilmington who have been going through an excruciating three weeks here on every campaign i've lo

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 our guy as someone in the white house basically told me it was this was this was the party decided situation and joe biden, who has long long been a party man, has basically been in some

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further now with cnn political commentator former biden white house communications director kate bedingfield, and republican strategist took hi, good to see you both. kate, i know you just heard the reporting from mj as she pointed out, the white house denying the new york times reporting the campaign also denied to me just it's a couple of moments ago that new york times reporting, but i think it's important as we hear what mj is saying here, right? the fact that there is this meeting, there is clearly a discussion going on despite the fact that the campaign just told me there was no discussion whatsoever. kate, how do you read this? what does this tell you about the mindset of the man who you worked for and the mindset sayyed that white house right now well, i think i mean, luck it is. we should acknowledge that both the white house and the campaign or flatly denying the reporting. but even setting that aside, i think there's no question this is a significant stretch of time that the campaign and the white house are entering into here. i think they know that the task ahead of them is to pu

. >> and let's bring in the political panel here in dc, jamie gangel, karen finney, kate bedingfield, audie cornish, david chalian, and shermichael singleton. we dragged them all here on this sunday evening to talk about this momentous day in america. can politics kate bedingfield former communications director for the white house under president joe biden. you left about what, a year-and-a-half ago? yeah. march of 2023 okay. >> your reaction i mean, this is a well, you tell me what you say like for you au it's an emotional day. >> as as proud as i can only speak for myself, as proud as i am that he made this decision, which i know was excruciating and hard for him, but i think was incredibly selfless. it's still it's emotional. i mean, this is somebody who has achieved an incredible legislative records, made enormous progress on things that the country has been trying to make headway on for many, many years. and joe biden with somebody who was able to do that as president and as somebody who worked for him, i am enormously proud of that. i know the people who were working for him in

former white house comms directors kate bedingfield writes when the battle over the public data is soverwhelmingly negative it's a good moment to put forward your here to of the case. if they have data that supports the path to victory that they see, they should put it out there now. at the moment biden world is bracing for further defections, hoping not to lose d.c.'s second most powerful democrat. >> still behind you, sir? >> ahead of a critical solo press conference this time tomorrow night, president biden is not going to be getting as much sleep as he says that he needs because here at the white house, the president is about to host a nato leader's dinner. doesn't start until 8:00 p.m. jillian? >> what the white house is calling a big boy press conference. all right. peter, thanks very much from the north lawn. president biden is losing support among congressional democrats, 8 of them now calling for him to cut bait and get out of the race with many more withholding public comment essentially hedging their bets. here is congressional correspondent aishah hasnie. >> on the hill, d

kate bedingfield, who used to work for joe biden.> stephen: what were you seeing? >> abby: it was -- >> stephen: keep in mind i can say out loud i'm a huge fan of the guy and you can't say that because you're impartial. >> abby: it was just very clear within a few seconds that this was going to be a rough night for the president. >> stephen: something was not right. >> abby: something was not right. someone said "uh-oh" and then we just continued to watch. and waited to see what happened. >> stephen: did that someone say it into your mirror at home? or was it someone else? >> abby: someone else on the set. >> stephen: the president, following the debate, over a week later, which is surpriing, sat down with george stephanopoulos in a 22-minute interview on friday. the white house hoped it would sort of put an end to it and reinstill confidence. i'm going to use a term i shouldn't because i'm not in the news, but what do your sources tell you? what do your sources tell you about the low-level mutiny among democrats on capitol hill? did

kate bedingfield. so kate, what's your reaction? i'm days reporting. look, one thing i will say about campaign leaks like this. >> this is not honorable. this is not helpful to the candidate you're working for. i think for people across the party who are raising their concerns, it's it's a conversation but i would argue needs to be had. i'm not i don't question that. but if you are working for joe biden's campaign and you were going out right now while the president is clearly, as we've seen from some of his top closest confidants like chris coons reflecting on what he wants to do moving forward, if you were working on his campaign and you were going out and leaking like this? put your name on it and resign because that is just that is not an honorable honorable way to behave. >> all right. i will leave it on that all right. >> we're getting closer to donald trump's night at the convention as this reporting continues to break on, joe biden was we get more information on the former president's speech anticipated year and just a couple of hours we're goi

axelrod, and cnn political commentator and former biden white house communications director kate bedingfield. thank you both for being here. david, i want to talk to you about this. is there has been a time where we have seen the democrats or any party go from doldrums worry division two absolute excitement yeah, look, i think this is a unique set of circumstances. there is a great deal of affection and respect for joe biden. there was concern about whether he was able to move forward. there is unanimity in opposition to donald trump and people were hungry for a candidate who they thought could take it to trump and you can feel the sense of relief among democrats and you look at the polling that's come out in the last 24 hours, what you see is a consolidation of democrats, including younger democrats african americans, and so on. people of color who were tepid before and have now come back. so she is consolidating the democratic base. there's more work to do. it's going to be a long, hard slog and you can see how the republicans are trying to characterize her or caricature her but certainly

ashley allison, who served as national coalitions director for the 2020 biden-harris can't and kate bedingfield, former biden white house communications director, congressman, it was ten days ago that you call from vice president harris replace president biden at the top of the ticket president said again tonight, he's not going anywhere. what did you make of his speech tonight? and does it make you change your mind no. >> i honestly i didn't watch a whole lot. i just listened to it as as i was sitting here but i think the fact that a lot of the almost all of the michigan representatives senators candidates were not there, i think tells a lot of us exactly what was happening on the ground brown now he's obviously going out. he's going to try to convince people, which is fine. he has a right to absolutely do that. but when i think about what the

you had kate bedingfield the former comms director for biden said he needed to show up tonight and he did. >> steve: here's thing. remember nancy pelosi a couple days ago on another channel said let's just hold your fire. democrats, don't say anything in public until the end of the week. in other words, until after. >> lawrence: the press conference. >> steve: exactly. the cbs is reporting today that apparently dozens of democratic lawmakers in the next 48 hours, it's going to be coordinated. they are going to en masse, say joe, you got to go. >> lawrence: unbelievable. >> steve: cbs says that the democrats say that behind the scenes the next three or four days are going to be brutal for joe biden exception is squeeze him out by the middle of next week. >> ainsley: right in the middle of rng. >> brian: i watched lawrence editing this morning is this the montage here? >> lawrence: this is the media reaction. >> why haven't they done a lot more of these. that's about as comfortable is he going to get. >> at the beginning where he vice president vice president trump instead of vice presi

allison, who served as national coalitions director for the 2020 biden-harris campaign, and kate bedingfield, former biden white house communications director, congressman, it was ten days ago that you call from vice president harris replaces president biden at the top of the ticket president said again tonight, he's not going anywhere. what did you make of his speech tonight? and does it make you change your mind no. >> i honestly i didn't watch a whole lot. i just listened to it as as i was sitting here. but i think the fact that a lot of the almost all of the michigan representatives senators candidates were not there, i think tells a lot of us exactly what was happening on the ground now he's obviously going out. he's going to try to convince people, which is fine. he has a right to absolutely do that but when i think about what the swing-state numbers are looking like, anderson in these swing states, the biden campaign has spent already the trump campaign and the outside groups have not spent already. and you think about the debate, you think about the george stephanopoulos interview. y

middle-class and bring us backward joining me now cnn political commentators, david axelrod and kate bedingfield, she's, he is a former obama senior adviser. >> 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 se

president to approach that podium we also have our panel with me and i want to start with you, kate bedingfield, because, you know, the president and you've worked with him and you've spent a lot of time with him? and i'm wondering what you think is going through his mind right now, given the high stakes of this moment. and he knows it, and oppressions, pressure and stress he is under as he walks out to that podium, knowing that every single word he says or any single word he says could be used to end his campaign well, certainly i think he has every understanding that this is a significant high-stakes moment. >> i imagine as he's preparing, he's working through what are the key things that he wants to show people that he wants, people who are watching this press conference to come away with. and i think the things he needs to do you know, he needs to convey that he shares the belief that this race and the potential threat of a second donald trump presidency is an existential threat that he has the energy and the vigor and the fire to fight that fight, i think that's more than anything. i think

lines in 2016, trump campaign deputy communications director also, cnn political commentators, kate bedingfield and maria cardona and then tausche alford, senior correspondent for the grio natasha, just it's early polling. what do you make of the numbers that we're seeing now? now tonight, i think that people have been craving something to be excited about, to vote for a rather than feeling like they were just voting against donald trump, kamala harris is energetic. >> she's passionate. she has that edge, this sense that she is a prosecutor or somebody who's skilled at calling out people whom i feel like the truth and donald trump has been able to get away with so much he's been able to spin and sort of talk his way out of a lot of the criticisms about him in the courtroom and outside of the courtroom. and so this sense that she can be a fighter. i think people are really rallying behind that. >> the former president obviously is trying to define kamala harris before she can do it for for herself harris has had by all estimations, a very good rollout thus far, probably better than anybody could

be speaking the congresswoman zoe lofgren this hour were hit her thoughts on what's going on, kate bedingfield, i'm anxious to get your thoughts right now. these lawmakers, the democratic lawmakers, are saying they will support president biden if he is eventually the nominee and he's running. but given the very deep concerns right now that are being expressed, public politically, the deep divisions within the democratic party about his candidacy how tenable is that really? if he's the nominee well, look, i think if he's the nominee, yes. >> i believe these democratic members of congress are going to support him. they all want to see donald trump defeated. i mean, i think that's one important thing to remember about all of the anxiety and the emad ocean around all of this, this is borne out of a desire to defeat donald trump in an effort to put forward the candidate that democrats believe can beat donald trump i think if joe biden is the nominee, i imagine that these democrats are going to come home and support him. i think one of the things that the biden campaign has been arguing, their theor

. >> biden's former communications director, kate bedingfield thanks guys for being here. david, we played what jim clyburn said when speaking with on the today show this morning, what do you make of what clyburn saying? what is his message? what do you hear? >> well, look, the president made an unequivocal statement at the beginning of the week that he was in to stay in his letter to congress. and yet, all of the congressional leaders and including speaker emeritus pelosi are saying the same thing, which is, well, you know, it's up, up to him. we want to give him time, room to decide. it's his choice but the implication is that he may have made an unequivocal statement, but he ought to consider it and i think they're trying to give them room, listen. jim clot. nobody loves in respects joe biden more than jim clyber but there are certain immutable realities of politics. and while the president, i don't know what his aides are telling him but he's in a very tough spot right now to win this election. and if they're not telling him that they're doing a disservice to him at on

bottoms, who is now a senior advisor for the harris campaign, and a former mayor of atlanta, and kate bedingfield, former white house communications director. >> so both of you know, the president and the vice president have worked with them and campaigned for them there. if you you just heard the republicans trying to define vice president harris as too liberal and the statistic that i gave to the governor there, right? she was, quote, the most liberal compared to all senators according to gov track in 2019 in terms of her voting record so what does this mean for her vice presidential pick? does this really put the pressure for a moderate or centrist democrat or no? >> well, we know that the pig is completely up to vice president harris in traditionally, we think about balancing out a ticket, but it's going to be hard pick all of the names that we've heard floated are certainly great, well-qualified the fight candidates and certainly much better candidates than j.d. vance. what we know from the trump campaign is that they have doubled down on this maga right-wing rhetoric on that's not been heal

joining us now is former biden white house communications director kate bedingfield, the aforementioned david axelrod, ashley etienne, who served as vice president harris's communications director and democratic strategist paul begala david, i mean what do you make of these visits? the white house from a parkinson specialists well i don't know what to make of it. >> i will say this anderson, i i i don't believe the president it has parkinson's disease. they say he doesn't, that he's not being treated for that. i think it would be irresponsible to run if you were being treated for that? i don't i have no question in my mind about that. but questions are going to be raised if you're not simple and direct and about these kinds of issues, it was predictable that people would have curiosity about why this doctor was there given the issues that were raised by the president's debate performance and the fact that press secretary didn't have direct answers to those questions only intensifies the hunt for answers. the media is going to not we'll take her non-answers at face value at this point me

allison, who served as national coalitions director for the 2020 biden-harris campaign, and kate bedingfieldrmer biden white house communications director, congressman. >> it was ten days ago that you call from vice president harris replaces president biden at the top of the ticket president said again tonight, he's not going anywhere. what did you make of his speech tonight? and does it make you change your mind no. >> i honestly i didn't watch a whole lot. i just listened to it as as i was sitting here but i think the fact that a lot of the almost all of the michigan representatives, senators, candidates were not there. i think tells a lot of us exactly what was happening on the ground now he's obviously going out. he's going to try to convince people, which is fine. i'm he has a right to absolutely do that but when i think about what the swing-state numbers are looking like, anderson and in these swing states, the biden campaign has spent already the trump campaign and the outside groups have not spent already. and you think about the debate, you think about the george stephanopoulos inte

senior washington correspondent for bloomberg news, former white house communications director kate bedingfield, david polyansky republican strategist, former chief of staff to senator ted cruz, david, if i could begin with you. >> laugh of a crazy person i mean, why is this necessary? i know it's not new for trump. a wise, it's necessarily to attack a female candidate for president in such a way. >> well, look, i've been a part of two campaigns against donald trump and it's not exclusive to this race. it's how he campaigns he is unpredictable. he's hard to pin down and sometimes what seems like an erratic measure on his part is sometimes pretty effective with voters. so i think we all just have to recognize it's sometimes it's donald trump being donald trump but at the same time, i think the harris campaign is mindful that sometimes his erratic behavior can be effective and land with voters. >> so yeah, but i mean come i mean, listen to senator senator kennedy, who is a sitting us senator speaking on fox news. listen to the language he used. have a listen the polling that i've seen shows that

kate bedingfield, i'm going to bring you in as caitlin noted, maybe sometimes it's staff doesn't want to take questions you're one of those staffers back when you were covering, you were working for the white house i want to get your take on this because we keep hearing publicly from the democrats who are coming out to support biden. this was just one bad night. this was just one bad night. wasn't really just one bad night well, i think it was i think it was admittedly a very bad night, but it was what it was one bad night. and i think that biden's task now is to go out to i think it's smart for him to do this tonight to both drive the conversation back to trump. i mean, by the way, we had a really monumental decision handed down from the supreme court today that really illustrates what's at stake in this election, given that we have donald trump running for the republican nomination, who has been in very clear that he intends to use the office of the presidency for retribution and his own political gain. so the stakes here, i think are enormously high, and it's smart for president bi

kate bedingfield, former white house communications director under biden and cnn analysts writing on x today, quote, if they, meaning the biden campaign, have data that supports the path to victory that they see. they should put it out there now and help people who badly want to beat trump rally around it people want to see the path well, the white house isn't showing all their cards yet. and while most of the conversation centers around democrats, we know that independence could very well decide this race. senior data reporter harry enten joins me. now. harry, always good to see you. how does the data reveal or what does it reveal about biden support among independents? now you know, laura, we have looked at a lot of national data post-debate among the electorate at large. but the fact of the matter is this election is going to be won or lost in the middle. it's not going to be won or lost in the partisan extreme. so i want to take a look at how independents are viewing this race between joe biden and donald trump. and i want to sort they give you a timeline here because i really th

but yesterday you had a good conversation with kate bedingfield and jonah goldberg talking about whethernot biden could do it for another four years? i think you know, i believe that biden has the ability to get this out now, but if there was a conversation yet again, that he needed to step aside republicans i think would rightly go and they will wait a minute why are you able to do the job for another seven months effectively then there might be a conversation about him whether or not you can do the job right now, let me put that way. i what i think china looks at the deliver that message in prior rolls their eyes, but that aside what they are looking at is how effectively president biden has managed ukraine and has managed what's going on in the middle east and how we were a year or two ago talking about what the odds were of taiwan being invaded by china and china's math has changed because they see how effectively united states has come to the rescue of its allies. house is a little different with taiwan, but i don't, that's an oversimplification for someone who is auditioning to be

. >> so kate bedingfield, this is from the leading pro-trump super pac they've already announced plans to run their first attack ad against vice president harris in battleground states here's some of that camila was in on it. she covered up jos obvious mental decline. our president is in good shape and good health. >> tireless, vibrant, and i have no doubt the about this length of the work that we have gone, but kamel and knew joe couldn't do the job. >> so she did it. look what she got done a border invasion, runaway inflation, the american dream, dead what do you think? i think this is more of a bank shot argument. if joe biden is not the nominee, i mean, i think look, they've said they've signaled they're going to do this. there's no question. and we saw in some of the polling that presumably was moving members over the last week that voters were saying, i don't know if i trust you when you vouch that joe biden's healthy, so i think no question. they're going to go at this line of attack. i think it's, it becomes a bank shot when joe biden is not the nominee. i also think we have to

kate bedingfield, that the vice president kamala harris and i was going to be the democratic presidential nominee. she's going to have to select a vice presidential running mate. how pivotal could this decision be? >> i think it's really important one, you know, historically, ai thank you. can debate whether the vice presidential nominee ultimately has a significant impact you know, electorally on the outcome. one way or the other. but i think in this moment when there's so much urgency and intensity around the need to unify the party. and for democrats to really unite behind the standard bearer. i think choosing somebody who can help motivate parts of the democratic coalition who have maybe been turned off by this entire process. i mean, don't forget there are many members of the democratic party who are frustrated by what they feel has happened to president biden over the last three weeks there's a need for urgency here, and i think this is a moment where a vice presidential pick who could potentially have more weight then other moments, just because there's so much focus on what happen

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 bottom has actually not fallen out from under joe biden. i would not argue the status quo is great for him either. i mean, you see him

support she is able to galvanize and from what corners of the party speak you're joe manchin, kate bedingfield, our jake tapper is reporting that senator joe manchin, the independent from west virginia, is considering throwing his hat in the ring and maybe running for the democratic presidential race registering as a democrat in the process our hopes for unifying the democratic party right now seemingly in disarray, falling you'll part potentially well, i think the fact that he would have to re-register as a democrat to even throw his hat in the ring to be the democratic nominee. >> he tells you a lot about the kind of support that he would get from the democratic party. no disrespect to senator manchin was a long record of service, but i'm not sure that he is somebody who is going to rally the democratic base and the democratic coalition in this moment? and i, what i, what i would say is, you know, senator manchin loves to find a headline and, you know, as a communications professional, i can respect that, but i respect him it's not, speak out earlier to tell her tail spill know. but i don't

want to get a quick first take from three people worked with president biden, david axelrod, kate bedingfield, van jones, david i mean, it was it was i think it was about as good a speech as he could have made. >> i think it was powerful and poignant and it had a principle behind it. and you just read it. the idea that the country is more important than any one individual and that he thought he could best serve his country by stepping aside. now and he said, i've made my choice now that choice is yours. i you know, i thought the end of that speech was so moving. the fact that he is in fact a reflection of the greatness of america that this kid from scranton and claymont, a kid with a stutter yes. so interesting me that he's present united states, and that is the first way he describes himself. >> a kid with a stutter? yes. >> and of course that's the thing. the quality of joe biden that has allowed them to persist all these years against all these odds and but he's leaving forget the three-and-a-half weeks he's done an unnatural thing, very rare in the annals of history. he stepped away from

jonah goldberg, kate bedingfield, alyssa farah, griffin van jones, scott jennings scott. i mean jd vance is the only name less left on the list of three that a lot of people have been talking about. it's possible there could be somebody else out there surprise. >> yeah, that's been alluded to today. but there are other names floating around, but obviously the focus is on vance right now and has some kise to kentucky like me, he's the senator from ohio. he's had an interesting journey started out kind of as a never trumper. think he even voted for evan mcmullin for president in 2016. but his sense said i was wrong about donald trump. now, his journey is not that much different than a lot of other republicans who didn't support donald trump in 2016, who've now mostly come around to supporting him and he has become one of the high priests of trumpism and of maga inside the republican party. and in american politics, he's very young. and so choosing someone like this for vice president is a clear signal of a passing of the torch when donald trump finally exits the stage, when