just today, one of his top allies, massachusetts governor maura healey, asked him to carefully evaluate whether he is still the democrats best option. and cbs news has learned that democratic senator mark warner of virginia is talking to colleagues about finding a way to ask biden to get out, according to one senator contacted. cbs's scott macfarlane is in madison, wisconsin, where the president spoke this afternoon and it's got, frame it for us: just how important is today and this weekend to the future of biden's candidacy? >> reporter: a pivotal 72 hours ahead. he has a network prime time tv interview tonight, a rally in the battle got state of pennsylvania sunday, and he told reporters he's talked to at least 20 members of congress, as he tries to save his campaign from internal party pressure. trying to prevent his political support from crumbling, president biden rallied voters in the democratic stronghold of madison, wisconsin. >> i am running and him going win again. [cheers and applause] >> reporter: open the acknowledging a revolt against him by some in his own party. >> despi

. >> julie: another she was dropped maura healey maura healey a top biotin surrogate saying the presidente his path forward. she says the best path forward and i was a decision for the president to make over the coming days i urge him to listen to the american people and carefully evaluate whether he remains our best hope to defeat donald trump. those are big words coming from massachusetts. massachusetts. >> let's do the translation from clinical speech. she says get out now, you are done, leave. but she says listen to the american people. if you were listening to the american people for quite some time, they have been saying you ought to actually, mr. president, step down because we don't think -- i'm in the polls are not new. we have known this for a while now. they were really concerned it is over for them in the selection. and i think they are right to be concerned because people didn't see what happened in this debate and if he is an 8:00 p.m. bed, time guy he can't be the president. >> between 10-4 question mike >> the world has to happen from 10-4. is that we are hoping for? >> wh

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. >> i want to read to you the statement we're just getting in recently from maura healey, of course, the governor of massachusetts. and she says, the best way forward right now is a decision for the president to make over the coming days. i urge him to listen to the american people and carefully evaluate whether he remains our best hope to defeat donald trump. whatever president biden decides, i'm committed to doing everything in my power to defeat donald trump. i'm wondering how do you take that statement? and is that representative of where a lot of the democratic leaders are right now? >> i can't speak for other democratic leaders, but look, this has been a terrific president. he had he'd stopped and beat trump in 2020. he went on to pass more legislation since lbj. there's no doubt about his past as president. but what we are facing another threat to our democracy. and the question is, can president biden take us there? and what i've seen over the last seven days isn't showing that he can i'm curious, as you sort of describe the effort from the campaign and the white house is as

we heard from massachusetts governor maura healey, who asked biden to carefully evaluate, quote unquote, if he should continue or not. biden has been so adamant that he is not dropping out. he tweeted it out earlier today. do you expect his messaging to change at all during this interview, or to soften it all? >> you know, usually i wouldn't put too much weight on a single interview, but i think for the biden campaign, this interview is huge. if he leaves this interview anything short of convincing, a lot of his critics, you know, i could see them pressuring him more and more over the weekend because time is of the essence here. they have a convention coming up in august, obviously, the election is in november, if they think biden cannot win or uh- equally as important for them, turn out enough voters to support those congressional races and state level races. a lot of people within the party are going to be angry, and i think that's why you see a lot of people in congress and governors and donors stepping out of the party. they're concerned that this isn't going to be just a negative o

. >> i'm joined now by the democratic governor of massachusetts, maura healey and governor it's great to have you here because on this new audio that you hear, that the washington post and isaac obtained dana of senator vance saying that it was a sucker punch for biden to drop out and lamenting that harris doesn't have the same baggage that republicans believed biden did. do you agree with j.d. vance that harris does have less baggage than biden does well clearly j.d vance is scared and donald trump is scared. i mean, donald trump's gone in the direction of bailing on debates. j.d vance is now squirming and making the common cities, making and they should be scared because kamala harris is tough smart compassionate. i saw her. i worked with her as attorney general and they have every reason to be running scared at this point. she's an excellent candidate, should be excellent president. look what she has done this week, kaitlan, i mean uniting the democratic party over 200 million in grassroots fundraising. record numbers of voters registered. and i think more than anything, just this

. >> i'm joined now by the democratic governor of massachusetts, maura healey and governor it's great to have you here because on this new audio that you here, the washington post and isaac obtained of senator vance saying that it was a sucker punch for biden to drop out and lamenting that harris doesn't have the same baggage they republicans believed biden did. do you agree with j.d. vance that harris does have less baggage than biden does well, clearly, j.d. >> vance is scared and donald trump is scared. i mean, donald trump's gone in the direction of bailing on debates j.d. vance is now squirming and making the comment cities making and they should be scared because kamala harris is tough, smart, compassionate. i saw her. i worked with her as attorney general and they have every reason to be running scared at this point. she's an excellent candidate, should be excellent. president. look what she has done this week, kaitlan, i mean uniting the democratic party over 200 million in grassroots fundraising. record numbers of voters registered. >> and i think more than anything, just thi

and in a statement today, democratic massachusetts governor maura healey urged the president to listenthe american people and carefully evaluate whether he remains our best hope to defeat donald trump. ♪ ♪ spotted briefly behind the president at his rally, a young man holding a sign that said "pass the torch, joe." did you have any concerns about how the last eight days have gone? >> some, sure. >> it's not just trying to get through the campaign. it's four years in a very difficult role. it takes a lot. >> reporter: biden supporters in wisconsin expressed concern and hopes that he could withstand the growing political pressure and a grueling four months to come. >> i want to see that he can stand up to the rigors of the political campaign. >> reporter: and a source familiar tells cbs news house democratic leader hakeem jeffries will have a call sunday with a group of other top house democrats about the president. that's after a mid-week call this week with house leadership in the wake of the president's debate performance, adriana. >> adriana: scott macfarlane, keeping track of it all

today, massachusetts governor maura healey saying “over the coming days, i urge him to listen to themerican people and carefully evaluate whether he remains our best hope to defeat donald trump.” even steadfast supporters, like california governor, gavin newsom, acknowledging the pressure. >> this is a really important week and weekend. none of us are naive. >> reporter: three democratic members of congress have already called on biden to quit the race. and attention is turning to vice president kamala harris, who stood with the president to watch the fourth of july fireworks and has been increasingly at his side as he navigates prepares the toughest week of his political career w you're learn is another top democrat this time trying to organize a group of senators to discuss the path forward? >> reporter: that's exactly right. senator mark warner who chairs the senate intelligence group discuss president biden's path forward and whether he should step aside in this race. we are told warner has privately questioned whether president biden can defeat donald trump in november. whit no

one of the governors he met with, maura healey of massachusetts, is now urging the president to carefully evaluate whether to stay in the race. nbc news is also reporting that some democrats say the president's debate performance was not an anomaly. one democratic senator who declined to speak publicly, telling us the country saw what those of us who have had personal interactions with him have all known for the last two and a half years. they counter that narrative today, the biden campaign announcing an aggressive travel schedule and $50 million paid media blitz to reach voters. do you think this was just a one night problem? i mean, i understand the concern, but i think in the long run he'll prove people wrong. how difficult was it to see that debate performance? it was very difficult. and in my mind i was making all the excuses that a lot of biden fans were making. but in the end, it's more what the american people think. and that's what scares me. i think he can do it. and gabe joins us live now. and gabe, there is new reporting tonight on house democratic leader hakeem jeffries and

dom harris is set to here at a fundraiser in massachusetts alongside governor maura healey, an officialggesting she would like to see biden bow out. dom? >> this is maybe exposing f fissures within the party because we have two prominent voices including alexandria ocasio-cortez and bernie sanders who are saying they're concerned about president biden bowing out of the race. what are you hearing if there's a unified front building with regard to that particular view? >> reporter: there's not a unified front within the democratic party. that's one of the biggest issues. hakim jeffries was out there saying this morning biden is our nominee. it was a stronger push from him than we've seen so far to say we need to coalesce behind him. it's not happening. 32 congressional democrats, that's more than 1 in 10 members of the caucus coming out now and we're expecting that number to grow. it's grown throughout the day today. what members have to decide is what they want to do to move forward. one thing that i've been watching and what's been interesting to me is to see this number of leaks from t

and democrat massachusetts governor maura healey released a statement imploring biden to rethink whetherins the best hope for democrats. biden did cram more in before his 4:00 p.m. curfew. have a look at. this i'll beat donald trump. i will beat him again in 2020. i have led nation depths of the pandemic, lowered the cost $35. [cheers] >> i couldn't ponder -- i guess i shouldn't say it. by the way, i couldn't be prouder to have your support. >> jason: he also tested a few new strategies to attack trump, fear-mongering along with light profanity. >> trump can take out his opponents, i mean physically take them out, take bribes, lead a coup, and be immune to ever being held accountable for it? i mean where the hell are we? america is a democratic nation i will be damned 2024 just 2 years before our 250th anniversary as a nation i will let donald trump take this away. >> wow, the 250th anniversary attack devastating. by the way, mr. president, that is not what the supreme court decision says. but the exceptions for this rally weren't exactly high. it has just been less -- had to be less hum

and, governor maura healey. so i did not have the privilege of covering governor dukakis caucuses or when he was running for president. his his race. but i certainly interviewed many, many times over the decades and was always so warm and generous with his time and journalists i think i can speak for just about all of us really enjoyed any to do an interview with governor dukakis. we always came away having learned something. so thank you for that, governor. i would like to start kick this panel off with. governor weld, so let's start with you. since you were the first governor to take reins after governor dukakis made the loan walk out of the state house. and for those of you assume that was probably the first time that governor weld and governor dukakis sort of passed each other on the statehouse steps, you'd be wrong. you didn't meet at that swearing in. in fact, you had more had met more than a decade earlier. governor weld, can you talk a little bit about your first encounters with governor dukakis? well, i

on top of that, governor maura healey of massachusetts a big biden ally also issued a statement todayding this: the best way forward right now is a decision for the president to make. i urge him to listen to the american people and carefully evaluate whether he remains our best hope to defeat donald trump. so, juan, is this just democrats waiting for the president to make the inevitable choice? >> juan: i don't know what the inevitable choice would be. i think right now the idea is to persuade him to do what's best for the party. seems to me there are two critical things that happened today. one is the mark warner story. and warner's camp refuses to confirm or deny it. which, to me, is a confirmation. and it means that you have powerful senators warner in virginia, senior person in the senate, willing to organize people in the mode of, you know, barry goldwater who went to nixon and said it's time to go. and that is just part of it. but it's now very prominent. but the larger part of it, aishah, is that all those democratic congressman coming back next week. coming together. they're w

i was really struck, too, by the statement from massachusetts governor maura healey.ly evaluate whether he remains the best hope to defeat trump. what was interesting to me is she wrote that after she traveled to d.c., to the white house, she sat there with the president. she was not convinced. >> rhiannon: wow. rachael, let's talk about the latest from capitol hill. she just mentioned that some feel betrayed. did this do enough to calm any democrats' jitters? >> yeah. let me just give you a flavor for some of the text messages that i got during this interview. he's done. pack it in. for those of who are you "game of thrones" fans, one member texted my colleague, we've got a mad king here. i mean, no, this didn't calm the waters is the short answer, but i do think a lot of democrats were shocked by the state of denial that joe biden is in right now. he dismissed the polls. he insisted he's the best person to beat trump. he suggested that most democrats are not in this camp of wanting him to step aside. earth to president joe biden, that is not the case. i talk to demo

more democrats openly calling for biden to leave the presidential race massachusetts governor maura healey was one of the governors who met with biden earlier this week on friday, she issued a statement urging him to quote carefully evaluate whether he is the best hope to beat donald trump meanwhile, a house lawmaker telling cnn that minority leader hakeem jeffries has schedules a meeting with party leaders for sunday. but one house lawmaker telling cnn that biden can't make up lost ground in the race what we need right now. i think what takes the spine is to step aside and recognize the president. i'd states doesn't have the vigor necessary to overcome the deficit here. and it's going to affect us all cnn senior political analyst, ron brown, stain joins me now, live to talk about this. i run the president would have no doubt like to use that interview to talk policy and the dangers of trump talk about his achievements. but the focus was on his own ability to do the job. what was your assessment of how we did yeah. i thought it left democrats in the worst possible position. >> i mean, it w

conversations with governors and one new comment now coming from the governor of massachusetts, maura healey says in a statement, she thinks the president needs to have moments of introspection about whether he is the person who can beat donald trump in november. >> matthew, i think mike just took us there. we're going to go there. this massachusetts governor is really openly questioning whether or not biden should continue on here. what do you make of those comments and what does that say about this current situation? >> well, i think her comments are just reflective of the reality that joe biden sits in, and joe biden sits in it primarily because of miz -- his performance at the debate. i said all along, we need to give joe biden the grace and space to make the decision to look at what he needs to look at to decide what's in the best interest of his party, and more importantly the country in the course of this. i think these events are important in the small eye importance, and for him to sort of reestablish his feet on the ground, but they're only going to impact. these events are not goi

you also have massachusetts governor maura healey now urging biden to quote carefully evaluate whether he is the party's best chance to defeat donald trump. or let signs is out front live in madison, wisconsin where the president was earlier today, or what do you know about how biden and those closest to him are viewing how this rally and this interview today went well, president biden himself, boris told reporters that he thought it was a good interview, but we will see whether it eventually accomplishes the goals that his advisers had hoped it would do. >> of course, biden team had hoped that this interview, that this rally here today in wisconsin will be part of the work to ease the surgeons of voters who are worried that biden may not be up for a second term in office course, they're also looking to tamp down some of the very serious doubts from within top official, from top officials within his own party about him remaining on the top of the democratic ticket. a come november. now president biden, what came here to wisconsin? and it was quite defiant, insisting that he would remai

governor maura healey can express her dissent and joe biden can express his frustration with her,y about now one is worried about her physical safety. trump by contrast controls his party through terror threats issued through social media that has cult followers can be expected to realize. republicans leave politics because they fear for themselves and their families. those who remain obey in advance. that is new, and it should not become normal and should not spread further. it becomes normal when we treat discussions as abnormal. i think this is what has so -- i don't know the right word, but traumatized or upset our viewers. they think there's some disloyalty to the good guy in covering the debate. i hear you making a distinction between the debate happened and it was covered that day, but the frenzy is what becomes asymmetric. is that right? >> yeah, this is tricky. i have maybe a slightly different view about what the debate means. for somebody who wants american democracy to continue, my view is the debate actually -- i mean honestly i see it in positive terms. i see it as an oppor