host: joining us now is andrew desiderio of punchbowl news. he serves as their senior congressional reporter, talking about members of congress, particularly democrats on capitol hill, and the president's re-election bid. good morning. guest: good morning. host: you write this morning why mr. biden is surviving and the first point you make is finding out who's against him and who isn't. where does that stand right now? guest: look, if hakeem jeffries, the house democratic leader, and chuck schumer, the senate democratic leader, were to go to president biden and say the jig is up, you have to step aside, they would need near unanimity. you don't have that right now. you have about a dozen democrats, including some house senior members, said the president should step aside and not be the democratic nominee anymore. you have zero senate democrats. they have walked up to the line without quite crossing it but that's the dynamic we're dealing with right now. we're in the middle of the zone right here. what we wrote this morning, a lot of biden's de

host: joining us now is andrew desiderio of punchbowl news. as their senior congressional reporter, talking about members of congress, particularly democrats on capitol hill, and the president's re-election bid. good morning. guest: good morning. host: you write this morning why mr. biden is surviving and the first point you make is finding out who's against him and who isn't. where does that stand right now? guest: look, if hakeem jeffries, the house democratic leader, and chuck schumer, the senate democratic leader, were to go to president biden and say the jig is up, you have to step aside, they would need near unanimity. you don't have that right now. you have about a dozen democrats, including some house senior members, said the president should step aside and not be the democratic nominee anymore. you have zero senate democrats. they have walked up to the line without quite crossing it but that's the dynamic we're dealing with right now. we're in the middle of the zone right here. what we wrote this morning, a lot of biden's defenders ar

also with us, jake sherman, co-founder of punchbowl news and an msnbc contributor, and michael steele, co-heft of msnbc's "the weekend." great to have you guys. what is the president's plan to win back support and confidence, and how is it taking shape? >> well, chris, i keep thinking back to the volunteer in philadelphia yesterday who told president biden that she wanted to see dark branded again. he responded dark branded is coming back. that's the person we heard on the call with msnbc this morning. the fighter joe biden. talking about the reality behind what he believes he still has the support of voters. he obviously feels like he needs to be back out in front of voters shoring up that support, but he feels as though the push for him to get out of the race is something that's been coming from inside the beltway, if you will, for the politicals and washington' elites, and he expressed conversation that continues to happen around his debate performance while he's out pressing the flesh, quite literally, with voters. i was with him in harrisburg yesterday where he spent a few minute

and punchbowl news cofounder jake sherman. so ryan, let's start with nancy pelosi. she's no longer the head of the caucus, but she's still the muscle of the democratic party. what has her comment done to the halls of congress today? >> i think it kicked a hornets nest. it depends how you want to interpret what nancy pelosi said, but there's no doubt there are quite a few members of the democratic caucus on the senate and the house side that viewed her less than affirmative comments about the president's reelection bid as a slight opening of the door to begin the process of talking about replacing him as nominee. i know that the former speaker attempted to try to clean up those remarks that she made on "morning joe." the statement that she put out was the same thing she said in the interview. there was a simple answer to that question. the question was do you support joe biden as the nominee. the simple answer was yes. she purposefully chose not to give that answer, which indicates there's a level of concern that still exists up and down the democratic caucus in a wa

let's bring in "punchbowl news" founder and msnbc political analyst, jake sherman. you were watching that speech. i know you have been following the issue closely. you have interviewed benjamin netanyahu. you've gone to israel to do that. what was the intention here, and was he successful? >> i think the intention, katy, was to try to put meat on the bones. to be honest with you, there was not much in that speech that i heard that i didn't hear when i spoke to him just, i believe it was last month. he feels based on my conversations with him and his inner circle that he's deeply misunderstood, that israel's intentions are misunderstood, and he sees the world, katy, differently than most americans, and frankly most american supporters of israeli. a few interesting notes. i mean, the tension between the democratic party and netanyahu was just very evident. chuck schumer who said netanyahu should be removed barely acknowledged his presence in the chamber when he walked in. rashida tlaib, the democratic congresswoman from michigan held up a sign that said war criminal,

just over an hour from now, the president will kick off what "punchbowl news" is calling the quote, i'm not going anywhere but i do need more sleep tour. it marks biden's fifth visit to the crucial battleground state this year. it's a very public test at a moment where there couldn't be more eyes on him as he tries to reinject momentum into his campaign following what's been a difficult week to say the least. all since last thursday's presidential debate. the stakes are sky high, and after his big rally wraps, he'll sit down for what's arguably the biggest interview of joe biden's life. a senior adviser involved in the process says the interview team from abc, quote, will be with us all day in wisconsin to cover the president's event and observe him throughout what will be a very critical day. i want to bring in nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli who's on the ground there as well as reuters white house correspondent jeff mason, "washington post" senior national political correspondent and msnbc contributor, ashley parker and democratic strategist and former executive directo

kyrsten sinema, who he's a retiring and joining us now, axios political reporter, stef kight and punchbowl, news congressional reporter max cohen. >> good morning to both of you. so let's start in arizona first steph, this is a race that a lot of people have had an in for a long time. it was we'll sinema ron won't she run now we know she's not. and so you really had this classic matchup democrat and republican, kari lake and ruben gallego help us understand the dynamics of this race. >> one thing that's really interesting about this race is the fact that both kari lake and ruben gallego are both accusing each other of being on the extremes of their party. and we've actually seen both of them try to moderate on a few issues. we've seen kari lake for example, on the issue of abortion. she has tried to kind of step away from her her harder stance that she had in the past. she has said that she's opposed to a national abortion ban for example well you know, was in favor of a more moderate arizona law after an initial old law came into play on earlier this year and the same thing for ruben gallego, e

woman and first asian american to lead a major party's presidential ticket joining us now is punchbowl news andrew desiderio and farnoush amiri of the associated press. good morning to both of you. thank you so much for being here farnoush we heard from both mike johnson and also his predecessor, kevin mccarthy on this johnson telling our haley talbot that these, these lines of attacks, or just a bad idea, like just please don't go there. and then this is how kevin mccarthy put it. watch i would say to attacks, i've heard republicans give that are totally stupid and dumb to do is the dei. i disagree with the ai, but she is the vice president united states. she is the former us senator. these congressmen that are saying they're wrong in their own ends so look, we've had plenty of criticism for kevin mccarthy, but politically speaking he's pretty sure footed in this, i think. >> yeah. i mean, they see this as why not focus on the policies where they are able to point to kamala harris and say you know, we have been criticizing biden for the border for so long. they call her the borders are rig

josh, i want to ask you about the nato press conference in the sense that speaker pelosi told punchbowl news, jake sherman, that she hoped we could get through nato. those were her words before deciding on whether biden will say the democratic nominee. and there's been some kind of talk and bubbling up about should we're just going to hold off until he gets through nato, much like if a president is traveling abroad, they don't want to criticize him while he's abroad. have you heard that you get any sense that after this nato summit concludes? it's regardless of what happens tonight, that there might be additional fallout oh, i'm sure that the fallout will continue to grow, but if this is holding off, then that's not really great example of holding off because there's a ton of public criticism and it's all the nato leaders are talking about an unsolved well, the people in the administration are talking with all the media is talking about so how if you're president zelenskyy, how are you supposed to direct the attention on ukraine's desperate need for air defenses when everyone in the press co

on the zoom call and the biden campaign kept swatting her hand down on the zoom according to punchbowl news, many, many more democrats in the house feel that way, and the senate too. but as of now, there's still saying it privately. and while we are well aware that polls are not always spot on predictions of what's going to happen weeks from now it is also clear their recent data from battleground states and nationwide shows president biden losing to president trump. but regardless, on top of this, a pew research survey this week shows an increasingly bleak outlook when it comes to just opinions of voters. currently 71% of biden supporters, biden supporters, 71% of them said they would like to replace both nominees if they were given the option. that's up from 62% who said the same in april, only 24% of registered voters now described biden as mentally sharp down from 30% earlier this year. so i guess a question we have here on the lead is when president biden told the world last slide it's night that no one is saying to him there's no way he can win is he? that cocooned from the views of a

would you say leaking your opening statement to punchbowl news, politico's playbook and washington post several hours before you sent it to this committee as being political, yes or no? >> i have no idea how my statement got out. >> well, that's so sad. there's going to be accountability. i understand. don't want to give us names when you say that. are you telling the committee that once it's concluded, you're prepared to fire the people on the ground who made poor decisions that day? >> i'm prepared to take the actions now. no, no, that's nonsense. okay. accountability. the failure was human. that doesn't mean they're bad people. it means they failed that day. >> and a president was almost a former president was almost assassinated. >> now, following the hearing in a rare joint bipartisan move, house oversight committee ranking member jamie raskin, of all people joining chairman james colmer for calling for cheadle's resignation, james korva coleman joins us now, along with house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan. well, froze over you and jamie raskin could barely agree on the ti

max cohen is joining us now, congressional reporter for punchbowl news max. good morning to you.out some of the latest democrats in congress to call for the president to step aside. your head vermont senator peter welch, a little more than a week ago, called for the president to step aside and you've got at two more senators. montana's tester on thursday, sherrod brown of out of ohio on friday, the special significance of the most recent two versus welch, what's the value or any more persuasive? >> sherrod brown and jon tester are two of the most endangered senate democrats. they're both running in deep red states in november. when they came out and said they want biden to not run again, that shows just how worried the most vulnerable democrats are that president joe biden and the top of the ticket could really sink their chances. and you also saw some corresponding democrats in the house who are running really tough races, just like tester and brown are also calling on biden to step down yesterday, one who comes to mind is gabe vasquez from new mexico. that's a swing seat in the

country on the path of electing donald trump again all right joining me now is the co-founder of punchbowl news, john bresnahan, brez, so grateful to see you always wonderful to have you at that. those words from bennett, i mean, he was very stark dire. he was talking about the fact that he did say that he thinks that joe biden is going to lose to donald trump and he went on to say it would be possibly by a landslide. what did you make of his comments and do they reflect the broad conventional wisdom inside the democratic caucus in the senate? >> i mean the other part of that is that the reports are that jon tester, who's running montana, sherrod brown, shared brown who is running in ohio to red states also said behind closed doors that biden can win and they haven't come out and said that publicly, but bennett confirmed that he did i do think there's a huge gap in right now. what's being said publicly, what is being said privately to us? what members and senators pull this aside and say biden looks terrible. the white house doing a terrible job. i don't think he can win. and what they're sayin

. >> would you say leaking your opening statement to punchbowl news, "politico" playbook and "washington post" several hours before you send it to this committee as being political, yes or no? >> i have no idea how my statement got out. >> well, that's bullshit. so, tragedy i would like to ask unanimous consent to enter into the record articles by punchbowh bowl is, "politico" playbook, "washington post," all done at 5:24 a.m., 6:12 a.m., 64 him as fired filed 34 hours before this committee got your statement. >> without objection, so ordered. >> okay. is a secret service fully cooperating with our committee? >> yes. >> okay. you said you are fully cooperating with this committee. on july 15 this committee since entrance into list of demands of information we want. has the secret service provided this committee a complete list of all law enforcement personnel that were there that they? have done the? have you provided a list to the oversight committee, yes oh? >> i will have to get back to a desperate that is a no. have you provide all audio and video recordings in your possession to thi

joining us, nbc news white house correspondent monica alba, punchbowl co-founder and nbc news political contributor jake sherman, staff writer with the new yorker, susan glasser and msnbc political analyst, peter baker. peter, i'm going to start with you on this. it feels like something's changing today. >> yeah, you're seeing the drip, drip, drip beginning again. the president had kind of put a halt to this for 24, 48 hours with his letter and calling into "morning joe" on monday and the nato summit, which you rightly quote nancy pelosi talking about. she wanted any discussion of this to hold off until he was off the world stage. you don't want to embarrass the president when he's hosting leaders from around the world. it doesn't stop the drip, drip, drip. you're hearing more from democrats that they don't consider this to be a tenable situation going forward. he's going to give a press conference at 6:30. maybe he'll convince people to hold fast, rally behind him. if he doesn't have a good news conference, it could accelerate the momentum the other direction. >> talk me through "the n

i mean karl, i should point out punchbowl is reporting tonight that senator schumer's released a new statement in response to reports he told donors he's open to moving beyond biden, quote as i have made clear repeatedly, publicly and privately, i support president biden and remained committed to ensuring donald trump is defeated in november so called based on your reporting, what i'm wondering, what do you make that statement? >> you can parse it. i think this is becoming about language when in fact, this is about anger a growing anger that chuck schumer is aware of that. nancy pelosi is aware of that the leaders of the party are aware of the donors are aware there have they have anger is that we have a nominee. these democrats are saying who is not up to the where he needs to be in terms of physical ability, cognitive problems and this is not a winning hand and that anger is starting to be felt by schumer, especially pelosi, the leaders, et cetera, et cetera. and that quote from joe quote from mr. schumer a moment ago is again, it's splitting hairs three everybody splitting hairs o