uc berkeley herman royer, professor of political economy sean gilmore, professor gilmore, thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> i want to start with the challenges facing the democratic party, the split in the ranks on whether president biden should remain as nominee. of course, he's won the nominating process, but the polling doesn't look good. and the gap has only widened since the debate. so now we kind of have this unprecedented tension and power dynamics, if you will, between a party and its president. talk about how that's being tested or changed. >> yeah, it's kind of the worst case scenario for democrats at this point, because there's kind of a slow trickle of party officials and elites and media allies starting to say, oh, maybe the president should drop out or maybe the president needs to change directions, and the president really doubling down and saying today, quite defiantly, i am absolutely staying in this race, answering that call definitively and saying, so. so what the party really wants to be able to do is coordinate at this point on a single, coherent message so